Chapter 440: Visiting Liu Wenyuan
These words left the entire court gasping in shock.
The Minister of Revenue, a second-rank official, managed the empire’s grain and finances, standing as a true core of the Six Ministries. Bestowed with the title of Junior Guardian of the Crown Prince and granted the privilege of riding a horse within the Forbidden City, this was the pinnacle of imperial favor!
Xu Qing had laid low for five years, and now, with a single burst, he had ascended to the peak!
Yet, on Xu Qing’s face, there was no trace of ecstatic joy.
He still wore that expression of being unmoved by honor or disgrace, performing the grand ritual with flawless precision:
"Your humble servant thanks Your Majesty for your boundless grace. Long live the Emperor, ten thousand years, ten thousand years, ten thousand years."
His heart was as calm as still water. He knew that behind this seemingly splendid reward lurked the Emperor’s deeper scrutiny, along with countless eyes fixed on him, waiting for him to stumble. But so what? He was ready to measure the breadth of the Great Xing nation in his own way.
In the evening.
Xu Qing finished handling the complicated handover affairs at the Ministry of Revenue and returned to his residence under the glow of the setting sun.
At the gate, craftsmen from the Imperial Household Department had already hung the imperial plaque inscribed with "Upright and Incorruptible" high above, its dazzling gleam shining in the sunset’s rays.Xu Qing merely glanced up at it before walking straight into the manor.
He declined all visiting officials and congratulatory cards, heading directly back to his study.
Pushing open the door, the study’s furnishings remained unchanged, yet the air seemed a little less oppressive than in days past.
He walked to the desk and personally ground the ink.
Then, he lifted the goat-hair brush, its handle worn smooth from use.
His gaze once again fell on the scroll inscribed with "Self-Examination in Solitude" hanging on the wall.
the thick ink, suspended his wrist, and beside those two forceful characters,
a calmness born of
from Brother Su, to
final stroke, Xu Qing gently set the brush down on the
softly blew out the candle flame on
"Puff—"
smoke curled upward, vanishing
open the door, and walked out
moonlight poured over him like water, casting a long, slender shadow across
were steady and
five years. Instead, it radiated a sense of complete release—a calm and composure that
new day had truly
.......
had not yet fully
down extremely low, slowly walked to an old house at the end of a secluded
was the residence of Liu Wenyuan, the Vice Director of the Imperial College. This great Confucian scholar, who had once had
watching the few strands of weeds poking through the crack in the door. He took a deep breath of the cold morning air, then raised his hand, bent his index and middle fingers, and lightly knocked
Thud, thud, thud.
extremely slow, dragging footstep came from inside, accompanied by a
heavy old wooden door cracked open a
broom in his hand. The old man’s eyes
hat outside the door, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Our master has closed his doors to
Ming said nothing, slowly took off his bamboo
a moment, initially confused. But gradually, an
broom that had accompanied him for many years clattered onto the bluestone
is it
years ago, that young man who had been put in shackles and exiled to the bitter Northern Frontier—that figure growing distant in the wind and snow—now stood
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