Chang Suining raised his eyes and looked ahead.

Outside the pagoda, in addition to the two warrior monks who are common on weekdays, there is another column of forbidden troops guarding at this time.

Looking into the courtyard again, I saw the Holy Book Emperor in his uniform standing in front of the three-legged bronze incense burner in front of the tower, holding the green incense and worshipping the gods of heaven and earth.

Cui Jing and Wu Ji accompanied him.

Cui Jing had already turned her head to see that Chang Suining was looking at him, and seeing him at the moment, it was impossible to say that she didn't have the slightest guess.

She has never known who Cui Jing is loyal to, and he is rumored to be the empress's minions among the scholars, although she disagrees, but she is not sure of his true thoughts and positions.

But what she can be sure of at this moment is that if there is really a secret in the Heavenly Maiden Tower, then Cui Jing must be the one who knows the secret with the Empress Ming.

And if her intuition at this time was right - if the secret in the Heavenly Maiden Tower was related to Li Shang, in the case of not being sure which one was related, there would be a possibility of hostility between her and Cui Jing.

Cui Jing has helped her a lot, and she really regards the other party as a trusted friend along the way, but it is Chang Suining who is a friend of Cui Jing.

If the other party knows that she is Li Shang, I don't know if this friend will still be successful?

The answer to this question cannot be answered by any emotion, but needs to be left to the truth to decide.

Now, she's going to try to get into the truth.

After seeing Ming, he turned around and slowly looked towards himself, Chang Suining raised his feet and stepped into the formation.

At this moment, Chang Sui Ning seemed to hear the sound of this heaven and earth using the wind as a blade to pierce through her body.

Her eyelashes twitched silently, and her face did not change.

The girl's embroidered shoes stepped on the painted floor and walked forward.

Mingluo looked at the painting on the ground that had been stepped on by the girl, and felt sarcastic, he really had no sense of awe, how could such a person be the eldest princess of Chongyue?

The wind blew the golden bells hanging at the eaves of the tower, making a crisp sound.

The Emperor of the Holy Book looked fixedly at the girl wearing a sandalwood cloak walking towards him, and many old images suddenly flashed in front of his eyes.

The girl came to her and bowed her head: "Courtiers see Your Majesty." ”

Another voice sounded in the Emperor's mind at the same time—the sons and daughters saw the queen mother.

The face of the girl in front of her had no resemblance to the girl she remembered, but perhaps it was because of that speculation, and at this moment she felt that the two faces had overlapped.

A trace of waves appeared in the eyes of the Holy Book Emperor.

The withered yellow bamboo leaves fell, and the light smoke that had been slowly rising in the bronze furnace suddenly changed direction and escaped under the control of the wind.

After a moment, the Holy Book Emperor said slowly: "There is no need to be polite. ”

This voice fell on Chang Suining's ears very hazy and distant, but her face did not show any abnormality, she only straightened up as usual.

It is not appropriate to look left and right in front of the Son of Heaven, so she lowered her eyes and stood quietly.

But even if her consciousness was reduced, Chang Sui Ning could also sense that the imperial gaze that fell on her body had a strong sense of inquiry, just like the invisible blades around her, as if they were about to pierce her and reveal her original form.

The Holy Book Emperor couldn't see the strange reaction from the girl for a while, so he said, "Let's go in with me." ”

"Yes."

When the Emperor of the Holy Book was about to turn around, an attendant outside the tower courtyard walked quickly to ask for an audience.

With permission, the chamberlain entered the hospital and saluted the Emperor of the Holy Book.

“…… Your Majesty, there were many displaced people outside the temple, as many as 100 people, and they gathered outside the temple crying to see the saint, only to say that they had not eaten for a long time, and begged the saint to save their lives......"

The waiter's demeanor was very uneasy, for fear of violating some taboo.

When praying for blessings, a group of homeless people with yellow faces and thin muscles came to gather to ask the Son of Heaven for help, which was bad luck after all.

"Where did the outcasts come from?" Emperor Saint frowned slightly and asked, "Daozhou? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it's ......"

The drought in Daozhou since the spring, Chang Sui Ning also heard that the drought involved a wide range of land, the whole Daozhou not only has no harvest, but also the well water and spring water are dry, and the people's daily drinking water is difficult to sustain.

Even though there were disaster relief strategies, but the results were very small, the victims had no food and no water, so in order to save themselves, they waded through the Huai River to the north, and the states along the way even caused a chaotic situation of displaced people fighting with soldiers......

These displaced people who were able to come to Beijing alive did not know how many hardships and obstacles they had experienced.

