After leaving Beixinqiao, Black Rhino took the car to Orange Garden.
The subordinates of the Cleaning Department knocked on the gate of the Orangery. Just about to rest, Mo Yu looked at Zhou Tong who was standing in the hall, frowned slightly and said, "You don't need to attend the court meeting, I have to get up early."
Zhou Tong looked at the famous painting handed down on the wall, and said, "I was at Beixinqiao with Your Majesty before."
This sentence has no beginning and no end, it is very sudden.
Mo Yu's expression became serious: "What do you want to say?"
"I want to say, I'm terrified."
Zhou Tong said calmly, there was no trace of fear on his pale face, but for some reason, the orange garden building protected by formations should have been warm like spring, but now it was spring again, but it suddenly became colder.
Mo Yu stared into his eyes, and found that his pale eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes, looking a little horrified, and asked, "What are you afraid of?"
Zhou Tong looked at her and giggled, and said, "Aren't you afraid?"
Mo Yu said blankly, "I don't have time to accompany you crazy."
Zhou Tong suppressed his smile and said with a blank expression: "The whole continent knows what the biggest problem facing the human world is now, and that is my Great Zhou's throne. Even if His Majesty wanted to return the throne to the Chen royal family, he still couldn't make up his mind. , because the Tianhai family will definitely be ransacked by the whole family, although everyone says that the Tianhai family is not equal to His Majesty, but His Majesty's surname is Tianhai after all, how can she bear to see this scene?"
Mo Yu frowned and said, "You said it too, the whole continent knows about it."
Zhou Tong said: "So your majesty has been hesitating. The Tianhai family thinks her hesitation is an opportunity. In the eyes of King Chenliu and those princes in the counties, this hesitation is the shadow of death. The reason why your majesty has been hesitating is that Another reason is that Li Gong has never made a clear statement."
After a moment of silence, Mo Yu said, "What exactly do you want to say?"
Zhou Tong said with a blank expression: "What I want to say is that the Pope finally made his official statement tonight. He disagrees, and the state religion disagrees. Will His Majesty continue to hesitate?"
Mo Yu didn't answer.
After the imperial examination, many people knew the origin of Chen Changsheng's teacher, which was admitted by the Pope himself - Chen Changsheng's teacher was the former head of the Orthodox Academy and the most staunch royalist. Together they tried to overthrow the rule of the Holy Empress.
And tonight, His Excellency the Pope made Chen Changsheng the head of the Orthodox Academy.
The attitude expressed in this decision is very clear.
If the Empress Dowager insists on letting the Tianhai family inherit Guozuo, the Pope and Li Gong will no longer stand by her side as they did back then, but will become the Orthodox Academy.
Mo Yu asked: "Do you think... Your Majesty has made up her mind?"
After a moment of silence, Zhou Tong said: "Your Majesty can take the initiative to abdicate in exchange for the continuation of the Tianhai family."
"Ridiculous!" Mo Yu said angrily, "How can your empress abdicate? And if the royal family's promise is credible, why did your empress hesitate for so many years?"
"What if the Pope is the guarantor?" Zhou Tong stared into her eyes and said, "Do you think that even if King Chen Liu ascended the throne, would he dare to ignore the state religion?"
Mo Yu was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and remained silent for a long time before saying, "If that's the case..."
She suddenly laughed and said, "It's also a good thing."
"The stable inheritance of the throne of the Great Zhou Dynasty is of course a good thing for the human world. If the Tianhai family can survive, even if it is not as prosperous as it is now, it is not bad."
Zhou Tong looked at her with a half-smile and said, "But for the two of us, what's good about it?"
Mo Yu said calmly, "Your Majesty will naturally make arrangements for us."
Zhou Tong said: "To be disrespectful, Your Majesty will have a day when you will take a boat to travel in the sea of stars. If that day comes, how will we deal with ourselves?"
Mo Yu remained silent.
Zhou Tong stared into her eyes and continued: "You listened to His Excellency Pope's words and did a lot of things. Why doesn't your empress blame you? Because your empress is very aware of your uneasiness, just like the fear I said earlier... the people in the palace I never liked you and me, so you want to ease the relationship with that side."
Mo Yu met his gaze and said calmly: "So what? When that day comes, you will definitely not be able to continue living. There are too many people who want you to die, and I... as long as I live, I don't care about anything else."
Zhou Tong looked at her with a half-smile and said, "Really? No matter who the Chen family becomes the emperor, you will either die or become his woman. Do you really want to? Then I don't care."
Mo Yu's expression changed slightly, and he shouted a little annoyed, "What exactly do you want to do?"
Zhou Tong said: "First of all, we must at least ensure that His Majesty does not make a decision so quickly."
Mo Yu said thoughtfully, "You want to break the tacit understanding between your empress and the Pope?"
Zhou Tong said: "Don't dare, I just want to make His Excellency's statement invalid."
Mo Yu shook his head and said, "You can't kill him, and your empress will definitely not agree, because he has made contributions to Da Zhou, at least not now."
Zhou Tong said with a blank face: "Hero and good general, I have killed a lot."
Mo Yu stared into his eyes and said, "But he has made great achievements."
From Sizhaojing to Tongyoujing, it is one of the three most difficult passes on the road of cultivation, because it is the first time for the ascetic to experience the test of life and death. Died on the spot, the death rate was so high that for countless years, many ascetics clearly saw the threshold of the Netherworld, but dared not take a step there.
