"What?"
"I want to hug you to sleep."
"Ah?"
"Yes."
Mo Yu said it confidently.
Chen Chang Sheng heard it like thunder.
He waved his hand and said, "Don't mess around."
Mo Yu said, "Then why did you come here?"
Chen Chang Sheng said, "I came to see you, to persuade you, and to thank you."
Mo Yu did a lot of things and it was worth him coming here to thank her.
Mo Yu said, "If you want to thank me, you have to sleep with me."
Chen Chang Sheng said helplessly, "You are going to get married in a few days."
"I didn't ask you to sleep with me back then."
Mo Yu looked at him and said, "It is because I am going to get married that I want to sleep with you."
She still said this sentence confidently and openly. There were many meanings hidden in it and the meaning was very obvious.
Chen Chang Sheng didn't know how to respond.
Mo Yu stared at his eyes and said, "You don't dare to come here because you have feelings for me."
Chen Chang Sheng hesitated and walked to the bed and sat down.
Mo Yu wrapped her arms around his waist and put her face on his back.
Chen Chang Sheng suddenly thought of something.
"Didn't you take a set of my bedding and pillows from the Tradition Academy?"
Mo Yu leaned on his back and didn't need to worry about being seen. She relaxed a lot.
After hearing this, the blush on her face quickly dissipated. She thought that it was really absurd at that time, but she had completely forgotten that it was actually very absurd at this time.
"After a long time, the smell on the bedding and pillows has faded."
"Hmm … .then do you still have insomnia recently?"
"It's strange. After the Queen left, I never had insomnia again. That day in Zhou Tong's house, I even took a nap."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"I will just sit here. You can sleep for a while."
"Hmm, just for a while. Just for a while."
The room became quiet.
Chen Chang Sheng sat on the bed and didn't dare to move.
Mo Yu hugged his waist and didn't move.
Logically speaking, this position was very uncomfortable, but she quickly fell asleep. She slept very soundly and even snored softly.
Time passed slowly, just like the snow outside the window, gradually accumulating.
Just as Chen Chang Sheng thought he might have to sit like this for the entire night and was thinking about how to explain to Xu You Rong tomorrow, Mo Yu woke up.
After an hour of sleep, she became energetic. One could imagine how good the quality of her sleep was.
A servant girl brought over a bowl of crystal bird's nest. She ate two mouthfuls and suddenly raised her head. She looked at Chen Chang Sheng and said, "Why haven't you left yet?"
Chen Chang Sheng felt a bit helpless and said, "I thought you wrote me to come here to discuss something."
— So you don't want anything, you just want to hug me to sleep.
Mo Yu said, "There's nothing to talk about. The situation in Jingdou is very calm. There hasn't been much change from a while ago."
In the past three years, they had kept in touch with each other. From Mo Yu, he was no stranger to the current political situation.
In the current Imperial Court, the ten-some princes of the Chen clan, led by the Prince of Xiang and the Prince of Zhongshan, together with the Tianhai clan and the several Divine Generals raised by Chen Guansong, formed one faction. The surviving civil officials of the previous court and Eunuch Lin in the palace formed the other faction.
To make a simple distinction between these two factions, one had to consider their attitudes toward the emperor.
"If your master was willing to manage these matters, these problems naturally wouldn't have arisen, but it's clear that he doesn't want to."
Mo Yu said, "Perhaps he wants to see His Majesty's ability to manage government affairs, or perhaps he just wants to train His Majesty."
"Senior can handle these problems."
Chen Chang Sheng recalled that long ago in Xining Village, he had personally caught all the scaleless fish in the stream outside the temple and then had his senior cook them.
His senior was the best at cooking fish, because his mind was very calm, he was very patient, and his technique was very steady.
"So the greatest problem of the Imperial Court is outside the Imperial Court. To put it more accurately, it is the relationship with the Orthodoxy."
Mo Yu said, "Many people want to know how the venerable Daoist will deal with your return to the capital."
Chen Chang Sheng replied, "I am waiting to meet with him."
