Great Zhou Empire: Kill Zhao Kuangyin at the beginning

Chapter 430: Dust-covered Thoughts (Special thanks to the book friend Gao Zhan for his 2 monthly tickets!)

Chai Zongxun pondered for a moment, thinking about how many important ministers and generals who had been in harmony with the emperor had left in the past 30 years since he ascended the throne, and he couldn't help but feel nostalgic.

Chai Zongxun began to chant:
"Magnolia
The pond water is green and the wind is warm, I remember the first time we met. The song is resounding, and the red waist is spinning wildly.

Under the jade hook railing and beside the fragrant steps, I was drunk and didn’t know the sun was setting. The people who admired the flowers with me at that time, now only half of them are left.

As soon as he finished reciting, there was a burst of applause from the crowd.

Chai Zongxun smiled and waved to the people, then returned to the palace surrounded by He Yao and others.

After walking for more than two quarters of an hour, they arrived at the intersection of Tongqu Street. Chai Zongxun stopped and looked at the building of "Baoen Temple" not far on the north side of the intersection.

He Yao bowed and said:
"Your Majesty, it's still early now. Should we go and see our old friend?"

Chai Zongxun smiled and said:
"Little Six, you know my mind so well again?"

He Yao smiled and said:

"The pond water is green and the breeze is warm, I remember the first time we met Yu Zhen.

I have arranged everything for Yuzhen and have been waiting for Your Majesty to see her again."

Chai Zongxun nodded, thinking of the "swaying grace" of Mo Zang Liuyun when she knelt naked on the bed to pay her respects when they parted that day. He couldn't help but be moved, and immediately turned north at the intersection and walked towards the "Baoen Temple".

After walking for about half a minute, we arrived at the south gate of the main entrance of "Bao'en Temple".

The imperial guards guarding the gate were informed, saluted, paid their respects to the emperor, and then stepped aside.

Chai Zongxun walked into Baoen Temple surrounded by his attendants.

Baoen Temple covers a large area, and its layout is similar to the Big Dipper, with seven main halls. Near each of the seven main halls, there are seven side halls, and the whole Taoist temple has 49 halls.

Led by Xiao Liuzi, Chai Zongxun approached the "Yaoguang Palace" located at the easternmost part of the dipper handle. At this time, there were two eunuchs and two palace maids guarding the palace door.

After receiving the notification, the four eunuchs and palace maids realized that the emperor had arrived. After paying their respects, they were about to go in and inform Mo Zang Liuyun, but Chai Zongxun waved his hand to stop them.

Chai Zongxun, surrounded by eunuchs and palace maids such as Xiao Liuzi, walked into the Yaoguang Hall, while Chen Jixing and other imperial guards were guarding the hall and the roof.

Chai Zongxun walked to the main wing and pushed the door open. He saw a graceful female Taoist priest sitting at the table, concentrating on embroidering and completely unaware of his arrival.

Chai Zongxun smiled and said:
"Liuyun! What are you embroidering?"

When Mo Zang Liuyun heard this, he stood up and looked over in surprise. When he saw that it was Chai Zongxun, tears welled up in his eyes. He bowed and said:
“Greetings, Your Majesty!
I didn't know that Your Majesty was coming, and I didn't come to greet you. Please forgive me!

I was just embroidering for fun."

Chai Zongxun walked forward, stretched out his hand to pull up Mo Zang Liuyun, and sat down together in front of the table and chairs. He picked up the embroidery spread on the table and looked at it.

The silk was about two feet wide and five feet long, and nearly half of it was embroidered with mountains and rivers. Judging from the terrain and the sand and gravel on the ground, it should be from the Gaochang area.

In the center, a palace is depicted in the distance, and judging by the layout, it is the Gaochang Palace. In the main hall of the harem, a man and a woman are vaguely seen sitting hand in hand in front of the window. Although the outline is very thin, it can be seen that the two people are the images of Chai Zongxun and Mo Zang Liuyun. Chai Zongxun sighed:
"My dear, I ordered you to enter the "Pao En Temple" to practice as a female Taoist priest. You are all alone. Do you resent me in your heart?"

