Chapter 136: Taking people as mirror

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Morning bells and evening drums.

The thick bell rang through the endless street market, and the kings and princes and ministers in Linyuan City, all the religions and all walks of life, began a new day of busyness. The entire capital looked a little bigger, not much different from Donghua City thousands of miles away.

In the towering imperial city, countless ministers gathered in the main hall to discuss political affairs of various countries.

Zuo Lingquan was wearing a black fish scale armor and a sword around his waist, dressed as a large inner guard, standing under the Shiraishi Imperial Road, waiting for the end of the morning court meeting.

There were also many golden gourd warriors from the Dayan Dynasty standing on both sides of the Imperial Road. Although they were dressed as secular soldiers, from the momentum, you can see that they were all from martial arts cultivators and had the emblem of the Iron Mansion on their armor.

The most famous Tiele Mansion is a mace and a shield because it is a weapon commonly used by Shangguan. In fact, the Tiele Mansion has many ways of practicing, including swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, halberds, hooks and forks. It has ways to go to the military battle formation, and it has advances but not retreats, and it has a big opening and closing. The word "博" in Tiele Mansion comes from "arrow beads", which means "arrows do not turn back".

After waiting for a while, the sun in the east gradually came to the sky high, with a few more streams of clouds in the blue sky, and a sound of "retreat" sounded from the palace.

The court officials came out one after another. As a foreign princess, Jiang Yi was very courteous. She walked in front of the court officials, wearing a gorgeous palace dress, and was full of queen-like appearance. Behind her, Leng Zhu and Lanzhi, dressed in a close-fitting nanny, was followed by Lanzhi.

Zuo Lingquan stood with a sword, and after Jiang Yi passed by, he followed Jiang Yi out of the palace city and headed to the palace next door.

Jiang Yi maintained a majestic and elegant manner until she passed through the palace gate and sat on the chariot, and she relaxed her shoulders and raised her hand to pat her chest:

"The main hall of the Dayan Dynasty is so big, there are about two or three hundred ministers. In the past, I always sat on it and listened to the court officials, but I didn't think there was anything. Only when I really stood below and listened to Xuan, I realized what it means to be 'to accompany the king as if I was with a tiger'. The pressure was too great."

Leng Zhu stood outside the hall and waited, and felt deeply about this:

"Yes, I didn't even dare to look around. Listen to the sound, the princess is much better than the ministers of other small countries. Those envoys of small countries stutter."

Zuo Lingquan sat in front of him, curled his lips and praised:

"That's natural, after all, our Regent Princess. Nothing else can work. The aura is tightly grasped."

?

Jiang Yi glared at her apricot eyes, but she had no intention of arguing with Zuo Lingquan. When talking about her poor cultivation, she remembered something and said with some amusement:

"By the way, I dreamed last night that I learned the 'fire dragon technique' and called Tang Jingying sister."

?

Zuo Lingquan blinked, and before he could evaluate Jiang Yi's spiritual victory method, Leng Zhu next to him muttered in a low voice:

"I'll just say it, no wonder last night, the princess suddenly pinched my arm when she fell asleep, and she had a smug expression on her face. Well... she looked very proud..."

??

Jiang Yi's smile froze and her eyes narrowed slightly to Leng Zhu.

Leng Zhu lowered her head and said, "I...I've gotten a mistake..."

Zuo Lingquan shook his head secretly, feeling funny, and did not speak up to attack his fiancée's self-esteem, just said:

"After finishing this, I have been practicing for half a year. Jingyan doesn't like fighting and killing. If you practice more, you will definitely catch up with it."

Jiang Yi's eyes narrowed and she looked at Zuo Lingquan again:

"Ha~ I've changed my words and said Jingyan? If she really taught you the magical powers of Shangguan, would she change her words and said 'Yang'er'?"

"How could it be, Yibo, don't be angry."

"?"

Jiang Yi tilted her head slightly, thinking that this love is so weird, she thought about it and said:

"What Yibao, it's so ugly."

"Xiaoyi?"

"Oh...you'd better call me princess, so can Long Li."

...

While chatting, the envoys from several countries came to the palace next door outside the palace. Everyone entered the main hall from the much empty square in front of the palace. They could see a pearl curtain unfolding from the deepest part of the palace.

The envoys will be invited to dinner in the main hall and give birth to the imperial concubine a birthday gift, which will probably last for a long time.

Jiang Yi brought Lanzhi and Leng Zhu in. Zuo Lingquan was just a big guard, so he naturally couldn't go to the table. He still stood under the steps outside the hall, waiting for the banquet to end.

As the sun rose to the middle of the sky, the sound of zither came from the palace behind. The palace singers wearing beautiful and yet grand style entered the palace one after another under the eaves of the main hall and danced the palace dance inside the hall.

Zuo Lingquan was not convenient to look back and enjoy it, but he looked at the flowing clouds floating around the sky with some boredom. I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly a sound came from his feet:

“Meow~”

Zuo Lingquan looked down and saw a white long-haired cat running from somewhere on the corner of the steps. It was snow-white all over, with blue eyes, and was extremely beautiful, looking like a princess in the cat.

Zuo Lingquan practiced swords only to strengthen himself, not killing, and did not lack love. Seeing a very beautiful kitten, he smiled and instinctively whispered to tease him.

