Chapter 10
After his arrival at the capital that raised countless waves and storms, Wu Xi had not done anything else extraordinary since the melodramatic spectacle that terrified the world . There was hardly any of his presence during the time he was staying put at the guest post . Until the construction of the sorcerer youth’s hostage manor was completed, it was already half a year later . It was unknown whether this was unintentional or done on purpose, the hostage manor was built at a location that was just one street behind Nan Ning Wang’s mansion .
Originally, this would be considered unsuited to proprieties and rituals, yet no one really tried to take care of this matter because Master Jian — Jian Sizong — whose favorite line for his usual lip-service was “What impropriety!” had been in a pitiful plight with “beaten head and scorched brow(1)” for being denounced due to his very unbecoming conduct .
Regarding these matters, Wu Xi who locked himself up and had little contact with the world obviously was not aware, but Jing Qi who was likewise living in seclusion at home knew very well in his heart .
The sorcerer youth had been quiet, yet there were plenty of people who wanted to fish in troubled waters and made use of the old incident to advance their own ideas . If this group of people who feared that all under heaven was not free from chaos were to line up together, they would be able to circle the capital several times .
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There were people who went after and seized Jian Sizong by the throat, criticizing him from his manners and lifestyle to his covert, shady affiliation with the wolf-and-tiger-like kind of people whose hearts were not easy to measure . Of course, everyone knew exactly who this “wolf-and-tiger-like kind of people” was, and if the level went up just a tiny bit higher, the topic would be shifted to that fatherless, kingless “certain someone” who was plotting to conspire and so on . Memorials to the emperor that condemned the First Prince faction thus kept on piling up like fallen snowflakes .
There were also cases where they, while supporting Jian Sizong’s complaints for unjust accusation, took advantage of the situation to publicly condemn witchcraft and demonic art . Then, they went from talking about witchcraft and demonic art to discussing about how the imperial court’s important and high-ranking officials had been keeping Taoist priests at their homes, lending a ready ear to slanders, and searching for elixirs to achieve immortality — who wouldn’t know that He Lianqi’s right-hand man was the Taoist priest with surname Li? For a while, severe criticisms of evil deeds, sorcery, misconduct and so on were flying back-and-forth all over the sky, utterly “delightful” — even the emperor’s desk couldn’t bear the heavy load and was on the verge of collapsing .
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While the royal court’s atmosphere had been heavy and demoralizing, but to the children who had not yet got their share of these worries, time was passing by particularly fast . The physiques of these teenagers became tall and slender like a tree sprouting its branches; if they were not reading books, they would be sitting there in a daze .
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Although Wu Xi lived very close to Jing Qi, there was no frequent contact .
Wu Xi seemed to have an instinctive resistance toward this beautiful and elegant young man, and he always felt as if there was something else hidden behind that smiling face .
Since he had not interacted with many people from Central Plains, he didn’t exactly know what the Central Plains people ought to be like . He just felt that the First Prince who clamoured about wanting to kill himself in the court that day while covering the sky with one hand was alright, and the so-called emperor who didn’t know much was also not bad, or that Master Chen whose speech amidst the clouds and fog and made others wonder what he was thinking about was also whatever; but none of them could make his hair stand on end the same way this Nan Ning Wang person did .
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