So in the fifth year of Yuanqing, in this gloomy March, Master Tongji experienced a conversation that made him laugh and be suspicious.

At present, Yijing went to Foguo Temple to find Master Tongji to "play", and he really didn't need to find excuses, he just had to say a word to the eldest princess, and brought all the "whole people", and he could make the trip at any time.

No one cares if she really went to Foguo Temple to learn chess skills with the master, or if she had other plans.

One sentence straight to the point, let Tongji open his mouth -

"Master, do you remember the flood this summer?"

Tongji: ......

"It's just that I didn't pay much attention back then, I only remember that it was in the state, but I don't remember the name of the specific county." The scenery sighed lightly.

Tongji: ???

"Why, the master is also ......"

Tongji smiled bitterly in his heart - the words of the little donor are too difficult for people to continue, what does this mean? Prince of Chu, which trick are you and this little benefactor fighting? I had to say speciously: "The poor monk didn't pay too much attention to it." ”

Seeing Yijing, he sighed again, and his eyebrows and eyes were almost squeezed together: "In this way, it can't save the natural disaster." ”

Tongji could hardly help but ask - natural disaster! What natural disaster? There will be floods this summer, where does the donor know?

"Master, I have another reluctant request."

Tong Jiqiang suppressed his curiosity and titheed: "The poor monk listens." ”

"I'm going to use the master's reputation for the art of yin and yang, and if anyone asks, I will ask the master to turn around."

Tongji really wanted to get to the bottom of it, and silently recited the meditation mantra before holding back, and sincerely agreed to this "reluctant request", and played a game with Yijing, of course, as if he had been hit by a hurricane in his mind, and almost broke the fiasco of a certain monk who had practiced for many years.

Yijing said goodbye contentedly.

When her car and the sight of Tongji had just disappeared, the monk was no longer able to hold back, and quickly summoned a little novice - go, go to the palace of the king of Chu, and invite the prince to come immediately, saying that the poor monk has 100,000 urgent matters.

A Buddhist monk who "has a heart like water" and "the six are empty" actually used the words "100,000 urgent", Yu Feng would not ignore it, and rushed to the Buddha Temple, when he heard Master Tongji's heart-pounding explanation, Yu Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly - he knew that when Ash Du "confessed" to Jiang Wei, it would cause a lot of trouble, and Yijing could be regarded as coping with it, but she picked up the words so obviously, how could she not let Tongji feel heartbroken.

Buddhist monks are also flesh and blood, and when they encounter such a strange thing, curiosity is inevitable.

Not to mention...... Yu Feng thought that Tongji's "Buddhist monk" was just a name.

"Buddhism calls the six realms of reincarnation, all sentient beings cannot escape, I wonder what the master thinks, after the end of this life, will there be the possibility of starting over?" Yu Feng was stunned when he saw Tongji, and sighed lightly: "Master, I am like this, and so is Su Wuniang." ”

"No wonder...... The benefactor will be instructed in his letter. Tongji recalled Yu Feng's book that day, and then it was like an initiation: "The wonders of the world are really mysterious and profound, beyond human imagination. ”

"For some of these reasons, I don't want her to know that I'm going through this too, and I ask the master to continue to turn around." Yu Feng said again.

"Since the prince knows the identity of the poor monk, it seems that in that reincarnation, the poor monk should be ......" Tongji swallowed the four words of catastrophe, thinking of Yu Feng many years ago, he persuaded him to give up the plan, and praised the Buddha's name lightly: "It's just that the female donor just now said that the summer flood is ......."

"It does happen, but I've made some arrangements, but I hope to keep the damage to a minimum." Yu Feng didn't say much.

At this time in his previous life, although he was still on the sickbed, he naturally knew more about what happened than Yijing, he knew where the five counties were, and he had hesitated whether he should admonish him, ask the holy decree to help the people of the five counties avoid danger, but finally gave up.

This matter is not simple, first, if you ask Tongji to use the "yin and yang hexagram" as an excuse, not to mention whether you can persuade the courtiers to believe, even if you believe it, there will be endless troubles - once this matter spreads, it will push Tongji to the cusp, ordinary people do not say it, once the nobles think that Tongji can cut off people's blessings and misfortunes, "the wind surges" will bring endless trouble, and according to past experience, all the masters in the world who have "insight into the heavens" are often the most feared by the royal family, and most of them will not die well.

