Taking the waterway, the group smoothly boarded a ship at Green Forest Port.
By this time, the temperature had stabilized at around twenty-five degrees. It was the height of spring, with bright sunshine and beautiful scenery. Zhou Xu let the breeze blow across the deck and basked in the sun. The entire journey had been nothing short of blissful.
Once the ship docked, Zhou Xu did not stroll around the city after disembarking. He had been away for a long time, and his heart was already racing to return home, so he went straight back to the imperial palace.
He had not even washed his face before heading directly to the Hall of Diligent Governance.
"Your subject pays his respects to His Majesty!"
Inside the Hall of Diligent Governance, Huo Qubing and Li Bowen had, for the time being, received the news in advance. They understood their emperor well enough. If nothing unexpected happened, the first thing His Majesty would do after returning to the palace would certainly be to come to the Hall of Diligent Governance.
As it turned out, their guess had indeed been right.
At heart, their emperor was a workaholic—and the kind who would work everyone else to death without paying with his own life...
"You may dispense with the formalities. Did anything major happen while I was away?"
As he spoke, Zhou Xu sat down at his own workstation and went straight into work mode.
Huo Qubing and Li Bowen had long since grown accustomed to this. They began giving their reports, one sentence at a time.
The contents of their reports were essentially divided into two major categories.
One consisted of matters they could handle and had already dealt with, but which involved too many subsequent consequences, making it necessary for their emperor to