NCCnovel Chapter 396
Chapter 396
If one didn't know better, they would think he was here visiting a grave!Yanji had also recovered from his various emotions at this time. He gritted his teeth, knelt down as well, and prostrated himself on the ground, saying, "I beg the Goddess to take pity on the people of my dynasty and save them from the flood."
Yue Fuguang raised an eyebrow. They were even calling her Goddess now. They wanted to put her on a pedestal and emotionally blackmail her!
But that would require her to have morals in the first place!
She didn't have such a thing. What was the use of putting her on a pedestal?
Yue Fuguang was impervious to persuasion and repeated, "What does this have to do with me, the Junior Preceptor?"
Yanji's mind only went blank for a moment before he regained his fighting spirit. He looked at Yue Fuguang, who had started playing with the purse at her waist again, with a look of disapproval. "You are a Goddess. Shouldn't a Goddess have compassion for the world?
Many people in my dynasty also worship the statue of the Junior Preceptor at home. They are also your believers. Doesn't Your Excellency want to save your own believers?"
The corners of Yue Fuguang's mouth curled up slightly, forming a mocking smile. "Are you referring to the worship where even secretly burning a stick of incense to a statue will get you thrown into prison, or the part where the Dongyi imperial court will burn any statue or portrait of me on the spot if they find it?"
Her smile grew wider, but it didn't reach her eyes. "There are no believers of this Junior Preceptor in the four islands of Dongyi, so what does their life or death have to do with me?"
Faced with Yue Fuguang's questioning, Yanji, who knew more about the inside story, seemed to have all his strength and bones drained from his body. He slumped to the ground, his face ashen.
At this moment, he regretted more than ever that he had supported his father's massacre of the lowly commoners who worshipped Yue Fuguang's statue instead of the Amaterasu Omikami.
If they hadn't done that, would the result have been different?
Yue Fuguang: You're overthinking it. It wouldn't have been any different!
Yanji's reflection at this time was not that he thought he was wrong. He only regretted that he hadn't been secretive enough when he was trying to establish his authority and make an example of others, which led to this matter reaching Yue Fuguang's ears and causing today's humiliation.
Yes, in Yanji's eyes, Yue Fuguang was deliberately humiliating him. As for the reason? It was very simple. Among the six countries, only the Dongyi imperial family had insisted on cracking down on Yue Fuguang's believers in the country in recent years.
The show was over, and Yue Fuguang wanted to send them away. She picked up her teacup and took a small sip. "The tea is cold. I suppose you don't like cold tea either. It's almost the New Year, and everyone is very busy. I won't keep you for lunch."
Beiyue and the others: That's not what you said on the way to the hunting ground!
Beiyue and the others led Oshima, whose face was flushed, and Yanji, who kept his head down and showed no extra expression, all the way out of the Yu Manor.
Yue Fuguang thought that this matter would end here. Except for some people in the imperial court who were still paying attention to when the rain in Dongyi would stop, most people's minds were focused on the drought in their own country and the New Year's family reunion and visiting friends.
Yue Fuguang had become increasingly lazy over the past two years. Except for the first year she arrived, when she followed Old Madam Yu and her husband out to visit relatives and friends for New Year greetings, she had been hiding in her own courtyard for peace and quiet every year since.
"Golden Bean, call me Auntie!"
Yue Fuguang held a bright yellow golden lock with red tassels and teased the eldest son of her eldest brother's family, who was just over a year old, like teasing a puppy.
"Goo... goo!"
"Goo... croak!"
The little milk dumpling, dressed up like a red envelope, sucked in his stomach and pouted, trying hard to call her Auntie clearly. Unfortunately, he was small and weak. After trying a few times, he still let out the sounds of a pigeon and a frog!
"Okay, okay, Auntie heard you. I'll give you the jade pendant to play with."
Seeing that the little guy refused to admit defeat and was about to gather his breath to pout and call her again, Yue Fuguang quickly stopped him and stuffed the heavy golden lock in her hand into his chubby little hands.
