Tianyi

Xue Yi continued: "Back then, the female official in front of the Holy Emperor was rumored to have had an affair with the prince. The truth is that she was loved by Emperor Xuan, who was still the grandson of the emperor. I guess that when the Holy Emperor was in power, Emperor Rui did not please her, and Emperor Xuan was not the eldest grandson of the emperor. He had little chance to get acquainted with the women in the palace. He did not know my master, and he did not know the female official at that time. But the master should learn from From the beginning, I recognized both my master and the female officer."

"Later, Emperor Zhong came to the throne, and he regarded the female official as his daughter. Although the master had no interest in political affairs, because he served his father, he presumably had contacts with the female official. Emperor Xuan should have known about this. I guess, at that time, it was just Emperor Xuan, the emperor's nephew, once wanted to marry the female official, but was rejected. After that, Emperor Zhong was killed, and Emperor Xuan initiated a palace coup and killed the queen and the eldest princess himself, but he could not bring himself to kill the female official. So he requested Emperor Rui's order to let this female official go to Wangji Temple and become a nun."

"Although Emperor Xuan could not forget his love for this female official, he could never marry her again. This female official was still in her prime and would not be willing to stay with the Ancient Buddha of Qingdeng forever. So, at that time, Emperor Xuan Since it was considered a betrayal, the female officer must have been very desperate. Later, the female officer turned into a nun and met my uncle. The Wu family’s uncle was a notoriously romantic man, so he actually had an affair with the nun and even A daughter was born. However, that is not what I said in the story I told the emperor."

"Later, because my father contradicted the emperor at court, the two Wu brothers were demoted. The nun had no one to protect her in the capital. She could no longer raise a daughter secretly, so she was asked to recognize her ancestors and return to the clan. My uncle took her away. Capital. But one year later, something must have gone wrong, and the matter was finally revealed, and it must be you, the master, who told the emperor about it."

"You are worried that the Wu family intends to rebel, but the emperor hates my uncle for stealing the woman he admired. My master once said that a man in this world can hardly detect it when he is ruthless, but if he is loved by his beloved Women empathize with women, but they are often deeply affected. The more powerful a man is, the more likely he is to regard the woman he loves as a taboo. I guess the emperor ordered the murder in a rage, but Master, you don’t wait for the emperor to think too much, and immediately A secret order was sent."

"The man who carried out the secret order 20 years ago must have recognized the master and knew your special status. He had no doubts at all. He immediately ordered all the officers and soldiers to massacre the Wu brothers, one clan and two mansions, and the entire clan was wiped out. But the emperor had two lives. One day, after the rage had passed, he discovered that a catastrophe had already occurred. The emperor could not punish the master, and was unwilling to admit that it was indeed his will, so he dismissed the master and transferred him to another position. Later, in order to prevent anyone from interfering with the case again, the emperor also I almost made Tao Futai, who took over, die there."

"I guess that in the three years after the massacre, the emperor must have carefully investigated the incident and began to doubt how you knew about it, master. Obviously, master, you should have obtained the information from my master. However, My master made an unintentional mistake. Master was kind to my master at that time. You were afraid that if you continued to associate with my master, it would implicate her. Therefore, you let the identity of Qiqiaolang die and changed it to the name of Yankai. Monk."

"Master, I want to remind you one more time. What I am telling you now are all my guesses. And I put these guesses into the story I told the emperor. The Dharma is definitely related to what I am telling you now. What they said is different. May I ask, master, if you can already figure out why the emperor, after hearing my story, changed his attitude towards killing the master and then quickly?"

When Xue Yi said this, she stopped and stared at the monk with shining eyes.

The monk also stared at Xue Yi and sighed: "You are as careful as your hair, but you are so bold. Although these details are just your own guesses, it's not that far off. But you actually, based on these guesses, Just dare to go directly to the emperor and risk your life."

"Thank you for the tip, Master. Now I can probably figure out what kind of story you will make up with your so-called different explanations... Mixing half truth with falsehood to cater to the holy will, you can actually make the emperor's whole family... Believe it, and I didn’t even have a chance to refute it. I really couldn’t argue. The sect leader is smart, bold, and courageous. I really admire him very much."

Xue Yi said calmly: "Master, in the story I made up, which details are true and which details are false? Now it's up to you to answer."

