Chapter 1160: Chapter 639: Gambling Den (Double-Length)
All the way back to the courtyard.
Donggong Ruoshu emerged from somewhere.
Chen Yi immediately wanted to press her back with a backhand. If Qin Qingluo found out about this, he would be in big trouble.
He glanced around, saw no one, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he had a good grasp of the situation, Qin Qingluo didn’t think he did.
"Miss Donggong, why do you just pop up casually?" Chen Yi sighed and asked, "Do you think you can scare Qin Yue for me?"
Donggong Ruoshu blinked and retorted, "Haven’t you never been scared much?"
"It’s true, but that’s not a reason for you to pop up randomly."
Facing Chen Yi’s reprimand, Donggong Ruoshu accepted it humbly and nodded.
Chen Yi was still uneasy and asked, "Did you understand?"
"I understood, I won’t just pop up next time," Miss Donggong said.
Hearing this, Chen Yi couldn’t help but hold his forehead. Inviting a god is easy, but sending one away is hard. Donggong Ruoshu is truly useful when needed, and truly useless when not.
No need to explain further, the sooner she’s sent back to Gaoliang Mountain, the better.
Chen Yi started walking again, saying as he walked, "In a couple of days, when I go out, I’ll send you back. Stay well on Gaoliang Mountain."
I thought the stupid girl would nod and agree, but unexpectedly, she said decisively, "No."
"Why not?"
"The mountain is so boring." Donggong Ruoshu raised her finger, pointing bit by bit, "You can’t go anywhere, just stay in the house. If I want to go look somewhere, Miss Yin says something to me, Lady Lin also says something to me. I just stay in the house, watching them cultivate during the day, and at night too. Yet I became a ghost and can’t cultivate."
Miss Donggong was never the type to endure, everyone who knew her understood this.
So it seems, being a ghost by his side was still interesting, and occasionally scaring Qin Yue was fine too.
"Speaking of which." Donggong Ruoshu’s eyes suddenly lit up, "You have a daughter now."
Chen Yi nodded slightly.
The stupid girl’s reaction was a bit slow, only now feeling surprised. Generally speaking, for someone of Chen Yi’s age, having children was extremely normal. But she had been so close to Chen Yi all this time, and never heard him mention this, hence her surprise.
"Oh, oh, who would’ve thought, who would’ve thought." Donggong Ruoshu shook her head, looking a bit happy.
Those who hear gossip are always very happy.
Chen Yi slightly curled his lips and asked, "I have a child, Miss Donggong, do you still want to flirt with me?"
"You having a child, what does that have to do with me?"
The stupid girl tilted her head and retorted,
"It’s not my child after all."
Chen Yi was immediately rendered speechless.
Back in the courtyard, Donggong Ruoshu followed all the way, chatting about everything along the way. Like a buzzing bee, she asked about things near and far. Chen Yi had to respond one by one, and Miss Donggong understood the general situation. It turned out Qin Yue was Chen Yi and the Princess’s child, and Chen Yi hadn’t been to the Southern Border since she was born, which was why father and daughter were unfamiliar and distant.
"Hey, Miss Yin doesn’t know about this, does she?" Donggong Ruoshu asked gossipy, eyes sparkling.
"...She doesn’t know." Chen Yi paused for a moment, then said, "There’s no need to let her know everything about my affairs."
These words were a bit cold, and there was some of Chen Yi’s own calculation involved. The current situation had not stabilized, and if Yin Weiyin learned of this, it would definitely disrupt her state of mind. Who knows what trouble it might cause again.
Donggong Ruoshu clicked her tongue several times, thinking about how usually, Yin Weiyin regarded herself as the Taichua Goddess, normally so proud. If she came to know of this, what would she think? Of course, with Miss Yin’s intelligence, maybe she already knew and just pretended not to?
Anyway, anything related to Chen Yi was always interesting.
"If you want to stay, I’ll write a letter later to Gaoliang Mountain, so they won’t worry."
Chen Yi thought along the way, Miss Donggong still had some usefulness; at least she could still be used to scare Qin Yue more, making his daughter more dependent on him.
Donggong Ruoshu nodded and said, "Alright."
After sending Donggong Ruoshu off to let her wander around on her own, Chen Yi stepped into the study; he needed to calm his mind and sort out the clues.
He took out three items from the Ming Sect, namely the Holy Fire Order, and two pieces of golden paper.
Under the candlelight, the fine engravings on the golden paper were clearly visible.
[Light and dark originate from the same source, the two forces give birth to each other. Neither god nor demon, only one who holds the world...]
[Seven wheels, ten illuminations; the seal turns two sons. Divestment of impure energy leads to true permanence...]
[Where the holy fire shines, darkness retreats. The will of the Ming Venerable must be carried out by successors...]
The words were cryptic and full of metaphors. Coupled with the sudden appearance of the Holy Fire Order, all sorts of unusual signs should mean asking Zhu E for interpretation, but Chen Yi recalled Qin Qingluo’s previous reminder, deeply agreeing with it. Since the Old Saintess went up the mountain, she had become taciturn, which was a warning.
If he sought her interpretation, Zhu E might draw some inspirations too, making her behavior quirky, which would be hard to handle. Right now, the only one he could rely on was himself, and it was best not to let Zhu E know unless absolutely necessary.
His fingers slowly traced the lines on the golden paper, his gaze lingering on words like "seven wheels," "ten illuminations," and "where the holy fire shines."
"Heresy..." Chen Yi contemplated the word.
By the end of the Ming dynasty, rational scholars deemed xinxue heresy and heretical, attributing the downfall of Shenzhou to xinxue. This kind of argument led people to believe that xinxue and lixue’s contents were vastly different and irreconcilable. However, in fact, the difference between the two wasn’t that great.
Whether it was Confucianism, Buddhism, or Daoism, or even heresy within the Divine Sect, so-called heresy stemmed from different interpretations of the same scripture.
