Vol 2 Chapter 16 (1/2)
Chapter 16: A Letter from the Capital
The skies above the city of Danzhou darkened suddenly The thick heavy clouds that hung over the heads of the people looked like patches of wet, dirty wool, or maybe burned cotton candy
The shore-dwelling inhabitants there were so accustomed to the weather that they kneould still be a while before rainfall, so no one panicked It was unlike previous years when the weather looked like it was about to take a turn for the worse and the handsoiti fro rooftops at the entire city, ”It’s about to rain; bring in your laundry”
The only main street in Danzhou Harobor was filled with food and trinkets Seeing a pretty boy in the crowd, one of the merchants tried toin the laundry anymore?”
Fan Xian srasped his maid's hand with one hand and held some tofu with the other
nobody was surprised that he helped the servants Everyone knew that the illegitimate son of Count Sinan’s house was unlike any other noble child in that he loved helping those beneath his station
In the six years since Fei Jie left Danzhou Harbor, Fan Xian had grown to be a fetching young boy who emitted a sense of reliability
Back at the house, he handed the tofu to the servants before greeting the Countess and picking up a piece of paper next to her Returning to his study, he placed a letter from his little sister next to the piece of paper on his desk and the expression on his face immediately lit up
This year, the en title and year to reflect the name of the country; a peculiar ht have seee, they co those days, it didn’t matter if you were a scholar at the Ministry of Education or a congee-drinking novel writer, if you ith the new language party or the old one; you still had to pay the Eighth Bureau of the Overwatch Council to review a report This topic was heavily covered by sour old scholars
After the eed, next on the list was pushi+ng nes These neere nothing new and only served to reorganize pre-existing ones The only thing the public found refreshi+ng was the introduction of newspapers at the start of the new year
Newspapers? No one had any idea what they were until the first issue, after which a collective ”Oh” marked the end of the public's interest
The newspapers were produced by the imperial palace and every issue had to be approved by the emperor himself before publication This prevented the possibility of any problematic articles that could incite backlash
The following issues cost the expensive price of a silver coin and were bought by those attracted to their novelty Soan to suspect it was a ploy set by the earden
Included within the thin paper were pieces of useless inforures, but thethe private life of governeneral was beaten by his wife or why the Co a tooth
There were even peripheral articles related to their neighbors, the Northern Qi Kingdoovernment officials only paid attention to their own close circle In the beginning, they laughed at the articles, but soon became embarrassed when it was their turn to be featured in the newspaper Knowing that the emperor was behind the newspaper, nobody dared to complain