Immortality in the Great Qian Dynasty

Chu Ling looked at the Queen Mother: "Grandmother, you don't have to get it. Just ask the people from the outer courtyard of the Vajra Temple to deliver it. There's no need to be polite."

"Why don't you be polite?" The Queen Mother took a sip of porridge and nodded with satisfaction. It was exactly the taste she liked.

This Ling'er girl is really thoughtful. She is really filial, unlike those grandchildren who are superficial.

"Grandmother, it's only a few steps away from the palace gate."

"You..." The Queen Mother shook her head and said: "Based on Master Fakong's temper, will he say it loudly that this is for us?"

"I don't think so." Chu Ling thought about it and shook her head.

She thought that Fakong's actions should be low-key, making a fortune quietly, and sending the holy water to the palace would not be known to the world.

Although he sometimes acts in a high-profile manner, he always gives her a feeling of being low-key.

Steady and heavy, reliable and reassuring.

The Queen Mother smiled and said, "If we send someone to get it, instead of having them deliver it, then wouldn't outsiders know about it?"

"Of course." Chu Ling nodded.

"You say, if a small bottle is sold for one hundred taels of silver, do others really have no complaints?"

"Anyway, the rich think it's worth it, and they want him to raise the price, but he didn't, so he's conscientious."

"There are always people who think it's not worth it, right?"

"Well, those who are not that rich must think it's too expensive."

"They must think they are too greedy for money, so they are resentful, right?"

"...Yes." Chu Ling nodded.

"But if others see that we have been using the holy water in the palace, will they think that one hundred taels a bottle is worth it?"

"Yes!" Chu Ling nodded without hesitation.

The common people think that the things used in the palace are the best. Originally a very ordinary thing, but once the palace uses it, its value will double and become an extraordinary thing.

People must know about the effect of the holy water, but too many people don't know and think it's the stupidity of the rich.

After spending so much money to buy a bottle, even if it is very useful, it will feel too expensive.

But if the palace has been using the holy water, it will be different. Even if the effect is not so strong, it will feel good.

Not to mention that the holy water is so magical.

"This can appease people's hearts and eliminate hidden dangers to the greatest extent. We can't use other people's holy water for nothing, right?"

The queen mother has already drunk a few mouthfuls of porridge.

After the slightly hot porridge entered her stomach, it was warm and drove away the coldness of the body, as if she was in a warm spring.

Chu Ling suddenly realized and exclaimed: "Grandmother, the old ones are still the best!"

The Queen Mother smiled and said: "Girl Ling, if you want to live a good life, better than others, the most important thing is not martial arts. Don't be like your father who only wins by force. That is not the right way. The right way is to learn to understand people's hearts and minds, and follow the trend. What is the trend? It is the people's hearts, the hearts of most people."

"Yes, Grandmother!" Chu Ling smiled and said: "Grandmother, I think I have become much smarter after listening to this."

The Queen Mother laughed heartily.

She had drunk a bowl of porridge unknowingly.

She felt warm all over, and all the pores in her body seemed to be open, emitting cold air, and only the warm breath was left in her body.

All the internal organs were ironed, and all the meridians in her body were unobstructed. Her body seemed to be twice as light, as if a feather was about to float in the wind.

The body seemed to have returned to its youth in an instant. As she got older, she no longer had this feeling.

"It really deserves to be the holy water!" The Queen Mother sighed.

Chu Ling smiled and said, "Grandmother, are you comfortable?"

"Comfortable, very comfortable." The Queen Mother said, "Master Fakong is really a great monk, we must go today!"

"I'll leave in a while." Chu Ling stood up: "Then Grandmother, I'm going to have breakfast."

"Go ahead." The Queen Mother smiled and said, "Gong Qunying, you go back to Lingyun Palace with Ling'er, wait for her, and go to the outer courtyard of Jingang Temple with her."

"Yes, Queen." The tall and burly Gong Qunying seemed to have never existed, and only showed up when he spoke.

Chu Ling looked at Gong Qunying curiously: "Grandmother, General Manager Gong's cultivation is quite high."

She didn't care about the level of cultivation before, but now that she has practiced martial arts, she began to pay attention and felt that Gong Qunying was a top master.

"Old Gong has had a strange encounter, and his cultivation is indeed good." The Queen Mother smiled and said, "With him by your side, I feel relieved when I go out."

"What realm?" Chu Ling asked curiously, "Is he a grandmaster?"

"Yes..." The Queen Mother sighed with emotion and said, "It's been a long time, he is lucky, and I am lucky too. If it weren't for him..., I would have died long ago."

"It turns out that he saved my life." Chu Ling smiled and said, "It's hard to find such a thoughtful person."

"Ling'er girl, you don't have a eunuch by your side, right?" The Queen Mother shook her head, "Some rough work is too hard for girls to do, so you still need a eunuch."

Chu Ling smiled and said, "Grandmother, Xiaoxing and Xiaoyue are good, they also have martial arts skills, and they are enough to do rough work."

"Those two little girls are indeed talented, and you have good vision."

"Then I really want to go this time, Grandmother."

"Go, go." The Queen Mother waved her hand with a smile.

Chu Ling left lightly, and the tall and burly Gong Qunying bowed to the Queen Mother, then followed Chu Ling and disappeared from the Queen Mother's sight.

The Queen Mother was in a rare high spirit, so she went to the Buddhist temple at the back and chanted Buddhist scriptures for a quarter of an hour.

The Buddhist temple is located on the west side of Yonghe Palace, and is connected to Yonghe Palace by a moon gate so that it can be visited at any time.

After reciting the sutra, she had just left the main hall when she saw King Xin Chuxiang standing at the foot of the steps.

Wearing a purple robe with gold dragon embroidered on the chest, she looks 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 Grandma Huang for a while. Grandma Huang 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, and I can't help myself with some things."

"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: "It's really difficult to change your temper like your grandfather's. No matter how much you suffer, you can't change it."

Among these grandchildren, Chu Xiang's temperament was most similar to that of the Supreme Emperor, 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 teaches is that your 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. Has her husband changed his temper in his lifetime?

When he first took over 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 lady." The Queen Mother pointed at him with a smile.

Chu Xiang said sheepishly: "It's a big deal."

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 figure flashed and 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 technique 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 can be 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 it can be confirmed intellectually, it is impossible to accept it emotionally.

What's more, there is no ironclad 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 sighed: "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 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 myself.

"Be careful, he is not an ordinary person. He encountered an unexpected encounter as a young man and has been focusing on his cultivation. His cultivation in these years is unfathomable."

"Yes." Chu Xiang agreed, turned and left.

We must rush over quickly to prevent Gong Qunying from returning to the Forbidden Palace.

Master Fakong will never go near the Forbidden Palace. When the time comes, he will die if he deals with Gong Qunying alone.

At this time, Fakong was entertaining Chu Ling and Gong Qunying in his own courtyard outside the Vajra Temple.