Red House Shoufu

Chapter 352 Fighting back from both inside and outside
After the Grand View Garden returned to the palace in Yuanchun, most of the outside of the main hall at night was pitch black and empty.

But today is different. Daoxiang Village, Zilingzhou, and Nuanxiangwu on the west side of the main hall are all brightly lit, gauze tents and incense burners are hung in the corridors, and all kinds of instruments for piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are available.

The girls played the qin and made paintings, recited poems and wrote prose, and even sister Qiao babbled and danced to the rhythm of the qin in Wang Xifeng's arms.

In the main hall not far away, half of the elderly and half of the maids on duty gathered together. The chief steward, Eunuch Qi, sipped tea and said to the dozen or so strong servants in the hall: "Madam Tai begged to come to our house." , these days, you should not sleep too much, and arrange for on-duty matters. Grandma Rong is the blood of that master, so don't let others get away with it. There is also Rongjia County Lord, there must be no accidents. Otherwise, none of us will be able to escape under the thunder!"

Nanny Liu, who was assisting Tai Tai in charge of affairs, added: "Don't think it's a bad thing to leave the palace. Being able to work in the garden is a blessing from the concubine Xian. It's easy to get rich in the palace, but relying on you If you protect the nobles in the garden, you will be able to spend your life safely in the garden!"

Among the ten or so young servants, the leader Wu had worshiped Eunuch Qi and Nanny Liu as godfathers and mothers early in the morning, knelt down and kowtowed and said: "Godfathers and mothers, my son understands!"

Most of these dozens of people were born as orphans, and they were selected by the palace to practice martial arts to protect the nobles.After the concubine Feng gave birth to the prince in Yuanchun, the imperial concubine Yang introduced the elderly eunuch Qi and Nanny Liu to Yuanchun on the pretext that she needed someone to take care of her relatives.

Although the palace will arrange places for elderly maids who have no relatives at home, but they are not good places. Some people will suffer a lot of grievances and bullying after going there.

On the contrary, it is the dream of countless people to give the courtiers' family responsible for teaching and other positions, like the mothers Zhang and Lu who are beside Daiyu.

You can tell by looking at the state changes of Nanny Zhang every time she enters the palace, she is even a few years younger than before leaving the palace.It is said that both Rongjia county head and Lin family head treat each other with the courtesy of elders. After the county head doesn't need to study, the two nuns grow flowers and plants, and go outside when they have nothing to do. They live a beautiful life.

Eunuch Qi and Nanny Liu are both old people who follow the imperial concubine Yang, so they naturally know everyone around the former empress.Originally, the two of them thought that the best ending in the future would be to take advantage of the power of the imperial concubine to find a small courtyard in the imperial mausoleum or a royal temple to end their lives, but they never expected that the Jia family would be responsible for the care of the concubine Xian's favor.

The Jia family even made arrangements for their funeral in advance, and reserved a land next to the Jia family's ancestral grave, so they don't have to worry about incense in the future.For people like them who have no relatives and no family, what could be greater than this favor?
Eunuch Qi touched the Buddhist beads on his wrist, and waved his hand to signal the boys to go down.Then he said softly to Madam Liu: "I have found someone from the imperial army, and I will come to Ningrong Street more these days. You don't have to worry, Grandma Rong is the blood of that master after all, and the emperor will definitely get the news. Will take care of that."

Grandma Liu frowned and replied: "I'm just afraid that something might happen. We finally got this good job. We have accepted the kindness of the concubine Xian and the favor of the Jia family. We must not let anything happen in the garden."

"Don't worry, Mrs. Tai said, since Jinggong has already made arrangements, those people will not succeed. If Jinggong hadn't happened to go to Mobei back then, that master must still be living in the East Palace safely..."

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At midnight, the whole Dashi Yongfang was quiet, even the imperial guards patrolling the capital and the watchmen who kept watch at night were very quiet.

A figure suddenly appeared on the east courtyard wall of Ningguo Mansion, and within a few jumps, he avoided the patrolling servants and came to Jia Rong's courtyard.

This is already the second time he came here today. In the afternoon, he disguised himself as a dumb man delivering food. He originally thought that he could carry out the second plan after repeated intimidation and threats, but he never thought that Qin Keqing hadn't come back from the Grand View Garden.

At that time, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, so he ventured to the window of Qin Keqing's house again tonight.

It has to be said that Qin Keqing is really a stunner, not many men can hold on to her after seeing her face, even though she is now pregnant and bloated a lot, but he almost failed several times.

There was still a faint fragrance in the room, the man in black didn't dare to turn on the lamp, he touched the bedside based on his memory, and it was really cold when he checked it out.

It seemed that he lived in the Grand View Garden, and the man in black couldn't help being a little annoyed.He was not worried that Qin Keqing would report the matter to Jia Jing, after all, he had figured out Qin Keqing's temperament these days.

As long as the Qin family and the child in her womb are threatened, this beauty who attaches great importance to family affection is not at his mercy.When something happened to Jia Jing and Jia Rong, and he was responsible for it, the man who was lying on this bed with this stunner in the world wouldn't trust Jia anymore.

