The person who came was King Chen Liu, the only representative of the Chen royal family in the capital, and the only junior that the Holy Empress could accept.
King Chen Liu's reputation in the capital has always been excellent, and he is considered as gentle as jade but also full of courage. Back then, this young county king once helped Chen Changsheng and the Orthodox Academy twice, and Chen Changsheng's impression of him was also the same. Very good, but for some reason, Tang Thirty-Six disliked him very much.
King Chen Liu gave the junior salute to the Bishop, then looked at Chen Changsheng and said with a smile, "Do you think this meeting is too early?"
Mei Lisha ignored the hidden meaning of this sentence, and said directly: "The state religion wants to ask the empress to express her attitude as soon as possible, and the people of Tianhai's family will naturally not agree. Tianhai Shengxue is a smart person, but not everyone in his family has him." His wisdom, even if he has it, will be shattered by the seemingly within reach of the throne, after all, not everyone can resist that kind of temptation."
King Chenliu said solemnly: "As the royal family of the Chen family, my brothers from the various counties and I should go straight."
These two sentences were addressed to Chen Changsheng.
"The National Church has always stood behind the royal family. It has been like this since the reign of Taizu." Mei Lisha continued: "It is the same now. It is just because of Zhuang Huanyu's death that there may be some problems with the Tiandaoyuan. The six archbishops Here, there are still two people who have not turned the corner, because the Pope turned too fast."
Chen Changsheng thought to himself that if this is the case, then what happened to the massacre at the Orthodox Academy more than ten years ago? Why did the Pope support the Holy Empress for so many years? He understood that he was analyzing the current situation for himself, but he still didn't understand what he could do, and what was the significance of the bishop arranging for King Chen Liu to meet him.
Mei Lisha's next sentence revealed the answer to the mystery, but it was a new mystery, both for Chen Changsheng and King Chen Liu who heard these words.
"My lord, you must remember what Chen Changsheng has paid for in the future."
King Chenliu thought about it when he heard the words, but he didn't get anything.
Chen Changsheng thought of nothing, thought about everything else, and asked, "What about folding sleeves?"
The Pope said that Zhexiu would come out soon, but he was still very anxious—Zhexiu was still in the big prison, and that was Zhou Prison!
He couldn't imagine what terrible torture that wolf boy had endured during these days.
Mei Lisha said: "If the court still doesn't let him go, I will go there myself in a few days."
King Chen Liu looked at him and said apologetically, "The day after Zhexiu was imprisoned, I handed over the name card... But you also know that my lord is not very good at speaking in front of Lord Zhou Tong."
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Standing among the rows of maple trees full of spring, Chen Changsheng looked at the rumored direction of Zhou Prison, then at the direction of Tianshu Mausoleum, finally at the Imperial Palace and Li Palace, and sighed.
He is not an ordinary boy, but he is still a boy after all. Some things in the world are too complicated, too heavy for him, and some are unbearable, and even make it difficult for him to breathe. Compared with the capital, he felt that the wind and rain in Xunyang City were more refreshing and direct. He would rather stand with the iron knife and simply do some things, even if those things are not simple.
Under the humble eyes of the priests, he left the missionary office, did not return to the National Education College, but went to the workshop to buy some food, and then went to Beixinqiao, taking advantage of the flash of the setting sun in the west, his body was illusory, Jumped into that dry well.
The underground space was still bone-chillingly cold, but the black dragon was sleeping, its huge body like a mountain lying quietly on the ground, and the iron chain was still rusted to death in the stone wall.
Chen Changsheng took out the meat, supported it on lotus leaves, and placed it in front of the black dragon. Finally, he untied the piece of Ruyi from his waist and put it on the ground.
The black dragon's soul is still sleeping in Ruyi, and he doesn't know when he will wake up.
After doing this, he thought for a while, wrote some words on the frost on the ground, and left.
After getting out of the pond, he was drenched and changed into the dry clothes he had prepared. When he saw the black sheep again in the courtyard of the palace, he showed a smile, knelt down on his knees and hugged him for a while, ignoring that the black sheep raised its head slightly, and did not care about it. willing look.
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A gust of wind blew up, and the chill was still there, but it was dissipated tens of feet away, the lotus leaves on the frost turned green again, and the fresh meat radiated heat again.
The Holy Empress of Tianhai folded her hands, looked down at the jargon that Chen Changsheng had just left on the frost, a mocking smile appeared on the corner of her lips.
She didn't even look at it, her spiritual consciousness moved slightly, and the piece of jade Ruyi returned to her waist.
The departed soul of the black dragon woke up, turned into a cold streak, and returned to the dragon's body through the red mole between the eyebrows. The dragon's eyes opened slowly, the ice and snow fell, and the mountain-like dragon's body shrunk at an unimaginable speed, and finally turned into the little girl in black, but the indifference between her eyebrows and eyes had been diluted a lot by the cinnabar mole.
"See, men are all ungrateful." Empress Tianhai looked at her and said mockingly.
