There are Taoist temples, Buddhist temples and Lamaist monasteries in the imperial city of the Ming Dynasty, the Lamaist monasteries are called Fanjing Factory, since Yongle there are Tibetan lamas who live there to write Buddhist scriptures in Mongolian, Tibetan and Sanskrit, and the written scriptures are engraved by workers, after the death of the three emperors' grandsons, the Taoist priests, monks, and lamas in the imperial city are respectively doing things for the three emperors' grandsons.

After dinner on August 14, Ke Yinyue asked Wei Chao to accompany her to the Fanjing Factory to see the lama's practice, the Fanjing Factory is on the east side of Wansui Mountain, bordering the Jade River, adjacent to the Siyuan Bureau and the Bell and Drum Division, from the Ciqing Palace to the Fanjing Factory there are six or seven miles of road, Wei Dynasty and Ke Yinyue came to the Fanjing Factory when the sky was already dark, but saw the butter candles in the Fanjing Factory shining like day, but listening to the chanting sound "buzzing" like the summer said that the flocks of flies flying - the Wei Dynasty has been in the palace for nearly 30 years, or the first time to come to the Fanjing Factory, and suddenly saw the scene of the lama doing things, the Wei Dynasty was frightened, Those lamas who chant the Sutra and jump the sand on the altar are just weird, and the heavenly demons hanging on the four walls are even more terrifying in disguise, one by one with red hair and blue face, extremely ugly, some of the heavenly demons are dressed in Yingluo, necklace skeletons, some are babies in their mouths, snakes and pythons are wrapped around their waists, and some are sitting across the demon and holding a halberd, which makes people feel terrified at a glance, Wei Chao is frightened and can't stay, but Ke Yinyue is kneeling on the side and praying silently - Wei Chao knows that the lamas are doing a long time, and they can't finish it for a while, so he said to Ke Yinyue:" I'll go to the Imperial Horse Warden first, and I'll pick you up later. ”

Ke Yinyue nodded, and Wei Chao hurried away.

At the end of the end of the year, after the Dharma was completed, Ke Yinyue walked out of the Fanjing factory, waited in front of the door for a while, did not see Wei Chao come to pick her up, she knew that Wei Chao was greedy for a cup, must have run to where to drink, seeing that the full moon in the sky was bright, she walked alone through the alley to the east of the capital governor to the south, and when she walked through the Yin Shou Prison and was about to bypass the North Flower Room, two young servants suddenly jumped out of the shadows, and said with a smile: "Duren, where to go?" "In the Ming Palace, the palace maid is called the capital person, Ke Yinyue is not a palace maid, but the dress is no different from the palace maid, although she is nearly thirty years old, her complexion is as white as snow, her body is tall and tight, and she looks like she is in her twenties.

Ke Yinyue glanced at the two young chamberlains, one was a hand towel and an ebony card, the hand towel and the ebony card were both hierarchical positions of the Ming Palace's chamberlain, which could be regarded as having a fixed errand, better than the lowest level of small fire, Ke Yinyue replied: "Go back to Ciqing Palace." "I want to bypass the two of them and continue to hurry, it's not early, and my brother doesn't know if he's asleep?

The two young chamberlains jumped left and right, blocking the way of Ke Yinyue, and the ebony card on the left said with a hippie smile: "Duren, but there are people who are good for food, if not, how about the two of us?" ”

Ke Yinyue had heard that some scoundrels in the palace would force the palace maid to be a vegetable household, this is called the white prodigal son, it's funny to think about it, the eunuch also has a prodigal son, at this time, Ke Yinyue didn't want to cause trouble, and said: "The Wei Dynasty Wei Shaojian of the Bao Qian Division is my opponent, and the two little fathers-in-law will find another little palace maid, don't pester me." ”

The handkerchief and the ebony card glanced at each other, made a look at each other, and said, "Young Eunuch Wei of the Wei Dynasty, I haven't heard of it." ”

Ebony said: "Then Young Eunuch Wei must be an old man, where are the two of me young and handsome, it is better to follow the two of us over there to play." Before the words fell, he came over with a handkerchief to pull Ke Yinyue.

