The sky was filled with stars.
Spots of starlight lit up in Fang Zhengzhi's eyes. The starlight turned into images that changed rapidly. There were mountains and rivers, and there were ancient trees. Eventually, these images merged together, forming a wide galaxy. Countless rays of light flowed and rotated in the galaxy.
After an unknown period of time, Fang Zhengzhi finally retracted his gaze. In an instant, the galaxy disappeared without a trace, leaving only a bright, pitch-black darkness.
Fang Zhengzhi looked at the table in front of him. The tea was slightly cold. Other than the tea, there was a white jade bottle on the table.
There were no words or patterns on the surface of the jade bottle, but it was made of the highest quality white jade, without any impurities.
"Is it time again?" Fang Zhengzhi muttered to himself. This time, he didn't call her a wastrel. Instead, he opened the jade bottle and poured out a jade green pill.
"Gulp!"
He swallowed it with the slightly cold tea!
"Boss." Fang Zhengzhi shouted towards the door.
"Master!" Moments later, the owner of the teahouse called out respectfully. However, he did not step into the room.
"Bring me a few of your most famous desserts and a few pots of your best tea. I want to take them away." Fang Zhengzhi ordered.
"Yes, please wait a moment!" The owner of the teahouse replied immediately.
Moments later, the owner of the teahouse personally brought over a few exquisite desserts and two pots of tea. Then, he bowed and left.
Fang Zhengzhi reached out and gently unbuttoned his blue robe.
Very quickly, a silver Heart Protection Mirror was revealed. However, it was different from the Heart Protection Mirror that Chi Guyan gave him a year ago. Even though the material of this Heart Protection Mirror was the same as the one from a year ago, there was a stone embedded in it. A square stone.
This stone had an extremely resounding name.
The Vast World!
Fang Zhengzhi touched the stone lightly. He seemed to be deep in thought. However, he quickly snapped out of it. With a thought, the desserts and tea on the table disappeared.
Then, Fang Zhengzhi stood up and walked out of the room.
It was late at night.
Almost all the lights in the Flame Capital City had been extinguished. Only a few patrolling lights were left on the streets, and a slender figure could be seen.
A lone figure was walking on the street.
His speed wasn't too fast. On the contrary, it was a little slow.
However, he still arrived at his destination and stopped.
The Southern Mountain Range, as the largest region of the Great Xia Dynasty, had its own guesthouse in the capital. The name of the guesthouse was simple: "Southern Guesthouse".
The decorations and customs of the South Hall were similar to those of the Southern Region's Royal Palace. If the materials were taken into account, it could almost be considered a small Southern Region Royal Palace.
Fang Zhengzhi was standing outside the south wing.
Four Southern Region soldiers in rattan armor stood guard at the entrance of the South Wing, staring intently at Fang Zhengzhi who was standing at the entrance.
"Is the King of the Southern Region asleep?" asked Fang Zhengzhi.
"No!" The four Southern Region soldiers replied without hesitation.
"Let them know." Fang Zhengzhi nodded.
"Young Master Fang, please enter. The King has been waiting!" The four Southern Region soldiers looked at each other. They had no intention of letting Fang Zhengzhi know. They respectfully took a step back and opened up a path.
"Thank you." Fang Zhengzhi thanked them. Then, he walked past the four guards and entered the South Hall.
To many people, the South Hall was a restricted area. Without the Emperor's permission, even the Ministry of Rites in charge of the South Hall would not dare to enter.
However, Fang Zhengzhi walked in.
He walked past the countless Southern Region soldiers in the hall. Not a single one of them stopped him. Instead, they greeted him respectfully.
"Young Master Fang, this way please!"
"Young Master Fang, this way please!"
"Young Master Fang, turn left!"
"..."
Then, Fang Zhengzhi arrived at a door. What was different from the others was that this door was guarded by four female soldiers in rattan armor!
"Young Master Fang, this way please!" The female soldiers heaved a sigh of relief when they saw Fang Zhengzhi. Then, they gently opened the door and greeted Fang Zhengzhi with the Southern Region's etiquette.
Faced with such treatment.
Fang Zhengzhi was not used to it. His original intention was to bring a few dishes from the Fragrance Restaurant to the South Hall and have some tea with Shan Yu. However, there was still some time before the sun rose.
