The Ming Dynasty took an unconventional approach

Pan Yun's eyebrows jumped, and he said righteously: "Of course I remember. Since leaving the academy, I have only used magic when it involves the safety of the people and when I have no choice, but I have never committed any crime."

Li Wenying looked at her steadily.

Pan Jun looked back at him with an innocent face.

"It's good that you remember it," Li Wenying stood up, "I'm just afraid that you will be blinded by the Mu family's small favors and do something wrong."

Pan Yun immediately raised his hand and swore: "I will never teach the magic skills I have learned to others without the consent of my master and Longhu Mountain."

Li Wenying nodded in satisfaction, turned around and was about to leave, but then she remembered something and asked, "You didn't learn any skills from somewhere else, did you?"

Pan Yun put down her finger and blinked: "How could that be? I used to be the daughter of an official. Do you think I look like someone who can learn the skills?"

Because she was so sincere at first and swore an oath, Li Wenying did not doubt her words and left contentedly.

Pan Jun let out a breath and said to himself: I didn’t swear on the last sentence.

Pan Yun finished his meal, washed the dishes, poured himself a pot of boiling water, then turned off the fire, poured the remaining boiling water into the bucket, mixed it into hot water, and went back to the house to soak his feet.

Because she had just eaten, although she felt a little sleepy, she refused to sleep. After soaking her feet, she sat cross-legged on the bed and meditated.

But he only practiced for one week before stopping and letting his mind go to meditate.

It was not known whether Mu Ang knew about her conversation with Li Wenying and he specially called Mu Xi and Mu Lin to give them a lecture. Later, when Pan Jun went to guide the father and son in their practice, there was no one in the side courtyard except the father and son.

Pan Jun sat aside and watched them enter into meditation, mainly staring at Mu Xi.

She watched as he was able to use his consciousness to communicate with the bugs in his body, suppressing them until they trembled, and nodded with satisfaction.

When the father and son came out of meditation, she said, "You have already entered the door. The rest of your practice is up to you. I will leave the day after tomorrow."

Mu Lin was surprised: "So fast?"

Pan Yun nodded and asked him, "Hasn't there been any letter from the court yet?"

Mu Lin lowered his eyes and calculated, then said, "My letter may have just arrived in the capital, it won't be that fast."

Pan Yun sighed, "Then we have no choice but to separate. I was thinking that if the emperor didn't agree to let you stay, we could leave together."

The emperor was not that cruel. He was still very reasonable.

After receiving Mu Lin's letter, he praised Pan Yun in court and also praised Pan Hong, saying that he had taught his daughter well.

Then he agreed to let Mu Lin stay in Yunnan to take care of Mu Xi: "Wait until the Wanshou Festival before returning to Beijing."

The emperor's birthday is in November, which is still eight months away, which means that he can stay in Yunnan for at most seven months.

As long as you return to Beijing before the Wanshou Festival, it will be fine.

However, the princes from all over the country usually had to come to Beijing to celebrate the emperor's birthday. At that time, he could return to Beijing from Yunnan to celebrate on behalf of the Duke of Qian's Mansion.

It fulfills both filial piety and loyalty.

The court officials had no objection either.

The Duke of Qian and his wife were still in the capital, and the court officials did not think that the Mu family would rebel, so they tolerated this kind of thing.

Mu Lin thus had more than seven months of vacation.

When the imperial edict left the capital, Pan Yun and others had already left Yunnan.

Mu Lin escorted them a hundred miles away and did not stop until three days later.

I don’t know if it was because Mu Lin saw them off, but they left Yunnan twice as fast as they entered.

Pan Yun almost suspected that the guide took a detour when entering Yunnan.

Mu Lin escorted them across a river and stopped at the foot of a mountain.

He said, "It's easier to go to the official road from here. I can't see you off any longer."

Pan Yun took out the universal gift - the talisman. She put the talisman into her purse and handed it to Mu Lin: "This is a peace talisman. Take it back and share it with your family."

Mu Lin knew that her talisman was not an ordinary one, and was different from the ones on the market. He took it solemnly and nodded: "Thank you."

He took out a large brocade purse and handed it to her: "This is what my grandfather prepared. I wanted to give it to you when you left the house, but I was afraid you wouldn't accept it, so I asked you to take it and give it to you when you get here."

Mu Lin said: "If you don't accept it, I won't be able to go back and explain to my grandfather."

Pan Yun smiled and took it. "General Mu, you are too polite. There is really no need for this. I am here on the orders of the Emperor."

Seeing her accepting it while being polite, Mu Lin couldn't help but smile: "I knew that Grandfather was overthinking. He should have given it to you at that time, so that you could be happy for three more days."

Pan Yun: "That's true. Even without this purse, I've been very happy these three days."

Mu Lin smiled: "As long as you are happy."

