Da Wei Chun

Chapter 329
The cars are like flowing water, the horses are like dragons, and the south wind is warm in joy!
To the west of the inner city, Bali in the north is Xida City, and Bali in the south is residential buildings.Ever since the sun came out, there have been crowds of people within a radius of nearly twenty miles, shoulder to shoulder.

Starting from Xiyang Gate, the official road from east to west is twenty feet wide.Half of the sides are high platforms for various temples to perform acrobatics.

The liveliness of the performance on the stage was also densely crowded below.But if believers donate, they will get a bowl of holy porridge, and then they will follow the novice monks to the altar to listen to scriptures and lectures.

The remaining half are the trucks of various merchants.There are also some shopkeepers who sell needles, needles and brains, caramel rice cakes and the like here.

If it was normal, the official road would have been blocked, but today it is very smooth.

Li Xian (Henan Yin) looked amazed, and asked the subordinates beside him: "What method did Yang Jixian (Luoyang Order Yang Jun) use to make the kitchen meeting so orderly today?"

In the past, once a person entered the market, he could only move forward slowly with the flow of people. It was considered fast to walk ten feet in a moment.

Every now and then someone gets their foot trampled on, or their money is stolen.There are also women who are stolen by prodigal sons, and children who are knocked over by others.Crying, shouting and cursing can be heard from time to time, and it is not uncommon to see fights on the spot.

Today it is unimpeded, almost no shouting and cursing can be heard, and there is no trace of fighting in the street.

Take a closer look, there is actually a carriage passing through the road?
Li Xian was really surprised: Don’t let go of the talking in the kitchen meeting before, even a dog couldn’t get through it...

"It's not County Magistrate Yang, but Gao Yulin!"

The official explained, "Because of the smoothie sale today, Gao Yulin specially entered the palace to ask for an order. His Majesty ordered the Luoyang County Government, Zhijinwu (in charge of patrolling the capital, suppressing violence, arresting theft, and supervising rape), and Yulin Supervisor, etc., Helping him maintain order, that's why today's kitchen meeting is so orderly..."

Li Xian was a little suspicious: more than that, right?
A group of Qiuba, at most, is to prevent thieves and prodigals from stretching out their hands indiscriminately, and can control how tourists walk?

I don't see, but everyone who walks is on the right?

And those shopkeepers who used to scurry around with their loads of goods, but today they don't mess around, but stop at the side of the road to sell?

This is clearly someone's trick.

It is definitely not Gao Erlang, he is not so quick-witted.

With a move in his heart, Zhao Xian roughly guessed who it was, and said with a smile: "Look further ahead!"

Followed by six or seven people, all of Henan Yin's assistant officials, were brought out by Li Xian to observe the people's sentiments.

Just two steps away, I heard many people calling "Master Baimei".Li Xian took a quick look and saw an old monk standing in the middle of the road.White clothes and white eyebrows, a crane beard and a childlike face, quite a bit out of the world.

The monk is not young, so he is called Baimei.Ten years ago, he was Zhaoxuan Cao Datong (the highest monk official in the country), and he was highly trusted by the late emperor.

At that time, Li Xian was an official in Shangshu Province, so he could see him from time to time.It's just bad luck: in the last years of the first emperor, he was dragged down by his apprentices, and the old monk was dismissed from office.

After Jinshang ascended the throne, Baimei was expelled from the capital again.He wasn't even allowed to lecture on the scriptures on the day when he didn't come to the kitchen meeting...

However, there were still many believers. As soon as the old monk appeared, people surrounded him and knelt down to worship him.Many of them immediately took out copper coins and the like, ready to donate.

But before the money was thrown into the bags of several monks, the yamen servants and soldiers rushed forward and ordered them to disperse.

The servants were very polite to Baimei and the monks, saying that the superior had ordered that monks and believers were strictly prohibited from obstructing the official passage.

Bai Mei clasped his hands together, grinning with his teeth grinning, with a kind face and kind eyes, and a fairy-like appearance: "I also ask everyone to obey the king's order!"

As he said that, he took the initiative to retreat to the side of the road, and immediately attracted praise from a group of believers, saying that the old immortal master was very kind.

Seeing Li Xian, the monk was startled, and it took him a long time to recognize him: "But Li Shijun?"

"It's Li!" Li Xian nodded, "Long time no see Master!"

Bai Mei smiled wryly: "If you don't go to the kitchen meeting, monks are not even allowed to enter this Guocheng, so you won't be able to see the envoy... don't mention it!"

As he spoke, he pointed to the bustling official road again, and asked curiously: "This time the kitchen meeting is so neat, it must be the envoy's handwriting?"

I wanted to rectify it a long time ago, but that bastard Yang Jixian is always obedient and obedient...

Cursing Yang Jun in his heart, Li Xian said again: "It's really not Li. I heard that it was Gao Sikong's second son who did it. I was also curious and wanted to find out!"

"Is it Gao Yulin who handles the ice today?"

