It is said that Liu Tong handed over the affairs of the Lu State to his eldest son and confidants, and devoted himself to the resettlement of immigrants in Dongying Liu. {We don't write novels, we're just online text porters - this day there are letters from Lu Guo, all of which are ordinary things, and his wife has sent a clever small Western pocket watch. Liu Tong opened the pocket watch and saw that there was a piece of paper hidden in it, folded in a boxy way; There is a policy written on the paper, which is Zhu Tong's handwriting.

Liu Tong's eyes widened when he saw it, he took a few breaths, and without hesitation, he ordered someone to send a message back: "I like the pocket watch given by my wife very much, and I understand its central meaning, which is very good." "I regard Zhu Tong as a confidant more and more. Nai casually burned the note and said, "Sue Mrs. Sù, Xiaoliu is blessed." "Liu Tong is more than half a hundred years old. The last time I went back to Lu to marry a daughter, I sent a little concubine a few drops of rain and dew by the way, and the little concubine added a new young son to him, three or four months older than the prince of Lu.

As everyone knows, this time it was not Zhu Tong's idea.

After the gourd monk arrived in the country of Lu, he immediately realized that the king of Lu was just a puppet, and he couldn't get any benefit from him, so he quietly found Zhu Tong and surrendered to the Liu family. Zhu Tong knew his details, and only said the three words "I know" and sent him away. The gourd monk saw that Mr. Zhu obviously did not believe him, so he came up with a plan.

The youngest son of King Lu and Grandma Liu will be full moon. The very youngest children all look about the same. It's better to find a monk and Taoist, just say that this child has a disaster, let him be sent to the temple Taoist temple for a year and a half. When the child came out of the temple, his appearance had already changed, and no one would be able to see it if he was replaced by a child of the Liu family. The king of Lu in the coming day is the seed of the Liu family.

Zhu Tong nodded when he heard it and said, "It's a good thing to steal beams and change pillars." Nai looked at the gourd monk, "It seems that you really have General Liu in your heart." The gourd monk hurriedly said a string of compliments.

Zhu Tong then found Liu Tong's eldest son Liu Shu to discuss, and said: "This plan is not bad, there is only one great disadvantage, that is, the child who is exchanged cannot be from the Liu family, but can only be the children of ordinary people, or the children of loyal servants of the Liu family." ”

Liu Shu said: "Why can't it be the Liu family?" Wouldn't it be someone else's family to go to the country of Lu for outsiders? ”

Zhu Tong said with a smile: "The eldest prince went back to talk to Ling Tang, and listened to Ling Tang if he had any thoughts." ”

Liu Shu really went back to the house to discuss with his mother, and Mrs. Liu waved her hand again and again: "Nonsense! You gave you a new brother last time, do you want to replace him? Since he is also your father's own son, this is not enough; In the coming day, your father will not be able to take advantage of the situation, so he will be a true king of Lu, and I don't know. With your identity, it's impossible to save your life. ”

Liu Shu didn't care and said: "The military power is in my hands, what can he do?" ”

Mrs. Liu said: "You can't compare to your Lao Tzu." What if he wants to give the military power to someone else? Don't look at Mr. Zhu helping you now, it's because you ordered him to help you. ”

Liu Shu said: "I see that he is better to me than to me Lao Tzu." ”

Mrs. Liu just shook her head: "You don't know. Then he said, "The man who came up with the idea has bad intentions, and he wants to cause discord between your father and son." ”

Liu Shu smiled: "Mother thinks too much. That person can't see me at all, and he can't communicate with him. In the end, it wasn't me or Mr. Zhu who wrote to his old man? It's good to change it. "I turned around and went out to see Zhu Tong.