Ke Yinyue was angry and funny, took two steps back, and said, "What do you want to do, get out of the way, I want to go back to the palace." ”

If you are a person with status, walking late at night, there will always be someone to accompany you, Ke Yinyue is just walking alone, presumably with a low status, what to say about the food is the young eunuch of the Bao Qian Division, it is likely to be boasting, and the handkerchief said: "It doesn't matter if you play tricks, I will let you go after a while." "Reach out and pull Ke Yinyue's arm.

There was a crisp sound of "pop", the left side of the handkerchief was hot, he was slapped heavily, he was beaten and dizzy, and he covered his face with one hand and pointed at Ke Yinyue angrily with the other: "You dare to hit someone!" ”

Ke Yinyue crossed her hands on her hips and scolded with a smile: "Play with me, what do you play with me, haven't you two been castrated cleanly, and you want to cut it again?" ”

The handkerchief and the ebony card are angry, they are all people in the palace, everyone knows that playing is just with their mouths and hands, but now Ke Yinyue deliberately ridiculed them for being castrated and not men, where can this kind of humiliation be endured, the self-esteem of the internal officials is sometimes extremely strong, and the handkerchief said angrily: "If you don't play with us, can you still serve the long-lived lord and the thousand-year-old lord!" Shaking his head, he said, "This slut is so heavy, my left ear seems to be deaf, buzzing-"

The ebony card said viciously: "Xiaoyin, let's drag her to the Huafang Stone Pavilion, tie her up and play, and play with her half dead." The two people with the handkerchief stretched out their hands, and forced Ke Yinyue with their teeth and claws.

Ke Yinyue sneered at the corner of her mouth, she was skillful in arching and horses, and she was agile, these two five short internal servants really didn't put it in her eyes, she was tall and long-armed, "snapped" twice, and two slaps, which made the two inner servants stunned, and then she dodged and ran to the north gate, before she ran out of the ten zhang road, at the corner of the north flower house, but saw seven or eight people blocking the road, and carrying lanterns, so she was taken aback, stood up, and heard someone shouting: "Who is making noise?" ”

Ke Yinyue stared at this group of internal officials, one of them had a sharp-beaked monkey cheek, but he was dressed as a leader eunuch, so he said: "This father-in-law, there are just two little inner servants of the white prodigal son who want to bully the little woman, and they are over there." Pointing to the back, the two young chamberlains were slapped in the face, how could they be willing to rest, and were chasing after them, when they saw that they couldn't avoid it, they also came over and bowed to the chief eunuch, and called them "Gonggong Qiu", and argued: "The younger two saw that these people were walking in the middle of the night, and kindly stepped forward to ask, but these people didn't know what to do, but they beat me and both." ”

The leader of the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks eunuch is Qiu Chengyun, the eunuch of the seal of the seal of the silk eunuch, these two white prodigal sons are the servants of the seal of the silk eunuch Qiu Chengyun, although Qiu Chengyun is a eunuch, but there is another kind of perverted ** for women, they all say that the beauty under the lamp and the moon is extraordinarily beautiful, and the guest Yinyue at this moment is extremely attractive, the skin is white and greasy, the eyebrows are picturesque, slightly panting, the chest is undulating under the palace skirt, the skin is white and the milk is tall and tall, which is Qiu Chengyun's favorite appearance - Qiu Chengyun beckoned to let the hand towel and ebony card approach, and suddenly opened the bow left and right, gave the two of them a few mouths and scolded: "You two pickled and spilled goods, you must want to flirt when you see people walking alone, don't hurry up and accompany the crime!" ”

The two young chamberlains were so frightened that they knelt down and kowtowed to Qiu Chengyun, Qiu Chengyun kicked one over, pointed at Ke Yinyue and said, "Hurry up and confess to that Duren sister." ”

The two attendants crawled in front of Ke Yinyue, kowtowed again and again, and screamed: "The little one should die, the little one should die, please spare the little one this time." ”