The purse was not heavy, and she knew it did not contain gold or silver as soon as she touched it. She simply opened the purse and reached out to take out a stack of rolled-up silver bills.

Wang Cong came over at some point and was stunned when he saw the banknotes in Pan Yun's hand: "So many..."

He couldn't help swallowing.

Pan Jun also felt guilty instantly, with a conflicted look on his face: "This is too much..."

Pan Yun took a quick look and saw that the denominations were all one hundred taels. The two at the bottom were particularly large and of a different color. She took a quick look and found that they were one thousand taels.

Pan Yun's hands were shaking: "This is too generous..."

Mu Lin narrowed his eyes and smiled: "It seems that it was right to wait until now to give it to you, otherwise you would be entangled and uncomfortable for the next three days."

He leaned close to Pan Yun's ear and whispered, "My grandfather said that you saved my father's life, which is a great favor to the Mu family. What you gave is immeasurable. It's just a little money, but my Mu family can still make a promise to you."

He calmly stuffed a token into Pan Yun's hand and whispered, "With this token, you can order the Mu family to do one thing. As long as it does not harm the country or the emperor, the Mu family will do everything they can to achieve it."

Pan Jun was stunned and clenched the token in his hand.

Mu Lin stood up straight and laughed loudly with her, "Grandfather has already written a letter to plead for Lord Pan a few days ago. I also asked my uncle to take care of Lord Pan in the capital. Don't worry."

Pan Yun had a complicated expression: "It's no wonder that the emperors of all dynasties have trusted the Mu family, considering their status as such."

If it were her, she would believe it too.

Mu Lin smiled, took two steps back, clasped his fists and said, "I won't see you off any further. Take care, Taoist Pan."

Pan Yun also clasped his fists and said, "Take care, goodbye."

She put the token in her hand into the space, turned around and left.

Mu Lin stood at the intersection and watched them go away. He turned back only after the convoy completely disappeared and said, "Let's go."

"My Lord, the guides and people are ready. Are we really going to Burma?"

Mu Lin's face was solemn. "As long as the Gu Master is alive, this hatred will not end. Si Jifa thought that he could threaten my Mu family by hiding him? Humph, we are going there to kill the Gu Master. It would be best if we can take the opportunity to kill Si Jifa."

"Everyone is ready and waiting in the forest."

Mu Lin thought for a moment, took out the purse from his sleeve, divided out five amulets, handed them to someone and said, "Send this purse back home and tell your grandfather, and send the two amulets to your uncle and aunt in the capital." The attendant took it and agreed.

Mu Lin only kept one and distributed the remaining four to his trusted confidants.

Everyone knew that this was not an ordinary talisman, and they all took it with serious expressions and emotion.

Miao Zhen waited until they were far away before lowering the curtain. She turned around and said to Pan Yun, "Master Junior, why didn't you remind him that he was in danger of bloodshed?"

Pan Yun was counting banknotes, and when he heard this, he said nonchalantly, "It was a close call, and he won't die, so there's no need to remind him."

Miao Zhen wrinkled her nose and said, "It's good to remind him to be more careful."

Pan Yun shook his head: "Some bloody disasters can be reminded, but some cannot be mentioned."

Miao Zhen was puzzled: "Why?"

“Sometimes, all you need to do things is a spirit, an indomitable spirit. If the spirit is blocked, you will lose your sharpness. You may avoid bloody disasters, but you will also avoid success.”

Wang Cong came up and nodded in agreement: "Great achievements are often accompanied by great risks. He is taking risks, which means he is going to make great achievements. Junior Master, how much is the money? Can you take it?"

This one sentence made Pan Yun's mood go from heaven to hell.

She looked at the stack of banknotes in her hand with regret, took out a hundred taels and kept them for herself, and put the rest into the purse and stuffed it into Wang Cong's pocket: "After leaving Lingnan, find someone to send five hundred taels of banknotes to my father and brother in the capital. They need money right now. You can keep the rest. They will all be confiscated!"

Wang Cong happily agreed.

He continued counting the money as Pan Yun did, and asked, "Is five hundred taels enough? Do you want to send a little more? If Lord Pan is still in prison, he needs to be taken care of. If he is released, he needs to buy a house, rent a house, and live..."

Wang Cong was also very generous. He took out a thousand taels of silver and said, "How about giving them a thousand taels?"

Pan Yun frowned and said that she gave five hundred taels because she kept one of the two thousand six hundred taels given by the Mu family, so the remaining taels were five hundred taels.

"Isn't a denomination of one thousand taels too much? If my father and the others can't redeem it..."

"With Master here, there is no money that cannot be melted. Don't worry, even a banknote with a face value of 10,000 taels can be melted by Master."

Pan Yun blinked: "Will the bank issue a silver note of 10,000 taels?"

