Chapter 831: Chapter 492: Taking Office in Liangzhou
The room immediately began to emit the scent of blossoming hawthorn flowers, as if spring had already arrived.
Noble Consort glared angrily at Chen Yuan, her face still showing traces of shock:
“You…you… dare to be so presumptuous!”
Recalling the previous scene, Noble Consort felt an overwhelming fear. Chen Yuan actually dared to make her do such a thing, it was simply…simply unacceptable.
Chen Yuan’s expression was calm. He exhaled a long breath, feeling refreshed in body and mind, glanced at Noble Consort, and said blandly: “Presumptuous? I don’t think so,
wasn’t it the Noble Consort who took the initiative?”
“You…”
Noble Consort froze in place, a bit at a loss for words.
It was indeed abrupt at first, but not so much later on.
“What a pity, this thing is rumored to have beautifying effects.”
Chen Yuan glanced at the item on the floor and shook his head slowly.
Noble Consort’s face immediately showed a tinge of embarrassment along with her surprise.
After contemplating for a long time, she finally suppressed some of the strangeness in her heart, directly picked up the cup on the table, drank it all at once, then spat the tea on the ground.
Taking a deep breath, Noble Consort remembered the words Sima Ke had said before, staring at Chen Yuan:
“Chen Yuan, I can allow you your impudence, but you must not contaminate Pingyang, otherwise if word spreads, how could my daughter and I compose ourselves?”
Chen Yuan raised his eyes to look at her:
“Can it really be spread with just you, Noble Consort?”
Noble Consort snorted coldly:
“In any case, just keep that in mind, I absolutely will not permit it.”
Chen Yuan beckoned her, and with some confusion in her heart, Noble Consort stepped forward a few steps, frowned at him, and asked: “No matter how you justify or argue, I will not….”
Before she could finish her sentence, Chen Yuan grasped Noble Consort’s neck with his hand, looking at her with indifferent eyes:
“Are you teaching me how to do things?”
“You…let…go…”
The look on Noble Consort’s face was full of terror. Chen Yuan’s hand was clasping her neck with a powerful suppressive force, rendering her completely immobile.
Chen Yuan’s hand exerted slight pressure, his tone steady:
“In the future, I don’t want to hear you say such things again, understand?”
“Un…understand.”
“If you want me to help your mother and son, first show the demeanor of someone asking for assistance. Don’t think I’m indispensable to you. Now, continue kneeling…..”
Chen Yuan’s tone carried a flavor of indisputable authority.
Then, his hand, like a pair of iron pliers, loosened its grip. Noble Consort gasped for a few deep breaths, seeing the sudden change in Chen Yuan’s eyes,
contemplated for a moment, and complied with his command.
“Alright, it’s getting late. Noble Consort, it’s better for you to return to the palace early, lest someone notices.” Several breaths later, Chen Yuan spoke to the woman before him.
Noble Consort exhaled a long breath, quickly stood up from the ground, pursed her lips, gave Chen Yuan a glance, and turned to leave. However, for some reason, Chen Yuan’s fierce and forceful attitude earlier did not inspire resentment in her heart.
Instead, she felt a strange satisfaction, unable to really hate Chen Yuan, as if what she just went through was not humiliation at all. What she didn’t realize was that under the power of transformation of the spirit,
she would only become more submissive to Chen Yuan, as if facing God!
At the doorway, Noble Consort grabbed the doorframe, hesitated for a moment, but still turned her head back and said in a low voice: “I wish the Green Envoy success in everything in Liangzhou.”
After saying this, she donned a black veil, opened the door, and left quickly.
Watching the other person’s departing figure, the corner of Chen Yuan’s mouth lifted with a faint cold smile, as if everything was under his control.
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The night passed without words.
A night of peace.
In the morning, when the first rays of sunlight shone on the window, Chen Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes, with a beam of golden light shooting from them. He turned his neck slightly, making ‘crackling’ sounds throughout his body.
Chen Yuan exhaled a long breath of stale air, then with a casual wave of his hand, all the Primordial Crystals in the room were collected into the Heavenly Book Space.
Stepping out of the room, Chen Yuan looked up at the sky, aware that today he would be leaving the Capital, leaving what had been a kind of cage for him.
As usual, Chen Yuan had his morning meal, then drank a pot of Spiritual Tea alone in the backyard, before donning a black robe and leaving Duke Wuwei Mansion straight away.
This was the ninth year of Jin Jingtai, on February twenty-second, Chen Yuan officially left the Capital to take office in Liangzhou.
If Chen Yuan’s departure from Ping’an County to assume office in Nanling Prefecture in the seventh year of Jingtai on August twenty-ninth was like a latent dragon emerging from the abyss, then now it was like a dragon entering the sea!
Chen Yuan’s departure seemed very calm, but in fact, it affected many people’s hearts.
Zhang Mansion, backyard.
Second Miss Zhang sat in the pavilion, resting her chin in her hand, looking listlessly at the small golden fish swimming in front of her, her spirit seemingly having drifted far away.
Not even noticing Zhang Yantong’s presence immediately.
It wasn’t until Zhang Yantong slowly sat down that she noticed something unusual and spoke:
“Father didn’t go to the Heavenly Patrol Bureau?”
Zhang Yantong smiled:
“Nothing to do today, so I came to see you.”
“See me?”
Second Miss Zhang appeared somewhat astonished. In her impression, her father Zhang Yantong had always been busy, even more so in recent years, rarely having time to spend with them siblings.
Besides, it seemed she hadn’t stirred up any trouble, right?
Apparently noticing Zhang Wanshu’s confusion, Zhang Yantong spoke slowly:
“Chen Yuan has left.”
“Mm.”
Second Miss Zhang nodded, not saying much.
“What are your thoughts?”