Chapter 195: Turning Stone into Gold
Li Chengqian watched Xuanzang walk out, and sneered in his heart: Xuanzang doesn't have Sun Wukong by your side now.
In the evening, when Li Chengqian returned to the Lizheng Hall to prepare for dinner, Qiu Shenji asked to see him.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Qi, Xiao Yu invited the host of Famen Temple and a few monks from the Western Regions, saying that he would hold a Dharma meeting for Xuanzang to return to Buddhism." Qiu Shenji's face is unpalatable.
"Sit down and talk!"
Li Chengqian looked at Qiu Shenji's two eye circles, and the bottom of his eyes was dark, knowing that this period of time had exhausted Qiu Shenji's ability to establish the East Palace's intelligence system in Chang'an City.
Although there are no other intelligence agencies in Chang'an City now, and others are not aware of the importance of intelligence, there is basically no prevention, and the intelligence system is very easily established.
But these things made Qiu Shenji spend a lot of effort, especially letting him listen to the news of Taiji Palace and Li Shimin, which made him bear great psychological pressure.
Seeing Qiu Shenji sit down, Li Chengqian asked lightly, "Do you know what he wants to do?"
Qiu Shenji sat down in an orderly manner, and still said expressionlessly: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, Xiao Yu invited His Majesty in the name of the princess and the concubine, as well as many officials and relatives in Chang'an City, and wanted to take this opportunity to let those monks show their Buddhist skills, and other ministers didn't know." ”
Li Chengqian nodded and said, "The Lone King knows, you send people to continue to keep an eye on them, and you have to rest more and don't get tired." ”
Hearing this, Qiu Shenji got up and saluted.
Watching Qiu Shenji walk out, Li Chengqian muttered, "Want to show your divine skills and cause a sensation in Chang'an City?" Then ......"
Although Li Chengqian couldn't understand Xiao Yu's specific purpose for a while, this did not affect his response to this matter, Xiao Yu's purpose was nothing more than to use this matter to rebuild the prestige of Buddhism in Chang'an......
"His Royal Highness the Prince's dinner has been prepared, please come to the side hall for dinner!"
Li Chengqian looked up and saw that it was Wang Yedan who came out of the side hall, Li Chengqian got up and stretched his waist and said, "Are Xiang'er and Ji'er here?"
Wang Yedan walked to Li Chengqian's side to support him, and said as he walked forward: "The two of them have been here, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, my sister's side needs to recuperate, and the concubine didn't let them go back to Cheng'en Palace." ”
Li Chengqian grabbed Wang Yedan's soft and boneless hand and slowly walked towards the side hall, thinking about the crown princess and asking, "There will be nothing to do in the next two days, right?"
"All well!"
Hearing this, Li Chengqian nodded and helped Wang Yedan to continue walking.
Although Wang Yedan has only been established as Liangdi for about 20 days, because the crown princess Su is not in good health when she is pregnant, most of the affairs of the East Palace are taken care of by her.
Although there is no special skill, Wang Yedan, who was born and has known everyone since childhood, can also take care of the East Palace in an orderly manner according to the original rules of Li Chengqian and the crown princess.
Recently, Li Chengqian's diet and daily life have also been taken care of by her, and the old ghost who used to be inseparable from Li Chengqian went out to help Qiu Shenji collect information.
Li Chengqian walked to the door and remembered that there was a section of Buddha bone relics in the Famen Temple, since the monk of the Famen had jumped out, it seemed that he could deceive the Buddha bones into coming to Chang'an City to make some articles.
Then he turned to Liu Kui and said, "Go and find Wang Fangyi." ”
Wang Fangyi was originally a relative, and now because of Wang Yedan, he has been crowned as a military attache on the fifth rank of General Dingyuan and General Yulin Lang, because Li Chengqian has always appreciated him and Wang Yedan's relationship, his loyalty to Li Chengqian is no worse than Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian.
The chamberlain went to pass on Li Chengqian and Wang Yedan into the side hall.
"See Father!" Li Xiang and Li Ju saluted Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian smiled and stepped forward to touch the heads of his two sons and said, "Excuse me!" ”
Hearing this, the little brothers raised their heads, and walked to the round table where the meal was set one by one by taking Li Chengqian's hand.
Li Chengqian was eating when Liu Kui quietly came in and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Wang Fangyi has arrived." ”
Li Chengqian took the soup bowl handed over by Wang Yedan, raised his head and said, "Let him in." Then he bowed his head and drank the soup.
