Chapter 147 The Emperor Summons
This is indeed the worst case scenario.
Why did Gu Chenran spread the news about how terrifying the evil god who ruled the world was after Madam Xu, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, committed suicide? Why did what Wen Yao did to the King of Qi spread?
They all want to tell the world that making a deal with the evil god is like seeking the skin of a tiger, and it will not have a good result or a good ending.
But now it seems that this "propaganda" is effective, but the effect is very limited.
From the progress made by Lord of the World in his fight with Wen Ling, it can be seen that he must have gained a lot of believers during this period of time.
Gu Chenran smiled, and his smile was very ironic: "That's right, the most uncontrollable thing in this world is human desire. The Lord of the World is different from other gods and Buddhas. He can fulfill their wishes on the spot.
Many people would do anything to fulfill their desires, let alone just exchanging with a statue of a god?
This seems to be preventing people from believing in the reincarnation of the God, but in fact it is asking people to control their desires, which is indeed difficult to completely prohibit. ”
It is not just something that is difficult to completely ban, it is something that cannot be banned at all.
Wen Ling's expression became more serious: "So, the power of the Lord of the World is unstoppable. It is only a matter of time before he becomes powerful. He will eventually become as powerful as in your dream in your previous life."
This is the most terrifying thing.
Human desires are endless, and this is what the God of the World takes advantage of.
Wen Ling was also somewhat thankful: "Fortunately, I opened the Wanshiwu, and the money I earned was enough to do good deeds in the slums and accumulate merits. My strength has also recovered a lot, otherwise I might not have been his opponent that day."
Gu Chenran's eyes lit up, as if he had grasped some key point: "I understand, that is to say, the speed at which you accumulate merit by doing good deeds must be faster than the speed at which the Lord of the World gathers believers to practice!"
To put it bluntly, it is really a confrontation and race between good and evil.
After figuring this out, Wen Ling and Gu Chenran had a better idea of where to focus their efforts.
They discussed a lot about what good deeds they could do in the future to better accumulate merits.
Wen Ling woke up in the afternoon. After dinner and chatting, the sun had already set. Because the two people were discussing secret things in the room, it was inconvenient for the servants to come in and disturb them, so they did not come in in time to light the candles.
Wen Ling just woke up today and her physical condition was not very good. As soon as it started to get dark, she started yawning.
Seeing this, Gu Chenran took the initiative to stand up and said, "You just woke up and your body is weak. It's not suitable for you to think about these heavy things. You should have a good rest first. I will come to you to exercise together tomorrow."
He said as he stood up and prepared to go out.
After Gu Chenran stood up, he turned his back to the little bit of sunset that was left outside and faced Wen Ling. His whole body was shrouded in darkness. It looked pitch black and only the outline could be seen.
When Wen Ling saw this outline, she narrowed her eyes slightly. She always felt that this outline was very familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before.
Suddenly, Wen Ling grabbed Gu Chenran's sleeve, his eyes sharp as torches: "Wait, I find that from this angle, you look very similar to the shadow of the Lord of the World who appeared in the yard at that time..."
To say they are similar is an understatement, they are almost identical...
Gu Chenran's figure also stiffened for a moment.
In the dream he had about his past life, he looked exactly like the Lord of the World.
The Lord of the World even told him personally that he was just a clone of him. In the final analysis, he was just a part of the Lord of the World, or in other words, he was just another him without the Lord of the World's memories.
Gu Chenran felt a lump in his throat and cold sweat began to appear on his palms. Could it be that what happened in his dream was about to be discovered now?
Just when Gu Chenran even had the urge to run away, Wen Ling grabbed Gu Chenran's collar and pulled him down.
The two people were very close, at a distance where their breath could touch each other's faces.
Wen Ling carefully looked at Gu Chenran's face, then slapped her thigh and suddenly realized: "I know why the Lord of the World said that you are a body he kept in the human world!"
Gu Chenran was so nervous that he even forgot to breathe.
But the next second, Wen Ling said, "It must be because you look so much like him that he fell in love with your body and wanted to take it for himself. You are so unlucky. This is really an unexpected disaster!"
Gu Chenran: “…”
After hearing Wen Ling's words, Gu Chenran's tense nerves relaxed almost instantly.
