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Chapter 538: A gentleman should not be deceived, a musician has the sound of the piano (additional update 1\5, please vote for me!)
The current situation is somewhat different from what Rong Zhen criticized Lin Cheng and Wei Shaoqi.

On the main road from the West City Gate to the original Chengtian Temple and the current Xingzi Lake construction site, many people and traffickers gathered to watch the transportation of the Buddha's head.

Yes, there are many.

The Xingzi Lake construction site is located in the center of Xingzifang. Xingzifang is the largest and most mixed-up neighborhood in Xunyang City, and it occupies a large area.

It takes half an hour to transport the Buddha's head from the west gate.

The main road leading to it has been cleared in advance, and all the obstructive stalls and shops have been moved away, making way for an avenue where eight horses can run parallel.

At this moment, a dozen horse-drawn carriages were assembled together, hauling the heavy and huge Buddha head, slowly heading towards the Xingzi Lake construction site.

In addition to Lin Cheng, Rong Zhen, Wei Shaoqi, Wang Lengran, Yuan Huaimin and other officials at the front, there were also hundreds of black armored soldiers guarding the Giant Buddha convoy.

Looking around, the streets were filled with crowds of people watching.

However, on the streets where the convoy carrying the Buddha's head passed, most of the shops and houses along the street, as Rong Zhen said, kept their doors tightly closed. Occasionally, a few pairs of observing eyes could be seen peeking out from the cracks in these doors.

"Why is Rong Nu Shi so absent-minded?"

"Do you know why Prince Xunyang and Prince Xunyang didn't come, like Ouyang Lianghan? Even though they knew this was an opportunity to show goodwill to His Majesty, they still made excuses to be absent just now?"

Rongzhen had a straight face, moved forward in his sleeves, and did not answer after hearing the words.

"I don't know."

Lin Cheng turned back and glanced at the huge Buddha's head on the carriage. Waterproof and fireproof linoleum cloth covered the Buddha's head. Originally, it only vaguely outlined the general shape of the Buddha's head.

Lin Cheng was used to the cold face of this female historian. It would be fatal if she stopped being so cold one day.

However, a lot of the dust that had just fallen from the west city gate along with the falling bricks was left on the linoleum cloth, increasingly outlining the face of the Buddha's head - the amount of dust accumulated highlighted the profound facial features.

"Ms. Shi, are you sure he is in Xunyang Tower now?"

Lin Cheng withdrew his gaze and suddenly looked back and asked:

"I didn't want to say anything. I was just afraid that the flood would wash away the Dragon King Temple later. That's why I just suggested to the female historian to find Ouyang Sima to witness the completion of the Buddha together. This is also for his own good."

The Buddha's head under the linoleum seems to be smiling.

"Where is Ouyang Sima?"

At the front of the team, Lin Cheng suddenly turned around and asked.

"Lin Cheng, do you really think that everyone, like you, thinks it is an extremely honorable thing to stand on the construction site of Xingzi Lake that drains the blood and sweat of the people and witness the completion of this giant Buddha?"

Along the way, it was both lively and quiet.

Rong Zhen asked sternly:

"I have already told you."

"Lin Cheng, what exactly do you want to say?"

It is difficult to describe this contradictory atmosphere.

As the Buddha's head gets closer and closer to the destination, the uneasiness caused by the twists and turns at the west city gate has gradually faded away.

Both joyful and cautious.

Lin Cheng frowned slightly:

"But isn't it like this? Why isn't it an honor to witness the birth of a Buddha statue that can stand for a hundred years and live with the country? Not to mention being able to participate in it and become a leader.

"Confucianism pays attention to the three immortalities: establishing meritorious service, establishing virtue, and establishing reputation. This is meritorious service."

He changed the subject:
"Actually, I have always felt that if Ouyang Sima can help me, we can make statues in Xingzi Lake faster."

"Then he will bear the brunt of the name-calling with you?"

"No, if Ouyang Sima is here, the recent rumors can be avoided. With Ouyang Sima's ability, maybe some minor accidents on the construction site these days can also be avoided. Speaking of which, I am still a little unfamiliar with handling these things. ”

Rong Zhen said in a stiff tone:
"Oh, it turns out it's all his fault. The casualties and bad reviews at the Xingzi Lake construction site are all his fault. He didn't help. It's really a sin."

Lin Cheng looked helpless and said:
"That's not what I meant. I'm just a little sorry."

"Only regretful? What about other things? How to calculate the price paid?"

"The price is inevitable, but I have a clear conscience."

"Have a clear conscience? How much selfishness and publicity do you have in this? You must have deceived yourself."

"Of course, the public spirit is the most important, because His Majesty's will is the will of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and His Majesty's heart is the public heart of the Great Zhou Dynasty. "My heart is towards Your Majesty, not towards the public heart. What's wrong with that? "

Rong Zhen's eyes were cold as he said, "If it weren't for you and other monstrous words to confuse the public, how could His Majesty easily change the location of the statue?"

"What the female historian means is that she is also dissatisfied with His Majesty..."

Rong Zhen suddenly interrupted:
"Lin Cheng, you are still pretending here. How dare you say that hosting the Xingzifang statue this time is not to complete your promotion ceremony? Isn't it to reach the fifth rank?

