Chu Ling looked at the Queen Mother: "Royal Grandmother, you don't actually need to go get it. You can just ask people from the outer courtyard of the Vajra Temple to deliver it to you. There is no need to be polite."
"Why is there no need to be polite?" The Queen Mother took a sip of the porridge and nodded with satisfaction. It was just the taste she liked.
This Ling'er girl is really thoughtful, and her filial piety is truly filial, unlike those of emperors, grandsons, and granddaughters who are superficial.
"Royal Grandmother, it's only a few steps away from the palace gate."
"You..." The Queen Mother shook her head and said, "With Master Yifakong's temper, will you say in a big way that this is for us?"
"Probably not." Chu Ling shook her head without thinking about it.
She thought that Fang Kong should keep a low profile, make a fortune in a low voice, and send divine water to the palace without making it known to the world.
Although he sometimes acts in a high-profile manner, he always gives her the feeling that he acts in a low-key manner.
Calm and heavy, reliable and secure.
The Queen Mother smiled and said: "If we send someone to pick it up instead of sending it, will outsiders know about it?"
"Of course." Chu Ling nodded.
"You said, if a small bottle sells for one hundred taels of silver, do others really have no complaints?"
"Anyway, rich people think it's worth it, and they want them to raise the price, but they don't. It's a sign of their conscience."
"There are always people who think it's not worth it, right?"
"Well, those who are not that rich must think it is too expensive."
"You must think they are too greedy for money, so you feel resentful, right?"
"...Yes." Chu Ling nodded.
"But if others see that we have been using divine water in the palace, will they think that a bottle of one hundred taels is worth it?"
"Yes!" Chu Ling nodded without hesitation.
From the bottom of their hearts, ordinary people feel that everything used in the palace is the best. It was originally a very ordinary thing, but once it is used by the palace, its value immediately doubles and it becomes something extraordinary.
People definitely know about the effects of divine water, but too many people don't know and think it's just rich people being stupid.
It's hard to spend money to buy a bottle, but even if it's very useful, it still feels too expensive.
But if the palace has been using divine water, it will be different. Even if the effect is not that strong, it will feel good.
Not to mention the divine water is so magical.
"This can appease people's hearts to the greatest extent and eliminate hidden dangers. We can't use other people's sacred water in vain, right?"
The Queen Mother has already taken several mouthfuls of porridge.
After the porridge, which was slightly scalding to the mouth, went into the stomach, it felt warm and drove away the chill in the body, as if one were in a warm spring.
Chu Ling suddenly exclaimed: "Grandma Huang, ginger is still very spicy!"
The Queen Mother smiled and said: "Girl Ling, you want to live a good life and be better than others. The most important thing is not martial arts. Don't blindly win with force like your father. That is not the right way. The right way is to learn to understand people's hearts and figure them out."
The minds of people in the world follow the trend. What is trend? It is the human heart, the human heart of most people."
"Yes, Grandma Huang!" Chu Ling said with a smile: "Grandma Huang, I think I have become a lot smarter after listening to these words."
The Queen Mother laughed heartily.
She had finished the bowl of porridge before she knew it.
My whole body felt warm, and all the pores around my body seemed to be open, and cold air was coming out, leaving only warm breath in my body.
All the internal organs felt smooth, all the meridians throughout the body were smooth, and the body seemed to be twice as light, as if feathers were about to float in the wind.
My body seems to have returned to its youthful state all of a sudden. As I get older, I no longer feel this way.
"It is truly a divine water!" the Queen Mother said with emotion.
Chu Ling smiled and said: "Grandma Huang, are you very comfortable?"
"It's comfortable, so comfortable." The Queen Mother said: "Master Fakong is such an eminent monk, you must go today!"
"I'll leave soon." Chu Ling stood up and said, "Grandma Huang, I'm going to have breakfast."
"Go ahead, go ahead." The Queen Mother smiled and said, "Gong Qunying, you follow Ling'er girl back to Lingyun Palace, wait for her, and go with her to the outer courtyard of Jingang Temple."
