Chapter 35: Grievances
The abbot of Baiyun Temple waited on the side, waiting for the salute to finish chanting the hymn, and three nine-foot-high lanterns illuminated the mound.
The host walked slowly towards the emperor, his hands held high above his head, and in his hands was a mahogany end plate covered with a layer of yellow silk.
A gust of wind blew, and the yellow silk fluttered, revealing a piece of incense, and she paused, and then went on again.
A palace man took it, took out three pillars of incense, and handed it to Mei Jian, ready to light the incense.
"Wait a minute," just then, a crisp female voice suddenly sounded.
Everyone was shocked and couldn't help but look back.
Shen Lingjun walked out from behind the crowd, walked straight to the front, saluted Wu Cao, and said, "Your Majesty, the minister wants to see these incense, can you?" ”
Some ministers were slightly dissatisfied and scolded: "Nonsense, the place of sacrifice, how can you make trouble." ”
There are also some who see the way out, keep silent, and wait for the emperor's expression.
Wu Cao glanced at the crowd, looked over, everyone was silent, and then said, "It's okay." ”
Mei Jian walked over and handed it to Shen Lingjun, Shen Lingjun took the incense and smelled it, then walked to the abbot of Baiyun Temple and said, "Master, this fragrance seems to be different from usual. ”
The abbot lowered his eyes, clasped his palms together, and said in a harmonious voice: "On weekdays, the incense used is actually plain incense, mostly grass and trees are used as materials, and the sacrificial incense is muddy, with animal sebum, and the materials are different, so the taste is also different." ”
Shen Lingjun nodded and smiled slightly: "Oh, that's it." ”
As he spoke, the conversation changed: "But, why do I still feel like I have added more things." ”
The abbot didn't know what she meant, and was slightly stunned: "Uh...... This ......"
Shen Lingjun looked not far away, his smart black eyes stopped in one place, and he said with a smile: "But this question, I'm afraid only Master Huijing can answer." ”
Shen Lingjun was rambling, and some ministers couldn't listen to it anymore and were about to speak. Wu Cao's eyes swept over, and the official next to him who knew how to observe words and expressions quickly pulled the ignorant one, and whispered: Don't speak.
Since the emperor acquiesced, the little eunuch went down to pass on Master Huijing.
Shaoqing, the reply to the message, Mrs. Huijing is not in the nunnery.
At this moment, everyone smelled a little strange, and the crowd was a little commotionous, and they exchanged heads with each other.
"Don't worry, she'll show up later. However, Shen Lingjun didn't look surprised, she looked at the door of the temple and said with a smile: "Trouble Miss Ye." ”
As the words were, Kagura walked in from outside the crowd with Ye Qingzhi, and first saluted the emperor: "The people have seen the emperor. ”
Wu Cao nodded, only today did he see the young girl in front of him, with a beautiful appearance, but her body was thin, her face was pale to sickly, a set of goose yellow gauze clothes was slightly wide, and the whole looked like a weak willow supporting the wind, only a pair of eyes were unusually bright and clear, as if she could see through people's hearts.
Wu Cao doesn't like women who are too weak, usually in the harem, such women don't live long. But when she saw Ye Qingzhi, she felt a little happy in her heart for no reason, just like the feeling she felt when she saw Shen Lingjun at that time.
Or, as the emperor, you are also a little envious of their life, indulgent and can do what you like.
"Get up," Wu Cao said with a faint smile: "Shen Aiqing, you have delayed the sacrifice for a long time, and I need a reason." ”
Shen Lingjun stepped forward and said, "Yes," and then nodded to Ye Qingzhi.
Ye Qingzhi took the incense in Shen Lingjun's hand and looked at it, and then nodded affirmatively: "That's right." ”
"Your Majesty," Shen Lingjun saluted again and said loudly, "At first, the Golden Daomen was destroyed, then the silk merchant Hou Yan was killed, and then a series of cases occurred, until the appearance of the Bright Sect and Bai Ma, who pretended to be the envoy of Tubo, we thought that the truth of this series of cases had been revealed, and it was over." ”
Wu Cao looked at her and didn't speak, knowing that Shen Lingjun had something to say later.
