Chunguang Brocade

Chapter 153

Not only did Ji Chong not come back for breakfast, but he stayed deep in the forest. Shen Chuxia couldn't hear any news, so he could only wait patiently.

Baoye Temple in the early morning is bathed in the light of the sun. Looking at it from a distance, the early morning mist is like a long brocade belt surrounding the majestic temple, like a misty fairyland.

Ji Chong jumped off his horse, quickly climbed the steps, and soon arrived at the main entrance of Baoye Temple.

The abbot of Baoye Temple, clad in cassock, was standing at the door looking at the rising red sun in the east. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he said without moving his eyes, "You are here!"

"Uncle Huang!" Ji Chong stood on the steps below and saluted upwards.

The prince who had lived through the four dynasties had already seen through the world of mortals. When he saw the rising sun, he looked down at the descendants of the Ji family in front of him. Even his black clothes could not conceal his outstanding and heroic appearance.

Born with the aura of a king who dominates the world, his handsome facial features seem to be carved out of marble, with sharp edges and corners, sharp and deep eyes, and he can't help but feel a sense of oppression.

He turned and went back to the temple.

Ji Chong stared at his old but straight back for a long time without moving.

From time to time, the little monk turned his head to look at the ancestor, and then at the young regent. When his eyes met Ji Chong, he smiled innocently, turned around, raised his little feet and stepped into the high threshold, and one of them accidentally fell down on the threshold.

"Old Ancestor..." The five or six-year-old novice novice pouted his chubby mouth with an aggrieved expression, hoping that the Old Ancestor would wait for him.

"It's a small threshold." The voice was sweet and persuasive.

"Oh." The little novice still pouted her cute little mouth, but her expression was no longer aggrieved. With a little joy on her face, she quickly got up and trotted over, "Old Ancestor, what do you want to eat this morning?"

"You decide."

"Really?" The little novice exclaimed happily, "Then I want to eat meat buns!"

"Eat it. Serve with millet porridge."

"Yes, old man."

The meat buns belonged to him, and the millet porridge belonged to the ancestor. The little novice happily pulled his calf to the kitchen to order breakfast.

The old abbot stopped and thought for a while before turning his head.

In the distance, the door was not closed, and Ji Chong was still standing there, motionless.He is heroic and awe-inspiring, tall and unrestrained, and his gaze has an awe-inspiring aura that is not angry.

He glanced, looked away, and went back to the meditation room.

It wasn't until the emperor's uncle disappeared that Ji Chong turned around and went down the steps.

Zhishi glanced at the lofty Baoye Temple, and hurriedly followed her master until she was out of the range of Baoye Temple, "Your Highness, the time has come."

Ji Chong got on the horse with a beautiful and unrestrained movement, and glanced at the chaotic capital in the distance, "Have the horses arrived?"

"It's ready, Your Highness!"

"Drive!" One waved his whip.

One person and one horse left in the dust.

In the temple on the mountain, the little novice came into the meditation room with a food box that was about the same height as himself, "Old Ancestor, breakfast is here."

The abbot opened his eyes.

The little novice asked while laying out breakfast, "Patriarch, a new emperor is about to ascend the throne, so you will be an old man of the Five Dynasties."

The abbot looked pale.

The little novice raised his eyes, "Patriarch, is the new emperor the young man just now?"

"Eat."

"Oh." As soon as he heard that meat buns were available, the little novice immediately forgot what question he had just asked, and ate the buns happily, "Old Ancestor, meat buns are really delicious."

The abbot smiled lightly. The former prince had never eaten delicacies from mountains and seas, but he deeply believed that there was nothing more delicious than meat buns in this world.

"Old Ancestor, why don't you eat it?" The little novice felt sad that he couldn't eat it.

The abbot smiled, "The family has its rules, the state has its laws, and temples have their own rules. Lao Na can't eat meat buns."

"Then why can I?"

"Because the Buddha wants you to grow your body."

"Oh." The little novice seemed to understand but half understood, anyway, there are meat buns to eat, so what does it matter if you understand?

At the foot of the mountain, in the capital city, maybe not many people could have breakfast this morning.

The capital city was breached by the King of Chu, and the Grand Master's Mansion was besieged by the Kings of Chu Qiqi. Half an hour later, everyone in the capital saw black smoke rising from the Grand Master's Mansion to Yunxiao.

"How many treasures have to be burned to have such thick smoke..."

"I didn't expect King Chu to be the final outcome of Gao's party."

……

When people realized that Gao's party had been wiped out, and they were about to go to the street to beat drums and bells, an army of troops rushed in at the gate of the city.