"Yes, empress." The tall and burly Gong Qunying seemed to have never existed. Only then did he reveal his figure when he spoke.
Chu Ling looked at Gong Qunying curiously: "Royal grandmother, Manager Gong's cultivation level is quite high."
She used to not care about her level of cultivation at all, but now that she has practiced martial arts, she has begun to pay attention and feels that Gong Qunying is a top master.
"Old Gong has had an adventure, and his cultivation is really good." The Queen Mother smiled and said, "With him by your side, I can rest assured when I go out."
"What realm?" Chu Ling asked curiously: "Is he a grand master?"
"Yes..." The Queen Mother sighed with emotion: "It's been a long time. He is lucky, and so am I. If it weren't for him..., I would have died long ago."
"It turns out that I have a life-saving grace for the Imperial Grandmother." Chu Ling said with a smile: "It's hard to find such a caring person."
"Girl Ling'er, you don't have a maid by your side, right?" The Queen Mother shook her head: "Some menial jobs are too difficult for my daughter to do, so she still needs a maid."
Chu Ling smiled and said: "Grandma Huang, Xiaoxing Xiaoyue is very good. They also have martial arts skills, which are enough for doing rough work."
"Those two little girls are indeed very qualified, and you also have good taste."
"Then I really want to go to Grandma Huang this time."
"Go ahead, go ahead." The Queen Mother waved her hands with a smile.
Chu Ling left lightly, and the tall and burly Gong Qunying saluted the Queen Mother, then followed Chu Ling and disappeared from the Queen Mother's sight.
The Queen Mother was rarely in a high mood, so she went to the Buddhist hall at the back and recited Buddhist scriptures for a quarter of an hour.
The Buddhist hall is located on the west side of Yonghe Palace, and is connected to Yonghe Palace by a moon gate so that you can pass there at any time.
After reciting the sutra, she had just left the main hall when she saw Xin Wang Chuxiang standing at the foot of the steps.
Wearing a purple robe with gold dragon embroidered on the chest, her figure is as tall and straight as a pine tree.
"My grandson pays homage to the imperial grandmother." Chu Xiang saluted with clasped fists.
The Queen Mother looked at him with affection in her eyes. She looked him up and down for a long time, and saw that he had become thinner and darker. She snorted dissatisfiedly and said, "Why do you, a busy man like you, have the time to come to my old lady's place?"
Chu Xiang smiled and said: "My grandson has not come to pay his respects to the Emperor's grandmother for a while. The Emperor's grandmother forgives me."
"I know I'm busy." The Queen Mother waved her hand.
Chu Xiang stepped forward and raised his right arm.
The Queen Mother put her left hand on his arm and let him support her. Feeling the strong strength coming from his arm, she scolded him: "Don't work around all day long. You can't just work with your head down. You have to look up and look at the road."
"Yes, that's what the Imperial Grandmother taught me." Chu Xiang said with a smile, "But I really can't change my temper. There are some things I can't help but do."
"Alas!" The Queen Mother sighed quietly, and the two of them, surrounded by more than a dozen palace ladies in colorful clothes, slowly came to the front yard of Yonghe Palace and came to a wooden round table.
The Queen Mother slowly sat down: "I have the same temper as your grandfather. It is really difficult to change it. No matter how much you suffer, you can't change it."
Among these grandchildren, the one who most resembled the Emperor in temperament was Chu Xiang, so the Queen Mother was always kind to Chu Xiang and particularly doted on him.
But she also knew that the emperor did not like Chu Xiang, but King Yi and King Ying.
And precisely because Chu Xiang's temper was like his grandfather's, he was even more unpopular with the emperor and even disliked him.
The father-son relationship between Emperor Gein and the Supreme Emperor is not only not close, but rather like incompatible enemies. Father and son are enemies.
