Chapter 32 The undercurrent of Taoyuan Temple is surging
Tang Zhuoye turned his back to the direction of Mo Ran, and the dim candle flame stretched his figure and projected it on the white wall.
He calmly poured himself a cup of tea, and added another cup to put in front of Li Kai, "How's it going?" ”
The monk responded carefully, "It's been dealt with." ”
Li Kai took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "The little emperor thought that the disaster relief silver was robbed by bandits, but it was intercepted by us. ”
Tang Zhuoye also smiled, "It's messy, the more chaotic the better." ”
It is said that this summer the Jiangnan area has been raining continuously, after the flood, and since the beginning of autumn, there has been a drought for several months, and the fields have just experienced a flood and encountered a drought that is rare in a century, and the people cannot make ends meet, and the disaster relief silver in Luoyang City is always not in place, and there have been many peasant uprisings in the Jiangnan area.
Mo Ran was also strange before, why the mountain bandits robbed the disaster relief silver taels several times, but when the officers and soldiers went to check, the mountain bandits' nest seemed to disappear out of thin air, because of this, it was widely spread among the people, the young emperor was mediocre and refused to play the disaster relief silver taels, and secretly deducted and increased taxes, it turned out that these disappeared silver taels were smuggled back to Luoyang, and they were hidden in the royal temple, no wonder they couldn't find anything.
Presumably, after Tang Huaiyi came back from the fiefdom, he stayed in Luoyang Capital for nothing more than this reason.
Tang Zhuoye seemed to be uneasy, and asked the monk again, "Where are you hiding?" ”
The monk said confidently, "Don't worry, they won't find it." He also turned his head sideways and whispered something in front of Tang Zhuoye, but unfortunately the distance was too far and the sound was too small for Mo Ran to hear.
Tang Zhuoye opened his mouth again and asked Li Kai, "How long is the prince going to stay this time?" ”
"Wait until everything is taken care of."
After speaking, the three of them laughed at the same time.
After about another tea time, Tang Zhuoye and Li Kai walked out of the house in a hurry, and the monk blew out the candlesticks in the room and put the things back in their places before they walked out of the house and closed the door again.
The footsteps walked away, Mo Ran stayed for a moment before coming out of the cabinet, she lit a fire fold with her and looked at it carefully in the place where the three of them had sit.
Sure enough, he found Tang Zhuoye's token of King Yingchuan in the position where Li Kai was sitting, presumably Tang Zhuoye gave the token to Li Kai, so that he could go out of the city conveniently today, but he didn't expect to fall here.
Mo Ran walked out of the house, closed the door, and walked into the bamboo forest, it was pitch black all around, Mo Ran called "Gao Che", and after a while, a man in a night suit fell from the dense forest.
He arched his hand towards Mo Ran, "Miss." ”
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In the second half of the night, a loud voice pierced the sky, and a "water is gone" sounded, and the people were panicked, and the palace nobles who lived in the attic all got up.
The voice of the people was noisy, and the young emperor Tang Xuanhe frowned, came out of the room, and stood in the corridor, he was in the direction where he could see the light rushing to the sky in the distance under the green trees.
There were birds fleeing in the dark woods around them, and many guards and monks carrying buckets in the courtyard rushed to the light.
There was the sound of hurried footsteps, Tang Xuanhe didn't look back, staring at the chaos, "What's the matter?" ”
"Back to the emperor, it is said that the thief entered the main hall, and the thief accidentally knocked down the candlestick in the mourning hall, and the sky was dry and the water went away."
"Thief?" Tang Xuanhe narrowed his eyes slightly, "What is there to steal from that place?" ”
As soon as the words fell, another guard ran up and hurriedly knelt under the man's robe, "Your Majesty, a few empty coffins were found from the main hall, filled with gold. ”
"Gold?" Tang Xuanhe stared at the man in shock.
The man continued, "The thief who stole was caught, and when he was stealing, there was a fire, and he was struck by a falling beam, and he fainted in the temple. ”
"Who is it?"
"The abbot of Taoyuan Temple - Xu Yixing."
When everyone arrived, Mo Ran's clothes changed, she rubbed her eyes and pretended to be sleepy, and a smile flashed at the corner of her mouth when the black smoke and the messy fire light were reflected in the deep pupils.
