There are not only many officials in the capital, but also many heroes, but when it comes to being well-informed, the old rivers and lakes all recommend an inconspicuous figure to be ranked first. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This man is a monk, a mad monk with a little fame.

Guangding borrows in various temples inside and outside the capital all the year round, comes and goes freely, wants to chase, he does not leave, wants to invite, he may not be willing to go, often speaks wildly in front of strangers, bluffs people, in fact, through the image of the mad monk to explore and pass on the news, in the rivers and lakes quite a status.

The king of the East China Sea once indirectly dealt with Guangding, and with the help of the mad monk, he deceived the tired marquis out of the capital. Guangding once summoned the people in the rivers and lakes to prepare to launch a rebellion, but at the last moment he chose to give up, and since then he has retired to a small temple in the city, and he is not crazy, and he meditates normally every day, ignoring the affairs of the rivers and lakes.

But Jianghu still remembers him.

The king of the East China Sea wanted to make a contribution in front of the emperor, and said to the princess Tan before going to bed at night: "This is an opportunity, if it can really be done, maybe the Tan family can return to the capital, write a letter to your brothers, and ask them to recommend a few reliable heroes in the capital to help catch the assassins." ”

"You are letting the Tan family betray the heroes of the world." Tan said coldly.

The King of the East China Sea smiled: "Since the day you became the princess, the Tan family has been 'betrayed', what are you hesitating about now?" The Tan family doesn't want to fight against His Majesty anymore, right? Then please the emperor with me steadfastly, don't be caught in the middle, Haojie thinks that the Tan family is flattering, but the emperor thinks that your family has bad intentions, and neither side will benefit. ”

Tan didn't actually object to her husband's plan, and thought for a while, "There's no need to write a letter to ask the Tan family for help, the capital is thousands of miles away from the East China Sea, and I don't know how long it will take to go back and forth, I will recommend someone to you, and I will definitely be able to help you." ”

"You are a woman, how can you have a connection with the heroes outside?" The King of the East Sea immediately became vigilant.

Tan Shi pinched her husband's itchy flesh, listened to him eat and laugh, and still said coldly: "Even if I have contact with everyone in the world, it is my business, you can't control it." ”

"I don't care, I don't care." The king of the East China Sea begged for mercy, and he still believed in the princess's loyalty very much, and felt that no one except himself could stand the tyranny of the Tan family.

Tan's recommendation is the mad monk Guangding, "He has withdrawn from the rivers and lakes now, so you have to ask for it in person, whether it is begging or tempting, in short, you have to win his help." ”

"How useful can a person who quit the rivers and lakes be?"

"Hey, the rivers and lakes are not like the court, people go to tea and cool, although the bare top does not ask about the rivers and lakes, but the capital owes him a lot of heroes, his words are better than you find ten heroes. Guangding owes the Tan family a favor, he is very friendly, if you go in the name of the Tan family, he will definitely help. ”

"Okay, I'll go see him." The King of the East Sea yawned to sleep.

Tan pushed her husband, "Wait a minute, you can analyze the situation in the palace for me: the queen has no resistance now, although I expected it to be so, but she gave up too completely, no different from entering the cold palace, the Cui family has also become honest, Cui Hong bears the name of Taifu and general, but he is almost idle at home." The other concubines only fought for one thing, to see who could give birth to a son to the emperor first, but the competition was not fierce, and they took turns to go to the Tired Marquis's Mansion to sleep, it all depended on luck. The Empress Dowager Cining was also quieter than I expected, and she didn't care about anything else except the occasional correspondence with a few ministers. ”

"You think the harem is too quiet?"

"That's right, the two queen mothers don't like the Cui family, shouldn't they fight to the death?"

When the princess also asked for advice from herself, the king of the East China Sea was a little proud, "It's not simple, the key to everything is the emperor's first son." ”

"Huh?"

"The Cui family needs the queen to have a son-in-law to consolidate their position, and if it is the eldest son, of course it is better. The first concubine to give birth to a son will inevitably be crowned a noble concubine and immediately superior to others. As for the Empress Dowager Cining, she still felt that Her Majesty's position was not stable enough, so she didn't dare to be too presumptuous, and hoped that the emperor could give birth to a son as soon as possible and have a few more sons. So you see, the birth of the emperor's eldest son is not only a day of great joy, but also a time of fighting. ”

"Hmm." Tan felt that what her husband said was very reasonable, and pushed him again, "Should we also have a son soon?" ”。

The King of the East China Sea suddenly became sleepy, turned around and said, "We can try, but we can definitely have a son before the emperor." ”

The King of the East Sea knew that his position was unstable, and the slightest change would arouse the suspicion of many people, including the emperor.

"Hmph." Tan turned her back to her husband.

The king of the East China Sea smiled and said, "We can have a daughter." ”

The next morning, the king of the East China Sea took a handwritten letter from the Tan family to see the mad monk Guangding.

The small temple was hidden in the alleys of Nancheng, and a servant of the Tan family led the way, but it still took a few circles to find the entrance.

There is a main hall in the temple, for a statue of Maitreya, covered with dust, the original temple owner is nowhere to be found, the bare top lives in it, goes out to beg for food every few days, usually meditates in front of the Buddha statue, does not close the door during the day, does not light the lamp at night, the cold wind is bleak, but he still wears a single summer clothes, never change.