Chu Xiang is very similar to his grandfather in both temperament and appearance, which is why he is not favored or even disliked.
If the Queen Mother had not been protecting him, Chu Xiang would have been stripped of his official position and lived in seclusion long ago according to the emperor's wishes.
"My grandson is already so old, so he simply won't change it. It's easy to change the situation, but it's hard to change the nature. There's nothing to change."
"You... have never suffered a big loss, so you are willful." The Queen Mother shook her head: "You will know in the future that people often cannot help themselves when they live in the world, and they must constantly change themselves."
"What the Imperial Grandmother taught me was that my grandson should work hard to change his temper."
"That's right." The Queen Mother nodded happily.
She also knew that Chu Xiang promised, but in reality it was impossible to change. Did her husband change his temper in his lifetime?
When he first seized the throne, no matter how many difficulties and obstacles, how many overt and covert attacks, he could not change his temper.
"Royal Grandma, I'm here because of a big event."
"That's all I said. If nothing happens, you won't think of me as an old woman." The Queen Mother smiled and pointed at him.
Chu Xiang said sheepishly: "It's a big thing."
The Queen Mother smiled and said: "Okay, if it's a big deal, then you can tell me."
Chu Xiang looked to the left and right.
The Queen Mother waved her hand.
More than a dozen palace ladies in colorful clothes fluttered away, and Yonghe Palace suddenly became empty.
Chu Xiang's body flashed, and he circled around, finding no one hiding, and returned to the Queen Mother again.
The Queen Mother stared at him, wanting to hear what urgent matter he had.
Chu Xiang used the art of transmitting sounds into secrets and told her about Gong Qunying.
"Impossible!" the Queen Mother blurted out.
Chu Xiang stared at her seriously and said solemnly: "Royal Grandmother, there is absolutely no mistake in this matter. Master Fakong will not make a mistake."
The Queen Mother frowned and shook her head: "That's ridiculous!"
"It is precisely because it is ridiculous and unbelievable that it has been hidden for so many years without being exposed." Chu Xiang said solemnly: "Otherwise, it would have been eliminated long ago."
The Queen Mother stared at him: "Master Fakong can't be mistaken, right?"
"For now, as far as I know, Master Fakong hasn't missed it yet."
"..." The Queen Mother looked up to the sky, her eyes twinkling.
After a moment, she sighed: "I can't even remember how many years have passed..."
Chu Xiang remained silent.
Although he could not understand the Queen Mother's mood, he knew that she must be feeling very uncomfortable and did not want to believe it.
It is really difficult to accept that his loyal confidant who has been with him for decades suddenly calls him a traitor and an enemy.
Even if I can confirm it intellectually, I cannot accept it emotionally.
What's more, there is no hard evidence to prove it, it's just a word from Master Fakong. How can you accept it easily without doubting it?
The Queen Mother looked at the sky for a while, then finally shook her head and let out a long sigh: "Alas!"
Chu Xiang couldn't bear to say: "Royal Grandmother, this matter is indeed difficult to accept, but..."
"That's all, do whatever you want." The Queen Mother said.
"Royal grandmother?"
"Compared with your safety, I can give up on anyone." The Queen Mother looked at Chu Xiang with pity: "Just go ahead and do it."
"...Yes, Imperial Grandmother!" Chu Xiang was deeply moved and bowed deeply.
He could feel how reluctant the imperial grandmother was to let go of a confidant who had been by his side for decades.
Why?
Just for yourself.
"Be careful, he is not an ordinary person. He encountered an unexpected encounter when he was young, and he has been focusing on cultivation. His cultivation in these years is unfathomable."
"Yes." Chu Xiang agreed, turned and left.
We must rush there quickly to prevent Gong Qunying from returning to the Forbidden Palace.
Master Fakong will never go near the Forbidden Palace, and when the time comes to deal with Gong Qunying alone, he will die.
At this time, Fakong was entertaining Chu Ling and Gong Qunying in his own courtyard outside the Vajra Temple.