There was a hint of compassion in the Emperor's tone: "It is really not easy for them to come here from Daozhou. Cui Qing, you will go to Haosheng to settle these people on my behalf for the time being. ”

She is the Son of Heaven, it is impossible for her to meet these homeless people in person, these people can travel long distances to come to Beijing alive, most of them are not ordinary and good, they are said to be disaster victims, I am afraid that they are no different from bandits, and only by the Xuan Ce Army can they give up the idea of making trouble.

Cui Jing responded, looked at Chang Suining before leaving, and nodded to her.

Chang Sui Ning also responded to him with his head, as usual.

But she could detect the unusual look in Cui Jing's eyes, although she couldn't tell what it meant.

Cui Jing left the tower courtyard, and Yuan Xiang, who was guarding not far away, greeted him.

Cui Jing turned his head and took one last look at the girl who was walking into the tower.

Master Boundless's wrench fingers and those slightly changed array things could only relieve her pain a little, and she must have endured a lot of hardship at this time.

He couldn't even imagine what she was going through at the moment.

"Governor, those victims ......"

"Go as planned."

Cui Jing strode away, taking off the saber at his waist and holding it in his hand.

The moment Chang Suining walked into the tower, he realized that the feeling he felt outside the tower was not worth mentioning at all.

Her internal organs seemed to be tugging at an invisible force, as if her soul was about to leave her body in the next moment, but it seemed that another force was firmly trapped in it.

And this pain became worse with each step she took forward, and there seemed to be an invisible resistance in front of her that was blocking her from moving forward, and countless voices in her body were stopping her.

The girl's face did not change, and she continued to move forward.

Wu Ji secretly pinched his sweat, worried in his heart.

That's all he can do now, and His Highness doesn't know how long he can last, he just hopes that everything will go well......

Since Chang Suining entered the tower, he silently paid attention to the arrangements in various places in the tower.

This formation was far more complicated than she had imagined, unlike any formation she had ever seen before.

She wrote down the formation arrangements of the four places in accordance with the principle of "all changes are inseparable", and slowly noticed a trace of strangeness along the way.

Although these things in the array are complicated, but under a closer look, there are deficiencies, and the things and positions of the array are also divided into primary and secondary, if you use the primary and secondary, everything you see at this time is secondary, and the real thing of the main array is not seen.

The object of this main array is the eye of a burst, and the eye of the array is related to the rise and fall of a burst, and it is the most critical existence.

Is this required for the formation, or is it to prevent the formation from being easily destroyed, so the formation is placed in a hidden dark place?

Chang Sui Ning thought about it, and had already come to the jade pond with the Holy Emperor.

The ethereal voice of the Holy Book Emperor sounded in Chang Suining's ears.

"Do you know why I summoned you to Dayun Temple?"

"It's to pray for the rebellious soldiers and the courtiers." Chang Suining even heard his own voice very weakly.

Her sense of touch and hearing had been reduced by half, and she needed to listen intently to discern what the Holy Emperor was saying.

"Yes, but not all." The Holy Book Emperor turned his head slightly to look at the girl: "Actually, I have a puzzle and want to ask Chang Niangzi." ”

Chang Suining remained silent: "I don't know what Your Majesty is referring to." ”

"Chang Niangzi is quite outstanding, I had intended to give me the position of a female official before, but you didn't respond." There was no coercion in the Emperor's tone, but the words he said made it impossible to relax.

"After that, Li Lu and Cui Qing both had the intention of asking to marry, and you also rejected them all - so I am very curious, you have no intention of giving me an official position, nor do you have any intention of the good relatives and sons valued by ordinary women, what do you really want?"

These are clearly things that her Ah Shang will do. What ordinary women can't ask for, but her Ah Shang will not look at it.

Ming Luo's gaze never left Chang Suining for a moment.

At this moment, there was still no abnormality on the girl's face, and she could not see the uneasiness and hesitation under the temptation.

"The courtiers knew that their hearts were undecided, and they were afraid of causing trouble in the palace, so they did not dare to take the position of female officials. As for family affairs, in the eyes of the courtiers, the difference between good and bad needs to be pleasing to each other, and only when they have the same heart and mind can they be regarded as good family affairs. ”

After a pause, the girl said, "If you ask the courtiers what they want to do, the courtiers just want to be Daddy's daughter now, stay in Changfu, and live with their fathers and brothers who love their courtiers, so that's enough." ”

Hearing this, the Holy Emperor smiled slightly: "If you have such an idea, you probably haven't grown up yet. ”

When the girl heard this, she said: "Daddy said, the courtiers don't need to grow up, the courtiers can be by his side all their lives and do what they like." ”

This innocent and reckless remark seemed to make the Holy Emperor lose his mind a little.