"It's not good, it's not good...the regent has returned!"

"My lord, it's not good, Ji Chong has entered the city?"

The king of Chu was angry when he didn't get the gold, silver and jewels from the Gaofu. He had just set fire to his mansion. Unexpectedly, Ji Chong came back. He quickly swung his sword and pointed at the palace, "Get me the dragon chair!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Suddenly, the army of the king of Chu blew towards the palace like the wind.

Su Juesong led the army to meet Ji Chong, and bowed his hands to the owner of the horse, "Your Highness, the king of Chu has entered the palace to grab the dragon chair."

"Follow."

"Yes." Su Juesong was overjoyed, the master is about to ascend the throne?

Happily, he quickly asked the two generals to command thousands of troops and go straight to the imperial city.

In Taifu's Mansion, Geng Taifu heard that Ji Chong was fighting with the King of Chu in the imperial city, and fell to the ground, "It's over...it's over...Ji Chong must be enthroned this time..."

"Father, what should we do?" Master Geng's face was as white as snow.

Taifu Geng was stunned for a long while, then suddenly burst into tears: "My poor late emperor, he was poisoned at the age of three, and has been lingering in the bed ever since, and finally worked hard to arrange everything. I didn't expect... I didn't expect that the imperial power would still fall...I suffer... Your late emperor..."

Geng Taifu cried out of breath.

While Mrs. Geng was sad, he suddenly became very angry, "Father, I blame the eldest daughter of the Shen family. If it weren't for her, how could Ji Chong be in this situation? Father, are the Shen family helping the late emperor? Is Shen Jinlin betraying his sentence?" the late emperor?"

Geng Taifu's crying stopped abruptly, and he stared blankly at his eldest son.

"Father, don't look at me like that." Lord Geng gritted his teeth and said, "Since Shen Jinlin's daughter appeared beside Ji Chong, his luck seems to have changed. the whole world."

"Shen... Xia..."

"Shen Jinlin's eldest daughter—Shen Chuxia."

Taifu Geng got up tremblingly from the ground, "Since when did Ji Chong change?"

"Back to father, from that 'hero should drink strong wine', from Jiaofang Division being forced to resume the scientific examination by poor scholars... step by step, he won the hearts of the people, the Gao family was afraid, they were so stupid that they brought the king of Chu into the capital ...Stupid..."

"Too much self-confidence is really stupid." Taifu Geng scolded Gao Shi together with his eldest son.

Master Xiao Geng pushed the door open and came in, "Father..."

As if there was a shady secret, the Geng family's father and son quickly adjusted their expressions, facing the younger son (brother) who came in together, "Li'er, we are worried about the battle between the regent and the king of Chu."

Geng Qili shook his head with a smile, "If my father was worried about Ji Chong whose military strategy was greater than that of Wenzhi, I would still believe it, but I would not worry at all when I stood with the King of Chu. For the regent Ji Chong, it is only a matter of time before King Ji of Chu is captured alive. It is estimated that the king of Chu will not be able to withstand Ji Chong's pursuit and defeat of Bei at night."

"This... is it..."

The father and son looked at each other, not daring to look at the younger son.

Geng Qili shook his head, "I'm afraid you won't be able to help Ji Tai this time."

"what……"

"what……"

Both father and son exclaimed in unison, "Li'er, you..."

Geng Qili sat on the chair with a calm expression, "To be honest, I admire the late emperor. It has been five years since his death, and there are still a group of diehards under him planning for the throne for his son. For the sake of being an emperor, it can be said that It was very successful."

Geng Taifu and his son never told the youngest son about their loyalty to the late emperor, but the youngest son still knew everything.

"How did you know?"

"As the former emperor's important minister, you were obviously loyal, but you didn't assist the little emperor in the court and let Gao's party run rampant. You also made people report to the rebellious king of Chu. You have nothing to do with Gao's instigating the three kings' rebellion. What's the difference?"

"you……"

Master Geng did not expect his youngest son to be so keen in his observations, "You...are suitable to be an official."

Geng Qili was not greedy in front of Lao Tzu, "No, I am suitable for everything. I am a natural talent to do and be good at that line of work."

"You..." Taifu Geng laughed angrily at his youngest son, pointing at him speechless.

"Isn't it?" Geng Qili said, "If I become a Taoist monk, I will become a legend in a hundred years."

"Get out, get out of here quickly." Geng Taifu was exhausted physically and mentally, and let him go quickly with a flick of his hand, out of sight.

