Bab 313: Listening to the Breaking Bowl, Playing with the Cat, and Being Called into the Palace

The season in which one would still feel a bit cold when weather was getting warmer was over, and the warm spring was ushered in. It was the best time to take a nap.

During this period of time, the business for either official or private schools was much slower, and even the business of theatres was affected, and especially the government offices.

It was unclear why the usually lazy State Duke Lu became diligent all of a sudden. Though he didn't do anything useful and mostly sat in the chair drinking his tea, it was still quite surprising to his colleagues in the imperial court and his subordinates in Taichang Temple that he hadn't asked for any sick leave twenty or thirty days in a row.

Seeing his back walking toward the outside of the temple under the sunlight of spring, the officials and subordinates of Taichang Temple felt everything had finally returned to normal.