A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice

When Duan Rong woke up from the bed, the sky in the inner room was already very bright.

He lifted the gauze curtain and saw that Ruyi's mat had been tidied up. He stretched lazily, slid off the bed, and put on his clothes and shoes.

He turned around the screen and found that the door was open, but there was no sign of Ruyi.

Duan Rong walked straight to the washbasin rack and saw that the basin was half full of water. He used a towel to wash his face with cold water. If Ruyi was there, she would have poured him some hot water. In fact, the kettle was in the corner not far away, but Duan Rong was too lazy to bother.

The cold water made him feel refreshed immediately. Duan Rong also cleaned his neck before slowly walking out the door.

Duan Rong walked out of the room and saw Qiu Luan sitting on the big bluestone, staring at the clouds in the sky in a daze, with empty eyes.

In another corner of the yard, Ruyi squatted there, fanning the stove in front of her with a cattail leaf fan. On the stove was a medicine pot, which was bubbling with white steam...

It turned out that this girl was boiling medicine!

As the white steam from the medicine pot came out, the yard was already filled with a faint smell of herbs...

When Duan Rong just stepped out of the door, Ruyi caught a glimpse of him from the corner of her eye.

Ruyi immediately stood up, holding the cattail leaf fan, knelt down to Duan Rong, and greeted him: "Sir, are you up?"

Duan Rong smiled at Ruyi, and a black and gray streak was smeared on Ruyi's fair face.

Ruyi said: "Sir, do you want to have breakfast? I will go to the kitchen to get it now."

As Ruyi said this, she was about to put down the cattail leaf fan and carry the food box to the room.

Duan Rong glanced at the sun and said, "It's already noon, why eat breakfast? Eat it with lunch."

At this time, a gust of wind passed by. Duan Rong sniffed and sniffed the herbal medicine, and said, "The medicine is ready, no need to boil it anymore."

Ruyi looked at Duan Rong suspiciously and said, "It should be ready by now."

But Ruyi didn't know that Duan Rong had just gotten up and was standing far away at the door. How could he know that the medicine soup was almost ready?

Ruyi wrapped the handle with a thick towel and picked up the medicine pot with a burnt black bottom. With the other hand, she held the palm-leaf fan upside down and used the handle of the palm-leaf fan to support the pot.

She brought the medicine pot to Qiu Luan in this way, without saying hello to Qiu Luan, she squatted down and poured the hot medicine juice into Qiu Luan's wine jar.

"What are you doing?!"

Qiu Luan was completely desperate, and the only thing he cared about was his wine.

He originally thought that Ruyi was ill and was boiling medicine there, but he didn't expect Ruyi to pour the medicine directly into his wine jar. How could he not be annoyed by the wine that had just been opened?

"Let her pour it!"

Qiu Luan was about to move when Duan Rong stopped him.

Qiu Luan's body froze, and a hint of doubt flashed in his empty eyes.

Ruyi squatted there, pouring the medicine soup while saying, "This is the medicine that the lord asked me to get for you."

Qiu Luan looked up at Duan Rong when he heard it.

Duan Rong said, "It can cure the disease, but it can't save your life. It just delays the symptoms and makes you feel more comfortable."

Duan Rong's meaning was very clear. As long as Qiu Luan kept drinking like this, no one could save him.

Qiu Luan stood up from the big bluestone a little stiffly, clasped his fists to Duan Rong and said, "Thank you, lord!"

For the first time, there was some emotion in Qiu Luan's always cold voice.

Duan Rong only hummed and turned into the room. He knew Qiu Luan had no intention of living. There is nothing more sad than a dead heart! It cannot be cured by medicine!

After Ruyi poured the medicine soup, she stood up. She glanced at Qiu Luan and went to the side room with the medicine pot. Duan Rong had instructed to boil two doses, and the medicine in the medicine pot could be boiled again.

Qiu Luan glanced at the wine jar not far from his feet. The strange smell of herbs was still in the air.

When Duan Rong came back last night, he just brushed a few acupuncture points on his body, and he felt much better. I don’t know where that adult came from. He looks so young, but he has such attainments in medicine.

At that time, he just saw him cough a few times, and he already knew his symptoms.