Zhu Tong didn't even move his eyebrows when he heard the person below shouting, "Uncle Liu is here", he just buried his head in reviewing the documents, and said, "Uncle has already asked?" ”

Liu Shu said: "You literati have a lot of twists and turns in your stomach! My mother said, what you said is very true, go back to me and write to Lao Tzu, only to say, 'Replace it with ordinary children'. ”

Zhu Tong sighed: "Uncle also has a little heart, Mo Chengri only soaked in the barracks." ”

Liu Shu snorted: "This is a troubled time. Although I don't have much ambition, I know that whoever wins the barracks will get the country of Lu! ”

As soon as Zhu Tong heard this, he couldn't help but bow his head and roll his eyes: "This sounds like the tone of the son of Zhou Ji who came back." ”

"Originally, he said it, and he nagged me for a long time when I was in Luzhou last time." Liu Shu said, "You and your gentlemen are in charge of horizontal and vertical government affairs." He smiled and patted Zhu Tong's shoulder, and said numbly, "Zhu Qing, it's hard work~~" Zhu Tong glanced at his hand and slapped it off. Liu Shu was not annoyed, and ran away whistling.

A few days later, Zhu Tong wrote the note and stuffed it into the gift that Mrs. Liu gave to Liu Tong and sent it over. Xin'er, who didn't want Liu Tong to send it back, still asked his newborn youngest son to replace his grandson's name. Zhu Tong was full of thoughts, and someone outside came to report, saying that Mrs. Liu had sent a confidant mother-in-law to ask to see her, and Zhu Tong ordered her to come in. Knowing who it was at a glance, Zhu Tong hurriedly stood up and bowed: "I've seen Madame." ”

Mrs. Liu nodded: "Mr. Zhu is worthy of his name. Nai sat down and looked at Zhu Tong and said, "Mr. Zhu, how is it good?" ”

Zhu Tong said with a smile: "Don't worry, madam, the general just thinks about this section less." ”

Mrs. Liu sneered: "Where is he thinking less. Heng Zhu'er and Xiaoliu are his sons, and he doesn't mind. ”

Zhu Tong said: "The sixth master has just been born, and he has not yet been educated. What should be raised to this son, the most important thing is the nurse, the maid, and the husband. The Emperor Taishang emphasized literature over martial arts. Since he is the eldest grandson of the emperor, it is best to follow the meaning of his imperial grandfather. Let this little son read and write as early as possible, fall in love with the word endowment, and don't get into some military history. It's just that this matter must not be revealed to the second aunt and grandmother, and she will teach Xiao Shizi not to be involved in martial arts. If she had known that her son was a younger brother, she would not have been afraid. ”

Mrs. Liu nodded again and again: "It's still Mr. who thinks far!" ”

This plan was decided. Mrs. Liu knew that the Queen Mother believed in Buddhism, so she ordered someone to go outside to find a monk who pretended to be a monk.

But he said that the gourd monk, although he had the eyes of King Lu, was just a Qing guest, and he did not have a guard. On this day, he was wandering in the streets, and suddenly he felt a chill hit him, as if he had met an assassin in the Jin Kingdom that day, and he was busy looking around, but he did not see any suspicious person. He secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, and the more he couldn't see it, the more powerful the character was. When he left Taiyuan, he was in too much hurry to explain it to the King of Jin. The King of Jin has placed spies around the princes of each family, but I am afraid that King Lu is also indispensable. King Lu is a brainless person, and he casually told others that he had gone to the Jin Kingdom for a detailed work. If you let the people of King Jin know, you won't be able to wash yourself by jumping into the Yellow River!

He rolled his eyes and hurried back home. Nai picked up the pen and wrote a long letter to the king of Jin. He said that on that day, the people of the former King of Lu mistakenly thought that he was his own and sent him a message, saying that the King of Lu had an urgent matter to summon him back to the country of Lu. He thought, "How could he miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?" So he hurried to Lu State. Now we have very important news. Later, he wrote down the idea he gave Liu Tong, regardless of whether Liu Tong used it or not. The letter was left on his desk, and he went to sleep. When he got up the next morning, he saw that the letter was still in its place, but he moved his idea slightly, and settled down to the new one, so he sent the letter to the Jin Kingdom by post and asked a good friend to pass it on to the King of Jin.