It wasn't that she was kind-hearted and didn't want to tease the child. It was really because this boy tried too hard every time he called her Auntie, and his saliva sprayed like a fountain, not distinguishing between friend and foe.
"This is for our Jade Bead." Yue Fuguang said as she stuffed a translucent white jade pendant into the hands of a beautiful baby who was sitting in a pile of pretty dolls, looking at this one, touching that one, and smiling so much that her eyes curved into crescents.
Yu Ningxuan took a soft and glutinous milk cake to tease her soft and glutinous little niece, who was even softer than the milk cake in her hand, given to her by her second sister-in-law. "Jade Bead, your Seventh Auntie's pastries are the most delicious. Let Auntie hug you, and I'll give you the cake."
Upon hearing about the delicious cake, the little friend Jade Bead immediately dropped the doll and crawled towards Yue Fuguang. Auntie said Seventh Auntie's pastries were the most delicious, so of course she had to let Seventh Auntie hug her.
"Hey, you little traitor, you only know how to be close to your Seventh Auntie!" Yu Ningxuan pretended to tickle her.
Jade Bead obviously had experience. She immediately crawled faster, twisted her little bottom, and buried her head in Yue Fuguang's arms, not forgetting to peek at her aunt.
Yu Ningxin and the others laughed heartily when they saw this. "Jade Bead will be one year old soon. She crawls so fast. When it's time for her first birthday catch, we should get her a big venue."
Yu Ningxuan also laughed. "Don't underestimate this little girl just because she's small. She's very smart."
It was unknown whether it was because Fuguang usually spoiled the two little ones too much or gave them too much, but these two little guys knew to be close to Fuguang just a few days after they were born.
When they grew a little older and started to recognize people, they even ranked her ahead of their own parents.
What they liked most was to surround her, neither crying nor making a fuss, very well-behaved!
Yue Fuguang picked up a piece of milk cake and gave it to the chubby baby whose teeth hadn't fully grown yet. "Eat the cake. Our Jade Bead won't pay attention to your Second Auntie. When spring comes..."
"Miss, several princes and princesses from the diplomatic mission have come to pay you New Year greetings. They have already arrived at the front hall."
Just as Yue Fuguang was about to make empty promises to the little guy, she saw Cuizhu come in with a visiting card.
Yue Fuguang regretfully handed the glutinous rice dumpling in her arms to Yu Ningxuan and straightened the collar on the little girl's chest. "Be good, Jade Bead. Seventh Auntie will make empty promises to you next time."
"Second Sister, keep an eye on them. Don't let the little guys choke."
"Don't worry, don't worry!" The sisters had learned a lot of the first aid methods taught by Seventh Sister. They heard that two days ago, the granddaughter of Lord Bao's family had used this method to save her younger brother who choked on a date. This matter spread widely for a while, and many people suddenly wanted to learn this first aid method.
Seeing that Yue Fuguang wouldn't even spare children, the system couldn't help but complain. [Host, you've made a whole basket of empty promises to these two little guys. They can't possibly eat them all!]
'When I was a child, I was also promised a bunch of wishes. How many of them were actually fulfilled in the end?'
[You're planning to pass down the empty promises you've eaten to the next generation, right!] Even if this next generation wasn't born by the host herself.
Yue Fuguang raised her head proudly and strode outward. 'Why can't this be considered a kind of inheritance!' These were her own nephew and niece. One family shouldn't eat two families' empty promises.
Speaking of making wishes, the system remembered something else. [Host, it's been almost five months of drought. The commoners outside burn a stick of incense to you every morning and evening, praying for sweet dew to fall from the sky and for favorable weather this year.]
'I heard it too!'
Yue Fuguang didn't stop her steps, but her words startled the system.
[Host, what did you say? You heard it too? Did you hear the wishes of those commoners outside the Yu Manor?]