The king of the East China Sea asked the servant to wait outside, walked in by himself, and stood at the door, just blocking the sun, so he gave way to the side, and finally could see the appearance of the light top, so he smiled and said: "Zen master, don't come to harm?" ”

Although Guangding is not so crazy, his behavior is still a little weird, he only opened his eyes and squinted at the comer, "I am not a Zen master, and you are not the king of the East China Sea." ”

"Hehe, yes, you retired to the temple, and I also retreated, retired to the court, and the meaning is the same."

"You came to me to show that we don't mean the same."

"So good at playing a sharp edge, and saying that you are not a Zen master?" The king of the East Sea took out the princess's letter and handed it to the light top.

The bare top still didn't open his other eyes, didn't get up, reached out and took it, didn't open it, but put it at the nostrils and sniffed twice, "Is the princess okay?" ”

The East Sea King's face was slightly red, "You crazy monk, you haven't reformed at all." ”

Guangding tore off the letter in his hand casually, "In the whole capital, the only person who thinks that she can let me help with a letter is the princess, she grew up in the Tan family, just like the king of the East China Sea grew up in the emperor's house, since she was a child, she thinks that the rules of the rivers and lakes are set by the Tan family, but she is a woman, she has little contact with outsiders, and she is more and more self-righteous, and she doesn't know what it means to quit the rivers and lakes." ”

The king of the East China Sea looked at the debris all over the ground, listened to the words of the light top, didn't know whether to be angry, or to be happy, hesitated for a moment, squatted in front of the light top, thought for a while, simply sat on the ground, and faced the light top, but before he could speak, the monk had already closed the only open eye, showing the intention of expelling the guest.

The king of the East China Sea didn't care, and said with a smile: "When the monk meditates, do you chant scriptures in your heart?" What sutra is recited? ”

Guangding opened his other eye, "You're here again." ”

"Yes, I just went to heaven and talked to Maitreya Buddha for a while, and he said that I will have the help of noble people today."

Guangding snorted, and the king of the East China Sea pointed at the mad monk and nodded a few times, "It's exposed, monk, cultivators are not shocked, you didn't do it." ”

Guangding finally opened his eyes, "Okay, you caught me, let's say, what are you looking for me?" But don't expect me to help you, I'm just an ordinary monk now, I can't practice, and my friends are estranged. ”

"Don't be afraid, I'm honest now, the person who supports His Majesty the most, I dare to say that I can be the first, and I won't let you help do bad things." The King of the East China Sea paused, "But Yun Mengze is still not dead, and it is said that he has sent assassins again." ”

"Jianghu people can't be a big deal, both of us have experienced this, the so-called assassins tease a few guards at most, and they will run away before they see the emperor, once they are wanted by the government, they will be famous all over the rivers and lakes from now on."

"The monk really saw through the rivers and lakes."

Guangding sneered, "As long as the people in the rivers and lakes don't have a real name, until now some people think that I let the emperor go by the lake, so that he can regain control of the world, a group of people came to me when they have something to do, and they wanted to use my name to call on the heroes of the capital to do something, and then persuaded me to ask the emperor for credit, what a fucking ...... Amitabha. ”

Guangding didn't hold back, came out with a dirty word, hurriedly put his hands together, muttered Buddhist scriptures for a while, and then said: "I can't explain it clearly to these people, I really can't stand it, so I retired to the rivers and lakes." ”

"Why don't you leave the capital?"

"Where to go? The farther I ran, the more others thought I was hiding from the emperor, and there would be a group of people looking for me for the emperor, so I simply stayed in the capital to let everyone understand that the emperor didn't remember me at all, and it was finally quiet for a month, but you came again. ”

"I'm here, but I'm different from those people."

"Well, others think that I have a relationship with the emperor, you think that I still have a relationship with the rivers and lakes, go back and say to the princess, since you are married, you should be a good wife and mother, don't think that you are a hero, even if the Tan family is still in the capital, you can't persuade me."

"Hehe, I don't dare say that to her."

Guangding looked at the East Sea King and nodded, "That's right." You go, I can't help you anyway, and the emperor doesn't need my help, Luan Banxiong is dying and struggling, and it's useless to send as many assassins as he wants, instead of looking for me, it's better to give the government a holy decree, I dare to guarantee that if Yun Mengze has ten assassins, the government can capture a hundred in a few days. ”

The King of the East Sea got up with a smile and patted the dust on his body, "You are so disgusted with false fame, it is better to turn the false into reality, whether the assassin can threaten the emperor is one thing, whether we can catch the assassin is another matter." The King of the East Sea pointed to the light top, "You can catch the assassin." He pointed to himself again, "I can tell the emperor that you caught him and make a name for you." ”

"Get out, get out of the way!" The light top suddenly started a fire, and it didn't matter who the other party was.

The King of the East Sea was not annoyed, turned around and walked outside the palace, and said as he went: "You know where to find me, there are not many opportunities, if the assassin is really captured by the government, there will be nothing to do with you and me." ”

After the king of the East China Sea left, Guangding continued to meditate, but his heart could no longer be quiet, he suddenly stood up, kicked over the wooden bowl next to him, cursed a few words in his mouth, and strode out of the dilapidated small temple.

Soon after nightfall, the light dome knocked on the door of the Donghai Palace, and the servant opened the door and looked at the monk twice, as if he had expected him to come, so he didn't ask anything, please enter the mansion.

"Come with me, give you an assassin." Guangding saw that the king of the East China Sea only said this, turned around and left.

If the former King of the East China Sea would never follow the mad monk, he would at least ask for clarification, but now he quickly followed and asked, "Who is the assassin?" Yun Mengze's robbers? ”

"It's not a robber, you may not believe it, it's a petty official in your East China Sea Kingdom."

The East Sea King was taken aback. (To be continued.) )