Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Just when the Yuzhou Guard and Suizhou Guard in Qingyun City and the other three Qingning Guards outside the city were preparing to dispatch, Lu Chen was lying on the bed sleeping on his back in the Lu Mansion in the east city of Luojing City.

He always leaves for work on time, but today he took a rare day off.

The empress also took a day off because of yesterday's enlightenment breakthrough.

As a result, the ruling and opposition parties finally ushered in a short period of peace.

It wasn't until the sun was high that Lu Chen slowly opened his eyes.

"Aha……"

He straightened up, stretched his waist long, and then tidied up casually before leaving the bedroom.

"Cousin, you're awake."

As soon as he opened the door, Luo Xiaoyu's soft call came from not far away, and then he only heard a burst of light footsteps, and Luo Xiaoyu's delicate figure appeared in front of his eyes.

"Um."

Lu Chen nodded slightly, and then asked:

"Has anyone handed in a greeting card recently?"

Luo Xiaoyu thought for a while, and then replied: "Apart from the ones that you told me to ignore, cousin, there is a letter of greeting from the General's Mansion."

"When did this happen?"

"yesterday."

"oh."

Lu Chen responded casually.

"Reply to the post from the General's Mansion."

Hearing this, Luo Xiaoyu subconsciously nodded.

Then, when Lu Chen was about to go to the bamboo forest for morning practice, Luo Xiaoyu suddenly asked softly:

"Cousin, I heard that the general is a very beautiful woman. Cousin, you have never been moved by power. You even ignored the invitations from the chief minister of the court, but you only accepted the invitation from the general's mansion." Greetings, isn't it..."

"Don't think about it."

Lu Chen shook his head.

"Miss Gu once saved the lives of me and Xiao Yi, she is our savior, and since the Sacred King Cangming returned to the holy realm, the Tiance Mansion and the Forbidden Army are the forces His Majesty relies on the most, with Miss Gu and Liangyu here, Your Majesty can govern with peace of mind. They are so important to the country, so I naturally want to walk around with them more. If there are any important tasks in the future, with their support, many things can be done with half the effort."

Hearing this, the corners of Luo Xiaoyu's mouth twitched slightly.

But in the next second, she seemed to notice something suddenly, and the arc that had just been raised instantly calmed down.

"Liangyu?"

"It's Commander Fu."

Lu Chen yawned, with a hint of laziness in his voice.

"Okay, this kind of thing is fine no matter what, I will go to the bamboo forest to practice for a while, if I don't practice again, the purple energy will be gone."

Saying that, without waiting for Luo Xiaoyu to respond, he raised his footsteps and walked over from the side.

Halfway through, he seemed to suddenly remembered something, and said to Luo Xiaoyu who was silently watching his back without looking back:

"By the way, Xiaoyu, after the practice is over, I will go to the meditation room to meditate. Today I will thank you behind closed doors. Please help me decline all visiting guests. Unless there is something urgent, don't let them disturb me. Even Xiao Yi is the same."

Hearing this, Luo Xiaoyu immediately responded obediently.

"Okay, cousin."

After getting a response, Lu Chen didn't speak again, and left the small courtyard directly.

Luo Xiaoyu just watched his figure gradually drifting away until he disappeared completely, then she breathed a sigh of relief, then turned and left.

A breeze blows past, taking away the last scent of jasmine in front of the door.

At noon, Lu Chen, who had practiced for a while, stood up and carefully felt the changes in his body.

Well, as expected, hardly any changes were felt.

"Sure enough, simple cultivation has no effect."

The moment he opened his eyes, Lu Chen slightly sighed.

"It seems that my guess is correct. My predecessor practiced the way of helping the world. Only by making progress in the way of the way, or even realizing the Tao, can we break through the cultivation base, just like it was in Yuzhou..."

With the system in his body, as long as the system conditions are met, his strength will naturally become stronger. Leaving aside the highest reward of Immortal Ascension, he can get a lot of rewards whether he stays where he is or is demoted.

And improving the cultivation level can basically be guaranteed to be a guaranteed reward.

Most of his current strength is obtained from the rewards of the two missions, and the remaining half is a natural breakthrough in Yuzhou's insights.

So in addition to the system, if he wants to improve his strength, he has to work harder on the way of helping the world.

Of course, the most direct way is to be dismissed from office or die in the line of duty, but this idea that originally occupied his entire consciousness has faded a bit at this time.

The reason for this is not only because he feels more and more that the more he insists on some things, the more counterproductive he is. If he does it according to the circumstances, there may be surprises, but also because he has personally experienced this life from the perspective of Chai Hongyu. How cruel is the ancient society of high martial arts like grass.

Thinking of the piece of meat that was traded as a son of Yi, and the endless despair that filled my heart when facing the overwhelming yellow sand of the yellow disaster, and being rescued by that kind little official and the people At that time, Lu Chen couldn't help but tremble with the joy and gratitude of the rest of his life.

Shaking his head, he temporarily suppressed these thoughts, and then walked towards the meditation room.

The moment the door of the meditation room is closed, the sound insulation technique inside is activated instantly.

At this moment, apart from Lu Chen's breathing and heartbeat, there was no sound in this space.

Even time seems to have completely stopped.

In this extremely quiet space, Lu Chen's face was inexplicably agitated.

All kinds of chaotic thoughts that he forcibly suppressed during this period flashed through his mind in an instant after he completely let go.

After a while, his face gradually returned to calm.

The fist that was tightly clenched was gradually loosened.

After realizing the existence of the system, he was just an ordinary person before crossing, and his mind was almost completely occupied by the idea of ​​dying and then ascending. Only then did the following series of coquettish operations end up inexplicably becoming the most loyal minister of the dynasty. Occupying a high position, she was regarded by the empress as a coquettish manipulation of a good minister of the country.

This has almost become his only obsession.

Under the influence of this incomparably strong obsession, although it is not blinded by a single leaf, it still retains the most basic conscience of a modern person in its heart, and it is not necessary to do anything for the sake of ascension, but it also subconsciously ignores many things.

But now, after integrating Chai Hongyu's life, I have seen with my own eyes the misery of the people at the bottom of the world, seen the lively smiles on the faces of the people of Yuzhou after his efforts, and seen the piece of paper that used to come from nowhere. Longevity tablets carved out of picked wood.

His obsession, however, dissipated a lot, and it also made him notice some precious things worthy of his attention that he hadn't noticed before.

For example, responsibility.

Of course, the goal will not change, but the way to achieve it is not necessarily.

Somehow, he seems to have sensed why this strange system is called "The Way of Being an Official".

It seems that it is not so weird...

The shock that Chai Hongyu brought to him had a much greater impact on him than he had imagined.

Even in the extremely quiet meditation room, it is difficult for him to calm down completely.

The technique of tranquility flows slowly, and time passes quietly.

Lu Chen just sat cross-legged on the Zen seat quietly, motionless.

I do not know how long it has been--

Click!

Accompanied by a sudden crisp sound, his shoulders trembled suddenly.

Immediately afterwards, the spiritual power in his body suddenly became agitated, constantly impacting the spiritual veins in his body, expanding the spiritual wall that had been widened not long ago, and at the same time, under the constant impact, the originally quite scattered Spiritual power gradually began to solidify.