Master Xiao Geng got up and left with a smile, but was stopped by Laozi again at the door, "Then do you think little master still has a chance?"

Master Xiao Geng asked, "What does father refer to? Rumors of Ji Chong's infertility?"

"Since you know it, don't keep it to yourself."

Geng Qili smiled softly, "Don't you dare to gamble, maybe the family is full of children and grandchildren, so why would you want to adopt any clan children, even if you want to adopt clan children, what does it have to do with Shen Jinlin's concubine?"

"What, you even know this?" Master Geng was not calm.

Master Xiao Geng shrugged, "I didn't know just now."

"You lied to us?"

"Yes."

"Then why did you think of Shen Jinlin's bastard?"

"Let's go back to the question just now. The father is loyal but does not assist the little emperor. It must be that the former emperor has a second hand. What is the second hand? There must be another son. Then where will this son be raised?" Geng Qili gently With a smile, "The regent Ji Chong killed so many officials who colluded with the king, why didn't he kill Shen Jinlin?"

Now, the Geng family father and son turned pale and trembled, "You...you mean that Ji Chong already knew about it?"

"I don't know, I guess."

"Fuck off..." Taifu Geng cursed angrily and drove the youngest son away.

But after calming down, the father and son looked at each other, and suddenly reacted, "Hurry up, the young master is still in the Regent's Palace..."

Lord Geng was swept away like the wind.

After waiting for two days, when Shen Chuxia was picking a lot of wild vegetables to eat, Mu Tong came, "Miss Shen, Your Highness asked me to take you back to the capital."

"Where is King Chu?"

"The king of Chu committed suicide."

"What about Gao?"

"The father and son of the Gao family are missing."

Shen Chuxia looked towards the direction of the capital, and the little emperor was also dead. Wouldn't the capital be under Ji Chong's world, and would the lower part be... She didn't dare to think about it.

what happened?Why is Miss Shen unhappy when King Fan commits suicide? Could it be that she followed Fan... Well, what was he thinking, Mu Tong quickly stopped his thoughts, "Miss Shen, please..."

Shen Chuxia followed Mu Tong out of the forest with a heavy heart, all the way back to the capital, entered the city gate, she squeezed out a smile, "Thank you Brother Mu for picking me up, His Highness must be very busy, you should go back quickly, I will go back by myself." Just home."

"..." Mu Tong wanted to persuade her to go to the Prince Regent's Mansion, but after another thought, Gao's father and son disappeared, King Chu committed suicide, His Highness is indeed very busy now, even if he receives the Prince's Mansion, he might not be able to meet him, so he nodded, " Gao's father and son are missing, please be careful, Mrs. Shen."

"Okay." For some reason, Shen Chuxia thought of the stream that had escaped, "Then hurry up and have a look over there, you may not be able to catch it."

Mu Tong shook his head, "Hopu has led people to block the escape path of Miss Shen, and there is nothing but a small empty hole."

It really was Ji Chong, really amazing.

"Oh." Then she can't help much, "I'm going back."

"Miss Shen, be careful, I will be free to accompany you when His Highness is done."

There is an empty seat in the palace, does Ji Chong still have time to accompany her?She smiled, noncommittal, and headed home.

For some reason, Mu Tong looked at her lonely back, no way, His Highness is really busy!Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, and hurriedly chased after him, "Miss Shen, there is one more thing I forgot to say..."

"What's the matter?" Shen Chuxia stopped.

"Your father will return to the capital around mid-April."

This news didn't feel much to Shen Chuxia who only met a few times, but she was still happy for Shen Yuanshi, "Thank you Brother Mu Tong, my mother must be very happy, I will go back and tell her the good news right away."

The little lady was finally happy, Mu Tong also felt happy, and hurried back to report.

When I got home, there was no one there, and there were traces of fights everywhere. Shen Chuxia's heart sank suddenly, no way, Ji Chong promised to take care of her relatives, how could she take care of them? Gone.

Suddenly, her anger rose from her heart, she turned around and ran out of the yard, ready to settle an account with Ji Chong, she ran very fast, as if she had something to vent, and almost bumped into someone.

"sorry Sorry……"

Shen Xiu'er was blindsided by her apology, "Xia'er, what's the matter with you?"

"Ah..." She was stunned, and there was a row of people standing in front of her, Shen Yuanshi, Shen Xiaoqiu, and Xiaozheng's wife Shen Mingxi, "Where did you... come back from?" Mu Tong didn't say this just now, could it be He forgot?
Shen Xiuer was embarrassed to answer this question.

