Chapter 353: The Wind Rises
The weaving fan muttered vigorously, "Don't look at the indecent to have a long needle eye", his face was red for a while and white for a while, and he didn't know where to put his flustered hands and feet.
In fact, when she bumped into the intimacy of her masters, she was really embarrassed and frightened, and she wanted to run away, but just when the weaving fan was about to pretend to run away, Ling Yi stopped her.
"Come back—when is the time?"
The weaving fan couldn't wait to pump his big mouth, and turned back with a sad face, his face was parallel to the ground, "I said that there will be a thunderstorm in three days, and it will last for three days without accident, which is exactly what you want, Madam." ”
Ling Yi seemed to be fine, and asked her again: "Qi Run hasn't gotten the news in the palace so soon, let the road guards intercept the person who delivered the news, in case it leaks out, it's not good." ”
The weaving fan said, "The servant retreats." As he spoke, he stepped back, and only dared to raise his head when he was ten steps away, and he didn't dare to look at Ling Yi and Gong Xiru.
Ling Yi looked at Gong Xiru with a smile and said, "Let you be unruly, it is estimated that in a few days, you, the marquis, will become a joke of the people in the mansion." ”
Gong Xiru's face was also a little unbearable, and he said: "I don't worry about your girl, she won't talk nonsense." ”
"She won't talk nonsense, but I'm afraid the promotion manager, who has always taken pleasure in 'fighting and playing tricks on you', will not be so honest." The corners of Ling Yi's mouth twitched into a teasing smile.
Gong Xiru turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw Gong Sheng standing not far away, looking at himself with wide eyes, as if he was afraid of missing something.
I saw that the master was looking at himself. Gong Sheng gave a serious blessing, and then without waiting for Gong Xiru to call, he immediately ran away. But after a few breaths, he ran away without a trace.
Gong Xiru couldn't help but sigh helplessly: "I originally planned to weave a fan for your girl in the autumn to propose marriage, now think about it, let's talk about it later, you can't lack people around you." ”
Ling Yi's smile became more and more obvious: "Why do I smell like a communiqué personal vendetta? Can't you be a little more generous as a Hou Ye? ”
Gong Xiru seemed to have an iron heart, "I want him to serve by my side for a few more years, he is still too young now, and I will give him a kiss after the age of thirty." ”
If Gong Sheng heard this, he would say. I'm afraid I'll cry my father and call my mother in a hurry. Ling Yi giggled, but she was thinking about something else.
She called Zhi Yu to her side and instructed the latter: "You go to the Ling Mansion quickly, and ask your father to list all the people who are good friends with Zhang Tianhao in the court." Names of people he knows or suspects, whether they are open or secret, list them for me to bring back. ”
Zhi Yu received the order to do it immediately, and she was also efficient, so she quickly went to the Ling Mansion to find Ling Shandao. Asked the latter for a roster. hurriedly returned to the Hou Mansion again, and it was less than half an hour before he came and went.
With these rosters, Ling Yi felt a lot of comfort in her heart, so she patiently waited for the arrival in three days.
Because he knew that something was going to happen, Qi Run deliberately got up early that day, and asked Emperor Qinglong for instructions, saying that he wanted to go outside the palace to observe the people's feelings.
This is a good thing, of course Emperor Qinglong will not refuse. gave him a few topics, and asked Qi Run to observe the people's situation in combination with the problem. Go back to the palace and talk about it again.
Where does Qi Run still have the heart to talk about it now, and he promised perfunctory on his face, and left the palace gate early.
"Your Highness, it doesn't seem like a good day." Yude looked at the gloomy weather in the morning and was a little worried.
Qi Run was also dissatisfied with this weather, but Chengguan told him that this time was the most suitable, the time and place were favorable, and it was also suitable for carrying out his plan.
"Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, and the cloudy day is cloudy, and it can only be done." Qi Run asked Yude to bring the umbrella, and the two rode out of the palace.
The time of the practice was at the time of the hour and the noon, so Chengguan went early, brought a few of his disciples and magic weapons, and walked into the Zhang family compound with great fanfare.
There is never a shortage of people in Beijing to watch the excitement, and soon the news spread a few streets, and everyone had heard about the tragedy of the Zhang family before, and now that even Chengguan has come, it is obvious that there are really demons running rampant in the house.
"Is there really a monster in Zhang's mansion?"
"Who knows, this adult and child are dead, and it's really strange, didn't you let Master Yuanshan do the Fa a few days ago, it seems that it's useless, this time even Master Chengguan has been invited, the face of the Zhang family is really big."
"I heard that His Royal Highness came forward to invite Master Chengguan to come out, and now there are four more Highnesses, can Your Highness not hurry up and win over people."
There were more and more crowds outside, and everyone was chattering and discussing this extraordinary ritual with curiosity.
"Boom-" There was an unexpected sound of thunder in the sky, and at the same time, Chengguan led the disciples to knock on the wooden fish to drive away.
