I don't know why, thinking that Xu Yourong came to challenge the Orthodox Academy just after returning to Beijing, and he didn't even delay for a day, Chen Changsheng's mood was a little low.
Seeing that he had already received the letter, the three people from the Thirteenth Division of Qingyu and Nanxizhai left directly.
It was rumored that Chen Changsheng asked the Pope to forcibly dissolve the engagement. Although it has not been confirmed yet, he has never denied it.
For Nanxi Zhai, this was undoubtedly the greatest humiliation, so that senior sister never had a good face towards Chen Changsheng, even though he is now the dean of the Orthodox Academy. On the contrary, the younger junior sister showed no hostility towards Chen Changsheng. Before leaving, she looked at Chen Changsheng and nodded, as if she wanted to say something.
"That little girl is a bit weird." Tang Thirty-Six said.
Chen Changsheng put the letter away, and asked, "A pretty clean girl, what's so weird?"
Tang Thirty-Six said solemnly: "From the beginning to the end, that little girl didn't look at me, she just stared at you."
"Her name is Ye Xiaolian, and she should be the outer door of Nanxi Zhai who just entered this year."
Chen Changsheng reminded: "Last year at Ligong Shinto, you scolded her and cried her in front of so many people. Of course she didn't have a good impression of you."
It was only then that Tang Thirty-Six remembered who the little girl named Ye Xiaolian was, and shook his head and said, "So what? The more this happened, the more deeply she impressed me. The so-called hate begets love..."
Chen Changsheng couldn't take it anymore, turned around and walked into the small building.
Tang Thirty-Six followed behind him, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Besides, why did I scold her at that time? I didn't want to vent my anger on you, but what happened just now, she didn't look at me, but looked at you, she has a big heart The way it moves, why isn't it weird?"
Chen Changsheng didn't turn his head back, and said, "Don't talk about this, you can help me make up my mind, what should I do next."
"Didn't it be discussed last night, just call."
Tang Thirty-Six quickened his pace, walked to his side, turned his head to look over, and said with some anxiety: "You don't really want to admit defeat, do you?"
Chen Changsheng thought for a while, then shook his head.
Tang Thirty-Six reminded: "Seven days from now on the Naihe Bridge, you mustn't be put off just because you look at how beautiful she is...Although I know it's really difficult, but seeing how confused you were last night... , is quite possible."
Chen Changsheng was a little puzzled, why everyone, no matter Xu Shiji or Tang Sanshiliu, was so sure that they would change their minds just looking at Xu Yourong.
He asked Tang Thirty-Six about this before, Tang Thirty-Six's answer was quite simple at that time, but today he seemed a little more serious.
"I haven't met Xu Yourong, but I have met many people who have met Xu Yourong and lost their lives."
He looked at Chen Changsheng and said, "Just like your Wugou sword, as long as it is sharp enough, to the extreme, it can be included in the list of hundred weapons. A person, no matter a man or a woman, as long as it is beautiful enough, to the extreme, it will be very beautiful. Terrible, Zhou Yuren back then, the Holy Empress when she was young, and Xu Yourong now are all like this."
Chen Changsheng couldn't understand this statement.
Tang Thirty-Six said: "It's like a painting, a plum vase, a lake of autumn water, a distant mountain... If you think about destroying these, you will feel that it is a sin."
Chen Changsheng thought about the scenery and people he had seen along the way from Xining to Kyoto and then to Hanqiu City, the grassland where the sun never sets and the night rain in Xunyang City, the girl on the grassland and Wang Po in the night rain, and he probably understood up.
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This much-anticipated battle was about to start seven days later, and the water under the Naihe Bridge seemed to become a lot more turbulent after hearing the news.
The fastest response is still the Four Squares. The impact of this battle is too great. Many big figures will definitely be there to watch the battle. Maybe even the Holy Empress and His Majesty the Pope will be there. Then I started cleaning. I believe that the imperial court and the Li Palace on both sides of the street will have corresponding arrangements. It will not be the turn of the Four Great Squares to repair the pergola, but the Four Great Squares will definitely not miss the opening of this battle.
There are still seven days before this battle will officially start, but now it has an official name—the Battle of Naihe Bridge.
Everyone seemed pretty sure the battle would go down in the history books.
This has nothing to do with the strength of Xu Yourong and Chen Changsheng's realm. No matter how inconceivable their cultivation talents are, they can be said to be the youngest Tongyou Shangjing in history, but after all they are only sixteen years old.
Not to mention the comparison with the Luoyang battle between Zhou Dufu and His Majesty Taizong back then, even the night rain battle in Xunyang City not long ago was far behind.
But the two sides in the battle are Xu Yourong and Chen Changsheng, that's enough.
There is no need to mention the identities of the Saintess of the South and the head of the Orthodox Academy, nor the marriage certificate, nor the confrontation between the Tianhai family and the Li Palace, because no one has forgotten these, only these two The names, the things that have happened in the past year, will come to people's minds again, and the whole world will be excited about it.