Another point - to say that the flood in Yuanqing five years is not serious, compared with the drought in Longxi during the first emperor, the scope of the disaster is much smaller, and the number of people who died from the flood itself is not too many, but there were people who concealed the disaster until the outbreak of the plague, so that there were people infected with malaria in the counties and towns of Bingzhou, and the saint received a report.

Although the saint attached great importance to it after learning about it, not only allocated a huge amount of money in the household department, but also ordered the Qincha to go to the disaster area to supervise the disaster relief, but the Qincha back then was a member of the Jinxiang party.

The imperial court spent millions of silver to make the medicine merchants rich overnight, but the number of people who died of the epidemic reached 100,000! It is several times more than the total population of the five affected counties!

At that time, the Jinxiang henchmen only put all the blame on those county orders, saying that in the past 100 years, there have been no floods in the prefecture, and it should be the unfavorable supervision of the county orders, so that the embankment fell into disrepair, which led to this disaster, and if it were not for the county orders worried that the court would condemn the crime and conceal the disaster, the plague would not have been allowed to run rampant.

Yu Feng intuited that there must be a great strange thing, but he checked the state chronicles of the state over the years, and found that Jin Xiang had a word but it was not bad, in the past hundred years, there has indeed been no such a major flood in the state, even if in the last years of Emperor Mourning, there was a torrential rain for more than a month, so that the Dinghe flood, but the affected places were concentrated in Shuozhou, Zhili, and the state was safe and sound.

Why?

If we do not find out the hidden situation and eradicate the hidden dangers, even if we can avoid this flood, we will not be able to avoid the future after all.

He doesn't have insight into the heavens, and he doesn't know anything about what will happen ten years after Yuanqing.

Therefore, Yu Feng plans to take this opportunity to investigate the flooding in the state and find out clearly.

To say that a few years ago, Yu Feng was concerned about this matter, when there was a staff member in the palace of the king of Chu, who was quite familiar with water conservancy, Yu Feng sent him to Bingzhou and his party to see the construction of the embankment in the five counties along the river, whether there were hidden dangers, but the person was obscure, only said - there is no embankment that cannot be destroyed by floods, and any embankment is not 100% insurance.

This answer seems to have a profound meaning.

But no matter how Yu Feng asked, the staff member closed his mouth and refused to speak, and finally left without saying goodbye, not knowing where to go.

After returning to Beijing the year before last, Yu Feng also asked the Ministry of Water under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, but the official in charge said that the embankments along the river in Bingzhou were repaired on time every year, and there was no difference from other places.

According to the investigation by the people of Graydu, the county orders of the five counties really attach great importance to the prevention of flooding.

Then why does Yuanqing only have more than ten consecutive days of rain in the fifth year of Yuanqing, which will cause floods?

Yu Feng also felt at a loss, so he carefully inquired about one of the few protégés of the hermit Youtan, Qiao Jizhong, who knew water conservancy very well, and entrusted Wei Yuan to invite him to come out and temporarily enter the Tianchawei.

That person was quite stubborn, Yu Feng had personally visited several times, but he had rejected them, and he only hoped that Wei Yuan could finally convince Qiao Jizhong.

However, Wei Yuan was also refused, and in desperation, he had to complete another task arranged by Yu Feng first.

It is not clear whether this man can play a role in the flooding, but it is clear that the current officials in charge of the Ministry of Works are not very credible.

So, try to get it again.

Let's say that at the moment, when the prince learned that Yijing was also paying attention to this matter, let Ash Du secretly investigate, and learned that she pointed to "Huanghuahua" very targetedly, he was a little surprised, guessing that she should be insufficient in principal, and hit the abacus on the eldest princess, so he colluded with Tongji to "cheat", and thought about this, whether it was his plan, or Yijing itself, and even the Guogong Mansion were beneficial and harmless, he didn't want to interfere, and let Yijing play.

Yijing had already returned to the Guogong Mansion at this time, and was "stunned" for a while in Yuanying Hall, the eldest princess was talking to Linglong, asking if Dong Yin, the wife of the prince, had been going well recently - it turned out that since the first month, the Lantern Festival feast, Huang had let Dong Yin follow her to familiarize herself with the general affairs, and recently handed over the sewing room and kitchen procurement to Dong Yin to supervise, the eldest princess was satisfied with Huang's behavior, but she was worried that Dong Yin was still young and a bride, and she was afraid that her prestige would be insufficient, and she would be secretly troubled by the servants below, often asked.

