The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Chapter 907

It is the twelfth lunar month, and the north wind is hunting.

The king of Qin officially appointed Zhu Tong as a political adviser, and ordered him to retry the cases that were found in the safe of Fuyuntang.The queen mother and the queen mother's brothers were reprimanded by their sisters, and they were not allowed to go out in the mansion.Zhu Tong shook his head: "How many cases are related to them, and they just avoided it like this."

The safe of Fuyuntang was finally opened, and the case suddenly became clear, and Qin Guochaotang was in a state of panic.The main door of Zhu's mansion was wide open, and no one who came to pass the film was seen; the corner door of the back door was guarded by General Tie, and no one was allowed to enter.If so, I don't know how many letters were thrown in through the crack of the door in one night.

Zhu Wei arrested more than 20 officials in the first batch.The first person to be interrogated is the Admiral Xuezheng Zhang, who is well-known as a great Confucian in the world.Zhu Wei retreated to the left and right, without even taking any civil servants with him, and just sat in front of the hall by himself.Master Zhang lowered his head and wept silently.Zhu Wei coughed twice and said, "Master Zhang, I heard that you studied at Donghai Academy in Cangzhou when you were young, and then you got the No. 20 second-class Jinshi, is that right?"

Master Zhang was taken aback for a moment, and raised his head.It happened that Zhu Wei winked at him.Master Zhang made up his mind. "Exactly."

Zhu Weidao stroked his beard and said, "This old man has been friends with Mr. Wu Rui for many years..." Before he finished speaking, Mr. Zhang was already pleasantly surprised.Zhu Wei coughed twice again, "Donghai Academy has a rigorous style of study, and all the students it teaches are upright officials. Mr. Zhang was also a well-known upright official in our country of Qin earlier. Who tempted you to accept bribes and help others to cheat in scientific examinations?"

When Mr. Zhang heard this, isn't this blatantly persuading him to put the blame on others?Immediately said: "It's Old Man Bi, the owner of Fuyuntang. He's the one who teased me!"

He co-authored this piece of calligraphy and painting that adults love Mi Fu.Last year, in a very small calligraphy and painting shop, he came across a man carrying a piece of calligraphy to sell on consignment, which was Mi Fu's authentic work.Mr. Zhang immediately wanted to buy it, but he didn't want another person to also take a fancy to this painting. The two bid for it, and Mr. Zhang lost miserably.The man had a fat head and big ears, and was covered in gold and silver, which was vulgar.Thinking of Mi Xiangyang's calligraphy falling into the hands of this person, Mr. Zhang was very upset.Unexpectedly, only three to five days later, one of his students saw this calligraphy at the home of his arch-rival Mr. Zhou. It turned out that the nouveau riche bought the calligraphy as a gift.Master Zhou also knew that Master Zhang loved Mi Xiangyang the most, so he would show it off to him when he had nothing to do, and Master Zhang became more and more bored.

A few days later, someone bought a pair of Mi Fu's authentic works with a lot of money in Ping'an Prefecture, and entrusted someone to give it to Master Zhang, just to ask him for a small favor.The person entrusted is the master Bi of the Fuyun Hall.This person persuaded him skillfully, saying: "Master Zhang doesn't agree, so I have to ask Master Zhou." Master Zhang let him talk.I don't want Mr. Bi to take advantage of Mr. Zhang's shortcoming and refuse to let him go.Last year in the township examination, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Zhou worked together to help people cheat, and gained a lot of benefits.Only then did Mr. Zhang know that Mr. Zhou accepted Mi Fu's words because he was also urged by Mr. Bi, just to embarrass Mr. Zhang.Due to the disagreement between the two of them, Master Bi held both of them in the palm of his hand.

After hearing this, Zhu Wei said kindly: "Everyone has weaknesses. This man surnamed Bi has evil intentions, and I can't blame Mr. Zhang." Mr. Zhang suddenly felt that there was hope of escape, and repeatedly scolded the thief.

