Chapter 8 — Hearing the Voices of Animals, I Became the Director of the Tyrant's Zoo

Right after that, the Infantry Minister was the first to laugh out loud:

“Ha ha, a female official in charge of the Royal Animal Park actually ran to the court to say about the locust disaster?”

"Your Majesty, being able to manage the Royal Beast Garden well does not mean you can participate in political affairs. This matter is important, how can you listen to a harem woman talking nonsense?"

The minister was so urgent that his face turned red:

“Khuc ty envoy, what evidence do you have?”

“I heard it.”

I say every word:

"All the birds flying in the Bird Garden of Ngu Beast Garden are running away. Nightingales, eight birds, royal lilies, they saw with their own eyes the grasshoppers crossing the river. The birds moved more accurately than any horse."

The soldier's face was as red as pig liver:

"Hear that? You hear birds talking? That's right——"

“That's enough.”

Trieu Ky opened his mouth. Two words suppress all sounds. He stood up, walked down the royal stage, and stopped in front of me:

“You said within three days?”

“Yes.”

“What if your judgment is wrong?”

I raised my head to face his eyes:

“If I guess wrongly, I will bring my head to meet you.”

The whole palace was silent again. Trieu Ky looked at me for a long time, so long that the sunlight outside slid inch by inch from his shoulder to his toes.

“Pass on my will.”

He suddenly opened his mouth:

"The Ministry of Home Affairs provided fifty thousand taels of silver, from today on to purchase kerosene, sulfur, and royal jelly. The Ministry of Defense dispatched three thousand elite soldiers, listened to Khuc Ty's mobilization, and set up a locust defense line within a hundred miles around the capital."

The soldier's assistant rolled his eyes:

“Your Majesty! This——this is not according to the rules!”

“Rules?”

Trieu Ky turned her head to look at him, the corner of her mouth curled up to a bone-chilling curve.

“The locust eats your field, does it tell you the rules?”

The soldier's maid swallowed all the following words into her stomach. The next morning at dawn, the grasshoppers had not yet arrived, but the harp chapter was played first. The three people of Ngu Su Dai knelt in a row, the leader was an old royal historian over fifty years old, surnamed Chu, famous for his integrity—— Chu Su Dai raised his instrument over his head, his voice resounding:

"Your Majesty! Last night I received more than a hundred joint letters from people, inside and outside the capital, people were panicking, everyone said that this time the locust disaster was caused by monsters in the palace!"

Trieu Ky sat on the long chair, his eyelids not lifting:

“Love things?”

“That's right!”

The royal court was heartbroken.

“Folk rumors say that the person who can understand the voices of birds and animals is not a human but a demon, colluding with evil spirits, calling for natural disasters.”

"Khuc Thai Vi entered the palace less than a month ago, first General Ho Uy was crazy, then Thuy Tuyet fell ill, now the locust plague is approaching - one thing at a time, how could it be a coincidence?"

Yesterday, the Imperial Guard still confronted the Minister of the Household, today they immediately changed the spear:

"I agree! Since ancient times, natural disasters have had signs. Before Khuc Thai Vi entered the palace, the weather was favorable, after entering the palace, disasters continued, this matter cannot help but make people think deeply!"

“I also agree!”

“Please, Your Majesty, seriously examine the demon concubine!”

With a sound, I knelt down all over. Vuong Tu Yen also came to the main hall, holding a towel to wipe the corners of his eyes, his voice choked:

"Your Majesty, last night I had a dream. In the dream, a silver-haired fairy told me that the grasshoppers were called by monsters."

“God I didn't want to believe it, but today the whole court's civil and martial arts community said so..."

“Your Majesty, I do not dare to make false suggestions, but the story of Khuc Ty's ability to speak animal languages is truly very strange.”

This sentence of hers says that a drop of water cannot penetrate—— She says it's a "dream", and she says it's not "hopeful", but every word nails the crime of "Khuc Thai Vi is love". Trieu Ky was silent for a long time. In the main hall, only the sound of breathing remained. He suddenly opened his mouth, his voice was not heavy, but it made everyone's spines go cold:

“The grasshoppers haven't arrived yet, and you're already hastily condemning Khuc Thai Vi. What if the locusts really come? Should we burn her to death as an offering to heaven?

No one dared to answer. Vuong Tu Yen bit his lower lip, trying to resist:

"Your Majesty, I only care about you..."

“Are you worried about the people?”

Trieu Ky finally raised his eyes from the chapter, a cold light in his eyes.

“I will give fifty thousand taels of silver and three thousand elite soldiers to Khuc Thai Vi, I believe in you. Who among you feels that he understands how to use people better than me, please stand up and speak."

The electricity was completely silent. Trieu Ky threw the medal in his hand and denounced:

“Tidal flats. Wait for the grasshoppers to come and then speak."

That afternoon, Vuong Tu Yen's second attack changed tactics. She no longer let the royal court present her, but let people spread rumors in the capital's markets. Tea houses, alleys, and streets all told the same story in just one night——

“That little monk in Ngu Beast Garden is a grasshopper turned into a star! That she can understand what animals are talking about is proof!”

“She entered the palace to harm Dai Luong! Before I was a crazy tiger and a sick elephant, now I'm even calling a grasshopper!"

“My third aunt's niece worked in the palace, and said she saw her in the middle of the night at Ngu Beast Garden talking to the old tiger, and the old tiger even called her 'skinny girl'! If this isn't magic then what is it?

When Thu Dao told me these words, I was on the edge of a suburban field commanding soldiers to dig trenches to prevent locusts.

“Master, please listen to these damn words!”

Thu Dao was so angry that her face turned red.

“It's clear that you're saving people, but they say you're calling disaster!”

I scooped a shovel of soil and filled it into the trench, without even raising my head:

“Let them talk. The locusts are coming, who is working, who is watching, everyone's eyes are not blind."

Early in the morning of the third day, the dark clouds from the south finally pressed in. When I stood on the castle wall blowing the horn, I heard the sound of horse hooves behind me. Vuong Tu Yen also came.