Chapter 025 Chapter 25
Chapter 25
Only when Li Sifang heard the sound outside did he realize what the thing that had just flown into his mouth was.
"...yue!!!!!"
He couldn't help but let out a loud retching sound.
But the huge vomiting sound did not make the onlookers retreat. In fact, after hearing the vomiting sound, their eyes quickly lit up and they started chirping like birds seeing food.
Of course there was only one topic, Li Sifang and Li Qingliu ate slop!
No one noticed the black shadow disappearing from the roof and was still immersed in excitement, including the slop vendor.
He immediately decided to raise the price of these buckets of swill and sell them to the surrounding villages. This was the swill that the imperial censor of the current dynasty had eaten himself!
Unfortunately, before the peddler could squeeze out of the crowd, he was blocked by the servants of the Li family.
Looking at the three tall and strong servants in front of him, the peddler had no choice but to hand over the swill obediently and was beaten.
If there weren't people watching, I'm afraid all the money in my bag would have been looted.
The peddler was lucky to have saved his life, but he felt sorry for the swill he had. The refugees outside the city depended on it for a good meal, and now it was thrown away like this.
Thinking of this, the peddler rolled his eyes and told the story to the leader of the refugees outside the city with exaggeration.
Without his knowledge, Li Si was regarded by the refugees as a dog official who was ignorant of the sufferings of the world.
And the reputation that he had tried every means to protect was naturally tarnished.
Unfortunately, he doesn’t know it now.
Li Sifang looked at the crowd gathering around him, quickly closed the window of the carriage, asked the servants to clear the way, and hurried back home.
but……
"Could this really be God's will?" Li Sifang thought hesitantly.
He quickly sent servants to the direction of Prince Chungnyeong's palace to secretly see if there were any missing people around Prince Chungnyeong.
However, the news the servant brought back made Li Sifang so angry that his beard stood on end.
"When I went there, King Chungnyeong had just heard the news, and then..."
"Then what?" Li Sifang asked anxiously.
The servant closed his eyes and said with a determined heart.
"...Then King Chungnyeong said, you deserve it, you will fall into the toilet when you return."
Li Sifang was so angry that he almost fell off the carriage, and he kept saying, "Ignorant boy! Ignorant boy!"
He was so angry that he didn't even realize that he only had a toilet but no pit, so how could he fall into the pit.
Fortunately, he realized this when he returned home, and immediately thought that the kid must be talking nonsense, so he drank some wine during lunch.
A quarter of an hour later...
"——Someone come, the master has fallen into the toilet!"
*
The Imperial Palace.
"——Did Li Sifang really eat swill and fall into the toilet?!" X2
Emperor Yuanxing was quite shocked. In his opinion, the so-called eating slop was just a harsh remark made by a child because he was angry, and falling into the toilet afterwards further confirmed this point.
When the prince was a child, he would curse that bastard and say that he would definitely fall into the toilet today. But that bastard didn’t even know what a toilet looked like, let alone fall into the toilet.
How come what that bastard said casually before came true?
Emperor Yuanxing wanted to treat this as a coincidence, but...
Li Sifang had two coincidences in a row. One coincidence was that he ate slop in public, and another coincidence was that he fell into a toilet.
Li Sifang usually used the toilet. The only place in the Li family with a toilet was the servants' room. When the mother and daughter of the Li family left home, Li Sifang never cared about such matters in the inner house. The servants were a bit lazy and no one followed Li Sifang. Li Sifang drank a little wine at noon...
——This coincidence is like someone is helping that evil creature.
Emperor Yuanxing shuddered and then gave up the idea.
If it was really his good brother who came to help his son with his eyes wide open, he should have been the first to die.
Could it be that...
“…Is it really God?”
Emperor Yuanxing looked up at the beams of the imperial palace, and finally fell silent.
"Your Majesty, the mighty Marshal has sent many of the best soldiers in the army to King Chungnyeong."
The chief eunuch looked at Emperor Yuanxing and murmured, then gave a reminder in a low voice.
Emperor Yuanxing shook his head and said, "None of those experts left the carriage. They were all under surveillance. Except for Yuanbao and Funing, everyone else was being watched. But..."
How could it be possible that these two things were done by King Chungnyeong, who was only six years old?
Could it be that he can become invisible, or can clone himself?
