Chapter 68: Fear of Temptation

The emperor looked at Peng Mo's half-hidden hand in his sleeve and clenched it uneasily, his face improved slightly, and he opened his lips and asked, "Are you still dreaming now?"

Peng Mo knew what kind of dream the emperor was talking about, shook his head and said: "If you go back to the emperor, the courtiers haven't dreamed since the last time they entered the palace." After thinking for a while, he said: "Maybe the task of the courtiers has been achieved, so the Bodhisattva has no more dreams!" said that he was a person who passed the word to the emperor for the Bodhisattva.

The emperor listened with a slight smile on his face, looked at her gaze gently, and asked, "What do you think about the flood?" or what does the General's Mansion think?

Peng Mo raised his head in surprise when he heard this, his eyes were full of ignorance, and he said: "You are the emperor, isn't the matter of disaster relief something that you need to think about and decide? The voice carried the immaturity and innocence of the little daughter's family.

This was said ignorant but natural, the emperor was slightly stunned when he heard it, but it was the first time he heard such words, he was stunned for a moment and smiled again, and said, "You are bold." ”

When Peng Mo heard this, he hurriedly lowered his head and said in a panic: "The courtiers suddenly lost their words, and asked the emperor to atone for their sins." ”

The emperor waved his hand and said unconcernedly: "It's okay, compared to Roujia, your wording is much better." ”

The atmosphere in the hall was not as tense as it had just been, Peng Mo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and when he heard the emperor talk about Jin Roujia, he pursed his lips and smiled, and then he heard the emperor ask again: "This time, because your dream can be said to have saved the lives of everyone in Shuangxia Town, what reward do you want?"

Peng Mo seemed to think carefully after hearing this, and then raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, don't reward the courtiers, just ask the emperor to promise the courtiers one thing, okay?"

When the emperor heard this, his smile remained unchanged, a trace of deep meaning crossed his eyes, he changed his sitting posture, looked at Peng Mo and asked, "Oh, what's the matter?"

Peng Mo didn't seem to hear the precautions in the emperor's words, and still looked like a simple little girl, and whispered: "Your Majesty, can you not tell others about the courtier's dream?"

The emperor paused, looked at Peng Mo with deep eyes and asked puzzledly: "Why? Your dream saved everyone in Shuangxia Town, if it is known, you will become a living bodhisattva praised by all the people, why do you want to hide it?"

Hmph, I'm afraid that before he has become a bodhisattva praised by all peoples, the catastrophe of destruction is coming, how can the king of a country tolerate the merits of others above him?

And this time his "dream came true", the emperor as the son of heaven was not entrusted with a dream by the "Bodhisattva"; he didn't say it, but he also had Geng Jie in his heart.

If he is admired and praised by the world at this time, he and the General's Mansion will definitely reach a new cusp; with the emperor's deep fear of the General's Mansion, the General's Mansion will only be more difficult in the Great Yong Country!

And it's not a good thing that you have such merits! It will only make those princes bite even harder.

The purpose of doing this is not to make the General's Mansion embarrassed by himself!

"Because... Because when you say it, others will say that the courtiers are strange... Moreover, even if the courtiers are followers of Buddhism, they are not qualified to receive the Bodhisattva's entrustment... There are many coincidental elements in this matter. The words were earnest and uneasy.

"Who dares to say, you are the hero of the Great Yong Kingdom, the reborn parent of Shuangxia Town. The emperor snorted coldly, and his voice sank.

Peng Mo listened, his brows jumped, he knelt on the ground hurriedly, suppressed his heart, raised his head and blinked his voice and pleaded: "Didn't the emperor say that he wanted to reward his courtiers? This is the reward that the courtiers want, and I ask the emperor to agree." ”

The only people who can be qualified to be called parents by the people of the Great Yong Kingdom are the current emperor and empress, what are they? The emperor is burying a pit for himself to jump into, if he follows his words and is complacent and proud of his achievements, then the general's mansion is really coming to a catastrophe! Whether he can get out of the palace alive is another matter!

The emperor did not immediately answer Peng Mo's words, but looked at her with scrutiny, chewing every word she said in his heart, guessing whether it was true or false.

The hall fell silent again, Peng Mo knelt with trepidation on her face, but there was no fluctuation in her lowered eyes, and she let her breath go long to ease the anxiety in her heart.

After a while, the emperor spoke again. "Get up and speak. The voice was still calm, and there was not a hint of revealing emotion.

"Yes. Peng Mo Yiyan stood up but didn't sit down again, but quietly raised his eyes to look at the people above, and said: "The courtier's just had a dream by chance, it was originally a very illusory and unrealistic thing, and after being known, it will only say that the courtier's daughter is possessed by a ghost, which only adds to her troubles, and the courtier's health has not been good since she was a child, and her mother is often worried, and the courtier's daughter doesn't want to use this matter to worry her anymore!"

"You didn't tell Mrs. Wu Ying about this?" The emperor was surprised, if this matter was a conspiracy made by the General's Mansion and Peng Mo, then after the flood, the General's Mansion would definitely do everything possible to exaggerate this matter and establish the image of Peng Mo's "prophet" in the hearts of the people.