Baimei smiled and said, "What a coincidence. There is only one wall between the monk and Gao Yulin's ice-making place, and I can smell the strange fragrance every day. I have long wanted to eat a big piece. But I couldn't get it after asking several times. Said yes It's only available on the seventh day of the lunar new year, so the monk came early..."

"Oh, what a coincidence!" Li Xian smiled, "Then go together!"

Immediately, the two groups got together and went west along the official road.

As he walked, Li Xian found something wrong again: every time he passed the stage of a temple, he could see a colorfully decorated float standing beside him.A huge bowl was painted on the carriage, and pieces of crystal clear objects were painted in the bowl, with smoke from several floors floating on it.

There is also a picture of a chubby child standing beside a bowl that is bigger than his head, holding a Chinese five baht in his hand, looking at the ice bowl eagerly, dripping water from his mouth...

The painting is extremely vivid, especially the three-foot-hanging child, as if a living person got into the painting.Anyone who looks at it will know that the goods sold in this cart must be food and other things, and they only sell for one penny.Looking at the crystal clear and misty things, even if Dou Da can't read a single word, he knows it's ice.

"The painter is only average, but he is very creative!" Li Xian boasted.

All the subordinate officials also nodded their heads: "It's really easy to understand, you can tell it at a glance, it's easier than setting up a high flag and clearly marking the price!"

After watching for a while, everyone continued to walk east.

The farther east you go, the fewer temples there are, and the higher platforms for acrobatics become less and less.Without the excitement to see, believers and tourists will naturally come here less.

As usual, how deserted and deserted this place would be, just like what Li Chengzhi saw on the day he entered the city, even Yuan Yue, who loves the busiest the most, could only play around at leisure.

But today something is different:
To the west of Xiyangmen, near the north side of Jinyong City, there is a huge high platform, which is three feet wide, but extremely long, twenty steps long.There are nearly 34 musicians on the stage, and they are already ready, just waiting for an order.

There are twenty or thirty ice carts under the stage, neatly arranged.There were three or four people at each station beside the car, seemingly waiting to make smoothies.

In addition, there is a soldier with a sword standing in front of each car, which should be dedicated to maintaining order.

Li Xian was a little skeptical because he needed such a large number of servants: could it be worth the salaries of musicians, servants, yamen servants, and soldiers after selling for a day?

Thinking in his heart, the two people separated, and Li Xian took his subordinates to the pergola under the stage.

Yuan Yue was eating smoothies with several Taoist female crowns...

The young and strong monk pointed to the stage and said in a low voice, "That's Li Chengzhi!"

The distance between the two is not far, only five or six zhang.The old monk narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced at it and praised: "It's a good appearance!"

After pondering for a while, he warned again: "Fa Neng, remember not to focus on appearances! Because of the emperor's order, this son killed tens of thousands of brothers and sisters of my Holy Cult in vain... Even if he wanted revenge, he should be the emperor. The one here..."

"Disciple saves!"

"En!" The old monk nodded, "Have all the mages of the Department of All Beings (Mahayana) made an appointment?"

"Invited to the White Horse Temple in Tongshangli!"

"Let's go then!"

The old monk let out a sharp breath, and closed his eyes towards the imperial city, muttering, "My Buddha blesses me, I hope great things will come true..."

……

It seems to be a tacit understanding, or it may be intuition.Li Chengzhi felt a little strange, turned his head subconsciously, and happened to see the monk in white clothes and white eyebrows.

He had never seen the old monk before, but he felt that his beard and eyebrows were thick, yet he was still dressed so brightly.When he glanced back, he saw Fa Neng beside Baimei again.

Familiar?

I remember that on the day when I was renting a house, the strong monk stopped the road and frightened himself that there were ghosts in the mountains.Two days ago, I came to the house twice, saying that I wanted to buy ice.

I thought he was the abbot of Ningxuan Temple, not just a follower.

"What are you looking at?"

Seeing him looking engrossed, Gao Zhan also came over.With just one glance, he recognized the old monk: "Baimei?"

It's the old monk I'm talking about, it's pretty impressive.

Li Chengzhi asked curiously, "The monk in white is famous?"

"The former Datong, how could he not be famous?"

Gao Zhan praised him, then looked left and right, and said in a low voice, "The old affairs of Empress You started because of his disciple Gao Bodhisattva..."

Hearing this, Li Chengzhi immediately regained his spirits.

Empress You is Feng Run, also known as Feng Miaolian, the second empress of Emperor Xiaowen.Yuan Hong has been away for many years, and she couldn't bear the loneliness, so she took the monks into the palace in the name of preaching scriptures to have sex with her. Among them was Baimei's apprentice Gao Bodhisattva.

It's nothing more than adultery, and I don't know if he was fascinated by ghosts, but Feng Run listened to the bewitchment of Gao Bodhisattva, cursed Emperor Xiaowen with witchcraft, and even plotted to assassinate him, but was finally reported.

