"But it's not impossible."
Shi Ling thought about it carefully. She already had a foster father, so having another one wouldn't matter. Just as she was about to use her Fang Tian Hua Ji again, Yu Chen interrupted her hurriedly, "That's not what I meant."
Shi Ling retracted the Fang Tian Hua Ji, "Oh, alright."
Yu Chen: Why does your tone sound a bit disappointed? But even if it's disappointment, it won't work!
He doesn't want to be like Xi Jin.
The young man in black robe was beaten black and blue by Shi Ling. He was chewing the sweet cake with tears in his eyes. He was about to take the opportunity to escape, but Shi Ling reached out and grabbed the back of his collar and pulled him back.
"You owe my friend money, and you want to leave like this?"
The young man in black robe turned around and smiled apologetically, "Sister, no, I'm thirsty and want to find some water to drink. We are all compatriots, talking about money will hurt our feelings."
Shi Ling smiled: "You and I are not from the same family. I am a human being, what are you?"
The black-robed young man's smile faded, and he thought to himself: I didn't expect that this violent little girl could actually see that he was unusual. As expected, even if he was in dire straits, it couldn't conceal his aura of an emperor.
He held his head high, chest puffed out, and released his domineering aura. "That's right, I'm not a human. I'm the true dragon emperor. Have you heard of Emperor Yongle? My English name is Judy."
Shi Ling smiled and asked, "Have you heard of Qin Shi Huang? My English name is Swan."
The black-robed young man frowned and stared at Shi Ling for a while, then shook his head: "Impossible, my brother Zheng can't be a soft girl."
Shi Ling crossed his arms and raised his chin to Yu Chen, "Do you believe that he is the Yongle Emperor, or that I am the Qin Shi Huang?"
Yu Chen said without hesitation: "I believe you."
The young man in black robe: "..."Okay, you are so noble and treat me as a part of your play.
Shi Ling glanced at him smugly. "I've studied history. Emperor Yongle didn't die that young. Tell me, which unworthy descendant are you, shameless enough to use your real name and impersonate your ancestor's name? You lived abroad and died quite young. Could you be a Waqar student, the Ming Dynasty's God of War, or the Emperor?"
The young man in black robes pointed at Shi Ling with wide eyes, "Sister, you can spend money recklessly, but you can't say anything reckless. You can say I'm not a good emperor, but I would rather die than surrender. At least I have achieved the goal of the emperor guarding the country's gates and the king dying for the country."
Shi Ling suddenly realized, "No wonder the dragon energy is so weak. It turns out he is the king whose fate has run out and whose country has been destroyed."
Hearing the words "the king who lost his country", Zhu Youjian became angry and said: "The Ming Dynasty fell under Chongzhen, but it actually fell under Wanli, and it began to fall under Jiajing. This is not my fault alone."
Shi Ling gave a thumbs up: "Awesome, a filial son."
It’s okay for later generations to comment on this statement, but Zhu Youjian himself said it was so funny that everyone was laughing.
Zhu Youjian still looks indignant when he thinks about it: "Besides, if it weren't for the ministers misleading me, how could I have allowed the rebels to march straight to the capital!"
Shi Ling was not a historian, so he did not comment on the merits and demerits of this fallen monarch. However, one thing was almost universally acknowledged: "Anyway, your emperors are almost all eccentrics."
Zhu Youjian thought carefully about his ancestors and found he had no way to refute it.
Shi Ling was a little curious about this. "But you are just a wandering ghost now. How did you become a physical being and go abroad?"
"Of course it's God's mercy. Seeing that I was born at the wrong time, he gave me a chance to be reborn and let me restore the Ming Dynasty... Ahhh, sister, let go, my ear is going to be lost!" Zhu Youjian was grabbed by the ear by Shi Ling, and he screamed in pain.
Shi Ling let go of him and pulled out a thunder and fire talisman from his pocket. Lightning flashed at his fingertips. "You're abroad, so you've read a lot of Chinese suspense novels. If you keep making up stories, I'll blast you to the sky."
