From a son-in-law to a favorite of the empress

Chapter 940

Love is such a wonderful word.

It contains so much information and emotions that it cannot be defined and is always confusing.

Someone saw a beautiful girl on the street and said love.

An old couple stayed together for a lifetime, and when they were about to die, they looked at each other and said love.

Zhou Yuan couldn't tell what love is, nor could he explain what kind of love is right.

Is there right or wrong?

It's really complicated.

He held the hand of the eldest sister and said slowly: "Do I love you? I don't know."

"An eighteen-year-old young man, a poor scholar who couldn't even get enough food, married into the family as a live-in son-in-law according to the marriage contract."

"His wife made three rules with him, requiring him not to sleep in the same room, and disliked his lack of ambition."

"He was weak and skinny, as if a small illness could take his life."

"He passively participated in the poetry meeting, but felt that he was out of place and couldn't find any sense of belonging."

"He went up the mountain and arrived at Baiyun Temple."

"He was like that... and met you like that."

"A white dress, stained with moonlight, a delicate face, and a gentle smile."

Speaking of this, Zhou Yuan shook his head and laughed, sighing: "I don't know what love at first sight is, but I know very well that at that moment, a light seemed to appear in my life."

"Just a glance, just being illuminated for a moment, I feel very warm."

Empress Zhao Jing looked at him and smiled in the same way.

Zhou Yuan continued, "That ray of light gave the young man a lot of strength, allowing him to persist in practicing hard in the mountains."

"The jade pendant was soaked with his sweat, but it always brought him a trace of cool comfort in his tiredness and exhaustion."

"With vague fantasies and vague hopes in my heart, I walked forward ignorantly."

"I walked and walked until I reached Shenjing, and finally knew the truth."

Zhou Yuan laughed and said, "The truth makes people happy, because someone has always led the way for the young man."

"Someone holds the lamp for his ideal in his heart."

"He walked side by side with the moonlight, encountered difficulties and setbacks, but kept moving forward, and everything was moving in a good direction."

"For the small reward she gave him and for his own ideals, the young man worked hard and was full of passion."

"Is this love?"

"If this is not love, then what is love?"

Empress Zhaojing hugged his neck, with only a thousand tenderness in her eyes.

Zhou Yuan said: "But the ups and downs came again. The unexpected backstab made the young man almost unable to stand."

"With hatred, he swore countless times that he would never forgive and never look back."

Empress Zhaojing trembled and lowered her head.

Zhou Yuan said: "So he pretended to be friendly, so he looked like he was in love with her, and contradictions began to grow. Although the light tried its best to shine on him, he could no longer trust her."

"He didn't dare to gamble again. He didn't want to be deceived again."

"He wanted to make his own decision and look forward to one day, standing in front of the light with the most powerful attitude and telling her - you did it wrong!"

The past events of the morning and the evening, Zhou Yuan's heavy tone made Empress Zhaojing shed tears.

She shook her head, unable to defend herself, and looked helpless.

Zhou Yuan continued: "After a long time, the boy finally accomplished the greatest feat and stood firm."

"He could complete his revenge for the backstabbing, but in the process of growing up, he found out...it turned out that the light was not wrong, she was just sick, just polluted."

"The real mistake was not her, but the invisible thing that shackled people's thoughts, the thing that has poisoned the world for thousands of years."

"She is not the murderer, she is the victim."

"She is sick, very sick."

"So the boy wants to cure her."

"Is this love? If this is not love, then what is love?"

Empress Zhao Jing cried out, hugged Zhou Yuan and trembled, and her hot tears had wet his clothes.

She trembled and said, "I'm sorry... I was wrong... I don't know why I did that. At that time, I just felt that the world was in trouble and I just felt that I had to take back the power."

"I was afraid that you would help Prince Fu. I wanted to remove you from this situation and force you to go to the south."

"I don't know, I'm very confused. I might have been sick at that time."