Strangely, even so, Emperor Xiaowen did not kill Feng Run.It wasn't until Yuan Hong was about to die that he was afraid that she would cause chaos in the palace if she became the empress dowager, so he left a death edict...

"What happened next?" Li Chengzhi asked slyly.

"What else can there be?" Gao Zhan replied in a low voice, "The old monk has been implicated by his apprentice, so he can't be an official. Your Majesty doesn't like Mahayana, and he hates his apprentice's murder of the first emperor, so he will be kicked out after he succeeds Leaving the capital. He was ordered to enter the city only when there was a cooking meeting, and he was not allowed to lecture on scriptures for the rest of the day..."

Is this what I'm asking?
Li Chengzhi looked reluctant: "What does the old monk have to do with me?"

Gao Zhan stared: "What about Queen You and what has it to do with you?"

Almost choked and speechless, Li Chengzhi snorted coldly, and asked Li Rui again: "How much longer?"

Li Rui glanced at the hourglass: "It's less than two quarters before Si time (nine o'clock in the morning)!"

Another half hour?

Li Chengzhi pondered for a while: "Every department is ready now!"

It wasn't that the auspicious moment was chosen on purpose, but that the West Market was too close to the imperial city, and he was afraid that the drum beating too early would disturb the emperor's dream.

Sure enough, the emperor just got up.

It was too hot in the city, and the wind on the mountain was too strong. The emperor had been staying in Jinyong City for the past few days, and today was no exception.

At this time, he had just washed up and was eating in the middle hall of Jinyong City.Gao Ying sat on one side and refilled his meals himself, while a group of men and women sat underneath, frowning secretly as they looked at the lush green vegetables on their respective tables.

Every seventh day, if there is no court meeting, Yuan Ke will call the Yuan clan in Wufu to a family banquet in the palace.

It was fine before, at least one meat dish could be seen in four or five dishes.Since Yuan Ke ordered the ban on slaughter in the palace since June, a group of princes, county kings and princesses can only follow Yuan Ke to eat vegetarian food.

Vegetarian food is nothing but bland and tasteless, just like eating grass.But frightened by the emperor's prestige, they still had to stretch their necks and swallow hard.

After finally waiting for Yuan Ke to finish eating, the group of people all breathed a sigh of relief.

Yuan Ke raised his cup to invite respect.Waiting for everyone to sit down, he asked with a smile: "I'm afraid the uncles and brothers are not used to it? But I have already issued a summons to ban slaughtering and hanging silk in the palace, so I can only wrong you." ..."

Hearing what he said, a group of people couldn't sit still, and they confessed their crimes one after another.Yuan Ke couldn't bear to be hypocritical with them, so before they got up, he waved them to sit down.

But after that, there was no sound in the hall?

It's just that there is no song to listen to, no dance to watch, at least a few homely conversations, right?
Surprised, Yuan Ke glanced down and found that nine out of ten were staring at Yuan Yong.

Yuan Yong was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother: A bunch of scumbags, let grandpa stand out every time?

Realizing that even the emperor turned his gaze away, Yuan Yong had no choice but to stand up bravely and bow down: "Seeing that your Majesty is so poor, the ministers feel uneasy. Therefore, all the uncles and brothers push the ministers out, Let me ask Your Majesty out of the question: I don't know if the ministers are lucky enough to share your Majesty's worries!"

Share your worries?

Yuan Ke was stunned for a while before he realized: This is because I am afraid that I will be impatient for a while, so let's take them first?
Do you really think it's for those copper coins?
If you think about it a little, you can guess what I'm doing: even if you don't have a few years to live, or you have no children under your knees, this great country, after all, is my Yuan family's children.

Why do you think I raised my younger brother Yuanhuai in the palace?

There are powerful enemies outside and hidden dangers inside, before death, it should be resolved for Yuanhuai no matter what...

With a secret sigh in his heart, Yuan Ke raised the lamp and respected him from a distance: "Everyone, worry too much! No matter how stupid I am, I know that you are the cornerstone of my Yuan family's foundation. I will never dig the foundation by myself. Things……"

Hearing this sentence, seven or eight of the ten people in the hall came up with a thought at the same time: Have you dug too little?Looking at the palace again, how many of the late emperor's brothers are left?
Cursing in their hearts, everyone still had to laugh along their faces, raising their wine glasses and shouting that Your Majesty is wise.

The one with the quicker hand had just taken a sip, and the one with the slower hand had just raised the glass to his lips when suddenly there were several roars outside the hall.

It was as if thunder had exploded, and it seemed to be ringing in my ears. When I listened carefully, it was actually outside Jinyong City.In addition to drums, there seems to be the sound of gongs and cymbals?
This is... a war?

All the clans suddenly changed their colors, and the timid ones couldn't even hold their cups steadily, and there was a burst of "clang" in the hall.

Yuan Ke's face suddenly sank!
(End of this chapter)