Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

After the Triumph Ceremony, in order to show his kindness, the emperor will set up a state banquet in the palace to welcome the heroes who have made great contributions to the court and show their utmost kindness.

For this level of banquet, although officials above the fifth rank are eligible to participate, they can only stay in the outer hall as a foil. Only the protagonists of the triumphal ceremony and senior officials above the third rank can really have dinner with the emperor.

For example, the servants and ministers of the six departments, the minister of Dali Temple, and the governor of Shuntian Fu.

Naturally, Lu Chen would not be absent.

Not only that, he also sat on the lower right seat of the empress with his achievements second only to Gu Simiao, only a few steps away from the empress.

Gu Simiao, who was sitting on the left side of the empress, was not so close.

A series of exquisite dishes and cups of mellow wine were brought up by the maids and placed in front of everyone, and then a beautiful, gentle and moving dancer floated in and danced in the hall.

While enjoying the delicious food, everyone watched the dance, raised their glasses from time to time, and made a toast to the Empress, the Holy King of Cangming and Gu Simiao, and their words were full of praises.

But in this increasingly heated atmosphere, Lu Chen frowned slightly, his eyes became more and more distracted, and his attention was not on the beautiful dancer not far away, and he seemed to be thinking about something.

Although his hands were picking up the vegetables, they were only mechanically sending the food into his mouth.

The taste is like chewing wax.

"Lu Qing."

The empress quickly noticed that he was restless, looking thoughtful, and called out softly.

Lu Chen quickly recovered and turned to look at the empress.

But before he could speak, the empress smiled and said:

"Lu Qing is so absent-minded, but is he thinking about the court affairs?"

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Hearing her question, Lu Chen couldn't help coughing a few times, and an imperceptible embarrassment flashed in the corner of his eyes.

He has already dealt with official business and so on.

And it's not just fooling around, but the kind that handles it properly as much as possible.

In fact, since he entered Yuzhou, he has never slackened in his official duties, and has been doing his best to do his best. Although there is a reason for wanting to die from overwork, he also has the idea of ​​benefiting the world.

After all, these two things do not conflict at all, and can even be said to complement each other. They can not only do what they can for the suffering people living in this ancient world of Gaowu, but also create opportunities for the road to immortality. Why not do it? ?

Although the affairs of the engineering department are relatively heavy, and he has to take care of the affairs of the official department under the special care of the empress.

But compared to an overview of Yuzhou's military affairs, he handled all affairs in Yuzhou in an orderly manner, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent stability of the people and the development of the people's livelihood. Naturally, the six subjects were not difficult for him.

Just now, he was simply thinking about the official title system in Daxia, and distinguishing the relationship between official titles and titles.

However, it is impossible for him to say such a thing, anyway, it is not the first time riding a king, so it doesn't matter.

So he nodded lightly, borrowed the slope to go down the donkey tunnel and said:

"To tell you the truth, my minister's ability is not good, and the efficiency of handling official duties is very slow on weekdays, far from being as fast as my colleagues. No matter how diligent I am, I can't ensure that I can handle all the affairs of the day properly. When I was on duty yesterday , there are some official documents piled up in Weichen's public room that I didn't have time to process."

"Originally, I thought that after the victory ceremony, I would immediately go back to the public office to avoid delaying state affairs, but I didn't expect it."

Regarding Lu Chen's entanglement, the empress shook her head and said softly: "Don't worry about it, Lu Qing. You have only been in the court for a few months, and the affairs of the court are complicated and heavy. It is normal to be slower. This does not mean that your ability is insufficient, but You are pursuing perfection, so don't be too hard on yourself, and"

Having said that, she narrowed her eyes inexplicably, and then looked around, her tone of voice became inexplicably meaningful.

"It's not necessarily a bad thing to do things slowly, and it's not necessarily a good thing to do things quickly."

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Hearing these mysterious words, some courtiers involuntarily tightened their grip on the wine glasses in their hands.

The empress said again: "Okay, Lu Qing, today's feast is a celebration banquet for the heroes who have made great contributions to the court. Lu Qing, you are one of the great heroes who killed the demon queen's party feathers. If you can't indulge in it, this feast will be a feast for you." What's the point?"

"Let's put aside official duties for now, relax and enjoy this rare celebration."

The boss has already talked about this, what else can Lu Chen say?

I had no choice but to pack up my mood and nod in response.

