Chapter 166: Willing or Not
"If you don't want to die, you must not say the wrong thing."
The meaning of this sentence is also easy to understand.
Escaping death, Jiang Duan was a little stunned for a while.
Although the emperor has a gentle demeanor, he is actually decisive in killing, Jiang Du categorically does not believe that the emperor will change his mind and spare his life because he listened to his pleading.
He knew the emperor's temperament very well, so Shicai's words were just foreshadowing, and what he had to say next was the real life amulet.
I never thought that the emperor would let him go so easily......
Did the emperor have compassion or did he have other plans?
Jiang Dui's mind turned around a few times, and after coming back to his senses, he realized that the emperor had gotten up and walked out at some point.
The emperor was covered in a black cloak.
Jiang Du looked at the emperor's back, and then thought of the scene in the illusion, and suddenly felt lonely in his heart.
Miss Rong San of the Taining Hou Mansion is the body of the phoenix, and he has known it for a long time.
Many years ago, there were wandering monks who gave orders to the ladies of Rongfu, and the Tao was that Rongfu had a phoenix.
At first glance, that batch of words sounds amazing, but in reality, not many people take them seriously.
After all, just put on the clothes and ornaments of monks and Taoists, and then say a few auspicious words with "bright moon" and "luan bird" in an unfathomable and vague manner, and you can get a rich reward from the overjoyed head and wife of the rich and noble, and this kind of thing is not difficult to do.
Compared with the toil of farming and hunting but struggling to make ends meet, it is much easier and more attractive.
As long as you have a thick skin and a slippery mouth, it can be said that everyone can do it.
It is conceivable that in the Great Zhou, which has been peaceful for a long time, especially in the city of Kyoto, where there are many nobles, there has never been a shortage of deceitful people and their baseless criticism.
It was the words of the ladies of Rongfu at that time, and it did not cause any ripples in Kyoto City.
I think it was because the competition among his peers was so fierce that the fake monk didn't care about it and started the business of Rongfu......
How ridiculous......
Rongfu, the decline of the nobles, the two Hou ladies are both businessmen, a total of two young ladies, the one with outstanding character has already been married, and the remaining one is useless......
It's not that the world looks down on Rongfu, but that the situation of Rongfu comes up with a phoenix, which is simply ridiculous.
People occasionally talk about the comments of the ladies of Rongfu, mostly as a joke to amuse and relieve boredom.
At that time, Jiang Duan, who was still a teenager, didn't care much about that batch of words.
The reason is a little different from ordinary people.
He grew up in the stargazing tower since he was a child, and he has a limited understanding of the people and things in Kyoto City, although he has also heard of the Hou Rong Mansion in Taining, but he does not know much about it, and he does not know the situation of several young ladies in the Rong Mansion, so he cannot say that the Rong Mansion cannot produce a phoenix.
The reason is ......
Jiang Du doesn't believe in critics.
In fact, when he was a teenager, Jiang Du was once very interested in the words of the warlocks in the rivers and lakes.
The young man who has just learned the art of stargazing and fortune measurement is full of hope to get a glimpse of the heavenly opportunity as soon as possible.
Thinking like this, he started from the Ma family, which was the most in the limelight, and only slept half a night for a whole year, and seriously watched the stars and fortunes for the young ladies of the Ma family who were too superior and had an "extraordinary life".
He didn't get a glimpse of the outcome he wanted, but he did something else.
Those young ladies of the Ma family have no great luck.
And on the contrary, their lives are very bad.
At the age of Shaohua, he died unexpectedly.
Without exception.
I think that something will happen to the Ma family......
Since then, when he hears the so-called words of criticism, Jiang Du can no longer be interested.
Therefore, when he first heard the so-called Rongfu phoenix life, he did not stargaze for any of the young ladies of Rongfu.
He noticed that the young lady of the Rong Mansion was the year of Youning's Northern Expedition, after Miss Rong San shot Ma Jian Jun with an arrow......