As a result, the white cat was very proud of his face and walked to the front of him with a small step, stepped on his cloud-patterned boots with a meat cushion, and looked like a 'wanting to hug'.

Zuo Lingquan didn't want to strode other people's cats casually, but just teased the white hair with the tip of his shoes. After a while, behind the palace wall at the corner of the hall, several little palace maids ran out and found the cat in front of him. They hurriedly hooked at him and pointed at the white cat, as if they wanted to take the cat back, but they were afraid that the ministers in the palace would see it, so they asked him for help.

Zuo Lingquan is a foreign minister, unlike the imperial guards who are standing guard, and can walk around. Seeing this, he bent over and picked up the white cat, walked from under the steps to the corner, and handed it to several beautiful little palace maids:

"This cat is so beautiful."

"Thank you, General."

"The little master ran away just now, scaring us to death, but fortunately he was found..."

...

Several little palace maids thanked each other repeatedly, and then lingered on Zuo Lingquan's face for a moment, then turned around and ran to the depths of the palace city.

Zuo Lingquan shook his head and smiled, then returned to his original position and waited.

But this time, the little palace maid whom I saw just now ran to the front again and saluted respectfully:

"Thank you, General, for finding the little master back. The master asked the general to go to the Imperial Garden and said he wanted to thank him in person, General, please."

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Zuo Lingquan was stunned and wanted to refuse, but this was a secular imperial city. It was obvious that the man who sent palace maids to invite him, but it was obviously wrong to refuse directly. He looked back at the main hall. The banquet had just begun, and he had contact with the Tiandun sign on his body, so he was not afraid of getting lost. He thought about it and followed the palace maids to the back of the palace city.

The Palace of Tomorrow is not small, but there are not many places to live in. After passing through the Qianbu Lounge on the left side of the main hall, you will reach a beautiful garden.

The garden is full of rockery and strange rocks, strange flowers and trees, and under the corridor is a green lake with thousands of koi in it.

Zuo Lingquan walked to the end of the corridor in a daze and came to a stone pavilion near the water.

There were many palace maids standing outside the stone pavilion, two palace maids holding peacock feather fans, gently singing the wind.

Next to the stone table in the pavilion, a beautiful woman in a palace dress in a golden phoenix dress sat on her side with a white kitten lying on her knees, lowering her head and stroking the cat's hair.

Zuo Lingquan glanced slightly and saw that this beautiful woman in the palace dress had black hair tied up like ink. Although she did not wear makeup or jade, her face was flawless, her appearance was self-developed, and her figure was not very ostentatious, but not graceful, and was just right in every aspect.

The temperament is even more unique. It seems dignified and elegant with the charm of a mature and beautiful woman, but it invisibly exudes an unattainable and unattainable treasure that keeps people from thousands of miles away, which makes people feel very strange, just like this beauty in the palace dress, she should not wear this dress of a concubine.

Zuo Lingquan knew that the imperial concubine was having a banquet at the main hall, and she was almost 100 years old, so she couldn't guess the identity of the concubine in front of her. She followed the palace maid nearby without looking sideways, bowing and bowing:

"I don't know if you are..."

The beauties in the palace dress raised their eyes and smiled, and their eyes signaled to the palace maid next to them:

"Give a seat."

The smile looks very good, "Looking back and smiling is charming, the six palaces have no color" probably describes this kind of smile, but for some reason, Zuo Lingquan felt that the smile was not warm, as if he smiled step by step when he should laugh, and there was no emotion mixed in it.

After the palace maid received the order, she put a stool in front of her.

Zuo Lingquan didn't want to stay for a long time. He was about to politely decline to say goodbye, but he heard the woman in the palace say:

"Your name is Zuo Lingquan?"

“…”

Zuo Lingquan stopped talking and looked up with some confusion.

"I have been in charge of the Demon Enlightenment Department for 80 years. The monks who are close to the Imperial City will look at the background, so you don't have to be suspicious."

Eighty years?

Zuo Lingquan was stunned for a moment before realizing what he meant:

"Is the Empress the Imperial Concubine? Well...the other side of the main hall..."

"I don't like too noisy places. I got up and went to see the raccoon, but it ran away."

Zuo Lingquan nodded slightly. The envoys went to another country to envoys, and the monks and even servants they carried had to report to the other party. This is the rule of diplomatic relations between the two countries to avoid assassinating the emperor and causing war between the two countries. This young lady, who was almost a hundred years old, was nothing strange to know his name.

Zuo Lingquan hesitated: "The rooster has been found, and I didn't do anything yet. The Imperial Concubine doesn't need to treat it so kindly."

Shangguan Lingye gently stroked the white cat, his eyes always looking at the beautiful scenery in the garden:

"I have been in the palace for a long time and I feel so bored. Seeing that you have good talent, I want to talk about it. I used to be a practitioner and I am interested in this aspect."

A hundred-year-old grandmother looks like this, and even a blind man can tell that she is a practitioner and her cultivation is definitely not low.

Zuo Lingquan couldn't figure out the intention. Seeing that she had no intention of seeing off the guests, she could only sit down and shook her head and said:

"I can't be called talented, so I've only practiced swords for a few years."
To be continued...