Qiu Luan held the mouth of the wine jar with one hand, lifted it up, and raised his head to pour a mouthful into his mouth.

The wine mixed with the medicine soup went into his throat, and Qiu Luan couldn’t help but frowned, and his eyes suddenly flashed a trace of sadness.

Bitter and strong!

Isn't this taste just like his life? Qiu Luan couldn't help but take another big sip.

After taking a big sip of wine, Duan Rong's appearance flashed through Qiu Luan's mind.

That young man, even Guanglu Doctor Zhu Zhengfu had to kneel down and pay homage to him, which shows that his status is extraordinary. And he is just a remnant of a lonely ghost, and in front of Zhu Zhengfu, he is just used as a knife. This point, from the look in Zhu Zhengfu's eyes, he has already understood it very well.

But the young man in this courtyard, with such an identity, can be humble to him, and even ask Ruyi to boil medicine for his illness.

If this person treated him like this in the early years, he would repay him with his life and death!

However, at this time, he is just an empty shell, and his dead heart has long lost the will to follow.

He was like a body falling down in a bottomless sea, surrounded by nothing but darkness...

Duan Rong rested in the room for a while, and it was already noon.

Ruyi went to the kitchen yard and brought back a sumptuous meal.

After lunch, Duan Rong had nothing to do, so he started to teach Ruyi how to write.

Duan Rong started writing a big "Yong" on the paper and asked Ruyi to copy it.

Ruyi copied while Duan Rong watched from the side, giving her some pointers from time to time, and occasionally grabbing her hand to write a few strokes. Every time this happened, Ruyi's face would blush shyly.

After Ruyi copied for half an hour, Duan Rong began to teach her to break down the strokes, explaining each stroke in detail.

Ruyi's handwriting had some foundation, and with the training of Duan Rong, a master of calligraphy, she soon felt like she had been reborn.

Ruyi looked at the words she had written and was quite surprised. She asked, "Sir, what method did you use to teach me? How come it only took me more than an hour to learn! How come my words...this words...have changed?"

Although Ruyi was there in person and the words on the post were all written by her, she was still confused at this time.

Duan Rong smiled and said, "This is the eight strokes of the character Yong!"

"Eight strokes of the character Yong?" Ruyi didn't quite understand what he heard.

Duan Rong continued, "This method uses the order of the eight strokes of the character "Yong" as an example to explain the method of regular script. The so-called dot is side, the horizontal stroke is strangled, the straight stroke is crossbow, the hook is tiao, the upward horizontal stroke is stalk, the long left stroke is swept, the short left stroke is pecked, and the right stroke is zhe. With these eight strokes, you can exhaust all the characters in the world!"

"Exhaust all the characters in the world?" Ruyi stood there with a pen in his hand, staring at Duan Rong with shining eyes.

Duan Rong seemed to see nothing, and continued, "I teach you this method to correct the original and clear the source! Although the time is short, if the original is correct and the source is clear, the effect will naturally come out."

"You can put away the character "Yong" I wrote and copy it every day. If you are diligent, you will be a master in less than a year!" Duan Rong said, and smiled slightly.

Ruyi solemnly put away the word "Yong" written by Duan Rong.

After the work was done, Duan Rong taught Ruyi how to write in the other courtyard, and his life was very comfortable.

In the evening, he had just finished dinner and was sipping a few sips of tea when Zhu Zhengfu came to pay his respects.

Ruyi served tea and then left, leaving the two of them sitting alone in the room.

Zhu Zhengfu reported to Duan Rong the information collected by the spies he had deployed in Shenyun Mansion.

After the commotion last night, the news of Li Shensi's death due to confusion and madness, as well as the strange and terrifying rhinoceros fairy, had spread thoroughly in Shenyun Mansion.

Storytellers in major teahouses were all telling stories about this, and some even began to fabricate the life of the rhinoceros fairy, saying that the rhinoceros fairy appeared in the Western Regions more than a hundred years ago, and the ascetic Zen monks of the Dharma-Appearance Sect had fought with it, and none of them were spared, and all died.

It is said that the Rhinoceros Immortal has been practicing for thousands of years.

