novelden Chapter 748 Shaobai 21
Chapter 748 Shaobai 21
Nangong Chunshui knows more than just the Dachun Gong. If he abandons the Dachun Gong, he will lose the effect of immortality, but it will be easier for him to stay with his lover Luoshui for the rest of his life.
So he passed through the sixteen floors of the Dengtian Pavilion, and standing on the top of the pavilion, he finally saw Luo Shui who came to take him away.
Luo Shui is a beautiful woman dressed in red with a cinnabar mole on her forehead. She has an unparalleled appearance and superb swordsmanship. Li Changsheng is rare, but Luo Shui is no less capable. No wonder Nangong Chunshui is willing to give up his Dachun skills to show his sincerity.
Because Nangong Chunshui never said that he abandoned Dachun Gong for Luoshui, but said that it was his sincerity to Luoshui. Although Jiang Xinxin did not deliberately listen to what he was saying to Luoshui at this moment, he turned to Baili Dongjun and Sikong Changfeng, the two disciples of Nangong Chunshui, and said: "I agree to this marriage!"
Ye Dingzhi choked on his own saliva when he heard this, "Master, they didn't need your consent in the first place..."
Sikong Changfeng closed his eyes and sighed secretly: "Yuan Xin means that she is optimistic about the relationship and future between Master and Master's Wife."
Baili Dongjun thought of Yueyao and couldn't help but feel a little depressed: "So, Yuan Xin doesn't think highly of Yueyao and me?"
Sikong Changfeng sighed. It was not appropriate for him to say anything unhappy during such a happy occasion, so he could only shut up.
Luo Shui understood Nangong Chunshui's intentions, and of course the two of them put aside their past grudges. Luo Shui saw four people waiting for Nangong Chunshui, so he asked, "Who are these four people?"
Nangong Chunshui replied, "That little girl is the young celestial master who has just entered the trance of Wangcheng Mountain. It seems that she will succeed the position of the headmaster of Wangcheng Mountain in less than two years. The man in blue on her left is her apprentice Ye Yun Ye Dingzhi, the son of Beili Military God Ye Yu, and he has now reached the realm of free and easy cultivation."
"The other two are my disciples. The one in white is Baili Dongjun, the only grandson of the Marquis of Zhenxi. He once worshipped the Confucian Immortal Gu Chen of Western Chu as his master. He is also in the realm of free and easy heaven and calls himself the Drunken Sword Immortal. The other one is Sikong Changfeng. He has been a disciple of the Medicine King Xin Baicao for a short time. His medical skills are really good. As you can see, his weapon is a spear. In the future, he will definitely become a unique spear immortal."
Luo Shui is now half a step into the realm of divine wandering. Now that he has met someone in the realm of divine wandering other than Nangong Chunshui, he naturally wants to have a good discussion with them, so he personally went down to the Dengtian Pavilion to invite Jiang Xinxin to visit the City Lord's Mansion.
Of course Jiang Xinxin agreed. If she came to Xueyue City but didn't enter the City Lord's Mansion, she was afraid that her trip would be in vain.
Luo Shui also learned from Nangong Chunshui that Jiang Xinxin wanted to compile a pharmacopoeia, and also knew that Nangong Chunshui had taken on the task of compiling all the medicinal materials within a hundred miles of Xueyue City, so from the moment he sat down, he began to praise Jiang Xinxin.
At this moment, Jiang Xinxin regretted leaving Ye Dingzhi like Baili Dongjun and Sikong Changfeng in Dengtian Pavilion, and letting them pass Dengtian Pavilion before entering the upper pass. At least with Ye Dingzhi present, he could ease the atmosphere.
Nangong Chunshui rarely saw Jiang Xinxin in such an awkward situation, and he never thought of helping her to smooth things over. He just watched Jiang Xinxin accept all kinds of praise from Luo Shui with an embarrassed look on her face. He would even help her out from time to time and give some facts to support Luo Shui's praise.
However, with Luo Shui's full support, Jiang Xinxin could finally use the papermaking technique she had dreamed of.
In fact, paper is already circulating in the market nowadays, but it is too expensive. Only the royal families of Beili and Nanjue can use it at will. Although officials and aristocratic families can also use it, the supply of paper has always been very tight.