Mei Zang Liuyun looked straight into Chai Zongxun's eyes and said tenderly:

"No matter how your majesty arranges me, I have no complaints in my heart. As long as your majesty comes to the Taoist temple to see me occasionally, I will be happy to endure all the sufferings!"

Chai Zongxun felt somewhat touched but also a little hesitant. These words were said by Mo Zang just to please himself.

Mei Zang Liuyun seemed to have read Chai Zongxun's heart from his eyes. He took Chai Zongxun's right hand and placed it on the top of his heart, then slowly opened up his heart:
“When Your Majesty sent troops to conquer Liugufan, I was only ten years old.

At that time, my father had already surrendered to the Great Zhou, and he had discussed with my mother at home that when I grew up a few years, I would be presented to the palace to serve Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, please don't laugh at me. Although I was only ten years old at that time, I had already kept Your Majesty in my heart. I even imagined the first time I met Your Majesty when I was a few years older...

Who would have thought that within February, His Majesty's imperial decree came to abolish the serfdom system in the Liugufan area. My father was unwilling to see the Tibetan people's system change after a thousand years, and in a fit of anger, he led his servants in a rebellion.

Your Majesty knows what happened later. I fled with my family to Gaochang, and when I was seventeen, I was chosen to be a concubine in the palace."

Chai Zongxun felt Mo Zang Liuyun's steady and regular heartbeat with his right palm, and felt that he was connected to her by blood.

Mei Zang Liu Yun's voice was like a dream, and he said:
"Your Majesty, please don't blame me for having wild thoughts. When I was in Gaochang, I often heard of your majesty's reputation for conquering the world, and at that time I often thought in my heart:
If my father had not rebelled against the Great Zhou, and if I had been able to enter the Great Zhou Palace and serve Your Majesty with my beauty a few years later, would everything have been completely different?

With your majesty's care for me, will I no longer have to worry about the ups and downs in the harem, and no longer have to worry about the safety and survival of myself and my children?

Your Majesty, do you now believe that I have said nothing false to you?"

After Mei Zang Liuyun finished speaking, he was already crying uncontrollably.

Chai Zongxun was deeply moved, and felt that the softest part of his heart was touched by Mo Zang Liuyun. He was also quite stimulated by the strange difference in identity between him and Mo Zang Liuyun.

Chai Zongxun hugged Mei Zang Liuyun's delicate and graceful body tightly and sighed:
"So Ai Ji has gone through such a journey! No wonder when we first met in the Gaochang Palace that day, I heard Ai Ji say that she regretted not having met me back then!"

Looking at Mei Zang's peerless beauty that was as tearful as pear blossoms in the rain, Chai Zongxun could no longer hold back and lowered his head to kiss her madly, his hands moving all over her body.

They kissed passionately for a while and then lay down on the bed.

Mei Zang Liuyun took off his clothes and said gently:
"Your Majesty works hard for the country every day, so let me serve you and enjoy the ultimate happiness!"

……

At the time of Si on January 16, when Chai Zongxun returned to the palace incognito, as soon as he walked to the Qingshou Hall, he saw his cousin Fu Zhenzhen, Diwu Chaolu and Princess Jialuo standing in front of the hall door in anger.

Needless to say, Princess Jialuo, who knew well about the affair between Chai Zongxun and Mo Zang Liuyun, saw that Emperor Chai Zongxun had not returned all night, and after finding out that he had gone to the "Bao'en Temple", she complained to the two queens.

Chai Zongxun felt embarrassed:
“It is true that ‘a wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a secret lover, and a secret lover is not as good as not being able to steal at all’. The more a person cannot get something, the more he or she yearns for it.

Once you have it, no matter how beautiful or rare it is, you will feel it is bland and you won’t treasure it anymore!”

(End of this chapter)