"Originally, I was still a little unsure about this, but when I saw Senior Song coming this time, I already understood your dirty intentions.

"Lin Cheng, if you really thought about the people and the country and really wanted to reduce casualties at the Xingzi Lake construction site, you wouldn't deliberately exclude Ouyang Lianghan.

"If he joins in, he will definitely seize your position and weight, and then this promotion ceremony of the Yin Yang Family will be incomplete. At least the effect will definitely not be as good as you leading the completion alone.

"From the bottom of your heart, you cannot accept even such a small loss. Even if Ouyang Lianghan's joining can reduce the casualties and the cost to the people of Xunyang?

"But you were too embarrassed to express such dirty thoughts. So you invited Ouyang Lianghan to join in, and even spoke well of him in front of the saint.

"But everything you did was to drive him away, either overtly or covertly. It would be better to let him leave on his own initiative and turn against you. This way, you can still be the pure white lotus who shares the worries of the saint and considers the foundation of the Great Zhou. In front of the officials of the court and the country, you can show that you have never suppressed this prestigious and popular colleague. It was Ouyang Lianghan who was ignorant and disobedient throughout the whole process. He refused to obey the emperor's orders."

Her face was as cold as frost, and her eyes were full of disgust:

"Lin Cheng, from this point of view, you did it and achieved great success. You really know Ouyang Lianghan very well, you know his bottom line, you know what he absolutely cannot accept, and you know how to make him leave on his own in anger.

"It is said that a gentleman is good at bullying, but Lin Cheng, you bullied him too much!
"You obviously don't want him to come, but at this moment, you still pretend to ask me to invite him to come. Lin Cheng, do you know how disgusting I am hearing these hypocritical words from you these days?

"You are not even as good as Wei Shaoqi. At least he is a real villain."

Rong Zhen, who had always been taciturn, suddenly cursed. Wei Shaoqi, Wang Lengran, Yuan Huaimin and others around him looked at him sideways.

However, Wei Shaoqi was listening with great interest at first, but when he listened later, he heard that he was labeled as a "real villain" in the heart of the female historian, and his expression suddenly became gloomy.

After being stabbed in the lungs in public, Lin Cheng's usually calm expression suddenly changed.

His face was very ugly, and he was really embarrassed.

Under the strange looks cast by his companions and subordinates around him, he quickly squinted his eyes and spoke through gritted teeth:

"What nonsense are you talking about? Those who are clean will be clean by themselves. I want to invite Ouyang Sima to come over. It is obviously for his own good and prevent him from doing wrong things again. The female historian has misunderstood me."

Rong Zhen had no expression on his face and said word by word:
"Ouyang Lianghan is at the Juhua Poetry Club in Xunyang Tower at the moment. He is a gentleman, not a villain, as I believe."

"Okay, Cheng'er, Rong girl, what are you arguing about? What time has it been? We are still arguing about whether we have these things or not."

At this moment, the convoy transporting the Buddha's head was arriving at the original location of Qingyang Heng Street. It was only a hundred steps away from the Xingzifang Buddha statue construction site. On the second floor of a teahouse on the roadside, an old woman with white eyes opened the window.

She sat behind the tea table, around which lay a circle of corpses of tea drinkers.

The voice was light but powerful, and it spread throughout the street.

"Get ready, it's time to close the net. No one in this Xingzifang can escape today. Anyone who reveals his spiritual energy will be killed without mercy."

The whole place suddenly fell silent.

Not only the black-armored soldiers in the convoy transporting the Buddha's head, but also the Xunyang people and traffickers who were originally watching were also surprisingly silent, as if there was a tacit understanding.

Zheng——!
As soon as Nanny Song finished speaking, in this large area of ​​dead silence that seemed to be solidifying, an almost imperceptible sound of a piano suddenly sounded, as if responding to her.

The sound of the piano is ethereal, like the sound of raindrops under the eaves outside the door, which can drop until dawn.

Perhaps it was because the venue was too quiet, so the naturally amplified sound of the piano seemed even more eerie to everyone's ears.

And an even weirder scene happened right after.

Among the quiet crowd of people, blue or red "air pillars" appeared one after another on someone's body.

Just in the crowd from the street to the end of the street, there were thirteen or fourteen people.

There is a white-faced scholar with a green bamboo bookcase on his back; there is an old charcoal seller with a wrinkled face; there is also a thin monk holding a wooden alms bowl and lowering his eyebrows to make alms.

The vermilion energy on these three people rose into the sky, as thick as a beam of light.

In addition, in this misty piano sound that filled the entire Xingzifang,
Not far from the Buddha's head motorcade and the Xingzi Lake construction site, somewhere in a wealthy man's house who kept his peace, a purple aura as straight as a sword suddenly appeared in the sky.

The purple energy comes from a gentle lady in a red building in the boudoir of this house, who is teaching a little girl with a runny nose to copy calligraphy and stickers. There are red rope bells tied to her cross-legged ankles under her skirt.

After the sound of the piano sounded, the gentle female gentleman put down her writing brush, touched the confused head of the little girl who was looking around, stood up, sighed softly, and mumbled a little bit:
"Isn't it just that after being handed over and lost again, I'm going to find someone out of anger? Look, I'm running late again..."

(End of this chapter)