The big eunuch is so majestic, the rank in this palace is stricter than the officialdom, the so-called official level crushes people to death, but the officials and gentry are all scholars, know how to stay decent, like to play the trick of killing people without seeing blood, and will not be as naked snobbish as the eunuchs, the eunuchs are more desperate to do things, often by the surname, Qiu Chengyun in order to show his majesty in front of the guest Yinyue, he tried his best to practice these two inner servants - the guest Yinyue avoided the kneeling of the two inner servants, and said to Qiu Chengyun Wanfu: "Thank you Father-in-law Qiu for being the master of the little woman, The little woman is going back to Ciqing Palace, and Ming said that my husband Wei Chaolai will come to thank Gonggong Qiu in person. ”

On both sides of the diet, if there is a eunuch with status, he is called "husband", and if he has status, he is called "old lady", which is a bit similar to the title of husband and wife of the people.

Qiu Chengyun recognized the Wei Dynasty of the Treasure Banknote Division, and he had no friendship, Qiu Chengyun's eyes were always looking upward, and he only flattered the powerful eunuchs of the Celebrant Supervisor and the Imperial Horse Eunuch, and he never paid attention to the internal officials whose rank was lower than him and whose power was less than him, and said with a smile: "It turns out that you are Xiao Wei's vegetable household, Xiao Wei Yanfu is not shallow, the seal and ribbon supervisor of the miscellaneous family is on the right, and the miscellaneous family invites you to sit in the prison for a while, and drink a glass of sweet wine to suppress your shock?" ”

Qiu Chengyun's long-term entourage, errands, and pawnbooks said one after another: "Father-in-law Qiu is the most righteous, this man, if you don't meet Father-in-law Qiu, you are afraid that you will be offended, these two white prodigals will torture people the most......"

Ke Yinyue has heard of Qiu Chengyun of the Yin Silk Prison, the silver abuse is very much, there are more than ten concubines in the outer house, Qiu Chengyun every time he hands over with the concubine, he scratches and bites all over the body, and uses Mr. Jiao as a gesture, tireless all night, the concubine is on duty overnight, and he will be sick for a few days, at this time, Ke Yinyue saw Qiu Chengyun with the sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks smiling and not smiling, how can he follow Qiu Chengyun into the Yin Shou Prison, and said politely: "The little woman is the eldest grandson of the emperor, this is to rush back to wait for the brother to sleep, and let Wei Chao come to thank the father-in-law." ”

Ming said that it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qiu Chengyun celebrated in advance, drank a lot of wine at dinner, and was full of interest at this time, seeing that the guest Yinyue was gorgeous, where was he willing to put it, and said: "Brother is older, and he doesn't eat milk, why do you need a nurse, after your brother's wedding, your nurse will be sent out of the palace, why not make more capable brothers now, and there will be some help in the future." ”

The so-called brothers in the palace refer to the opposite food, not called husband and wife but brothers, very much the taste of the same surname, and those who are called good men in Fujian are called Brother Qi.

Ke Yinyue has been in the palace for more than ten years, and this is the first time she has encountered this kind of thing, so she laughed and said: "The little woman already has a pair of food, thank you for the kindness of Father-in-law Qiu, the little woman doesn't dare to be." ”

Qiu Chengyun looked at Ke Yinyue's tall and beautiful appearance, his heart was itching, and he wanted to ravage this beautiful woman very hard, so he whispered with the strength of wine: "Give the miscellaneous family a face, you eat against the miscellaneous family, and the miscellaneous family will enjoy the brocade clothes and jade food for you, how about it?" He also said: "A young eunuch in the Wei Dynasty, how can he compare to the miscellaneous family, not to mention anything else, it's not right to let you walk at night alone, and you almost had an accident, right?" ”

Ke Yinyue said with a smile: "The little woman is in Ciqing Palace, and Gonggong Qiu is in the Seal Ribbon Prison, how can this be eaten?" ”

Qiu Chengyun said: "It's okay, the miscellaneous family has its own way, you go in with the miscellaneous family for a drink or two cups first." ”

Ke Yinyue shook her head and said: "It's late, I'm going back to the palace, the Wei Dynasty is drinking with people at the Imperial Horse Prison, if Gonggong Qiu is interested, he can ask someone to come to him and make it clear in person." ”