The windows of the carriage were not closed, and the people who were watching vaguely saw a shadow, but nothing strange happened until the bastard returned home.
"…Send someone to monitor Li Sifang and see if there are any changes afterwards, and also—"
Emperor Yuanxing hesitated for a moment and said, "Send more people to Yuanbao and report everything to him."
Seeing the chief eunuch nodding in agreement, Emperor Yuanxing was thinking secretly in his heart.
'I hope it's just a coincidence.'
"——This is definitely not a coincidence!"
He was walking around in his room. King Chungnyeong said that Li Sifang was eating slop. As soon as Li Sifang walked out of the palace, a vendor forced a mouthful of slop into him. King Chungnyeong said that Li Sifang fell into the toilet. Li Sifang didn't have a toilet, so he ran to the servants' toilet and fell into it.
Even if Pei Muli was a fool, he would not believe that this could be a coincidence.
But after sending someone to inquire, Pei Muli was a little dumbfounded.
Everyone in Prince Chungnyeong's palace was under surveillance, and judging from the situation at the scene, it really looked like a coincidence.
Pei Muli is worthy of being the child of Emperor Yuanxing, and his way of thinking also drifts to God, but Prince Zhongning has scolded people like this before, and even scolded him, and he is still fine until now?
"Your Highness, perhaps these two things are really a coincidence?" Pei Muli's study partner said cautiously.
Pei Muli gritted his teeth. There was indeed no evidence to prove that this matter was related to Pei Muchu, but Pei Muli knew Pei Muchu well. That little devil always had an inexplicable obsession with such inexplicable things.
"…Send more people to King Chungnyeong."
Finally, Pei Muli waved his hand and said.
He needed to know whether this was an accident or not.
What if it's not...
Today Li Sifang just ate slop and fell into the toilet. Although it seemed a bit insulting, at least no one was hurt.
But what if he takes someone else's life in the future?
Pei Muli thought deeply and selected a few people from the forces left to him by his mother and sent them over.
An hour later.
Zhao Yong, who was inspecting the Zhongning Palace: ...
How come there are so many more people monitoring him? Is the Dog Emperor angry recently?
*
When Princess Funing received the news, she had just finished lunch and the dishes on the table had not yet been cleared away.
Her first reaction was that Censor Li was too unlucky, and then she remembered what Yuanbao had said in the palace before.
Princess Funing's eyes couldn't help but fall on Pei Muchu, who looked like he was seeking credit.
"Yuanbao, does this matter have anything to do with you?"
Princess Funing asked with a serious look.
Pei Muchu immediately shook her head and said, "How is it possible? Sister, if Uncle Zhao and the others could control this coincidence, I would have made Pei Muli eat shit long ago!"
When saying this, Pei Muchu's hands were subconsciously clenched, and it was obvious that he was quite angry with Pei Muli.
Princess Funing frowned, thinking that she had to ask her uncle for a teacher, and nodded in agreement with Pei Muchu.
Indeed, if her brother had this ability, he would have shown off all over the street long ago.
As soon as this thought popped up in Princess Funing's mind, Pei Muchu came up to her with a sly look on his face.
"However, although I didn't do this, I knew about it last night."
Princess Funing immediately had a bad feeling. She frowned and asked, "Did you ask Uncle Zhao and the others to do it?"
"That's not the case."
Pei Muchu smiled so much that his cat eyes turned into crescents, and he leaned close to Princess Funing and whispered.
"My mother opened my third eye when she appeared in my dream last night."
Pei Muchu said proudly. He was about to tell his sister excitedly how smart and wise he was after seeing the prophecy, but he was pushed back to his original seat by a strong force.
"...You don't have a fever either?"
Princess Funing touched her brother's forehead with the back of her hand and found that his temperature was normal.
But why did Yuanbao suddenly start talking nonsense?
"...Sister! I'm not kidding! It was really my mother who came to me in my dream. I saw her in my dream. She was so beautiful and gentle. She even had a mole on her eyelid. She also touched my face!"
The little prince, who was accused of talking nonsense by his sister, became unhappy and shouted.
Fortunately, he knew that the servants had not gone far and did not shout too loudly, but Princess Funing subconsciously covered his mouth.
"Shhh."
Princess Funing made a gesture to keep quiet.
It’s better not to make such royal secrets known to everyone.