Just now she asked Gao Che to pretend to be a guard, stopped Xu Yixing on the way back to the room, and told him that there was a thief in the palace, Gao Che said confused, but the person with a ghost in his heart must first rush to the place where the secret treasure is hidden, just when he approached the main hall and opened the coffin in the inner room, Gao Che secretly attacked, knocked him unconscious, put the silver two on Xu Yixing, disguised as stealing gold, and then set fire, and when everything was finished, he attracted everyone over......
Everything fell into place, Mo Ran condensed the fire that was gradually extinguished, and a guard dragged Xu Yixing out of the main hall, his body was already dyed with a black halo, and the clothes could no longer distinguish the primary color.
A few more guards followed Tang Huaiyi, the king of Huainan, out of the dark and unsightly main hall, he covered his mouth and nose and couldn't stop coughing, Tang Huaiyi waved to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the golden ministers in those coffins have already been distinguished, and the dark lines engraved on them are indeed the batch of silver taels sent to Jiangnan and disappeared." ”
The young emperor, who had been entangled in trivial matters in Jiangnan for several days, showed his face unkindly, he stared at the man who fainted on the ground, the blue tendons on his forehead were exposed, and he scolded, "Wake him up!" ”
Two guards led the way away, and then came with two buckets of water, and with a "bang", the water fell from the sky and poured the man on the ground thoroughly.
He coughed violently, wiped the water on his face with one hand, he sat up with his body propped up, but his face was unknown, seeing the corner of the dark dragon robe, Xu Yixing realized something and knelt on the ground suddenly, kowtowing to the young emperor.
The young emperor was obviously furious, and he raised his leg and kicked Xu Yixing to the ground, "I want an explanation!" Abbot! ”
Almost gritting his teeth, Xu Yixing felt a pain in the back of his head, and he also understood that he was being put on the ground, he was prostrate on the ground, his whole body was soaked, and when the cold night wind blew, he couldn't help but tremble slightly.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you are wronged! Wronged! ”
He grabbed the corner of the man's clothes in embarrassment, and the young emperor's eyes showed a fierce light, "I have seen it with my own eyes, what is wronged!" ”
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In addition to the whistling wind in his ears, there was only the ghost crying wolf of the figure kneeling on the ground in the distance, Mo Ran sneered in his heart, Xu Yixing, what kind of gift did you give to this palace in your last life, and this palace will return it to you one by one today!
However, there is still one step left to punish you for capital crimes.
Thinking like this, she frowned slightly, covered her chest with her hands, her face was pale, her body was shaky in the cold wind, and she fell backwards, Liu Ying and Biluo beside her quickly supported her, and Su Jinnian shouted "sister".
Su Fu's concubine suddenly fainted, everyone was shocked, Su Jinnian picked up Mo Ran by the waist and sent him back to the room, and the accompanying imperial doctor diagnosed Mo Ran's pulse, and then hurried back to recover his life.
"Your Majesty, Miss Su is afraid of food poisoning."
Hearing this, Su Jinnian frowned, "My sister doesn't have the appetite to eat at night, how can she be poisoned?" ”
Biluo on the side came out and bowed to the dragon robe man Yingying, "Your Majesty, the slave maid is Miss Su's girl, late at night Miss said that she was hungry, so the slave maid went to the dining room to find some food for Miss, Miss only ate a few bites and said that she was disgusting and didn't want to use it anymore, and now the half bowl of porridge is still in Miss's room." ”
Tang Xuanhe raised his eyebrows, signaled Biluo to bring half a bowl of porridge over, the imperial doctor held half a bowl of porridge, and there were guards beside him who lit a fire, the imperial doctor looked left and right, and sniffed carefully, and said to Tang Xuanhe, "There are some medicinal herbs in the porridge that make people sleep." ”
Biluo stepped forward again, "This porridge is left over from dinner in the dining room." ”
After speaking, everyone present understood what she was referring to, not only the concubines of Sufu, but also the drugged meal.
The young emperor was angry again, and looked at Xu Yixing condescendingly, "What else do you have to say?" ”
He was indeed moved by him in the meal, and for a while he didn't know how to argue, the emperor snorted coldly, "Come on, bring him back to the capital and put him in Dali Temple to investigate this matter thoroughly." ”