Qiu Chengyun knew that the woman was a pretext, and the Wei Dynasty was also a well-known official in the palace, so how could he give up the vegetable household, unless the Wei Dynasty was transferred to his seal and ribbon prison, it would be easy to handle, and thought: "The woman is timid, and it will be enough to intimidate." Immediately, he turned blank and said, "Why did you beat my seal prisoner!" ”

Ke Yinyue didn't expect this Qiu eunuch to turn her face so quickly, she didn't bother to say, she ran away, the horse was as agile as a horse, Qiu Chengyun and several of his servants were stunned, I didn't expect a nurse to run so fast, one of the chief asked: "Father-in-law, do you want to chase it?" ”

The front is the north gate, the north gate is the Xuanwu Gate in the past dozens of zhang, the Xuanwu Gate is the palace city, since the attack occurred in May, the palace gate is heavily guarded, how dare the eunuchs outside the palace city break into the palace gate at night, Qiu Chengyun hated and said: "That's it, Ming said to find the nurse to settle the account." ”

It's really a narrow road, the next afternoon, because Zhu Youxiao's brothers and sisters went to the Qianqing Palace with their father Zhu Changluo to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with Emperor Wanli, Ke Yinyue was ready to follow Zhong Benhua to the Shisha Overseas Mansion to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival, and when he walked to the side of the governor, he met Qiu Chengyun again!

Qiu Chengyun looked at Ke Yinyue and Zhong Benhua with bare eyes, and said in a strange voice: "Isn't this the vegetable household of Xiao Wei of the Treasure Banknote Division, how did he hook up with Gonggong Zhong?" ”

Zhong Benhua just heard Ke Yinyue say that he met Qiu Chengyun last night, and when he saw Qiu Chengyun talking in such a weird manner, he said angrily: "Father-in-law Qiu, the white prodigal son who blocked the road and disturbed the guest grandmother last night is your subordinate, how did you restrain your subordinates!" ”

Unexpectedly, Qiu Chengyun exploded like a firecracker, and shouted: "Zhong Benhua, you are so unreasonable, you vegetable household injured the two godsons of the miscellaneous family last night, and the miscellaneous family didn't reason with you for the sake of the festival, you are the wicked person who sued first, go, go to the internal official and supervisor to reason." ”

Generally, the internal official dispute litigation is handled by the internal official supervisor, and the eunuch Song Jin and Qiu Chengyun have a good relationship, so Qiu Chengyun shouted to go to the internal official supervisor, and Zhong Benhua ordered his godson Gao Qiqian to go out of the palace to Shisha overseas residence first, so as not to have no one to receive Zhang Yuan when he arrived——...... Zhang Yuan listened to what Gao Qiqian said, shook his head and said: "It is really strange that there are such things as forcing annihilation and forcing vegetable households among internal officials. He also said: "When Qiu Chengyun was a mining tax supervisor in Yunnan, the local people were full of complaints, and when he passed by the boundary of Shizhu Tusi, he framed Shizhu Xuanfu and made Ma Qiancheng rob the official silver, causing Ma Qiancheng to die with hatred. ”

Gao Qiqian said: "It's because of the Shizhu Tusi incident back then, Qiu Chengyun was very dissatisfied with my godfather, and he was thorny when he met and spoke." ”

Ni Yuanlu, a scholar of Shujishi, was studying Buddhism recently, when he interjected: "The Tang Dynasty monk Hanshan asked a question with Shide, and Hanshan asked, 'What should I do if the world slanders me, deceives me, insults me, laughs at me, despises me, hates me, and deceives me?' 'Pick up the answer' is just to endure him, let him, let him, let him, bear him, respect him, and in another ten years, you will see him again. ’”

Gao Qiqian was very smart, understood what Ni Yuanlu meant, and said: "Then Qiu Chengyun was very majestic ten years ago, there are many people who have been bullied by Qiu Chengyun, ten years have passed, and then look at Qiu Chengyun, he is still very majestic, how can you say this?" ”

Ni Yuanlu laughed: "You little eunuch is a little interesting, the ten years you said mean more than ten years, decades, and those who do evil will have retribution." ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "If it is a few decades, the wicked person will also die, and we don't know whether the next life will be reduced to the three evil paths. ”

Gao Qiqian nodded again and again: "Mr. Zhang is very right, people like Qiu Chengyun should be punished immediately. ”

Zhang Yuan said: "It is unlikely that there will be retribution immediately, and there will definitely be retribution in a few years." "I thought that it would only take three or four years, Gonggong Zhong should endure it again, and then there will be kindness and revenge.

