Chapter 33
Outside the study at home, Xiao Yaya rarely saw her father come back, but she didn't dare to get close to him because of his current appearance. She could only secretly observe him not far from the study.
The atmosphere in the study was quite low. Rong Zhou sat in the upper seat, drinking the tea brought by the butler with an expressionless face.
Liu Ze stood motionless in front of Rong Zhou, his hands hanging down and his head lowered, like a child who had done something wrong. Behind him was Yan Shiliu, who was kneeling.
There was a click, the sound of teacups clinking against each other, and Liu Ze trembled.
Rong Zhou put down the teacup in his hand and looked up at the young man standing in front of him: "Let your friend stand up. Kneeling is inappropriate. This is not a feudal system. There is no rule of making people kneel down at every turn."
Liu Ze gently kicked Yan Shiliu with his foot and whispered, "Stand up." He used to have a secret crush on his master, and he might still have some feelings now, but the previous secret crush has been transformed into respect and fear. He dared not object to anything his master said now.
Yan Shiliu was a secret guard trained in a slave feudal society, his brain was blank, he was just brought here, and the god standing high above in the sky just sat in front of him and asked him to stand up instead of kneeling.
Yan Shiliu didn't dare to disobey. Xingzi asked him to stand up, so he stood up in a daze and stood there, not daring to look around to reduce his presence.
"Since you want to bring this person back, I have no objection. You have to guide him well. After all, they are from two different worlds, and there is a serious gap in their thinking and generation. I think you are well aware of this." Rong Zhou's tone was not harsh, which made Liu Ze, who had been very nervous since he came back, relax a little.
"Okay." The master didn't mention why he didn't come back, which made Liu Ze wonder if he had passed this level.
"I want to ask what you think?"
"ah?"
"Why didn't you come back when I asked Butler Wen to pick you up? Do you prefer this slave society?" Rong Zhou asked this deliberately.
"Who would like this place, but..." Liu Ze hesitated for a moment, then continued, "Those ten thousand deaths are related to me. If I just come back like that, without caring about anything, I'll feel like I owe it to that world, just like the ten thousand lives I lost."
"Young people always take the blame. You're really proactive." Rong Zhou sneered, "Why don't you just say the world is destroyed because you took a breath? How shameless!"
"......" The master's words were too speechless. Liu Ze wanted to defend himself: "I didn't..." Even if he tried to defend himself, he was still weak.
"Since you want to pay it back, what did you pay back?"
"I wanted to teach them how to farm better, but they didn't even ask for more detailed methods." Liu Ze thought of his helplessness during those three months.
Rong Zhou raised an eyebrow and looked at him, his action making people feel a little mocking: "They don't need it. At that time, even if half of the people starved to death, they would not starve, so they don't need better planting methods at all."
Liu Ze lowered his head. He thought that filling the stomachs of most people was what that world needed. "What they want is immortality. They want my flesh and blood to research the elixir of life."
"Do you know? There are two things in this world that cannot be satisfied. One is a black hole, and the other is human desire. This time they want your flesh and blood, and next time they can cook you." This reminded Rong Zhou of a story he had heard before. God sent angels to the mortal world to help humans overcome difficulties. Humans asked the angels for help again and again, and finally ate the angels. All humans who have eaten the flesh of angels turned into insatiable monsters.
"I know now."
"Do you still feel guilty now?"
“A little.”
Rong Zhou looked at his young apprentice. After all, he was still a young man who hadn't entered society yet, so his naiveté was understandable. As a master, he would definitely enlighten him: "You have absolutely no need to feel guilty. This society is a slave society. There are always large numbers of slaves buried with the dead during any celebration, sacrifice, or funeral. Even if it's not this grand ceremony, it will be the next one. They will be happy to be sacrificed."
"If you don't believe me, you can ask the people behind you. In their minds, dying as a sacrifice will bring you better fortune in your next life."
"That's because they live in a slave society, and we're different. Those are 10,000 lives. How can I not be concerned?"
It's a good thing that the young apprentice is kind, but he's asking for trouble. In order to relieve the apprentice's psychological pressure, Rong Zhou has done everything he can: "Then you don't have to feel guilty. Since this slave society is not good, the master has helped you change it."
"Huh?" Seeing the slight smile on his master's lips, Liu Ze had a bad feeling. How should he change a slave society? What would he change it into?
"Ten thousand lives in this world can be considered as buying an opportunity for social evolution. It should be a good deal." Rong Zhou covered the corners of his mouth with a fan. He didn't want his apprentice to see him smiling. He was imagining the upcoming revolution, which might be in 10 years, 20 years or 50 years.