When the girl in black saw that sentence, she was silent for a while and then said: "He doesn't know when I will wake up, he has something to do, so he will leave first, and he doesn't know that I am a daughter..."
"You are a female dragon." The Empress Tianhai said calmly, "What's the point of letting him know this fact?"
The girl in black was very angry, the evil spirit between her eyebrows increased greatly, and the temperature of the underground space dropped sharply.
The Holy Empress Tianhai didn't care, the area around her was still warm as spring, and the ground beside her feet even gave birth to dots of greenery.
Inoue's world is already early summer. In the evening, there is a bit of heat. The ice shop in the distance is getting better, but here it is very deserted, because there are many guards scattered around, and also because of the two scary dogs under the grass tree. snow mastiff. Mo Yu waited quietly with the rope in his hand.
When the figure of the Holy Empress reappeared, she immediately walked over and said, "King Chen Liu also went to the Jiaoshu earlier."
The Holy Empress glanced at her and asked, "What do you want to say?"
Mo Yu said: "I don't understand, even if Chen Changsheng is a student of Taoist Ji, how can he deserve the attention of the state religion? Could this... be some kind of blindfold?"
This kind of incomprehension was a question that she had to ask immediately as a courtier and think tank, but maybe she didn't realize it herself, and this would make the empress less vigilant towards Chen Changsheng.
The holy empress said: "People in the state religion should act mysteriously, so why bother."
After saying this, she walked towards the imperial city, and the two snow mastiffs quietly left the tree and followed behind her.
Looking at the back of the empress, Mo Yu smiled slightly, and thought to himself, if you really don't care about it, why did you come with me, empress, just after Chen Changsheng came to see the black dragon
Her incomprehension was because she didn't know the agreement made between the Holy Empress and the black dragon, and she didn't know the existence of Yu Ruyi.
Back in the palace, looking at the pond in front of him, thinking that Chen Changsheng should have come out from here before, the queen recalled that night earlier, when Chen Changsheng first emerged from the pond. Picture - the young man rushed over, regardless of the fact that he was in a deep and dangerous place, watching the flowerpot knocked over by the startled squirrel about to injure a woman.
A mocking smile appeared on the face of the Holy Queen again, but it always felt like the elders were mocking the younger ones.
With a slight movement of her consciousness, Yu Ruyi left her belt by herself and floated to the top of the pond. The water in the pond was turbulent, as if it was boiling, and a lot of mist was born.
A ray of light shot out from Yu Ruyi and landed on the water mist, and the picture gradually became clear—that was the picture Heilong saw after leaving the capital with Chen Changsheng. When it is on the waist or wrist, it will also record the picture.
Looking at those pictures, the Holy Queen became more and more quiet, her smile did not disappear, but the mockery was much less, and what remained was some kind of fun.
The picture flipped rapidly and gradually turned into a stream of light, which was countless times faster than the normal speed of time, and only a saint like her could see it clearly.
When the golden phoenix wings illuminated the night sky and the scene of the girl in white was seriously injured appeared, the holy queen raised her eyebrows, expressing some kind of concern for the first time.
Xu Yourong is the junior she loves the most, even though she has been disguised, how can she hide it from her eyes.
In the next scene, Xu Yourong met Chen Changsheng, but they didn't know each other. She smiled and said nothing, probably thinking it was very funny.
Finally, on the screen, she saw the never-setting sun on the edge of the grassland, the frenzy of monsters, Xu Yourong's persistence, Chen Changsheng's perseverance, and that person's tomb.
The smile on her face gradually disappeared, she quietly looked at Zhou Ling in the picture, and remained silent.
After an unknown amount of time, the screen darkened and everything disappeared without a trace.
She waved her hand lightly, bringing the screen back to the place where Xu Yourong and Chen Changsheng first met, which was also where the misunderstanding started.
There is Weidao by the lake, and the two met each other but did not know each other.
Ruyi couldn't record Xu Yourong's mental activities, but the Holy Empress knew exactly what she was thinking at that time, why she never connected the unconscious guy with Chen Changsheng on the other side of the marriage contract - no matter who looked at it, Chen Changsheng Not like a fifteen-year-old boy. He was too calm and calm, even in a coma. At that time, Xu Yourong glanced over and felt that this person was around twenty years old. So, how could he be Chen Changsheng
The holy queen stood by the pond for a long time, not knowing what she was thinking.
Suddenly, she looked at Xu Yourong in the picture and said, "So you don't think he looks like a fifteen-year-old boy."
As the wind blew the grass at night, a chief eunuch came outside the palace at some unknown time.
"How?" she asked.
The eunuch leader reported in a low voice: "There are no new clues in the case, and Master Zhou Tong did not find anything in Xining Town... It's just that the crazy Lord Hu from the Qin Tianjian still insists that... Prince Zhaoming is not dead."
He has been with the Holy Empress for hundreds of years, and he has experienced many great events. However, when he mentioned what the mad Lord Hu said, his voice still trembled uncontrollably.
The Holy Queen looked at a place in the night sky where a certain star should have been, and did not speak for a long time.
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