Chapter 1328: Chapter 1328: The Emperor Is Pregnant 43
Su Yan shook her head.
"For the common people, having enough to eat is the most important thing.
What happens in the court doesn’t really matter."
Who gets appointed, who gets dismissed.
Maybe, when the people hear of it, they’ll actually find it satisfying.
The true foundation of a nation is its people.
As long as the army is steady and the common folk are steady, rewarding or punishing these officials might shake a few individuals.
But to say it would shake the very foundation of the country—that’s not anywhere near the case.
After listening to Su Yan, Qing Wan nodded.
"This servant will see to it at once."
With that, she hugged the memorials in her arms and walked out.
Once the person had left,
Su Yan went back to reading the memorials.
She sat in the Imperial Study Room for about another two hours.
She put down her brush and stood up.
Then walked out of the Imperial Study Room.
Wandering as she went, she somehow ended up in the Imperial Garden again.
Probably because she always came here to rest in the pavilion each time.
So her body had gotten used to this route.
Without realizing it, she’d come here.
Looking at the flowers and plants in the Imperial Garden, all carefully tended by the Palace Attendants.
Just looking at them made one feel relaxed and happy, the mood lightening.
Right at that moment,
Su Yan heard the sounds of fighting coming from the open space up ahead.
It was the kind of whooshing wind made by fists and feet clashing.
Just hearing it made her body ache in sympathy.
Then, a voice sounded.
"He is the First Brave Warrior of my Fenglin Country. If Guard-daren really can’t beat him, it would be understandable."
That voice carried a hint of laughter and sounded quite young.
It was a boy.
Su Yan walked along the gravel path, getting closer and closer.
The whistling of the wind grew clearer as well.
When she came near, she saw two people trading blows.
The veins on both their forearms were bulging, every punch and move delivered with great force.
They were beating each other like they meant to kill.
Next to the two of them stood another person.
He was tall and slender, dressed in foreign clothes—an outfit of fiery red, with a piece of green jade hanging at his waist.
Just looking at his face alone, it still held the unripe youthfulness of a boy.
He looked about seventeen or eighteen.
The boy carried a kind of youthful vigor.
A fighting spirit brimming with life.
When he smiled, a pair of small tiger teeth showed.
It was particularly eye-catching.
Su Yan gave the boy a glance, then turned her eyes back to the two fighting men.
One wore the uniform of an inner palace guard; the other’s build was twice as thick as the guard’s.
His hair was braided into a long plait coiled around his neck.
That foreign warrior had tremendous strength.
At first, the guard could just barely hold his own.
But this was bare-knuckle fighting, pure and simple.
As time went on, he naturally fell back again and again.
The foreign warrior pressed forward step by step.
As they fought,
they ended up right in front of Su Yan.
She hadn’t intended to step in.
But seeing the smug grin on that foreign warrior’s face, and hearing him say,
"Are all you Central Plains men this weak?"
Su Yan thought of her identity as Emperor.
Just as the foreign warrior swung another punch down, aiming to deliver a finishing blow to the struggling guard,
Su Yan grabbed the guard by the collar and yanked him behind her.
Then she raised her hand and clenched her fist.
The two forces collided.
Su Yan still stood there, unmoved, with no visible reaction.
The warrior’s expression changed; he staggered back several dozen steps before he managed to stop.
The moment she struck, all three pairs of eyes turned to her.
Especially the boy—seeing Su Yan reach out like that, a flash of brightness passed through his gaze.
His eyes were full of interest.
He spoke:
"You’re the first one who’s ever managed to knock back the First Brave Warrior of my Fenglin Country with a single punch."
And this person turned out to be a woman who looked utterly thin and frail.
This was simply unbelievable.