"It's a blessing that you don't have to grow up." The Emperor of the Holy Book said, "My children have grown up at a very young age. ”

"This is also the failure of my motherhood, I gave birth to them, but failed to give them a stable life......" Emperor Sacred Chronicle looked at the statue of the Celestial Maiden, "and when I finally have the ability to make amends, my child is gone, this may be the retribution that God has given me." ”

Chang Sui Ning lowered his eyes and did not answer.

Her body, which was originally torn by pain, even felt numb for a moment when she heard these words.

She didn't know whether the guilt in Minghou's words was true or false, or she really felt a little guilty after getting everything when she got older, or maybe it was just a means to test her, such a method, after all, she had also learned once.

Once upon a time in her eyes, her mother was calm, cold, and unscrupulous, and never showed any love to her, nor did she ever speak softly.

She thought that her mother was used to this, until her mother grabbed her hand before kissing, and the sentence was so loving that she even pleaded, "Ah Shang, let's help Ah Niang for the last time".

Her mother even touched her cheek tremblingly, and even had tears of guilt in her eyes that she had never seen before, and said that she would take her home.

It was then that she realized that her mother could also treat her with kindness.

She looked at it in a daze for a long time, and realized that the love didn't even seem to be pretended, the true feelings were to the extreme, and this extreme true feelings never left her any room for refusal.

At that time, she suddenly wanted to ask, does A-Niang know what she will experience after marrying Beidi?

But she didn't ask.

Her aunt is not an ordinary woman, nor is she an innocent concubine who is not familiar with the major affairs of the country, and she will not know what this harmony represents.

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It is precisely because she knows that she will call herself "Ah Niang" to her, and she will feel guilty, but this guilt will not affect her Ah Niang begging her to go to that purgatory.

And the reason why she knelt down was not because she felt that her mother had done wrong, on the contrary, even if her mother didn't come to beg her, she had already made the decision to agree to make peace.

At that time, Dasheng was no longer able to fight, the soldiers and horses were exhausted, the national strength was weak, and peace was the only way to survive.

What Dasheng needed at that time was no longer a general who went to the battlefield, but a princess who went to make peace.

Then she'll go.

She could, she could, she just felt that a mother might not treat her child like that.

But it's okay, since she can remember, her loving and ambitious mother has brought her only endless demands and demands, and she has been repaying the gift of childbirth, but it seems that she can't pay it back, just by taking advantage of this thing she was going to do, it can be regarded as opportunistic.

Since then, when she thinks of "mother", she is relaxed, because she finally does not have to bear the hostage of the grace of birth and nurturing.

From the time she obeyed the arrangement of the Empress Ming and pretended to be Ah Xiao, along the way, she broke free from the cage called family affection with her life, and after paying such a price, she would never be caught back into the mother-daughter relationship that made her unable to breathe.

What's more, she still has mysteries unsolved, she hasn't found out who was going to kill her in her previous life, even if she wants to save her life, she can't let herself be exposed to the light at this time.

As for whether Minghou's guilt at this time was true or false, she had no way to explore it, and she didn't care.

"Chang Niangzi has read the "Great Cloud Sutra", have you heard of the legend of the Heavenly Maiden transforming the world?" Emperor Saint asked.

"The courtiers have heard of it."

"The same one who saves the world with his own body, there is also my Chongyue ......" Emperor of the Holy Book said: "Chongyue's experience and deeds, Chang Niangzi must have heard it many times, according to the usual Niangzi, Chongyue and this statue of the Heavenly Maiden, do they have anything in common?" ”

Chang Sui Ning subconsciously looked up at the white jade statue.

The fingertips of her fingers under her cloak trembled as she looked at the past.

This statue of the Celestial Maiden......

Her gaze fell on the statue's lifelike face, and the striking crack in her neck......

Therefore, what is "enshrined" in this Heavenly Maiden Tower is never the Heavenly Maiden in the Great Cloud Sutra, but her?!

Between "looking at each other" with the eyes of the jade statue, Chang Suining only felt that all his limbs and bones were captured, and his heart was full of confusion.

Sensing that Empress Ming's gaze was moving towards him, Chang Sui Ning suddenly raised his eyes in surprise and said, "The courtiers have never seen the eldest princess of Chongyue with their own eyes, and there is no way to compare whether the eldest princess is similar to the goddess statue of this sky, so she doesn't dare to answer in vain." ”

The Holy Book Emperor was silent, but only looked at Chang Sui Ning quietly, as if he was determined to see the answer he wanted from the girl.

Chang Sui Ning stood there with his eyes down, trying his best to control every part of his body, so as not to make himself appear unusual.

I don't know how long it took before the Holy Book Emperor spoke again.