While speaking, the eldest princess also noticed that Yijing was absent-minded, and it was inevitable that she was a little lonely, and when she asked that everything was still in order, she waved her hand, and let Linglong pass on a few porridge points, and then said with a smile: "What's wrong with Jing girl today, she was still excited when she went out, and when she came back, she was like a frosted eggplant, what kind of stunned person was she alone, is it that she lost the battle again, and she is unwilling?" ”

Yijing got up from the brocade pier on the side, sat next to each other on the edge of the kang, and smiled at first: "Grandmother is wrong this time, I finally won once." ”

"What's the trouble then, I'll give you an idea."

Yi Jing waited for this sentence, and asked mysteriously: "Grandmother has always not believed in ghosts and gods, but can I believe that there are really strange people in the world who can understand the yin and yang hexagram?" ”

The eldest princess chuckled: "What kind of thing to sell, it's not really recruited." ”

"I originally heard Brother Feng say that Master Tongji has a strange skill, and at first he was skeptical, but today he made a bet with the master by learning chess skills, and if he was lucky enough to win him, let him make a divination and predict what will happen this year...... As a result, the master said that this summer, there will be torrential rains in northern China, which seems to cause floods, and there will be plagues in Bingzhou and other places. "The scenery is as planned.

Although she has some plans, she is not 100% sure in her heart, because she knows that her grandmother does not believe in the will of those ghosts and gods, and although she usually does many good deeds, she does not worship gods and Buddhas like other families, and she doesn't know if she can be persuaded with this reason.

"I don't believe in ghosts and gods, but everything in this world, the mysteries are also not explained by ordinary people, but I think that if it is really a strange person, it will not be widely publicized and demagoguery, and there are those who claim to be able to understand yin and yang, most of them are just seeking money or power." The eldest princess was really skeptical.

"The master is unwilling to speak lightly, but he can't bear my entanglement." Yijing followed up and said Jiang Wei's incident as evidence, seeing that her grandmother believed it a little more, she said in one go: "To put it mildly, since the beginning of winter, the climate is very weird, and my granddaughter also heard that there is a spring drought in many places in the south. The lack of this important medicinal material is a disaster. ”

The eldest princess was a little confused: "Is there no medicine on the market?" ”

"Zhu Bo said that although there is, but for fear of disaster, the pharmacists sit on the ground and raise the price, speculating and selling this ordinary medicinal material, and it is the common people who suffer." Yi Jing said: "I didn't think about it at first, Dao Zhu Bo is worried about the sky, since the founding of Dalong, I have never heard of the outbreak of the plague, I never thought of going to Foguo Temple today, I heard Master Tongji have this assertion...... Grandmother, granddaughter remember, and the state seems to be your food ......"

The eldest princess also paid some attention to it at this time, and pondered for a while before asking Yijing: "What are you going to do?" ”

"My granddaughter thought that it would be better to take advantage of the low price of Artemisia annua at this time to buy some from everywhere, and if there is a natural disaster at that time, it can also save people's lives." Yijing finally said this.

"Although I can't fully believe the words of ghosts and gods, this matter is nothing, and the big deal is just a loss-making deal." The eldest princess is a transparent person, although she vaguely feels that there is something strange in it, but because of her trust in the beautiful scenery, it is indeed not a big deal to take care of this matter, but she nodded lightly: "You can do this, first see how much you can buy and how much principal you need." ”

Things went so smoothly, Yi Jing sighed, and then swept away the sullenness, and was about to leave, and immediately asked the shopkeeper Zhu to enter the house to discuss, but was stopped by the eldest princess: "You are not here today, but Chen'er came back earlier." ”

"Big sister?" Yi Jing was very surprised: "Since you're back, why don't you wait for me, I miss her." ”

"It's with King Fu, for the sake of getting things done." The eldest princess thought of Yichen's words, frowned slightly, and didn't feel a trace of sharpness in her eyes, when she saw that Yijing's eyes were full of attention, and even nervously pulled the jade pendant on her skirt, the eldest princess just mentioned Li Concubine's calculations, and only instructed Yijing to be more careful when going to the banquet during this time, in case those who have evil intentions calculate, and finally sighed: "My scene, it's about to end in a blink of an eye." ”