20demayo Chapter 368 Returning intact
Chapter 368 Returning intact
"I have listed the names of the people who may have been wrongly accused in the past few years, as well as the evidence found in these years and the places that may have been used as training grounds. As for the rest, I don't want to care about it anymore.
If the Emperor lets me leave with my life intact today, I can promise that no matter how many people the Emperor sends to monitor me, I will only be willing to be an idle noble.
If the emperor doesn't want me to leave today, then I won't leave. I just hope the emperor won't involve my children. Especially my daughter, her life has just begun."
Marquis An Yong raised his eyes and looked at the emperor, as if he was gambling, gambling on the emperor's thoughts, gambling on whether he could leave today.
The emperor seemed to be thinking a lot. The only sounds in the room were his tapping on the table and silence.
All the palace maids and eunuchs had been sent away, only Eunuch Wei remained silent with his head down, as if he wished he was deaf at this moment.
"Why did you wait so long to present the clues, my dear?"
The emperor asked calmly, but before Marquis An Yong could answer, he smiled self-deprecatingly.
This case involved two dynasties. During the previous dynasty, when these things happened, he was just a prince and naturally had no right to comment on those trivial matters.
"My dear minister, you said you don't want to take care of it anymore, but there are so many clues presented to us. If you don't take care of it, who will?"
The emperor seemed to believe what An Yonghou said, but he didn't want to let him go easily. He was only in his forties, so why should he be an idle noble?
Marquis An Yong... It's over. Before he came, he was almost certain that the emperor would not really think there was anything wrong with him, but it was also unlikely that he would let him go easily.
"Qi Ningliang can manage it. Just like me, Wang Po, bragging about myself! But Qi Ningliang is indeed capable of managing it."
"Qi Ningliang?"
The emperor stroked his chin. Marquis An Yong was extremely idle every day, and his son was not very diligent either.
Go wherever is fun.
When he had just graduated from the Imperial College, he was unwilling to join any of the six ministries because he was the only child in the family.
I dare to say it in the hall.
His family didn't need a position of hereditary title, and he himself passed the exam, so even if he found his long-lost sister, he wouldn't need this position. Therefore, he was unwilling to go to any of the six ministries. He hoped that the emperor would give him a position that was leisurely but didn't require much responsibility.
Finally, I ended up in the Hanlin Academy, where I dealt with texts every day.
Is this kind of person really possible?
Seeing this, Le Yonghou beside him also knelt down, "Your Majesty, Gu Qingpei can do it too, he will definitely agree."
The emperor seemed to be hesitant to speak, "Didn't you just come to ask for a long vacation for him? How come, I heard that the old case is going to be re-examined, and he is fine again?"
Anyone could hear the sarcasm in the emperor's tone, but Marquis Le Yong did not refute and continued to keep his head down.
The emperor was extremely annoyed and could only wave his hands and said, "We need to think about this matter carefully. Let me finish reading these annoying evidences first..."
Marquis An Yong and Marquis Le Yong retreated together, and when they were outside the palace wall, Marquis Le Yong spoke.
"You are really brave. Aren't you afraid that your head will be in danger if so many bombshell news suddenly come out?"
Marquis An Yong waved his hands and said, "I have irrefutable evidence to prove that I have nothing to do with this matter. Besides, if it weren't for you, I think it would take me some time to get to the emperor."
Marquis Le Yong naturally knew that Marquis An Yong came to save him, but there was no exchange of thanks between the two.
"I guess we still have to wait for Siyu. The emperor seems to like Siyu more." Marquis An Yong thought about the emperor's expression just now and said lightly.
"If you don't want to take care of it yourself, you will have to wait. Siyu is a child who likes to get stuck in a rut. And these things can only be done well by people who are very fussy about it." Le Yonghou couldn't help but sigh.
If it were someone else, they would have given up long ago.
But Gu Qingyun just likes this kind of thing. It seems that peeling off the clues layer by layer and getting the final answer is a very fulfilling thing.
An Yonghou nodded, "Siyu is like me. I was like this when I was young. But he is much smarter than me. He knows how to care and be humble. Although he is sometimes reckless, at least he uses his brain. Unlike me, I always think I can do everything. I am like this when I am young and I am old. If I am not careful, I can recommend myself and my family to the abyss. So I don't want to take care of it. I have finally achieved a perfect life. If I take care of this matter, I am afraid I will die a few years earlier."
Le Yonghou said unconsciously, "I don't know if he is doing well in Wubang now. The work he is doing now is very brutal."
The two of them walked back along the palace wall, followed by two carriages, not too far away. They walked until they reached a place with shops, then bowed slightly to each other and waved goodbye.
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An Yonghou slowly returned to the Kyoto restaurant. The restaurant was recently making lotus seed soup, lotus seed cake, and lotus seed stewed chicken...
Anyway, after studying various ways of eating it, Qi Ning'an was asking many people to try the dishes.
Marquis An Yong smiled with relief. Qi Ningliang and Qi Ningan didn't know he had entered the palace today. He didn't even have a vague idea of what happened last night. At this moment, he didn't understand why his father was standing at the door with a foolish smile on his face.
But what does that matter?
Qi Ning'an came from a distance holding the freshly-baked lotus seed cake, changing hands constantly as it was burning, while running towards An Yonghou.
"Dad, this is the biggest piece out of the oven. I just ate the last batch and it tasted great. But I put less sugar this time. Dad, try it and see if it tastes good."
An Yonghou put the food into his mouth while smiling, as if he no longer felt the heat.
For a moment, Marquis An Yong felt only the legendary family happiness.
"Delicious, delicious. Everything An An cooks tastes so good. I don't know who An An inherited her genes from. Your mother's cooking is just so-so except for stewing soup. But everything our An An cooks tastes good."
Qi Ning'an smiled happily. No one would dislike compliments, especially when the person in question was his majestic father.
Soon, Qi Ning'an wrote down today's new products. Ever since she became the legitimate daughter of Marquis An Yong, the restaurant's business has been getting better and better.
Now, many seats have to be booked in advance. Despite this, Qi Ning'an has no plans to raise prices. Instead, he has kept them the same as before, even keeping the speed of adding new products the same.
This even surprised those who originally just wanted to flatter, as they didn't expect it to be so delicious and not expensive.
What's even more outrageous is that they don't even accept tips. Every time they give them a little extra money, the next time they come to eat, Kyoto Restaurant won't even accept the money, insisting that there is some left over from last time.