Later, several officials were interrogated, all of whom were dragged into the water by this surname Bi.Then he offered a reward for the arrest of Mr. Bi.The co-author, surnamed Bi, didn't even tell anyone his real name, and he just made trouble in Chang'an City for a year or two.

Back home that night, Zhu Wei took the confession and sighed, "I didn't expect to interrogate Marquis Ping'an, as long as I can ask him when something happens. Or ask the prince to ask him. Now he is restrained, I can only stare blankly." Ping'an Hou told the Queen Mother that he had won 500 taels of silver that day, so he went to rob Zhu Wei of the Fuyuntang case.Although the Queen Mother didn't really believe it, she still pretended to believe it.

Zhu Tong said: "The behind-the-scenes owner of Fuyuntang must be Lord Ping'an. Uncle let him go first, and when we find out the official Bi, there will naturally be evidence."

Zhu Wei said, "How do you dare to conclude that it's him?"

Zhu Tong said with a smile: "The strategy of the Kingdom of Shu is very straightforward. If Empress Nuwa wants to defeat the foundation of Yin and Shang, she must first send Daji to confuse the Lord. The King of Qin is young, and there are people such as the Queen Mother and Mr. Cui watching, there is no way Let's start. They had to hook up with the emperor's relatives and officials, and let them do some unreasonable things to defeat the Qin family. If I were him, if I wanted to persuade someone to do business like Fuyuntang, I would also choose Marquis of Ping'an—King Qin respects his grandmother the most, and the Queen Mother has only his younger brother, so even King Qin doesn't have to be afraid."

Zhu Wei frowned and said, "Where did the capital find out that Shu Kingdom is behind this incident?"

"I didn't find out." Zhu Tong said, "Jia Cong guessed it. The embroidery shop in Xianyang is named for auspiciousness, and it also sells Shu embroidery. The uncle of the Kingdom of Shu once borrowed Situ Cen's name to rob people's property outside, and he bought the best. One of the cheapest industries is Jixiang Embroidery Workshop, 20 taels of silver. Later, when exchanging letters, Jia Cong took this matter as an allusion, and laughed at Situ Cen when he was free. People join forces to form an alliance, and it is easy to pick the Qin State. Besides, if you want to find out the preferences and weaknesses of so many people, no strong country can support it. Except for the south, the most prosperous countries are Yan, Shu, and Liao. Russia The king's favored concubines are both Liao daughters, and their crown prince also ambushed Liao noble daughters to grow up with him. It is obvious that the Liao king's thoughts are not in the country. Both of us are secret agents of the Yan kingdom. The rest are not Is it the Kingdom of Shu?" He raised his eyebrows and said, "It helped us. Originally, Liu Feng and I changed shifts in the past two years to make room for them to cause chaos."

Zhu Wei frowned again for a long time, and sighed: "The prince is too young, and his temper is not strong enough. The queen mother is only keeping safe, and when this matter is over, I am afraid that something else will happen."

Zhu Tong smiled and said, "Isn't that just right?" Zhu Wei was taken aback for a moment, but after thinking about it for a while, he couldn't figure it out, and didn't bother to ask him, so he waved his hand and gave up.

Two flowers bloom, each representing a branch.At this time Liu Jing was no longer at home, and together with Eunuch Li who was with the King of Qin and Mother Feng who was with the Queen Mother, they led people to Qinghua Mountain early yesterday morning.

A group of people first went to Bodhi Temple to inquire about Master Huipan.

It turned out that someone had figured out that Master Huipan would get a noble son-in-law, and she had saved her hair for more than two years and was just waiting to return to vulgarity.A while ago, the grandson of a king of Jin came to Qin to play, and happened to see a pair of her writing at Hui Ban's home.This king and grandson loves writing like an idiot, and when he heard that it was written by a woman, he wanted to marry immediately.Huiban's father hastily sent someone to pick her up, but he didn't have time to inform Bodhi Temple.It made the nunnery think she was missing, so many people were found.Now Hui Ban has gone back to the state of Jin with the prince and grandson, and her whole family also went to the state of Jin to be the emperor's relatives.A few days ago, Hui Ban sent someone to send five scrolls, which were the Diamond Sutra that King Qin promised to copy for the Queen Mother, and now they are enshrined in front of the seat of Guanyin.

