Chapter 7: Licking the Calf
In the early morning of summer, the temperature gradually rose, the heat was unbearable, and the treetops outside the hall were noisy, and there was a "quack" goose cry from the Longshouqu Bridge.
The sun shone into a study room in the east wing of the Datong Palace, and Li Yun sat in front of the table and worked hard to write, but he was already sweating profusely. Fortunately, my grandmother was sitting on the side, waving a fan all the time, smiling and watching herself write, but it didn't look so hot.
Hearing the melodious and loud goose call, Li Yun put down the pen, rubbed his sore hands, moved his knuckles, raised his head and asked with a smile: "Grandmother!" Do you have a lot of geese? ”
"Hmm...... There are more than 30 of them, and they will scream and chase and bite when the living people come, so don't look at them. This goose egg is bigger than an egg, and I will call the dining room to fry it for you at noon! ”
Grandmother's face was full of love, and her gray hair was tied with a fallen horse's mustache, and on it was pierced with the gilded crested hairpin she had brought the day before yesterday, and a gilded flower, and it was estimated that if she was gone, she would not wear it again. Thinking of this, Li Yun's heart was also gloomy, this morning I heard a palace lady say that her grandmother was making boots for herself at night.
"Great! This goose feather can be used as an arrow tail feather, and it can also be used as a quill pen to draw and write, and I will ask the waiter for some later. Li Yun smiled, and took advantage of the situation to make his own small request, thinking that Gao Xingkai was still in Tongyang Gate, and he didn't know what happened to let him go out to inquire.
Seeing that his grandmother smiled and nodded, Li Yun said again: "I brought an entourage the day before yesterday, and when I finish copying these thirty-two products of the "Vajra Prajnaparamita Sutra", my grandson will go and see it!" ”
"Hmm...... Then you hurry up and finish copying, this is not in a hurry! The fabric that my brother brought the day before yesterday was good, didn't you buy it yourself? ”
Grandmother suddenly asked again, and Li Yun had no choice but to smile and replied: "My grandson asked the little maid in the house to buy it, and I didn't look at it much, is there anything wrong?" ”
"There's nothing wrong with that, is your little maid too caring, or are you not telling the truth?"
"Huh?" As soon as he looked up, he saw his grandmother pursing her lips, with a smile on her face, Li Yun was confused, could it be that the old lady could not even see this, it should be impossible, the gift was looked at at casually, there was nothing wrong.
Too sweet? What do you mean......
"That's it! It's nothing, if my brother has a crush on a girl, send someone to inform you, and let your grandfather do it for you. ”
That waterfall Khan, how did my grandmother know that it wasn't my palace maid who bought the gift? Li Yun couldn't understand it at all, so he agreed at the moment and continued to copy. It's just that this Buddhist scripture is very difficult to read, and you have to look at the original when you write a few words, but fortunately, he has practiced calligraphy, and Xiaokai writes well.
The number of words in each product of the Diamond Sutra is not very large, and it will be copied quickly, and other scriptures may be copied in the afternoon. Li Yun put down the pen first, and when the ink on the paper was dry, he put away the scriptures.
When his grandmother came out of the study, it was estimated that she was going to call the palace maid to come and wait, Li Yun quickly took out two notes from under a stack of scripture books, and the two poems written on them were intended to be given to the little lady Xiao the day before yesterday.
"Hey...... This little lady is kind, filial and enthusiastic, it's still good, I won't believe it if she doesn't make her heart ripple! ”
Li Yun muttered to himself and smiled stupidly.
After a while, my grandmother really brought an old palace woman in and told her to take Li Yun to Tongyangmen.
The palace maid should go down and lead the way, Li Yun looked back and saw that his grandmother was still watching him on the steps in front of the hall.
Tongyang Gate arrived in a short time, and there was a row of utility rooms at the foot of the palace wall on the outside of the urn city, where the old servants who had been on duty for a long time lived. The palace maid went to inform first, Li Yun waited for a while, and Gao Xingkai came out.
"It's so boring to live here, I won't let you go anywhere, and I won't let you see, is Your Highness going back to King Li's mansion?"
Li Yun patted Gao Xingkai's shoulder and said with a smile: "Then the king will take you up to the palace wall for a walk, you can see a long distance here, I don't know if you can see the Big Wild Goose Pagoda." ”
"Then in Jinchangfang in the south of the city, far away, I'm afraid I can't see it, right?" Gao Xingkai looked incredulous, but he still followed on foot.
Li Yun walked up the palace wall along the road in front of him, and there were soldiers stationed at the head of the wall, and he didn't stop him when he saw that it was Li Yun who came up. A team was greeting each other and volunteering to lead the way. Li Yun didn't come up to see the scenery, and he didn't want outsiders to follow, so he waved his hand and left.
