Shendu, three o'clock.

The sky began to shine, standing on the wall of the Shendu city and looking into the distance, the horizon had begun to appear a glimmer of dawn, today was a sunny day, not even a cloud was seen in the sky, and a few birds flew from afar. At this moment, a guard stood on top of the door with a drum stick in his hand, and he stared carefully at the missing moment beside him, not even daring to blink his eyes, for fear of seeing the wrong time.

Finally, he walked to the side of the city wall with a drum stick in his hand and looked down, the city gate was already crowded with people, his eyes were staring at him, so he raised the drum stick and began to knock hard "bang, bang, bang", and shouted loudly to the city gate: "Shangyuan is open!" ”

There are a total of one hundred and nine squares in Shendu City, and this is just one of them, and at the same time, all the doors of the squares resounded with the sound of drums opening the market! The sound spread throughout the Divine Capital, and this was the most lively day of the year in the Divine Capital. With the sound of drums, the doors of each city were opened at the same time, the curfew was lifted, the sleeping gods woke up, and the voices of the people began to boil to welcome their biggest festival, the Shangyuan Festival!

The cries of small traders come and go on the streets, and the aroma of all kinds of snacks and delicacies begins to permeate the streets, such as mutton in the water basin, Hu cakes, steamed cakes, noodles, crispy mountains, cherry Biluo, fire crystal persimmons, steamed pears... There was everything, and the drumming on the door continued, a full two hundred times, before it stopped.

Shendu East Market is mainly selling high-quality goods, many princes and nobles, officials and eunuchs are here, although the hour is still early, but it is already crowded, even these nobles on weekdays do not want to sleep a little more today, early in the morning with Kunlun Nu and Silla maid on the street, shopping and squandering; Most of the ordinary people in the West Market, the vendors sell firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea and other things, and the year's operation may be the most abundant harvest today, so the small traders are also shouting hard, leaving no effort behind.

On this day, even monks who have become monks are not exempt from the layman, Buddhist monks, Nestorians, Zoroastrians, etc. are all on the streets, and all kinds of costumes are readily available; You can still meet several envoys from various countries to the Tang Dynasty, but this is no surprise in the prosperous and all-encompassing divine capital.

The biggest protagonist of Shendu today is the lamp. Overnight, the city of God is full of lights, whether it is shops, restaurants, inns, and even some government offices have been hung in front of all kinds of lights, large and small, overwhelming, all over the place is a prosperous and lively image, now you can imagine that after the night today, this continuous piece of lights will be so brilliant and gorgeous.

In contrast, at the moment Datong Fang is the most lively, here are the places where traders are concentrated, the goods are the most concentrated once a year, as long as you can think of it, it can be said that there is everything, in order to set off the atmosphere of the festival, the Fang is invited to the musicians early in the morning, set up the stage to sing, dance, although the singer is not as famous as Xuan Lingzi, but it also attracted a lot of people to watch.

The women of Shendu on this day, whether they have been married, or the boudoir to be married, have already dressed themselves up very beautifully, at a glance in Datongfang, the women's hair bun is not the same, cloud bun, snail bun, double hanging bun, butterfly bun, panhuan bun... All kinds of hair accessories, you name it; The costumes are even more amazing, all kinds of dark clothes, skirts, half-arms... These women are graceful and incisive.

Hundred opera is a highlight of the market, all kinds of artists have already set up stalls here to start display, and the onlookers are applauding and cheering. In order to celebrate the Shangyuan Festival, the Royal Racecourse is open to officials and royal relatives above the third grade today, although the day is just dawn, the racecourse is already full of people, competing with each other, although the scene can not be compared with the competition of the ten thousand domains on that day, but it is also an unprecedented grand occasion.

As the most drunken place in the Shendu, Yirenfang has opened for business at dawn. Many hangover guests, seeing this scene, simply called the bustard again, and continued to arrange for people to start the fun, and it was the time when all kinds of poems and texts were completed in a centralized manner.

The center of the city of Shendu is the Luoshui River, the Luoshui River passes through the city, and the shipping is convenient, so both sides of the river are also the most prosperous places for commerce. The big platform that the female emperor is preparing to worship the Buddha today has already been built, the big platform is placed in the river, it stretches at least 100 zhang, about two or three zhang high, the elevated has been hung with lights of various sizes, the middle of the big platform should be a big Buddha, at this moment it is covered by a whole piece of red cloth, it is expected that the female emperor will uncover it before lighting the lamp and worshipping incense. Speaking of this big platform, I have to admire Zhang Yizhi's ability to do things, even if he was prepared before, but he was able to build the big platform like this in just a few days, which shows that this person has a strong ability to act.

