Chapter 424: Entering the Palace in the Evening
Jin Yuanjing, who had disappeared for an afternoon, finally chose to come to see Runye after a painful entanglement, and Runye had already dressed and waited for Jin Yuanjing for a long time.
"Moisten the night."
As soon as he entered the door, Jin Yuanjing made a very sad voice, full of guilt for Runye.
In the house of Runye, a small butter lamp has been lit, and under the background of the butter lamp, Runye is a lot colder.
may be because of Zhu Hongyu's words that Runye, who was out of the way, began to come into contact with the horrors of this world, or it may be because Jin Yuanjing's evasion made Runye really dissatisfied.
"Where did you go in the afternoon?"
Runye asked unceremoniously, and Jin Yuanjing's voice was even more aggrieved.
"I ran to a place where no one was. I feel like I'm still dead. ”
Runye approached Jin Yuanjing, and he was really annoyed when he looked lonely, even more annoyed than Zhu Hongyu this afternoon.
"Dead? You didn't do anything wrong, why did you die, and besides, yesterday I asked you if you would kill someone, and I said I covered you, and you forgot about it. ”
Jin Yuanjing quickly shook his head, he knew that this was too unrealistic.
"The emperor is not so easy to deceive, even if we try our best to prevent the East Window incident, someone will still tell the emperor secretly."
"Yes, you're smarter than me, and you know that."
Jin Yuanjing raised his head and looked at Runye aggrievedly, thinking about what happened in the big courtyard yesterday, the smell of blood in the air, and the red blood stains on the ground. Who knew that a man died just as a punishment was about to end.
"I was annoyed yesterday too."
"It's okay, there's nothing wrong with making up for it."
After all, Runye knew that Jin Yuanjing had never encountered such a thing, although she had been in the Langmei Temple before, but it was the first time that she had been in charge.
"But when I see the emperor, I'm not going to die?" Jin Yuanjing looked at Runye, as if he was waiting for Runye to find a way for him.
At this time, Runye was also slanderous, if it weren't for Zhu Hongyu's visit today, he would never have thought that Chaoyunguan's matter should figure out the emperor's meaning, in fact, whether it is the head of the sect or the prison, they are all people under the emperor, and they will not be too ugly to please the emperor.
"When you get to the top of the main hall, you don't have to speak, wait for me to finish and then follow me, after all, there is one thing, that is, we Taoist priests have infinite scenery on the surface, and they seem to be disciples of Xianshou Hengchang, but after all, they are the emperor's pawns. If we can't correct our mentality, it will be a dead end in front of the emperor. ”
Jin Yuanjing nodded again and again, what Runye said was too reasonable.
"You're right!"
Jin Yuanjing didn't believe how Runye suddenly realized this truth, Runye was simply ...... Suddenly, it was like an enlightenment.
But pondering Runye's words, which are very different from what he says on weekdays, this is definitely not Runye's original words, Runye is looking for someone to guide.
"Runye, now without further ado, let's go to the palace as soon as possible to face the saint."
Runye walked to the front of the cabinet and found his precepts and treasures, he didn't know what he needed to enter the palace, and he didn't think that it would be too late when the emperor summoned him, and finally picked and chosen, and finally got all the certificates given by the official on the day of his edict.
"You go and get your identity document and the book treasure when it was sealed that day, and I'll call someone to pull the carriage, and we'll go together."
Jin Yuanjing nodded hurriedly, when the two met, it was about to be dark, and they left in the evening.
There was a distance from Chaoyunguan to the palace, and the questions that had been haunting Jin Yuanjing's heart also came to mind.
"Runye, how are you doing this, not like you."
Runye glanced at Jin Yuanjing, thinking about when this was, and thinking about what he didn't have. It was indeed the method that Zhu Hongyu thought of for him.
"Zhu Hongyu came over this morning, saying that she was going to cultivate in Chaoyunguan for a period of time. I thought that she was here to play, but I was really in no mood to play with her, and at that time, Feng Chongle and Rongxin went to look for you again, and you disappeared. Hongyu persuaded me a few words, and indeed things should be done as she said. ”
Jin Yuanjing sat in the carriage and watched Runye fall into deep thought.
Suddenly, he had a deep doubt about his own abilities, and felt that he was not as powerful as he had thought he was, and that he was even dead now.
This Chaoyunguan prison doesn't know whether it will be deserved or not.
Seeing that Jin Yuanjing was uncertain, Runye didn't want to say anything more about him, after all, something had already happened.
"Don't worry, I didn't just say let me say it first, if what I said is wrong, you can add, in short, we must take the emperor's will as the standard."
Jin Yuanjing shook his head, what he is worried about now is not this, it can be said that he has already thought about what to say about entering the palace this time, and what he is thinking about now is a matter of the future.
"I feel that I am not worthy of morality, and I have been put in a position that does not belong to me, and I can't do it for a long time in this position."
Runye laughed when he heard this, compared to him Runye, Jin Yuanjing has at least experienced in the Langmei Temple, and he also knows that the world is sinister, even the mind of a Taoist is difficult to figure out, compared to what Runye understands, and now he is still in the position of the head of the sect, shouldn't he be killed?
