Chapter Eighty-Nine: Entering Beijing
When they arrived at the post station, before the group had time to rest, they began to pack up their bags, and took advantage of the dawn to set off for the capital.
On the other side, in the Five Lotus Sect, Lu Li, who found that Duan Lang was gone, hurriedly knocked on Duanlian's door.
"Sect Master, Chief Manager Lu is gone!"
Duanlian sat up from the bed, and he looked confused before he had fully woken up.
"Where did you go?"
"Chief Steward Lu has even disappeared with her Duan Steward, and our people said that they haven't seen these two since they were in the front hall last night, and there are signs of someone breaking into the ancestral hall." The eldest maid reported, although she was 100% sure that the two of them were interested in approaching the sect master, but she did not explain.
This kind of truth should be discovered by the sect leader himself.
"What about the things under the ancestral hall? Are they still there? ”
Duanlian came to her senses, got up and got out of bed, and grabbed a coat and put it on.
"There are many volumes about the Immortal Slang Dao that are missing." When they went down to the dark room to investigate, there were very clear traces of people being read inside, which showed that people had been in it for a long time.
Originally, I thought it was for their Five Lotus Sect, but I didn't expect it to be for the Immortal Slang Dao.
It's really hard to guard.
"Send someone to find it." Duanlian casually put on her coat and stood in front of the table with her hands in her hands, and her slightly held hand had clearly expressed his emotions at the moment, "You want to see people in life, and you want to see corpses in death." ”
"Yes." The eldest maid was ordered to send someone to find him, Duanlian stood in the room, and several maids entered the door to change his clothes.
There was no angry look on his face, but the aura around him was cold and terrifying, and several maids didn't dare to make any mistakes, and after changing their clothes, they hurriedly retreated.
It's good that they had the audacity to trick him.
Since she was a liar, everything she said in front of him was a lie, and whatever she liked him, coveted his body, and only looked at him, it was a lie.
Duan Lian stood in front of the door, her hands hanging down at her side and clenched tightly, her eyes sharp.
Very well, he chased them to the ends of the earth, and he had to dig three feet to find them.
After leaving Yezhou, I continued to walk north for nearly 100 miles, and finally arrived at the foot of Dujing.
They are still a distance from Dujing, and they can already see the hidden appearance of Dujing from a distance when they climb high and look into the distance, and the group did not dare to delay, so they simply did not stop halfway, and rushed back to Dujing overnight.
Dujing is really different from other prefectures and counties, far away, before they enter Beijing, they can see the towering city gate, spectacular and deep, the city gate of merchants and people come and go, forming a noisy landscape.
They stopped at the top of the cliff ten miles outside the city, and spied on the whole picture of the capital, and couldn't help but be shocked.
"This is the capital city."
At the feet of the Son of Heaven, the richest city in the whole world, they came.
I think I also learned that the Lord General Department returned to Beijing today, and the onlookers on the road blocked the way, and when they entered the city, several people rode horses, and they heard the people shouting Shangguan Lingling from afar, most of them were women.
"Lord General!"
"The Director-General is finally back!"
The roads in the city were crowded, and the group was shocked as soon as they arrived at the city gate, and the soldiers guarding the city saw Shangguan Yuling, and saluted with their fists in unison, with respectful faces.
It turns out that the lord has such a lofty status in the hearts of the soldiers of the capital.
The group rode along the main road in the city and went to the palace step by step.
"The head secretary is so handsome!"
"I haven't seen you for two months, and the adults are much more handsome again!"
"My lord! ……”
Lu Li listened to the words of worship of the women around him, looked at their looks, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
No wonder she didn't care about how adults slapped him, it turned out that he was tired of hearing it as early as Dujing.
It's really useful to be handsome.
The group walked through the crowd street, and when they arrived at the noon gate, there were many fewer people, after all, the palace was heavy, and not so many people dared to make a mistake.
"Welcome back to Beijing!"
The general guarding the noon gate saluted Shangguan Yinling, and Shangguan Yinling returned the gold, silver, jade and other valuable things they had brought back from Baozhou to me and handed the account book to the general, and he took people to pull away a cart of gold, silver and jade.
They had escorted the treasures for nearly two months, and finally arrived where they were supposed to be, and the big stone in Shangguan Yuling's heart was finally put down.
"Lord Chief, the Holy Lord announced that you will wait for you to enter the palace to meet you."
As soon as the general left with his front foot, a white-haired father-in-law came out of the noon gate with his hind foot.
"There is Father-in-law Laohai." Shangguan Yinling hugged his fists and saluted, and the group dismounted, and under the leadership of Gonggong Hai, they passed through the layers of palace walls and arrived outside the holy Shangshufang Palace.
"Is this the right thing for the Holy Lord?" Duan Lang looked nervous, his palms couldn't help but be full of sweat, and he couldn't help but pull Lu Li's sleeve, "I have never seen the Saint Heavenly Face." ”
"You think I've seen it?" Lu Li glanced at him, "Don't act like you haven't seen the world so much, stabilize your trembling legs." ”
In fact, except for Shangguan Ling Zhou and Gong Chengqi, several other people were nervous.
After all, the emperor was far away before, and he had lived freely in a remote state city for so many years, and suddenly he had to enter the high walls of this harem, and when he saw His Majesty the emperor who ruled for a dynasty, he would be nervous if he changed anyone.
Gonggong Hai entered the hall to report, and several people were still waiting outside the hall, and Lu Li couldn't help but quietly pull the sleeve of Shangguan Yuling.
"My lord, isn't the Holy One particularly serious and graceful?"
"You'll know if you see it." Shangguan Yinling couldn't help but wonder, "The saint is peaceful and sage, his thinking is advanced, and he won't be too harsh." ”
Soon, the door of the main hall opened, and Lu Li immediately lowered his head honestly.
"Lord Chief, the Holy Lord announced that you will wait for you to enter the temple."
Several people lowered their heads the whole time, followed behind Shangguan Yuling, and carefully stepped across the threshold, and their nervous breathing was difficult.
"The ministers and officials drink Ling, see the saint."
"The grass people are separated from the saints."
Several people knelt down and kowtowed, all of them bowed their heads, not daring to look up at the person on the dragon chair at all.
"Everyone, love Qing Ping."
The Holy Chrysostom said, and several people stood up.
Listening to the voice of the saint, he was calm and low, and his bearing was extraordinary, as if he was not very old.
Lu Li quietly raised his head and glanced at the saint.
The saint is indeed extraordinary, wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, with a handsome and dignified face, like he is about thirty years old.
"Shangguan Yinling, this time you have made meritorious contributions to disaster relief, and you have deterred the officials and prefects of several states along the way, and I want to reward you greatly." Shengshang Longyan Dayue, looking at the group of cautious people below, couldn't help but say, "A few Aiqing are also a lot of help, Shangguan General Secretary has made it clear in the excerpt that I can enter Taixue to study, and it just so happens that seven days later, it is the beginning of the new session of Taixue, and several Aiqing will be able to enter Taixue as students at that time." ”
"Thank you, Holy Lord!"
Several people knelt down and kowtowed again.