Chapter 401: Past Events in the Divine Capital

Song Lian patted Chen Chao on the shoulder, smiled and said, "Before leaving Beijing, come to my house for a meal."

Chen Chao asked, "My sister-in-law lives at your place now?"

Song Lian shook his head with a grimace, "She said my yard was too big and she was not used to it, so I spent money to renovate her yard, and now I live there too."

Chen Chao nodded and said seriously, "Good man."

Song Lian smiled and scolded, "If you want to make fun of me, just laugh boldly. Anyway, after you finish laughing, I will ask you to practice boxing to see if you can withstand a few of my punches in this miserable state."

Chen Chao raised his eyebrows and said, "So confident? Sir, don't you know that I just killed a person from the other side?"

"Virtue, isn't it only achieved by teaming up with that little girl of yours?" Song Lian narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Whenever you can really kill a monk from the other side by yourself, I will congratulate you."

Chen Chao asked, "Set a table?"

"How can one table be enough?" Song Lian said with a smile, "I will ask all the officials from the Zuowei Yamen to go there."

Chen Chao sighed, finally feeling better.

Song Lian then became serious and said, "No matter what His Majesty wants you to do, I still say that the most important thing is to save your life. If you can't do it, you can't do it. Don't risk your life. If you really die, the guard will bring you back to your senses." I didn’t have the nerve to see him that day.”

Chen Chao said, "You are resisting the decree."

Song Lian lowered his voice and said, "Since it's a secret decree, it's not an open one. You can even understand that it's His Majesty's private matter. Since it's a private matter, I'm asking for your help. If you have the ability, I'll help. If you don't, then who can blame me?" "

Chen Chao looked suspicious, hesitated for a moment and said, "Sir, are you really just a martial artist?"

Song Lian smiled strangely, "As an official in the court, do you think you can only deal with some things? This guy who can stand in the capital of God, who is not an old man?"

Chen Chao said sincerely, "Then I have to ask the adults for advice on how to be an official."

Song Lian laughed and scolded, "Go away, I still have a lot of official business to deal with. Do you think it's like you, taking the salary from the court and hanging around all day?"

Speaking of salary, Chen Chao was suddenly startled and asked strangely, "I have never received salary, where is my money?!"

It has been a year since Song Lian took him as Zuowei's deputy commander. However, in this year, he has never received Zuowei's salary. Originally, he thought Since he had a casual position, he had never received any salary or anything like that. Now that Song Lian said this, it meant that all his previous salaries had been paid.

Song Lian glanced at him, and suddenly there was a strange light in his eyes, "You were not in the capital before, and all your salary was sent to the academy for you.

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There is no need to finish the words, but the meaning is clear.

Chen Chao looked at Song Lian blankly.

Song Lian smiled and said, "This is what Daliang law says. The monthly salary must be paid to the officials in office. If the officials are not in the capital due to official duties, they must be paid to their families. You are a lonely person, who can I give it to?"

Before Chen Chao could speak, Song Lian asked thoughtfully, "Isn't it because I didn't tell you?"

"How is that possible?" Chen Chao looked serious, "I just forgot."

Song Lian snorted, full of ridicule.

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After walking out of the Zuowei Yamen, Chen Chao took the oil-paper umbrella handed over by the two Yamen servants at the door. He thanked the two Yamen servants as usual. The two of them still smiled and sent Chen Chao off. Looking at Chen Chao's back, they naturally said something discuss.

Before returning to the academy, Chen Chao took the time to visit his house, which Song Lian had arranged for him. He hadn't been back in the past few days, and the courtyard was still spotless. However, on the way, Chen Chao clearly noticed that there were many pairs of eyes looking at him. Chen Chao frowned slightly. As the white mist continued to circulate in his body these days, he did notice many different places. Now his perception is much more sensitive than before. He can sense the surrounding aura very well. Sensitively aware, he even felt that as long as the other party was not a great monk in the Forgetful Realm, there would be no way he could come within a few dozen feet of him quietly.

Pushing open the door, although there was no change inside compared to before, Chen Chao knew clearly that people must have been here before, but he didn't have anything, so he kept all the important things on him, which was not the case. Nothing important.

After wandering around the house, Chen Chao slowly walked out, but before he left the yard, there was a knock on the door.

Chen Chao frowned slightly, but quickly walked to the door and opened the wooden door.

A face he had seen before now appeared in front of Chen Chao.

Chen Chao knew him as the manager of the Xie family. He went to the Xie family for the first time before, and it was this man who came to invite him.

Without waiting for Chen Chao to speak, the steward quickly explained his intention, "Commander Chen, Mr. Xie has invited me."

Chen Chao looked at him and did not speak immediately.

It is indeed not difficult for Xie to know some things in Shendu. Chen Chao knew that they must have known about his departure from Shendu, but they suddenly invited him at this time, and it seemed that he deliberately avoided them.

