Chapter Ninety-Four: Where to Start
Not far from the Lingji Palace and Chaotian Palace, the Taoists inside are strictly restrained, and they must be respectful and obedient to Sun Zhenren and Wuzhen. Why is this real person completely different from them? Don't force you to do your homework, you don't have to serve her, if you help and get paid, is this a kind heart, or is it ill-intentioned, and you have other plans?
Leng Quan is still younger and bolder: "I want to help you get medicinal materials, and I can do other work." I don't have to be paid! I, I want to study medicine with you, is that okay? As he spoke, he looked at Zhang Weizhao with trepidation.
This passage is so familiar! When Zhang Weizhao just entered the palace more than a year ago, Luluo also said similar things to her. And now, the pothos has been buried in the mound of righteousness in the West Mountain. Thinking of these past events, Zhang Weizhao has mixed feelings.
Leng Quan saw that Zhang Weizhao didn't speak, and he was afraid and ashamed: "It's me who can't do it!" I'm sorry for you. I'm just going to get the medicine, I don't ......."
Zhang Weizhao interrupted her: "Of course you can learn if you want to." It's just that studying medicine is a tedious and hard thing, if you really like it, and can bear to learn it, I am willing to teach you! ”
"Yes! Thanks to the real people! Leng Quan knelt down and kowtowed to Zhang Weizhao, "I can endure hardship!" Don't be afraid of difficulties! Be sure to live up to your teachings! ”
Zhang Weizhao pulled her up, "You don't have to bow down in front of me." If only everyone respected each other. You go back and take care of Master first, and I need to go and pay homage as well. I'm going to start sorting out the medicine depot in a while, and you'll help when the time comes. ”
"Hey!" The cold spring rejoices infinitely.
Zhang Weizhao nodded to Leng Window and Leng Yue, who were stunned on the side, and turned around and went back to the East Cross Courtyard.
Staying behind, Leng Quan stood on the ground with infinite joy, wanting to smile, but trying his best to hold back.
"Aren't you afraid that Master will be angry when you act like this?" The cold window said with a face.
Leng Yue said: "There are high branches to go, what does she care about what the master thinks?" ”
Leng Quan bit his lip, endured and endured, and finally couldn't help but say, "I don't care what you think, I just want to learn a good craft." How did we get here? The master drove the crane to the west, and we didn't need to serve it, and the other ladies didn't want us who had died of the master, which was unlucky. The family saw that we didn't have any money and didn't want us to go home for dinner. When I get older, I can't get married, so I have to come to this view, but in fact, I just have a bowl of rice to eat and wait for death. But with medical skills, it's different. No one will treat you as useless waste anymore, and if you leave here in the future, you will have a way to live. ”
"If she says to teach you, will she really teach you? Besides, how many medical skills can she know at such a young age, and what can she teach you? Leng Yue said in a low voice with sarcasm.
Leng Quan was unconvinced: "You didn't see that the Queen Mother, His Majesty the Emperor and the Queen Mother all rewarded so many things yesterday. said that it was Han Jieyu's dystocia, and the doctor couldn't help it, so it would be fine for Zhaoming Zhenren to go. It can be seen that she has real skills. It is said that the master of the real person is the most brilliant doctor in the city, and he can save the dead. ”
"Who has ever seen a Taoist priest deliver a baby? I don't know what kind of witchcraft was used. Let's learn! I learned to go out of the palace and jump the gods and set up fortune-telling stalls. Leng Yue muttered quietly.
"You ......" Leng Quan was inflamed by the cold moon's yin and yang strange aura.
"Forget it, what's the point of yelling here! There is no one around Master at this moment, so why don't you hurry back and serve Master! "The cold window lesson said.
Leng Yue and Leng Quan pinned their faces to each other angrily and went all the way back to the single room of the West Cross Courtyard.
It turned out that although Gu Yun and these three disciples were nominally masters and apprentices, they had their own origins and plans.
Gu Yun is an old man in the palace of the Empress Dowager Sun, and he is also quite decent by the side of the Empress Dowager Sun. However, in the last few years of her life, Empress Dowager Sun no longer asked about palace affairs, and she and her son Chen Huaishen were close to each other, so after she passed away, most of these old people she left behind had nothing good to do. Gu Yun was in his thirties at the time, and he didn't want to leave the palace, so he invited himself to Feixian Temple to become a monk.
Leng Window was the little palace maid beside her at that time, and she came here and needed someone to serve, so she brought her over. Leng Yue and Leng Quan were the palace people around the other old concubines, and they came here one after another after the death of their master.
Over the years, the concept of flying immortals has become more and more deserted, and there are fewer and fewer people. Gu Yun felt that his evening was bleak, blindly self-pity and self-pity, and his temper became more and more eccentric, not only did he speak little, but he also couldn't see his apprentices laughing. If anyone speaks loudly and has a lot of smiles on their faces, they will be reprimanded by her for not following the rules and not looking like a monk. So the four women live in this view as if they were the living dead.
There is no need to do heavy work to be a Taoist priest in the view, such as cleaning, repairing, etc., the palace maids and eunuchs who have their own rough envoys in the West Garden to take care of it, it stands to reason that these Kundao days are quiet, food and clothing are worry-free, and they can live in peace.
