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Xue Yi entered the palace and presented the list to the emperor.

The emperor glanced and raised his brows, "It seems that Nanyue has already begun to infiltrate Yuli. You said that Nanyue ordered this?"

"I think so." Xue Yi said, "Because I found that white wolf skin under a box of jewels when I was counting the tribute."

"Presumably Nan Yue exerted pressure. Yu Li didn't dare to offend me, but at the same time he was afraid of offending me, Da Qi, so he removed the white wolf fur from the gift list, but actually secretly joined in."

"In this way, since they have an explanation to South Vietnam, if our side is held accountable, they can also find out the white wolf skin, and then shift the responsibility to the people below, saying that they accidentally made a mistake and so on. If it’s not, it’s okay to save face, and we don’t want to be too harsh.”

The emperor sneered, shook his head and smiled lowly, "A small and unruly country can only use such trivial tricks."

"You are the Minister of Honglu Temple, and you are in charge of external affairs. Tell me, how should we handle this matter?"

This is the test, whether to pursue responsibility, to what extent, and how to fight back against South Vietnam, all of which need to be considered in the game.

Xue Yi thought about it in his heart, and said after hearing the words: "I have asked someone to hide the white wolf skin. What I mean is that I, Da Qi, have never received that white wolf skin, and no one has seen it."

"Oh? What do you mean, you want to ask about heavy responsibility?" The emperor asked with a smile.

Xue Yi replied: "Yes. Tomorrow morning, the officials will report this matter to the Yu Li Mission. They will definitely shirk the blame. But without the white wolf skin, no matter how much they evade it, it will be useless."

"Since Nanyue used Yu Li to provoke and test us, we will naturally fight back from Yu Li. In the morning, His Majesty can pretend to be furious and ask Yu Li to explain the matter in person."

"If they come to intercede, then His Majesty can replace them with the crown prince and the heirs of the four major families after consideration. If they still don't agree, then threaten them to fight each other."

"Yu Li has been afraid of me, Da Qi, for a long time. Even with Nanyue's backing, he would not dare to start a war. He would definitely surrender."

"At that time, we will not only fight back against South Vietnam, tell them our toughness, but also take this opportunity to detain Yu Li, so that they dare not invest in South Vietnam and threaten our Daqi border."

"These are my thoughts."

The emperor slapped the table and laughed heartily, "Okay! This is what I want!"

Most of the literati in the court are too conservative, and the radical ones are too upright, unlike Xue Yi's method, which is damaging and ruthless, hitting seven inches straight, and using a conspiracy, which is to beat you in a blatant manner, but also Tell you not to dare to resist.

This is the style of a great country!

On the second day, their monarchs and ministers acted according to the law and sang a double reed, which made Yu Li's head full of bags.

Yu Li's mission did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly wrote a letter to the monarch to clarify the situation.

It's a pity that what arrived with the letter was Daqi's question and will, and they had to obey.

King Yuli thought about it, and the meeting of the four major families was held one after another, but in the end he had no good idea, so he had no choice but to compromise, and the family sent an heir to form a new mission to Daqi.

As for the mission that messed things up, they left Beijing in despair after receiving the order.

The busyness of Honglu Temple for a while also came to an end with the departure of the missions one after another, and Xue Yi finally got some leisure.

"Mu Mu, take a rest the next day, let's go to the hot spring. The hot spring village is in our hands, and we haven't had time to go there yet." He sat leisurely on the armchair, propped his head and watched Wen Yumu said.

Wen Yumu nodded, "Okay, that Zhuangzi is big, let's call Shangniang and sister-in-law to go together."

"Alright."

Xue Yi closed his eyes and took a nap. Wen Yumu took a look, smiled, and picked up the two letters at hand.

Xue Yi heard the sound of him flipping the paper leaves. He opened his eyes and asked, "Who wrote the letter? Could it be Xiao Yu'an?"

Wen Yumu smiled and shook his head, "I don't think Yu'an contacted me so quickly, he was always afraid of getting me into trouble."