Why do you think that? If you are incompetent, I should be even more incompetent. I don't have any skills, and I can't do anything, and now I'm in the position of the head, do you think I'm worthy of it? Not at all, I don't know how much worse than you. ”
After some remarks from Runye, Jin Yuanjing is worthy of acquiescence.
Jin Yuanjing knows that a person's experience is limited, and what a person can do in this life is also limited.
If he grew up from a small place, he might not be able to leave Wudang Mountain for the rest of his life.
But God gave him a chance to get out of Wudang Mountain, but he wanted to use such a troublesome reality to make him settle, in the end, it was better to walk slowly from low to high, and now the emperor is doing this, what is the difference between killing him.
"Hey, I'm not like you, at least you have your own identity, no matter how you say it, the emperor can't embarrass you. But I'm different, I do anything wrong, the emperor is on business. ”
Jin Yuanjing was in a very low mood, and he didn't know if he was complaining, or if he was stating a helpless fact, Runye admitted that what Jin Yuanjing said was that it was true that he and Jin Yuanjing were treated differently in front of the emperor, but they were a team.
Jin Yuanjing was promoted by him, if Jin Yuanjing was disposed of, it means that there is something wrong with the person he protected, and the emperor must punish him with him.
After thinking about it, the emperor should be able to weigh the pros and cons, and this time he will take the lead, and wait for Jin Yuanjing to defend himself again.
Zhu Hongyu is right, she still has to care about the emperor's intentions.
The emperor has the power of life and death, the emperor lets you die, you are a death, and the emperor makes you live is a life.
On this part of the road, Jin Yuanjing and Runye didn't want the carriage to be finished, at least to give them a little more time to grieve and see the emperor later.
"The head of the sect, the prison court, the palace has arrived in front of the gate, please dismount."
Runye and Jin Yuanjing glanced at each other, knowing that their time to enter the palace was up, they should cheer up even if they didn't want to, and explain everything that happened to the emperor.
The two of them got out of the carriage one after the other, with official certificates on their bodies and the gold seal of the treasure book at the time of canonization.
In fact, when entering the palace, you only look at the seal letter, which is the most difficult of all the treasures and documents to forge, so the seal letter has always been regarded as a symbol of power.
After Runye and Jin Yuanjing handed over their seals, the guards guarding the palace let the two of them go.
The door to the courtiers in the palace has been closed on weekdays, and at this time, if a foreign minister wants to enter the palace, it is to get the emperor's approval.
Neither Runye nor Jin Yuanjing realized now that the reason why the guards sent the two out was because the emperor had given an order to the guards, and he allowed Runye and Jin Yuanjing to enter the palace at this point in time.
After entering the palace, there were two eunuchs guarding the door, they were both temporarily deployed today to guard and wait, of course, the emperor did not say who was waiting today, but told them that they might be able to wait.
So the two of them were waiting, but they didn't expect that what they were waiting for was Jin Yuanjing and Runye.
The eunuchs have special respect for the Taoist priests, because when they get old, they go out of the palace and are mostly taken in by the Taoist temple, and there are Taoist temples specially built for eunuchs.
As a result, the relationship between Chaoyunguan and the eunuch was excellent.
When the eunuch saw that it was Runye and Jin Yuanjing, he made a gesture again and again, and was polite to them.
Of course, Runye didn't want to be treated like this, they were here to apologize today, not to joke with the eunuchs.
"Two fathers-in-law, Runye and Jin Yuanjing ask to see the emperor, I don't know what the procedure is?"
It was the first time for Runye to enter the palace, but when he saw these eunuchs being so polite, he asked more, otherwise he would just wait to be arranged, and he would not say a word more.
"Please go with our family, the emperor has been waiting for a long time."
When Runye and Jin Yuanjing heard this, they looked at each other, thinking to themselves how could the emperor wait for them, and they didn't have the opportunity to enter the palace, shouldn't they.
The three of them walked on the long and deep corridor in the palace, and soon after walking on the corridor to the end, there was a very small door.
There were two eunuchs guarding this small door, and Runye and Jin Yuanjing felt strange again, but they didn't ask much because of the rules in the palace.
The eunuch saw the nervousness of Runye and Jin Yuanjing, and hurriedly explained: "The head of the sect, the prison court, after this small gate passes, it will be a harem, you have never entered the harem to explain the scriptures, and you have just arrived in Ren, so you naturally don't know what this small gate does." There are only these two small gates in the palace that used to be the harem, and the rest of the places are high walls as high as three zhang. ”
Runye and Jin Yuanjing were amazed in their hearts, but they didn't show it.
The two eunuchs guarding the small door, one holding a key, and the two had to open the two locks on it to enter the harem.
Runye and Jin Yuanjing were released, and they entered the harem.
The harem is much more delicate than the previous dynasty, and there is no longer the majestic vestibule of the officials, and the atmosphere of the royal garden is revealed in the ascending time.
The place where the emperor reviewed the folds was in the Xilong Palace, and as the name suggests, this place was a place for the emperors to rest alone.
traveled unhindered all the way, and occasionally saw eunuchs patrolling the night, but they all maintained enough respect for Runye and Jin Yuanjing to let the two of them travel unhindered in the palace.
Soon, the gate of the Dragon Hall arrived, and the lights inside were bright, illuminating the inside as if it were daylight.