That night, Cao Shouzhen came back, and Guo Hong finally waited for Guo Congshi's news and asked him to go tomorrow.

Liu Yanniang was also having dinner at this time, and these two days were the period of flower appreciation, and there was an endless stream of people going to the Great Ci'en Temple.

Hongrui felt uncomfortable in her heart, so she encouraged Liu Yanniang and said: "Lady, these days are really embarrassing, it is better to go to the Temple of Mercy and Grace to enjoy the flowers and relieve the depression in your heart." ”

Liu Yanniang shook her head again and again, and said, "What if the Du family finds out?" ”

She was frightened yesterday, and it can be said that she was frightened three times a day.

Hongrui grabbed Yan Niang's hand and shook it: "It's not a story in the legendary book, how can things be so coincidental, Ci'en Temple has been crowded with people these days, even if it is discovered, we squeeze into the pile, where can they find it?!" ”

Yan Niang remembered the grand occasion of previous years, and also nodded: "That's true, that can't be brought with you, so as not to have an accident!" ”

Hongrui said: "It just so happens that the little lady is going to school tomorrow, and the maid will come back after a trip with you." ”

Yan Niang smiled, feeling that this maid had really bought the right one.

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Changxingfang Guo Mansion.

Guo Hong sat next to his second uncle Guo Zhongli and listened to him talk about his experience in the past two days.

"Erlang, the light thieves are all over the palace, and it is inconvenient to contact the old ministers of the Queen Mother, so it has been delayed for some time."

He looked at his nephew in front of him, the white markings on his face were very conspicuous, and he couldn't help but feel a little worried, how could he get into the palace?

Guo Hong saw that Guo Zhongli had been looking at his face and guessed what he was thinking, so he said, "Second uncle, don't worry, tell me what's going on first?" ”

"The whereabouts of the relic are now unknown, Ma Yuanzhen and other powerful eunuchs have renovated the palace in order to hide people's eyes and ears, and all places that have anything to do with the Empress Dowager have been searched many times! Therefore, I waited for the suspicion to hide in the Jieqi Pavilion, which is now the residence of the Empress Dowager Zheng, only there has not been carefully searched. ”

Guo Hong nodded, the Empress Dowager was really smart, she used a trick to go dark, and when she passed away, the Zheng family had already lived in the Jieqi Pavilion, so she naturally didn't expect that the other party would hide things under her nose.

"Daming Palace is where the emperor lives, why does Empress Dowager Zheng live here?"

Guo Zhongli snorted and said: "The Zheng family was originally the maid of the Empress Dowager, and she did not want to live in Xingqing Palace together, and the light thief boasted of filial piety, so he let the Zheng family live in the Jieqi Pavilion of Daming Palace, which was originally the dormitory where the Empress Dowager lived when she was young, but it was precisely because it was occupied by the Empress Dowager Zheng that she escaped the search of the Shence Army." ”

He had already discussed it with the Queen Mother's former ministers in the palace, but he had no idea.

At this time, it was just a support to Erlang, and in fact, he didn't expect a fifteen-year-old boy to have any way.

To be honest, he didn't know what the Empress Dowager had left behind.

When Empress Dowager Zheng moved in, the attendants and palace maids would inevitably check whether there were secret passages or secret rooms, so the treasures in the palace must be extremely secret.

Guo Hong thought for a while and asked, "Second uncle, what chance do you have to enter the palace now?" ”

"Your face is too conspicuous, I'm afraid I won't be able to blend in."

Guo Hong smiled slightly, wiped his hand on his face, and immediately changed his face.

Guo Zhongli was taken aback, got up and walked over to take a closer look.

After looking at it for a while, I felt that the skin tone and pores were very realistic, just like real faces.

He was amazed: "This is the Dao Fa? ”

Guo Hong touched it with his hand again and changed back to the previous face.

This is the Wuxiang Gong taught by Zhong Liquan, and since there is no need to pretend to be a specific target this time, the difficulty is very low.