Although Princess Funing didn't understand why only she, her uncle and her grandmother had portraits of her mother, even Yuanbao had only seen his mother many times.
——Not to mention knowing that my mother had a mole on her eyelid.
That was something that could only be seen when my mother closed her eyes. Now all the portraits of my mother that remain in this world are of them with their eyes open.
However, when Princess Funing saw that the new ladies in the palace at the New Year's banquet were more or less similar to her mother, she vaguely knew that something was wrong.
Although she didn't know what was wrong and no one taught her, she just felt that something was wrong.
"…So, sister, I didn't lie. Mother is the fairy from heaven. She appeared in my dreams and opened my third eye. Otherwise, how would I know why that old man ate swill and fell into the toilet? I can even describe to you how the swill fell into his mouth and how he fell into the toilet."
The young prince's cunning voice interrupted Princess Funing's thoughts, and she did not think in that terrible direction.
She called Uncle Zhao over with doubt and asked about the whole process of the two incidents. While the guards were asking questions, Pei Muchu also described the whole process of the old man eating slop with his hands and feet gesticulating, and almost laughed out loud.
"...Okay, you can leave first."
Princess Funing heard the guard say the same thing as Yuanbao. She was silent for a long time before speaking to the guard.
The palace maid beside him hurried forward and gave the guard a reward. Liu Shuanzi, who was in charge of the inquiry, walked away from the door with a grin on his face.
"How about it, sister? Now you finally believe me, right?"
Pei Muchu said proudly with his little chin raised.
"Sister believes it, Yuanbao, be good, let's not talk about this here for now."
Princess Funing, who made a living in the palace, was obviously more experienced than Pei Muchu. After asking Uncle Zhao, she came to the garden of Prince Zhongning's palace.
There is a lake in the garden, and the pavilion in the middle of the lake is the place least likely to be eavesdropped.
After Princess Funing went up to the pavilion, she dismissed the servants and looked at Yuanbao, who had a confused face, and spoke very seriously.
"Yuanbao, how many people still know about the opening of the third eye?"
Pei Muchu shook his head and said, "No one knows. My mother told me. I can only tell this to my elder sister. My elder sister will never hurt me."
Pei Muchu's big eyes were filled with trust in Princess Funing.
"That's good, that's good." Princess Funing breathed a sigh of relief. Even if she had revealed some traces to the Emperor's uncle before, it was only once and the Emperor's uncle should not notice it.
Princess Funing suppressed her uneasiness and said.
"Yuanbao, you must not use the Heavenly Eye recklessly in the future. This is an unorthodox practice that will mess up your mind and may even shorten your lifespan. Yuanbao, do you understand?"
Princess Funing didn't really think so, although there was such a reason, but she was more afraid that the ingots would be burned as some evil means. Although with the emperor's uncle around, this kind of thing would basically not happen.
But the ministers and cousins in the court should not be underestimated.
Pei Muchu stood there obediently, looking at Princess Funing's worried eyes, and said to 777 in his mind.
[Xiao Qi, it seems that my bet was right. ]
[The host is really lucky. The three vests' families all have relatives who stand on the host's side. ]
777 said with emotion.
Compared with other hosts who had such a bad start that even their relatives couldn't believe it, this host was extremely lucky.
God knows how many hosts failed at the family stage, resulting in the mission being unable to be completed.
"Three vests? Ha." Gu Youxing thought of one of the relatives who started the game under a vest and shook his head in his heart.
but……
[Indeed, I am very lucky to have met a relative like Princess Funing. ]
Gu Youxing looked at Princess Funing in front of him, and from an angle that Princess Funing couldn't see, he showed an admiring look.
Smart, decisive, obedient, and...
Very easy to control, this is simply the perfect candidate.
Gu Youxing nodded in his mind and said to Princess Funing with a playful smile on his face.
"Sister, this is not some evil way. This is given to us by mother. I have said before that mother is a fairy from heaven. She came down to earth to experience trials and tribulations. However, her experience of trials and tribulations also caused mother to suffer great damage and her magic power was low. That is why she could only open my third eye by entering my dream."
"The Sky Eye only saw what happened, but it doesn't know the cause and effect. My mother loves me, so how could she let me be in danger..."
The implication is that he will definitely use the "Sky Eye".
But Gu Youxing cunningly hid this meaning in something more important.