However, after Gu Simiao heard Lu Chen's words, the scene of exterminating evil spirits and saving that seemingly ordinary boy during the training in Beiji gradually came to mind. .

What she said to the boy on a whim at that time was also dug out from the depths of her memory at this time.

At this moment, the Zhicheng gentleman sitting opposite her gradually overlapped with the young man with a vague impression in his mind.

"At the beginning, it was just a casual remark, but he did everything for it, just to accumulate karmic merits and help me achieve the Dao."

"This man is so stupid."

The fine wine in the glass swayed gently, and after a burst of ripples, her soft little face was reflected again.

At this time, she couldn't see a trace of her usual coolness.

Recalling what the Holy King Cangming told her on the way back to Beijing, Lu Chen's bizarre rise from blatantly being loyal to the empress in the court, and letting the queen mother return to power, the corners of her mouth could not help but slightly twitch.

"But I don't hate fools."

However, she who focused all her attention on Lu Chen didn't notice that the empress sitting on the top glanced at her imperceptibly.

"Speak."

When everyone was pushing and changing cups for a new round, the empress suddenly spoke.

"Gu Aiqing, four days ago, your mother asked to see me, and I met her for Lu Qing's sake, and then she cried to me, saying that you actually don't like Zhao Feifan, the eldest son of the Zhao family, and even treat him extremely. In order to avoid him, he even made excuses to join the army in the treacherous barren state."

"Besides, when you just left the sect and returned to Nanpi, a brother from the same sect often came to look for you, walked the rivers and lakes with you, and defended the way. Your mother said that he was the one you liked. The reason why you agreed to Zhao The extraordinary pursuit is because after she learned that Zhao Feifei fell in love with you at first sight, because she was afraid of the power of the demon queen, in order to protect the Gu family, she forced you to die and asked you to sever contact with that senior brother of the same school and marry Zhao Feifei , is that the case?"

As soon as these words came out, the surroundings instantly fell silent.

Almost all the courtiers looked at Gu Simiao at the same time.

Lu Chen, who had just poured himself a glass of wine, didn't react when he heard this, instead he chatted with the Holy King who had taken off half of his visor, obviously completely ignorant of this kind of thing. Not of any interest.

He actually doesn't have much ill feeling towards the No. 2 back stabber, the Holy King.

After all, if you think about it carefully, she is the one who is truly loyal and unparalleled. In order to help the empress control the world, she not only led the army from a long distance to support the empress to control the entire Sili area, but also sent some loyal officials and generals in the Cangming realm Transferred to the empress to let her dictate, once something happened in the barren state, she immediately led the army to go.

Moreover, Fu Yu and others helped him a lot in Yuzhou. As long as he gave an order, Fu Yu, Fang Yu and other Yuancangming soldiers would go through fire and water for him without hesitation.

Although it doesn't matter whether they help this favor or not, it's better if they don't help, but this friendship, no matter how much he regrets the chance to directly ascend to immortality, after the matter is over, he still has to remember it when he calms down.

Therefore, Lu Chen didn't reject Fu Yu's old boss so much.

After all, they don't know about the system.

The Holy King glanced at Gu Simiao curiously, but he just glanced away before looking away.

Obviously, like Lu Chen, he is not very interested in this kind of gossip.

Hearing the topic suddenly brought up by the empress, Gu Simiao couldn't help but startled.

After reacting, he couldn't help but be speechless to his old mother.

Obviously she took the initiative to arrange for herself to meet Zhao Feifei, and then she tried every means to get herself to meet Zhao Feifan, rejecting Senior Brother Tian Lei who took good care of her when she was in the sect, but in her mouth, the responsibility was not It was completely left to Zhao Feifan.

To be reasonable, although Zhao Feifan is not very good either in character or talent, this pot really does not belong to him.

It was all the fault of her lackluster old lady, otherwise she must be the same person who devoted herself to eliminating demons and defending Taoism, and often wandered the rivers and lakes with like-minded righteous people, just to rid the world of all evil. 】.

The empress' words made her subconsciously recall the past.

After a while, she couldn't help but sighed, and then subconsciously glanced at Lu Chen, seeing that his face didn't change at all, she couldn't help but frowned slightly.

"Return to His Majesty."

Gu Simiao nodded, and said: "Mother is right. I really don't like Zhao Feifan. The reason why I found an excuse to go to the barren state to join the army was to avoid his entanglement."