Zhu Youjian glared at Shi Ling secretly with resentment, but he was naturally afraid of the thunder and fire talisman in Shi Ling's hand. He could only swallow his anger and nod in agreement: "It's a long story."
Shi Ling: "Then please make it short."
Zhu Youjian tucked his sleeves into his pockets, glanced at Shi Ling, and shrank his neck. "Not short. I left my hair and face covered, letting the thieves dismember me. I never expected they would bury me properly in the Ming Tombs. I can't face my ancestors, and my soul is wandering around. Maybe I just happened to avoid the ghosts. At any rate, I haven't been reincarnated.
Later, I seemed to be floating past the Yongling Mausoleum. Curious about whether Jiajing's ancestors had buried the Yongle Encyclopedia with them, I ventured to take a look. Unexpectedly, my consciousness suddenly faded. I thought my soul would dissipate after floating for too long. Unexpectedly, when I woke up again, my soul was attached to the Yongle Encyclopedia.
Shi Ling: "Maybe your ancestors thought that you were more like the Yongle Encyclopedia than the Yongle Encyclopedia."
Zhu Youjian: "..."
He brushed his long hair aside and looked up at the sky. "Later, the Yongle Encyclopedia and many of the burial objects were taken outside the Ming Tombs by tomb robbers. During the chaotic late Qing Dynasty, when foreign powers invaded, the Yongle Encyclopedia was taken to the White Kingdom by missionaries. From then on, all I saw were mountains and rivers from a foreign land."
That's why he hates missionaries.
"I have been attached to the Yongle Encyclopedia, and I read it carefully when I have nothing to do. I have a great understanding of the past, and I have actually cultivated a physical body. I thought I could achieve enlightenment and become an immortal, but I didn't expect to stop here. I don't have any cultivation at all, and I only have a skin. I look like neither human nor ghost, and I wander around hungry all day long." When he said this, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but shed bitter tears.
Shi Ling consoled him: "This can be considered as a return to one's ancestral roots."
Zhu Youjian: "...Sister, do you think you are humorous?"
Shi Ling glanced at him, and Zhu Youjian felt a dull pain in the area where he had just been beaten. He immediately laughed dryly: "Hahaha, I think it's quite humorous."
Shi Ling waved at him, "I heard that the Yongle Encyclopedia is still incomplete, with copies scattered across many countries, and the original is nowhere to be found. Which volume is that in your hand? Let me see."
Zhu Youjian snorted: "Of course what I have in my hand is the complete original. I wanted to show it to you before but you refused. Now that you want to see it, I must show it to you, right?"
Shi Ling stared at him and stretched his muscles.
Zhu Youjian: "Hahaha, of course, you are my sister after all! Sister, the canon has more than 20,000 volumes, which is too much. If you want to read all of it, I will have to reveal my true form. But I can show you a few volumes."
As he spoke, he took out a yellowed book from his sleeve and handed it to Shi Ling.
The Yongle Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia encompassing classics, history, miscellaneous writings, astronomy, geography, yin and yang, medicine, divination, and Buddhist and Taoist techniques. Only four percent of copies remain.
What Shi Ling was seeing at this moment was the part about Yin-Yang medicine and divination.
On the withered and yellowed scroll, lines of Song-style ink-written characters are neat and upright. In a trance, it seems that I can still see my ancestors holding a pen and writing under the lamp.
It was clearly an unfamiliar and obscure classical Chinese text, but at this moment, Shi Ling felt a strange sense of familiarity when looking at every word and sentence.
"Do you understand? This part on Yin-Yang metaphysics is the most mysterious part in the Yongle Encyclopedia. It was when I was reading this part that I cultivated and condensed the human body. According to legend, this part was collected by Zheng Ge from folk legends in order to achieve immortality. It is a fragment of words from Hou Tu Niangniang, the mother of the earth in ancient times." Zhu Youjian said proudly.
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