The next day, Qianlong sent Zhengbai Banner, who escorted Xiao Yulan to the south, and hurriedly returned to the palace with a letter to resume his life. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info he told Qianlong that the small courtyard in Jingshan had become a mess, last night, Xiao Yulan secretly left from the courtyard, and the maids and palace maids did not even find it, and when they found it this morning, there was only one letter left on the table. For this matter, the palace maid in charge had committed suicide by hanging herself, and the other staff members handed them over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they were all taken into custody.

Xiao Yulan left on her own? This situation surprised Qianlong. Qianlong hurriedly opened the letter, the handwriting on the letter was beautiful and neat, there were as many as three pages, it was indeed Xiao Yulan's handwriting, but it was obviously prepared. The content of the letter was nothing more than saying goodbye to Qianlong, and at the same time explaining the reason why he did not follow Qianlong's arrangement. First, before he entered the palace, his father told him that he had a fellow villager in Haining in Beijing, who was doing some medicinal material business, and he was his lifelong friend and could defect. Magnolia plans to ask him to help her go back. In this way, the people in the palace will not know where you are going, and you can save a lot of trouble.

The second is that he can't accept the pain of leaving his flesh and blood, and he plans to go to Tianmu Mountain to find a Pure Moon Master first. She had a chance encounter with Master Jingyue three years ago, she had calculated her life for herself, and her encounter today was the same as what Jingyue said. Thinking about it, it should be fate, and I want to visit her again, maybe I can get some relief from her.

The third is that she is not ready to go back to Guangtaiban, since she wants to hide this matter, she simply be thorough, and from then on she will remain incognito, begging Qianlong not to send someone to find her.

Xiao Yulan also said that she took away all the music score and lyrics, hoping to let these dramas pass on, and implored Qianlong to take good care of her son.

After reading the letter, Qianlong leaned back in his chair. With her understanding of Xiao Yulan's temperament, it is reasonable for her to say goodbye, but she is a lone woman who has just given birth for a few days, how can she get out of the heavily guarded Jingshan? Could it be that she was a woman dressed as a man again? Xiao Yulan is a character who can't hold back things in her heart, although she has more life experience than ordinary women, but she does not have any bizarre experiences. If there is really a fortune-telling thing about the net moon, why have I never heard her mention it?

The key is that he has a one-year appointment with Xiao Yulan, why did she not mention anything in the letter? However, what he was embarrassed about was that the matter itself was secretly arranged, and there was no reason for a large-scale thorough investigation, and if the letter was true, wouldn't his thorough investigation not be a self-confession? In desperation, he had no choice but to ask the staff leader of the white flag to quickly go to the Haining merchant who was engaged in the medicinal herb business in Beijing, and make sure to find out the whereabouts of Xiao Yulan.

A few days later, Qianlong heard the news that he didn't want to hear the most, there was only one Haining merchant in the whole of Beijing who was engaged in the medicinal materials business, but this person didn't know Wu Jingchu from the Guangtai class at all, and this person left Haining when he was a teenager and had not been back for more than ten years.

A few months later, the staff leader brought new news, and there was no Shitai called Jingyue in Tianmu Mountain. Wu Jingchu of the Guangtai class has never seen his daughter come back, and he has never had a fellow villager friend who is in the medicinal herb business, let alone a Jingyue master.

For some reason, Qianlong was not surprised to hear these news. In his heart, he hoped that the content of the letter was all made up by Xiao Yulan, and the purpose was just that he would not send anyone to look for her again. But what if this letter was completely fake? Qianlong stubbornly repudiated this idea that made his heart chill again and again.

The matter of the private interview with Xiao Yulan was carried out in secret for a whole year, and the manpower of the Zhengbaiqi spy network used by Qianlong was almost the same as the manpower of the investigation of the Heaven and Earth Society, so that a new theory slowly spread in the court that the people of the Heaven and Earth Society had infiltrated the palace. What made Qianlong laugh dumbly was that as soon as this rumor came out, no one pondered the matter of the position of the prince, and the harem was a peaceful appearance.

But as time went by, Qianlong's longing for Xiao Yulan, perhaps the mystery of her whereabouts, became a difficult heart disease. The next year, he still decided to go to Jiangnan according to the appointment of that year.

The Son of Heaven moved, disturbed the officials, and the unlucky people were the people. Loyal and upright people in the court have written letters to advise, hoping that the emperor will be sympathetic to the people's livelihood and take back his life. But this time, Qianlong, who had been admonished in the past, seemed very stubborn and rejected the manuscript one by one. Soon, rumors about the emperor's true purpose in Jiangnan flowed into the ears of the courtiers: Qianlong went south in order to secretly arrange the removal and extermination of the Heaven and Earth Society and appease the Jiangnan scholars. This is a matter of principle at the heart of the country, and no one dares to express opposing views anymore.

But this southern tour still disappointed Qianlong, and he did not find any clues to Xiao Yulan's whereabouts. Sibu's eyeliner denied that the people of Guangtaiban had any contact with Xiao Yulan. Qianlong even recruited most of the famous opera troupes in Jiangnan in Yangzhou, but he didn't hear the familiar music cards.

Qianlong did not give up, and then there was a second and third trip to the south of the Yangtze River, but the little magnolia was like a wisp of smoke that dissipated faintly, only in Qianlong's memory.

