Chapter 252: Each person has their own heart, yet they do not think thus

Spring colors are just new, a thin chill invades the sleeves.

Outside the camp, faint sounds of training drift in, yet they cannot pierce the stagnation inside the tent.

Fucouzi had already stiffened all over as soon as he saw the first words; after reacting, he was even more astonished——

The Young Emperor's birth mother?

The Young Emperor's birth mother?

Rumor has it this person wasn't already missing together with the Imperial Teacher in the northern border, leaving no trace alive or dead, right?

Why would he now appear in his Stone Mirror? Could it be that he has already died......

No, according to the other side, it's not just death, but arriving at a time of rapid change, several thousand years later.

But, several thousand years later?

What kind of situation is this? He has never encountered anything like it before!

Fucouzi was utterly bewildered; his gaze swept over the two characters 'Yuanlong' on the Stone Mirror, and suddenly he gained a bit of understanding——

In the Female Emperor's fate, she has only one husband in her lifetime, but with a slight derivation of the heavenly mechanism, there is a Transforming Authority who takes over the main star's duty.

In other words, she indeed has two husbands.

And those two husbands......

One of them happens to be the man who accompanied the Female Emperor when she divined her fate.

He had previously guessed that this person himself had a child, and had little interaction with the Female Emperor's other six children, nor any nurturing kindness, so unlike the Female Emperor, whether legitimate or nominal son, they did not manifest in the Descendant Palace.

And now, combining the words on this Stone Mirror......

It seems the other six children belong to the Young Emperor, while the child of the Transforming Authority occupies the Primordial position, which is clearly Yuanlong!

No wonder, when divining and deducing earlier, he sensed that the child vaguely felt being dragged along by his siblings......

The Stone Mirror spans a thousand years; the Young Emperor's birth mother still loves her son, willing to go to such lengths to eliminate Yuanlong for him—do the other children not see Yuanlong as a thorn in their eye, a splinter in their flesh?

But what does this have to do with him?

Fucouzi's astonishment slowly turned over in his mind, and he rather absentmindedly brushed off the dust from his Daoist robe.

Others may not know the weight of things, but doesn't he know?

Stone is dead, people are alive.

It's impossible that only the Young Emperor's birth mother has her own thoughts; he has them too.

He previously trusted the Stone Mirror's enlightenment because it matched what he himself could predict of the heavenly mechanism, and they could verify each other.

But now, this Stone Mirror clearly has a divergence with him......

Why does he still listen to it?

To him, since the Female Emperor occupies the throne and can bring peace and prosperity to the realm, he only needs to assist her; why would he needlessly cause trouble, obstruct her pregnancy, and kill the first son?

Wouldn't that just create a great enmity with the Female Emperor?

Besides, who the child belongs to, he doesn't care at all!

No matter whose child the Female Emperor carries, as long as it's her bloodline, isn't that enough?

Why cause needless trouble?

Fucouzi's spirit wandered afar for a moment, barely managing to reel his consciousness back.

Opposite the Stone Mirror, perhaps because he had not replied for too long, it had become noticeably more impatient than before, and without waiting for him to erase the traces, it again carved on the edges and corners:

【Celestial Master, we have previously revealed much to you; you ought to know that we will have greater use in the future......】

【Please kill Yuanlong! Please kill Yuanlong! Once Yuanlong dies, all matters will be settled!】

【He dares to give my son a bad posthumous name; we, no matter what, cannot swallow this anger in our hearts!】

Bad posthumous name......

Bad posthumous name?!

Just those two words cleared up Fucouzi, who had just been quite approving of the four characters 'greater use'.

He is usually carefree, but he is not a fool.

He knows that a bad posthumous name is something only the ruler can decide!

At the very least, it must be a strong minister who can sway the ruler's thoughts and dare to overstep his bounds!

The Young Emperor's birth mother keeps saying Yuanlong gave the Young Emperor a bad posthumous name—what position does this Yuanlong hold?!

Yes, yes, yes......

I've remembered it all, I've remembered it all.

He didn't know who Yuanlong was, so he didn't ask further; but the other side should know, yet when mentioning Yuanlong's identity, they only called him by the title of 'first son'?

What about Yuanlong's other identities?

Why does the other side keep being evasive and unwilling to speak?