Eunuch Li and Nanny Feng were dumbfounded after hearing what the old aunt said.The presiding aunt accompanied them to the Guanyin Hall, and sure enough, they saw scrolls with incense candles and other objects on the altar table.Open it and see that it is indeed the Diamond Sutra in Huiban's handwriting.Eunuch Li decided to take the burden and packed it, and left.

At the entrance of the nunnery, Liu Jing asked Nanny Feng, "Will the Empress Dowager still associate with her in the future?"

Mother Feng shook her head and said, "Master won't talk to such a person who has no Buddha heart."

Liu Jing glanced back and said with a half-smile: "Then the respect of these aunts will be ruined?" Mother Feng's complexion became more and more ugly, and she got on the sedan chair without saying a word.

After they left, the presiding old sister-in-law returned to the abbot's room.A peasant woman in brown clothes stood in the room, she cupped her hands and said, "Thank you, Master, for your help." The old aunt recited the Buddha.The woman said, "Master Huipan has a long life, if he hadn't been with the Queen Mother, he wouldn't have been in such a difficult situation. From now on, there will be no connection between the Bodhi Temple and the prince's family, and your nunnery will be quiet."

The old aunt said: "I also ask the benefactor Yinuo to return Hui Ban's body to Xiao'an."

The woman nodded: "It will be delivered tomorrow. Don't tell her family. She probably doesn't want to see her father and brother again in her spirit in heaven." The old aunt recited the Buddha again.

Qinghua Mountain is not big, but the road is not easy to walk.Liu Jing and others searched for the whole day, but they couldn't find anything similar to the map, so they stayed at the Temple of the Reclining Buddha that night.He showed Master Abbot the map he found from Fuyun Hall, but he didn't know where it was drawn.

The next day, Liu Jing got up early to practice boxing and kicking. A peasant woman was leaning outside the courtyard gate and looking around.Soon Eunuch Li, Nanny Feng and others all got up.They all knew that Liu Jing was the daughter of Liu Tong, the overlord of the Lu Kingdom, and they all watched her when they saw that she was good at martial arts.After finishing the practice for a while, he stopped his fists and feet, and everyone applauded in unison.Liu Jing smiled slightly and made a group bow.

The peasant woman who was watching at the door said slowly, "It's just mediocre."

A young eunuch who came to serve Eunuch Li shouted: "Bold! Where did the village woman come from, and she still doesn't get out!" Two guards came out to chase them away.

Liu Jing said: "Wait a minute! You say I'm not good enough?"

The peasant woman thought for a while and said, "It's better than ordinary people. It's not about flamboyance, all moves are practical. It's just that your strength is too weak, so you can at most bluff a scholar boy. You can't beat anyone with a little bit of skill."

Liu Jing looked at her and said, "This aunt must have some skills, how about making gestures?"

The peasant woman raised her head and looked at the sky: "Oh~~ I've been working hard for a while? I have to deliver firewood to the next family. I'm leaving, I'm leaving!" Picking up her feet, she ran.

Liu Jing laughed and said, "Wait, auntie! I have something to ask you!" The peasant woman ran very fast, as if flying.Liu Jing shouted, "Please help me to see the picture. If you recognize it, thank you for two taels of silver!"

The peasant woman immediately stopped and turned her head, "Really?"

"really."

The peasant woman ran back.

Liu Jing said to Li Gonggong and Mother Feng: "This aunt is obviously from the mountains. She is busy delivering firewood everywhere, so she knows the roads well. Some remote trails are recognized by woodcutters and peasant women, and the master in the temple may not have walked. .” Both of them said, “Exactly, Mrs. Zhu is thoughtful.”