As soon as he got down to business, Li Yun immediately calmed his face, his face was expressionless, he put on the majesty of the superior, and asked coldly: "How happened to Lone letting you go out to inquire, is there any definite news?" ”
Obviously, there was still talking and laughing just now, but his face changed suddenly, Gao Xingkai was startled, and immediately bowed down and hugged his fists and said, "I was about to return to His Highness!" The villain went to Wannian County to ask people he knew well, and inquired on the street, it is said that four chamberlains died that day, and Wang Shoujuan, the envoy of the palace city and the inner government bureau, also died, and there were fifteen minor and serious injuries. And as His Royal Highness guessed, after the incident, Jingzhao Mansion and Zuo Jin Wuwei quarreled, and both of them were handling the case, each investigating their own. ”
Four are dead, fifteen are injured, and the matter is still a bit big! Li Yun frowned, and asked again, "What are the intentions of the two yamen?" Is there anything to say in the palace? ”
"I heard that Jingzhao Yin Xu Fujun played, saying that Wang Shoujuan took the waiter to beat people in the wine shop, His Royal Highness couldn't see it and taught Wang Shoujuan a lesson, and as a result, they fell from the second floor of the wine shop together, Bai Wangzhu didn't know the inside story, and went up to beat His Highness, causing the anger of the onlookers and vendors, which was to exonerate His Highness, and they had two officials testify; But on Zuo Jin Wuwei's side, the general Cheng Wengan retorted, saying that those inner servants were all killed by His Royal Highness's people. ”
"Hmm...... You went to Xingning Fangben Wang's house to see it, what did Funu say? Why didn't anyone else come? ”
"I should be here today, the villain has been there three times. According to Funu yesterday, Wang Shoujuan's brother Wang Shoucheng went to Penglai Palace to cry, Guo Guifei lost her temper, and also dropped a glass cup, so that her son His Royal Highness King Sui also went to see the emperor, saying that the palace attendants wanted to let Xuanhui make a trial, and the affairs outside the palace were handed over to Xu Fujun. ”
Li Yun couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this: "Ha! That's actually the case, but the dead and injured chamberlain is naturally Xuanhui's envoy to clean up the aftermath, is it a matter outside the palace...... Xu Fujun is the attitude of calming things, right? ”
"It doesn't seem to be, it is said that Xu Fujun also contacted some court officials to jointly play and ask the emperor to boycott the palace city, but he has not heard any rumors. Alas...... It would be nice if Miyagichi stopped! Gao Xingkai sighed, he had this personal experience, and naturally hated Miyagi.
Li Yun smiled and said: "You don't understand, the water in the middle is very deep, and it is not the emperor's intention to set up a palace market." It's too late for the emperor to love the people, how can he harm the people for no reason. ”
"That's the truth, but I just don't understand!" Gao Xingkai scratched his head, puzzled.
Knowing the general situation, Li Yun was a lot more relieved, and was about to go back to Datong Palace, when he saw a team of sergeants on horseback coming to the west of Chunmingmen Street under the palace wall, surrounded by two carriages, and a few eunuchs all the way to Tongyang Gate, stopped for a while to check the waist card, the order, and then entered the palace gate.
"His Royal Highness King Li, come down quickly! The Supreme has a message to arrive! "The commander of the box guarding the door saw Li Yun on the palace wall just now, and he shouted below at this time.
Li Yun was surprised for a while, I don't know how the palace knew that he was hiding in Xingqing Palace, a few steps to the Yongdao crossing, just saw two carriages enter the palace gate and stopped, and the car behind was his own, and it was Fu Nu who drove the car.
"Your Highness! The little slave is here to pick you up! I couldn't find His Royal Highness that day, the little slave was in a hurry, the white bachelor of the Hanlin Academy took the little slave to Jingzhao Mansion, and the little slave went back for the first time! ”
Li Yun walked down the corridor slowly, snorted and asked, "Talky!" Who is in the palace to preach the message? ”
"It's a certain house!" A tall and sturdy middle-aged eunuch in his forties with a slightly dark face got out of a carriage in front of him, smiled and bowed his hand.
Tutu Chengxuan, the word Renzhen, a native of Fuzhou, Jiangnan East Province. Since he was a child, he served his cheap father, and later his father became the prince, and he was promoted to the doctor of the Imperial Court Bureau with the Yellow Gate of the East Palace. After my father ascended the throne, he followed the rising tide and was promoted to the inner permanent servant, the inner servant of the province, and soon moved to the general of the left prison gate and the lieutenant of the left Shence Protector Army.
In the middle of last year, my father specially asked him to go to Xiu'an [National Temple to earn merit, and he added the title of Zuojie meritorious envoy and worship Ji Guogong. In order to allow him to check and balance Liu Guangqi, the privy envoy who has secretly allegiance to Guo Guifei, and others.
"It turned out to be Ji Gong, why bother you to come in person." Li Yun hurriedly returned the salute and strode up to greet him.