Everyone was frightened by the sudden thunder, and the timid ones trembled in fright, and some people began to wonder why such weather was necessary for this practice. The weather alone is scary.
Qi Run, who was inconvenient to show people, sat in the back room, but he could still clearly see the situation outside through the window, but Qi Run was really annoyed and dissatisfied with such weather.
"Don't choose this good weather, why do you have to choose such a bad day, that is, this palace knows that the fusion of yin and yin will help yin and reduce yang more, this is he driving away evil or attracting evil."
Yude could only appease him and said: "Your Highness is angry, it will be able to achieve our goal after all, as for this weather, it will not-" It will rain heavily.
Before he finished speaking, God seemed to have done it right on purpose, and in a few breaths, the raindrops of beans fell without warning, and then quickly turned into thread beads, and in a matter of moments, the fire in the furnace where the incense paper was burned was extinguished, and the water on the ground soon covered his ankles.
This weather caught everyone off guard, standing outside to watch the lively people, because of this scene, I was afraid and anxious, anxious that I didn't want to get rainy, but it was this weird weather that was terrible.
The big change in the weather has always been thought to be caused by strange forces, and now it's hard for everyone to believe it, maybe Zhang Mansion really hides some powerful monsters.
Or maybe the youkai don't want to be banished. That's why these lightning flashes, thunder and downpours are triggering to warn everyone?!
Yude glanced into the crowd, and after a moment, he heard a voice from nowhere shouting, "Oh no—everyone run." Youkai are coming. ”
Originally, the weather made people's hearts cool and cool, and they were even more frightened by this shout, plus the people outside were still drenched in the rain, whether they were really afraid or to avoid the rain, the crowd dispersed, some people fled in fear, and some people ran to stand under the eaves.
Of course, you have to endure heavy rain. He now understood why Qi Run asked him to choose a rainy weather, this kind of weather was the most frightening in people's hearts. It's also easier to convince everyone that it seems to be really calculated.
As for Qi Run, who was watching the excitement in the house, the gloom on his face finally disappeared, and he looked at Yude with a smile and said, "It's better to think of what you want." This kind of weather really sets off the atmosphere. Who was shouting just now, give him more silver, do a good job. ”
Yude was stunned, only to understand that it was His Royal Highness who regarded the coaxing in the crowd as his own arrangement, and he said in his heart that he must be a coward shouting, but he took this praise with a smile on his face, and thought that he would put the silver rewarded by His Highness directly into his pocket later.
That's it. With their own "facts," each of them thought it was the "facts," and after half an hour, the ritual was finally over.
Chengguan and his disciples have been drenched in soup. He was dripping with water, but although he was annoyed and angry in his heart, he didn't dare to show it on his face, so he could only follow Zhang Tianhao to change his clothes again.
After resting for more than an hour, the rain still hasn't stopped, but the ritual still has to be done, anyway, it's all pretending to show people, Chengguan is smart this time, let people put the altar in the ancestral hall of Zhangfu, at least don't have to be struck by lightning in the rain.
At this time, the people watching the excitement were almost gone, except for three or two beggars who had nowhere to go, sheltering from the rain under the eaves of Zhang's mansion, listening to the singing and chanting in the house, imagining how funny it was in his mind.
When the last ritual was over, Chengguan finally breathed a sigh of relief, he could be regarded as having completed his own business, and it was up to him to decide how to develop next.
According to the words prepared in advance, he told Zhang Tianhao: "The fourth aunt and the little young master collided with the evil star, and this is only one corpse and two lives, which was not supposed to be like this, but this evil star is the reincarnation of a thousand years of fierce reincarnation.
He occupies an excellent life in the world and will not take the initiative to harm others, but if there is a conflict with the woman and the child, they will not live long, and the fourth aunt was contaminated with evil qi before giving birth, which made her difficult to give birth and died. ”
Zhang Tianhao knew that these words were made up, so there was not much sadness on his face, but he just showed a little sadness.
But Shen, who was completely unaware, wailed and cried as if he had heard some terrible news, expressing his sorrow for his unborn grandson.
"God kills it, our Zhang family didn't offend anyone, how did they encounter this kind of thousand-year-old evil star, what kind of calamity is this-God doesn't have long eyes, since he is fierce, why let him be reincarnated as a human to harm us."
Shen was emotional, crying to death, as long as she thought of the loss of a grandson and the loss of a stick of incense in the Zhang family, she hated the so-called evil star to the extreme, "Master, is there a way to completely expel that evil star?" Let him go back to hell. ”
Chengguan shook his head in embarrassment: "This is not something that a poor monk can decide, the evil star has been reincarnated as a human, and there is a life that thousands of people envy in the world, his life is not something that a poor monk can change, not anyone can change it, in this world, there is only one person who can change his life." ”
Shen Shi was confused, but when she asked again, Chengguan only said that the heavenly opportunity could not be revealed, and she couldn't persuade her, so she still sent Chengguan out with gratitude.