The man in black stroked the soft and silky quilt on the bed, and he thought about it for a while before he came back to his senses. He carefully placed a note under the pillow, and then returned from the same way.

After digging out of the wall, the Tianxiang Tower was lit with lights.Jia Jing, Jia Lian, and Lin Shu were all sitting in it, and the one who sat at the head seat with Jia Jing, who was dressed in a red gold silk embroidered flying fish, was Lu Chengen, the commander of the embroidered guards.

"Jinggong, to arrest or not to arrest?"

Lu Chengen brought Shengming over, but the emperor asked him to obey Jia Jing's orders, so he said, "My sons and daughters have already followed from afar, and our people are all around, just waiting for Jing Gong's orders."

Jia Jing replied coldly: "Wait! The mastermind behind the scenes hasn't shown up yet, so arresting him alone is meaningless."

"Patriarch, it has been found out that it was Wang Delu, who was in charge of purchasing, who took money from Ruan Er in Nancheng, and replaced Chen Laoliu, who delivered the food, with Ruan Er's nephew."

After Jiao Da entered the building, he reported the investigation of the mansion, only to hear Jia Jing coldly order: "Gag the mouth and stick to death, throw it to the incarnation field."

Neither Lin Shu nor Lu Chengen spoke, let alone the law at this time, Jia Jing's anger must be borne by someone.

If they were handed over to the Shuntian Mansion, not only would their plan of following the vines be exposed, but Qin Keqing's reputation would also be affected.

Why did the emperor secretly send his confidant Embroidered Guard over here? It was because Qin Keqing was touched into the room by a strange man. How could the Shuntian Mansion investigate this matter?

After about half an hour, an embroidered guard hurried to Tianxiang Tower.

After saluting to several people, he reported: "My subordinates have found out that this person's name is Bai Le, and people in Jianghu call him Flying Mouse. He is indeed related to Ruan Er, a member of the Nancheng gang. Just now, after he left Ningrong Street, he first went to Qin During the visit to the Cha Temple, the subordinates did not approach in order not to startle the snake. A quarter of an hour later, Bai Le came out of the Qincha Temple and returned to his home in Nancheng, and never went out again."

"Qincha Temple?"

Lin Shu was a little surprised. Jiumozhi, the abbot of Qincha Temple, had a great enmity with him.Uzang Dharma King Bochen Nagon's words almost ruined Daiyu, and after being slaughtered by himself, the Lin family and the Lamaism formed a deadly feud.

Qincha Temple is the only and most powerful Lamaism temple in the capital. If he can take the opportunity to get rid of this temple, he will not hesitate to make a move.

Don't talk about the unity of the two ethnic groups, what he wants to unite should be the Uzbek serfs who were squeezed by this group of people. The vast majority of people in Uzbekistan are living in extreme misery because of this group of religious aristocrats who are not engaged in production. They all lived better than the serfs on the plateau.

The matter involved the Uzbek Lamaism, and Lu Chengen didn't know what to do.How this matter got involved with the group of lamas in red robes and yellow hats is really tricky.

He turned around and asked, "What does Jinggong think we should do next?"

Jia Jing didn't expect that the first thing to investigate in this matter would be the Chincha Monastery. He pondered for a while and replied, "Isn't the new Dharma King of Uszang coming soon? The Ministry of Rites should go to the Chincha Monastery to arrange the ceremony in advance." Bar……"

"The Dharma King will arrive in more than three months." Lu Chengen almost failed to keep up with Jia Jing's train of thought, and finally came to his senses. He shook his head and reminded, "It's too early to be suspected by them."

Jia Jing chuckled: "Don't forget how much the Ministry of Rites has been busy with in the past few months. Next month will be the provincial examination, September will be His Majesty's birthday and the Double Ninth Festival, October will be the Iron Net Mountain Autumn Hunt, October will be the feudal congress alliance, November will From the very beginning, we will arrange the wedding of His Highness the Crown Prince... which one is not more important than the Dharma meeting of the little Lama Dharma King?"

Lu Chengen couldn't help but slapped his thigh: "Good idea, Jinggong is worthy of being the king's brain truster, and there are no omissions. I'll go back and make arrangements..."

Lin Shu couldn't help interjecting: "Master Lu, why don't you let the people from the Ministry of Rites go early in the morning, and then the lower officials will let your younger sister go to the Qincha Temple to worship Buddha. I think it will create some opportunities for your people."

Worship Buddha?

Lu Chengen couldn't help curling his lips, Rongjia County Lord and Lamaism are almost incompatible, what Buddha to worship?

However, if the Rongjia County Lord went to Qincha Temple, the lamas in the temple would definitely focus on the front yard, which would indeed buy a lot of time and opportunities for the embroidery guard.

Lu Chengen cupped his hands affectionately: "Then there will be Mr. Lau Lin and the county lord!"

Lin Su looked at each other with a smile, and bowed his hands in return: "Lord Lu, you are welcome!"

