Under ZhouJinjiang’s austere stare, each and every single one of them lowered theirheads. In the Zhou’s, Zhou Jinjiang has absolute respect.
The strictlyadhere to the “your husband is your entire world” rule, which was the mostbasic rule among common women.
“Ye,don’t be angry. We just worry about our safety is all!” Mrs. Zhou explainedagain after she had made him promises, “Neither me nor my sisters had expectthat the Cheng’s would encounter someone so powerful.”
“Hrm, thesecharacters are everywhere. It’s just a matter of whether they would come androb you!” Zhou Jinjiang had been working for the royals for many years. As faras he was concerned, risking one’s life couldn’t be more normal. He neverexpect to live a secluded life after he had quit his previous position.
Contrarily,he was aiming for the next higher level. He failed to see any more prospectworking for the royals. Other than losing his life, there just weren’t a lotmore he could go after. He had been stuck at the martial spiritualist level foreight years. In the past eight years, he had tried all means but still weren’table to move forward any.
Ever sincehe had drank the mystical water from the Cheng’s, he noticed that hisbottleneck was starting to loosen up. That had brought him the biggestsurprise. He realized that he was better off fighting along side his buddyrather than selling his life to the royals. In addition, he knew very well whatkind of people the Cheng’s were – t.i.ts for tats, quid pro quo.
That was whyhe gave up what he had worked on for the past twenty years – the riches, thepower. That might have been way more difficult to give up twenty years ago; butnow, he could give them up easily without looking back. All these were merelymaterialistic goods; what he was going after longevity.
Cultivatorsbelow the level of martial king have lifespans between 100 – 150 years; onceyou break through pa.s.sed martial monarch, at least 300 – 400 years, and he hadmet someone like that before.
Someone whohad lived for 340 years who looked about the same as him. He was utterlystunned, and also made up his mind to pursue longevity with his family.
He wanted tobring his two sons with him as well, but he couldn’t, for the peace of mind ofthe emperor. Unless he had powers to stand up against the emperor, he’d have towait till his sons finished their training before he could see them again.
“Ye,don’t be mad. We just worry about your safety is all!” said Mrs. Zhou, as theconcubines next to her nodded in agreement.
ZhouJinjiang looked at this concubines and said, “It’s almost morning, you shouldgo back and get some rest. We can talk more tomorrow!”
“Yes, qie1will retire now!”
Theconcubines dare not disagree with him. They curtsied to him and retired,leaving the couple in the main house
Mrs. Zhoulaughed as she saw that and said, “Ye, the sisters only had your bestinterest in mind. Why you have to scare them like that?”
“I wasn’ttrying to scare them!” said Zhou Jinjiang as he shook his head. He looked athis wife and said to her, “They were women gifted to me by the emperor. Theyare not of high status and also very ignorant. You need to guild them so theydon’t misspoke and bring us trouble.”
“Ye,I got this!” nodded Mrs. Zhou. Then, she sighed and said, “It would be nice ifthey can cultivate too, then they will be able to always keep you company!”
Mrs. Zhou isnot an envious person. She understood her husband’s feelings toward her, andthe concubines were merely women gifted by the emperor and they must keep themaround and they’d serve her husband when she wasn’t feeling well.
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Notes:
1. How theconcubines were referring to themselves in a humble form.
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