Chapter 555: I'm Too Late
It was several days later that Ji Yunshu received the message from the capital.
Youzhou has not been peaceful these days. The Mobei army is coming in with great force. Ji Yunlan was injured on the battlefield. If he had not had so many people around him, he might not have been able to come back.
If Ji Changlin hadn't been afraid that something might happen to Wu Ning, he would have almost gone to the battle himself.
In such an environment, Ji Yunshu could do nothing. She didn't want to cause trouble to her family at this time, so she stayed at home all day and never stepped out of the house.
With the defenses of the mansion, no one could hurt her as long as he didn't go out.
What's more, it was so cold outside in Youzhou at that time that water turned into ice.
Even if you wear thick clothes, your cheeks will still hurt from the cold wind.
Ji Yunshu simply began to hibernate.
On the day she received the news that Prince Yong had committed suicide in the capital, she met Xiao Kun again.
Just like last time, he jumped out of the window.
But this time it was daytime, and he was even more arrogant than last time.
Ji Yunshu didn't know whether he was doing this to maintain his reputation or deliberately ruin his reputation.
She looked at the man opposite her whose emotions were unclear, smiled and said, "I heard that Prince Yong committed suicide. I am deeply saddened."
Xiao Kun curled his lips and said, "What does his life or death have to do with me? Do you think I look like a filial son or a good grandson?"
Ji Yunshu: “…”
Is it glorious to be unfilial?
Just say it out loud like that.
This guy is indeed a little mentally ill.
"What do you want to see me for?"
Ji Yunshu was too lazy to be polite with him.
She suddenly realized that she was a little wary of Xiao Kun at first, but since the matter was discussed, she had become a little desperate.
In front of Xiao Kun, he had nothing to worry about.
He knew her deepest hidden secrets, and if he had really wanted to do anything, she would have been dead long ago.
Xiao Kun also noticed it, and his expression was a little lazy: "Can't I come to you if there is nothing? I have helped you a lot after all, don't tell me you don't know what Zhe Bie wants to do to you?"
Ji Yunshu couldn't guess what he was trying to do, so she stopped guessing. Anyway, she didn't sense any malice from him.
As for the rest, she believed that Xiao Kun knew who was in her heart.
"Thank you so much."
In fact, she has always been worried that Zhebie would really do something to her. Even if he didn't do anything, she would be in big trouble if he told her story to others.
After all, according to Zhebie, it was her arrival that changed everything.
If Prince Yong knew this, he would probably kill her at all costs.
Xiao Kun smiled somewhat dejectedly: "You're welcome. It's too late. These days I've been thinking, if only I could have stopped her from marrying Zhao Heng at all costs."
If that were the case, nothing that happened afterwards would have happened.
But Ji Yunshu felt that things were not that simple.
"If you could, I believe you would have done it then, but since you didn't, it means the conditions weren't ripe. Even if you had done it, you wouldn't have gotten the desired result."
Xiao Kun looked at her and asked, "Do you also believe in the so-called destiny?"
Ji Yunshu shrugged. "Of course I don't want to believe it, but now, I woke up in such a strange place and became a different person. Many things will still happen even if you try hard to avoid them. Don't you think I shouldn't believe it?"
Seeing her frankness, Xiao Kun suddenly asked curiously, "What was the place where you lived like?"
He had wanted to ask this question when Ji Yunshu said that night that she wanted to go back if possible.
Given Ji Yunshu's status, even if she were a princess, she couldn't live more comfortably than him.
She has a loving family here, and there is nothing to complain about her husband, Zhao Shen.
Even though he didn't know the truth before, he didn't have the confidence to snatch him away from Zhao Shen.
But she had no attachment to these things.
Xiao Kun felt that this was not reasonable at all.
Ji Yunshu recalled the past, and it seemed like a lifetime ago.
"That must be an unimaginable world for you."
"How do you say that?"
Ji Yunshu pondered for a moment and found an appropriate way to put it: "You can understand it as me coming from a world a thousand years from now."
Although it is not the same space, it is almost the same if calculated in terms of time.
The original text of this book is fictional, but since it is ancient Chinese, its overall basis is still ancient society.
Xiao Kun had heard Zhebie say that she was a soul from another world, but he had no idea what this meant.
Who could have imagined what another world would be like?
When he heard the words "a thousand years later", his eyes widened. This was indeed beyond his expectations.
Seeing the rare surprise on his face, Ji Yunshu smiled and said, "Think about the world a thousand years ago as recorded in the book. Of course, human society will undergo qualitative changes when it develops to a certain level. There will be no emperor a thousand years later."
Feudal society existed for too long. Although society has been progressing and people's lives have changed over thousands of years, in Xiao Kun's eyes, such changes are actually still within the scope of understanding.
But what Ji Yunshu said about a thousand years later was obviously beyond his comprehension.
"No emperor? Then who do we listen to?"
Ji Yunshu smiled and said, "That's a long story. In our time, basically everyone had enough food and clothing, and everyone, regardless of gender, went to school when they reached a certain age."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Kun understood what she meant.
On the surface, the current society is ruled by the emperor, but he knows very well that those who truly control the world are the court officials, and most of them are scholars.
Scholars are a privileged class, and the ultimate goal of studying is to become an official, so this is a world of scholars.
Ji Yunshu said that everyone will be able to read a thousand years later.
Including women.
This would shake the foundations of society.
“How do we ensure that everyone has enough to eat?”
He knew that social change did not happen overnight.
Ji Yunshu said, "Developing agricultural technology, researching higher-yielding crops, changing farming methods, soil structure, pesticides and fertilizers, and many more. I'm not researching these, so I'm not very clear."
Xiao Kun knew what she said was true: "So you let Yichen study those things, and there's also a poor scholar who likes farming. Do you think he can get what you want?"
Ji Yunshu said, "It doesn't matter whether we can figure it out or not. I believe that as long as someone is willing to research, it will eventually be figured out. The world may not be good enough now, but it will get better and better. It just takes a long time, and you may not see it."
Xiao Kun laughed and asked again, "You said that in the future, men and women will study together. What will they learn?"
"That's a lot. Learning to read and write, memorizing the poems and essays written by the ancients, as well as history, geography, mathematics, and physics. These are all basic subjects."
Xiao Kun: "So you are very knowledgeable?"
Ji Yunshu waved his hand: "It's just so-so."
Compared with Zhao Shen, she didn't even dare to say that she was knowledgeable.
Although she knows a lot, she is not proficient in it. She only knows the general idea, and when the critical moment comes, it is completely useless.
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