But it also confirms an old saying, good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, the Zhang family asked Chengguan to do the practice of exorcism, and soon everyone in Beijing knew about it, and Chengguan's words were also "accidentally" spread out.
In just one day's work, what everyone talked about after dinner was no longer about the killing of the two ancestors of the Gong family, but about the Zhang family looking for a national teacher to exorcise evil spirits.
Qi Run returned to the palace in the afternoon and told Emperor Qinglong what he heard and saw on the street, and Emperor Qinglong also asked some questions, but fortunately he prepared in advance, and the answers were still satisfactory to Emperor Qinglong.
"You've been out of the palace for a day, and there's nothing else to do except these?" Emperor Qinglong listened to him all about how the common people lived happily and how the neighbors were happy, but to be honest, there were still many people in Beijing who did not have enough to eat.
But the point is that Qi Run only chose the good aspects to say, but he didn't say anything bad, which also shows from the side that Qi Run wants to perfunctory curry favor and cover up a series of psychology, which Emperor Qinglong is very dissatisfied.
Qi Run hesitated for a moment, and finally said cautiously: "Erchen went out of the palace today, of course what he saw and heard was more than this, but Erchen was afraid that his father would be upset after hearing this——"
"If I can't even listen to this, do you think I can sit in this position for so many years?" Emperor Qinglong said faintly angrily.
Qi Run hurriedly surrendered his hand to ask for the sin: "My father atoned for my sins, and my son said that it was." ”
Only then did he tell Emperor Qinglong about the neighborhood rumors he heard, "Now there are rumors in the capital, and everyone is rumored that there is a person reincarnated by a thousand-year-old evil star in the capital.
The common people were panicked and complained, hoping that a mage would come forward to expel the evil star, but even the national teacher Chengguan said that he could not do anything. ”
"Is there such a thing?" Emperor Qinglong didn't expect the situation to be so serious, if it was really as Qi Run said, everyone was talking about this matter, then if it was not suppressed, there would definitely be a riot in a few days.
Ghosts and gods are already confusing, and if someone takes this opportunity to cause chaos, the whole society may be in turmoil.
Emperor Qinglong clearly knew how serious the public opinion against ghosts and gods was, because this was not the first time it had happened.
Seventeen years ago, Concubine Yue and the first queen gave birth at the same time, and the first queen had a difficult birth, and both mother and child died, and I don't know who made the rumor, but it was said that the four princes were the reincarnation of a thousand-year-old evil star, which would harm women and children.
It was precisely because he did not suppress it in time that the rumors spread in Beijing, and then there were a large number of so-called righteous people, **** singing outside the city gate, to the effect that Emperor Qinglong would dispose of the demon woman and the demon boy.
"Father?" Qi Run looked at Emperor Qinglong cautiously, he knew that these words would definitely remind Emperor Qinglong of the past, and he was also afraid that the latter would associate this matter with himself, Qi Run deliberately only said a few words.
He knew that once Emperor Qinglong knew about it, he would definitely send Jin Wei to find out what the rumors were, and there was no need to say anything about the redundancy.
Sure enough, Emperor Qinglong asked him to step back first, and then immediately asked Jin Wei to find out how the rumors were spread, and when Jin Wei came back, he told him that there were rumors in Beijing that there was a thousand years of evil star reincarnation, and there was only one person to destroy it, and this person, needless to say, Emperor Qinglong also knew that he was referring to himself.
"It seems that the Queen Mother finally can't bear it anymore and wants to repeat the old trick." Although Emperor Qinglong didn't find evidence, he intuitively told himself that the person who framed Concubine Yue and the four princes back then was the Queen Mother.
The queen mother lost the queen and grandson at the same time, blamed the concubine Yue, found such an excuse, pushed the concubine to the peak of public opinion, and finally gave the concubine poisoned wine, forcing the latter to cut herself.
For so many years, as long as he thought of Concubine Yue's grievances, he wanted to depose the Queen Mother immediately, but since ancient times, unless the Queen Mother committed something that was indignant to people and gods, the son did not have the power to depose his mother at all.
Fuquan nodded in agreement: "This matter sounds like a conspiracy from beginning to end, obviously aimed at the Fourth Highness, the emperor, the old slave is afraid that tomorrow morning will go up, and someone will make trouble." ”
"They dare-" Emperor Qinglong's eyes flashed with a cold light: "There is no evidence, just because Zhang Fu died his aunt and son, do you want to put such a big crime on my emperor?" If they really dare to say such things, I will fight to the end at the risk of the Empress Dowager's mother and son turning against each other. ”
The same thing is enough to happen once, and he will never allow it to happen again.
At this time, the little eunuch outside came in and preached: "Your Majesty, the Fourth Highness is asking to see you outside the palace." (To be continued.) )
PS: Forgive the fingertips for really being the title cripples, envy those title parties!!