She looked at Zhou Yuan and cried very suppressedly: "Junior brother, if you love me, if you really don't blame me, please save me... I don't know what to do... I can't save myself..."

Zhou Yuan shook his head and said, "I can't save you."

"I can only tell you something,I can only help you find answers to some things. "

"Save, only you can save yourself."

Empress Zhaojing said: "What answer?"

Zhou Yuan said: "Whatever question you have, I have the answer."

Empress Zhaojing thought for a while, then said: "Why not usurp the throne? You can do it."

Zhou Yuan said: "Because I have never thought about being an emperor, and I don't like being an emperor. I just hope that the world can become better and the nation can become prosperous, just like you did in the past."

Empress Zhaojing said: "But you and Qinshui gave birth to a son, and the surname is Chen."

Zhou Yuan smiled and said: "Surname Chen, on the one hand, Qinshui's status is not easy to give, on the other hand, it doesn't matter what the child's surname is."

Empress Zhaojing said: "Isn't the surname Chen for inheriting the throne?"

Zhou Yuan said: "When he inherits the throne, the throne will not be the throne it is now. ”

“Guan Lu once asked me why I didn’t change the dynasty and become a great ancestor, and go down in history.”

“I answered that I didn’t want to change the dynasty, but the era.”

“The former is insignificant to me, and the latter is my ideal.”

Empress Zhao Jing frowned and said, “I don’t quite understand.”

Zhou Yuan said, “The people are suffering? Why? Because of centralization, because of corrupt officials, and because of low productivity.”

“If we change the emperor, even if he is a wise ruler, will there be no centralization? Will the officials be better? Will productivity be improved?”

“It’s useless. If I become the emperor, will my son be a wise ruler in the future? There are too many examples of repetition in history, and none of them can cure the root cause.”

“So, I want to change the nature of this position, so that the emperor no longer has the ability to centralize power, and the emperor cannot be the master of the people.”

“But this is not so easy to do. It’s not that I, Zhou Yuan, stand up and say what the emperor should do. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Yuan laughed and said softly: "There are steps to do things. If you take too big a step, you will easily get into trouble."

"So I have to quell the rebellion first and make peace here."

"Then lay out new laws to give this place a basic economic foundation."

"Control the salt and officials, change the natives to the officials, open the sea for trade, and make this place prosperous."

"Only prosperity can create a prosperous humanities, which is also the goal of my reform of the Imperial Academy."

"The prosperity of humanities will promote the prosperity of ideas, and the prosperity of ideas can shake the deep-rooted people's hearts."

"After a few decades, a new generation will appear, and people's hearts will change, which will form a torrent that changes the times."

"At that time, the emperor will not be the emperor of today, and the real change of the times will have an economic and cultural foundation. "

Looking at the beautiful scenery around, Zhou Yuan whispered: "The economic foundation is there, the people are rich, the cultural foundation is there, and the people are smart. If anyone dares to ride on their heads and bully them, the people's hearts that have long changed will drive them to rebel. "

"At that time, the world no longer needs Zhou Yuan, because everyone is Zhou Yuan. "

"This is my ideal. What I want to do is not to stand at the highest point, but to make everyone stand in the same place as me. "

"I want to make the people of my Dajin like dragons. "

Speaking of this, he lowered his head to look at the girl in his arms and whispered: "This is the real... for the world, for the people. Like your original intention, like you used to look. "

The moonlight set him with a layer of silver frame, making his eyes and his outline glow.

Empress Zhaojing looked at him and couldn't help but lean over and kissed him gently at the corner of his mouth.

She laughed and said gently: "I didn't understand what I heard, but I seemed to feel something. "

"I want to learn from you slowly and follow your pace. "

"I am the emperor, let me help you, slowly kill the emperor."

She held Zhou Yuan's hand, both hands tightly clasped, the palm of her hand was the jade pendant from that year.

Empress Zhaojing smiled and said: "Divine doctor, you cured Empress Zhaojing, she found Guan Miaoshan."