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Beginning in July, the number of literati and officials gathered in Shuntianfu gradually increased. In August, during the period of victory, various Taoist temples and temples took advantage of the rural examinations to hold various literary and poetry symposiums.

The same applies to the Qincha Temple. Going to the country to do as the Romans does, and making good friends with young people is one of the purposes of their trip to the capital. Maybe a certain young scribe who is splashing ink in the temple today will enter the cabinet and become the prime minister in the future. Xiangguo.

Among the many temples in the capital, the most attractive part of Qincha Temple is the exotic style, unique and exquisite houses, as well as the plateau refreshments in the temple, which attracted many scholars and women.

As the Qiqiao Festival is approaching, Qincha Temple specially prepared a lot of amulets and other items from the daughter's family, so that on the fifth day of the seventh month, pilgrims gathered early in the morning, especially women's relatives accounted for most of them.

Jingling, jingling, suddenly bursts of bells sounded not far from the Qincha Temple, a group of guards escorted a delicate carriage slowly approaching, the little lama who guarded the gate saw the golden bell hanging on it Know that the other party's status is extremely high.

It's a pity that he didn't notice the Lin characters embroidered on the carriage, and he didn't know the specifications of the county master's carriage, otherwise he wouldn't have stepped forward with a smile.

"The nobleman comes to the door, and the humble temple is full of splendor..."

"It's really vulgar enough, how dare you use a golden roof, it's rude to make rules!"

With the support of the snow geese, Daiyu stood on the shaft of the car and looked up. The roofs of the halls of Qincha Temple were like the sacred places of Buddhism and Taoism such as Longhu Mountain and Emei, with gold-plated or gold-painted roofs.

If she remembers correctly, Qincha Temple is not qualified to use a golden roof.I really don't know whether the Ministry of Rites didn't know or pretended not to know, and turned a blind eye to such violations of etiquette.

The little lama was provoked by Daiyu's words, and was about to speak out to reprimand and refute, but when he saw the county magistrate's costume, he closed his mouth.Most of the clan relatives are domineering, and this group of noble girls dare not easily offend even the hosts.

"You monk, hurry up and lead the way!"

Xueyan frowned, scolded softly, then walked slowly with Daiyu supported, guarded by the imperial guards, as if she hadn't noticed the code hanging in front of the gate of the temple: Armored soldiers are not allowed to enter Temple!

The little lama opened his mouth: "My lord, there are regulations in the monastery that no swords and other things are allowed..."

"Except for the Forbidden City, the county lord's sword never leaves his body!"

Daiyu snorted coldly, and as soon as the words Forbidden City came out, the little lama was so frightened that he dared not speak again.

Naturally, there is a big lama in the main hall of the temple, and he still knows Daiyu.At a glance, he recognized the person walking towards the main hall as the county head of the Lin family who had a great enmity with the Lamaism.

Moreover, according to the words of Bochen Nagong, who has gone to the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss, the county head of the Lin family was originally the reincarnation of a saint, but was bewitched by the worldly glory, and the Buddha's heart was occupied by the demon.

The Qincha Temple either crossed the saint girl back to the plateau, or crossed the demon to the west... Since the saint girl has now become a demon, the county master of the Lin family must be eliminated by their group of lamas in Beijing.

It's a pity that the second-rank county master on Daiyu's body is noble, and the group of imperial guards on both sides is not easy to mess with at first sight, so the big lama can only let someone inform the presiding officer Jiumozhi, while smiling against his will.

"Uncle Qiu Yu, this noble girl just now..."

"The county lord is here, and the poor monk welcomes you!"

The little lama was about to sue, but Qiu Yu interrupted him.He had already seen that the guards on both sides of Daiyu were holding knives. Maybe ordinary noble girls would not easily offend the Lamaism, but this County Lord Lin might kill them to avenge her brother.

She never backed down in front of the royal family and princes. Her family's Dharma king almost kidnapped her, and later forced the emperor to dismiss Lin Shu from his official position. Maybe she came here today to find fault and take revenge.

Daiyu ignored Qiu Yu, but walked into the main hall and looked around. The pilgrims all around avoided one by one, looking curiously at the county head of the Lin family with a light veil on her face.

"nondescript!"

Although Qincha Temple is said to be a plateau Lamaism, in order to cater to the noble and wealthy businessmen in the capital, it has placed various gods and Buddhas in the middle of the earth who seek blessings, wealth and longevity. Compared with the Fadu Temple in Suzhou, which is also a Lamaism, it is indeed nondescript.

Daiyu saw the incense candles placed in front of the merit box under the incense table, beside which it was written impressively, Ten Thousand Buddhas are extradited, the incense burns to cross the calamity, and one or two sticks of incense are consecrated.

She sneered: "Is your Lamaism temple destined for people in Fodu or wealthy people in Fodu, and a stick of incense costs one tael of silver?"

　Tomorrow, I will sleep until I wake up naturally, and then start to update the codewords, striving for more three or four thousand words!
　　
　
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