Chapter 172: Merit and Virtue
The county lord of Deyang had to ask his son carefully. Although she hadn't seen Li Rui a few times, she also knew that he was not worthy of her family's Wanning. The Holy Admiral proposed him to the eldest prince as a companion, obviously to be reused, but Wan Ning is good at everything, but his identity is too embarrassing, even if he gives the title of the county lord, it is just for the royal face and Wan Ning will not starve to death.
The title of "Wanning" has fully explained the holy will. He hoped that Mannings would not stir up any more restlessness.
Xiong Ping saw that his mother had misunderstood that Wan Ning and Li Rui had a friendship, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "It's not like this, Wan Ning went to the Xinguo Mansion and met a child who was the same age as her, Li Rui's cousin, who lived in the mansion to study, Wan Ning likes to plant flowers, and he can talk about going together, so there are letters to exchange." ”
"Not Li Rui?"
"It's not Li Rui. Mother, what do you think, Lu Jun and her cousin are handkerchiefs, how can they have a friendship with Li Rui! Xiong Ping saw his mother's tears and said that he would accept it, and couldn't help but sigh, "I always have to avoid suspicion." ”
"Also, the girl of the Lu family and Li Rui have withdrawn, although there is no marriage contract, but there has always been. Our family's Wanning's temperament, even if he knows Li Rui, he won't have a deep friendship......" Deyang muttered to himself for a while, and asked his son curiously: "Who is that cousin?" What's the way? ”
"His name is Li Zhao, and he is a cousin in the hometown of the Xinguo Mansion, and he has a very close relationship. Li Zhao is a son-in-law, and his mother is also from a family, and he has a cousin, who is the Li Jun who is the second class. ”
"There is a cousin, that tutor is not very good......" The county lord of Deyang lost interest as soon as he heard this. It's just that, probably the children fell in love with each other. You keep an eye on your sister and don't keep in touch, after all, it's a foreign man. ”
"Where can I keep an eye on, I'm in the palace all day long. If you don't take her to the Xinguo Mansion, she won't be able to see Li Zhao. Xiong Ping felt that his mother was making a big fuss, not to mention that it was only two children, even if her cousin fell in love with a boy, her cousin should not earn an estate for the family, and second, she should not give the family a doorpost, and she could marry anyone. Anyway, she has the fief of the county lord and Yulu, and she can't starve to death if she marries anyone.
She is the daughter of the clan, and she is afraid that anyone will not be able to bear it.
Lord Deyang and Xiong Ping are naturally completely different in their views on the issue of marriage. But she also felt that her son was right about one thing, that is, as long as she didn't take Wanning to the Xinguo Mansion, she wouldn't be afraid of anything.
It is said that Wan Ning went back to the house, read Li Zhao's letter, and I don't know what Lu Dao is for, and a burst of joy arises spontaneously.
Li Zhao actually knows how to settle accounts and read accounts? He was actually called by Mrs. Qiu to help manage the family?!
He also grows vegetables and raises ducks. What kind of god is Old Taijun Qiu, and why are the things taught by several grandsons different from others? Is it because they don't have concubines in their family, so men also have to help their wives take care of the house?
Wan Ning automatically beautified Gu Qing in a big circle, and suddenly felt that it was a pity that his handkerchief was handed over to Lu Jun and the eldest grandson of the Li family to solve the family matter. If there is such a husband, no matter how you marry, it will not be a loss.
Time passed day by day, and Xiong Le and Qiu Jing also returned to the capital. The two families were waiting for their master outside the capital early in the morning, and when they saw that the master was fine, they sent someone back to the house to report the news, while the family members stayed at the palace gate and waited for the two adults to enter the palace to report on their work and take them home.
This time, Qiu Jing was fine, and Xiong Le made a big mistake. He fell into the water, then hit the trunk of a tree, suffered some internal injuries, had a fever and a chill that night, and came back quite emaciated.
Chu Rui has feelings for his sister Deyang, seeing that he almost didn't let her sister become a widow in order to inspect the water situation, he really didn't want to go, not only rewarded him well, but also gave him a "pending edict" status.
The so-called "edict" is a person who is waiting for the summons of the Son of Heaven at any time. Most of them have a skill, and they are ready to consult at the emperor's call. Xiong Le has the identity of "waiting for the edict", although it is still a false position, but the false position of the Son of Heaven and the idle false position are not the same, and this reward is almost a step to the sky.