The story was so detailed and the people believed it.

Many people have begun to worship the portrait of the Rhinoceros Immortal in their shrines at home.

This wave of events made the street painters make a lot of money...

From then on, Zhu Zhengfu would come to pay his respects every evening, and then report the news of the spies in various places that day to Duan Rong.

No mistakes, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

The next day, something happened.

In the Taihe Tower, there was a storyteller who publicly said that the Rhinoceros Immortal was fake and was manipulated by someone to confuse the people with false images. Lord Li Shensi died of political assassination, just like his predecessor Zhu Shizhong.

Duan Rong's heart skipped a beat when he heard Zhu Zhengfu say this, but he changed his mind and let it go.

Sure enough, Zhu Zhengfu took the opportunity to say that the storyteller was beaten up by the audience for blaspheming the Rhinoceros Immortal and fainted on the stage. If the government officials had not arrived and protected him, he would have died.

Because many people clamored to imprison this person and burn him to death in front of the Rhinoceros Immortal's temple after the temple was built. Lest the Immortal blame him and bring disaster to Shenyun Mansion.

Duan Rong suddenly asked: "Master Zhu, which teahouse did you say this storyteller was in just now?"

Zhu Zhengfu said: "Master, it's Taihe Tower."

Duan Rong frowned slightly. It was Taihe Tower again. He had just moved into the other courtyard, and the waiter who sneaked in at night to investigate was the waiter of Taihe Tower, and this storyteller was also in Taihe Tower.

Duan Rong didn't think there was such a coincidence in the world.

There is obviously something wrong with this Taihe Building. It may be a base for Ge Rushong's spy network in the secular world. And it is very likely to be a very important base.

After all, the private rooms in Taihe Building are reserved by the dignitaries of Shenyun Mansion all year round. If everything they do in there is monitored by some secret means.

Then what secrets does Shenyun Mansion have for Ge Rushong?

The storyteller in Taihe Building obviously wants to try to turn back public opinion and guide it towards the political vortex. But he or the people behind him obviously underestimated the influence of the story Duan Rong had laid out.

Duan Rong directly grasped the seven inches of public opinion in the market through the six-day public opinion monitoring. That was the Rhinoceros Immortal who was seen by countless people on the Temple of Heaven. How could the storyteller change it with just a few words?

After this incident, Ge Rushong and his team will definitely give up this attempt.

On the third day, the temple of the Rhinoceros Immortal had already started outside the city.

It was not built near the mountain temple on Wuji Mountain, because Wuji Mountain was a place for offering sacrifices to heaven and the government did not allow it.

Finally, the temple of the Rhinoceros Immortal was chosen not far from a Taoist temple in the southern suburbs of Shenyun Mansion. The temple was very popular, and it was also a Feng Shui treasure land.

After listening to the public opinion for three days, Duan Rong was sure that he had completely completed the task assigned to him by Zhu He. He originally planned to ask Zhu Zhengfu to come again on the fourth day, and asked him to summarize the public opinion investigation of the past three days, send it back to Yunfu Peak, and ask the ancestor for him. The task has been completed, can he return to the sect?

On the morning of the fourth day, at the east gate of Shenyun Mansion, early in the morning, a man rode a tall white horse that was quite cool and staggered into the city gate.

The moment he entered the city gate, several spies noticed him.

This person has a special identity, and he has been to Shenyun Mansion several times. This time he was so high-profile, no wonder those spies recognized him at a glance. He is the disciple of the elder of Taiyi Sect, Zhu He's apprentice, Lu Geng.

Lu Geng rode alone, entered the city gate, and went straight to the posthouse.

When he arrived at the posthouse, he jumped off his horse and showed the sect's cloud certificate to the servants there. When they saw that he was a direct disciple, the servants immediately kowtowed like pounding garlic.

Lu Geng scolded impatiently: "Okay, get up. Take me to an upper room and prepare a table of wine and food for me! Quick! I have something to do after I finish eating!"

"Yes, sir!"

The head of the posthouse had already come out to greet him and served him personally.

The servants took Lu Geng's horse and took it to the backyard to feed it with hay.