But when the flood occurred for a long time, the first team of disaster relief had already set off, and the general's mansion was now there was no movement, and Peng Mo even asked to conceal it.... Was it really just an accidental dream? She was just an accidental dream in the palace?

Peng Mo read the emperor's words with a little surprise, shook his head slightly, and said: "Only you, the emperor, the queen's mother, His Royal Highness King Chen, and the third brother of the courtiers know. ”

"What did your third brother say?" she didn't tell the others, so things would be easy!

"When the third brother knew, the emperor's holy decree had already arrived at the general's mansion, and the third brother was very alarmed when he heard my words, saying that I was acting recklessly... But he also knew that he couldn't go against the holy will, so he had no choice but to go. Peng Mo said with a little overwhelm, showing the uneasy appearance after making a mistake.

Only Peng Hao knows? Peng Hao went to Shuangxia Town in the name of inspecting the river, and everyone knows it! Now he leads the people of Shuangxia Town to avoid disasters, and the people will only remember the good of their own king; and those who know... Queen, Jin Xiuchen, Peng Hao...!

Peng Mo looked up at the emperor who was contemplating, and asked with hope, "Your Majesty, can you promise your courtiers?"

The emperor looked at Peng Mo with a look of regret: "Since you sincerely ask, I will agree to you." ”

Peng Mo's eyes lit up, and he was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him: "The courtiers thank the emperor for his success." He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "There are still some medicinal herbs at the courtier's house, which will be transported to the household department together with the grain meeting later." ”

The reason why Gu Qian didn't say anything about the herbs when he was present just now was because he didn't want to arouse Gu Qian's suspicions, and he also indirectly avoided trouble for the emperor, after all, only a few people knew about the plague after the flood, and if he said it rashly now, it would cause panic and cause trouble for himself.

The emperor nodded and smiled when he heard this, and said with appreciation: "You are careful and meticulous." I even believed that Peng Mo didn't plan to tell the dream.

Peng Mo listened to the emperor's tone and had no other meaning, and said with a light smile: "As a citizen of the Dayong country, it is necessary to contribute to the country, which is what my father taught his courtiers." ”

The emperor thought of General Peng, who sacrificed his life for the country, his face darkened, and he looked at Peng Mo and said, "General Peng is a hero of the Great Yong Country. ”

Peng Mo got up and knelt down and said, "The courtiers thanked the emperor for her father's appreciation. "Even if my father sacrificed his life for the country, he is a hero of the great yong, and it is not the same as arousing the suspicion of the king!

The emperor remembered some past events and had no words, and waved her away. "Stand down. ”

"Yes. Peng Mo respectfully retreated, and when he exited the main hall, he breathed a sigh of relief, thinking about what the emperor had just said, his jealousy of the general's mansion was not deep, this temptation... I don't know how much goodwill the flood has added to the emperor's heart, and how much jealousy has been added?

Hmph! In this life, the king's favor is not uncommon! I am not afraid of the king's jealousy!

If anyone dares to do the same thing to the General's Mansion as in the previous life, I don't mind overthrowing your dynasty!

When Peng Mo walked out of the hall, the emperor asked, "How?"

After the words fell, a person walked out from behind the screen, this person was wearing a robe, holding a Buddhist bead, with kind eyebrows, he walked out and looked at the direction where Peng Mo disappeared at the door of the hall, his brows furrowed slightly, and he secretly said in his heart: How can this be?

"What can Master Kongwu see?" the emperor didn't see him speak, and asked again, is there any problem?

It turned out that this person was the presiding officer of Huangjue Temple, the famous master of the four countries.

Kongwu retracted his gaze, lowered his eyes slightly, and half-leaned over and bowed. "Amitabha, the old man didn't see anything. The voice of the old man was faint in the hall.

This is not false, he didn't see anything in Peng Mo, and a newborn can still see the legacy of one or two previous lives and some of the life of this life.

But Peng Mo's body was just blank, empty, this situation was the first time it had appeared, which made Kong Wu feel surprised, he didn't dare to assert it easily, he just fooled the past!

The emperor didn't know that there was another deep meaning in Kongwu's sentence "I didn't see it", so he frowned and asked: "Then why did she dream about Shuangxia Town, if God wants to entrust her dream, she should also entrust it to me, the king of the country, why entrust it to a boudoir woman? Is it different from her? Or is it the reason for the General's Mansion?"

Kongwu listened to such a tricky and sensitive government issue, there was no trace of fluctuation between his eyebrows and eyes, he looked like he was out of the world, and after listening to the emperor, he just said plainly: "Miss Peng Si has not been in good health since she was a child, and when she was a child, she often followed Mrs. Wuying to Huangjue Temple to chant and live, and she was often illuminated by the light of the Buddha, and she had one or two Zen natures on her body. ”

The emperor nodded slightly when he listened, he still believed the words of the Master of Empty Enlightenment, since he didn't see the difference between Peng Mo, it was really just a coincidence!

Peng Mo went straight back to the general's mansion after leaving the palace and told Peng about donating grain.

"That's right, donate more clothes and silver. Peng sighed, the water and fire were ruthless, and a flood took away all their net worth.

Peng Mo instructed the housekeeper to deal with the matter of delivering the grain, and the housekeeper had been instructed by Peng Hao earlier, knew the location of the grain, listened to the words of Peng and Peng Mo, and was busy dealing with it.