It's a pity that this letter was lost halfway. Zhu Tong knew that this gourd monk was not an ordinary villain, and the envoy secretly stared at him. This person has no relatives and no reason, who is he good to send a letter to? As soon as the letter left the city, it was intercepted and sent directly to Zhu Tong's desk. Zhu Tong hurriedly invited Liu Shu to come and see. Liu Shu immediately wanted to pull out his knife and slaughter this spy. Zhu Tong said with a smile: "Don't worry. The uncle only looked at the meaning of his letter, thinking that he had not explained it to King Jin and came to Lu in a hurry. If you were the king of Jin, would you let him go? Liu Shu thought about it and made sense, so he stopped. It's just that when I go back, I can't help but sue Mrs. Liu. Mrs. Liu then complained about the king of Jin.

And the person sent by the King of Jin waited for many days, and did not wait for the top to change his mind, but urged once, and knew that the prince had not let this person go because of that letter. The gourd monk noticed the coolness again this day, so he found an excuse to stay in the palace of King Lu and not come out. Three or four days is over, and on the seventh or eighth day, it is inevitable that there will be a time when King Lu wants him to go out on errands.

On this day, he just went to the shop to collect rent, and the gourd monk never came back as soon as he went. Just after collecting the rent of the last house, the gourd monk had just gone out, and a few people were fighting in the street, so they ordered people to go over and shout. The ones he brought out today are all ordinary people who are used to bullying people, and they all like to do this kind of fox and tiger thing. If you don't go over to kick and curse people, you are also happy to stand, and no one pays attention to the more and more people around to see the excitement. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a big man flashed out, wearing a hat. Before the gourd monk noticed that something was wrong and shouted, he drew his knife and stabbed him, and the whole person was pierced through the heart. The man flashed into the crowd and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

King Lu was shocked, but he didn't have to guess who did it, so he hurriedly went to the Queen Mother to discuss. The Queen Mother said: "It is obvious that the King of Jin learned the news and sent someone to vent his anger." Zuo is just a villain, and if he dies, he dies. But King Lu refused, and ordered someone to call Zhu Tong to come over and find out the assassin. Zhu Tong answered, what should he do when he left King Lu's mansion, and he didn't take King Lu's words in his eyes at all.

The Assassin simply flashed to a secluded place to change his clothes and take off his hat, and did not even dare to go back to the inn. After sleeping on the street for two days, I never heard that anyone was going to arrest him. So he boldly went back to the inn to rest for two days, and Dafang settled the account and went back to the Jin Kingdom, and bought some earthen instruments before leaving.

King Lu saw that the gourd monk was assassinated in the street, thinking that the two uncles of King Qi and King Yan wanted his life, he didn't dare to leave the house anymore, and he was terrified. It rained a few nights, and there were a few strange noises in the sound of wind and rain. King Lu was frightened and sick. The house is busy again, asking for medical treatment, praying to God and worshiping Buddha, and pointing to the heavens and scolding the earth.

In the afternoon of this day, the Queen Mother was kneeling in the small Buddha Hall to recite the scriptures, and suddenly heard the sound of wooden fish outside, and hurriedly asked people to go out to check. A few mothers-in-law went outside to inspect and said that they didn't see anyone. The Queen Mother wondered in her heart. After a while, there was another sound of wooden fish, and there was still no one when I went out to check. So there are three. That night, a maid beside the Queen Mother heard from the guards in the palace that a monk knocked on the wooden fish at the east gate of the palace for a long time. The Queen Mother couldn't help but stand up: "The courtyard wall is deep, how can the sound of ordinary monks' wooden fish be transmitted from outside the mansion to inside?" This monk must have a way! "I ordered to go down, and if Ming'er, the monk, came again, he would go back and forth to her quickly. The next afternoon, the Queen Mother heard the sound of wooden fish again. After a while, a guard came back and said, and the monk came to knock on the wooden fish again. The Queen Mother ordered to come into the house.

