Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Everyone in Tiandu City knew that since Commander Zhuo of the Demon Collection Division came of age, he had a great demon named Zhao Yuanzhou by his side. Whether it was a daily patrol in the city or Commander Zhuo going out to hunt demons, he would follow him and protect him.

Occasionally, there was a handsome young man in white clothes who followed them on patrols in Tiandu City. However, the young man in white clothes did not participate in the monster hunting, but just followed them to eat and drink, or go to the opera garden to listen to opera.

On this day, Zhuo Yichen received a mission from Zhang Qiling, which was about a bizarre incident that happened near the palace gate.

Zhuo Yichen thought that it had been a while since he had seen Yuan Zheng. Although they exchanged letters on weekdays, it was not as good as meeting in person.

At that moment, Zhuo Yichen took Zhao Yuanzhou and the newly formed monster-hunting team and rushed over.

Li Lun has been staying in the Hua Mansion for the past eight years and has never gone out to do anything. When he has nothing to do, he plants flowers and raises fish in the mansion. Occasionally, he goes to Tiandu City with Zhuo Yichen to check out if there are any new cakes or plays.

Zhao Yuanzhou? Who is Zhao Yuanzhou? He didn't know him. He only knew a white monkey named Zhu Yan.

Although, Zhao Yuanzhou kept refuting Li Lun, he was an ape, a noble white ape, not one of those extremely rude monkeys.

Li Lun and Zhao Yuanzhou also talked about Zhuo Yichen's coming of age day. Although Li Lun still complained about why he refused to come to Huaijiang Valley to see him, since he had already bowed his head, Lord Huaigui reluctantly forgave him. But he was still very angry and difficult to appease, so he didn't want to pay attention to Zhu Yan for the time being.

When Li Lun was passing by the hall of the Demon Collection Division, he heard that they were going to the outer part of Tiandu City to collect demons. That wouldn't work! If they left, who would play with Lord Huai Gui? No, Lord Huai Gui had to go with them too.

Just like that, Zhuo Yichen took Zhao Yuanzhou, Li Lun and the new demon-collecting team to a small town not far from the palace gate, and did not forget to write a letter to inform Gong Yuanzheng of their arrival.

When the letter was delivered to Gong Yuanzheng, he was sulking. Gong Zishang had followed Gong Yuanzheng for the past few years and had come to understand that the most important person in charge of the financial power of the palace was the one who mattered. With a word from Gong Shangjiao, everyone in the palace, from the swordsmen and elders to the maids and servants, would suffer.

Gong Zishang was still regretting why she didn't try to please the people in Jiao Gong when she was young. Look at how she used to go hungry when she followed Gong Ziyu, but now she has been eating and drinking well with Gong Yuanzheng in recent years. If she needed money, she would go to Jiao Gong for approval and it would be done with just a word from Gong Yuanzheng.

And what he was wearing and what he wore on his head, which one was not taken from Gong Yuanzheng?

"Brother Yuanzheng, what's wrong? Look at your face, how angry you are? You little puffer fish~" Gong Zishang's voice, which was spoken in three turns every word, was very familiar.

"Don't you know what you're angry about?" Gong Yuanzheng rolled his eyes at Gong Zishang in annoyance.

"Oh~ It's not the first time you know that the elders are partial to Brother Zi Yu. What about you~ You can tolerate a lot, so don't bother with the elders~ Besides, the elders are old after all, and you go against them every day, making them angry and sick, but you are the one who is busy~" Gong Zishang poured himself a cup of tea and let out a long sigh.

"Brother Yuanzheng's tea is the best~ Tianshan Cui~ I finally get to taste it again~"

Gong Yuanzheng was kneeling down, looking at Gong Zishang with his arms folded, who was sitting awkwardly. "Didn't I give you a can of Tianshan Cui when I came back from Tiandu? How come your brother Ziyu finished it so quickly?"

Gong Zishang suddenly thought of the recent absence of Gong Shangjiao from the palace, and the recent outrageous actions of Zhiren and the elders. "I don't know if the medicinal properties of the batch of herbs your brother brought back were wrong, or if the soup you boiled was different. Recently, the elders and Zhiren acted like they took the wrong medicine. They even dared to criticize and punish you."

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could the medicine I developed mutate?" Gong Yuanzheng immediately refuted Gong Zishang's questions about his medicine.

"Then how do you explain the recent behavior of the elders and Zhi Ren? If it weren't for the servants, stewards, and subordinates left for you by your little father, Lord Zhuo, and Gong Shangjiao, you would have been locked up in the dungeon by them now." Gong Zishang reached out and poked Gong Yuanzheng's head.

Gong Yuanzheng also thought about how he had been feeling uneasy recently because his brother was away. It was just because he spent a lot of money, but they treated it as a family massacre and even wanted to lock him up in a dungeon as punishment.

If the steward of Zheng Palace had not promptly taken the account book to Zhi Ren and the elders to calculate everything clearly that day, he would probably not have known that all the expenses of everyone in Zheng Palace had been paid according to the account book of Zhuo Mansion since he recognized his relatives eight years ago.

Even the things that my brother brought back every time were mostly from his personal account, and some of them were asked by my second brother who was far away in Tiandu to bring back.

Moreover, his monthly salary and his daily food, clothing and accommodation were all subsidized by his youngest father and second elder brother. Add to that the pocket money his elder brother gave him from time to time, and he really had no idea how much money he could spend in a year.

"Hmph! Then why don't you follow your brother Zi Yu to eat steamed buns?" As soon as Gong Yuanzheng saw Gong Zishang, he remembered the time when she followed the guard beside Gong Zi Yu around everywhere.