As expected, when Princess Funing heard "Mother's vitality is seriously damaged and her magic power is low", she subconsciously clenched the handkerchief in her hand, and then Pei Muchu's words made her heart ache.
[Xiao Qi, my non-existent conscience is starting to hurt. Bullying a little girl is too shameless.]
Gu Youxing said this to 777 in his heart without mercy.
"...Mom actually told me a lot last night. She also said that if we can build a temple to worship her and find some people who truly believe in her, her magic power will be restored quickly. And..."
Pei Muchu said while counting on his fingers, pausing occasionally, as if he was recalling what his mother had said to him last night.
Following Pei Muchu's voice, Princess Funing squeezed the handkerchief harder and harder, and finally...
“Sizzle——”
Princess Funing tore a handkerchief abruptly, staring at Pei Muchu who was interrupted.
"...Then why didn't mother tell me in a dream?"
Princess Funing spoke with a rare trembling voice.
"Because there is dragon energy in my sister, and she is 10 years old, with plenty of yang energy, and mother is afraid of hurting you. I am not even seven years old yet, and mother's magic power is low now, so naturally she has to find the way that consumes the least magic power to enter the dream."
Pei Muchu said innocently.
Princess Funing's eyes suddenly turned red.
She stood there blankly with her bound feet, like a poor little puppet, looking at the jade bracelet on her hand.
That was the relic left to her by her mother.
She murmured.
"…But, I'm not afraid, mother. Yuanfu is not afraid."
*
Gu Youxing hated this kind of scene the most. If it was an adult, Gu Youxing would still be cruel enough to let Princess Funing follow the route he had planned, but now Princess Funing is just a 10-year-old girl.
Even when he was on a mission at another base and almost killed everyone in the base, Gu Youxing basically never harmed any children.
...Except if he ran out and was shot to death.
Fortunately, the plan he had written previously also included a provision for dealing with a situation like Princess Funing's, but when he wrote that sentence, he was hoping that Princess Funing would cooperate with him.
"Sister," Pei Muchu tugged at the corner of Princess Funing's clothes and whispered, "Mother actually mentioned you to me."
"Mother said that her magic power is too weak now and it is easy to hurt my sister if she forcibly enters my sister's dream, but she is very happy to see that you have grown up."
Princess Funing also realized her own gaffe. She wiped her tears and then recalled what Pei Muchu had said before.
"Mother asked you to build a temple?"
Princess Funing frowned tightly, and she suddenly began to doubt whether her mother was her real mother or an evil god.
It’s no wonder that Princess Funing overreacted. The year before last, Emperor Yuanxing had just executed a group of evil cult members who called themselves the White Lotus Sect.
According to everyone's description, the White Lotus Sect is as terrifying as a monster with a green face and fangs.
These evil cults kill people for fun, embezzle money and rape people's wives and daughters, which are already the least serious crimes. They will even find some clans and use evil magic to confuse the leaders of those clans, turning that clan into a den of brothel.
They would even specifically seek out chaste and virtuous women with chastity arches for their own amusement.
And those beauty lamps, beauty papers and the like, using living people for fun are just leftovers from their pastimes.
They even use children for fun.
Under the influence of the evil magic, those parents really believed that their children had gone to paradise. It was not until the government arrested all the members of the White Lotus Sect and cut them into pieces but no gods came to save the so-called priests that these parents realized the truth.
——Outside the execution ground that day, the tears of numerous parents who viciously devoured the flesh and blood of the White Lotus Sect leader wet the entire execution ground.
"It's not the kind of temple that the White Lotus Sect belongs to. Sister, you told me about it, and Uncle Zhao has mentioned it to me many times. I won't be fooled."
Pei Muchu said with a smile.
"Mother told me that the believers she needs are those who truly believe in her or are grateful to her. Mother doesn't accept incense. Incense doesn't have much effect on her."
Princess Funing took note of what her mother said very carefully.
Only women were allowed to enter the temple, and even gold ingots could only be kept outside the temple. However, courtyards could be built outside the temple, and people were allowed to rent those courtyards at extremely low prices.
Pei Muchu said, then he suddenly slapped his head.
"...I almost forgot, sister, mother told me something else."
Pei Muchu pursed his lips and said to Princess Funing.
"Mother said that she saw you had bound feet."
*
Princess Funing sat blankly on the edge of the bed, recalling what Yuanbao had just said in her mind.