This monk was arranged by Mrs. Liu; Knocking on the wooden fish, but Zhu Tong made someone knock it outside the small Buddha hall - or in the early years, Jia Cong said the gossip of the leper monk and let him borrow it. This monk Mrs. Liu has been picking for a long time, very good at pretending to be a ghost, and can coax people, the queen mother only two or three hours to believe that he is desperate, insisted on sending the little son to the temple to raise until the age of one. King Lu heard that the young son was too blessed, but rushed Lao Tzu, these days he is sick is to prevent the young son from the disaster, and he can't send his son away immediately.

Princess Lu naturally refused. It's just that Liu Tong is not in Lu State, Liu Shu doesn't care about such backyard chicken and dog bits and pieces, and she doesn't have a biological brother, so she has no way to take their mother and son, so she has to guard her son and don't allow others to get closer.

Her nurse said, "Why don't you beg your wife?" ”

Princess Lu said lightly: "She is not my mother, she is happy to follow the words of the Queen Mother, where will she care if I live or die." No one can be relied on, only myself. If you dare to touch my son, kill me first! ”

When the Queen Mother heard this, she said, "It's okay, she has to sleep, doesn't she?" How many days can an iron-clad person carry it? ”

Sure enough, Princess Lu guarded her son for three days, and when she saw that no one came to forcibly take the child, she went to the next room to lie down for a while. After she slept for half an hour, the Queen Mother sent someone to snatch Xiao Shizi and left, staying by Xiao Shizi's side and watching those servant women unable to exert half of their strength.

Xiao Shizi entered the temple, and Mrs. Liu changed three nursing mothers for him to cultivate Buddhism, and the original preparations in the palace were not needed. The Queen Mother didn't think there was anything wrong with this. Princess Lu wanted to go to the temple to regain her son, but no one told her where her little son was, so she kicked down the door of the queen mother's small Buddha hall and pointed at her: "If my son is not, I will not spare your whole family!" "Turn around and go. The Queen Mother was so stunned that she couldn't speak for a long time, and then scolded: "Rude shrew!" ”

From this day on, Princess Lu no longer lived in the palace, and led people to search the temples to find her son. King Lu's illness gradually improved. The Queen Mother was busy chanting the Buddha and said: "It can be seen that what the master said is very true!" This child had too much luck and hurt his father. Be of good cheer, my son. Taishi said that if he stays in the temple until he is one year old, the Buddhists will rein in his momentum, not only will he no longer hurt his relatives, but he can also prosper his relatives! ”

King Lu sighed: "I hope so. Nai smiled, "If he is really lucky, he can't guarantee that he can make a big difference." ”

The Queen Mother recited the Buddha again, and said happily: "Isn't it! You are the eldest son of a saint, and he is your eldest son. The mother and son looked at each other for a long time, tacitly and secretly happy.

On this day, Princess Lu led a group of girls and daughters-in-law to set off early in the morning, to the Kaiyuan Temple in the west of the city, searched from front to back for a long time, and did not see the baby, and apologized to the abbot master Heshi: "Disturbed, I hope the master will not blame." He left some incense and went away.

The abbot said: "It's past noon, so the donor might as well stay in the temple and have some fasting food." ”

Princess Lu smiled bitterly: "I have disturbed the masters for most of the day, and I really don't have the face to eat the master's fasting again." I'll go outside and make a point later. ”

The abbot folded: "Good! A loving mother understands that a meal is fine. ”

Princess Lu saw that the old abbot was very sincere, so she stayed in the temple to eat fast. After eating a few bites, he suddenly wept again: "Pity my child, how many days have I not seen my mother's face." ”

A little monk whispered beside him: "If someone sincerely wants to guard against the female benefactor, and leads people to come and go like this every day, how can they not alarm people?" Princess Lu looked up at him suddenly, and the little monk ran away.