"It's a coincidence that these two letters arrived together. They are from Wen Yurou and Wen Yujing."

"Why did the two of them write you a letter together?" Xue Yi reluctantly lifted up his interest and asked.

Wen Yu mused: "It may be because the letter was mailed from both sides. Did you know that Zhao Si went to the place where Zhang Wenqi was the county magistrate to do business."

Xue Yi said: "I know this, Zhao Si wrote me a letter, saying that the place happened to be on the purchase route of their grocery store, so his father simply asked him to take advantage of this convenience to open another shop there." shop, expand the market, and set up transit points.”

"That's right, so, the two sisters got together again. Now Jing'er is not afraid of Wen Yurou anymore, and if she has something to do, she will come to her to anger her."

"This time Wen Yurou wrote me a letter mainly to show off her son. Jing'er wrote to me mainly to tell me how she changed her style and Wen Yurou, and also said that when she found out, she wrote to I showed off my son and told me not to panic, she is also pregnant, and after giving birth, I took her to her house to show off."

As Wen Yumu said, there was an image in his mind. He already knew that Wen Yujing was not a fuel-efficient lamp, so it was not surprising.

He thought it was very interesting, and it came out in his eyes as he said it.

Xue Yi listened, and was also amused, "It's so good, let the sisters tear it up by themselves, so that they don't have to worry about making trouble for you."

Wen Yumu put away the letter with a smile, "Stop talking about that, I have something serious to tell you."

Xue Yi sat up straighter and looked at him.

"Don't forget, Qing'er is over six years old now, and will be seven soon."

Xue Yi slapped his forehead, "It's true. Since entering Beijing, everything has been complicated, so I forgot about it."

"Sister-in-law came to talk to me today, and she just mentioned something, you know what kind of person she is, she must be a little anxious." Wen Yumu frowned slightly, a little embarrassed, "It's also my fault, you are busy I'm not busy, but I forgot."

"You haven't been in charge of the house, so it's inevitable that you've missed these things." Xue Yi patted his hand, "It's nothing, I'll keep this in mind."

"Tell sister-in-law tomorrow that I will find some gentlemen for Qing'er in the near future. Every time I rest, I will teach Qing'er to read."

"Okay, I'll take it down."

Xue Yi half-closed his eyes, and while quickly filtering out suitable candidates, he casually talked to Wen Yumu, "Qing'er's Kaimeng was taught by my sister-in-law, she is knowledgeable and sensible, and she cares about it. I have passed the school exams several times. Qing'er, it's good for him to learn."

"I think, at present, we need to find a gentleman with a solid foundation to teach him the four books and five classics. At the same time, the other six arts cannot be left behind, and we need to invite two or three more."

Wen Yumu nodded and asked, "Do you have someone to choose?"

Xue Yi shook his head, "I originally thought about picking from the same subjects who failed the exam or those who were newly promoted, but after thinking about it, I think it's not appropriate."

"Forget it, I'll go to Wenfu tomorrow and ask the teacher for some candidates. The one he recommends must be right."

"That's fine, I'll go with you and make some food to honor his old man."

Xue Yi nodded, and returned to the topic just now, "I plan to let Qing'er study at home for three years first, and when he is ten years old, I will send him back to Qingliang Academy to study for three years. Lu Shanchang is excellent at teaching and educating people. Then come back and study in Guozijian for three years, and when he is 16 years old, if he has learned enough, he can take the exam."

Wen Yumu smiled in surprise, "You really think in the long run."

Xue Yi also laughed, and sighed: "You know I always have this problem, I can't help it."

The matter was settled in this way, on the second day, Xue Yi went to Wen's residence and got a few candidates.

He asked them one by one, and they were very respectful, except for the unavoidable time, they all agreed to come to Xue's residence to teach.

Another day passed, and it was the holiday.

It was agreed that the whole family would go to the hot spring together, but Xue Yi was temporarily called into the palace.