The monk said: "What you guessed is actually pretty good. Come on, let me tell you a complete true story."

"I am originally the grandson of the Holy Emperor and the eldest son of the loyal Emperor. I have seen Si Chen in the palace as a hen since I was little. I have never been interested in political affairs. I only like clever things, so I often go out of the palace incognito and travel in the rivers and lakes. After gaining fame, I soon got the nickname Qiqiaolang. My cousin who later became the emperor has always been on good terms with me. He knew that I had no ambition for power and position, and occasionally, when I was not out of the palace, he would Gui, he will still cover up for me when I am questioned by the Holy Emperor."

"When I was in the palace, I knew your master Tianyi. She was still young at that time, and she was extremely smart and studious. I liked her very much and taught her some clever skills. Later, the Holy Emperor released her from the palace. I paid attention to the world, and gradually heard that there was a Tianyi lady in the world. Of course I knew that this was her real name, but people in the world thought it was her nickname."

"After my father came to the throne, I became the eldest son, and I should have been the natural crown prince. But I tried my best to push back. My mother thought I was incompetent and useless, so she conspired with my aunt to give my father the throne to her. Although my father was cowardly, But I didn't agree to this, and I already felt that something was wrong. However, one side is my biological mother, and the other side is my biological father. I can't choose, and I have to stay with my father all the time, hoping to prevent the queen from taking action. "

"The result was that my mother and aunt couldn't wait any longer, and they poisoned me too. I was disheartened. In fact, I didn't drink the poisoned tea at that time, but when I saw my father fell to the ground and there was no way to save him, I simply pretended to be myself. I also drank poisoned tea and pretended to be dead by holding my breath. I didn’t learn the art of holding my breath well enough. When my mother ordered people to bury my father and my son, the later Taofutai was still from Dali Temple in Beijing. Upon checking, he discovered that I was still breathing, but he never said a word."

"Later, I took the opportunity to sneak out of the palace. To outsiders, it was as if the body was missing. The Dali Temple inspector at that time turned a blind eye and delayed it for a long time. When my aunt found out, she sent someone to ask questions. When he arrived, he claimed that he had neglected his duty and was not under strict supervision, and that he did not know what had happened. The queen mother and aunt suspected that I was not dead, but after all, I was the queen's biological son. In the end, she suppressed the matter and was not guilty of being demoted to the imperial emissary. , only to release him from Beijing as an official."

"I secretly found Inspector Tao and told him never to reveal secrets. I didn't get any repayment at that time, so I left him with the technique of closing my breath. From then on, I hid in the world and only appeared as Qiqiao Lang. And not long after, my cousin launched a palace coup, and the queen mother and aunt were killed by him with his own hands. Only the female official survived, and my cousin ordered the female official to become a nun."

"You guessed it right. My cousin once asked my mother to marry that female official, but neither my mother nor my aunt agreed. It's not that the female official didn't like my cousin, but she preferred to work in the palace. It just so happened that she Because that woman is very good at managing politics, and my cousin is also worried about the recurrence of the past, so he will never let her stay in the palace again. He only orders her to worship the Buddha with devotion and never join the world again." "I will wait until my cousin ascends the throne. Only then did I reappear in front of him. My cousin missed me a lot. He knew my nature and was not on guard against me. He also gave me a gold medal and allowed me to enter and leave the palace freely. At that time, I had reunited with your master in the world. , she also had feelings for me, and I wanted to stay and fly with her, so I tried my best to build this small courtyard for her."

"My cousin heard that I had a confidante and gave me a rare transparent crystal. I cut it in half, polished the smaller half into a thin convex mirror, and polished the larger half into a seven-smart prism. I want to hold half of it with your master as a token of each other."

"Your master was willing to tell me everything at that time. In the year you were born, your master told me that she went to the Wangji Temple in Beijing to offer incense and unexpectedly met the female official in the palace. Only then did I realize that the female officer was still alive."

"At that time, the female official had become a nun, and she was an unruly nun. She heard rumors in the world that Aunt Tianyi only loved helping women in distress. The nun didn't know that Aunt Tianyi was the original nun. Cai Tianyi, who was in front of the Holy Emperor, now that he sees her, begs your master to try to save her, she doesn't want to stay in the temple forever."

