Who Cares

35

Chapter 35 Burning Books

No matter how powerful Emperor Sheng Yuan was, he was still essentially a flesh and blood men, how could he not love beauty? And this beauty was still free-spirited and unrestrained, stood firm despite adversity, which made people more and more absorbed. At this time, he quietly sat closer, a pair of fiery eyes fixedly staring, and every time the woman drank a cup, he would pour the wine in time, took a pleasure in serving her. When she squinted and smiled, he once again adopted a silly and ignorant appearance, for fear that the other person would be able to detected his inner heart impetuousness, which would lead to disgust.

On the stage, Xu Guangzhi was still talking eloquently, but every time he made an argument, he was refuted by Guan Suyi upstairs. Not to mention Qin Lingyun and Emperor Sheng Yuan were already dumbfounded, even Li shi who didn’t know many big characters felt wonderful.

“According to what you say, Confucian scholars are equivalent to insects to the country and are useless?” Qin Lingyun smiled evilly, “I really should invite the Old Master Guan and let him listen to your arguments. The brilliant student that was trained by the Confucian master himself, in the end actually dismiss him to be useless.”

Guan Suyi was already slightly drunk, holding the small wine cup in one hand and shaking it gently, while the other hand supported her chin, her leisurely attitude grew without restraint. Her steamy eyes met the big man of the Jiuli tribe, and the other party immediately raised the jug to fill her cup, the base of his ears quietly turned red.

Only then did she chuckle and slowly said, “Who said my grandfather and father are useless? They preach, teach, solve doubts, enlighten young children, teach them propriety, morality, righteousness, and aspirations. When  they grew up in the future, these young people who know propriety, behave morally, act righteously, and have aspirations will become the mainstay of the Wei Kingdom. This is the merit of enlightenment, the merit is in the society, and the benefits are in the future. After ten thousand years, their names will definitely be engraved in the history books for future generations to pay their respects to, because they have broken through ignorance and enlightened the people of an era. Don’t you think so lord marquis?”

Qin Lingyun was speechless, and after a while, he angrily took out a Buddhist bead, and said sarcastically, “Good and bad, black and white, are all up to you to say, we vulgar people should just shut up.”

Li shi clasped her hands and smiled, “This is the first time I meet a character that can outspoken Little Yun, punish with a big bowl of wine!”

“Sister, please.” Guan Suyi stretched out her hand to invite, turned her face, saw the Jiuli man staring at the wine cup in his hand, and couldn’t help but smile, “Do you think it’s boring to drink a small cup? There is no need for you to serve here, go and drink a big bowl with them.” She pointed at the guards at the next table with her fingertips.

Qin Lingyun covered his face, unable to believe that Guan Suyi ordered His Majesty so naturally. What “no need to serve”? If she knew His Majesty’s identity, it’s unknown what her expression would be like, could she still be this calm and looked down on everything? She probably would scared to cry, right?

Emperor Sheng Yuan was not annoyed at all, but rather enjoyed her care. He did drink from a big bowl, but it wasn’t because he was hooked by the wine bugs, rather fascinated by her transparent fingertips glowing like pink crystals, which made him lost his mind for a moment. He shook his head and said honestly, “It is an honor for this humble one to serve Madam. Besides, Madam’s words are very interesting, and this humble one like to listen to it. There is a saying in the Central Plains, ‘Listening to your words is better than reading ten years of books‘, which I didn’t understand before, but now it touched deeply. Listening to a few words from Madam, it’s more effective than reading thousand of books.”