Mysterious Tang Dynasty

On July 24th, which coincides with the birthday of Nagarjuna Bodhisattva, all major Buddhist temples and nunneries in the Zhongnanshan area, but all the larger ones held a consecration ceremony.Many high-ranking officials and dignitaries who stayed here temporarily to escape the summer heat, most of them went to the Xiangshu Temple to attend the Dharma Assembly. For a while, there were people and cars coming and going from Zhongnan Mountain, which was very lively.

Amidst the hustle and bustle, an inconspicuous but quite large and sturdy carriage slowly drove up from Taiping Valley, drove into a market near a certain nunnery, and stopped at a shady place under a tree beside the road. Location.

The driver of this carriage was a ten-year-old boy, with a handsome appearance and vigorous skills, wearing a decent cloth robe, and his gestures and gestures carried a bit of everyone's demeanor.

After the car stopped, a teenage delicate maid came out of the carriage, wearing a green jacket, indigo embroidered half-arm, blue-green skirt, a pile of gauze flowers on her buns, and a jade sachet around her waist, talking. The voice was crisp and clear, and the diction was elegant, like a decent maid serving in a big family's inner house.

This maid is responsible for asking directions and asking people about things, and when she returns to the carriage, the voice of an old woman in the carriage is giving her instructions.Only occasionally, passers-by would hear the voice of another young girl in the carriage.However, the car curtain is tightly covered, even if someone occasionally raises a small corner, they can't see anything from the outside, let alone see the faces of the people inside. don't know.

When the wife of the Pei family got off the carriage with her two children outside the nunnery, she immediately noticed that the carriage was parked not far from her.

She recognized the mark carved in the inconspicuous corner of the carriage, and remembered what her aunt, Princess Yuzhen, once told her about the characteristics of the horses that the four wives of the Sui Dynasty Palace used to drive the carriage when they went out.

She knew that it was Li Dai's youngest daughter who had never appeared in front of her until now and brought someone over to secretly watch her.Does the kid want to meet her?Or do you just want to see her from a distance?
Mrs. Pei didn't know what the child could gain by doing this, but the thoughts of children's families were often wild and unconstrained, and not every adult could understand it.She only knew that among Li Dai's several children, except for the sick and weak eldest son who was sensible and well-mannered and approved of her marriage with Li Dai, only this youngest daughter had never objected.The other children all only know how to make noise.It was probably because Li Dai's first wife, Chen Shi, who died less than a year ago, was too gentle and kind, even though all these children behaved willfully, which was enough for Li Dai.

It's a pity that Mrs. Pei really needs this marriage now.She knew that Li Dai was not willing to marry her, but it didn't matter.She just needs an identity, an identity that can stop some people from putting their dark thoughts on her children.She doesn't care whether Li Dai will pamper her after marriage, as long as she is still sitting on the throne of Sui Wangzhengfei and has enough strength to protect her child, what does so-called pampering matter?If she can give birth to Li Dai's son as soon as possible and stabilize her position, then it doesn't matter if she hands over that man to Yang Liuniang and other concubines!She doesn't care about that man, all she needs is the status of the man's concubine. …

Mrs. Pei remained calm, pretending not to notice the carriage, dignifiedly and gracefully greeted the nun who was going out to greet her, donated a sum of money for sesame oil lightly, and asked her son in a low voice to call and let him take the carriage. The horse attendants took good care of them, and just now they took their daughter into the nunnery.

After a while, several female relatives from powerful families came and had a happy chat with Mrs. Pei in the front yard of the nunnery.Zheng Xiaolang, the son of Mrs. Pei, quickly withdrew.

He took a few people to distribute the rice cakes and scriptures that had been enshrined in front of the Buddha to the poor nearby, and many people surrounded him for a while.But he didn't panic. Instead, he calmly asked everyone to line up and take things away in an orderly manner.He had a gentle attitude towards the poor people who came to receive the rice cakes, and he did not show arrogance because of his status as a son of a family. drive away.

After he finished distributing all the rice cakes and scriptures he had brought, those who did not receive anything would not leave empty-handed.He had already asked his servants to go to the nearby market to buy some pastries in advance to make up for it.When they left, the beneficiary poor were all praising Mrs. Pei and Zheng Xiaolang for their benevolence and generosity, and expressed that they would go to the Bodhisattva seat to pray for their mother and son.

Zheng Xiaolang left for a long time, only then did the female relatives of another family send someone to do similar things.But none of the people who came after him was more organized than him, and his attitude was not as good as his. It's just that the poor who have benefited will still appreciate the kindness of the kind-hearted people after all, and they will also pray for the benefactor when they come to the Bodhisattva.

Zheng Xiaolang also sent someone to deliver some tea to quench their thirst for people who set up stalls in the nearby market, and he also ordered someone to set up a free tea stall in a corner of the market to deliver some tea to passers-by.A servant of his family also brought a pot of tea to the carriage parked by the street. The young man who was driving the carriage waved his hand and declined, but he was indifferent to the other party. Finally, the maid in Tsing Yi in the carriage came forward, took the tea, and said something. A word of thanks.

Not long after the tea was delivered, the people in the carriage issued an order, and the young man turned his horse around and drove away in the carriage.

Zheng Xiaolang watched the carriage go away, and gave a wink to one of his guards. The latter rode quickly to catch up with the carriage, turned around after a quarter of an hour, and reported to Zheng Xiaolang: "My little one saw with his own eyes that the carriage drove towards a nearby town. Stopped by the market in the town for a while. A maid in blue got out of the car, bought some sundries in the market, then boarded the car and left. They were going in the direction of Taiping Valley."

Zheng Xiaolang sighed: "This should be considered satisfactory, right? My mother is a kind-hearted and decent person. Even if she is a little strict with people sometimes, it is the most reasonable. Give them a few brothers and sisters to be stepmothers. It’s better than them being tortured by mean stepmothers and evil concubines. If it’s someone else’s wife, who can bear to act like her siblings? Don’t you want to toss to death?!”

Speaking of it, he was still a little curious: "They also stopped to go to the town market to buy something? What are they buying?"

The guard was also a little puzzled: "I bought a dozen or so mirrors, all of which are target mirrors with handles. They come in various sizes and are of ordinary workmanship. Could it be that they were bought for the servants at home?"

Will the little lady of the palace buy such things for her servants?But if you have a capable confidant and maid by your side, you wouldn't use such a rough thing?There are many exquisite bronze mirrors in the city of Chang'an. Why did the fourth wife of the Sui Palace buy them in such a place?Could it be that her maid wanted to let the maid beside her go shopping when she passed by in a car?

If this is the case, the fourth lady is lenient.As long as she is not as mean as her two sisters, it shouldn't be difficult to get along with her in the future, right?

Zheng Xiaolang was stunned for a while, and soon someone who knew him came to say hello.He hurriedly collected his mind and greeted him with a smile.

He didn't realize that on the side of the road where the carriage had been parked for a while, there was a tall tree about ten feet high, and an inconspicuous small camouflaged paper crane was parked in the canopy, looking in his direction.What he did there and what he said were all seen by the little paper crane and faithfully transmitted to the other end of a certain bronze mirror.