After leaving the capital on a snowy night, master and disciple had never met again.
Now that he had returned to the capital, they would inevitably meet.
Chen Chang Sheng was confident that in this meeting, Shang Xingzhou would have to look him straight in the eye and not treat him as a stranger.
Mo Yu asked, "Is it possible to dissolve all grudges with a smile?"
Chen Chang Sheng said nothing. He knew what the greatest problem between him and his master was.
It was the world's most difficult knot to untie. In the end, besides using a sword to sever it, there seemed to be no good method.
Mo Yu did not care about his attitude. "Although no one, including me, understands why the two of you, master and disciple, have become enemies, I think that you should prepare yourself for the venerable Daoist to change his attitude. When he expresses his intention to reconcile, you should react a little faster."
Chen Chang Sheng asked, "You really think that his attitude will change?"
"Who knows? In the matter of White Emperor City, he and the Imperial Court both owe you a favor, and perhaps he will suddenly get over it. "
Mo Yu said, "For the great task of exterminating the demons, it wouldn't be strange for him to be willing to do anything."
Chen Chang Sheng knew that this was not very likely, but just as Mo Yu said, anything was possible.
When he thought about the possibility that this might really happen, he suddenly felt a little hope.
"If it can be like this, then it would be for the best."
"But if it's just like this, it's far from being able to resolve the problem between the two of you."
"I don't understand what you mean."
"You think that if the venerable Daoist changes his attitude, this story will end in a comedy?"
Mo Yu looked at him and said, "On the contrary, if it really is like this, then it means that a tragedy is about to begin."
Chen Chang Sheng asked, "Just what are you trying to say?"
Mo Yu asked back, "Will you avenge the Divine Empress?"
Chen Chang Sheng shook his head. Not to mention that this might cause the human race to fall into civil war, even revenge itself was meaningless.
The Divine Empress had saved his life, but he still did not have the right to carry that great banner.
His senior, who had the most right to avenge the Divine Empress, was now the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and was his master's most beloved and most trusted disciple.
Even his senior could not do anything because of those events in the past, let alone him.
"Including those princes, many people are watching me, wary of me, because they are all afraid that I will avenge the Divine Empress."
Mo Yu looked into his eyes and said, "But all of you have forgotten, the person who most wants to avenge the Divine Empress is not you or His Majesty, nor is it me."
Chen Chang Sheng suddenly felt somewhat uneasy.
He truly had forgotten.
The entire court had forgotten.
The entire continent had forgotten.
The person who most wanted to avenge the Divine Empress and was also the person most qualified to avenge the Divine Empress.
It was Xu You Rong.
The Divine Empress had watched her grow up.
Compared to the previous Holy Maiden, the Divine Empress was her first teacher.
Compared to Xu Shi Ji and his wife, the Divine Empress was her true mother.
The Divine Empress was a Phoenix, and Xu You Rong was also a Phoenix.
Compared to the Princess of Ping, she was the Divine Empress's true daughter.
Compared to Yu Ren, she was the Divine Empress's true successor.
Mo Yu asked, "Do you think that she will not avenge the Divine Empress?"
Chen Chang Sheng was silent for a very long time, then said, "She has never mentioned these things."
"With her relationship with the Empress, do you not feel that it is very strange that she has not mentioned it even once in these three years?"
Mo Yu looked into his eyes and said, "I watched her grow up, so I know how terrifying her willpower and ability to act are."
Not mentioning it for three years, not even thinking about it, what sort of willpower did this require?
If she had a similarly powerful ability to act, just how far would she have walked?
… …
… …
The cold snow drifted down, the winter wind was like a knife. Chen Chang Sheng took Xu You Rong and went to the Hundred Herb Garden.
They held up the Yellow Paper Umbrella and walked to the deepest part of the garden.
There was a very ordinary forest there. There used to be stone tables and stone chairs in the forest, but now there was only an empty space.
Xu You Rong looked at that place and said nothing.
The Divine Empress was buried there.
In a very, very deep place. (To be continued.)
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