690 Fairy Pool Hunter (1/2)

King Wuyang Palace of the Jin.

For the past few days, the air in the Inner Yard of the palace had been quite solemn. Ever since Zhou Bao banished Feng Xuan from the Wuyang Region, the yard had been shrouded in a solemn atmosphere.

Jiang Xiao and Zhu Ba were both grim-faced.

This time they had really lost face. In the Cloud Crane Tavern, a scholar had cursed Zhou Bao undauntedly, but the urban management outside had not reacted at all. If Zhou Bao hadn't been there, it would not have been such a big deal. But unfortunately for them, Zhou Bao had been sitting right there in the tavern and heard every word. He had also noticed the inaction of urban management. Although Zhou Bao had not said anything afterwards, his silence was precisely the reason the two were perturbed, very perturbed.

In fact, the two could not take full blame for this incident. In the beginning, they did try to stop the man from swearing and beat him up, almost killing him on the scene. However, the scholar had been a friend of Feng Xuan, and Feng Xuan had struck out and rescued him. In the Wuyang Region, a Level Six expert could certainly enjoy some fame, but if he went against the Wuyang Region, he would be courting death.

No matter how unbelievable a genius Feng Xuan was, he could be as arrogant and domineering as Zhou Bao was at his age. His cultivation was also not as high as Zhou Bao's had been back then. With a cultivation at Level Six, his combat capability allowed him to fight against a Level Seven expert at most. How could he be a match for the urban management, who could flatten the whole region?

Nevertheless, some things simply could not be elaborated by words. No matter how impressive the urban management was, it could never prevail against a man who had gained the favor of the princess.

Zhou Qing had been protecting Feng Xuan, regardless of what he did. If Zhou Bao was the boss of the vast Wuyang Region, his wife and children were second in command.

Yan Yunfei never bothered to care for this kind of trivial matter, and Zhou Mu had been educated to give way to Zhou Qing since childhood. In this way, as long as he had the protection of Zhou Qing, nobody dared to discipline Feng Xuan, even if he incurred a catastrophe!

Gradually, people started getting used to it. Since Zhou Qing did not mind, others did not want to upset her for this kind of thing.

This was what had happened.

They had not upset Zhou Qing, but they upset Zhou Bao. And that was worse.

Once they upset Zhou Bao, they had to pay a price. Although Zhou Bao did not say anything that day, Zhu Ba had sent the urban managers who stood by and watched the scene that day away from the Wuyang Region and arranged for them to serve as guards in the Anyuan Store, which meant they were severely demoted. And Jiang Xiao also took action. He announced that all literacy subjects in the Imperial Examination in the Wuyang Region were canceled. The only subject being tested was miscellaneous. This now meant many people's life-long studies had been in vain. Three days later, Jin made the same decision as well.

Now, every scholar in the Jin of the Central Mainland Region remembered this name: Lin Feng.

The man who cursed King Wuyang furiously in the Cloud Crane Tavern that day had been Lin Feng. In a rage, King Wuyang had canceled all the literacy examinations, cutting off the road for millions of scholars to become government officials and ruining their futures.

It was quite evident what kind of ending this Lin Feng would have.

Of course, Zhou Bao did not care about any of this at present. What concerned him most were two unhappy faces.

Yan Yunfei's and Zhou Qing's.

”Yunfei, why are you so upset about this little girl. I'm just acting in her best interests. She may be too young to understand, but how could you be so naive as well!”

”Can you please try to get rid of the damn mindset that you are the world's number one authority? She is your daughter, not your enemy. Why can't you just talk some sense to her? Instead you took this unexpected measure and banished Feng Xuan, how can you expect her to bear it!”

”I'm just trying to solve this mess as quickly as I can. Anyway, that boy certainly approached our Dinosaur with his own agenda. Dinosaur is still young, and if we didn't get him away, he would cause major trouble for her in the future!”

”Yes, now he can't make any more trouble. But your daughter is so troubled that she has stopped eating!”

”So what? A Level Seven expert is able to refrain from eating grain forever. Never mind the fact that she has only starved herself for three days!” Zhou Bao said indifferently. ”Fine. Stop showing your sullen face, I'll go and see what I can do!”

”She is in the inside room. Now that you're here, let's see how you can make peace with her!” Yan Yunfei rolled her eyes.

”Fine, let me see what I can do!” Zhou Bao pushed the inner door open and entered his daughter's room. The setting in this room was highly exquisite and quite refreshing. Zhou Qing was sitting by a table with her back to the door, so Zhou Bao could not see her expression. But he heard that she was whimpering alone.

”Enough, Dinosaur, there is nothing to cry about. I know you must have visited that boy as well. It's he who failed to restrain himself and succumbed to temptation. You can't blame it on me!”

”If it's not on you, who else should I blame! Succumb to temptation? Humph, do you really think I don't know that you would have killed him if he did not succumb!” Zhou Qing abruptly wheeled her head around and glared at Zhou Bao.