As for having him kill Yuanlong's father, one says 'few allies,' two says 'besieged in the palace gates, idle for a lifetime'......

Could it be that, in the other side's view, everything in the later ages is not like this?

What exactly is the other side still hiding......

Fucouzi steadied his mind, refocused, and gradually erased the traces on the Stone Mirror, then carved:

【Please inform the Profound Mirror: after the Female Emperor's demise, a hundred years later, who will succeed?】

【What achievements did Yuanlong have during the Dayin dynasty?】

Each stroke, each line, carved with great care.

However, this time all the carvings sank like a stone in the sea, utterly devoid of any response.

Yet having no response is precisely the greatest answer.

If Yuanlong truly is infamous and his wicked deeds pile up, what could not be said?

I fear that in what the other side knows, Yuan Long occupies considerable ink in the histories, even directly relating to the rise and fall of a dynasty......

Thus, the other side can only hedge and not speak the truth.

After all, if one were to speak plainly to him, he, who protects the mountains and rivers and the state, would certainly not undertake it.

Fu Cou Zi had faintly guessed a bit, sighed inwardly, wiped away the traces on the stone mirror, and inscribed:

【Heaven's principle cycles; all bear cause and effect.】

【Though your Daoist practice is shallow, you still have a good word of advice—since you already know the outcome, why cling to it? You wish to kill Yuan Long for giving the Young Emperor an evil posthumous name, but you do not know......】

How could it be that, now she expends great effort to kill Yuan Long, her action cannot be considered a cause?

She wants to kill Yuan Long, so she sought him out, or perhaps could find someone else; Yuan Long suffered an assassination attempt, and if he did not die, he would surely grow even more hostile toward the Young Emperor......

What a pity, what a pity.

In the end, this sentence was left unfinished.

Today, to condense the heavenly and earthly qi, too much time has already been wasted.

They chatted a few more words, and the time had already passed midnight.

Inside the tent, the hard-won hazy halo dissipated, and the heavenly and earthly spiritual qi faded away.

Everything returned to its original state.

The characters he carved on the stone mirror remain, but the text transmitted from the other side has once again begun to twist and become chaotic.

This situation has always been the case: the characters he gives to the other side are usually understood, but the characters the other side gives him, perhaps because of leaking heavenly secrets, are severely blocked and often obscure and hard to understand.

And if one waits for the next smooth communication, one likely must wait another sixty years......

The sigils kept shifting and rolling, obviously urgent, but Fu Cou Zi had no strength left to discern them; he sighed, lay down on the cushion, and casually tossed the stone mirror aside.

He repeatedly murmured the names 'Empress, Young Emperor, Yuan Long, Chen Weifang, He Lian Bo Bo, Xie Shiba'; when he reached a certain point, he could not help but sit up.

This time, Fu Cou Zi did not try to decipher the text on the stone mirror, but instead renewed his divination, occupying one side with the two characters 'Yuan Long'——

Yuan, the great Qian Yuan, is the origin of all things.

The character Yuan fundamentally contains the basis of all things and the meaning of the beginning of heaven and earth.

Long means abundant and great.

Since ancient times, it has represented prosperity and flourishing.

Imperial endeavors are called 'Long Zuo'; a monarch's virtue is called 'Long De'; bestowing honors on noble subjects is called 'Long Feng'.

The Book of Changes, Hexagram Da Guo, also says: 'Dong Long, great auspiciousness.'

It means the roof beams rise high and strong, symbolizing the stability of the pillars and the prosperity of the nation's supports.

In these two characters, Yuan can elevate one's status and Long can manifest one's achievements; if used ordinarily, they are overly grandiose.

The ancients observed taboos; commoners would not use them, for fear of overstepping.

But when used for ennoblement, posthumous names, or honorific titles, they are excellent characters.

Therefore, these two characters must be a title of nobility or honorific.

In other words......

Fu Cou Zi withdrew his divining hand and murmured:

"This child will surely do well in the future, only then could he have such a title,"

"I just don't know how this child's situation is now, or exactly when he arrived......"

Each person has their own mind, nor do they think otherwise: from the Song Dynasty Wang Ling's 'Evening Sun Operetta'. Meaning: each person harbors their own thoughts in their heart; there is no need to force others to agree with oneself.

? The next chapter has an illustration, so it will be a bit late~