Along the way, Di Renjie did not have much chatting with Xue Shao. Out of Chang'an City, the house slaves of the Xue Mansion raised the soul flags and threw the paper money, and at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, Li Xianyuan took two middle-aged Taoist aunts to answer here. The group went up the mountain along the road, and the two Taoist aunts shook the soul bell and recited some Taoist scriptures, making this funeral a lot of effort.

Not long after going up Zhongnan Mountain, Yuenu patted his horse and walked to Xue Shao's side and whispered, "Childe, someone is following us all the way." ”

Xue Shao had already discovered that it was several women who followed all the way out of Chang'an City to Zhongnan Mountain. So he said, "With Duke Di and the official here, it doesn't hurt." You don't have to make a mistake. ”

"Yes, Childe." The moon slave bowed his hand and rode his horse to follow Xue Shao's side. A pair of bright eyes looked closely around through the black veil of the palace hat, like a goshawk guarding the airspace.

Di Renjie glanced at the moon slave twice and said, "By Xue Gongzi's side, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." This girl must be extraordinary. ”

Xue Shao smiled slightly, "Di Gong has good eyesight. ”

"Xue Gongzi, is this going to send Zhang Miao to Xuanyun Temple for funeral?" Di Renjie asked.

Xue Shao blinked curiously, "There are many Taoist temples on Zhongnan Mountain, how did Di Gong know that it was Xuanyun Temple?" ”

Di Renjie smiled, "Those two Dao aunts each have a purple flowing cloud embroidered on their robes, they must be from Xuanyun Temple." ”

"Di Gong is really observant." Xue Shao nodded, "That's right, it's Xuanyun Temple." ”

Di Renjie wrinkled his brows, "Xue Gongzi, it's better to change places." ”

Di Renjie's voice was not loud, and Xue Shao heard it alone, and asked curiously: "What is it for?" ”

Di Renjie waved his hand and motioned for Xue Shao to take a step to speak, and the two rode to the side of the road, Di Renjie whispered: "Xuanyun Temple, it was built by the people of the martial arts family last year. ”

"Oh? Which martial artist? Xue Shao couldn't help but be stunned, it was really a narrow road!

"Zhongshu Sheren, Wu Youning." Di Renjie said in a low voice, "There are not many people who know about this matter. Di also happened to hear someone talk about it once. As for why he cultivated this temple, there is no way to know. ”

The officials of the Zhongshu House worship the five products, and they are regarded as the emperor's "confidential secretary". However, whenever the imperial court wanted to issue any important edict, one of the Zhongshu Sheren was responsible for drafting, and the other five Zhongshu Sheren had to sign the edict and express their opinions—called the "Five Flower Judgment".

"Wu Youning, a member of the Zhongshu House?" Xue Shao frowned, "I have no grievances with him in the past and no enmity in recent days, I have never seen him, and I don't know where he came from." ”

Di Renjie stroked his long beard lightly and said meaningfully: "Wu Youning's grandfather, Wu Shi Rang, is a brother to the queen's father, and Wu Youning is the cousin of the queen of heaven. Among the many nephews of the martial arts, Wu Youning is considered to have some talents, and has always been entrusted by the queen of heaven to reuse...... He and Wu Chenghei have always been very close! ”

Xue Shao's eyes narrowed, and Di Renjie's last sentence was the point. Obviously, he knows all the behind-the-scenes truth about the case of Zhang Jiaomiao, and this is out of kindness to remind me to beware of any conflict with Wu Chengsi.

Xue Shao thought that Di Renjie's divine judgment and the name of pure goodness will flow together in later generations, and he has become a famous example of Qing officials and capable ministers in Chinese history. Although he was in the history books of Wu Zhou Dynasty as the prime minister of Wu Zetian, from a political standpoint, he has always been a staunch "Li Tang supporter", for which he was tortured by cool officials, and his life as an official was also the ups and downs of the sea - although he is only a six-grade Dali Cheng now, his words are like Shangguan Wan'er, which is quite rich in Spring and Autumn penmanship, obviously quite resistant to the sons and nephews of the Wu family, but he is quite close to me, a relative of the Li royal family.

"Thank you for your kind reminder." Xue Shao arched his hand and said, "But my friend has already arranged it in advance, and there is even a Dao Gu who went down the mountain to accompany her all the way to the funeral, so it's not easy to change it halfway." I think it's just a funeral, so I don't have to do anything to avoid it. Besides, even if I avoid it, those who want to harm me will eventually find other loopholes. Rather than being afraid of it all day long, it is better to deal with it calmly and respond to all changes with the same. Xue, I really know who I'm afraid of! ”

"Xue Gongzi is really detached and frank, Di admires!" Di Renjie returned the salute, glanced around, hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "At today's court meeting, Wu Chenghe, the Duke of Zhou, was removed from the post of secretary and supervisor to be idle, and only retained the title and food. The general of the right guard, Wu Sansi, was also dismissed from his post and transferred to an idle officer. Xue Gongzi, you might as well pay more attention. ”

"Thank you Di Gong!" Xue Shao bowed his hand and said goodbye, it turned out that he had always wanted to remind me to be careful of Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi's blows! …… Zhang Miaomiao's case is just a fuse, and I am afraid that there have been some frictions and differences between the two saints for a long time. Li Zhi was unhappy, and Wu Zetian immediately picked up the officials of the two nephews who originally wanted to be reused. Di Renjie is a clear-eyed person, he may have realized this layer a long time ago, so he said that "Zhang Miao's death is very involved".

