Chapter 019: The Hundred Flowers Fairy is in the world
After Taichen woke up from a nightmare, he felt severe pain all over his body, and immediately howled like a pig. Jiang Pi threw out an apple and gagged her mouth accurately.
She looked around in horror at everyone in the room, Fourth Master Geng and several of his companions, as well as ...... Too good and too breathing! Taichen was like a life-saving straw, and threw her eyes for help to Taixi: Save her, she doesn't want to go to jail or die! Twenty-six years ago, she and her uncle passed by Yangzhou. She was imprisoned and later died in prison - she didn't want to go to jail!
Tai Xi recited a Zen sentence, dodged Taichen's distress gaze, and then looked at Lord Geng.
Lord Geng nodded: "Since you have found the account book in the medicine house, then your suspicion will be eliminated." Taishan and Taixi showed joy on their faces, but Lord Geng changed his words, "However, there is such a pickled old pious woman in your Taoist temple, not only do you not know it, but you also provide her with a place for alchemy and medicine." As a monk, this Taichen is receiving incense, but behind his back, he is doing dirty and harmful deeds, do you know your sins? Taishan and Taixi were so frightened that they kowtowed and apologized.
Jiang Yi flipped through the account book and said, "My lord, in addition to Taichen, there are two other Taoist aunts named Zhenwei and Zhenping, each with one or two or two coins of stolen silver, and one or two or two coins...... Liao Zhiyuan sneered, Jiang Yi shook his head and said, "Although they claim that they don't know anything about what Taichen is doing, and they just help Taichen run errands and deliver letters, but the number of banned drugs in this batch is amazing, and the buyers are not only dozens of Qinglou nearby, but also involve the three major officials of the DPRK and China." Therefore, all those involved in this case must be arrested on the spot, whether they are really innocent or not, wait for the three sessions to be tried. ”
Jiang Pi smiled and said: "Those Dao aunts are really small, just now I just went out and called the name of Zhenwei Zhenping, and let them come forward to be bound, and seven or eight fainted in the courtyard at once!" ”
Lord Geng pondered for a moment and said, "Jiang Yi and Jiang Pi, you two will first detain Taichen and the other two Dao aunts involved in the case in the firewood room of the West Chamber, and you will take turns to guard them, neither can you run away nor die, and we will deal with them when we go down the mountain." ”
Jiang Yi and Jiang Pi got the order and walked out with Taichen and the others. Taichen stared at Tai Xi in despair, hoping that she could plead for herself. Taichen knew that people outside the Fang had many privileges, and even the current saints respected Taoism. As long as she can save her life, she would rather hand over all the forbidden drugs and silver!
However, Tai Xi just recited a Zen phrase and stopped talking. Taichen's hair was scattered, and he lay on the ground with a sad face, and was dragged away by Jiang Yi like a sack. Seeing this scene, the Taoist aunts who were confined to Fumian Courtyard passed out.
Lord Geng glanced at Taixi and the others, and said in a deep voice: "Although you have cleared the charge of making forbidden drugs, you have shielded and appeased the wicked for more than 20 years, and the death penalty can be avoided and the crime of living cannot be escaped." The water business view humiliated the Daomen, and the official ordered you to think about it behind closed doors, and you must not have business dealings with the outside world within half a year, and once you find it, you will be severely punished! Taishan and Taixi hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to thank him.
Duan Xiaolou added coldly: "Do you know, if it weren't for Miss He braving the cold night wind to intercede for you and helping to find evidence, you would all have to spend the rest of your lives in Yangzhou Prison." Taishan and Taixi were so frightened that they kowtowed again and again, shouting "Immeasurable Tianzun, Fushou Tianqi" Yunyun.
In the courtyard of the East Chamber, Zhenjing brought He Angelica a bowl of ginger tea and persuaded her: "If you have a cold, go to the house to sleep for a while, why are you sitting in the yard in a daze?" Our yard is bare, there is not even a single grass, what are you looking at? Let's go back to the house! ”
He Angelica closed his eyes, took a deep breath and said, "It's cool and autumn." Then he walked into the house, and the second monk was puzzled by the fact that he was still in place.
The next day, Taichen was in custody, Taixi was sick, and Taishan was in charge of the Taoist temple alone. The first thing she did after she took office was to have Taichen's seven disciples Zhenshu, Zhengong, Zhenjue and others stunned and tied up with sticks, and asked Cheng Pozi and Wu Pozi to pull down the mountain with a cart and sell them.
Zhenzhu hurriedly stopped Mrs. Cheng and persuaded Taishan a few words, saying that now there is a mess in the medicine house, all the medicinal materials are mixed together and scattered all over the ground, and the medical books are turned into a mess. And in the entire Taoist temple, only Taichen's disciples still know a few herbs, so it is better to let them do chores in the medicine house and the Danfang first, and then slowly dispose of them later.