The two papers Jiang Xinxin took out were bamboo paper and mulberry bark paper.
Both bamboo and paulownia are very common plants with short growing periods and are easy to supply.
When Luo Shui saw it, he couldn't help but gasp and his face turned red with excitement.
She originally thought that even with Nangong Chunshui and his disciples in Xueyue City, it would be difficult to keep such a valuable thing. But she was reluctant to let it go, so she gritted her teeth, took out paper, pen and token, and exchanged half of Xueyue City for the two papermaking recipes.
Jiang Xinxin held down Luo Shui's hand as he was about to write the contract, and said bluntly: "I have a big plan. I want every living person to have the opportunity to read and write, so this paper is absolutely indispensable."
"And if you exchange half of Snow Moon City for my recipe, how many people will lose the opportunity to study and learn to read?"
Luo Shui's breathing stagnated, and so did Nangong Chunshui. The two looked at each other in horror, and saw the extreme surprise and fear in each other's eyes.
Nangong Chunshui unconsciously lowered his voice and said, "I never knew that you, Little Heavenly Master, not only care about the country and the people, but also want to destroy the foundation of the family!"
Jiang Xinxin said indifferently: "What's good about this world where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer?"
"Of course, taking too big a step can easily lead to injury. That's just one of my long-term goals, and it's too early to say anything now. But whether it takes three hundred years or five hundred years, I hope that there will always be people working towards this goal."
Anyway, Jiang Xinxin was extremely satisfied with this trip to Xueyue City. Firstly, she tied up Nangong Chunshui and all the forces behind him to bear witness for her, proving that she was a good person who cared about the country and the people, and was a well-deserved Heavenly Master and Head Sect Leader; secondly, she obtained the help of Nangong Chunshui and all the forces behind him to do many things she wanted to do.
Of course, the most important thing is the third one: to hide himself perfectly behind Nangong Chunshui's power, so that he would not be discovered and feared by Emperor Tai'an, nor would he be feared and guarded against by the next emperor Xiao Ruofeng.
Xiao Ruofeng is certainly a good man in the secular sense. He values friendship and loyalty, has perseverance, knows good and evil, and distinguishes right from wrong. He is not overly jealous of evil, so as a prince he also has a broad mass base. Who in the world doesn't know his name as the Prince of Langya and the young master of the Jixia Academy?
But such a seemingly perfect crown prince may not necessarily be a good emperor, because he has not yet seen through the situation in the court. Even his love for the people like his own children only stays on the surface of punishing corrupt officials.
But Emperor Tai'an has only a few princes, and Xiao Ruofeng is the tallest one chosen by Jiang Xinxin from a group of dwarfs after weighing the pros and cons. She can't just look for trouble and raise the banner of rebellion!
Jiang Xinxin slept very soundly that night, but Luo Shui and Nangong Chunshui couldn't sleep all night.
Both of them were amazed at Jiang Xinxin's thoughts, and even more impressed by her courage to think and act.
Nangong Chunshui said: "When the little Tianshi was just born, a ray of light fell into her home, and then another child was born. However, Wangcheng Mountain decided that the little Tianshi was the one with good fortune favored by the heavens. Although the little Tianshi's brothers were also brought into Wangcheng Mountain, the little Tianshi's position was very stable."
"After listening to the so-called fortune-telling, I just felt it was ridiculous. It said that after the little Taoist priest came down the mountain, there would be a river of blood. Now looking back, everything is actually arranged by God. If the little Taoist priest had made a mistake, I'm afraid there would really be a scene of a river of blood!"
Luo Shui also understood what Nangong Chunshui meant. He used to think that the so-called destiny was absurd because Wangcheng Mountain, as a Taoist resort as famous as Huanglong Mountain, could never cultivate a disciple with ambitions for power and the world, so he felt that destiny was unreliable.
But now that Jiang Xinxin has demonstrated her ability to dig into the roots of aristocratic families, he has changed his previous opinion.
In fact, there are some things that Nangong Chunshui didn't say to Luo Shui, which is that Jiang Xinxin not only wants to destroy the foundation of the family, her ultimate goal is to shake the imperial power!