Such a strange woman, such a strange thing, and the fact that Miss San is the future third sister-in-law of his wife, he took it for granted that Miss Rong San had a fateful star.
At a glance, I don't know what went wrong, and the star palace is outrageously misplaced.
When she was eight years old, Miss Rong Er, whose life star had long since died, did not die and married into the heavenly family......
The real phoenix star, Miss Rong San, was moved by the general star who should have died young......
Shocked, he was at a loss.
The master never taught him what would happen if the star palace was misplaced, and how should stargazers deal with it......
After Youning went north and asked to marry his wife, he went out of Beijing and traveled to the present.
Over the years, some officials have played him for neglecting his duties, and some senior brothers have accused him of insulting his master, but he knows in his heart that he is worthy of the court's favor and the master's teachings.
There was no solution in the Stargazing Pavilion, so he traveled all over the Great Zhou to find it.
Unfortunately, he didn't find a solution.
Fortunately, despite the misalignment of the Star Palace, the world is not in chaos.
He knew the reason for that from a young age.
Although the queen of the middle palace is not a phoenix, there is another phoenix girl in the harem.
Mrs. Xiao's proud granddaughter, Miss Xiao, who is deeply blessed.
Judging from the illusion of another world, if the change is not born and the star official is not wrong, then although the queen at the beginning of the emperor's accession to the throne is the Rong family, the Rong family went early, and then it should be the Xiao family.
In this way......
Today, it doesn't really matter whether Miss Rong San is the queen or the princess of Zhenbei, what matters is whether the Xiao family can successfully become the successor and enter the middle palace.
Other words......
Miss Rong Er, whose life star has long been extinguished, how long will she be the queen......
And what he wants to do is to help the Xiao family seal the queen and set things right.
In addition, there is one more thing......
It's not big, it's not too small, and it's been pressing on his heart for many years.
As a stargazer who guarded the Great Zhou, he should have remained silent and endured it alone.
There are two sides to everything, and to see the other side of heaven is to bear silence.
I already knew everything, but I couldn't say anything, I couldn't do anything, and I watched everyone silently go to their predestined end.
However, as a person of flesh and blood, he wanted to open his mouth to fight for that woman.
The thoughts in my mind turned back and forth, but in fact, it was only a few moments.
At this time, the emperor had gone to the outer world.
Jiang Du made up his mind, strode to the outside, knelt on the ground, and shouted, "Your Majesty stays!"
The Emperor stopped and turned to look at Jiang Dui.
His face was hidden in his cloak and his expression was unknown.
Although the expression is unknown......
But Jiang Du knew that if what he said next angered the emperor, then the emperor probably wouldn't forgive him anymore.
And what is he going to say next......
It is very likely to anger the emperor.
Jiang Du was silent for a moment, and knelt down respectfully and said, "Weichen has the courage to speak ......."
He is a stargazer, for the sake of the 10,000-year-old rivers and mountains of the Great Zhou, the life and death of all people, and the inheritance of the master, he cannot die.
He is a son, a father, and a husband, and he cannot die for the sake of his dearest family.
However, the woman who was born with the life of a phoenix ......
In the illusory world, although she was in the back garden of the deep palace, she never lost her heart, murdered others, and finally lost her beloved son and died in a short time.
In this world, for the sake of the righteousness of her family and country, she marched thousands of miles and turned the tide of war with one arrow, but she begged for children for ten years and had no children or daughters.
If this is her life......
Then, Jiang Dui has to give it a try and change his life.
Destiny is irreversible.
As a stargazer, he understands this.
But even so, he still had to give it a try.
Because, compared to responsibility and affection......
compared to his life......
More important than those is his conscience and morality as a human being.
The purple-clothed star official's voice was clear and firm: "Although the Yiren failed to accompany Your Majesty, they gave Your Majesty eternal rivers and mountains, and peace and security!"
Jiang Du took off his official hat: "Weichen dares to speak ......"
"Your Majesty would like to give her a perfect life?"