Several days later, as the warm breezes of April began to stir, everything was proceeding smoothly. With Guan Xu, a Helmsman of the Exorcising the Dragon Gang, released, Lü Daobin, the Yecheng Temporary Palace Envoy, was also about to be ransomed at the bargain price of twelve hundred shi of old millet.
That afternoon, Xie Minghe therefore brought his new friend Lü Daobin to the Jiangling County Office ahead of time.
After so many requests, it would have been awkward to keep putting him off. By this point, moreover, the aftermath of the previous battle and the arrangements for Qinghe Commandery had more or less been settled, and Zhang Xing really was not especially busy. He was under the courtyard veranda with Chen Bin and Yan Qing, chatting about the Eastern Territories with the visiting Xu Shiying and Zhang Jinshu. Thus, rather than insist on waiting until evening, he received the man in the administrative courtyard.
Frankly, as his enterprise of rebellion grew, his wings filling out and his influence swelling, Zhang Xing no longer treated such things with the wary caution that had once made him keep a respectful distance... In fact, while staying overnight in Liaocheng a few days earlier, he had studied this world's starry sky seriously for almost the first time.
Yes, four years after crossing into this world, he finally dared to look at the stars without restraint.
"Are your divinations accurate?"
Since he was in a rare leisurely mood, Zhang Xing could not help asking curiously from beneath the veranda once the man entered the courtyard.
"Naturally," Xie Minghe hurried to explain before the other man could speak. "These divination sticks were blessed by the Azure Emperor, and their interpretation uses the Azure Emperor's Great Mystery Scripture. The method follows the union of the