Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

It was the first time that Gong Yuanzheng saw Zhuo Yichen’s face turn blue. He didn’t dare to say a word all the way back to Zheng Palace, for fear of being scolded by this soft-tempered second brother.

"Are you stupid? You just let that group of people talk about you like that and even put you in the dungeon?" After Zhuo Yichen dragged him all the way back to Zheng Palace, he didn't even bother to send the servants away. He pointed at Gong Yuanzheng's head in the busy hall of Zheng Palace and spoke angrily at him for not fighting back.

"Second brother! My brother will never let me suffer any injustice!" Gong Yuanzheng was still looking for excuses for Gong Shangjiao, "My brother only cared about the palace gate, so he had no choice but to lock me up in the dungeon."

"Does Gong Shangjiao have to lock you, the master of a palace, into the dungeon? What is the dungeon at the gate of your palace? It's your territory! You were locked up in public like that. Even if you come out, how will the people inside the palace look at you? Ah!" Zhuo Yichen was almost laughing at this silly boy. How could he not realize that Gong Yuanzheng, who was so decisive in his official duties on weekdays, acted like a dazzled person when he met his brother.

"What! Master Jiao actually wants to lock Master Zheng up in the dungeon!" The doctors in the clinic heard that the Palace Master's cousin was dragging their Palace Master back to the palace with a grim face. As soon as they stepped into Zheng Palace, they heard this shocking news!

"It was almost like that! If I hadn't gone there, I don't know what kind of injustice I would have suffered!" Zhuo Yichen rolled his eyes and looked at the group of doctors who came in with a bad mood.

The doctors in the clinic were all left behind by the former Palace Master of Zheng Palace. They either received guidance or help from him, and they are all indebted to him.

Now, he is being bullied right under the noses of this group of people and he doesn’t even know it, how can he bear this!

"Yuan Zheng! Although our medical skills are indeed not as good as yours, we are all your elders! You must listen to us in this matter!" After saying this, without giving Gong Yuanzheng a chance to speak, he directly pulled over a servant of the Zheng Palace and gave him the order.

"From today on, the clinic and Zheng Palace will no longer be open to the public for free. If they have any headaches or fevers, let them pay for the consultation and come to our house in person to ask for treatment!"

"What the hell! We don't bother with them on weekdays, but they really think that all of us who are recruited by the palace are their free doctors?"

"That's right! When Han Zheng was still alive, he couldn't just send a maid to call the head of a palace by name to see a doctor."

"That's right. In the final analysis, he is just relying on his thick skin that is as thick as a city wall to bully others and think that he is of a higher generation!"

"One or two of them are eating from their bowls while looking at what's in the pot. After eating everything up, they still curse the cook! Who gave them the courage? Are they the toad monsters in the wilderness?"

"Uncle! I..." Although Gong Yuanzheng was the master of a palace, in the eyes of these old doctors, he was just a baby. Before he could open his mouth, he was interrupted by one of the old doctors with white hair and a youthful face.

"Yuan Zheng! If we really have to go by seniority, I am the oldest. Even those three old guys have to call me ancestor when they see me!" The old doctor stroked his long beard, "It's also our fault. We old guys were blinded by your prescriptions and stayed in the clinic. Those blind guys thought you had no one to back you up."

The old doctor looked towards the Elders' Council and snorted coldly, a gleam of light flashing in his eyes. When Gong Yuanzheng lowered his head in shame for being scolded at such an old age, the other doctors who were watching on the side naturally saw the old doctor's expression.

As expected, after receiving the notice from the group of old doctors in the clinic, the entire Council of Elders was in an uproar, but there was nothing they could do.

That group of old doctors had too much experience. Before they became elders, they had already worked in the clinic under the jurisdiction of Zheng Palace. Moreover, they were all a group of hot-tempered doctors. They would pick up their medicine boxes and beat people if they disagreed with them, and the key was that they couldn't win!

Zhuo Yichen looked at Zheng Gong, who had been arranged so well, and picked up Gong Yuanzheng, who was said to have been diagnosed with a cold by the doctors, and took him back to the dormitory.

"Tomorrow I will take people to arrest the demon who committed the crime. I will let Li Lun stay with you. You just take care of yourself and don't worry about anything else. Leave everything to the group of old doctors outside and your brother who is devoted to the palace." Although Zhuo Yichen was reluctant to give his younger brother to Gong Shangjiao, it must be said that Gong Shangjiao did give Gong Yuanzheng the best within his ability.

"Second brother! My brother just..." Gong Yuanzheng didn't know how to plead for Gong Shangjiao, but his brother had always been the best to him, it's just that his brother already had a younger brother, and he took that person's place.