Qiu Jing and Xiong Ping did a lot of things in Jiangnan this time, and Qiu Jing even had a secret mission - to collect the damage of various clans in Jiangnan and the families who refused to dig the polders.
As for those who disregarded the lives of the people in the flood and neglected their duties to resist the flood, Chu Rui had already filmed the supervision of the imperial history and went down to Jiangnan early, and none of them could escape.
The two brought the emperor's reward home with a spring breeze on their faces, and their families experienced great sorrow and joy, naturally they hugged their heads and cried, and then the husband and wife talked privately, and the children were around their knees, so naturally there was no need to say much.
Li Mao, with Qiu Jing's return, has been tired enough in the past few days. The flood is not the most terrible, but the most terrible thing is the resettlement of the people and the removal of silt after the flood waters recedes. After August, it was inevitable that conscription would be re-enlisted, and soldiers from all over the country would also be mobilized to the south to maintain order and help with disaster relief.
He stayed in the palace for a few days and barely returned home.
Zhang Xuan, who stayed in Jiangnan, did not know that the court had begun to plan disaster relief and mobilize manpower, so he followed a few senior brothers and younger brothers, and led the remaining Taoists to run around Jiangnan, helping the injured to treat their injuries, and crossing the dead for the dead, so that they could be buried as soon as possible, so as to avoid the plague.
In order to win the favor of the saints with this matter, the Taoist priests of the entire Taoist sect gathered in Jiangnan to do the work of calming the hearts of the people and assisting in the resettlement of the displaced people. It's just that the human heart is flesh after all, and at first it may have been just to consolidate the status of Taoism, and the motive was not pure, but when I saw the flood roaring and flooding the villages and the earth, I looked up and saw an ocean everywhere, and there were clothes, broken walls, cattle, sheep, livestock, and human corpses floating on the water, which was really shocking, and no matter how impure the motive was, it would become compassionate.
When Zhang Xuan traveled down the mountain, he also encountered ground movements, and he had seen the hailstorm in Xicheng in the capital, so he was no stranger to the victims. But never before did he shake him so much.
Countless houses collapsed, trees were uprooted, and overnight, the villagers lost their homes and became homeless. Even the big families have been ruined in one fell swoop, not to mention these villagers.
The downstream has been much more severely affected by the corruption of officials and corrupt officials who have embezzled money from river workers. The graves of Tianlu are all submerged, and there are even those who hold the coffin and walk away without bones, and the victims are hungry and unable to eat, cold and clothing, and the sound of crying is heard for dozens of miles.
Zhang Xuan was in a shack and several senior disciples who knew how to treat from morning to night, and the herbs all relied on some commonly used medicinal herbs prepared in various places before coming to the south, and they were no longer available at this time.
Seeing the wounded and sick in the shack in pain and sorrow, Zhang Xuan's ears were filled with these voices, and he couldn't stay in this shack anymore, so he couldn't help but rush out of the shed, standing in the open space outside the shed, looking at the colleagues who were still running in the distance.
After the flood burst the levees, there were no more torrential rains, but countless sunny days in a row. The blazing sun shone down directly, almost as if it was going to melt everything.
A "gossamer" began to appear between heaven and earth, and everything was distorted into a mirage-like appearance, and the Daoists in the distance all had their lips cracked and their hair was dry, completely devoid of the Dao bone fairy wind when they first mobilized the people.
Nowadays, even purified water has become very valuable, whether it is cleaning a wound or helping a person who has been dehydrated, water has become another medicine that cannot be wasted. Not to mention taking it to wash your face and take a shower.
There are so many patients. Hundreds of people know that there are Taoist priests who give medicine here, and they all send the injured and sick at a swarming speed. Most of the Taoist priests who come here are well-versed in medical skills, and even so, there are still not enough people.
Zhang Yuan doesn't know medical skills, but he is also helping as much as he can. He is responsible for squeezing out the pus from the wounds of the sick, changing the towel on the forehead of the person suffering from heat stroke, and shaving the rotten flesh from the wound that has festered and cannot be cured with his sharp swordsmanship.
Shi Yi tore their clean coats into strips and put them in a pot to boil. On this sunny day, as long as it is exposed to the sun for an hour, the cloth strip can be used. Because many Taoist priests have taken out their middle robes and used them, many people are only wearing empty Taoist robes with nothing in them, which looks very ridiculous.
But no one laughed at this time. No one compares themselves or others to what they are.
Zhang Xuan suddenly thought of what Old Taijun Qiu said to him before he left Beijing.