Guo Zhongli saw him change his face continuously, which was very novel.

However, it is not too surprising to think that Erlang's master is Liu Yuanjing, the emperor of the two dynasties.

"If that's the case, you can indeed get mixed up in the palace."

Guo Hong remained silent: "Then when can the second uncle arrange for me to enter the palace?" ”

"Stay here for one night, and I'll do it again tomorrow."

"No need, I'd better go back and wait for news."

Guo Zhongli's family has a group of wives and concubines and many children, Guo Hong is afraid of trouble and does not want to be involved too much with them.

Although it is a little inconvenient to come and go, his eldest brother Guo Xingzhang rebelled, and he had a conflict with Wang Jufang, I don't know if this guy has reported his whereabouts, so it is better to be careful in Chang'an City.

Guo Zhongli was not angry, but felt that Erlang was old and young, and nodded secretly.

Guo Hong returned to Shengpingfang's apartment, Cao Shouzhen was also at home, and as soon as he took a sip of tea, Liu Yanniang's maidservant Hongrui came.

"Let's go, my lady invites the two of you to go to enjoy the flowers together."

Cao Shouzhen shook his head and said, "What's so beautiful about peonies?" There are many in the countryside. ”

Hongrui smiled: "Then you are wrong, Chang'an's peony is famous all over the world, this season everyone takes out the peony to display, usually you can't see it if you want to see it, it is a famous peony!" ”

Cao Shouzhen: "Famous peony, it tastes better than the countryside?" ”

Red stamen: ???

Guo Hong groaned: "It will be dangerous for my senior brother to go to peony." He belongs to oxen. ”

Cao Shouzhen: "That...... I am a pig. ”

Guo Hong: "The pig is the younger brother of the monkey, the monkey and the cow are brothers, and the pig is the younger brother of the cow." ”

Cao Shouzhen: ......

Guo Hong has recovered and fused a little memory of the past, knowing how obsessed the people of Luoyang, Chang'an are with peonies, it is the national flower of the Tang Dynasty, and at this time of year, both of them go up to the secretary of state and go down to Li Shu, and the city is crazy!

Talking and laughing, he picked up his senior brother, locked the door and went out together.

On the way, he said to Cao Shouzhen: "Don't you see it? The two of us are actually bodyguards, there are a lot of people who watch the flowers, and it is inevitable that there will be green-skinned scoundrels among them, you and I will protect Aunt Liu and them! ”

Cao Shouzhen perked up when he heard this, this one has no interest in hanging out, so he must be given a goal.

The two followed Hongrui to Huayang Temple, and Liu Yanniang and Xiao Xuanji had already packed up and waited at the door.

Seeing Guo Hong, Xiao Xuanji ran over.

Guo Hong hurriedly picked her up, sat on her neck, and laughed happily.

"Put it down, you'll be tired!" Liu Yanniang hurriedly said.

"It's okay, Aunt Liu, I have a lot of strength, and my junior sister is very light, so I should practice!" Guo Hong responded with a smile.

"Don't come down, don't come down!" Xiao Xuanji also said to his mother in a hurry.

"Well, anyway, it's not a long way to get to the private school."

"I'm going too!" Xiao Xuanji is gone, she has heard her mother and Sister Hongrui say that they want to go to the Temple of Mercy and Grace to see the peony, and they also want to go together, the child is very curious about new things, and prefers to be lively.

"No way!" Yan Niang said with a straight face.

Xiao Xuanji burst into tears, and Yan Niang hurriedly coaxed her daughter and said, "Don't you want to go to private school?" ”

"I don't want to!"

"Don't you want to see Master Gong today?"

"I don't want to!"

The corners of Guo Hong's mouth were raised, the little junior sister was really cute and persistent.

Yan Niang couldn't do it, even coaxed and deceived, and finally agreed to buy delicious food, which finally diverted the child's attention and made her agree to go to a private school to take classes.

It was not yet noon, and the road was full of pedestrians heading south.