Shen Lingjun walked to the side and said in a certain direction: "But there is one thing I care about, that is, Jin Maoxing, he doesn't go anywhere, why is he hiding in a nunnery, and later I learned that this nunnery is not another one, but it is Baiyunguan." ”
Shen Lingjun paused for a moment, and then said: "Speaking of Baiyun Temple, I happen to think of an old man, Master Huijing...... Wood wood. ”
The last one was shouted into the air.
As soon as the words fell, a mass of things suddenly smashed from the air, some people were startled, and some guards who reacted quickly hurriedly escorted them.
However, it was obvious that the force that shook it was very strong, but the mass of things really fell to the ground very lightly, like a ball of cotton falling suddenly.
When everyone looked at it again, it was clear that there was a person on the ground.
Shen Lingjun's dark eyes flashed, and he chuckled, "Master Huijing, we meet again." ”
Hui Jing got up slowly, looked around very slowly, her face was calm, a very shallow smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, but there was a bit of coldness in her eyes, and she made a gesture with one hand: "Donor, it is really a poor nun." ”
Shen Lingjun smiled: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, but Mrs. Shi doesn't like me very much." ”
Hui Jing no longer looked at her, but at the emperor, and the sun shone on her, causing her to narrow her eyes. She looked very seriously, so seriously that it seemed to be lost in thought.
Suddenly, Hui Jing jumped up and pounced on Wu Cao with swift speed. Shen Lingjun didn't expect this Hui Jing to hide deeply, she turned out to be a kung fu master, and she jumped before she could think about it, but obviously Hui Jing's purpose was not the emperor, she twisted her body in mid-air, and turned to Ye Qingzhi again.
Zhao Qi, who had been on the side, reacted instantly, leaned over, and at the same time exhaled directly with his right palm.
Hui Jingshan was timely, but she didn't hurt the vital point, but her right shoulder was injured, and she spit out blood as soon as her heart was hot. She thought that everyone's focus was on the emperor, but she didn't expect this ordinary little girl to have such a master guarding her, which was a little unexpected to her.
But yes, her goal has been achieved.
Hui Jing withdrew three feet away, holding the incense in her hand, and after coughing a few times, she said to Shen Lingjun: "You are very smart, but it's a pity that it's late." ”
After speaking, the corners of her bloody mouth curved into an arc, and her smile was extremely weird, and then, she lit the incense in her hand and said coldly: "You can die." ”
Shen Lingjun looked at her, did not move, and said lightly: "Incense is a medicine inducer, you have ambushed the poison before, as long as you light the incense, it will make the poison attack." ”
Hui Jing nodded with satisfaction, and finally fulfilled her long-cherished wish, she had no regrets, and she no longer hid it: "Yes, I said, you are a smart little girl, but unfortunately you know it too late." ”
"Why don't you wonder, why do I know," Shen Lingjun asked rhetorically.
"You ......" Hui Jing realized that something was wrong when she said this.
Hui Jing looked at the emperor again, and Wu Cao still stood in place with an unchanged face.
Shen Lingjun fanned the wind with his hand, and said with a smile: "Oh, it's been a long time, and there has been no movement, who do you want to die?" ”
Hui Jing frowned, why didn't Wu Cao fall, could it be that there was a problem with the incense in his hand, Hui Jing looked down at the white smoke and curled incense, and muttered in disbelief: "How could it be ......?"
Shen Lingjun walked over with his hands in his hands, and said with a smile in his dark eyes: "Didn't I ask you why those incense sticks different from others that day, you said that they were for sacrifice, and then I thought about it, how to harm people, I can be unaware of ghosts, I thought of using poison, but there are so many people around the emperor, and the food level will be checked, so how can I start, so coincidentally, I remembered those special incense, so let people steal it back, Qingzhi checked, and found the problem." ”
Hui Jing sat down on the ground, her eyes were stunned at the moment, and she muttered: "God has no eyes, God has no eyes......"
