Chapter 618: Chapter 391: Let the Empress Deal with Him
By the Xingzi Lake, within a pavilion where the lights dimd, two slender figures of won stood in silence.
Not far from the pavilion, about eighteen won in white were keeping watch.
The beautiful and voluptuous Xue Can glanced at the pavilion in the center of the lake.
Unable to contain herself, she spoke to Mu Jin, who was admiring the lake’s colors with her back turned, “Chief Musician, isn’t this Zhao Ziyu being overly greedy? We ca with all sincerity, yet he acts frivolously and arrogantly. Should we really cooperate with such a person?”
Mu Jin didn’t directly address the question, instead she calmly said, “What of his arrogance? What can we actually do to him?”
Xue Can, still irritated, blurted out, “How can we let him take advantage like that, thinking that our Lunar Faction won are his servants to be treated at his whim? If there’s no cooperation, then we shouldn’t accept any gifts either. Let’s have the Cicada return, thinking a poem of Falling Flower Grade could take one of our sisters away?”
Mu Jin simply shook her head, “Look at Li Mingyi, has he said anything?”
Xue Can’s heaving chest gradually cald down, followed by a gentle sigh, realizing that she had spoken in anger, a tactic they could hardly employ.
They had been sent by the Empress Dowager, and aside from representing her to et Zhao Ziyu and the group of Confucian Scholars, there was an unspoken objective to guard against the Regent King, Li Mingyi.
After all, the Empress Dowager still wasn’t fully at ease with Li Mingyi, although they were allies.
And now, both the Music Workshop and Li Mingyi had given gifts to that Zhao Scholar. Not only was he taking advantage for free, but if they were to take back the “Fairy,” wouldn’t that be directly offending him and pushing Zhao Ziyu towards Li Mingyi?
Xue Can nodded slightly, “Chief Musician, it just feels unfair. Cicada is soone the Empress Dowager favored, from the lineage of the Pure White Cold Palace and you always saw her as your successor. But now… and it’s too cruel for her…”
Mu Jin abruptly interrupted, “This is the path she chose for herself.”
The voluptuous woman from the Music Workshop was at a loss for words, montarily silenced.
Initially, the Empress Dowager’s intention was on choosing among the ordinary Lunar Attendants, which ant it was almost impossible to pick Cicada, who was next in line as Chief Musician. However, while the others awaiting trial were nervous or fearful, she stepped forward, remarkably calm.
Xue Can believed that the previous Chief Musician must have wanted to stop or persuade her; she rembered how they exchanged looks for a while, but then no more was said. The Chief Musician, familiar with Cicada, must have seen sothing in her calm eyes.
Xue Can involuntarily glanced towards a small inn hidden in the darkness in the direction of Xingzi Town, sighing. Was she very disappointed at that mont?
This voluptuous woman was slightly disheartened, as the Music Workshop, always considered a ho by the Lunar Faction won, had ultimately compromised for unavoidable reasons…
“Xue Can,” the elegant Mu Jin suddenly spoke, “have you forgotten our teachings?”
Xue Can, her expression solemn, faced the bright moon in the night sky, her fingers slightly bent and touching her forehead, right shoulder, and left hip in succession, bowing her head, “Twice-parted moon, returning alas.”
Mu Jin narrowed her eyes, speaking word by word, “At this Grand Enshrinent Ceremony, the Empress Dowager cannot afford to lose.”
Xue Can took a deep breath, seriously said, “Chief Musician, I understand. I won’t have any more wild thoughts. We must absolutely… follow the Empress Dowager’s decision.”
A brief silence fell between the two.
Xue Can pondered, then said with knitted brows, “Only, I am sowhat worried about Cicada’s temperant now.”
Mu Jin responded indifferently, “She knows what to do, she always has, never needing my guidance. Additionally, Xue Can, never ntion those two words ‘Cicada’ again.”
She paused, then lowered her gaze, saying, “From now on, our Music Workshop no longer has this person.”
Xue Can was silent for a mont, then nodded.
“Chief Musician, this Zhao Ziyu is different from what we initially thought.
“Didn’t Teacher ng from Linlu Academy tell the Empress Dowager that he would send one of his proud disciples to oversee the Grand Enshrinent?”
“They inford us of a change in personnel midway, which was acceptable, but how could they finally send such an unethical scholar to lead the delegation? His actions are completely unlike Teacher ng’s fair and unbiased manner. Now that we cannot bring Zhao Ziyu back to Hanjing as instructed by the Empress Dowager, how shall we answer to her… What should we do next?”
The woman with a faint mole at the corner of her mouth turned her head, looking towards the direction of an inn in Xingzi Town, and softly said:
“Actually, these scholars coming to Great Li not being like the impartial Teacher ng might not be a bad thing… We needn’t complicate things unnecessarily. We’ll head back to Hanjing by boat tomorrow and report everything that happened tonight to the Empress Dowager, this Zhao Ziyu.”
After a brief pause, her voice trailed off:
“Once we reach Hanjing, let the Empress Dowager deal with him.”
…
Zhao Lingfei and Zhao Qian’er actually didn’t mind other won taking the initiative to approach Zhao Rong.
Outstanding n inevitably attract a variety of won, each with their own motives.
This doesn’t an that Zhao Lingfei and Zhao Qian’er handled the situation with a relaxed attitude, but because… most won who approached Zhao Rong posed no threat to them.
Like Liu Kongyi from Taiyi Mansion, Zhao Lingfei barely ever gave her a direct look, only occasionally ntioning Liu Kongyi in passing to express so slight irritation during minor argunts with Zhao Rong.
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