The Spring Festival holiday passed in the blink of an eye.
Last year, Qian Xingzhi had fretted over this and that, making the month-long holiday drag on unbearably. But this year, that same month had somehow slipped by in a haze of days and nights turned upside down.
Lu Yu seemed to have discovered some new delight; he tirelessly pulled Qian Xingzhi into all sorts of indecent games.
She put up a token resistance, while he, once tasted, couldn't get enough.
Newlyweds, the masters spent every day clinging to each other with no sense of propriety. Yuan Bai and the others played deaf and dumb, exchanging sidelong glances. The Qian Mansion was steeped in an unspoken atmosphere all day long.
Qian Xingzhi found today's morning court excruciatingly long. Perhaps because her legs were sore, her attention kept drifting to other memories, and the longer the session went on, the redder her face became.
From the corner of her eye, she caught sight of a row of old stick-in-the-muds. At such a solemn moment, she couldn't help but let her mind wander, silently cursing herself for a full half hour.
"Your Highness, the Crown Prince, this official recently audited the official salaries of various offices. Upon investigation, I discovered embezzlement of public funds in the Imperial Astronomical Bureau and irregularities in the accounts."
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