"Oh~ It's because his father is the Blade Wielder, his brother is the young master, and he is doted on by the elders! Even with such a great background, you will be criticized by them, not to mention an insignificant woman like me. If I don't please him, I will be criticized by others, right?" Gong Zishang covered his chest and waved a handkerchief.

Gong Yuanzheng also believed what Gong Zishang said. After all, he had people backing him up. Now he was being scolded for his extravagant spending, not to mention Gong Zishang who lived in the palace, a place that valued boys over girls.

After all, Gong Zishang has no one to back her up. She only has a family that hopes she will drop her father, stepmother, and brother. If she offends Zhiren, she must be punished accordingly. How can she not please Zhiren's treasure - Gong Ziyu?

"Oh~ It's said that our brother Yuanzheng is one of the smartest in the palace." Gong Zishang covered the corner of his mouth, and his eyes, which were not big to begin with, seemed to disappear when he smiled.

"Huh?? ?, what are you doing here today?" As soon as Gong Yuanzheng saw her expression, he knew that Gong Zishang had come to the palace to look for treasure again.

Ever since his second brother's coming-of-age ceremony, Gong Zishang had stayed in the guest room in his courtyard. After returning to the palace, he would come to Zheng Palace every now and then, saying that he was looking for some things he didn't want or need, and bring them back to Shang Palace to see if they could be recycled.

"By the way, the brides to be chosen from the palace will be here in a few days, why hasn't your brother come back yet?" Gong Zishang suddenly remembered that the brides who were to be chosen for the young master's distant relatives were about to arrive, and Gong Shangjiao was also old enough, so shouldn't he be chosen together? Why was he still out there and not coming back?

"They are in a small town not far from the palace gate. They said something happened there and they came here to deal with it. After they're done, they'll come to see me." Gong Yuanzheng thought that Gong Zishang also knew that his second brother was coming to the palace gate.

"Is it the Wanbei town where the strange things happened? I heard from the servants that the dead people all had strange appearances. Oh~ so scary~" Gong Zishang just thought that Gong Shangjiao went to the palace gate stronghold over there to check the account books.

"How strange is it? Tell me about it, I'm quite curious." Gong Yuanzheng was extremely excited about this kind of thing, his eyes shining as he asked Gong Zishang to tell him in detail.

"How would I know? When your brother comes back, you can ask him and find out. I also heard it from the servants when they were chatting. How could a beautiful girl like me listen to such a bloody thing? What do you think, brother Yuanzheng?" Gong Zishang's seductive eyes were cast to the ghost.

When Gong Yuanzheng heard the first half of Gong Zishang's words, he slowly lowered his head and began to focus on the movements in his hands. He carefully took out a bottle of dark green poison and gently poured it onto a row of hidden weapons that were shining with cold light.

The venom seemed to have life, and it quickly spread along the lines of the hidden weapons until it completely covered them. After the venom had penetrated evenly, Gong Yuanzheng carefully checked each hidden weapon again to make sure they were fully poisoned.

Then, he methodically sorted out these hidden weapons one by one, stuffed them neatly into the hidden weapon bag he carried with him, and pinned the bag firmly to the waist belt around his waist, which was stuffed full with almost no space.

At this moment, Gong Yuanzheng's eyes inadvertently swept across the stool beside him and saw several round and smooth pearls placed on it. Without thinking, he casually reached out and picked up one of them.

The pearl was as white as snow, as smooth as a mirror, and radiated a soft light like a bright moon. However, Gong Yuanzheng ignored its beauty and threw it into the medicine grinder beside him without hesitation.

As he turned the mill handle vigorously, the flawless pearl instantly turned into a pile of fine powder. Then, he grabbed a handful of herbs nearby and mixed the pearl powder with them.

Gong Zishang, who was sitting opposite Gong Yuanzheng and drinking tea silently, felt a pang of pain when he saw Gong Yuanzheng's "wasteful" behavior. You know, any pearl of such high quality can be sold at a high price in the market.

But now, it was being treated casually by Gong Yuanzheng like garbage. Thinking of this, Gong Zishang could no longer suppress her inner impulse, and rushed to Gong Yuanzheng, saying coquettishly: "Brother Yuanzheng~ You are really rich! How can you crush such a good pearl just like that?"

Facing Gong Zishang's slightly complaining words, Gong Yuanzheng didn't even raise his head, but just responded calmly: "Don't be sarcastic here, I have a lot of these pearls in my room. If you like, go treasure hunt by yourself."

When Gong Zishang heard this, she immediately smiled and her beautiful eyes curved into crescents. She nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay~ Thank you, brother Yuanzheng!" Before she finished speaking, she turned around impatiently, raised her round and perky buttocks, and began to search every corner of the room.

I saw her lying on the ground, looking under the table; then she stood on tiptoe, trying to reach the top of the bookshelf.

After a short while, Gong Zishang's hard work paid off and he found nearly twenty longan-sized pearls and three or four grape-sized gold beads.

These beads were either scattered in the corners of the wall or hidden in the gaps between the cabinets, but without exception, they were discovered and put into the pockets of the sharp-eyed Gong Zishang.

After searching for treasures, Gong Zishang patted his chest stuffed with pearls and said, "Brother Yuanzheng, I'm leaving first. If you have anything, send someone to find me in the Shang Palace."

Gong Zishang waved his sleeves and took away a bag of pearls. "Here are some hidden weapon blueprints. Please make them for me as soon as possible. I am in a hurry to use them. After all, you have already received my deposit, right?"

Gong Zishang stiffened her neck and turned around little by little, looking at Gong Yuanzheng who was looking at her innocently, "Sister, if you accept my deposit, you have to do things for me well. Otherwise, I will tell my brother and make him break up..."

If Gong Zishang still doesn't understand what Gong Yuanzheng says, then all his years of following Gong Yuanzheng around and reaping the benefits have been in vain.