At this moment, the big Buddha is full of people, although the Yulin army and the forbidden army have already surrounded the three layers and the outer three layers of this place, but they still can't stop the crowd that continues to pour here, these people who continue to come are not to watch the Buddha, but to rush to see the Buddha statues growing in the ground. This matter was discovered a few days ago, but why did it attract so many onlookers today? It turned out that the sky was just dawning today, and some people found that more than ten Buddha statues had completely broken out of the ground, which was not enough to attract so many people, and what really made everyone flock to it was that the bottom cornerstone of each Buddha statue was actually engraved with eight big characters! This time it was lively, this matter was just like that day, and in an instant, the news spread throughout the entire divine capital, and everyone thought that it was a revelation from heaven, even if the army blocked it, they couldn't help but run to watch.

In charge of the scene is the Yulin Army commander Huan Yanfan, seeing that there are not enough people, and seconded people to the forbidden army, this can be regarded as barely stabilizing the situation at the scene, if the big characters under the Buddha statue are good words, then Huan Yanfan is willing to let everyone watch, but the words engraved on it made him feel terrified, when he first saw a few words, he almost had a weak leg and fell to the ground; If this matter is not handled properly, even his own life may not be guaranteed.

So he hurriedly ordered someone to find a black cloth, to cover these words, for the sake of insurance, other Buddha statues that have not completely broken the ground he also covered, but after all, the news is dewed, the more people are not seen, the more it is easy to arouse more people's curiosity, although it is still early, but the people on both sides of the Luoshui River are no more than when they found the Buddha statues that day, but more.

Huan Yanfan ordered someone to wrap the Buddha statue, and on the other hand, he asked people to quickly enter the palace to report the matter to His Majesty, he was afraid of extraneous branches, and did not dare to tell the engraved content directly to the herald, but carefully wrote eight words on the note, and then submitted it to the female emperor; After the herald left, the more Huan Yanfan thought about it, the more he felt afraid, he was afraid that the female emperor would be angry, and a decree would kill everyone who had seen this eight characters, and that should not include him. After thinking about it, he still thought that he should also inform the prince and Zhang Khan Zhi of this matter, and hoped that the two of them would help with it, so he wrote two more notes and asked the herald to send them out quickly.

At the end of the hour, the East Palace, the secret room.

The prince and the king were so drunk last night that they slept directly in the secret room. The prince had an order that if he discussed with someone in the secret room, even if there was a big matter, he should not come to disturb, so the prince's personal eunuch kept watch outside the secret room all night, and he did not dare to disturb it. The prince and the two did not come out all night, and he also wanted to check the situation in the secret room.

The prince and the king finally woke up at the knock on the door of the secret room, the prince rubbed his loose eyes, the strength of the wine had not completely subsided, and when he heard someone knocking on the door, his heart suddenly became angry, and shouted: "Who is it? ”

The eunuch was so frightened by this sound that he immediately knelt on the ground, carefully opened the door of the secret room, knelt in, did not dare to raise his head, and said in a trembling voice: "Returning to His Royal Highness the Prince, forgive the villain, it is really urgent, so it is... ”

Before he finished speaking, the prince immediately drank again: "What's the matter? ”

The eunuch carefully climbed to the prince's bed, handed over Huan Yanfan's note, and continued to say in a trembling voice: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, General Huan Yanfan sent someone to report, saying that the Buddha statue in the ground has been unearthed from the ground, and the Buddha statue is engraved with the words on the note... ”

When the prince heard this, his face was still angry, and he muttered in a low voice: "What is the word? As he spoke, he slowly opened the note... The prince was suddenly shocked, his face turned white from red in an instant, his hand shook, and the note fell directly to the ground; Seeing the prince like this, King Xiang immediately felt the seriousness of the situation, and quickly got up and picked up the fallen note and looked at it, his reaction was no better than that of the prince?

After a long time, the prince finally recovered a little from his fright, and he said in a trembling voice, "Quick... Hurry up and change clothes for the palace, and the palace will enter the palace to meet Your Majesty. ”

Pei Min's thatched hut.

Last night, the three of them talked about wine, and they all fell asleep on the table unconsciously, Li Sanlang was the first to wake up, and saw that the two were still asleep, so they left a note, carefully left first, and returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

But Li Sanlang had just arrived in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and he met the Prime Minister who was rushing back, Li Sanlang saw that the Prime Minister looked flustered, and his heart was suddenly nervous, and he hurriedly asked: "Father, what's the matter?" ”

King Xiang looked left and right, and whispered to Li Sanlang: "Oh no, something big is going to happen." ”

Li Sanlang was immediately shocked and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

King Xiang leaned into Li Sanlang's ear, explained the matter roughly, and handed the note to Li Sanlang, Li Sanlang was also shocked when he saw it, and muttered: "Will it be like this?" He looked at King Xiang and asked, "What is my father's plan?" ”

King Xiang hurriedly said: "I haven't thought about it yet, my father is going to call you to enter the palace to face the saint when he returns to the palace this time, and His Majesty must need us at this moment." ”

Li Sanlang nodded, and hurriedly rushed towards the palace with his father.