Chapter 683: 323 The Biggest Local Tycoon (double update)_2 Chapter 683: 323 The Biggest Local Tycoon (double update)_2 Empress Dowager Zhuang’s eyes were icy cold, and her powerful aura surged like a tidal wave, “The credit goes to the Qin Family, and the land also belongs to the Qin Family. Speaking such high treason, Grand Tutor Zhuang, are you trying to rebel?”
Grand Tutor Zhuang felt a jolt in his chest, he stared blankly for a moment, bowed, and said, “This servant misspoke.”
Empress Dowager Zhuang chilly retracted her gaze, “I have said all that needed to be said. You may leave.”
“…Yes, this servant will take his leave!”
Grand Tutor Zhuang stood up.
In the hot wind of June, he suddenly felt his back soaked with cold sweat.
After Grand Tutor Zhuang left, a eunuch Qin brought a cup of tea to her.
He was guarding the door of the study room, naturally he heard the conversation inside, he put newly brewed hot tea next to Dowager Zhuang, and said thoughtfully, “I didn’t expect that Her Majesty considered the Zhuang family so far-sighted. I was short-sighted, thinking that Her Majesty summoned Grand Tutor Zhuang to the palace just to vent her anger at Xiao Xiuzhuan.”
Empress Dowager Zhuang picked up the notes and snorted coldly.
Long-term considerations my ass.
It’s all verbal manipulation.
“If I only talk about one thing with him, even a small thing becomes a big thing. But if I talk about several big things with him, then the matter of the sixth son becomes a small thing. If it is a small matter, then there’s no need to fuss about it.”
Eunuch Qin had a bitter look, “Uh… I’m stupid.”
Empress Dowager Zhuang was amused by the thought of someone complaining and falling flat on his face, her mood had considerably improved. She indulged Qin with a bit of patience, “I heard that you recently got a new small turtle?”
Eunuch Qin was embarrassed and smiled, “Her Majesty is really well-informed.”
Empress Dowager Zhuang said lightly, “It’s not that I am well-informed, it’s just that the turtle crawled to my foot the other day. I found it unfamiliar, unlike the ones you kept before.”
Eunuch Qin had no other hobbies but to keep turtles. As the saying goes, turtles live for a thousand years, and tortoises live for ten thousand. This turtle is the tortoise, a tortoise has a longer life span than a turtle. He thought by keeping a turtle, maybe he could also live a long life.
Empress Dowager Zhuang casually said, “You have raised it quite well. Stew it for soup tonight.”
“Ah?” Eunuch Qin’s face changed drastically.
“What? Can’t bear to part with it?” Empress Dowager Zhuang sighed, “Lately, I seem to have a bad alignment with these turtles and tortoises. The Taoist priest said that if I eat one, it will dispel the evil spirits. If I can’t manage to eat one, I have to get rid of all of them, and from now on, turtles and tortoises will not be allowed in Renshou Palace.”
Eunuch Qin said in distress, “Then, then I’d rather take Dequan to be stewed for you.”
“Who wants to eat that thing?” Empress Dowager Zhuang was using it as a metaphor.
Eunuch Qin suddenly understood, “Ah… Xiao Xiuzhuan is the small turtle… ”
Empress Dowager Zhuang cast a cold glance at him!
She thinks you’re the old turtle!
“Cough, cough!” Eunuch Qin hesitated, “I have a slip of the tongue, I cannot speak properly, I am the turtle… However…” he came back to the main point, “Your strategy is quite brilliant.”
Empress Dowager Zhuang gave a cold, gentle laugh.
What she said was true, but the Zhuang family refused to withdraw from the whirlpool, and also couldn’t withdraw even if they wanted to.
This vortex, they have been unable to extricate themselves from it since long ago.
Today, both Guozijian and Qinghe Academy dismissed school early. Nanxiang and his master Lu had something to do and would be gone for three days, so Gu Xiaoshun and Gu Yan didn’t need to go there for learning.
The three young men gathered at home.
Last night, Xiao Jingkong fell asleep as soon as he came back from the palace. He hadn’t had a chance to distribute the gifts his aunt had given him. He forgot to give out the gifts when he left in the morning, and only remembered now.
Xiao Jingkong brought the brocade box out, rapidly running into the living room, “Aunt told me to bring these!”
The things that the aunt brought were generally for everyone.
Yao’s family was sitting in the passageway, smiling as she watched the children playing in the living room.
She felt that this kind of lively and beautiful days were unimaginable in past ten years.
“Oh, I can’t open it!” Xiao Jingkong was too weak.
“I’ll do it!” Gu Xiaoshun rolled up his sleeves and popped the box open with a bang.
The box was not too big, after all, if it were bigger, Xiao Jingkong couldn’t carry it, but it wasn’t small either. There were many things inside.
Three little heads huddled together, eagerly looking at the gifts in the brocade box.
Xiao Jingkong took out the gifts one by one: “Cat’s Eye Stone, this is for Brother Yan! Gemstone Knife, this is for Brother Xiaoshun! Silver Needle, this is for Jiaojiao! Golden gong, this is for me!”
Then there was an embroidery pattern book, obviously meant for Yao’s family.
“Naughty brother-in-law doesn’t have any.” Xiao Jingkong shook his head and said, “What a pity!”