The ideological books he spread would randomly appear in every corner of the world. As long as they reached many people, there would always be a force that would awaken among millions of people, and even the deep slave mentality would awaken one day.
Liu Ze didn't know what his master had done, so he always felt it was better not to ask too clearly.
Seeing his master smiling like this made him feel a little creepy.
Rong Zhou put away the fan and gently placed it next to the teacup: "Wait until the master tells you to wake up and watch. Before that, you should sleep for a while. I have some things to clean up."
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Rong Zhou stood up, his white robe swept across the table, and patted his silly apprentice on the shoulder. Without much explanation, the apprentice fell backwards.
Yan Shiliu, who was standing behind, caught the fallen person immediately. He was listening the whole time, but he didn't understand a word.
Rong Zhou looked at the dark-skinned man brought back by his apprentice. He had seen him protecting his apprentice before, and he could be classified as one of his own people.
Rong Zhou put two fingers together and tapped the man's brow. Even Yan Shiliu, who had been trained as a secret guard for many years, could not avoid this action. He saw it with his own eyes and his body was completely out of control.
He placed his two fingers on the center of his eyebrows, and a cool feeling spread from the place of contact. The heavy feeling in his body that was about to be corroded by the poison disappeared along with the cool feeling.
"I have helped you remove the poison from your body. Just stay here with peace of mind. I hope you can adapt as soon as possible." Rong Zhou smiled and nodded at him, then walked past him and went to hug his daughter and son who were waiting outside.
"Please follow me." Butler Wen walked in and motioned Yan Shiliu to follow. "You can stay at Young Master Liu's place. He happens to have a suite."
Yan Shiliu followed Butler Wen with Xingxing in his arms. He had never seen anything along the way before. As a secret guard, he paid more attention to doors and windows.
Until I was brought into Xingxing's room, which had a pink carpet, pink gauze curtains, a pink bed, and countless rag dolls of all sizes.
It turns out that Xingxing likes this color. Yan Shiliu, who rarely shows his emotions, is full of admiration and astonishment. If Liu Ze wakes up, he will definitely cry out in injustice. These are all prepared for him by his master, and he doesn't even have the right to say no.
Liu Ze was put on the pink bed. Under the guidance of the housekeeper, he washed and changed out of the Holy Son's gauze clothes. He didn't feel anything in the Xinggong Pavilion because all the Holy Maidens and Holy Sons there dressed like this.
When we got here, everyone was wearing exquisite Huawei clothes. They couldn’t be said to be tightly covered, but they weren’t completely translucent either, which would make people so embarrassed that they couldn’t raise their heads.
He put on the clothes prepared by the butler, an apricot-yellow top with large patches of exquisite golden embroidery on the black hem. These were only worn by princes and nobles, but here, he could also wear this casually.
It seemed as if he was no longer the secret guard named Yan Shiliu. He was lying on a soft bed that he had never seen before, as if he was dreaming.
Rong Zhou played with the two children for a while, coaxed them to sleep himself, and then got up and walked into the yard.
"Master, I came back with Master Liu, and the gentleman has gone to bed."
Rong Zhou's face was solemn as he gave instructions to several housekeepers, primarily to Housekeeper Wen: "Starting today, they will fall into a deep sleep. During this time, I will transfer the toxic energy from here to the private residence. If there is a real energy riot in the future, I can simply discard that portion." This was also the reason he could move out of this courtyard tonight. He used the housekeeper as a coordinate to display the private residence to the world, but he still couldn't leave that area.
"But Master, this private residence is built on your mind. Abandoning it would be tantamount to..."
"That's a measure that should only be used as a last resort." Rong Zhou always felt that he was affected by those negative energies and always wanted to do something crazy. It wasn't just a thought, but he had already done it before.
Rong Zhou held his forehead and suppressed those thoughts that he had never had before: "Look at the flower shop outside, I want to know how the world will change in the future." Rong Zhou said, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously.
He wanted to watch, even if it was bloody and violent, it was still changing. He wanted to know what the world would become: "We'll tell everyone we're going to live on the farm."
As a butler, Wen Ci Qiu obeyed all the requests of his master. Even if he saw an abnormal smile on the corner of his master's mouth, he would not have any suspicion.
On this day, people all over the world saw a golden book. It was just like that, and the light floated in front of people, tempting them to touch it.
These people included slaves, beggars, commoners, scholars, and even nobles. They touched,
On this day, countless ignorant people opened their eyes and looked at the world they lived in for the first time, and they began to think.
This book has been listed as a banned book and cannot be banned no matter what. It will suddenly appear in front of someone at irregular intervals and then suddenly disappear.
That is a door that God has opened for the world, and they need to walk in, see, and think.
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