Chapter 17: The Water and the Land

Is this admitting that there are things that you can’t do?

It shouldn’t be!

Didn’t she dislike the sky and the earth all the way?

Zhao Su poured her a cup of tea, “Empress Dowager, don’t be too hard on yourself, at least you’ve done what no one else can do!”

At least you’ve done something that no one else can do!” She should call herself “Mourner” now, stop it.

“What is this strictness?” Empress Lu said, “Could it be that you haven’t thought of changing anything since you crossed over?”

“……”

This topic was too abusive.

Zhao Su currently only wanted to take a good breather without any burden on her heart and adapt to the identity of the Marquis’ eldest young lady.

“How unproductive!” Empress Dowager Lu’s eyes were disgusted, “What is the ultimate ideal of us travelers? It’s for the environment to accommodate me, not for me to accommodate the environment! If you get a good birth and then try to muddle through, you will eventually die under the rules.”

Jozo heartily agreed with every word she said, just a little too heartily.

“Of course we can’t really do it completely,” Empress Dowager Lu’s words changed, her tone sad again, “Feudal society has been passed down for thousands of years, and the current society, is still ruled by a dictatorship of men, and most of them believe that oppressing women is natural and justified, and even a lot of women subscribe to this set of thoughts from the bottom of their hearts .”

Zhao Su froze, “Could it be that the Empress Dowager wants to follow Empress Wu’s example and establish a new dynasty?”

“That’s not so much.” Empress Dowager Lu looked at her, “I don’t want to be a murderous demon. Besides, my sons are adorable, and my husband is very loving and devoted, I still want to catch up with him in hell after a hundred years.”

Zhao Su suspected that she was spreading dog food, but she had no proof.

“Then I wonder what Empress Dowager’s current ideals are?”

“There’s always a dream. The reason why modern society can be changed in just a few decades is because of the right time and place. Back then, when we took the opportunity of the late emperor to set up the Flower Moon Society, it was considered a wave of good luck, and after the setting up of the country and the establishment of a new ruling class, it would be difficult to break through again.

“But we should at least maintain and consolidate the existing decisions. People’s minds change with the environment, and to be able to continue to provide sufficient conditions for women in the world to have the soil for an awakening of their consciousness, we can be considered successful.”

Zhao Su Xin thought so.

However, she immediately branched out again, “‘We’? What the Empress Dowager means is that you count me among them?”

Empress Dowager Lu glanced at her, “Isn’t it much better to follow this palace’s business than for you to become a salesperson at some food company?”

“……”

How can this be compared?

She was paid to be a salesperson at a food company!

To work for her, Empress Lu, is to work against part of the current ruling class, and it’s not even certain if she can keep her life, so what can she get?

Besides, working for a careerist like her, it would be strange if her bones weren’t ground into powder!

“Empress Dowager, my talent is shallow ……”

Empress Dowager Lu threw over a cold eye knife: “This palace remembers clearly, yesterday was your own words to mix with me, how, play me?”

“……”

Zhao Su’s breath stopped in her throat, and she couldn’t wait for her teeth to close and bite off her tongue!

This was indeed what she said yesterday, but was it too late for her to retract it now?

“I don’t even mind that you’re useless anymore, but you’re still playing games with me?” Empress Dowager Lu slowly said, “You’re tired of living, aren’t you?”

“Don’t dare!”

Zhao Su busily poured her a cup of tea, “I really don’t know what I can do for Empress Dowager!”

“You’re not doing it for me, you’re doing it for yourself! I am more than twenty years older than you, your survival time in this world is definitely longer than mine, don’t you think about it, nowadays there is me to hold you up, you are still free, in the future, if I fall, can you still be so free?”

These words simply hit the heart, leaving Zhao Su speechless.

“In this matter, no woman is qualified to stand by and watch. Especially you who have received a modern education. That’s why you not only have to participate, but you have to do so righteously.”

Empress Lu resumed her toothy chopsticks and idly shucked off two slices of meat.

Zhao Su could sort of see that after her own explanation yesterday, her future had already been calculated by Empress Dowager Lu.

She bit her lower lip and tried not to comment.

But she couldn’t help it!

“Empress Dowager has already made a great contribution to the women of Da Liang, now that the Emperor is in power, why don’t you let the Emperor accomplish the rest instead of you?”

“Him instead?” Empress Dowager Lu’s phoenix eyes gently raised, “He was born as the prince of ten thousand people, then he was the crown prince, and then he became the son of heaven, he has never experienced being poisoned by the idea that men are superior to women, and he is expected to take over? Unless he finds a capable queen like this palace early, I’ll count on counting on the queen to be more reliable!”

Empress Dowager Lu’s tone of voice, let Zhao Su suddenly recalled when she was a child, she made a mistake, grandmother on the one hand counted her down, on the other hand, also gave her love to eat tung leaf poop appearance.

Annoyance is annoyance, love is also love.

In this way, the differences between Empress Dowager Lu and the Emperor would not be fatal. After all, a child that could make a great heroine love her couldn’t be that bad. All the conflicts were just different positions.

This was probably to be considered a blessing amongst misfortunes.

As long as it didn’t come to the point of disregarding the love between mother and son, this head on the neck probably wouldn’t be in danger for a while.

Then again, what Empress Lu was going to do wasn’t a bad thing after all, not only was it not bad, but it was also considered a good deed, so she really couldn’t find a reason to strongly oppose it.

Just like she said, the social system is related to her own body, at this time indifferent, in the future will be affected by it.

–Just think of it as contributing to society as a whole.

Seeing Empress Lu put down her cup, she said, “In that case, as long as we can keep the Flower Moon Meeting running smoothly, Empress Dowager’s goal will be accomplished.”

“Theoretically this is correct, first maintain stability, then seek development. It’s just that it’s not easy to maintain stability at the moment, for example, I know someone who doesn’t want the Flower Moon Meeting to continue.”

“…… What does this say?”

Empress Lu looked over from the dense steam side: “Think about it, those who have taken advantage of the old system, when they found that they can not be like the past can be in the women flaunt, go to listen to a play, the playwright does not hold their stinking feet; go to the green house, even the girls in the green house also began to pick people to receive customers, and even more even the green house chu hall also closed down one after another.

“They hit a wall everywhere, face to face, the reason, and then found that the women turned out to be a sacred decree of the state policy support, which makes them have fire nowhere to send, this time how can they be calm, not the whole point of what moths out?”

Zhao Su neran: “But what I have seen and heard this day is the scene of social stability, women can practice freely. I didn’t see anyone causing trouble. How did you know that?”

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