She asked him to look more at the "ordinary people" and the "various states in the world". When he understands it, he will know the true meaning of the "Tao".
At that time, he thought that the Heavenly Monarch said this because there were countless immortal monarchs who had descended to help mortals through the tribulation would hide in these ordinary people and would come to enlighten him. However, a month has passed, and he has not seen a person who is full of "Taoism" like Tianjun, and what he has seen is really "ordinary people".
But it was these "ordinary people", including the Taoist friends he brought with him, that made him touch the edge of the "Tao".
He immediately understood what the Heavenly Monarch meant. She wanted him to see the suffering of the human world and the process of mortal people saving themselves. In every catastrophe, there has never been a heavenly monarch who has come down to save the suffering, and mortals can survive every catastrophe, all by their own strength.
Man is the "Tao", that is, the "God", that is, the fundamental reason for being able to "live endlessly".
Heaven is unkind, and all things are used as dogs, but all things are not dogs after all, and they can naturally compete with the sky and live their own way.
Why do you still ask for Ascension? When you haven't even touched the ultimate path of "human", how can you see the path that belongs to "immortals"?
Zhang Xuan had another epiphany, he sat on the ground with a full understanding, closed his eyes and sat on the hot earth like a soldering iron, as quiet as sitting on a futon in the mountains.
One of the disciples led a group of people to the hut from the other side, each carrying a huge basket behind him. He was a disciple of the line who went to unaffected areas to ask for medicine.
From afar, he shouted at the shack, and when Shi Yi and Zhang Yuan heard his happy voice, they knew that he had fulfilled his mission this time and successfully brought back what he needed.
They ran out of the shack, but at a glance they saw Zhang Xuan, who was sitting under the scorching sun in the Taoist "enlightenment" posture, but seemed to be in the cool ancestral garden of Longhu Mountain.
The little junior brother jumped a few times to the gathering place, and arched his hand to a few senior brothers with a smile:
"The big local families and the unaffected hospitals have donated their medicines. Several clinics have also sent doctors to help. Senior Brother Kou and Senior Brother Zhang Xuan can finally take a break. ”
His words were abrupt.
"Huh? On such a hot day, what is Senior Brother Zhang Xuan meditating there for? ”
Zhang Yuan looked at Zhang Xuan, who was full of refreshment, and showed a look of envy.
"This guy may really be the only one of us who can soar......"
"This hot day has enlightened, it's really an evil sect ......"
Zhang Yuan has never opened the eye of heaven, but Shi Yi, as the elder brother who has the earliest entry, has already opened the eye of heaven.
In his eyes, countless merits in this place are constantly converging towards Zhang Xuan's body, and it is obvious that the "Dao" of his epiphany will save countless people. And some of the merits on his body went to the north, and the number was not many, but it stretched and slender, which should be the 'cause' that gave rise to the path of merit.
In the north, it should be the "Heavenly Monarch" often mentioned in the capital.
In the temple of Zhiyun.
Gu Qing felt dizzy and dizzy when he got up in the morning, and he slept in the afternoon, but he didn't know what kind of mental shock Lu Dao had, and he didn't even have chest tightness and weakness caused by the heat.
She felt that it was her insistence on learning a few tricks from Mama Hua every morning that it worked, and she couldn't help but praise Mama Hua again and again, the kung fu of Straight Dao was useful, and she wanted Siyun and Fang to learn it.
Several children have learned the art of self-preservation from the two Mr. Wu, but these women in the backyard have no power to protect themselves at all. Hua Mama knows a lot of skills, if you don't learn it, maybe you will use it one day?
Fang had just come out of confinement, and her body was still a little bulky, and when she heard the old lady call her to go to Zhiyun Courtyard, she hurriedly straightened her clothes and didn't dare to delay at all.
When she entered the main house, she saw the four maids standing beside the old lady with a wry smile, listening to what the old lady was talking about.
"Therefore, my daughter's family can't always think about others to save herself, and sometimes she has to learn some ways to protect herself. What Mama Hua teaches are simple moves, which are also good for the body, and now that you have learned, there are only good ones, not bad ones. Gu Qing saw that Siyun didn't look very interested, and hurriedly continued to mobilize.
It's just that not only Siyun, but even Mama Hua has a helpless face, obviously there is no way to say to the old lady that the wind is the rain.
"Is there something wrong with my mother calling her daughter-in-law?" The Fang clan entered the house surrounded by the servants and saluted Gu Qing.