Seeing Shen Mingxi's lack of energy, Shen Xiaoqiu replied, "From Xiaoguo's uncle's house."

"Why did you go to his house?"

"Why can't it be." Uncle Xiaoguo got off the carriage at the back, and there were a few followers behind him, each with something in his hand, with a look of trepidation, "I tell you, when the capital was in chaos, but I protected them, how can you protect them?" Thank me?"

Shen Chuxia raised her eyebrows, she really didn't expect it, "You have to rent the shop to me for three taels, Uncle Guo, what exactly are you planning?"

Uncle Xiaoguo didn't expect Shen Chuxia to hit the nail on the head as soon as they met, his old face blushed, "Think... think..." and looked towards Shen Xiu'er.

Shen Xiu'er was embarrassed by him, so she trotted home.

Shen Yuanshi is also not very energetic, living in a high-end mansion has many regulations, she is afraid of embarrassing her husband, so she is cautious and tired, "Go back first."

Shen Yuanshi walked forward with a small one in each hand.

Shen Chuxia stayed behind, staring at the red-faced Uncle Xiaoguo, "No way, which flower building in the capital does not have you, and your heart can still beat?" No numbness?It can't be acting.

Uncle Xiaoguo Liu Weixian was shy, but he didn't expect Shen Chuxia to be so straightforward, and his face turned pale with shock, "What nonsense are you talking about, who went to Hualou?"

"You want me to prove it?"

"Don't, don't..." Uncle Xiao Guo was like a grandson, his voice was extremely low, afraid of being heard by Shen Xiu'er who ran away in front, "Just forgive me, I've already turned my prodigal son back into gold."

"Hey, return the prodigal son without changing the money." Shen Chuxia was amused by him, and looked at the back in front of her eyes, "I am not a pedantic person, as long as this is the case, we don't need to pursue the past, but our Shen family has rules. People only marry once in a lifetime.”

In the first half, Uncle Xiaoguo was elated, but he didn't expect Shen Chuxia to be quite easy to talk to. In the second half, he was dumbfounded, "What?"

"Don't understand?"

"Yes." Uncle Xiaoguo was anxious.

Shen Chuxia stopped in her tracks, "My cousin can only be someone else's wife, and the person who marries her is not allowed to have other women for the rest of her life, do you understand?"

"how is this possible?"

"That can't be helped. This is the rule of our Shen family, and everyone does it."

"You're lying, your father has a concubine, hey, the one in front is his concubine." Grasp the clue right now, don't get too jealous of Uncle Xiaoguo.

In the front, Shen Yuanshi paused when she heard the conversation behind. No one in the Shen family had married a concubine for many generations, only her husband had a concubine.

Why did she come back from the Hou's mansion in a low spirits? In fact, she saw that there were so many concubines in Fugui's mansion that she couldn't blink her eyes. She also thought that her husband is still young. Will also marry many concubines.

Thinking of these, her life was gloomy.

Unexpectedly, the slap in the face came so quickly, Shen Chuxia gave him a hard look, "Don't hit my cousin if you can't do this, if you don't give up, I'll hit you every time I see you."

After finishing speaking, Dongdong walked straight forward.

Liu Weixian followed.

She stopped and threatened, "Believe it or not, I will find my cousin a petty official to marry right away."

"How dare you!" Uncle Xiao Guo was not a vegetarian either, and the little bully immediately became angry and glared angrily.

"Why don't you dare." Shen Chuxia crossed her arms, "Did you forget who is behind me?"

The little emperor is dead, the Gao family is down, the king of Chu commits suicide, the world belongs to Ji Chong now, Liu Weixian suddenly froze, "You...don't worry, let me...let me think..."

"Hmph..." What are you thinking, how do you want to lie to her cousin?There was no door, so Shen Chuxia turned around and left.

Liu Weixian wants to follow.

"Follow me again, I will go back to find Your Highness now."

Liu Weixian was so frightened that he stopped his feet, and flattened his mouth aggrieved, "Didn't I tell you, think about it, it's not good, isn't it just a concubine, maybe I can hold back."

"I believe you're a big-headed ghost." Shen Chuxia scolded angrily.

Liu Weixian was so scolded that he shrank his head and did not dare to move. He watched Shen's family enter the alley and entered the house.

The master was scolded, and the servants did not dare to move. It was a long time before someone reminded, "My lord, the gift in our hands..."

"They're all broken things. Give them whatever you want. Hurry up and take them back and exchange them for good ones."

"..." Ah, didn't you feel ashamed and embarrassed?
(End of this chapter)