Zhang Dai saw that the scenery in this area of Qianhai was good, and it would be even more impressive when the moon rose, so he said: "It should be good to enjoy the moon here, since Gonggong Zhong is not here, then we will go to the hotel to order wine and food, and enjoy the moon and chat on this shore." ”

Gao Qi hurriedly said: "My godfather has already prepared wine and food to entertain all the adults, and the little one will lead you to go, just in the backyard, facing the Qianhai, the best moon viewing." ”

Arrived at the backyard of the eunuch Zhong's outer house, I saw the fragrance of the laurel tree, the hosta flower, the begonia flower is in full bloom, the east bank of the Qianhai Sea, set up a roll shed, put more than a dozen yellow rosewood food tables, the two sides of the food table are futons, the layout is quite the ancient style of the Han and Wei dynasties, exquisite wine and food and seasonal melons and fruits are quickly put up, the cook was originally the palace kitchen, the cooking is very fine, the yellow sheep, the flower goose, the anchovy is particularly delicious, the wine is the golden stem dew and the Taixi white, the tea is Jianning Gong tea, more than ten servants are waiting at any time.

The sunset is embellished on the top of the mountain, the golden light is reflected in the front sea, the Buddhist temple on the other side is dignified, the sky is clear and clean, the autumn breeze is sassy, most of the friends of the Han Society are from the south of the Yangtze River, the first time to enjoy the autumn of the northern country, one by one is quite interested, the poetry is indispensable, Shu Jishi has the homework of composing poetry, and he has to hand in three poems every month.

Zhang Yuan and Wen Zhenmeng, Qian Shisheng, Hong Chengchou four people drank tea and talked, talking about yesterday's report that Shen Yu wanted to expel the Taixi missionaries, Wen Zhenmeng and others felt that Shen Yu said "privately change the calendar, change the Taoist system, lure the foolish people, and aim to move to the country" is alarmist, Han Society colleagues are influenced by Zhang Yuan, have a lot of contact with Western learning, and are relatively young, willing to accept new knowledge, new things, Shen Yu is quite dissatisfied with Shen Yu's practice of doing what he wants to others, Shen Yu is a Buddhist, don't you know that Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains and also experienced disasters, If they are like Shen Yu's attitude, then Buddhism should not have a foothold in the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Han Society, like Zhang Yuan, do not attach importance to Catholicism, but to the knowledge, vision and a new atmosphere brought by those Jesus priests, which is also complementary to the study advocated by Donglin and Han Society - Zhang Yuan wrote his defense of Western studies to the friends of the biography, Wen Zhenmeng and Qian Shisheng immediately said that they would also write to support Zhang Yuan, Hanlin already has the power to discuss political consultation, discuss government affairs, Hanlin Yuan was originally part of the cabinet, The scholars of the palace can directly enter the cabinet to assist the government, but after the Hanlin Academy moved from the Wenhua Hall to the outside of the imperial city, this power has shrunk invisibly, so that now it is just drinking tea and reading newspapers to do the so-called prestige of the peacemaker - not only the Hanlin Yuan has the power to participate in politics, but also the Shu Jishi can also express his opinions on the government and politics, and the Shu Jishi is the same as the Hanlin Minister, and he is talking about the right words and supplementing the current affairs, which is exactly what an aspiring Shu Ji should do, Ni Yuanlu and Zhang Dai also said that they would write to support Xu Guangqi and Zhang Yuan to debate with Shen Yu and others, If this debate can be held, it will be as wonderful as the famous debates in history, such as "The Theory of Salt and Iron" and "Atheism."

At this time, Gao Qiqian rushed to report that his godfather, Eunuch Zhong, was here.

(To be continued)