Chapter 721 Yu Mingyue is a person from hundreds of years in the future!
Shen Wuzheng suddenly looked up at her and asked, "What is the First Emperor's name?"
"ah?"
Shang Ruyi was taken aback, wondering why he would suddenly ask about this when he was talking about Yu Mingyue, but she still instinctively answered, "His surname is Ying and his given name is Zheng."
What merits did he achieve?
"Destroy the six kingdoms and unify the four seas."
Which six countries?
"Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, Qi".
"What were the results of the campaign to conquer Zhao?"
Mentioning this, even as an instinctive response, Shang Ruyi's face paled slightly, and her voice trembled involuntarily as she said, "Lord Wu'an won the victory at Changping and buried alive 400,000 surrendered Zhao soldiers."
Shen Wuzheng nodded.
He knew that even if his younger sister wasn't exceptionally learned, her knowledge and experience extended far beyond the confines of the inner chambers, and her thoughts encompassed much more than just romantic love. Therefore, this wasn't a true test for her. However, seeing Shang Ruyi's somewhat pale face, he felt a pang of pity alongside his admiration, so he turned and called out towards the door, "Miss Wo Xue."
Wo Xue was already standing not far away, and upon hearing his call, she immediately went to the door: "What are your orders, Lord Shen?"
Shen Wuzheng said, "The princess and I will not drink alcohol. Please bring some hot tea."
"yes."
Wo Xue accepted the order and hurriedly brought over hot tea to brew for them before leaving. Shen Wuzheng handed the teacup to Shang Ruyi and said, "Have a couple of sips first to warm up before you eat anything."
Shang Ruyi silently accepted the teacup. Her palms and fingertips were immediately warmed by the warmth emanating from the cup. After taking two sips, a warm feeling seeped into her heart and made her feel much more relaxed.
She looked up: "Brother, why did you ask me those questions just now?"
Shen Wuzheng's eyes flickered as he asked, "What you just experienced, would you consider it—instinctive knowledge?"
Shang Ruyi was taken aback.
Instinctively, he knew... Indeed, the First Emperor's name, achievements, and even some of the battles during the conquest of the six states were not particularly impressive knowledge to Shang Ruyi. With just one question, the answer was immediately apparent.
Just like after that serious illness that led to his being resurrected, whenever Yuwen Yuan was mentioned, the identity of "Great Ancestor" would come to mind.
Yes, it's a kind of instinctive knowledge.
She looked up at Shen Wuzheng, but before she could speak, Shen Wuzheng continued, "If you, in this state, went to the time before Lord Wu'an attacked Changping, wouldn't your knowledge be a kind of 'precognition'?"
"...!"
Shang Ruyi's eyes widened suddenly.
She went there before the Battle of Changping even started.
How do I get there?
What does that mean?
Could it be that she's going to... travel back hundreds of years?!
This idea was even more unbelievable to her than when she first saw Yuwen Yuan and knew that he would create a new Great Sheng Dynasty, ascend the throne, and become the Gao Emperor. Shang Ruyi gritted her teeth and spent a lot of effort to barely get her mind to follow this thought.
Did she travel back hundreds of years, before the Battle of Changping?
So what she knows now is something that people at that time knew nothing about—they didn't know that Lord Wu'an would win, nor did they know that after the victory, Lord Wu'an would massacre 400,000 Zhao soldiers, and they didn't know that less than ten years later, Ying Zheng would destroy the remaining four states, unify the world, boast that his virtue was equal to the Three Sovereigns and his achievements surpassed those of the Five Emperors, and call himself—the First Emperor!
These are all—
Precognition!?
Shang Ruyi gasped sharply, looked up at Shen Wuzheng, and said in a trembling voice, "Brother, you mean, Yu Mingyue, she, she might be—"
"..."
Shen Wuzheng did not answer her immediately.
Although he brought up the topic himself, at this moment, even he himself seemed somewhat incredulous. But he still tried his best to calm himself down, picked up his teacup and took a sip, then another, until the warmth of the tea dispelled the unknown fear and confusion. Only then did he compose himself and say, "If a person can predict the future, he must have extraordinary abilities, but I have not felt that way about her after spending time with her."
"..."
"And as I told you before, she doesn't write poetry by thinking, but by recalling. I think the poems she wrote before were probably beyond her ability; she was just recalling them."
"..."
"Therefore, all of this should be like our knowledge of the First Emperor's name and achievements—ordinary knowledge, not wisdom, to her."
"..."
"This kind of knowledge is simply literacy; you can learn it by reading the Records of the Grand Historian."
At this point, he took a deep breath and slowly said, "When I was studying under my teacher, he also talked about some extraordinary people and events. Over the centuries, there have been many extraordinary people in history who possessed the ability to 'know five hundred years into the past and five hundred years into the future.' If my guess is correct, then knowing five hundred years into the past is because of studying history, and knowing five hundred years into the future—that is probably because they have the same background as that Miss Yu."
"That's right, that's right—"
Shang Ruyi rambled on and on, but couldn't think of a single word to describe its origins.
Yu Mingyue, perhaps, is someone from hundreds of years in the future!
Therefore, she knew that Yuwen Yuan would ascend the throne and become the High Emperor of the Great Sheng Dynasty, and she also vaguely knew that the Crown Prince of this High Emperor would be killed after a coup, and that everyone in his household would be implicated and executed. This was because these things were just ordinary knowledge to her.
Is that really the case?
Thinking about it this way, an unprecedented and overwhelming weight of thoughts almost crushed Shang Ruyi. She felt as if her brain was about to fail. After a long while, she looked at Shen Wuzheng and whispered, "This is too incredible!"
Shen Wuzheng said, "The world is full of wonders."
"..."
"What we can think of is limited to what we have seen, heard, and know. But human vision is too limited, only to the past hundreds or thousands of years and the hundreds or thousands of miles we can tread. Perhaps, above our heads, beyond the nine heavens, there are landscapes we cannot imagine, and they may even be completely different from the legendary palaces and celestial halls. Hundreds of years from now, at a time when we will not live to see it, there will be different landscapes."
"..."
Shang Ruyi took a deep breath.
Shen Wuzheng's single sentence was like a sudden, enlightening new world opening up before her eyes. She wanted to guess, but couldn't quite put her finger on what it would be like hundreds of years from now.
However, seeing Yu Mingyue's aggressive behavior towards Lüxiao in the garden just now, as a woman herself, she was so sharp-tongued and mean to a woman who was not in control of her own destiny, wishing she could trample her into the mud. There was clearly no conflict of interest, so I don't know where the hatred came from.
She hoped that not all the people in her "hometown" treated women so harshly.
However, if Shen Wuzheng's guess is true, that would be hundreds of years from now; they should focus on the present. Shang Ruyi murmured, "I wonder how much of her 'foresight' she still knows."
Shen Wuzheng said, "There is one thing that can be confirmed."
Shang Ruyi looked up at him: "What?"
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