After Mo Yubu finished the dishes, he filled a bowl of rice by himself, and sat across from Xu Yourong.
The two looked at each other and smiled slightly.
Chen Changsheng and Tang Thirty-Six would definitely not be able to bear this kind of weird scene, but they have long been used to it.
Just like many years ago, when the empress was eating, she was very serious, no one was allowed to speak, and she could only communicate with her eyes.
Xu Yourong and Mo Yu had exchanged eye contact countless times, and they had a tacit understanding, and it was very easy to see what the other was thinking.
It's just that at that time, the content of the communication was often which dish was delicious and which dish was not delicious today. The empress seems to be in a good mood today, and Yan Tong has already held three chopsticks. The empress said last night that she would deprive the prime minister's official position It's true, otherwise why today I'm so depressed that I can't even drink my favorite Bisi soup, but what they exchanged today is something else.
Mo Yu looked at her and blinked. He was asking her what she thought about Chen Changsheng and that marriage contract.
Xu Yourong's eyelashes drooped slightly, and she didn't pay attention, but the position where her fingers were holding the chopsticks moved forward a little.
Mo Yu noticed this detail and began to sympathize with Chen Changsheng.
She remembered very clearly that when Xu Yourong was unhappy when she was a child, she would subconsciously exert force while holding the chopsticks, so she would hold them further and further. One year, she saw little Xu Yourong holding the chopsticks like this once. That afternoon, there were more than a dozen non-poisonous snakes in the palace where Pingguo lived. Then that night, Pingguo's face was painted into a big painted face in the play...
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The eunuchs and maids of honor guarded far outside the palace, and they were not surprised by the scene in the palace, and their expressions did not change in any way.
There are not many people who are qualified to dine with the Holy Empress, and Xu Yourong is one of them.
This has nothing to do with her current status as a southern saint. Since she was very young, the empress would often pick her into the palace and have meals with her. At that time, apart from Xu Yourong, there were also Mo Yu, Princess Pingguo and King Chen Liu. Later, when King Chen Liu was sixteen years old, he seldom stayed in the palace, and had less time to eat with his empress. It was Her Royal Highness who didn't want to face Xu Yourong who had made her envious and jealous for so many years, so she avoided going out.
After lunch, Mo Yu stayed in the hall to process the files. The Holy Empress got up and said to Xu Yourong, "Follow me."
Xu Yourong followed her and came directly to the highest place in Kyoto.
Standing on Gan Terrace, looking at the market in the capital, and the Tianshu Mausoleum in the distance, Xu Yourong recalled the scene when he played here when he was a child, and a happy smile appeared on his face.
"This is the first time you laughed today."
Empress Sheng stood on the edge of Gan Terrace with her hands behind her back, without looking back.
Xu Yourong suppressed her smile, walked behind her, and said slowly: "The pressure came suddenly, I don't know how to deal with it."
This naturally refers to the succession of the Southern Saintess.
The queen said: "The so-called holy woman is nothing more than a statue of a god. With your understanding and ability, what's so difficult about it?"
Xu Yourong knew that this was the empress's view on the position of the Southern Saintess all along, and there was no way to change it, so she smiled and said nothing.
"I kind of know where your pressure comes from." The Holy Queen turned to look at her, thinking of the scenes in the Zhou Garden that she saw on the Lenggong Pond that night, looked at her with a half-smile and said: "Love One word is the most harmful, so avoid it if you can.”
Xu Yourong was slightly startled, and felt that the empress seemed to have noticed something, but... no one would know about that matter, even he... didn't know it yet
The Holy Queen did not continue this topic, looked over her shoulders, and landed on the tops of the distant mountains in the south that were gradually covered with snow, and asked, "Before she leaves, is there anything you want to tell me?"
Xu Yourong said calmly: "Master said, I hope your mother will not worry too much about state affairs and live more of her own life."
The Holy Empress was a little displeased when she heard the words, and said in a slightly cold voice, "It's really stupid."
The matter involved his teacher, although Xu Yourong felt a little helpless, he had to argue a few words.
The queen said: "I think back then, the eldest princess was too good in Daxizhou, but she was jealous or even feared by her own brother. That trash would faint when she even looked at her in the end. In the end, she had no choice but because of her parents' disapproval." You have a disheartened attitude, so you will marry far away from Baidi City... Now it seems that your master is as stupid as her."
Xu Yourong quietly thought, if the Eldest Princess became the queen of Daxizhou or now the queen of Baidi City, which kind of life would be happier, except herself, who could say for sure
"It's not easy for women to survive in this world, and it's even more difficult to have their own position. It's even more difficult to stand on the highest position like us. Not to mention, your master's talent, savvy and wisdom can be said to be unique, I thought she would be different from other stupid women, but what happened? Why can't such a smart woman pass a love test?"
The Queen's expression became extremely indifferent, and she said, "What is life? Why should women only live?"