Then he led the peasant woman into the house and took out the map to show her.After only one glance, the peasant woman smiled and said, "If you ask other people about this, they will not know. This is standing on the top of the Tiantian Gate and looking eastward. It is very remote."

Liu Jing and the two looked at each other, pointed to a house on the map and asked, "What is this place? Do you know?"

"I know." The peasant woman said, "It used to be a small temple, Lanruo Temple. Last autumn, the monks in this temple suddenly wanted to move. They said that someone paid a lot of money to buy their temple. Now it has been converted into a nunnery named Fengci Nunnery is mysterious, even the firewood is only delivered to the door, and they are not allowed to enter. Once I was curious, I sneaked in and took a look, only to see two young sisters-in-law with hair practicing, so beautiful."

"What did you say to them?"

"No, an old sister-in-law with hair cultivation came out in a hurry and chased me away."

Liu Jing thought for a moment and asked, "Have you ever seen a man inside?"

The peasant woman said: "We are busy chopping and sending firewood day and night, how can we have time to pay attention to that? I haven't seen it when sending firewood anyway."

Liu Jing nodded. "Excuse me, how should I go to Fengji Temple?"

The peasant woman rolled her eyes, waved her hand and said, "I'm very busy, and I have to send it to the next family."

Liu Jing smiled and said: "If you help us lead the way, it won't take you too long. You will still send firewood when you come back. I thank you for five taels of silver."

The peasant woman clapped her hands and said, "Sure enough, the Temple of the Reclining Buddha is different! It's so generous. Since that's the case, I'll take a hard trip and lead you there."

Liu Jing smiled and cupped her hands and said, "Thank you, auntie, for your hard work."

Then let the peasant woman wait outside for a while, and they went back to the house to change their clothes.Nanny Feng smiled at Liu Jing and said, "Madam Zhu is so clever."

Liu Jing said seriously: "Nurse, father-in-law, turn around and let her lead the way, give her money and send her away, don't ask her name."

Eunuch Li wondered, "Why?"

Liu Jing said: "I'm better than ordinary women these two times, but she doesn't like her. I'm afraid she has some background and lives here in seclusion. One more thing is worse than one less thing." Both of them nodded in agreement.

After changing clothes for a while, the peasant woman led the way, and Liu Jing and others followed on horseback and sedan chair.After walking the mountain road for half a day, a row of neat stone steps suddenly appeared in front of it.The peasant woman said: "This road was also newly built last year. It was originally a dirt road."

Climbing up the steps, the mountainside is Fengci Temple.The house in this nunnery is dilapidated, and it is obvious that it has not been repaired for many years.There are quite a few houses to look at, but there are faint sounds of knocking on wooden fish and chanting sutras.Liu Jing stood at the door for a while, took out five taels of silver and sent her away to the peasant woman.

Eunuch Li asked in a low voice: "Madam Zhu, can you see anything?"

Liu Jing said: "Ordinary Buddhist temple nunneries would open their gates wide in the morning, but their nunnery's gates are closed." She sniffed, "Elder-in-law and mammy smell the smell coming out of here. Sandalwood, Yun, speed, Shen, musk There are all kinds of fennel, fennel, sorrel, and turmeric. My family can't afford so many kinds of spices; I even built the bluestone steps just now in such a secluded place. This nunnery is not ordinary rich. But look at this gate ——" She stretched out her finger, and the door of the nunnery was originally painted, but now it is very mottled.She said lightly, "Does it look like the door of Fuyun Hall?"

Both Li and Feng took a deep breath.Without waiting for the two of them to speak, Liu Jing kicked open the door of the nunnery with a "bang" and strode in.Others had to rush to keep up.

Going straight into the hall and looking, everyone was stunned: the front of the hall was full of sisters-in-law with hair and practice.The sisters-in-law jumped up in panic, one by one competing with the other.