Chen Changsheng unlocked the seventeen steles of the Qianling Mausoleum in the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books, which triggered a starlight phenomenon and indirectly helped dozens of stele watchers break through. In just one night, the human world had so many young ascetics who passed through the secluded realm. The Ivy Courts plus Huaiyuan Lishan Saintess Peak, it is impossible for so many disciples to pass through each year.
And how many of these people will be able to gather stars and become real strong in the future
Just like what Gou Hanshi said, everyone should be grateful to Chen Changsheng, all college sects should be grateful, Da Zhou and the entire human world should be grateful to him. There was no voice of objection, presumably no one outside the State Church of Tomorrow dared to object, because everyone knew that this was due to their contribution.
Zhou Tong was silent for a long time, then suddenly said: "Your Majesty said just now that he is a real person."
Mo Yu was slightly startled when he heard the words, he didn't expect his empress to have such a high opinion of Chen Changsheng.
"If you have meritorious service, you can't kill it. If you are a real person, you can't kill it, but you have to do something."
Zhou Tong shook his head, walked out of the orange garden, muttering like an old woman with a broken mouth.
Mo Yu looked at his back, feeling a little uneasy.
In the small building of the Orthodox Academy, the warm bedding smelled really good.
She doesn't want to miss it in the future.
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No matter how warm the bedding was, it couldn't make Chen Changsheng stay longer.
At five o'clock in the morning, he woke up on time, opened his eyes, washed up, and then went to Tianshu Mausoleum with Xuanyuan Po.
The sergeant in charge of guarding the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books probably didn't know about the latest appointment of the state religion, so they should be as usual.
People came out of the Tianshu Mausoleum one after another. There were those who watched the stele from the old years, and most of them were the top three candidates in this year's imperial examination. Like Chen Changsheng, these people were all planning to go to Zhou Garden. Looking at Chen Changsheng standing outside the stone gate, people, like those sergeants, didn't know that he had become the dean of the Orthodox Academy, but they all paid respects to him very seriously, even though the expressions on some people's faces were a little unnatural.
Gou Hanshi sent Qijian and Liang Xiaoxiao out, only then did Chen Changsheng know that Tang Thirty-Six was still in the fugue state after breaking the realm, so he had no choice but to turn around and leave, although it was a bit regretful.
That night, after Zhexiu had his needles pierced, he went to the library to meditate. Chen Changsheng and Xuanyuan Po started to clean up the kitchen together—whether Tang Thirty-six would leave Tianshu Mausoleum at 1:30, and they might also stay in Zhou Garden for a hundred days Time, the kitchen has been unused for a long time, and there are many things that need to be cleaned up.
"I can't go again, it's really useless."
With his back turned to him, Xuanyuan Po sat by the basin washing the pot, and said in a muffled voice.
Zhou Garden can only be entered by practitioners who have passed through the secluded realm.
Chen Changsheng looked at the burly back of the Yaozu boy, recalled the time he saw him at the night market last year, and said comfortingly, "It's okay, it just takes some time."
Yes, Xuanyuan Po's bloodline talent is actually very good, otherwise he wouldn't have become a key training target of the Academy of Reaching the Stars, but on the first night of the Ivy Banquet, he was injured too badly by Tian Hai Ya'er, his whole right The arm was completely abolished. Although he gradually recovered under Chen Changsheng's treatment, he needed to practice again, but as long as there was enough time, he would definitely recover as before. Coupled with Chen Changsheng's research on the meridians of the monster race to practice human skills, he There will definitely be an extremely powerful outbreak.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Changsheng naturally thought of Tian Hai Ya'er, that little monster who used to make many people feel nervous, and couldn't help shaking his head, there was always no way to dispel that feeling of disgust. Just like many women can never get rid of their fear of mice, whether they are well-informed or have been in the boudoir for a long time, even the strong women in the star-gathering realm have rumors of being scared by mice and screaming .
Suddenly there was a rustling sound in the corner of the kitchen. Then there were several squeaks, the sound was very weak, if Xuanyuan Po and Chen Changsheng were not both cultivators, they might not have heard it clearly.
"Huh? I just cleaned it the day before yesterday, and there were mice again?"
Xuanyuan Po stood up, wiped his wet hands on his clothes, randomly took out a half-burnt thick firewood from the stove, and walked towards the corner.
In the pile of debris in the corner, there was something faintly moving.
"It's quite big!"
Xuanyuan Po's eyes widened, he grasped the charred thick stick tightly, and smashed it down with all his strength.
Chen Changsheng wondered why he used such force, he was afraid that the big rat would be killed, and several cracks would be formed on the ground... Suddenly he felt that something was wrong, that the voice from before was familiar, he opened his mouth and stretched out his hand to stop Xuanyuan Po's movement , but there is still no time.
With a muffled bang, all the sundries were smashed into powder, and the first half of the charred thick wood suddenly disappeared. Under the impact of terrifying force, dust flew everywhere.
The smoke and dust gradually receded, Xuanyuan stared at the black slender creature that was still bouncing on the ground, very surprised, and said loudly: "What the hell is this? It's not dead yet!"
The black creature flew up and came before Xuanyuan Po's eyes.
Xuanyuan Po thought it should be a snake, or a limbless gecko. But... how can it fly
With a crisp snap, the black creature flicked its tail and slapped him across the face.
Xuanyuan Po was stunned, looking at the picture in front of him, his mouth opened wider and wider, his tongue became more and more clumsy, and he shouted in panic: "Dragon... Dragon... Dragon... Dragon... Dragon!"
Then, he passed out directly.
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