Chapter 1049 – Returning to the Orthodox Academy (1/2)
Chapter 1049 – Returning to the Orthodox Academy
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Chen Changsheng turned to Xu Yourong.
From the side, she looked very beautiful.
As beautiful as she was from every other angle.
She was as calm as she ever was.
But for some inexplicable reason, Chen Changsheng felt like he saw the chill of autumn on her face.
Perhaps it was because of what Mo Yu said to him yesterday?
Since last night, he had spent a long time thinking and hesitating, and now, he finally asked.
”Do you… want to say something?”
Surprised, Xu Yourong asked, ”Say what?”
Both her expression and the way she turned her body to face him were ever so natural.
Chen Changsheng suddenly didn't know how to continue on the topic. His gaze fell on the nearby grass.
A faint smile emerged on Xu Yourong's lips. ”You are speaking about the Empress?”
Chen Changsheng nodded.
Her smile faded as she softly said, ”She was just like my mother.”
Chen Changsheng looked at that place and asked, ”Are you prepared to do something?”
Xu Yourong calmly looked at him and said, ”Did Mo Yu tell you something last night?”
Chen Changsheng very honestly admitted, ”She thinks that you will take revenge for the Divine Empress.”
Xu Yourong asked, ”You will worry if I do this?”
Chen Changsheng's answer was still honest. ”Yes.”
Xu Yourong lightly said, ”Isn't this something that's more appropriate for her to do? She's the one you should be concerned about.”
Chen Changsheng replied, ”Last night, she said to me that by killing Zhou Tong, she had returned the affection the Empress had shown to her.”
Xu Yourong was quiet for a while, then said, ”What's borrowed is returned. That's natural.”
Chen Changsheng could not see what she was really thinking, so he asked, ”What are you thinking?”
Xu Yourong returned, ”And what are you thinking?”
”Although I and Master now treat each other as strangers precisely because of this matter, with regards to this specific matter, I really don't know who's right and who's wrong.”
Chen Changsheng added, ”If I consider the fact that they all used Zhou Tong, then I think that they are all wrong.”
Xu Yourong said, ”So you feel that there is no reason to use a mistake to deal with another mistake.”
Chen Changsheng replied, ”I just find it impossible to convince myself.”
Xu Yourong calmly returned, ”That's reasonable, but you also don't need to try and convince me, nor do you need to worry about me, because I have not planned to do anything. I cultivate the Great Dao, and the Empress also cultivated the Great Dao. If a strand of her soul in the sea of stars still has awareness, she also would not want me to place my thoughts on these trifling matters.”
Chen Changsheng said nothing.
Logically speaking, since Xu Yourong had just worked together with Shang Xingzhou, Chen Changsheng should have had nothing to worry about. But he still felt that something wasn't right.
Xu Yourong added, ”If I really do plan on doing something, I will definitely tell you first. And besides, how would the venerable Daoist fail to notice?”
Chen Changsheng felt a little relieved, because he knew that Xu Yourong would not deceive him.
Xu Yourong ceased discussion on this topic. Looking at the wall in the depths of the forest, she asked, ”Is the Orthodox Academy on that side?”
Chen Changsheng was very familiar with this forest. ”It's on the other side of the wall.”
Since they had gone to the Hundred Herb Garden, they had no reason to not go to the Orthodox Academy.
Chen Changsheng walked over to the wall.
Xu Yourong was a step slower.
Because she had given that patch of grass an extra glance.
Her eyes were very calm.
The Divine Empress was buried, in a very, very deep place.
In her heart, there was also a very, very deep place.
……
……
The gray-black wall was rather tall and very old. It was hard to say how many years of wind and rain it had experienced.
But the door in the wall was clearly quite new. From the hinges or the dust in its seams, it couldn't be older than several years.
With the end of the wall out of sight, the sudden appearance of this door in the middle of this gray-black wall looked like a mouth opening in laughter.
Chen Changsheng almost seemed to see that girl pushing open that door and coming through, and he couldn't help but smile.
He pushed upon the door and entered the Orthodox Academy.