NOVPUBJust as he was about to walk in, he saw those two making energetic eye signals at him.
Li Nuo had not yet entered the Ministry of Justice when he saw two officials in yellow robes walking out of the Ministry.
They had intended to leave, but upon seeing Li Nuo entering the Ministry of Justice, they looked at each other and then turned back.
Li Nuo noticed their unusual behavior; he was already very familiar with the Daxia government officials. There weren’t many officers who wore yellow robes in the capital, it could only be the advisers or officials such as the Censorate from the Ministry of Supervision.
Besides reviewing edicts, the Ministry of Supervision also had the responsibility to inspect the conduct of all officials.
Back at the Chang’an County Government, it was the Ministry of Supervision’s inspectors who had captured Li Nuo’s wrongdoing.
These two coming to the Ministry of Justice could be a routine matter, checking whether the officials of the Ministry of Justice had neglected their duties.
In the hearts of the officials from all the departments, these inspectors were the least welcome of all.
Li Nuo glanced at the two, as long as he wasn’t presiding over a trial at the Ministry of Justice, they couldn’t do anything to him. If they wanted to stay, then let them stay.
He walked into a government office, where Li Anning, dressed in a constable’s uniform, was dozing off in a chair.
Li Nuo coughed lightly, and Li Anning opened her eyes, wiping the drool from the corner of her mouth, and said confusedly, "Why are you here?"
Li Nuo poured a cup of water for her; after Li Anning drank it down thirstily, Li Nuo then said, "I came to see you."
Li Anning, now more awake, glanced at him and said indifferently, "To see me is false, you are here to check if there are any big cases in the Ministry of Justice, right?"
After pouring another cup of water and finishing it, she said, "Didn’t I say, if there’s a big case, I’ll come to find you, what, don’t you trust me?"
These days, there really hadn’t been any significant cases in Chang’an, leaving her quite bored.
Li Nuo said, "No big cases, small cases work too..."
As of today, he only had a hundred and forty-two days left to live, less than five months, and his lifespan was still decreasing every day. It would be better to work hard on small cases to accumulate little by little than to sit idly by.
Li Anning thought about it and then said, "Alright then, wait for a moment."
She stepped out of the office, and Li Nuo followed her out.
The two inspection officers from the Ministry of Supervision were standing in the yard watching them.
Li Anning paused her steps and frowned slightly.
The two advisers still hadn’t left; although she wasn’t afraid of them, it would indeed be troublesome if they found something to hold against her.
She stretched out her hand, and a vine whip from Li Nuo’s waist flew into her hands.
Holding the vine whip, Li Anning said to Li Nuo, "Since we’re idle, I’ll teach you a set of Whip Technique."
She looked at the two advisers in the yard and said, "Please step back a little, gentlemen, it wouldn’t be nice if you get hurt by mistake."
Upon hearing this, the two stepped back to a corner, but they did not leave.
A soft whip, unlike weapons like steel whips or swords, if not used properly, could easily injure oneself.
This vine whip, imbued with the power of Legalism, had been lightly tested by Li Nuo at home, and he had accidentally whipped himself, causing bone-deep pain.
However, in Li Anning’s hands, this whip was remarkably obedient.
As she moved, there were frequent sounds of the air breaking with her motions.
The inspection officers from the Ministry of Supervision watched as the vine whip lashed back and forth in front of them, sweat rolling down their foreheads.
As Li Anning’s whipping speed increased, the vine whip got closer and closer to the two men. At one moment, unable to bear the pressure any longer, the two turned and left with large strides...
Li Anning put away the whip, handed it back to Li Nuo, and said, "Wait in my room for a while, I’ll be right back."
Li Nuo returned to the room he had just been in, and not long after, Li Anning came back with a stack of files under her arm.
She placed the files on the table and said, "These are imprisonment records sent from various places. The Chief has already reviewed them; you just need to stamp them with the Assistant Minister’s seal, and they will take effect immediately. Although it won’t increase your cultivation as quickly as catching criminals, it’s better than nothing..."
The local government offices could only impose immediate sentences for floggings and caning.
The final authority to review imprisonment cases lay with the Ministry of Justice.
Previously, these tasks were hers to do, but ever since she had advanced to the fourth realm, simply reviewing and stamping documents was no longer beneficial for her cultivation. 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓅𝓾𝒷.𝒸ℴ𝓂
But for Li Nuo, who had just entered the fourth realm, reviewing these imprisonment cases was still highly beneficial to his Cultivation.
Li Anning handed a black seal to Li Nuo, saying, "Here, this is the seal of the Assistant Minister."
Li Nuo reached out to take it, feeling a powerful force within the seal.
Li Anning said, "The Ministry of Justice deals with punishment, and both the Assistant Minister’s and Chief of Staff Lord’s seals are powerful Magic Artifacts; you just need to stamp these documents."
Li Nuo stamped each file in the specified spot, following Li Anning’s instructions.
After stamping several files, the number on the Law Code did not change.
Previously, a year’s worth of imprisonment would add a day to his lifespan.
But these cases were not significantly related to him, neither directly relevant to him nor solved by him. It was normal not to add to his lifespan by merely stamping documents.
However, after continuously stamping more than a dozen files, when Li Nuo stamped the seal again, the number on the Law Code jumped from one hundred and forty-two to one hundred and forty-three.
The Ministry of Justice lived up to its name.
No wonder Li Anning’s cultivation had grown so fast.
Just by stamping documents, his cultivation could grow on its own. Although slow, it was easy, much easier than painstakingly adjudicating and presiding over trials.
Li Nuo quickly finished stamping all the files, and his lifespan increased another day, back to one hundred and forty-four days.
Finally finding an easy way to gain lifespan, Li Nuo was somewhat eager and expectantly asked, "Any more?"