The head of the posthouse welcomed Lu Geng to the best upper room in the south, served tea in person, and then went to the kitchen to urge the dishes.

When the dishes were served, Lu Geng ate heartily.

Lu Geng was born in poverty and was not very particular about food and accommodation, otherwise he would not have moved into the posthouse as soon as he entered Shenyun Mansion.

He really felt that the dishes in the big restaurant were more delicious than those in the post house.

Seeing Lu Geng feasting, the head of the post house left and asked two capable servants to serve him carefully. He then rode out of the post house and headed for the government office in the prefecture.

With such a big figure coming, he naturally had to report to the prefecture master Wang Maochun.

Not long after, two fast horses came to the door of the post house. Two people in official robes jumped off the horses. Looking at the patches on their chests, they were both first-rank civil officials.

The two people who came were the prefecture master Wang Maochun and the Dali Temple Minister Chen Shanmeng.

Not long before Lu Geng came, the prefecture master's office had just received the official document from the sect. The official document informed them that the three people, Yang Yi from the Zongzhengsi, Lu Geng from the Neishisi, and Jiang Zhe from the Tongzhengshisi, would arrive at Shenyun Mansion soon to handle the case of Li Shensi's death. On the Shenyun Mansion side, the Dali Temple was the main trial office, and the Jianyifu and the Privy Council were the co-trial offices, jointly hearing the case.

As soon as Wang Maochun saw the official document, the head of the post house came to report that Lu Geng had arrived at the post house.

Wang Maochun was immediately panicked. How could Lu Geng come so quickly? He almost arrived at the same time as the official document.

He immediately asked someone to call Chen Shanmeng to come to the post house to pay a visit.

The reason why he called Chen Shanmeng was because the Dali Temple was the main trial office for this case, which meant that Lu Geng and others would have to go to the Dali Temple to try the case. Since they came to meet Lu Geng, he called Chen Shanmeng, the Dali Temple official.

Wang Maochun was thinking about it all the way. The official document from the sect this time was obviously quite strange.

On the sect side, the Zongzheng Division, the Neishi Division, and the Tongzheng Division all sent people over, but the main court was still the Dali Temple, which shows that this case is still being tried within the secular judicial structure, but the people from the sect have to intervene in the review.

The origin of this official document started with Ge Rushong and his men in the Elders' Council.

That day, Ge Rushong and his men said in the Elders' Council that Li Shensi's death was caused by Duan Rong, and they also told them about the time Duan Rong had been in Shenyun Mansion and that he might have mastered some kind of poison that causes hallucinations and madness.

Zhu He immediately became furious in the Elders' Council, saying that he sent Duan Rong to Shenyun Mansion to eliminate spies.

Half a year ago, Zhu Shizhong was murdered by the craftsmen who set up a trap to build a cool house, and the real culprit behind the scenes has not been found, all because of the spies who broke the clues. He sent Duan Rong to secretly investigate the spy. Besides, Li Shensi had only been in office for two months and did not belong to any camp. What motive did he have to send Duan Rong to kill him?

Zhu He's words made Ge Rushong and the others speechless. In this matter, they were indeed pretending to obey but secretly disobeying Zhu He's promise to find someone who was not involved in the forces of both parties to stabilize the political situation of Shenyun Mansion, but they had subdued Li Shensi privately before recommending him.

Both parties insisted on their own opinions and quarreled in the Elders' Council. The sect leader Chu Qiushan was quite troubled. He knew that the dispute between Zhu He and Lu Zhongtang over the sect leader was behind this matter.

He did not want to get too deeply involved in this dispute, and Li Shensi's death did not cause chaos in the secular world. The people thought that Li Shensi died from a collision with the Rhinoceros Immortal, and the people were not in a hurry to let the government and the sect find out the murderer behind it. In this way, there was no pressure to govern, and Chu Qiushan did not want to get involved in the matter. However, Zhu He and Ge Rushong quarreled so fiercely, so he thought of a compromise. The case was still tried in the Dali Temple, and Yang Sixuan and the Judgment of the Imperial Clan were not allowed to intervene. He just asked Yang Yi, Lu Geng, and Jiang Zhe to go to the Dali Temple to handle the case.