Another few years have passed, and the Empress Dowager Chongqing told Qianlong that she sometimes wakes up suddenly in the middle of the night and hears a singing voice like a song and crying from outside the palace, which is the song in "The Story of the Stone" that Xiao Yulan once sang, and the Empress Dowager meant very tactfully, and she was persuading Qianlong that Xiao Yulan was probably no longer alive.

One year on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qianlong, the Queen Mother and the concubines went to Jingshan to admire the moon. That time, Qianlong was in a good mood, drank a few more glasses of wine, was blown by the cool breeze, and was a little drunk, so he leaned back on the chair and took a nap.

Half-asleep and half-awake, Qianlong faintly heard a very familiar singing voice that he hadn't heard for many years. Ethereal, sad and a little helpless. And the trees in the whole mountain seem to accompany this tune, and the music lingers around the pavilion for a long time.

Qianlong suddenly sobered up a lot, stood up, held the fence of the pavilion with his hand, and looked out, but in addition to the huge canopy that kept shaking, there was a figure there?

Qianlong had to accept the reality that Xiao Yulan had passed away, and ordered someone to make a spiritual position, which was placed in the small courtyard where Xiao Yulan lived back then, and came to worship every New Year's Day.

And Qianlong's longing soon turned into attention to his son, who was still called Shanbao. Perhaps it is due to Shanbao's bloodline, he embodies the ability of Fang people at a very young age. When he was three years old, his titular mother died in childbirth, leaving him with a newborn brother.

After that, his father Chang Bao began to drink heavily and profligate, rarely caring for his two sons, and Chang Bao's family was so poor that he lived by selling his property. When he was eight years old, his father, Chang Bao, also fell ill and died. Originally, Shanbao's uncle raised the two orphans on his behalf, but who would have thought that after his uncle embezzled the property, he would no longer care about the life and death of the two Shanbao brothers, so that the two children would have to beg for a living.

The blood of the Son of Heaven ended up like this, Qianlong was furious, ordered the Internal Affairs Office to come forward, recovered the property for Shanbao, and arranged for him to study in a private villa, and his name was changed to Heshen. And this experience made He Shen mature very early, and his personality became resolute and sleek. The hard work of practicing martial arts is far stronger than those Eight Banners disciples of the same age.

What's even more surprising is that there is a faint shadow of Qianlong in his eyes after adulthood. Although no one dared to say it explicitly, everyone also recognized the blood relationship between He Shen and the emperor in their hearts.

At the age of eighteen, He Shen was appointed by Qianlong as a third-class guard of the inner court. This appointment has the meaning that Qianlong transferred He Shen to his side and can teach him from time to time, but it is more about loving the house and Wu and fulfilling Xiao Yulan's last wish.

But to Qianlong's surprise, He Shen was rigorous but flexible, and he had a city government but was quite far-sighted. In addition to practicing martial arts, he made friends with the literati and writers in the capital, and showed extraordinary talent in poetry and songs. Seeing the continuous growth of He Shen, Qianlong had to sigh that among his current princes, whoever has half of He Shen's ability is the best candidate for the prince, but unfortunately the secret of He Shen has no possibility of reversing. Thinking about it again, maybe He Shen is really an official material, if he can become the pillar of the country, then no matter which son succeeds him, with He Shen's assistance, he can rest assured.

Thinking of this, Qianlong simply gave He Shen a petty official who was in charge of the treasury to manage the palace treasury. He Shen came to Buku, plunged into the pile of cloth, reclassified and classified, and strived to make each entry and exit clear. On the other hand, visiting cloth merchants, understanding the weaving process, understanding the storage and transportation links, according to today's words, is to standardize the management process, control the procurement process, sort out the suppliers, and basically put an end to corruption inside.

He Shen's approach, in the eyes of the officials at all levels in Buku, is that the new official took office with three fires, and he didn't pay too much attention to it. Who would have thought that after the process was standardized, it would be even more difficult for them to make money out of it. The officials still understood the principle of equal interests, so they took out silver to bribe, but they didn't expect that this and Shen oil and salt would not enter, and several bribes were arrested for this matter. Seeing that the method of buying through did not work, they began to stumble on He Shen, and bought a book of supervision of the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and impeached He Shen in the name of soliciting bribes.

Who would have thought that within a few days of this impeachment note, the Metropolitan Procuratorate sent a special person to investigate thoroughly, and He Shen put the evidence of corruption among the petty officials he had before, and those who were dismissed were dismissed, and those who were assigned were distributed, and none of the participating officials had any good results. At this time, Buku only reacted up and down, no wonder He Shen dared to risk the officialdom and rectify it vigorously, and there were people above him who dared to love.

(A good man, enlightened by his own nature, non-sexually existent, follows all natures, has no evidence or evidence, and in reality, there are no bodhisattvas and sentient beings.) Bodhisattvas and sentient beings are all transfigurations, transfigurations and extinctions, and there is no evidence. For example, the root of the eye, not seeing the eye, the sexual self-equal, the unequal. All sentient beings are fascinated and fail to eliminate all illusions, and they are distinguished in the function of extinguishing and not extinguishing delusion. If it is as it comes, there is no extinction and no extinction. --"Yuanjue Sutra")