When Wang Yedan heard this, he hurriedly got up to go out, but Li Chengqian raised his hand to stop her and said, "It's not an outsider, so you don't need to avoid it." ”
When Wang Yedan heard this, he sat down and watched the nanny take care of the Li Xiang brothers while eating by himself.
After a while, he heard the sound of armor grinding, Wang Fangyi strode in and clasped his fists and saluted: "The minister sees His Royal Highness the Prince."
Li Chengqian looked up at the heroic Wang Fangyi and said, "Are you on duty today?"
"Yes!" Wang Fangyi didn't dare to raise his head.
"Did you have dinner?" Li Chengqian said casually.
"Minister—minister, minister has used it." Wang Fangyi stammered.
As soon as Li Chengqian heard it, he knew that he hadn't eaten yet, so he said directly: "There are no outsiders here, sit down and eat together." ”
When the maid in the palace heard this, she hurriedly added chairs and chopsticks to Wang Fangyi, but Wang Fangyi stood and did not dare to step forward.
"Sit down, I'm going to let you run errands when I'm done." Li Chengqian urged.
Wang Fangyi looked up and saw that Li Chengqian's family of four was sitting around the round table and eating, very embarrassed.
Seeing this, Li Chengqian said impatiently: "Why do you want me to get up and invite you?"
Hearing this, Wang Fangyi moved a few steps forward helplessly, came to the table and sat down, and did not dare to move the dishes and chopsticks on the table.
Wang Yedan couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw his cousin, who had always been majestic and handsome, like a good baby in front of Li Chengqian.
Wang Yedan smiled, Wang Fangyi's face turned red, and Li Chengqian couldn't help but say, "Hurry up and eat!" See your sister laughing at you?"
Wang Fangyi just wanted to get rid of the embarrassing situation in front of him at this time, grabbed the dishes and chopsticks on the table and quickly pulled them up to his mouth.
After he finished eating, Li Chengqian motioned to Wang Yedan to lead Brother Li Xiang out first, and then pushed the teacup on the table in front of Wang Fangyi and said, "Anyway, I'm also your cousin, why are you so afraid of me?"
But as soon as he finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong, Wang Fangyi was the grandson of Li Chengqian's aunt and grandmother, and the two were cousins, but now Li Chengqian has accepted Wang Fangyi's cousin, this relationship is ......
Li Chengqian couldn't say it clearly for a while, so he directly changed the topic and said: "Okay, don't talk about this, I have an important thing for you to do today." ”
"Please command His Royal Highness the Prince!" Hearing this, Wang Fangyi immediately got up and solemnly hugged his fists, although he was not used to it just now, but from the time Li Chengqian asked him to sit down to eat together, he knew in his heart that there must be something important for him to go.
Seeing this, Li Chengqian smiled faintly and said, "Don't be so nervous, it's just a trivial matter." Then beckoned him to lower his head, Li Chengqian lowered his voice and said, "You will take someone to Famen Temple tonight......" Li Chengqian explained all this.
Wang Fangyi walked out of the Lizheng Hall with an embarrassed face, thinking that although this matter is not difficult, will it damage Yin Virtue?
But thinking of Li Chengqian's attitude towards him just now, it is obvious that he is determined to win, if he can't do this, his life may be over......
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Seeing that Princess Jinyang had recovered, Li Shimin was in a very good mood, thinking that Princess Jinyang had been sick for so many days and had been stuffy in the house, so he ordered someone to change Princess Jinyang into men's clothes.
Li Shimin himself changed into civilian clothes and took Princess Jinyang to Xiao Yu's mansion to see what Xiao Yu said about the Buddhism method of "turning stones into gold".
Li Shimin has been hesitant to help Xiao Yu in the past few days, Li Chengqian has not hidden anything recently, he is indeed bent on planning for the future generations of the Tang Dynasty, but Xiao Yu and the monks in Chang'an City were the victims of his original treatment of Li Chengqian, and he couldn't help but help.
Therefore, knowing that Xiao Yu's return to Buddha meeting was for Buddhism, when Princess Xiangcheng came to invite him, he still agreed to go to see it in person.
It was precisely because Li Shimin wanted to see it in person that Xiao Yu was able to invite the noble officials of Chang'an City.
But Li Shimin is still entangled, will Li Chengqian's side give up after helping Xiao Yu?