It turned out that this was what Wen Ling was thinking of. He was panting as he spoke, and he really thought Wen Ling had guessed it right.
Gu Chenran sighed: "Go to sleep first. When you wake up tomorrow, we will do more good deeds. You must accumulate merits quickly."
Then he walked out of the room and kindly helped to close the door.
As soon as he walked out the door, he saw Green Sword guarding the door.
When Lu Jian saw Gu Chenran, he was surprised and said, "My Lord, you have been sleeping in here for half a month. Did the princess kick you out as soon as she woke up?"
When he said this, there was a hint of disappointment on his face.
Gu Chenran: “……!!!”
How could he have completely forgotten about this!
He should take this opportunity to ask to sleep in Wen Ling's room from now on!
He said he seemed to have forgotten something, and now he has really lost a lot!
He must have thought that Wen Ling suddenly mentioned the Lord of the World, which made him nervous and he forgot about the matter.
Seeing Lu Jian's disappointed look, Gu Chenran suddenly felt a little upset.
He glanced at Green Sword calmly and asked, "Is it funny?"
Lu Jian felt puzzled and pointed at his own face and said, "Your Majesty, I'm not smiling!"
Gu Chenran: "You were laughing in your heart, and I heard it."
Green Sword: “???”
How can he dodge this zero-frame attack?
Sure enough, Gu Chenran's next sentence was: "I see you have been quite free recently. The yard where the small animals are kept in A Ling's backyard is dirty. You should go and clean it thoroughly."
Green Sword: “!!” I knew it, I knew you would do this, this is venting your anger on others, this is unreasonable anger! !
Even though Green Sword was screaming like a groundhog in his heart, he still had to clean up Wen Lingyang's zoo obediently.
It's not hard, it's just a hard life.
Gu Chenran took the time to go and settle accounts with King Qi.
The reason why the dark shadow of the God of the World appeared in the yard that day was because the King of Qi used his connections to send the wooden statue that Wen Yao had made a wish in directly to Wen Ling.
After Wen Ling lifted the red cloth covering the wooden statue, the Lord of the World turned into a black shadow and started fighting with Wen Ling.
So, rounding it off, the God who rules the world was brought by King Qi, and Wen Ling's injury was related to King Qi. If Gu Chenran doesn't teach King Qi a lesson, he will not be able to calm down his anger.
No one knew what happened when Prince Qi was drinking with Gu Chenran. Anyway, after drinking this time, Prince Qi came out of the box with a bruised face and nose.
When others asked him who beat him and whether it was Gu Chenran, the King of Qi never mentioned a word and from then on he followed Gu Chenran's lead.
Even Wen Ling later asked Gu Chenran out of curiosity, but Gu Chenran just smiled and said, "It's a secret."
Since Wen Yao still has a trace of her soul in his hands, if the King of Qi dares to disobey, he can let Wen Yao come to his dream to chat with him or something as a threat. But if this gets out and people find out, and tell the King of Qi that this is a lie, then it will be useless, right?
The next day after Wen Ling woke up, she received the emperor's decree, ordering her to go to the palace to meet him in three days.
The next day, Wen Ling and Gu Chenran came to the outskirts of the capital and set up another porridge distribution point to help more people and accumulate merit faster.
At the same time, people who had always cared about her also rushed to see her. People like the eldest princess wanted to see with their own eyes that Wen Ling was really okay before they could feel relieved.
Everyone asked Wen Ling what happened, and Wen Ling just said what he could: "I was injured in the fight. If there is a wooden statue that can fulfill your wishes, don't believe it, otherwise I may not be able to save you."
Wen Ling tried to persuade them seriously, but unexpectedly everyone laughed.
She didn't understand what was so funny about such a serious matter.
As a result, everyone told her: "With a kind and lovely living Bodhisattva like you, we can just come to you directly when we have problems. Why believe in idols?"
Well, Wen Ling really had no answer to this question.
After confirming that Wen Ling was really fine, everyone was more interested in the fact that Wen Ling was going to be summoned by the emperor for a private meeting rather than the wooden statue.
The wife of the Marquis of Pingyang said, "It seems that the emperor has never summoned any princess alone. This is the first time. What could it be about?"
The princess thought for a moment and said, "It may be related to his health. His health is getting worse every year.