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Everyone in the capital is waiting for this battle to come, and many people in the imperial court and the Li Palace are preparing for it.
As the person involved, Chen Changsheng naturally had to make some preparations. Although he had already fought many ascetics from the Star Gathering Realm, and even faced Liang Wangsun and Hua Jia Xiao Zhang in Xunyang City, his opponent Xu Yourong was the one who was in the Upper Realm of Tongyou, but He would definitely not belittle or neglect because of this, he was very sure that Xu Yourong was much stronger than those cultivators at the initial stage of gathering stars who had been defeated by him.
If he wanted to defeat a genius like Xu Yourong, and win before Zhenfeng's talented blood, he naturally prepared his most powerful means.
From the moment the duel date was set, he unleashed his sword, the Wisdom Sword—with the help of Li Gong and the Tang family in Wenshui, he obtained countless dossiers and materials related to Xu Yourong, sat in front of the window and began to seriously Read and watch carefully, trying to find the information you need, enough information, so as to help you calculate and deduce how to shoot this sword.
The first thing he learned about was Nanxizhai's exercises, the history of the Holy Maiden Peak, the differences in Taoism between the two sides after the separation of the state religion from the north to the south, and the results of the interpretation of the Tianshu stele by the saints of the past. For this reason, the Li Palace sent countless books, even They also sent a copy of Xu Yourong's notes after studying the Tianshu stele in the past two years. Then he began to understand the East Imperial General's Mansion, Xu Shiji's usual style of leading troops in battle, Mrs. Xu's character, where the maid named Shuang'er lived before entering the Xu Mansion, and how she was brought into the mansion by Xu Yourong, After he understood and mastered all this information, he began the most important link, which was to get to know Xu Yourong.
There is a lot of information about Xu Yourong. In addition to leaving the palace, the Tang family in Wenshui also sent two boxes. However, if you exclude the well-known ones and some combat examples, there are very few of these materials that are really useful, and they are absolutely useless. Most of them were rumors about her in the capital at the beginning, and after she went up to the Holy Maiden Peak, there were no more records.
The more Chen Changsheng read those files, the more he felt that he couldn't understand Xu Yourong.
This is not to say that Xu Yourong is a very mysterious girl.
In fact, when she was young, many people in Kyoto had seen her with their own eyes.
People saw her jumping into the canal on the stone bridge. After saving her, people asked her why she jumped, and she said it was because there was a moon in the water.
People saw her jump into the abandoned well when she was outing in Beixinqiao. After she was stopped by someone, they asked her why, and she said that there was a dragon in the abandoned well.
There are many old people in Kyoto who have not forgotten a scene that often happened in front of the palace more than ten years ago.
Xu Yourong, who was still a little girl, often climbed up to the stone pillars of the Li Palace to look at the sun, and smiled happily. The priests of the Li Palace were anxious and angry below, but they dared not do anything, even the voices calling her down were so gentle.
Since she was born, she was determined by the Holy Queen and the Pope to have the blood of the real phoenix. She is a treasure that the entire capital and the entire Zhou Dynasty must protect. Princess Pingguo, who was a few years older, often had her nose bruised and her face swollen, and the Holy Empress didn't care, let alone these priests from the palace.
In short, when Xu Yourong was a child, she was a mischievous little mud monkey, a daring fake boy, no one would have imagined that she would become what she was later on.
At the age of five, Xu Yourong's true phoenix bloodline awakened.
This is two years earlier than the time calculated by the Holy Queen and the Pope.
From that day on, Xu Yourong seemed to have become another person. The white dress was never dusty, peaceful and beautiful.
Her personality has also become quiet and beautiful, no matter what she encounters, she is so indifferent and peaceful.
She never talked nonsense about the moon in the ditch and the dragon in the abandoned well again, and she never made nonsense again.
She began to study quietly and practice peacefully, and she was still so young.
At that time, people in Kyoto could occasionally watch the scene of her entering the palace, as if seeing a real little fairy.
Kyoto's fanatical love and even admiration for her should have started at that time.
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Looking at the file and thinking about those pictures, Chen Changsheng was a little lost in thought.
It turned out that she was such a person when she was a child.
It's just why I didn't feel this when I was communicating at that time, nor did I feel the latter part of the praise from the people in Kyoto
Looking at the bamboo dragonfly on the bookshelf, he couldn't figure it out.
Too many things have happened since he came to the capital from Xining, he has no way to maintain a good impression of Xu Yourong, the imagination he might have had has long since disappeared, and they are rivals now, but even so, he has to He admits that Xu Yourong is really amazing, he doesn't understand the moon in the ditch, but he knows better than anyone else that there is really a dragon under the abandoned well at Beixinqiao. And she was less than five years old at that time