But there are times when it's not a good thing to be idle, because it means no hope, no energy.
Cold Springs have been afraid of such days. When Zhang Weizhao had just parachuted in, she also felt uneasy, wondering what the temperament of this young real person was, and whether she would treat them harshly. Later, when he saw that Zhang Weizhao was so kind and capable, he quickly wanted to get closer to the past.
Leng Yue couldn't see her pug-like stuttering. She is sixty out of twenty, and she thinks she has already seen through the world. A person like Zhang Weizhao, who gained power at a young age, is nothing more than good at opportunism, has a backstage, and sells his reputation under the banner of a real person. Whoever believes in her is a fool.
She was beautiful, but she was assigned to the old lady's palace and never saw the light of day. She once tried her best to find an errand in the powerful Niangniang Palace, hoping to see Tianyan one day, but she didn't succeed. Gradually, when she first entered the palace, her ambition to rise to the top was consumed. So she attributed her failure to her upright temperament, being high and low, not flattering, and seeing those who went up as villains who drilled camps and calculated. As you get older, you speak more and more harshly.
The cold window was single-handedly trained by Gu Yun. Guyun has become more and more withdrawn over the years, and it is becoming more and more difficult to serve, during the day, she has to serve tea and water through the cold window, and at night she has to make the bed and fold the quilt, and from time to time she has to rub her shoulders and beat her back, and when she is depressed, she will be angry. But whenever Leng Window was a little dissatisfied, Gu Yun coldly ridiculed her as a white-eyed wolf, ungrateful, not the master's protection, she didn't know that she died in that ditch, but now she came to repay her life-saving benefactor like this. said that Leng Window had no temper at all, so he had to endure and endure, and gradually people became more and more rigid and wooden.
It's not that Leng Window didn't want to leave Guyun, it's just that her parents died early, her sisters are married, and her brothers are married, and no one wants to take her back. She had to endure here day by day.
Although this Zhaoming real person who came this time was kind, Leng Window thought to himself, looking kind on the surface, he didn't know what kind of heart he was inside. The master she has served for many years has to find opportunities to torture her and detain her from time to time, let alone such a stranger who doesn't know the roots? The better Zhang Weizhao said it, the more she didn't believe it, and felt that it was better to go back and follow the master closely, although her temper was a little worse, at least she wouldn't use flattering words to coax her.
The three of them had a small calculation in their hearts, and each went to do their own business.
In the next few days, everything was fine. Zhang Weizhao packed up his things, arranged his living room and studio, and everything became organized.
She still gets up every day, and it is five o'clock, and she begins to meditate and chant under the statue of Sanqing in the main hall. After the four little Loli cleaned up the West Cross Courtyard, they also began to do morning classes with Zhang Weizhao, and Leng Quan also joined them.
The Flying Immortal Temple, which had been in the doldrums for a long time, began to become vibrant.
Seven days later, in the evening, a small eunuch from the Qianqing Palace came to spread the word, saying that His Majesty the Emperor Xuan Zhaoming had come to the Maoqin Palace to meet him.
Zhang Weizhao knew that she was about to start working again. Fortunately, she had already prepared, tidied up her clothes, brought a simple backpack with a draw, and calmly followed the little eunuch out to the Forbidden City.
It's the middle of June, and it's been a hot and humid day, and after dark, there's a slight breeze. Zhang Weizhao followed the little eunuch with the lantern and walked forward, his steps were very steady. She knew that there was a tough battle to fight tonight, but Zhang Weizhao was such a character, and the more challenges she faced, the more she could arouse her fighting spirit.
"I must be very strong in the secretion of adrenal hormones now," Zhang Weizhao said in his heart with self-deprecation. It's like the state of an athlete when they're approaching a game.
When he arrived at the Maoqin Hall and saluted the emperor, Zhang Weizhao stood up and looked at Chen Jianjun's complexion. I saw that he was pale, and he was tired from overwork. The eyes are still bright, but this brightness is not the clarity of the eyes when the spirit is full, but the excitement of concentrating for too long, although tired, but unable to relax.
So Zhang Weizhao knew why the emperor came to her tonight, which was actually a kind of asking for help. But Zhang Weizhao has her own ideas, she is not going to act as Chen Jianjun's painkillers or sleeping pills, she has to start with building the foundation and solve the problem step by step.
It is not only to solve Chen Jianjun's problem, but also to solve his own problem.
"Let's start cleaning today." Chen Jianjun said, turned his head to look to the side, Zhang Weizhao followed his gaze, and saw that on the floor tiles on the north side of the Maoqin Palace, a carpet of tribute from Persia was laid out, and two finely woven futons were placed on the carpet. Between the two futons, there is a long case with an incense burner and several scriptures.
Zhang Weizhao smiled secretly. These furnishings, whether they were placed under Chen Jianjun's instructions, or carefully arranged by the palace people in order to please the emperor, all show that Chen Jianjun's attitude towards cultivation is still very serious.
"Where do we start?" Chen Jianjun asked.
"Where does Your Majesty want to start?" Zhang Weizhao asked rhetorically.