Wen Yumu had no choice but to take the old and weak women and children of the family to Ziquan Mountain in the suburbs alone.

It was night, he soaked in the hot spring soup alone, the lingering mist touched his skin, and the fumigated skin was like jade, translucent and moist.

He looked up at the stars in the sky, and suddenly felt a strange fluctuation.

This fluctuation comes from the soul, spreading out like ripples, gentle but full of spirituality.

He suddenly thought of his own lotus magic weapon.

Chanting the mantra in his heart, the lotus slowly floated in mid-air.

In the center of the lotus, the small cup containing the spirit dew was completely full, and a drop overflowed and landed on the lotus heart below.

The fluctuation of spiritual power was exactly what the spiritual dew diffused after it penetrated into Lianxin.

With the fluctuation of spiritual power, layers of shallow golden ripples spread along the petals and spread to the surroundings.

Wen Yumu blinked, unable to conceal his shock - this was the first time he had seen such a change in the lotus.

In the last days, there are always various places that need to consume spiritual dew, replenish physical strength, ripen seeds, heal wounds and save people, etc., so his spiritual dew has never been fully stocked.

After arriving here, apart from adding a few drops to the water at home and making beauty's tears, most of the rest can be saved, and it is already overflowing before I know it.

Wen Yumu watched the golden ripples flow several times, and finally calmed down, and suddenly had an idea in his heart.

What if he poured the whole cup of spiritual dew into Lianxin?

As soon as an idea is born, it takes root and grows wildly against the wind.

He stretched out his hand, pinched the small lamp, and poured out all the spiritual dew.

When the last drop of spiritual dew fell in, in an instant, the lotus flower burst into aura, emitting ten thousand rays of auspicious light, and the golden ripples flowed endlessly, finally dyeing the whole lotus flower golden.

After the whole lotus flower turned golden, it suddenly closed and turned into a bud, and then slowly unfolded. Looking again, the small cup had disappeared, and a golden medicine the size of a lotus seed was floating in the center of the lotus heart.

Wen Yumu picked up the golden pill. Under the moonlight, it could be seen that the whole body of the pill was pale gold, perfectly round and flawless, and there were mysterious auspicious cloud-like lines all over the pill's body.

Lift it up and observe carefully, you can also see the gold liquid slowly flowing inside the elixir.

So amazing!

Wen Yumu looked at it curiously, put it under his nose and smelled it, but there was no smell at all.

But it still looks so extraordinary.

The moment he saw the golden elixir, Wen Yumu couldn't help but say something in his heart: swallowing a golden elixir, I knew my fate was beyond my control.

He doesn't know who said this sentence, but in later generations, this sentence is very famous, and it often appears in various fantasy novels and film and television dramas.

The meaning of this sentence is also very simple. After forming a golden core, one will enter the realm of comprehension, control one's own destiny, and become a comprehensionist who competes with the heavens.

He wasn't sure if the effect of the Golden Elixir was like this, or if it wasn't that exaggerated.

The radiant golden core was quietly tempting him, but he didn't dare to try it lightly.

You know, in the legend of Chang'e flying to the moon, Chang'e stole a whole golden pill and was forced to fly to the moon palace.

He didn't want to be forced to ascend, and end up with a split between labor and swallow.

Of course, legends are legends after all, and there is a high probability that they will not come true.But for Wen Yumu, even if the probability is one in ten thousand, he dare not bet lightly.

He thought for a while, put the golden pill back, and said to himself: Put it away first.

The golden core sank slowly, fell into the lotus heart and disappeared, and the golden color on the lotus also faded, turning into the original red.

Above the lotus heart, a small cup slowly floated up.

Everything is back to normal, and only Wen Yumu knows that everything is different.

He was relieved to see Xiaozhan appearing again.

At least the spirit dew can continue to be collected, and when he collects another golden pill, he can try the effect of this pill.

Even if he really ascends in the daytime, he can take Ah Yi with him.