Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 74 Relics

"Hehe!" Liu Renyuan shook his head with a wry smile: "The majestic prime minister of the Tang Dynasty sent his son-in-law to Baekje just to kill them all and not leave any room for others to survive. I used to think those rumors were exaggerated, but now It seems that there is really more than that!"

"Kill them all?" Wang Wenzuo was taken aback: "Guardian, is this aimed at you?"

"Of course not, otherwise the old man can still live to this day?" Liu Renyuan smiled: "I want to use the old man as a knife to eliminate enemies for his father-in-law. As the prime minister of the dynasty, he doesn't care about state affairs at all. With my own personal grievances, tsk tsk!"

Seeing that Liu Renyuan was full of resentment, Wang Wenzuo knew that he couldn't talk about serious business today, and he also knew that the more he knew about this kind of thing, the more trouble he would have, so he just found a reason to slip away.

In the next few days, Wang Wenzuo was busy all day long with the affairs of the shipyard and the weapon workshop in the city, so he gradually forgot what happened to Liu Renyuan that day.That evening when I returned home, I asked the maid to bring the meal, and just after eating two mouthfuls, I heard Liu An's voice from outside: "Is Sanlang back?"

"Is it Brother Liu?" Wang Wenzuo hurriedly put down his chopsticks, stood up and went out to greet him: "I just got home and was having dinner. I asked Sancho to buy some wine and meat—" At this point, Wang Wenzuo stopped, and saw There were two people standing in the courtyard. The man behind Liu An was dressed in a brocade robe, with a white face and long beard, and he was smiling reservedly at him, who could it be, Liu Yuanzhen?

"Sanlang, don't bother, I've prepared all the food and drinks, and they'll be delivered right away!" Liu An said with a smile, "I brought a friend here today, but it's my fellow clan——"

"Wu Lang doesn't need to be introduced, Wang Canjun and I have already met at Liu Duhu's place!" Liu Yuanzhen smiled and said, "Unexpectedly, you are also Wu Lang's friend, what a coincidence!"

"Yes, yes!" Only then did Wang Wenzuo come to his senses, and hurriedly agreed, and welcomed the two into the room, where they were seated separately.

"Although I know that Shaofu Liu has the same surname as Fifth Brother, I didn't expect that they are of the same family!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile while ordering Sancho to take down the bowls and chopsticks he had eaten half, and bring up some nuts.

"Wang Canjun, you don't have to be so polite. Although I work in the Shaofu, I'm just an assistant! It's not a public place right now, so I don't need to be called an official. My family is the thirteenth, so you can call me Liu Shisan !” Liu Yuanzhen laughed.

"Then you can call me Saburo!" Wang Wenzuo laughed.

"That's good!" Liu Yuanzhen pointed to Liu An beside him: ""My Liu family in the east of the river is spreading branches and leaves, and its distribution is quite wide.Liu An is quite close to my branch, and moved to Shandong after Zhou destroyed Qi, so I'm still a generation older than him! "

Wang Wenzuo was stunned, thinking to himself, should he follow Liu An to call you uncle?This is really a bit unspeakable.Liu Yuanzhen saw Wang Wenzuo's thoughts: "The three of us are about the same age, and Saburo is not from my Liu family, so you and I will treat each other as equals, don't care about that!"

"Yes!" Wang Wenzuo hurriedly got off the donkey along the slope, and said with a smile, "Then I will dare to overstep!"

"It's okay, I'm a casual person, Saburo doesn't have to be polite!" Liu Yuanzhen stretched out his index finger and tapped the nut plate in front of him: "I heard something about you when I was with Goro before, you are really a rare talent, it's a pity , It’s really a pity!”

Wang Wenzuo was confused by Liu Yuanzhen's two words of "it's a pity" suddenly, and he didn't dare to ask. Liu An who was on the side interrupted: "My uncle means that with your talent, Sanlang, if there is someone in the court, you will have already risen to the sky." Now, how could you be in such a situation today?"

"Damn, this guy is taking the bait!" Wang Wenzuo immediately became vigilant, and he hurriedly put on a straightforward look: "This officer has become a soldier Cao joined the army, and he has already been cultivated by the guard, and he is satisfied!"

"Bing Cao joined the army, ha ha!" Liu Yuanzhen raised his sleeves, covered his mouth and nose and laughed, but he stopped after a while: "Sanlang, do you know what this young mansion does?"

"I heard that he is in charge of the private treasury for the emperor!"

"That's right!" Liu Yuanzhen flicked his sleeves: "The royal clothes in the palace, the treasures, the precious meals, the emperor's sacrifice to the ghosts and gods of the heaven and the earth, and the rewards to the officials and generals. These expenses are all in the charge of the Shaofu. Empress Wu's order is to find something, if Wulang contributes to this matter, Brother Yu will definitely mention something to Empress Wu!"

Wang Wenzuo originally thought that Liu Yuanzhen was going to let him kill with a knife, and was thinking about how to find a reason to shirk it, but he didn't expect that the other party asked him to find the object, and Wu Zetian was involved, which was completely beyond his expectation, and he couldn't help being stunned Stopped, he thought for a while and asked: "I wonder what the queen is looking for?"

"Relic, does Saburo know?"

"Relic? Could it be the treasure left after the Buddha's body was incinerated after his death?"

"Well, Sanlang really knows a lot!" Liu Yuanzhen said with a smile: "When Emperor Wen of the previous dynasty was a minister, a monk gave him relics and said, "Tan Yue is kind, so I keep it for worship." Emperor Wen kept it in a seven treasure box and proclaimed himself emperor. Later, it was built as a pagoda. In the autumn of the 15th year of Emperor Kaihuang, there was a divine light rising from the base of the pagoda, surrounding the dew plate on the right, and the flames of Heruo furnace. Emperor Wen ordered the world to build thirty pagodas to store the relics. When the relics entered the pagoda , Shamen held the vase high, patrolled the four parts, everyone waited and watched, saw the light together, mourned and wept, the sound was like thunder, and the world changed. At that time, the envoys of Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla invited a relic to return to the country to worship , to protect the safety of the family and the country, and live forever!"

"Could it be that this relic is what you're looking for when you come to Baekje this time?"

"That's right, it's this thing!" Liu Yuanzhen nodded with a smile.

"The water here is very deep!" Wang Wenzuo thought to himself, the world was in chaos within a few years after the death of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. Of course he didn't believe that this relic had the mysterious power to keep the country safe and peaceful, but the influence of Buddhism in the world is huge. It is not false, the purpose of Wu Zetian sending Liu Yuanzhen to Baekje to find relics should be the same as Yang Jian's purpose at the beginning, both to strengthen the legitimacy of his political status.After all, compared with Wang, Cui, Changsun, Li, Xiao and other aristocratic families, the social status of the Wu family is much lower. If they can use the blessing of Buddhism to coat themselves with a layer of gold, it will undoubtedly be extremely beneficial.

"Sanlang!" Liu An said in a low voice, "the Baekje people know the whereabouts of this relic. If you know the Baekje people well, you won't be second-guessed in Sibi City. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. !"

(End of this chapter)