Gu Qing was overjoyed when she saw the Fang clan coming, and hurriedly held her hand and said, "You came just in time, I was not in good health a while ago, Mama Hua taught me some ways to move my muscles and bones, I practiced for a while, and I suddenly felt refreshed, and even my chest tightness was better......
Fang Shi heard that the old lady was much better now, and a smile appeared on his face, "If that's the case, then it's really great." Mama Hua has a unique skill, and she is a great benefactor of my family, if she can make her mother's body better, she can ask her husband and daughter-in-law to do anything. I've thanked Mama Hua for her kindness first! ”
Fang's blessing was given to Mama Hua.
When she first heard that the old lady had fallen, she was really scared enough, and her son said that her mother was also sick because of the Yang family's affairs, and when she heard that the old ladies of both families had fallen, the Fang family really had a feeling that the sky had fallen.
Fortunately, the old lady's hands are just a little shaky now, and her mother is gradually getting better.
Gu Qing saw that what Fang Shi said was true, and patted her hand, "That's right, I don't want you to do anything, it's really boring for me to practice alone every morning, you and Siyun just come and practice with me every morning." ”
Fang Shi was stunned, almost thinking that he had misheard.
"Mother, what did you say? Daughter-in-law practicing with you? Fang Shi looked at his lower abdomen, which had not yet disappeared. I'm afraid it's not suitable, right? I've only just been out of confinement......"
"You just said that as long as I'm in good health, I can do anything, but it turned out to be just kind words!" Gu Qing let go of Fang's hand with a complaining tone. "I still think that you happen to be in the same size, and follow me to learn a simple way of self-defense, which can also restore your body to its original state, but I didn't expect that one or two of you would dislike my wife."
"Mother, this is serious!"
"Slaves don't dare!"
"If you don't dare, start tomorrow morning and practice kung fu with me!"
A group of people didn't dare to disobey the old lady, so they could only look at Mama Hua with all kinds of sad and angry eyes.
Mama Hua, be merciful!
Mama Hua is also funny in her heart, she helps the old lady move her muscles and bones in the morning, where dare she teach any high-intensity moves? If the old lady has a stroke, it will be called a great sin.
She just improved some self-defense moves, making the movements soothing and smooth, so that the old lady would not be embarrassed, they are all fancy kung fu that can be practiced by three-year-old children, why did she scare them like this?
It just so happened that Li Mao didn't live in the palace at night today, but went home to bathe and change clothes and rest for a night, listening to his wife's nagging, Li Mao didn't care that his son was next to him, Ha Lu Ha Da Lu smiled and hugged her and said:
"It's rare that the old lady is interested, so you can play with your mother. Speaking of which, Mama Hua is much better than my father. When my mother was still living in the barracks, my father couldn't let her learn a few self-defense kung fu in order to let her learn a few kung fu. Although my mother looks cool, she is actually the most reserved, and it is absolutely forbidden to ask her to dance with knives and guns like men. ”
Speaking of which, he is also embarrassed.
"I think the old lady really feels that she is not in good health, but if there is anything useful, she will hold on to it. Since it is useful, it means that it is good for the body, so it is okay for you to practice. Li Mao thought about it and laughed again.
"It's a pity that I'm going to go to court early tomorrow morning, I'm afraid I won't see you 'practicing'. It's a shame to think about it! ”
"It's okay, Dad, I can go see it tomorrow morning!"
"You dare! No one is allowed to see it tomorrow morning! Fang's willow eyebrows straightened, and he hurriedly stopped his son's thoughts.
Stretching out your arms, kicking your legs, punching or something, it's really shameful and ashamed!
"But mother, I also practice boxing and bowing every day, what's not to see here?"
"I said I can't watch it, I just can't watch it!"
"Okay, okay, mother, she's stingy."
If his mother doesn't show it to him, doesn't he know how to go and see it secretly?
The author has something to say: I see that many people are still struggling with Fang's pillow, what I want to say is that Fang's is now suffering from "schizophrenia", which has nothing to do with the medicine in the pillow, the pillow was already changed by the girl when Fang's was changed to the old lady's yard, and now it has been destroyed and destroyed, and there is no evidence at all. Fang's own pressure is very heavy, medicine is just the trigger, if he has this disease, it will be like this with or without medicine. It's just that if she sees it herself and doesn't take Zhang Jing's phantom too seriously, the schizophrenia will not have too serious consequences.
Dizzy and swollen, go back to rest.