Chapter 3601: It's gone, I will know
These words were like a gust of wind, shaking Zhu Feng's originally resolute figure. He was silent for a long time before slowly turning back to look at Nan Yan: "Did he say that?"
Seeing him like this, and recalling her own reaction when she just heard Gao Ye's words, Nan Yan couldn't help but smile in her heart.
It turns out that they are all the same.
She nodded firmly: "That's what he said."
After she finished speaking, as if she was afraid that Zhu Feng would use his previous doubts to question her, she continued, "He also said that the reason I didn't feel that way was because—I was in this mountain."
"Just because I am in this mountain..."
Zhu Feng muttered these words again, his expression dazed for a moment, as if he was in deep thought.
After a long while, he chuckled and said, "Interesting."
Nan Yan looked up at him and said softly, "Your Majesty, do you think he is right?"
Zhu Feng smiled faintly and said, "It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong. Different people will naturally have different views on a certain thing. He has such thoughts because he sees the signs of what he believes is a prosperous era."
Nan Yan murmured, "What does he think is the beginning of a prosperous era?"
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"Your Majesty believes that this is just his personal opinion?"
Zhu Feng said: "Of course."
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"I just said that different people have different opinions on one thing."
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Nan Yan was silent for a long time, then looked up at him again, and said with a half-smile, "I always feel that the emperor is beating around the bush with me."
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"The Emperor has never given me a direct answer. Does the Emperor think Gao Ye's statement is right or wrong?"
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"Is this prosperous age coming or not?"
Zhu Feng smiled bitterly and said, "You, are you trying to squeeze my neck?"
Nan Yan said, "Is it really that difficult for me to get an answer?"
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"Everyone has different opinions on the same thing. Gao has his own opinion. What about the emperor? Has the emperor seen the signs of a prosperous era? What does the emperor think is the arrival of a prosperous era?"
Zhu Feng did not answer her immediately, but remained silent. He turned his head and looked at the tablets of his ancestors. However, it seemed that he was not looking at the people who had passed away in the past years, but at the past years.
After a long silence, he slowly said, "My eyes cannot see whether the prosperous age has come or not, I can only feel it."
"Feel?"
"Yes, I feel nothing when it comes, but I will definitely know when it leaves."
“……?”
Hearing these somewhat mysterious words, Nan Yan frowned and looked at Zhu Feng's tall figure and broad shoulders. She seemed to have sensed something in her heart and said softly, "Your Majesty means that since ascending the throne, you have been working hard to create a prosperous era. The process of hard work is the process of the arrival of a prosperous era. You don't know when the prosperous era will come, you only know that it will come if you work hard."
Zhu Feng continued, "If I stop working hard, there will be no talk of a prosperous age."
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"So, I don't know when it will come, but when I stop, it will definitely go away."
The candlelight flickered in the hall, reflecting in Zhu Feng's eyes a glint as bright as the stars. Although he had been plagued by injuries over the years and was indeed no longer as energetic as he once was, and often joked about being "old," Nan Yan saw an indescribable vitality in his bright eyes, the kind of perseverance and determination that only those who kept moving forward, never stopping, could possess.
Although she was standing in the hall with closed doors and windows, Nan Yan suddenly felt her mind and eyes become clear.
She said, "Is this why the Emperor insisted on having me come here to remind him today?"
Zhu Feng looked at her.
Nan Yan smiled and said, "Actually, it's just a matter of looking at the time. The Emperor never needs to be reminded—except for eating and sleeping, of course—even if the Emperor forgets the time when he comes to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to burn incense, there's still Xiao Shunzi and so many people down there."
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"Your Majesty had to ask me to come and remind you because he wanted me to remember, no matter when, to remind you and not forget my original intention."
Zhu Feng's eyes and eyebrows were filled with smiles.
He turned around and faced Nan Yan, looking intently into her eyes, and said, "Do you know why I have only focused on you all these years?"
He didn't say exclusive favor, but focus.
Nan Yan seemed to understand, but she smiled and said, "Because I am unparalleled in beauty?"
Zhu Feng rolled his eyes: "Don't you have any shame!"
Nan Yan couldn't help laughing herself.
Of course she knew that she was quite pretty - after all, she was chosen to join Zhu Chengjin's harem, so she didn't underestimate herself. However, a harem is a harem, with all kinds of beauties in all colors. What kind of beauties didn't it have?
Not to mention the stunningly beautiful Qin Ruolan and the dignified and beautiful Xu Miaoyin, all the concubines who entered the palace in recent years are as beautiful as the spring flowers in March. No matter how beautiful I am, I can't compare to them at this age.
However, Zhu Feng is more focused on himself than before.
Nature has nothing to do with appearance.
She smiled and took a step forward, almost getting close to Zhu Feng. She looked up at him seriously and asked, "Why?"
Zhu Feng said, "Because you are just like me, both of you are very focused. Once you make up your mind about something, you won't change it easily."
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"I want to create a prosperous era, and you want to watch me create a prosperous era."
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"So, I need you to be by my side, to remind me from time to time—just like you said before, if one day I become content with the status quo and unwilling to make progress, and I refuse to listen to others' advice, you can still give me some advice. Because, I will listen to you, and no matter what you say, I will never hurt you."
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"I can't bear to do that."
Listening to his words, Nan Yan's eyes were almost filled with joy that was about to overflow. She couldn't help but reach out to hold Zhu Feng's arm, as if she wanted to climb onto his body. Then she moved closer to him and whispered, "I know."
Zhu Feng also smiled, lowered his head, and touched her with his forehead.
Then, Nan Yan took a step back, turned her head and looked at the sky coming in through the window, and said, "Since the emperor wants me to remind you, then I will remind you - it's getting late, the emperor must hurry back to the palace, the banquet is about to begin, so many people have come to celebrate the birthday of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty, we can't keep them waiting."
Zhu Feng smiled and pinched her.
But he immediately turned around and walked over to open the door himself. The people outside had been waiting for a long time. Zhu Feng looked at the rising sun, then turned back to look at Nan Yan and said, "Let's go."
Nan Yan followed behind him, and the two of them walked forward together.
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