He had already walked to the entrance of the South Hall.
Then, he asked a question.
However, he did not expect that Shan Yu was not asleep. Furthermore, she seemed to have predicted that he would come to the South Hall tonight. This made him slightly surprised.
Speaking of arrangements …
Initially, he did not have such an arrangement nor did he intend to do so. It was only because he was asked out by Wu Yuer and happened to be at the Fragrance Restaurant that he thought that Shan Yu had not tasted the snacks at the Fragrance Restaurant before that he had such an idea.
Then, how did Shan Yu predict this?
Fang Zhengzhi stepped into the room. He saw Shan Yu sitting behind a desk. She was wearing a luxurious animal skin.
The bright light shone on her wheat-colored skin. Her long legs were stretched across the chair. She held an ancient book in her hands.
There were two words on the ancient book: Law of Dao.
"You're here." Shan Yu kept the ancient book in her hands and sat up. She stared at Fang Zhengzhi with her dark eyes as he walked into the room.
"You're here." Fang Zhengzhi nodded.
However, he had a weird feeling about this. It was the middle of the night, and he was sneaking into a lady's room. Furthermore, the lady was the Queen of the Southern Region.
"Have a seat." Shan Yu pointed to the animal skin chair in front of her.
"Okay." Fang Zhengzhi nodded again.
"What's the matter?" Shan Yu asked when she saw Fang Zhengzhi sit down. She did not address him as the Queen. Instead, she used the word 'I'.
"Nothing." Fang Zhengzhi shook his head.
"Oh …" Shan Yu fell silent. Then, she seemed to have thought of something. "Should I ask them to bring the food in?"
"No need." Fang Zhengzhi shook his head again.
"Aren't you hungry?" Shan Yu was surprised.
"I brought some snacks." Fang Zhengzhi said as he reached into his pocket. Then, he took out a few plates of snacks and two pots of hot tea.
Shan Yu looked at Fang Zhengzhi again. This time, she was clearly surprised. However, after seeing the snacks, she finally reached out her hand.
Shan Yu placed a piece of snack in her mouth.
Very quickly, Shan Yu's expression seemed to have calmed down.
"The snacks taste good." Shan Yu praised softly. Then, she picked up the teapot and poured a cup of hot tea for both Fang Zhengzhi and herself.
She tasted it.
"The tea is better!"
Shan Yu placed the cup of tea down after taking a small sip.
"The tea of the Fragrance Restaurant has a long history. Although it is not the best in Flame Capital City, it is considered authentic." Fang Zhengzhi explained casually.
"Mm, your taste has always been good." Shan Yu nodded again after hearing Fang Zhengzhi's words. Then, she raised the cup and took another sip.
Fang Zhengzhi did not speak again. He leaned his body slightly on the chair so that his body was in a half-lying position.
However …
At this moment, Shan Yu moved.
The dagger, glowing with a cold light, stabbed towards Fang Zhengzhi like a ghost. The angle was extremely tricky, and the speed was so fast that it left an afterimage behind.
However, this dagger did not actually reach Fang Zhengzhi's throat.
This was because, at the moment when the dagger stabbed out, Shan Yu's body seemed to have lost her balance and she fell towards Fang Zhengzhi.
Fang Zhengzhi leaned back slightly when Shan Yu was about to pounce on him.
"Plop!"
Shan Yu fell to the ground. She knelt on both knees and knocked her head on Fang Zhengzhi's thigh. She looked rather pathetic. The chair that she was originally sitting on was kicked to the side.
"Your Highness!"
"Your Highness!"
The voices of two female soldiers came from outside the door. Then, the door was pushed open and four female soldiers rushed in. The black spears in their hands exuded a cold aura.
Then, time seemed to have frozen.
Fang Zhengzhi looked at Shan Yu, Shan Yu looked at the four female soldiers, and the four female soldiers looked at Fang Zhengzhi and Shan Yu with their eyes wide open.
"I deserve to die!"
"I deserve to die!"
"…"
After being stunned for a moment, the four female soldiers finally knelt on the ground.
"Get out. Do not come back without my orders." Shan Yu slowly stood up from the ground, rubbed her knees and waved at the four female soldiers.