Shen Lingjun smiled and said, "Are you prepared, I guessed casually, but I didn't expect to win." ”
Mei saw that someone shouted to hold Hui Jing and said sharply: "Drag it down." ”
Wu Cao slowly raised his hand and signaled the guards to slow down. Then he paced over, looked down at Hui Jing, and said lightly: "I should have seen you, depending on the age, are you Li Jiancheng's concubine, or Li Yuanji's?" ”
Hui Jing snorted coldly: "I don't know Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, I only know that you are a disaster water, which will cause the Tang Dynasty to be destroyed and all the people will be punished by heaven. ”
Wu Cao ignored her, and nodded to himself: "It was true that some concubines entered the nunnery back then, but as far as I know, they were secretly executed before they arrived at the nunnery, how did you escape?" ”
Hui Jing sneered, still these four words: "God has no eyes," after that, she looked at Shen Lingjun, no longer her usual gentle appearance, her face was full of haze at the moment, and her eyes were fierce: "You help the abuse, the Buddha will not forgive you." ”
Wu Cao looked into the distance: "What do you think of this country now?" ”
Hui Jing didn't speak, and Wu Cao continued: "The country is safe and peaceful, the wind and rain are smooth, how many people can do this." ”
Hui Jing laughed twice, squinted her eyes and said coldly: "It's just the predecessor Yu Yin, what is there to show off, Li Shimin, a traitor, stepped on the throne with the blood of his brother, I see how long this world can be kept, I curse the remnants of the Li family, all of them must not die well, generations, fratricidal, hehehehe......"
In the end, he laughed maniacally, as if he had gone crazy with overstimulation.
Wu Cao waved his hand and asked Mei Jian to take people down.
The ministers were silent, and no one thought of this change.
Wu Cao looked around, slowly walked in front of Ye Qingzhi, and said, "Miss Ye has good medical skills, thanks to you this time." ”
It turned out that Ye Qingzhi had already detoxified the emperor before, so Hui Jing lit the incense to no avail.
Ye Qingzhi half-lowered her eyes, and only said in a clear voice: "This is what a folk girl should do." ”
Subsequently, the ritual of sacrificing to the heavens continued, and after the end, the emperor asked Tsukimi to thoroughly investigate the person who poisoned him, and the existence of such a person in the palace made people feel cold.
Shen Lingjun and the others went down the mountain together, walked out of the temple gate, and one person fell out of thin air and stood beside Shen Lingjun, dressed in white.
Ye Qingzhizheng sighed and said, "Originally, the master asked me to go down the mountain to visit, but I never thought that so many things would happen. ”
Shen Lingjun said: "It is still a little strange to find these incense during the Golden Knife Gate extermination case, at this moment, it seems that Jin Xiong should have found that there was a problem, so he was panicked and wrote a letter to your master, hoping that he would come to visit." ”
However, regarding Nan Lingzi and Ye Qingzhi coming on the orders of their masters, Shen Lingjun skipped them just now and did not mention them to the emperor.
Ye Qingzhi nodded: "But the master has long ignored these mortal worlds. ”
Zhao Qi walked down the mountain with his hands behind his back, and sighed rarely: "Alas, poor woman, you say, she hates Li Shimin's descendants, why did she harm the emperor, she should be happy, but the emperor robbed the Li family of the throne and helped her avenge." ”
Ye Qingzhi stopped and said lightly: "What she hates is not one person, but the entire royal family." ”
Su Musha on the side also nodded, so he hated dealing with the imperial power the most, and he had too many eyes.
Shen Lingjun sighed: "It's also pitiful, I haven't walked out of this royal cage in my life." ”
After sighing, he said with a smile: "Okay, the matter is finally happily resolved, let's go have a good meal and celebrate," he patted Su Mushao's shoulder as he spoke: "You have a treat." ”
In the distance, Wu Cao glanced outside the door and said to Mei Jian: "The people around Shen Lingjun are not simple. ”
Mei Jian nodded: "The minister went to check that person." ”
Wu Cao waved his hand: "No, people in the rivers and lakes have some quirks, since they don't want to show up, why bother to make people unhappy." ”
Mei said: "Yes." ”
When asked what reward he wanted, Shen Lingjun looked at the sky and said casually: I want to go out for a walk and see what to do.
Unexpectedly, Wu Cao slapped the table and was ready.
This time it was Shen Lingjun's turn to wonder, looking at the emperor who was scheming and scheming, he was completely a refined fox, there was such a good thing in the world?
The first case is over