Those who crossed Xie Nandu didn’t seem to give themselves a chance to refuse.

Besides, these days, whether intentionally or unintentionally, Mrs. Xie has been of great help to Chen Chao. If Chen Chao refuses, I am afraid that no matter what, he will not be able to justify it.

Looking at the carriage, Chen Chao didn't speak for a while.

The steward was not in a hurry and just said softly, "The ancestors said that if Commander Chen doesn't want to, he doesn't have to go."

Chen Chao was a little surprised, "Ancestor?" .🅆.

The steward nodded, the Xie family in the capital of the gods only had one ancestor.

Without waiting for Chen Chao to speak, the steward smiled and said, "When Commander Chen first came to the capital, what the Xie family did was also decided by the ancestors."

Chen Chao smiled bitterly and said, "How can I refuse this?"

The steward smiled but said nothing.

He followed the steward into the carriage, and the steward quickly jumped into the carriage and drove away.

Hearing the sound of horse hooves, Chen Chao gradually fell into deep thought.

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After an unknown amount of time, the sound of horse hooves gradually slowed down until the carriage slowly stopped.

Chen Chao got out of the carriage and looked at the two ordinary lanterns hanging on both sides of the middle door of the Xie family. He felt a little touched. Some people suddenly became rich and wanted to tell everyone around them that they had been reborn, but such people were essentially the same as before, with no difference. On the contrary, aristocratic families like the Xie family, which had long been famous, did not deliberately show off. This was the real family heritage. Although the Shendu Xie family had only a history of more than 200 years, if you really counted it, the Bailu Xie family had already established a foothold in this land for many years.

Coming back to his senses, Chen Chao followed the steward to enter through the side door. He naturally would not dream that the Xie family would open the middle door and welcome him in. Even though his reputation in the Shendu was getting bigger and bigger, it was a delusion to want a giant like the Xie family to open the middle door before he became the garrison commander of Daliang. Even if he became the garrison commander of Daliang one day, he might not have this honor.

Walking into the Xie family, the eyes around him suddenly disappeared. Many forces in the capital were paying attention to Chen Chao, but no one could be so unscrupulous in the Xie family.

After just a few steps, Chen Chao sensed many hidden eyes in the dark. These should be the Xie family members. They were also looking at Chen Chao in the dark. This time they were closer, and the feeling of being stared at by countless eyes made him feel a little uncomfortable.

However, after walking a few steps, an old voice came from the depths of the distance, "What's so good to see?"

As this voice sounded, all the eyes around him were withdrawn, only the last few, who seemed unwilling, but finally moved away.

Chen Chao breathed a sigh of relief.

The steward suddenly stopped in front of a long corridor and smiled, "Commander Chen, it's at the end of the corridor. I am humble and can only take you here."

Chen Chao nodded slowly. He understood the rules of these aristocratic families and did not embarrass the steward.

The steward turned and left, and Chen Chao faced a long corridor alone.

Looking at an ordinary long corridor, Chen Chao was silent for a long time and did not take a step forward.

I don't know how long it took before Chen Chao took a step forward.

When he took a step, there was no expected storm, only a quietness, as if the sky after the rain was so clean and ordinary.

Chen Chao frowned slightly, but soon walked forward. After walking through the long corridor safely, he came to a ancestral hall. In front of the ancestral hall sat an old man who was dozing with his eyes closed. Next to the ancestral hall, there was an ordinary wooden house. There was a tree in front of the house. An old man stood under the tree and looked at Chen Chao.

That was the ancestor of the Xie family.

Chen Chao also looked at him. After just one glance, he felt a little strange. The old man in front of him was not as majestic as he thought, but extremely ordinary, just like the farmers who can be seen everywhere in the fields in the countryside, smoking a dry pipe and looking at the field in front of him with a kind face.

Now he is not in the countryside, and there is no so-called land, only Chen Chao in front of him.

Chen Chao quickly came back to his senses, bowed slightly, and said softly, "Hello, senior."

The old man did not rush to speak, but looked at Chen Chao with a pair of vicissitudes of life. The ancestor of the Xie family, one of the two giants in the capital, looked at Chen Chao as if he was looking at the crops in the fields, to see how they are growing, to see if they can survive the wind, frost, rain and snow, and whether they can have a good harvest in the autumn harvest.

I don’t know how long it took before the old man slowly said, "The vision of the girl from Nandu looks pretty good."

Chen Chao thought about all the words that the ancestor of the Xie family wanted to say, but he didn’t expect him to say this.

For a moment, he didn’t know how to answer.

But the next sentence caused a storm in Chen Chao’s heart.

"I have rarely seen outsiders in these years. The last one I saw was the kid from Ningping."

The old man paused and said, "It seems that at that time, the kid was about the same height and age as you."