"Yes!" The four female soldiers immediately left.
Meanwhile, Fang Zhengzhi moved his body forward so that his hand could reach the snacks. He picked one up, threw it into his mouth and started chewing.
"I thought that after more than a year, you would become more cultured!" Shan Yu lifted the chair and sat back on it.
"I should be the one saying that to you, right?" Fang Zhengzhi twitched his mouth.
In fact, when he saw Shan Yu's cultured look, he almost believed her. However, in the end, it was proven that some things could not be changed.
Especially the nature of a person.
For example, Shan Yu.
After a year, a wild woman had become a gentle lady who didn't use her knife and only drank tea and chatted with others.
Was that possible?
"You are still so shameless!" Shan Yu scolded. Then, her expression darkened. "Why didn't you go back to the Southern Region to explain a year ago?"
"Do I need to?" Fang Zhengzhi asked.
"Don't I need to?" Shan Yu asked.
"If you believe me, you would believe me even if I don't explain. If you don't believe me, no matter how well I explain, you would not believe me. Am I right?" Fang Zhengzhi replied.
Shan Yu was silent. After a moment, she nodded. "You took the sword outside the Icy Monkey Settlement, right?"
"That belongs to me." Fang Zhengzhi did not deny it.
"Why didn't you see it when you reached the Southern Region?"
"If you saw it, it would be difficult to succeed at the palace gate." Fang Zhengzhi replied.
"I will leave the Flame Capital City in a month. Is … time enough?" Shan Yu did not ask further. She had already kept her dagger.
"If it's just the Southern Region, I don't need a month. About three to four days should be enough." Fang Zhengzhi thought for a moment and replied.
"So fast?" Shan Yu's eyes flashed with shock.
Three to four days to clear the Southern Region of a year of grievances. Shan Yu would not believe this if it was said by anyone else.
However, the person who said it was Fang Zhengzhi …
She believed it.
"Mm." Fang Zhengzhi nodded.
Shan Yu didn't say anything else and didn't ask any more questions. She took another piece of dessert and stuffed it into her mouth. Then, she took a sip of hot tea and said, "Delicious dessert and tea!"
"Then eat more." Fang Zhengzhi chuckled.
…
Dawn.
A ray of sunlight shone through the window into a room in the South Wing. In the room, a man and a woman sat facing each other. They were eating dessert and drinking tea. They looked extremely peaceful.
However, outside the South Wing, the Flame Capital City was in an uproar.
News of Su Qing's arrival reached King Duan and the Crown Prince at dusk. In other words, most of the officials in the Flame Capital City had already returned to their residences.
Other than the officials in the Crown Prince's residence and King Duan's residence, not many people knew that Su Qing had entered the Flame Capital City.
However …
When everyone woke up from their dreams and opened their eyes, everything had changed. They could not accept it and could not think straight.
"Su Qing has entered the Flame Capital City!"
"How is this possible? Why would he suddenly enter the Flame Capital City? "
"Moreover, he even took the initiative to write a confession and list all the things that happened in the case of the Southern Domain. What exactly is going on?"
Countless people discussed. They really couldn't believe such a thing. After all, this matter was too sudden and strange.
However, they had no choice but to believe it.
This was because the entire Flame Capital City had already spread. All the streets and alleys were pasted with the same content. It was the exact contents of Su Qing's confession.
The words were intense. Not only did it detail the entire process, but it also included details of the mission and actions. It even listed out several pieces of evidence. It made people feel as though they were there.
From this point, one could not help but sigh. Su Qing's writing was indeed outstanding.
"Is this true?!"
"No matter how detailed the confession is, it can't be true, right?"
"We have to believe it. Su Qing's confession has been pasted outside the Ministry of Law's office. The words are indeed written by Su Qing. Furthermore, Su Qing's handprint and official seal are on it!"
"It can't be?"
When the original version of the letter was posted in front of the Ministry of Law's office, all the officials and citizens could do was stare with their mouths agape.
In a single night, the Flame Capital City seemed to have been set ablaze.
If it could be said that the people were still thinking about the unbelievable result at the entrance of the Imperial Palace last night, then this news really lit a fire on dry firewood.
A fire of destruction!
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