Wang Cong tilted his head, unsure: "Some big businesses might open it, but for such large denominations of money, there are usually special ways to withdraw it."

Pan Yun seemed to be thinking about something. She pulled Wang Cong over to sit next to her and asked in a low voice, "If we take the treasure, can we deposit the money in a bank and turn it into big silver bills?"

Wang Cong blinked and lowered his voice: "You want to launder money? Didn't you say that the money was to be used for charity?"

Pan Yun moved his mouth slightly and replied in a buzzing voice: "When your family does charity, they give away pearls and gems. In the end, don't they have to cash them in first, then use them to buy supplies, or break them into small change to distribute?"

A picture flashed through Wang Cong's mind: his junior master led four of his fellow apprentices with a sack of pearls and gems, placing a string or a small bag in front of each house.

The poor people took the pearls and gems and rushed to the pawnshop to exchange them for money, but the next moment they were arrested by the government...

He shuddered and said in a serious tone, "Master Junior, you are right. Wait for my news. I have met several bank managers in the past year. Wait for me to contact them."

Pan Jun nodded in satisfaction, pointed at the banknotes in his purse and said, "I just checked, they are all banknotes from Chengfeng Bank. They have a big business and are trustworthy. Since the Mu family trusts them, if you can talk to their manager..."

Wang Cong understood immediately: "I remember there is also a Chengfeng Bank in Guangxin Prefecture."

The master uncle and nephew looked at each other and laughed cunningly.

Miao Zhen waited until they finished talking before interrupting: "Little Master, Big Brother, the Jinyiwei are still following us."

The two of them immediately stopped laughing.

Pan Yun began to ask An Chen indirectly: "When will you return to Beijing?"

An Chen did not give an accurate answer.

After two days of forbearance, Pan Yun finally couldn't help it and said to him directly: "The mission to Yunnan is over. I don't plan to return to Beijing. We will go in different directions. When will you leave?"

An Chen glanced at her and said, "The order we received was to protect Taoist Priest Pan, and we did not receive an order to end the mission."

Pan Jun was dumbfounded: "What does this mean?"

An Chen said expressionlessly: "What I mean is that until His Majesty's decree arrives, I will follow Taoist Pan all the way."

Pan Yun pinched her waist and said, "It's all over. Why are you still following me? I have to go back to Guangxin Prefecture to take the exam."

An Chen said indifferently: "I will wait for the escort of the Jinyiwei."

"No need," Pan Yun waved his hand and said, "Besides, we still have to go to the academy after the exam."

An Chen: "I will wait for the escort of Jinyiwei."

"Can you beat the monsters, or can you subdue the ghosts?" Pan Yun asked bluntly, "Who will protect whom?"

An Chen had a blank expression on his face: "We are just following orders."

"Forget it. The imperial edict asked you to follow me not to protect me, but to guard and escort me to Yunnan and watch me treat Mu Xi. Now that both of you have completed your missions, why are you still following me instead of returning to the capital to report?"

An Chen didn't say anything. When she asked more urgently, he mounted his horse and ordered the horse to go full speed ahead. The carriage was shaking and almost shook Pan Yun's head off.

Finally, Zhang Ziming and Li Wenying couldn't stand it anymore, so they got out of the carriage and followed using their Qinggong skills instead of riding in it.

They can do it, and Pan Yun can do it too, but Wang Cong and the others can't.

Finally, Pan Yun gave in, gave up persuading them with a gloomy face, and silently let the Jinyiwei escort them to Guangxin Prefecture.

The Jinyiwei can’t be taken away, what about Zhang Ziming and Li Wenying?
Pan Yun looked at the two of them.

One of them looked up to the left, and the other looked up to the sky to the right, but neither of them looked at Pan Yun.

Pan Yun looked at Zhang Weiyi and Xue Hua who had been silent all this time: "School is about to start, you two..."

Zhang Weiyi: "I have already graduated."

"I mean the certificate of ordination..."

Xue Hua: "We have already obtained the qualification for the preliminary examination, but we failed the re-examination last year. We can directly take the re-examination next year."

Xue Hua's words instantly diverted Pan Yun's attention. She widened her eyes and said, "No way, you two are so bad at academic subjects and professional subjects? How can you fail the re-examination?"

Xue Hua's expression was calm, "You will understand once you take the test."

Zhang Weiyi: "It won't be long anyway."

Obtaining the certificate of ordination was one of the necessary achievements in Pan Yun's life, because only with the certificate could she go wherever she wanted in the future.

The documents from the Longhushan Academy were only valid for a few years and became invalid once she graduated.

If you want to go somewhere else, without a certificate of ordination, you either have to wander around as a refugee or apply for a travel permit.

Getting a pass is not only troublesome but also expensive, which Pan Yun dislikes very much.

She murmured, "I want to see how difficult this is." (End of this chapter)