181 Chapter 179: Restaurant! (1/2)
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Duan Li's brows twitched continuously upon hearing this.
”W-What do you mean mother? D-Don't worry, I can afford to pay!” he hurriedly said, afraid that his mother does not want to depend on him.
Meng Yue shook her head, ”Idiot son, you are already the Imperial Overseer of the Jiu Empire! Even if you were to ask the Emperor to vacate the palace right now and make it your new home, who would dare complain?”
Pu!
Duan Li got choked by his own saliva.
Mother.. do you think your son was raised to become a bandit?
And no one dared complain? The heck!
Everyone would complain if the royal family got evicted from their home so suddenly like that!
The least we should do to make things proper should be to send them a formal letter of eviction notice first, and then..
Wait, wait!
This train of thought is wrong!
”M-Mother.. I know the status of the Imperial Overseer is higher than the Emperor, but that is too much of a high-profile move to make! Wouldn't it be better if we just do things normally?” Duan Li tried to pursuade his mother.
After all, a certain newcomer suddenly becoming an Imperial Overseer would already be too much for most people to accept, not to mention the same person were trying to do things as he liked..
The citizens would definitely threw a huge ruckus and file a large amounts of complaints for that!
He then added, ”Besides, my status as the Imperial Overseer is a still a secret from the public.. only a week later would it be officially announced.. therefore it would create an endless amounts of trouble if I were to self declare myself as such.. in fact, it could even be considered as a treason!”
Hearing this, Meng Yue pouted her mouth as what her son just said was indeed correct.
”Hmph.. fine! But when you are officially announced as the Imperial Overseer next time, you should try to pull your weight around a bit. Otherwise, your status is practically useless!” she replied.
”Well.. that's true..” Duan Li gave what his mother just said some serious thoughts.
I wonder what I should do once I get officially titled?
...
Soon after, he gathered all of his followers and head down North towards the exit of the academy, which is the entrance gate. After which, an old man that saw them coming suddenly appeared and stopped them.
”Halt! No students are allowed to- err.. you are..” he stuttered in his sentence when he saw Meng Yue, his countenance turned pale.
This was the same old man that had quickly hidden himself behind bushes back then when Meng Yue were trying to forcefully open the entrance gate to let her son in after a late night excursion.
”Huh me? I'm Meng Yue, why?” Duan Li's mother shot him a glare.
”Ahh! Yes, yes! Your lady must be on your way out to the capital eh? Please wait for a while, let me open the gate for you!” he hurriedly said, not daring to delay their encounter any longer.
With his palm pressing on a certain corner of the gate, the gate started to rumble violently before it slowly moved to open itself up.
This stupid gate! Why does it have to put on airs even when opening itself?!
Do you have to be so dramatic and slow? My life is on the line here!
'I should have oiled its gears a while back..' he thought to himself feeling immense regret.
After a short while, which seemed to be eternity for the old man, the gate finally opened up in full, and he exhaled a deep breath in relief.
”There, the path has been opened up nicely! Come back safely guys!” the old man said with an expression similar to that of a caring and friendly neighbour, which looked a little bit off with that glaring cross-shaped scar on his face.
”E-En!” Duan Li replied awkwardly as they moved along with the old man waving at them from the back.
They wondered on why the guardian of the entrance gate was being so nice to them, was it because of their Lord's reputation?
Haaa!!
”That was the closest encounter I ever had with the tyrant herself! To think that my lifetime's fortune was spared, truly the Heavens has watched over me!” he exhaled a deep relief once more.
He was already a retired cultivator and his main source of living right now was his pension benefits for volunteering to help guard the entrance gate of the academy during nightime.
Rumors has it that the Tyrant of the Jiu Empire back then would sometimes mercilessly snatched an elderly's money for gambling and drinking, and while he did not know whether that rumor was the actual truth or not, he dares not to test it himself!