They came to Guozhaofang by the way, and the enlightened teacher who taught was a son who was stranded in Chang'an, named Li Pin, who was also a poet, and his wife relied on Li Shangyin's relationship to live in Lijia South Park, of course, to pay rent.

The price of goods in the capital is expensive, and in order to maintain the expenses, Li Pin opened this private school for enlightenment.

He has a famous sentence "Closer to home, more timid, dare not ask the comer" has been handed down, which is the origin of the idiom of homesickness.

These two sentences are from "Crossing the Han River", some people believe that they were written by Song Zhiwen, but many scholars have verified that they are Li Pin's poems.

Li Pin's father-in-law Yao He is the great-nephew of Yao Chong, a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty, and Jia Dao is called "Yao Jia", good at five-law poetry, because he has done the master book of martial arts, so his poetic style is called "martial arts".

In the fourth year of Kaicheng (839), Li Shangyin served as the lieutenant of Hongnong County, and offended his boss Sun Jian, the observer of Shaanxi, so he wanted to resign and leave.

It happened that Yao He replaced Sun Jian, and when he heard about this, he immediately called Li Shangyin back.

And it was this year that Li Pin, who was supposed to be raised in Chang'an, tried again and again, and came to Yaofu to meet and cast poems, writing "Yao Zhongcheng on Shaanxi Mansion", Yao Heying and "Answer Li Pin Xiucai".

Yao He was known as the "Poet Sect" by the people of the time, and his reputation was very great, and many poets went to his house to submit poems at that time.

Li Pin was born poor, and was appreciated by Yao He to become a disciple, and then was recruited as a fast son-in-law of the East Bed.

Li Shangyin also met Li Pin in this year and attended his wedding.

Ten years have passed, Li Shangyin is still having a difficult career, and his grade is basically stagnant, and Li Pin still has no Zhongjinshi.

Yao Hehui Chang was appointed as the secretary and supervisor of Sanpin in the first year, and now he is seventy-one years old, and last year Zhishi returned to his hometown, and the residence was not bought by himself, and was taken back by the imperial court.

Therefore, Li Pin and his wife could only find a place to borrow when they went to Chang'an, and finally moved here through Li Shangyin's relationship.

When Liu Yanniang entered the door, she greeted a woman and said, "Mrs. Li." ”

This woman is in her twenties, with a good appearance, kind eyebrows and eyes, and said to Yan Niang with a smile: "These days, there are relatively few students, I thought that Yu Niangzi would not bring the mystery over." ”

"I originally wanted to take her there, but the Temple of Mercy and Grace is more chaotic, and I am afraid that something will happen, so I can take it with confidence when I am older."

"That's right." This woman is Li Pin's wife, Yao, and the actual teacher of the private school.

Li Pin, as a person who was admitted to the Jinshi exam, was too condescending to teach Meng Tong, and he didn't have the patience of his wife, but the children in the private school were nominally his disciples.

"Sir hasn't come back yet?" Liu Yanniang chatted politely about homely things.

"The humble husband was invited by Xue Shaofu to travel with him, I'm afraid it will be delayed for a while."

Li Pin and Xue Neng, the county lieutenant of Zhouzhi, are close friends, Xue Neng took office as the county lieutenant of Zhouzhi in the second year of junior high school, and wrote a poem to invite Li Pin to travel together, and he was able to make the trip this spring.

At this time, Xiao Xuanji had already played with Master Li Gon, Liu Yanniang chatted a few more words, and then said goodbye to Guo Hong and others, and merged into the flow of people going to Ci'en Temple.

The Great Mercy and Grace Temple is located in the Jinchang Square in the south of Guozhao Fang, which is the ancestral court of the Faxiangzong (also known as the Wisdom Sect) and is also a royal temple, where Tang Xuanzang once lived in Xi, translated the scriptures brought back from Tianzhu, and supervised the construction of the Great Mercy and Grace Temple Pagoda (Big Wild Goose Pagoda).

