Chapter 526 Heading North, the Birthday Party Is Approaching

Since the battle of Shishan Jiujiang, the four gods died, the twelve mountain gods were all destroyed, and tens of thousands of people were settled properly. They went north all the way, and there was no more God Festival along the way.

The little gods who were appointed by the emperor had not died yet, and they all fled in fear, and they were in a state of panic all day long. Let's talk about the two people going north, playing all the way, and the battle tomorrow will be more fierce and the enemy will be stronger. But it didn't disturb their mentality at all.

Most of the way along the way was walking, passing through a city of one person, and the guards in the city were on guard. The two people asked a little and found out that the empress's birthday was approaching, and the people from all sides had prepared festive birthday gifts early and were transporting them to Dayu City, waiting to please the empress.

Li Changxiao teased Wang Ruyi with this, and Wang Ruyi remembered in a trance that it would be the country's birthday in a few days. After being stripped of her name, she had no light of day, and didn't know the passage of time. She just walked, suffered, and fainted, and so on.

After being rescued, she traveled around the world again, punishing evil and promoting good, and the reputation of the red-sleeved female hero spread to who knows where. The past is over for now, and this trip to the imperial capital, to the wind and cloud, only to think of this wandering experience, which has spanned several months, and even her birthday is approaching.

She put up her hair by her ears, her eyebrows that contained a bit of majesty slightly frowned, and told Li Changxiao a secret. In fact, that was not her real birthday. The king was important, and the year and month of birth must be auspicious, but Wang Ruyi’s birthday was a very bad time, so the emperor thought about it and could only modify it secretly, more than a month in advance.

Therefore, her real birthday needs to be postponed for a full month at the birthday banquet of that country, but they are just ordinary trivial matters, and they will be over. What difference does it make if it is one month early or one month late?

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Wang Ruyi put his hands behind his back and kicked the grass on the roadside out of boredom. The grass drooped with his toes, which was quite fun.

Who would have thought that the woman who was teasing the grass with her toes on the roadside was the real owner of Dayu.

The king's birthday banquet and foreign countries' tributes made Dayu even more lively. If you go to a big city where people gather, you can occasionally encounter a tribute team. I have heard for a long time that the empress loves clothes and beauty, so I cater to her preferences, or prepare exquisite clothes, each needle and thread is worth a lot of money, or give earrings, incense...

There are all kinds of things, not only foreign countries send gifts, but also the city officials and villagers have to show their appreciation. The city officials collect local rare things and send gold, silver and jewelry. Village people have no money or silver, so they offer rice and food.

Before the birthday banquet was even approaching, Dayu was in turmoil, and everyone knew about it. On the way north, Wang Ruyi gradually understood the reason and was so angry that her face turned blue.

When passing through several villages, she heard the villagers scolding her, saying that she had only been diligent for a few years, but she was already stupid, and she was afraid that she would suffer in the future.

There were many such scoldings, and they were even euphemistic. There were more unpleasant words, saying that the empress was not only stupid, but had long been blinded by lust. On the birthday, she even held a beauty pageant in the city and performed singing and dancing.

She also started construction in Dayu City, recruited nearly 100,000 people, built a place for them to have fun, and ordered all officials to enjoy themselves. Don't say that lust blinded her. The word "lust" is just human nature, which can be big or small, as long as it does not delay state affairs. However, the construction of large-scale projects and the waste of money and labor are real.

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This cannot be washed away. In short, this birthday event made the empress cursed, but some people were happy and some were sad. For some people, the foolish empress was far more admirable than the diligent empress.

If it was recorded in history books, I wonder what the emperors of later generations would think when they saw this record. Wang Ruyi was angry, but she was helpless. Seeing that the court gifts were sent from all over the country to Dayu City and delivered to "her" hands, she couldn't refuse.

Li Changxiao also teased her and asked her if she had accepted gifts and made money in this way before? Wang Ruyi was even more angry when she heard this. The huge black pot was put on her head. She was diligent in politics and loved the people. She was a wise ruler. Except for loving beauty like an ordinary woman, she really had no other hobbies.

In short, all the way north, Wang Ruyi's face became darker and darker, and she was in a depressed mood. The trip to the south was far away from the court, and the affairs of the court could not reach her ears. As the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind, out of hearing, the heart is clear. It was so light to go south with Li Changxiao. However, since she went north, she heard about the recent events one by one, and then she knew that Xiaozhen had done such a thing during this period.

It takes years to build a tower, but it only takes a moment to collapse. The loyal officials in the court were alienated, exiled, or beheaded, and the treacherous villains were promoted.

She took office for several months, but ignored the government. She remembered that on the eve of her stripping of her name, she had three memorials in her hand, which were about the disasters in various places, and she had not yet commented on them. On the way north, she passed by a place and saw that the disasters were getting worse and worse because of the inaction of the court. The people were displaced and miserable.

The rebels were growing, and the evil bandits were rioting.

Wang Ruyi was distressed. She wanted to ride the wind and enjoy the pleasure of the clouds. Gradually seeing this situation, she was sad and sighed, and she couldn't let them go.

She was destined to lose something in order to gain something. Therefore, she cherished every minute of the rest of the trip. In her spare time, she would ask Li Changxiao why he wanted to help her.

Li Changxiao had many purposes, for the mausoleum, for the people, for his own satisfaction, for cultivation, any one of them, there was nothing wrong with it, carelessness and selfishness. However, Wang Ruyi was disappointed, and wanted to hear the part that belonged to her among the countless reasons, and her eyes were enthusiastic.

Li Changxiao wanted to say something but stopped, but finally did not speak, just saying that it was difficult to be perfect in the world, and he had to leave. After thinking about it, he stopped saying those words that were easy to cause misunderstanding.

If he really said what he wanted to say and revealed his heart, among the thousands of reasons, there was indeed one that belonged to Wang Ruyi. He saw that she was pitiful, she was beautiful, she was brilliant, she was passionate, there were many reasons, and they were all from the heart. If he said it out loud, Wang Ruyi would definitely be happy, but...

Over the years, only his ghost servant Yu Luosha knew Li Changxiao best. He was the most contradictory person. He was free and easy but not free and easy. He valued love but was indifferent to love.

He seemed to be free and unrestrained between heaven and earth. He could not be restrained by heaven or earth. Everyone who saw him admired and envied him.

But suddenly he looked back.

But he was just alone, in the vastness.

Even the ghost servant who knew him best had already shrunk his soul to a soul bead...

He was free and easy, but he was just half true, half false, half pretending, and half stupid.