"Your master told me that it was pitiful that the female official ended up like this. When the previous Holy Emperor was still alive, your master and the female official were also good friends, but they had different ambitions. Your master always wanted to go out of the palace to help ordinary women, and That female officer wanted to get ahead in the palace. Your master sighed to me, I didn’t expect that now she has become an ordinary woman in need of help. Although your master has not figured out how to save her, you can see that the female officer has already For the sake of a daughter, your master said that if you can help her, you should still help her."

"Your master didn't mean what he said, but I heard what he meant. I immediately found out the evidence that Mr. Wu had an affair with a nun, and went to report it to my cousin. I told him that this was enough evidence that that The nun's ambition was hard to quell. She specifically chose the Holy Emperor's nephew and grandnephew to have an affair, and even gave birth to a daughter with the Wu family. She must have wanted to follow the Holy Emperor's old ways and stir up trouble in the future. Therefore, for the sake of the Li family's country and the country, it would not happen again. There is no better way to deal with waves than to eliminate them and nip them in the bud.”

"My cousin was furious when he heard that. Seeing that I presented evidence, he naturally had no doubts anymore. At that time, he broke all the objects on the imperial case, grabbed the imperial pen, and wrote eight big characters on a piece of bright yellow rice paper. : His heart is to be punished, kill them all."

"He gave me this piece of rice paper. With these eight words in my pocket, I first went to Wangji Temple and hanged the nun to death. Then, I went straight to the place where the two Wu brothers were at night and found the mansion. The secret order was announced. The official had seen me in the palace before, and he did not dare to neglect me. On that day, he ordered all the officers and soldiers to massacre the entire Wu family."

"I didn't expect that my cousin would actually regret it after two days. When the report of the conclusion of the case was handed over to the government, he actually refused to issue an official edict, and even said that the government had not seen the decree. If you take action without permission, you should be punished."

"The man in charge was unable to defend himself and could not cross-examine me, so he had to take the blame. In the end, my cousin did not treat him too harshly and gave him a vague explanation, saying that he knew he had heard someone by mistake. He said that he was loyal to the Holy One, so he did the wrong thing, so he was dismissed from his post and transferred to serve as a military supervisor, and he was not allowed to return to the capital again for the rest of his life."

"As for me, although I only want to keep the Li family from changing, but looking back now... it should be that my cousin has been alienated from me since 20 years ago. I have never thought about it before. His attitude towards me. Just now, I heard you say, sect master, that a powerful man regards the woman he loves as a taboo, and I finally realized it... However, to this day, I still don't think I did anything wrong."

Xue Yi remained calm and said calmly: "The standard of right and wrong originally differs from person to person. Whether you do something or not, in the final analysis, it just depends on whether you can do it or not."

The monk nodded and said: "What the master said makes sense. Indeed, I can do it, so I did it. I don't regret it, and I don't care about other people's judgments."

Xue Yi looked at him and said: "Tit for retaliation. Master has done such evil things. After all, there will be a price, right?"

The monk sighed: "In this world, what can you do without paying a price? I single-handedly contributed to the massacre. Although my cousin did not punish me explicitly, he sent me to him on the grounds that he needed me to teach him skills. I went to Japan for three years. Later, he called me back. My cousin told me that he had sent people to thoroughly investigate the relationship between Mr. Wu and the nun, and found that I seemed to have nothing to do with him. He asked me, where did I get the information before I got the evidence?"

"I can't reveal that I heard the news from your master. The former Ouchi stick coach committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. My cousin has already regretted sending that clear edict to your master. If I tell you again about the relationship between your master and that Because of the nun’s relationship, the entire Tianyi Sect will be destroyed by my cousin.”

"However, if I can't tell the exact source of the information, I can't explain why so many years later, I accurately intercepted the letter written by the nun to Wu Clan Dalang... In that letter, everything written It was the deep longing for the Wu family father and daughter, and the lingering memories of the sweet past with the Wu family, that made my cousin furious."

"I couldn't let my cousin suspect that I was lying to him, so I had to explain to him that the nun recognized who I was. In the Wangji Temple, there are sacred tablets enshrined in the past queens. Although my mother is guilty, she is still the official Queen, with the permission of my cousin, I still go to the temple to receive incense. Therefore, every year on my mother’s birthday, I will go to Wangji Temple to offer incense and chat with the nun for a day. She is very tight-lipped, but Because I missed my daughter, I discovered the clues, and that’s when I got the real evidence.”