"I'll learn to get used to treating these stone beads as beautiful ornaments, not heavenly tome tablets."
Xu Yourong looked at him and said calmly, "Then, I'm a little hungry right now."
Xunmei's thatched hut has not been lived in for a long time, and there is a lot of dust, but all kinds of utensils are still available.
Chen Changsheng went to the garden to pick two handfuls of green vegetables, pinched a dozen hot peppers, cut half a square of bacon slices, spread them with honey, and steamed them. Served with white rice, it was a sweet meal.
Xu Yourong was very satisfied with the food, and felt a little embarrassed.
Next, they discussed the Great Court Examination, the Stone Cooking Conference next year, and how to leave Tianshu Mausoleum.
In order to avoid being seen and guess something, and then make the rumors in the capital even more raging, the two agreed to leave separately, Xu Yourong would go first, and Chen Changsheng would stay in Tianshu Mausoleum for one more day, but they didn't expect , This is completely trying to cover up, and it can't be hidden from others.
In other words, this is called deception.
However, before Xu Yourong had time to leave, the small courtyard ushered in an unexpected guest.
The person who came was Ji Jin, the stele attendant who was born in Huaiyuan. I don't know if he recognized Xu Yourong's identity, or he guessed something. The meaning of resentment and unwillingness is gone, it is very complicated, but it cannot be explained.
Chen Changsheng was about to say something, Xu Yourong motioned him to wait.
Her sleeves were fluffy, she walked to the fence, looked at Ji Jin and said indifferently: "I will ask to disqualify you from being a stele servant and expel you from Tianshu Mausoleum."
The sky light leaked from the branches of the orange grove and plum tree, and fell on her face.
That extremely beautiful face immediately added a sense of sacredness and solemnity.
Because when she said this, she was a high and mighty southern saint.
It is extremely difficult to become an attendant of the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books, and it is necessary to make a very extreme blood oath, and there is really some kind of power of heaven in the dark.
Once you take the blood oath and become a stele attendant, you will have the freedom to spend time with the stele of the heavenly book that practitioners dream of. At the same time, you will lose the freedom to leave the mausoleum of the heavenly book. One step to Tianshu Mausoleum.
Countless years have passed since the state religion established this rule, and there was only one exception—that is, Su Li broke into the Tianshu Mausoleum and scolded the two stele attendants who were from the Lishan Sword Sect. Forcibly brought back to Lishan.
Those two stele attendants were the two elders of the Discipline Hall in Lishan, and they were also one of the main causes of the internal turmoil in Lishan.
The Tianshu Mausoleum is too tempting for ascetics, like a dream that cannot end.
The more profound the Taoism and the longer the time to study the stele of the Heavenly Book, the more reluctant to leave here.
Even a talented monk like Xun Mei took decades to wake up.
To revoke the blood oath of a stele attendant and drive him out of the Mausoleum of Books, only the Pope and the Holy Maiden have the qualifications, and that stele attendant will be backlashed by the blood oath, which is very painful.
Hearing Xu Yourong's words, and seeing Ji Jin's face instantly pale and trembling body, Chen Changsheng felt alert.
In his mind, Ji Jin would be extremely angry after receiving such a humiliation and such a severe punishment, and he might even go crazy and attack Xu Yourong.
However, Ji Jin didn't attack violently. After a while, he gradually calmed down, and bowed to Xu Yourong through the fence.
He bowed to the ground, looking extremely respectful.
His voice was a little trembling, very excited, and slightly bewildered.
"Thank you for the mercy of the saint. Ji Jin is endlessly grateful and will repay it with death."
Seeing Ji Jin's figure gradually disappearing into the woods, Chen Changsheng was a little puzzled.
"Why?"
"Because he wants to get out."
"I heard... the backlash of the blood oath is terrible."
"After all, it is more terrible than not being free."
"But, isn't it voluntary for them to become stele servants?"
"People's thinking, with the passage of time, often undergoes some changes that they never thought of at the beginning."
Xu Yourong walked up to him and said, "For many ascetics, the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books is the most beautiful dream and the longest confinement."
Chen Changsheng vaguely remembered that he had heard similar sayings before.
She continued: "Actually, I had an idea a long time ago. I planned to persuade the uncles in the studio to discuss with Li Gong to change this rule."
Chen Changsheng looked at her unparalleled beauty and eyes, felt that she was getting more and more serious, and said from the bottom of his heart: "You are a good person."
Then he said: "If Li Gong does not agree to Nanxi Zhai's request, when I become pope in the future, I will try to abolish this rule."
Xu Yourong said softly, "You are also a good person."
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The next day, Chen Changsheng left the Mausoleum of Books and returned to the Orthodox Academy under the escort of several cardinals.
At that time, the morning light was twilight, the western sky was like night, it was still very early, and he was about to go to the newly repaired kitchen on the other side of the lake to find Xuanyuan Po for some food, but suddenly saw a person who had never expected it on the big banyan tree, and couldn't help but Surprised, he asked, "What happened?"
Except for very few special circumstances, Tang Thirty-Six would never get up so early, but at this time he was standing on the arm of the big banyan tree looking into the distance, and he didn't know if he hadn't slept all night or what was going on. He didn't look at Chen Changsheng, but still looked into the distance, and asked indifferently, "Do you know what the most painful thing in the world is?"
Chen Changsheng shook his head.
Tang Thirty-Six said with a sneer: "The most painful thing in the world is that when we are tired like pigs and dogs, some people still have the leisure time to go on a date, and you have to keep it safe for someone." Secret, it’s ok... to have a tryst in the Tianshu Mausoleum.”
After recruiting new students from the Orthodox Academy, the first test the freshmen face is the imperial examination. For the upcoming imperial examination, both Tang Sanshiliu and Su Moyu are extremely busy, and even Zhexiu will occasionally give students They take lessons and teach them with pain and blood what real combat is.
However, Chen Changsheng, as the dean of the Orthodox Academy, completely ignored this matter.
Tang Thirty-Six's real pain still came when it came to keeping a secret.
Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong had known each other in the Zhou Garden, they had mutual affection and often met in private, this secret was only known to him in the capital now.
The so-called secret, once people know about it, people who hold the secret tend to relax a lot, just like Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong these days.
But the person who knew the secret but couldn't tell the outside world inherited their pain and pressure, and it was even greater.
Rumors spread all over the capital, everyone was saying that Chen Changsheng fell in love with Xu Yourong bitterly, Tang Thirty-six wished he could spray his saliva on those people's faces, wished he could reopen Chenghu Tower, and stand on the roof facing Wan Thousands of people told the story, telling the world the secret of those two men.
But he couldn't do that, so he was miserable, even a little angry.
Chen Changsheng looked at him, and said with some incomprehension: "It was you who said I would endure it."
Tang Thirty-Six looked at it and said, "But I can't take it any longer."