"Mother said, sister, when you were binding your feet, mother was watching from heaven, she cried until her tears almost dried up, but she couldn't touch you at all."
"My mother said that the fairies in heaven don't bind their feet. If anyone dares to ask them to bind their feet, they will kill him directly."
"Mother said that when she recovers her magic power and comes down from heaven to pick us up, she will heal you. Before that, don't be afraid, sister. You can go to the border to free your feet first, or stay in the capital and pretend that nothing has happened. Don't be anxious, words can kill people. Mother hopes that sister is safe."
These three sentences kept circling in Princess Funing's mind, and the surging emotions made her cry and laugh at the same time.
"I see. It was raining heavily on the day of foot binding..."
It’s mother crying.
She remembered the ferocious face of the nanny beside the Empress Dowager that day, and the pain when her feet were broken. She also remembered the pus that was squeezed out every day after the nanny scratched her feet with broken porcelain pieces.
Every time the pus was squeezed out, her feet became smaller.
The faces of the nanny and the queen mother changed from being ferocious at the beginning to being kind. The emperor's uncle also began to praise her. She received rewards and no longer needed to rely on her brother for support. She finally had her own private property.
It's all because of those little feet.
She went from crying and wailing at the beginning to becoming numb and even actively binding her feet in the end.
The nanny said that this was for the purpose of marrying into a good family and becoming a role model for other princesses. No matter what Princess Funing thought, based on her cognition, she had to admit that this was right.
Foot binding was the price that an orphan who had lost her parents had to pay if she wanted to gain a foothold in the capital.
But now...
She has other options, she can finally walk without enduring pain!
Her mother will take her to the fairyland!
Thinking of this, Princess Funing's eyes showed a fanatical light, and then she cried again. It took her a while to calm down and start thinking about what her mother said.
Her mother said that she could go to the border first to free her feet, end the pain early, and then wait for her mother to come and pick them up, but Princess Funing did not want to go to the border.
First, Yuanbao is still here. Even if the emperor's uncle loves Yuanbao so much, he can't beat those ministers. Yuanbao will still suffer without her protection!
Second, she is a princess, the daughter of Prince Minduan, and the daughter of the most talented woman in the capital at that time!
She bound her feet because she had no one to rely on. Dependent on the Empress Dowager for survival, she had to improve her value in the marriage market in order to avoid being trampled into the mud.
But now she is no longer an ordinary princess without anyone to rely on.
Her mother was a fairy, and was watching them from the sky. She now had something to rely on, even though it looked so weak.
But there is one after all.
...As long as the temple is built and A Niang is given good faith, she will be able to see A Niang!
Princess Funing's originally dignified eyes became so fierce for the first time.
Are those rumors as important as my mother?
Her mother was afraid that she would be hurt by those rumors, so she went to live in the temple built for her mother so that she wouldn't be seen by people in the capital. Would they be able to break into the temple to see if she had bound feet?
As for getting married?
As long as her mother is around, as the daughter of a goddess, even if she doesn't bind her feet, even if she is in her seventies or eighties, there will be many people seeking to marry her!
Princess Funing thought about it, and her originally depressed expression became relaxed.
But then she realized something.
——Mother didn’t let Yuanbao tell Uncle Huang about his abilities. Does that mean Uncle Huang can’t be trusted?
And what about the concubines in my uncle’s palace who look very similar to my mother?
Princess Funing was full of doubts, so she took Pei Muchu on a carriage to the outskirts of the capital the next day. It just so happened that Pei Muchu had an unused garden given to her by her uncle, the emperor, so the temple could be built there.
They would act first and report later. By that time the temple would be built and her mother's statue would be enshrined there. She didn't believe that the emperor's uncle would refuse the request of this filial couple.
——If it doesn’t work, let your brother go and throw a tantrum in front of the Emperor’s uncle!
Princess Funing thought about it, turned her head to look at her brother who was nibbling on a pancake like a little squirrel, and revealed a loving smile.
Gu Youxing ate the pancake calmly.
While enduring such gazes, I listened to the screams in my mind.
[My Lord! The power of faith is incompatible with the underlying laws of this world. What if it gets exposed?]
Gu Youxing rubbed his ears as if nothing had happened and continued talking while chewing on a pancake.
[You said that the underlying laws are incompatible, so what exactly is the power of faith? Isn't it up to me to decide? ]
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