Ci'en Temple is also one of the only two remaining temples in Wannian County when Wuzong destroyed the Buddha, and the other is the Recommended Blessing Temple.

Tang Xuanzang is the founding patriarch of the Faxiangzong, which is also called the Yoga School, which is a popular school in Tianzhu, divided into the only knowledge of the phase and the only knowledge of the non-phase, known as the Mahayana Buddhism.

Mahayana Buddhism is the practice of Shakyamuni and his disciples, and later in order to attract followers, it was greatly simplified, and it is Hinayana Buddhism.

Xuanzang came into contact with the Wisdom Sect and was deeply attracted, because of the confusion of the scriptures and meanings spread in Middle-earth, he decided to go west to obtain the true meaning of the sect, and after retrieving the Sanzang scriptures, he founded the Middle-earth Wisdom Sect.

Because the meaning of the Faxiangzong is too profound, it gradually declined after the Middle and Tang Dynasty, and the inheritance is unknown.

The temple was also dominated by monks of other sects, and during the martyrdom of Huichang, most of the scriptures of the Dharma Xiangzong were burned down, and it has been in a state of collapse ever since.

The temple opens the mountain gate to the north of the main street, occupies half of the Jinchang Fang, and is the largest temple in Chang'an.

The four of Yan Niang came to the front of the temple, and there were crowds of people here.

Guo Hong and Cao Shouzhen were afraid that they would get separated, so they protected Yan Niang and Hongrui one after another, they were strong in martial arts, and it was difficult for ordinary people to get close.

On both sides of the street in front of the temple gate are small stalls selling peonies, and many tourists also come up to watch the trade.

There are 13 large courtyards and more than 1,400 houses in the temple, and there are many famous peonies in the temple, all of which are concentrated in the courtyard on one side for sale.

This courtyard is also called the West Pagoda Courtyard, and the center is the Ci'en Temple Pagoda.

There are a lot of people outside the temple, and he can't get in for a while, Guo Hong has a feeling that he followed his parents to the tourist attractions to line up when he was a child, and he suddenly missed his parents very much, his eyes quickly moistened, and he quickly wiped them secretly.

"What's wrong?" Yan Niang was very careful, and when she saw Guo Hong's abnormality, she asked in a harmonious voice.

"It's okay, so many people are queuing up to buy peonies, and the fragrance is tangy."

Hongrui: "You don't like to eat peonies too, do you?" What are you? ”

"I belong to the tiger and like to eat cows."

When they saw that it was too crowded, they looked at the peony on the side of the road, and Hongrui was very happy, chattering in Yan Niang's ear.

There were a lot of flower stalls on the roadside, and they were crowded around, and it had been half an hour.

"Here and here, I don't know what kind of flowers are inside!" Hongrui shouted.

She helped Yan Niang to stop, and there were many people around the flower stall in front of her.

Guo Hong opened the way in front, and the four of them squeezed in, and when they reached the innermost layer, they saw someone selling more than a dozen peonies.

When Hongrui looked at the price, he asked for thirty runs, stuck out his tongue and said, "It's so expensive, you can buy two horses!" ”

Yan Niang looked at it, it was a red peony, and it was very delicate.

"This is a brocade horde, and the price is not expensive." Yan Niang comes from a famous family and is also knowledgeable.

"It's not expensive?" Hongrui stuck out her tongue, and Cao Shouzhen nodded on the side.

When Hongrui saw him, he asked, "Do you want to eat the peony of thirty runs?" ”

Cao Shouzhen nodded.

Hongrui: "What a good appetite, little brother Niu." ”

Yan Niang waved her hand, made the two bickering people stop, and said softly: "This kind of flower is called the Prime Minister's Courtyard Flower, and it is rarely planted by ordinary people, one is more delicate, and the other is that it needs to be cared for by a special person." ”

"The lady is really a knowledgeable person." The woman selling flowers raised her head and looked at Yan Niang, and both of them were stunned.

