Chapter 393 (2): Flash of Spiritual Light, Mountains Clearing Up
The slug demon swaggered past the study desk filled with the elegant trinkets and ornaments of literati and sat down on the chair. Leaning back and shuffling its bottom, the slug demon couldn't help but feel that this still wasn't comfortable and relaxing enough. It started to curse again.
What the fuck was wrong with scholars? They were truly good-for-nothings who weren't even willing to make a properly comfortable chair. These useless chairs forced people to sit straight and suffer from a tired back.
The slug demon stared straight ahead.
It recalled the other powerful being behind the calamity gripping the Liu Clan, that old man from the Imperial Tang Clan who wielded great power in the Azure Phoenix Nation.
This person had disliked Liu Jingting for a very long time already.
However, this was incredibly strange. Even an outsider like him was aware that Liu Jingting was a particularly upstanding and capable official, a pillar that held up the imperial court, so why did the uncle of the emperor detest him so much and view him as a mortal enemy?
During the past two years, just how many literati and scholars had fled south to the Azure Phoenix Nation because of the good reputation of Assistant Minister Liu?
The slug demon couldn't make heads or tails of this no matter how it racked its brains.
Instead, it was reminded of a conversation that had taken place in the Lion Garden at the end of last year. Back then, it was lying on the roof beam, eavesdropping on the conversation between the father and his sons.
Liu Jingting was drinking and chatting with his two sons, and unsurprisingly expressing his concerns about the nation and her people. Meanwhile, his eldest son recounted his interesting encounters, while Liu Qingshan criticized the current state of society.
The literati and officials who detested Liu Jingting the most were a very interesting bunch of people. They were not the opposition that held different views within the court, but rather scholars who had attempted to ride on the coattails of the assistant minister and ingratiate themselves with him yet failed to achieve their goals.