Your calming tea and beauty-enhancing tea have long been famous in the capital. I heard that the emperor has secretly sent people out of the palace to buy them. He might call you over and ask you to specially design a set of health-care strategies for him. ”
The two marquis ladies nodded.
Wen Ling didn't plan to guess: "It's okay, we'll know when we enter the palace tomorrow."
Everyone praised Wen Ling for having a positive attitude as always.
Gu Chenran said that maybe it was not just to help recuperate.
After all, if he wanted to recuperate, he could just let Concubine Hua call Wen Ling to the harem, and then he could go over. There was no need to summon her alone with great fanfare.
He would issue an imperial decree in his capacity as the Emperor to invite Princess Chen to the palace, and she would be received in the Imperial Study. What she would talk about would probably not be about recuperating or something like that, but something more formal and important.
In response, Wen Ling still said: "We will know when we enter the palace tomorrow. I have read my fortune before, and entering the palace tomorrow should be a good thing."
The next day, Wen Ling put on the complicated palace dress of a princess for the first time and entered the palace in an orderly manner. She only waited for a short while in the side hall of the imperial study before she was summoned by the emperor.
This was the first time that Wen Ling met the emperor up close.
She had seen the emperor before during the royal hunting trip, but he was quite far away at that time. Later, when Wen Yao framed her, the emperor came to investigate. At that time, she was so busy acting that she didn't look at the emperor carefully.
Now in the relatively closed space of the imperial study, Wen Ling finally met the emperor for the first time.
Unlike the emperor seen during the royal hunting trip, looking at him from such a close distance, one can clearly see the traces of time left on the elderly emperor's face, which cannot be concealed by any majestic aura.
Wen Ling saluted the emperor, who raised his hand with a gentle expression: "Stand up, no need to be polite. I asked you to come here today because I have heard too many things about you. I also saw Wen Yao's poisonous insect with my own eyes, so I wanted to ask you to come and have a casual chat."
If he were an ordinary person, he would be humble at this time and say that he is just a trifler.
But Wen Ling was a person of real ability. She would not be modest. Instead, she sat up straight and asked seriously, "What does the emperor want to know?"
The emperor took a sip of tea and smiled, "Do you know everything I want to know?"
Wen Ling thought for a moment and said, "I dare not tell you everything, but you should know most of it. It's just that even if I know some of it, I can't tell you everything. Also, Your Majesty, the tea you are drinking now should be the calming tea in my Wanshiwu, right?
Your Majesty, you have trouble sleeping and can only fall asleep by taking tranquilizing tea every day. However, tranquilizing tea is only a temporary solution and not a permanent cure. It still has some effect now, but it will soon have no effect.
Your Majesty, your biggest problem now is that you are too worried. You have too many and too heavy concerns. If you don't change your mindset, all other external medicines will be in vain. ”
The emperor put down the teacup in his hand. His expression, which had looked relaxed from the beginning, finally changed after Wen Ling said these words.
He looked at the cup of soothing tea in his hand and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I know what you said. Insomnia and headaches are my old problems. The older I get, the more obvious these problems are.
I can clearly feel that my health is getting worse year by year, which is also related to poor sleep.
The Imperial Hospital prescribed me many prescriptions for calming the nerves and helping me sleep, but they were all useless. They only worked when I drank the calming tea you made.
I also know that my problem is related to excessive worry, but the affairs of the entire country are waiting for me to decide alone, how can I not worry too much? ”
Wen Ling understood this as the emperor complaining.
I guess he just had no one else to say these things to in normal times, so he said them to her, a junior who had nothing to do with court politics.
Wen Ling was silent for a while, and could only utter one sentence: "If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Your Majesty is the true dragon emperor, and you are truly responsible for the rise and fall of the people of the world. Please take care of yourself."
The emperor smiled and said, "If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Your words are different from those who just advised me not to think too much."
Wen Ling: "Because I also know that the emperor must be a person with a strong sense of responsibility. Only a person with a strong sense of responsibility will be like the emperor. If that's the case, then isn't it futile to just advise the emperor not to think too much?
Only by helping His Majesty solve more problems can he feel more relaxed and sleep better. ”
The pleasantries are finally over, and now it's time to get down to business.
The emperor looked directly at Wen Ling and said, "I asked you to come here today because I really want your help with something."
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