This woman is Cui's mother in Du Mu's mansion!

Yan Niang turned around and left in shock, Cui's mother hurriedly reached out and pulled her sleeve, only to hear a sound and tore off half of her sleeve.

The crowd of onlookers didn't know what was happening, and the voices were noisy and somewhat confused.

When Cui's mother saw Yan Niang and the others leaving, she didn't know what to do for a while, and suddenly turned her head to a short man beside her and said, "Zuo Kui, you are watching here, I will report to Lang Jun and Mrs." ”

Zuo Kui snorted, and the whistle stick in his hand roared out, knocking a green skin who wanted to take the sheep with him.

Seeing his ferocity, several scoundrels immediately stopped and hurried away.

Cui's mother squeezed out of the crowd, and Liu Yanniang's figure was gone, she looked around on the road, looking at the crowd that was coming, at this time Du Mu and they should be coming soon.

Liu Yanniang suddenly saw the people in Du Mu's mansion, and she was flustered, thinking only about going home.

She walked through the gate of the Temple of Mercy and Grace, and at this time there were many fewer people at the door, and she could enter normally, but Yan Niang had no intention of visiting.

As she continued to walk, she suddenly stopped and turned sharply.

Hongrui asked, "Lady, what's wrong?" ”

Yan Niang didn't talk, just waved her hand gently.

Guo Hong raised his eyes and saw two people riding horses in front of him, followed by a carriage.

The leader was in his forties, handsome, with three long beards, slightly thin cheeks, bright eyes, a hood, and a purple robe.

The man did not notice the person walking opposite him, but looked at the gate of the Temple of Mercy and Grace, only to hear him chuckle and say, "Lady, we have come at the right time, there are not many people now, you can go in." ”

The curtain of the car behind was raised, and two women appeared inside.

The person sitting in the back said, "Husband, I don't know how the peonies are sold in the nurse?" ”

"Do you want Yuanzong to take a look?"

The couple in this dialogue are Du Mu and Cui's.

Liu Yanniang couldn't imagine that there would be a day to meet with the negative person, she was upset and didn't know what to do.

Hongrui also saw that something was wrong, and asked in a low voice, "Is the lady going to meet?" ”

Liu Yanniang suddenly woke up, hurriedly walked back, and said, "Come with me, don't look back." She went straight to the gate of the Temple of Mercy and Grace and followed the flow of people into the temple.

"Husband, what are you looking at?" Choi asked.

Du Mu stroked his beard lightly and said, "Looking at the back, it seems that he is an old man, maybe he is dazzled by his husband." ”

At this time, Cui's mother ran over, rushed to the front of the car and said to Cui's: "Lady, Ah Liu walked this way just now, did you see it?" ”

Du Mu's hand shook slightly, tore off a few beards, hissed in pain, and grinned.

Cui Shi didn't notice her husband's strange appearance and asked, "Which Ah Liu?" ”

"It's the one that the Nanling Liu family escaped, didn't the lady ask Zuo Kui and Yuanzong to look for it a few days ago?"

Cui Shi came to his senses and said, "Isn't she in Xishi?" Why did you run back here again! ”

Ah Dou hurriedly said: "Don't think about it, the maid just saw a few people who saw us and turned around and went into the temple, and I was still wondering in my heart, it must be Ah Liu, let's chase after it!" ”

They hurriedly walked to the Temple of Mercy and Grace, asked a few monks, and hurried to the second major hall.

Du Mu is a celebrity in Chang'an, and most of the monks of Ci'en Temple know him.

Liu Yanniang was also in a panic at this time, even walking and running, plus she was nervous in her heart, and she was already out of breath.

Hongrui was also tired and said, "Lady, let's rest." Yan Niang nodded, and they found a pine tree to sit down.

Yan Niang's eyes kept staring at the way she came, and after a while, she saw Du Mu and the others coming in a hurry.

"Yan Niang, stay!" Du Mu also saw her and shouted loudly.