"Xue Gongzi doesn't have to be polite." Di Renjie returned the salute and said indifferently, "A few days ago, Di Mou and Pei Shangshu met and chatted for a while in Nanya, Pei Shangshu and Xue Gongzi were full of praise, saying that Xue Gongzi was elegant and extraordinary, and he was a rare young talent among the nobles. Today, Xue Gongzi mourned for a prostitute with the dignity of a nobleman, not afraid of rumors or Xiao Xiao, Di is very admired, Pei Gongguo does not deceive me! ”

"It's overrated. I just did something I thought I should do. Xue Shao smiled slightly, it seems that I can really collect some reputation for Zhang Jiaomiao's corpse and funeral.

It's just that Di Renjie's praise should be just some "official tone", he is pretending to use Pei Xingjian's mouth to show his position of "supporting Li Tang", and deliberately test my position! …… In his opinion, I am not only the son of Princess Li Tang, the nephew of the current saint, but also the "close relationship" with Pei Xingjian, so I should be a "comrade-in-arms" in the same trench. When I first entered the career, I was worried about having few friends and widows, and Di Renjie was a good object to be wooed.

So Xue Shao said: "In my humble opinion, Di Gongjing is loyal to the country and has extraordinary intelligence, has the material of Wang Zuo, and is condescending to the sixth grade Dali, which is really a bit condescending." ”

"No, no." Di Renjie waved his hand and said, "Di Mou is shallow in his studies and has shallow qualifications, and he can hold such an important official position as Dali Cheng when he is a Beijing official for the first time, and I am afraid that he will not be able to do it." In addition, Dali Cheng enforces the criminal law and breaks the prison lawsuit, distinguishes between black and white and hears the right thing, punishes evil and promotes good, asks for the people's life, and can do a lot of practical things. For the official position of Dali Cheng, Di Mou loves and respects deeply! ”

"The sage is in power, the capable is in office, Di Gong is diligent and pragmatic, and he is admired below." Xue Shao smiled slightly, that's right, Di Renjie should be such a character.

Di Renjie in history was loyal, shrewd and capable, and there were really not many people in the same era who were more virtuous than him. But he had ups and downs in his life until he was nearly seventy years old before he really served as the prime minister, the reason for this is that his Li Tang position was not very reassuring in the empress era, and second, he did not have a big family like "Xue Pei" as his background and backer, and secondly, he was honest and upright, and he was not a powerful person.

Stubborn old man! Xue Shao laughed and scolded in his heart.

Di Renjie looked at his clothes curiously and confusedly, why did he look at me and smile again, could it be that I was not well-dressed?

The two didn't talk further, and followed the coffin to Zhongnan Mountain.

There is a Taoist temple that is not very conspicuous in the dense place of the mountain forest in the middle of the mountainside, and there are cranes and birds flying back and forth after the mountain cliff clouds are steaming, the environment is elegant and the grass and trees are quiet, and there is quite a fluttering style of the immortal dwelling in the bright world of willows and dark flowers.

Li Xianyuan said that he chose a piece of feng shui treasure land in the back mountain of this Taoist temple to bathe the essence of the sun and the moon and the incense of the esophagus temple as Zhang Yao's yin house. The temper of the owner of this Xuanyun Taoist Temple is very strange, it is said that she has a withdrawn personality and has always hated the worldly idlers to come to disturb, since the date of the completion of the Xuanyun Temple, she has hardly left the Taoist Temple for two years, and rarely shows her face, and almost no outsiders have seen her true face.

Li Xianyuan also relied on the face of the "fellow practitioner" and the ancestor Li Chunfeng, and it took a lot of words to complete this errand. In other words, ordinary people, etc., the people of the Taoist temple will definitely not agree, and they will not be able to pay any money.

The house slaves and the public unloaded Zhang Miao's coffin and carried it into the Taoist temple, and as soon as it was stabilized, the Taoist aunts tactfully invited all the men out of the Taoist temple, saying that the master of the temple had a habit of cleanliness and did not allow secular men to set foot in the Taoist temple, so they had to offend. They will be able to handle the Dharma in the dojo properly, and when they are buried, they can call a few young laborers to carry the coffin for burial.

"It's quite lonely." Xue Shao didn't care, so he asked Li Xianyuan to lead the way to see the tomb site he chose for Zhang Yao.

The group went around to the back mountain of Xuanyun Temple and saw several Ding Zhuang digging there, and two stonemasons were beating the stone tablet. Seeing Li Xianyuan coming, the stonemason asked: "Lang Jun, this stone tablet is about to be polished, dare to ask how to engrave it on the tablet?" ”

"The tomb of Zhang Yao, just five words. Is it possible to make an epitaph for her? Li Xianyuan looked at Xue Shao after speaking, "What does Xue Gongzi think?" ”

Xue Shao thought about it, Zhang Miao's life experience, birth date and family background, I am afraid that few people know the details of the way, and there is no way to study it for a while. Well, there are a few lines that I remember vividly, but they are quite like a portrayal of her life.

"Get a pen and paper."

Xue Shao wrote down those lines: "I have no roots, and the end of the world is drifting away." Fallen into the autumn wind, there is no burial flower. ”

Stopping the pen, Xue Shao handed over the sentence to the craftsman, and asked him to engrave it on Zhang Miao's tombstone as it was, so that there was no need to add another word to explain who wrote it.

The people next to him chanted and recited those few words, and they all sighed.

"It's a shame!"

"Xue Gongzi, a man of temperament!"

Xue Shao didn't respond to them, looked at the tombstone, and sighed in his heart: Zhang Miao, I owe you in this life; If there really is an afterlife...... You're here to bury me!.

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