The news of the crown prince Yang Yong's east window incident and the emperor's house arrest in the Splendid Palace spread almost overnight throughout the imperial capital Chang'an. The residents of Chang'an City are speculating whether Yang Jian, the ancestor of Sui, will abolish the crown prince Yang Yong next.

However, more than ten days have passed in a blink of an eye, and to everyone's surprise, Yang Jian not only did not issue an edict to depose the prince, but also seemed to have the intention of forgiving the prince, allowing the prince Yang Yong to be accompanied by the crown princess Yuan, and go to Xingshan Temple on time every hour to listen to the monk Huilin, who was newly transferred back to Beijing from the Great Xingguo Temple in Bingzhou to take up the abbot of Xingshan Temple, talk about the essence of Buddhism for an hour.

Yang Guangyin and Monk Huilin are old acquaintances and old friends in Bingzhou, and often come to Xingshan Temple to have tea and chat with Monk Huilin, and from Monk Huilin's mouth, he has learned some of the real reasons why his eldest brother Yang Yong got his father's forgiveness.

It turned out that since the news of the accident of the crown prince Yang Yong quickly spread from the Daxing Palace, the East Palace was in chaos. Early the next morning, Tang Lingze, the prince's left concubine, knocked on the door with tears and blood to see Emperor Yang Jian and exonerate Yang Yong.

Everyone in the world said that Tang Lingze was demoted to three levels on the day he was received by Yang Jian, but he didn't know that it was because of his bloody promotion that Yang Yong's fate took a turn for the better and avoided the fate of being deposed.

Tang Ling exonerated Yang Yong with two main reasons when he met Yang Jian: first, Tang Ling made it clear to Yang Jian that the reason why the crown prince Yang Yong kept tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the East Palace was mainly unwilling to be left behind by Yang Guang, Yang Jun and other brothers, and was ready to personally lead the army to defeat Chen one day, and after repeated persuasion by him and other officials of the East Palace, Yang Yong had planned to incorporate the extra seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses into the local government army in the eastern capital, and the existing roster of sergeants submitted to the Eastern Capital army can be used as evidence;

Second, the Tang Decree was issued to Yang Jian, who had not used the imperial court's official funds to supply tens of thousands of soldiers and horses for many years, and most of the military resources and food needed by these people were recruited from the former ministers and noblewomen. In order to exonerate Yang Yong, Tang Lingze even did not hesitate to hand over Pang Xun's "Fish Talisman Account Book" to Yang Jian, and claimed that he had always been responsible for raising the military funds and food of the East Palace, but Yang Yong did not know about it.

Yang Jian in Yang Xiong returned to Chang'an, reported to him the news that Yang Yong expanded the six rates of the East Palace without authorization, under the anger, immediately issued an edict to put the prince Yang Yong under house arrest, and afterwards that night and the queen Dugu Jialuo had a fierce dispute over whether to depose the prince, and now see Tang Lingze wept blood to see, and conclusively put forward the evidence and reasons that although Yang Yong was guilty, but the crime was not to be abolished, it was inevitable to hesitate in his heart, so after Tang Lingze was demoted on the spot, he ordered Yang Xiong, the king of Guangping, to take people to verify whether what Tang Lingze said was true.

As a result, Yang Xiong was ordered to rush to the Eastern Capital with his subordinates for the second time, and thoroughly investigated Pang Xun's case again, and gave Yang Jian a note ten days later, and the conclusions obtained in it were roughly consistent with what Tang Lingze said, so that Yang Jian's mind began to become active.

At this time, the monk Huilin came to Chang'an Xingshan Temple to take up the abbot, and Yang Jian issued an edict to Yang Yong, allowing him to leave the palace with the crown princess Yuan every day to go to Xingshan Temple to listen to Monk Huilin talk about Buddhism, and repent and reform.

After Yang Yong was placed under house arrest in the Jinxiu Palace after the East Window Incident, Yang Jian immediately promoted Su Wei, the current Shangshu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, who had served as the right servant of Shangshu, to accept the words of his subordinates, and the temporary crown prince Yang Yong rushed to the Eastern Capital to preside over the relocation of tens of thousands of new people in Guandong to the two prefectures of Jingyuan in the northwest to herd horses for the imperial court, and at the same time strictly ordered Shangshu's left servant to shoot Gao Ying and Yang Guang, the king of Jin, immediately began to plan for the revitalization of the army and the attack on Chen.

Yang Guang put a long line to catch big fish, and deliberately let Sima Luo and Lichen follow the Qin King Yang Jun and his wife to Jiangling to take office, while ordering Zhang Heng, Qu Tuyong and others to closely monitor the movements of the various Nanchen Xizuo that have been identified in Chang'an City, he is also paying close attention to the news and movements of Duan Da, Liang Mo and others who followed Yang Jun and his wife to the south, but after more than ten days have passed, Jiangling is not alarmed, and the "Wild Goose's Nest" did not send someone to Yang Jun to pick up Sima Luo and Chennan to Jiangzuo in Jiangling's mansion. This couldn't help but make Yang Guang have great doubts in his heart.

On this day, Yang Guang returned to the Jin palace in the afternoon as usual, and convened Zhang Heng, Qu Tutong and others to discuss the case.

When Yang Guang heard the news, he immediately ordered someone to bring Yu Xiaoren to the main hall to meet him.

After a while, I saw Yu Xiaoren walking into the main hall in a haggard manner, and when he bowed to Yang Guang, he was excited because of his mood, and his voice was a little choked.

Yang Guang observed his shape, listened to his voice, felt strange in his heart, and asked him: "Xiaoren, what happened to you, I haven't seen you for two or three months, why did you become so haggard?" ”

Due to the presence of Zhang Heng and Qu Tutong, Yu Xiaoren held back his sorrow, and reported to Yang Guangyu with a hoarse voice and fists: "If it weren't for God opening his eyes and leaving me a way to live, the last general would almost be buried in the mountains and forests, and I would never see the prince again." ”

Yang Guang hurriedly comforted him and said: "Don't worry, just sit down and talk slowly, didn't you return to Chang'an after being left out of the Goguryeo border by Gao Liansheng in Liaodong, why did you only return to Chang'an today, and what happened along the way?" ”

Yu Xiaoren's cheeks were deep, and his face collapsed into two big holes when he spoke, and after sitting down under Yang Guang's instructions, he tried to calm down his excited mind, and then he opened his mouth to tell about his bizarre experience along the way.

It turned out that after being rejected by Gao Liansheng from the gate of Goguryeo, Yu Xiaoren first asked for help from the post station in Sui and wrote a handwritten letter, asking the local post station to send it back to Chang'an with an expedited 600 li, and reported to Yang Guang that Gao Liansheng had abandoned himself and fled back to Goguryeo alone, and then rode alone on a horse to return to Chang'an.

Until entering Linyu Pass and passing through the entire territory of Hebei, everything was quite smooth. Unexpectedly, Yu Xiaoren encountered a similar encounter with Duan Dayu in the first year of Kaihuang when he rode through Taihang Mountain in order to take a shortcut: he got lost in the mountains.

However, unlike Duan Da, Yu Xiaoren wandered around in the fog for many days and nights, and he never met the immortals again to guide him out of the mountain.

After eating up the dry food he carried with him, Yu Xiaoren picked some wild fruits growing in the mountains and forests everywhere to satisfy his hunger, and when he was thirsty, he held a pinch of water flowing in the mountains to quench his thirst, but he never found the path out of the mountain.