[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday":3,"chapter-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-84":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Imperial Hound on an Eight-Hour Shift",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2225142,4113,"Chapter 84","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-84",84,"\u003Cp>\"Are there any empty seats?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The waiter accompanied with a smile and said: \"Guest, it's really not a coincidence, there are no empty tables. Let me ask for you, is it okay to share a table with other guests?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a table on the side, a bald big man sitting alone glanced over here, but his eyes lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good man!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a straightforward person who liked to make friends, and seeing the person at the door with a handsome face, ape-like arms and wasp-like waist, and carrying a unique temperament he had never seen before, he was delighted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Guest, would you like to sit with me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao glanced over there, smiled, ordered the waiter to bring some tea and snacks, and then walked over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The matter of the Five Mountains Sword Sect had passed for several months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After it ended that day, he collected the remaining four sects and had Wang Hai take them to Shuntian Prefecture to see Zhu Zai. Wang Hai knew what to say, and Zhu Zai knew what to do, so he didn't need to worry about the aftermath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't return to Shuntian Prefecture, but rested in the Qilu area for a few days, then set off alone toward the Miao territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his conditioning, the insect poison in Li Xiaosi's body would not be a problem for the time being. But time is long and dreams are many, so Li Miao naturally wanted to solve it as soon as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, Zhu Zai gave him a year to solve the Five Mountains Sword Sect, but it was finished in less than three months, and he even crippled the Ming Cult, which was enough to report.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining time was just a paid vacation. Wang Hai took the heads of Lan Lechuan, Yun Zelin, and a string of Ming Cult protectors and flag masters back, so even if Zhu Zai was dissatisfied, he couldn't say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that Mei Qinghe smashed Yun Zelin's head into a mess, and he didn't know if Zhu Zai could recognize it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao walked to the table and sat down, greeting the big man: \"Master, greetings.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The big man was stunned, but laughed roughly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Guest is indeed extraordinary, I didn't wear a cassock, and there were no ring scars on my head, but you are the first to recognize that I am a monk!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"May I ask your name!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao bowed: \"Li Miao, a Jianghu wanderer, no sect, no faction.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The big man also extended one hand to his chest: \"Shaolin, Yongjie, greetings to the donor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao smiled: \"Master's dharma name is quite interesting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Virtue lasts forever, wonderful body is always firm. Master's seniority is not small.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shaolin's seniority characters were set long ago, with seventy characters in total, passed down from generation to generation. The current Shaolin abbot is of the 'Xing' generation and is almost a hundred years old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yongjie is one generation lower than him, and in terms of seniority, there are few in the Jianghu who can sit on equal footing with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yongjie laughed loudly: \"Master's seniority is high, I'm taking advantage of it, everywhere I go there are nephews. Polite, but I can't make many friends of the same generation!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A wanderer as outstanding as you is exactly the kind of person I want to make friends with! Meeting is fate, drink this cup!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying this, the monk actually poured himself a cup of wine and drank it in one gulp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao raised his eyebrows, feeling funny in his heart: \"It's really true that traveling increases knowledge, the classic character in the storybook, the wine and meat monk, I met him today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao recognized his background based on Yongjie's Wu Gong, and had long known that this was a Shaolin martial monk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Monks have to keep precepts, but sometimes they will cheat in some aspects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A relatively typical one is the martial monk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Practicing Wu Gong is a very energy-consuming thing. Like Li Miao, when he first started, he had to eat two or three catties of meat a day. Poor scholars and rich martial arts, practicing Wu Gong is not something that can be persisted without a foundation at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the martial monk is quite awkward, practicing Wu Gong consumes blood and Qi, if he really keeps the precepts, eating tofu and green vegetables every day, no matter how much he eats, he can't make up for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, martial monks generally play some edge balls. For example, there is a saying called \"five pure meats,\" which means that as long as this thing died and has nothing to do with me, then it doesn't matter if I eat it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is also the legend of Emperor Taizong of Tang ordering the thirteen Shaolin stick monks to eat meat, which might also be a story made up by the monks themselves to open this gap for themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just that Yongjie is not as simple as secretly coming for a little bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao glanced at the dishes on the table, and there was a dish of scallion-fried mutton.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is really eye-opening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monk's abstinence from meat and pungent vegetables, \"meat\" refers to meat food, \"pungent vegetables\" refers to these five plants: scallion, garlic, leek, shallot, and asafoetida, which have a large smell and affect clear cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This dish of scallion-fried mutton can be considered to have occupied all the meat and pungent vegetables.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention that sip of wine, after drinking it, he kept smacking his lips, which is clearly a drunkard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao was amused, and also poured himself a cup and drank it in one gulp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Refreshing!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yongjie laughed loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two drank and drank, one with a bold personality, one old and worldly, and both had a good impression of each other, and soon became familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some conversation, they found that their destinations were both the Miao territory, and they were on the same road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After discussion, the two decided to travel together after eating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, the dishes Li Miao ordered were all served.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without Li Xiaosi following, Li Miao also gradually learned to spend money during this time, but he still couldn't change the habit of being extravagant, and ordered a lot of good dishes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A monk, he didn't have much money in his pocket, and he had never ordered so many good things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao greeted him to eat together, and Yongjie also laughed and thanked him, and ate with Li Miao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two ate for a while, full of wine and food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao felt sleepy after eating, and Yongjie also figured out Li Miao's lazy temperament, so he didn't urge him, just sat there, letting Li Miao lean on the back of the chair to close his eyes and rest, picking up dishes from time to time, killing time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, it was past mealtime, the guests in the shop were almost gone, the waiter was not in a hurry to let the two vacate the place, just tidied up the table lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just when the shop was gradually quiet, Li Miao suddenly opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raised his hand into a claw and grabbed into the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A waiter was grabbed from the door by him, his hands and feet fluttering wildly, his face pale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao put him down and patted his shoulder: \"Alright, go hide in the back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get some water, when there's no movement in a while, come out and wash the floor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes... guest, thank you, thank you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The waiter hurriedly thanked Li Miao a few times and stumbled to the back kitchen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What kind of master is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just heard a shout from outside the shop door, and then footsteps were chaotic, four or five people poured in from outside the door, carrying knives and swords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them had already drawn his knife and held it in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was him just now who slashed at the waiter. If it weren't for Li Miao, the waiter would have died at his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes scanned the shop, and at this time there were not many people in the shop, so he easily locked his eyes on Li Miao's table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just that he didn't care about Li Miao, but after seeing Yongjie, a look of ecstasy appeared on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Big, big brother!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1412,"2026-06-17T21:41:15.265Z","2026-06-18T03:13:38.468Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","1389a099ef288b45a221389889d3c4fd075c2fe49c9b74a03e46121922f21231","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-85","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-83",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]