Xu Yourong thought of an incident before he came, and said softly: "Uncle Su said, my mother would definitely say that, even the words are the same."
The holy queen raised her eyebrows slightly, and said, "Oh? What did little Su say?"
In today's world, among those powerful people who have stepped into the sacred realm, Su Li and the Southern Saintess are half a generation behind the Pope and the Holy Queen, and because of their complicated attitudes towards Su Li, the saints other than the Southern Saintess mentioned When this person comes, everyone will call him Xiao Xiaosu. It seemed that only in this way could they show their annoyed attitude towards Su Li.
Because in their view, Su Li is a trouble.
"Uncle Su wants me to tell my mother..." Xu Yourong glanced at her, and continued: "It's not easy to be alone, why bother to do it?"
Listening to Su Li's message, the Holy Queen was silent for a long time, and then suddenly laughed, the laughter was full of openness and disdain.
"Your Majesty, don't blame Master, it's not easy for her to convince Master Su to travel around the world with her."
Since last autumn, both the Great Zhou Dynasty and the various forces in Tiannan have been making relevant preparations, and it seems that it has been determined that the north-south confluence is imperative. At that time, many people didn't understand, even big figures like Xue Xingchuan knew about the execution but couldn't figure it out, why the saint didn't consider his attitude at all when Su Li was still in Lishan when he promoted this matter.
It turned out that it was because the Southern Saintess persuaded Su Li to stay away from the grievances and grievances in the secular world and ignore these things.
The Holy Queen said that the Southern Saintess could not pass the love test, but in fact, Su Li could not pass it.
The love character is fetters, and it is the premise of the north-south confluence.
The Holy Queen’s words were extremely strong and mocking, because she felt emotional: “Your master spent his best years in the Holy Maiden Peak, but he was eating, drinking and having fun outside, enjoying himself for so many years, and found a demon princess as his lover.” , and gave birth to a daughter, nothing was delayed. Finally, when I got tired of playing, I went back to find her, and then watched the dusk and sunset together and said how beautiful it was? They say that governing the country is like playing chess, even if it is, I don’t I will exchange money with the enemy like this, because it is not worthwhile."
There are only two people of the same sex who can communicate with her equally in the spiritual world, and now there is one less, and it is because of the most unacceptable reason of a man.
Xu Yourong didn't answer, because she was talking about her elders, and also because... Actually, sometimes she thinks that way.
"She just left and left a girl like you, isn't she worried?"
The holy queen looked at Xu Yourong, raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "In the end, I don't want to worry about it. If you are with a man, you will become stupid, and if you meet me, you will be smarter than anyone else."
Xu Yourong smiled and said: "Anyway, I was also raised by my mother, so it would be good if my mother taught me a few more years."
"It's not teaching, it's communication."
The queen looked at her and nodded, this is a gift.
Xu Yourong was surprised, then quickly calmed down, and returned the salute earnestly.
She's not a saint, but she's already a Southern saint.
From this moment on, she and the empress have to talk on an equal footing, even on the surface.
"Since you are a southern saint, you have to think more about the southern people. This is the foundation of your life, even if... you need to oppose me in the future."
"clear."
"Just like what I said at the beginning, men don't see that we are superior, so the generations of saintesses before your master basically rarely left Nanxi Zhai. But they also know that it is good to ensure their own sense of existence, but not to make their own sense of existence too strong. If you don’t want to become a god, then you can’t do it.”
"Then what should we do?"
"Men don't like us being superior, so we have to be superior, and step on them until they can't speak, and we don't dare to object."
Sheng said expressionlessly.
Xu Yourong knew that this seemingly too simple and rude sentence was the will of the empress, a reminder of her future career as a saint, but... it was even more a requirement for the upcoming battle.
She couldn't lose to Chen Changsheng.
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Chen Changsheng sat by the lake of the Orthodox Academy in a daze.
Bai He stood beside him, also in a daze.
The fine snow fell from the sky and landed on Bai He's body, which added a holy meaning, and fell on him, as if his head had turned gray with sorrow.
"What should I do?" He looked at Bai He and asked sadly: "If there is really no way to avoid it, I must fight her. How?"
Bai He tilted his head slightly and looked at him, as if saying, you should ask her about this kind of thing, not me.
He thought for a long time, and finally said softly to himself: "If it's really not possible, then lose to her?"
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In the light snow, Xu Yourong walked in the streets and alleys of Kyoto holding an umbrella.
There wasn't a disciple of Nanxizhai around, and there were no priests or guards in the palace, so she walked alone.
For some reason, she didn't change her appearance today, she was as beautiful as a fairy, but she didn't attract anyone's attention, let alone her identity was discovered.
The people in the street food shop, the laborers squatting on the threshold eating noodles, seemed to be unable to see her under the umbrella.
Or it was because the umbrella in her hand was unusual—the umbrella looked a bit old and gray, and it was the yellow paper umbrella.