System, help me be an empress

Chapter 66
In the first year of God Bless, the first day of May.

The first "public school" funded by the Daqian court came into being.

On the second day of May, the opening ceremony.

The public school held an entrance ceremony for 160 students recruited from the private sector, of which 76 were children of government officials and 86 were children of ordinary people. Among them, there were more boys than girls, and children aged seven or eight were the most in general.

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Let's talk about Xu Youxi again.

On the fifth day of May, the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.

There are activities held in the upper capital. The imperial court organizes a grand polo match every year, and officials from all yamen will participate.

In addition, there are also "horse racing" activities among the people. This competition is not about the speed of riding a horse, but a single-handed show off by a horse rider, or a comparison of whose riding posture is more beautiful.

There are countless people onlookers, and the streets are even more lively.

In previous years, Xiyuan would have held two grand events, "Planting Willows" and "Dragon Boat Race".But this year Xu Youxi didn't agree to the big event in the palace, and only found a few groups of people to use last year's boat to compete in a friendly match with "rich spiritual rewards".

Xu Youxi went to each activity point and checked in one by one before continuing with today's other arrangements.

During this period of time, she was so busy that she hardly had time to go to the base camp of the White Lotus Sect, just like she used to clock in at work, coming in every now and then to report and then leaving.

After finally catching the Dragon Boat Festival, Xu Youxi waved his hand and gave the officials a three-day holiday.

To be realistic, the number of memorials submitted by Xu Youxi would be much less during the few days when Xu Youxi gave the court officials a holiday.

Xu Youxi took advantage of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday to visit the White Lotus Sect again.Because of the festival, many people don't have to go to work today, and the White Lotus Sect is also enjoying itself.

The room seems to still be filled with the aroma of wormwood mixed with zongzi, and the smell of fireworks in the world.

"Li Si is back, hurry up and taste the zongzi made by Mrs. Bian herself, it's still hot!"

As soon as Xu Youxi came in, an acquaintance brought her freshly cooked rice dumplings.

"I made so many zongzi! Chef Bian has worked hard!"

Xu Youxi looked at the basket next to the cauldron, which was already full of cooked zongzi. At the same time, a new batch of raw zongzi was cooked in the pot. Adding up the front and back, there must be hundreds of them at least.

"It's so much every year, I'm used to it." Chef Bian smiled, "Everyone does the work together, everyone has worked hard."

Ke Ke was tiptoeing busy scooping up the cooked zongzi in the pot next to him. Public school is also on holiday today: "Sister Li Si, the zongzi is to be distributed to grandparents outside. My adoptive father said that everyone can live Last quarter!"

"good idea!"

Xu Youxi has already started eating. The rice dumplings are filled with red beans, which are sweet but not greasy, and taste surprisingly good: "By the way, where is Fu Hao?"

In the White Lotus Sect, everyone tacitly agrees that unless there are special circumstances, they are all addressed by their names or brothers and sisters.

After all, walls have ears, if the identity of the White Lotus Sect is exposed, the whole family will be in bad luck.

"I'm here!" It turned out that Fu Hao was squatting and putting zongzi into the big bamboo basket, "I'm going out to deliver zongzi soon, do you want Li Si to come with you?"

"Okay!" Xu Youxi picked up a towel and wiped his hands, "Where shall we send it?"

"Just follow me." Fu Hao said with a smile.

Since the base camp of the White Lotus Sect is very close to the Heroic Soul Monument, Fuhao's first destination was there.

Xu Youxi followed by, watching Fu Hao Wen smiled and greeted each old man sitting in front of the monument, and gave warm rice dumplings in turn.

The old people laughed and thanked them again and again. Some old people could not help but knelt down to express their unspeakable gratitude. But the strange thing was that none of these old people opened the rice dumpling and tasted it right away.

"Okay, let's go."

"Ah."

Xu Youxi followed and turned to leave, only to find that these old people got up tacitly after the two walked away, and gently piled up the zongzi they had just received in front of the stone tablet.

Fu Hao followed Xu Youxi's gaze, and explained casually: "They think that the dead are the most important, so they often put the zongzi in front of the monument to worship, and then take them back to eat by themselves after a few hours."

Xu Youxi sighed: "I just feel that after such a long time, everyone still can't let go."

"It's not just these people who can't let go? How many people are busy with their livelihoods, and it's rare to come here to worship once. Most of these old people who stand in front of the stele all day now have lost all their relatives. They are lonely for half their lives, old and without support , if not for this stele to give them something to look forward to..." Fu Hao couldn't continue, and the thousand words turned into a sigh.

"Didn't the imperial court help these people?"

Xu Youxi clearly remembered that he had ordered officials from all over the country to be responsible for the resettlement of the families of the martyrs in the early court, and let Lord Yu be in charge of supervising the progress.

"Can money buy back the lives of relatives?" Fu Hao's eyes moved slightly, "...it is said that murder pays for life, how many lives does the dog emperor have to pay for the debt!"

The dog emperor that Fu Hao talked about was Xu Shengshi who was demoted to a common man.

Xu Youxi keenly sensed the flash of killing intent coming from Fu Hao, but soon, Fu Hao returned to his usual gentle and honest appearance.

"But, Fu Hao, have you heard a word?" Xu Youxi said suddenly, and looked at Fu Hao very seriously, "During an avalanche, no snowflake feels responsible."

After Fuhao tasted this sentence carefully, he didn't fully understand what Xu Youxi wanted to express.

"But in fact, this sentence can be interpreted as, in an avalanche, not a single snowflake is innocent." Xu Youxi stopped in his tracks, "Master Fu, I think 40 soldiers died in battle, could you be one of them?" What about a snowflake?"

For a while, Fu Hao couldn't even utter half a word of rebuttal.

"The last snowflake that fell also felt so innocent." Xu Youxi looked up at the sky, "If Emperor Chongjiu hadn't increased taxes for Daxing construction projects, if there hadn't been an ancestor emperor to distribute princes, if there were no factional disputes in the court, if there were no corrupt officials in the world... Officials, if the enemy country will not stare at you, if the rebel army cannot rise up, if there is no imperial conquest, yes, it would be better if there is no emperor."

Fu Hao fell into silence, and when he looked at Xu Youxi again, his eyes were complicated: "Li Si, you still think clearly, blame me for thinking too shallowly in the past."

"...Isn't it just a casual chat, what's so shallow? Where shall we go next?"

Xu Youxi's expression was as if nothing had happened, but in fact, he already had some doubts in his heart, whether Fu Hao already knew his identity.

The strangest thing is that Xu Youxi hasn't figured out what the "shanggong" these followers of the White Lotus Sect are talking about is what kind of work they are doing.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, hundreds of zongzi can be generously given away for free. The cost of buying glutinous rice, meat and zongzi leaves is not a small amount.

This White Lotus Sect is not easy.

(End of this chapter)