“No matter how good Gong Shangjiao is to you, you must remember that you are first the young master of the Zhuo family and the master of one of the palaces, and only then the younger brother of Gong Shangjiao.” In the past few days, Zhuo Yichen looked at his brother who had lost weight, and touched his untied black hair with heartache.

"Yuanzheng, just like the people in Tiandu City said, I was born precious, and the greatest suffering I have ever experienced is probably the pain of my father and brother passing away." Zhuo Yichen tightly grasped Gong Yuanzheng's hand, "I have not experienced your life for those eleven years, and I don't know what your life is like in the palace, but I still hope that you can protect yourself first, and then think about protecting the people you want to protect."

Gong Yuanzheng wanted to say something, but was stopped by Zhuo Yichen, "Okay Yuanzheng, it's getting late today, and you've been busy all day and haven't eaten. I asked the people in the kitchen to prepare some food, so just eat it first!"

Gong Yuanzheng looked at the six dishes and one soup, as well as a plate of dessert on the table in the bedroom. The six dishes and one soup were from different cuisines.

"I was afraid that you would come back late, so I asked Zhao Yuanzhou to keep it warm for you." Zhuo Yichen waved at Gong Yuanzheng while sitting at the dining table.

Gong Shangjiao followed Gong Zishang out of Yu Palace, and before he walked far, he ran into Zhao Yuanzhou who was waiting on the roadside.

"Mr. Jiao, do you think I have the honor to talk to you alone?" Zhao Yuanzhou leaned against the wall with his umbrella, always with an approachable look on his face.

"I think Lord Zhao and I have nothing to talk about!" Gong Shangjiao was in a hurry to find evidence that Manager Jia had framed Yuan Zheng, and to account for the damage done to the Zhiren Hall by Zhuo Yichen.

"What if I say that my next topic is related to the palace gate? Mr. Jiao, you, are you not interested either?" Zhao Yuanzhou didn't mind Gong Shangjiao directly skipping over him, but his next words made Gong Shangjiao stop in his tracks.

"Your palace is really weird. We are obviously one family, but you still have to divide it into front mountain and back mountain. There are obviously four palaces in the front mountain, and there are three corresponding palaces in the back mountain. So which palace does the missing palace in the back mountain correspond to?"

"How do you know about what happened in the back mountain?" Gong Shangjiao suddenly turned his head and looked at Zhao Yuanzhou.

Zhao Yuanzhou calmly let Gong Shangjiao look at him, "I am a demon! As long as I want to go to any place in your palace, I can enter unimpeded. However, why don't you think about whether your so-called palace rules are really reasonable? Just for those so-called family members, you give in step by step, wrong yourself and then wrong Gong Yuanzheng? Those who have benefited from it will let you go?"

Gong Shangjiao looked at Zhao Yuanzhou who was approaching step by step. The long sword in his hand had already been unsheathed, but Zhao Yuanzhou pushed it back directly, "Your sword can't hurt me!"

The flying hair, the black umbrella covering the face, the pair of disdainful eyes, and the mocking expression were all imprinted in Gong Shangjiao's eyes.

Gong Shangjiao felt as if time had stopped. When his consciousness began to flow again, Zhao Yuanzhou had already disappeared without a trace.

When Wu Feng disguised himself as a member of the Thunderbolt Hall and broke into the palace to massacre the palace disciples, he had just reached adulthood. Even though he had tried his best to pass the Three Realms Trial, he never thought much about it.

Regarding the matters of the Back Mountain, I had also heard my father mention it occasionally. I had completed my Three Realm Trial in a hurry and had not had much communication with the people of the Back Mountain. Naturally, I did not know the specific situation of the Three Palaces of the Back Mountain.

However, now, an outsider, or a big demon, openly said in public what he had always been puzzled about but dared not think about.

"Master Jiao!" Jin Fu came out to look for the Palace Master who had not returned for a long time.

"What happened?" Gong Shangjiao looked at Jin Fu who was in a hurry and couldn't help feeling confused.

"Master Jiao! The Zheng Palace is closed, and the clinic is also closed. It was the order given by the most experienced doctors in the clinic!" Jin Fu informed Gong Shangjiao of the news he had heard.

Gong Shangjiao's pupils trembled, "What's going on? Where is my brother Yuanzheng? How can we let them do whatever they want?"

Jin Fu stopped Gong Shang Jiao who was heading towards Zheng Palace and said, "Master Jiao, except for the doctors who are still treating Fourth Miss Song, Miss Jiang, and Madam Wu Ji, all other doctors have left the clinic. The flowers that Master Zheng raised in the clinic and some precious herbs have all been moved back to Zheng Palace."

After hearing this, Gong Shangjiao suddenly curled his lips and smiled, "In that case, then we won't go there. Let's go to Manager Jia's home and his residence in the clinic."

Gong Shangjiao flicked his sleeves and walked out of the palace gate.