Naturally, it is impossible for her to dismantle the old lady at this time.

No matter how you say it is her mother, no matter how much you don't like her, at most you can just hide, it is impossible to take the initiative to harm her.

"That's it"

The empress picked up the wine glass on the table that contained milk that is extremely rare in Daxia, took a sip in a decent way, and said softly:

"I didn't expect Gu Aiqing, who is famous all over the world, to have such a bitter past. She was forced to separate from her lover by the demon queen, but now everything is over. Now that the demon queen is dead, and the rest of the party are all punished, and then And no one can stop you from becoming a Taoist couple with your lover."

Speaking of this, she paused inexplicably, her moving eyes moved slightly sideways, and then continued: "And Gu Aiqing has made such great contributions to the court, I will never treat you badly, the grievances Gu Aiqing suffered in the court back then , I will make it up for you, and tomorrow, I will personally decree to grant a marriage, so that Gu Aiqing and her lover will finally get married."

"Your Majesty misunderstood."

Gu Simiao denied it calmly: "Weichen and Senior Brother Tian just have a good relationship, they are not lovers, and"

"Since getting engaged to Zhao Feifan, Weichen has never seen Senior Brother Tian again."

Hearing this, the empress couldn't help but startled.

At this time, Gu Simiao said again: "It is estimated that my mother misunderstood our relationship when she saw me getting close to Senior Brother Tian. In fact, Wei Chen never said that Senior Brother Tian was Wei Chen's favorite person. Wei Chen explained it to her. But she didn't believe it at all, that's why she misunderstood, please don't blame my mother, Your Majesty."

As these words fell, the melon rotted so lightly.

"I see."

The Empress' complexion returned to normal.

He picked up the milk on the table again and drank it in one gulp.

"Then, does Gu Aiqing have someone she likes who was forced to separate because of Zhao Feifan's incident? If so, please tell me. I will definitely hold an unprecedented grand wedding for Gu Aiqing."

Hearing this, Gu Simiao suddenly felt amused.

this little girl

Obviously, he was able to cross the sea under the nose of the demon queen, and after continuously accumulating strength, at the last moment, he counter-killed the demon queen and regained the world, and after taking power, he also showed the wise and martial arts that a king who is the master of rejuvenation should possess , but showed flaws in such trivial matters.

Shaking his head, Gu Simiao said indifferently: "Returning to Your Majesty, since I came to the barren state, I have put my children's private affairs behind me. For the humble ministers at that time, apart from respecting the king and fighting against barbarians, I would do my best to punish foreigners." Other than that, there is only martial arts left."

Hearing this answer, the Empress remained calm.

"That's a pity. Gu Aiqing's focus on martial arts is somewhat similar to Xiao Aiqing's focus on the holy way. Could it be that you, like Xiao Aiqing, are ready to use the Tao as your companion and seek the ultimate truth of heaven and earth?"

"That's not true."

Gu Simiao shook her head again.

"This humble official can't compare to Xiao Shangshu, a strange woman who studies heaven and man, and her dedication to martial arts is just a helpless act of this humble official, and"

Having said that, she suddenly narrowed her eyes, and a meaningful smile flashed in the corner of her eyes.

"Weichen just doesn't have any lovers who separated because of Zhao Feifan's matter, it's not that he doesn't have any lovers."

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"oh?"

The wine glass in the female emperor's hand shook, and then she asked in surprise: "Does the Gu Qing family have someone in mind?"

Gu Simiao smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Yes."

After a pause, she suddenly raised her wine glass and bowed towards the empress.

"Your Majesty's kindness, I appreciate it, but let's forget about the marriage. Although I have a deep affection for that person, he has extremely lofty ideals in his heart. For him at this time, the love of children Growth will only slow down his footsteps, so before he realizes his ambition, Weichen doesn't intend to show his heart."

"Of course, as the emperor of the world, your majesty is the king's land in the whole world, and the king's ministers on the coast of the land. Your majesty can decide all the affairs of the world with one word, and no one can violate them. But as the saying goes, twisted melons are not sweet. , what I appreciate and like is him as a person, not his body, so please don't mention this matter again, and don't ask who that person is, I don't want these things to bother him."

As soon as the words fell, the little hands under the empress' dragon robe tightened inexplicably.

"Well, according to what Gu Aiqing said, let's pretend that I never said anything about this matter."