Taishan's eyes were like two poisonous snakes out of a hole, she gritted her teeth and said that Taichen's disciples and their master breathed out of one nostril, not taking themselves in their eyes, and often monitoring their every move. Now that Taichen can't live by himself, don't think about a good end for those little ones! They must be bought into the lowest kilns, so that they will never be able to get out of the fire pit until they die! This is the end of going against the old lady!
Zhenzhu sighed in her heart and made an excuse to go down. She went around the Taoist temple before quietly leaving the Taoist temple. After waiting halfway up the mountain for a while, she saw Cheng Pozi and Wu Pozi, who had big shoulders and round waists, pushing a two-wheeled mountain cart from a distance, panting down the mountain.
Zhenzhu hurriedly came out to stop their car, and said with a smile: "Granny Cheng, Granny Wu, you can rest and leave, don't be in a hurry at this moment." Just now I passed by the mountain stream and hit the sweet stream, so you two can take a sip and then hurry, right? ”
Mrs. Cheng put the car down, wiped her sweat and glanced at the real pearl, and sneered: "Hmph, your master said that your eyes were wrong when you went out, I was afraid that I was going to come out and disturb our good things, and sure enough, you really came!" You've been waiting here for a long time, haven't you? ”
Zhenzhu's smile froze.
Wu Pozi looked at her impatiently, and said in a rough voice: "Zhenzhu, we have to hurry at dawn, you get out of the way!" You are a promising person, and you will be the new master in the future, these stinky girls will always get along with you in the future, what do you care about this idle business? ”
Zhenzhu forced a smile on her face, and persuaded bitterly: "Anyway, we all stayed in the water business view, the rabbit died and the fox was sad and hurt, so the two mothers-in-law will leave them a way to live!" Don't buy it and go to the Qinglou, just find a rich man and sell it to the current person! ”
Mrs. Cheng laughed shamefully: "Oh, Zhenzhu, you are a kind-hearted person, are we all black-hearted?" But if you sell them as maids, you can only get a total of fifteen yuan; If you sell it to a kiln, each person can sell it for at least seven taels of silver, and seven people are more than fifty taels of silver! There is so much difference in the middle, who will fill this hole? We're just an errand runner, and we're going to take the money and go to your master to pay for it! The idea of selling me as a kiln sister is not mine, and it is useless for you to look for me! ”
Zhenzhu was overjoyed, and hurriedly nodded: "This is easy to do, I'll give you the money!" Well, I still have a little savings, enough for fifty taels of silver, and I can withdraw money from the money in the money bank in Rabbit Town. But now that I'm sneaking out of the Taoist temple, I'm going to rush back immediately to hand over the affairs. In this way, the two of them will first send them to the big family and sell them, and then they will stay at the Yuelai Inn and wait, and I will send you money by tomorrow morning at the latest! ”
Mrs. Cheng laughed and said, "You look at our two old women so confused!" If you don't come at that time, we won't dare to go back to the Taoist temple to make a living, so we can only go somewhere else to make a living. If you get your wish, your master will also give us a charge of 'absconding with money', and then report to the official to arrest us!" What a calculation! ”
Wu Pozi looked at Zhenzhu's old robe disdainfully, and asked rhetorically: "Didn't you say that you were kicked out by your husband and in-laws and asked for food all the way to Shuishangguan?" Why did you come up with fifty taels of money? ”
Zhenzhu was speechless, so he had to open his hand to block the mountain road and insisted: "My Zhenzhu is a good talker, and I will never be bad, fifty taels of silver is not a lot of money for me, I can definitely afford it!" The two of you believe me this time, and they also save a blessing for themselves and accumulate yin virtue. Granny Cheng, you are a person with a granddaughter, look at them and think about your granddaughter again, you can send back kindness! ”
Mrs. Cheng spit out a mouthful of phlegm to the front of Zhenzhu's placket and scolded: "Phew! These cheap hooves are born to be cheap, and they don't even deserve to lift shoes for my granddaughter! How dare you compare them to my granddaughter, you are tired of being crooked? "In the early years, Mrs. Cheng's daughter worked as a maid for a large family, and later because she had the flesh and blood of the young master, she was promoted to a roommate. Then she gave birth to a daughter, who was smart and beautiful, and was very favored in that family. Therefore, this granddaughter is the pride of Mrs. Cheng's family, and she is counting on her to marry in a good place and pull the whole family to live a life of wearing gold and silver.
Wu Pozi pushed Zhenzhu and said coldly: "If you want money, you can give it now, and if you don't have money, give way, otherwise you will go back to your master to complain, and you won't have your good fruit to eat!" Zhenzhu bit her lip and still refused to give way.
"Well, I'll give you money." Suddenly, a colder voice came from behind the two of them.
Mrs. Cheng and Mrs. Wu looked back together, and saw a girl wearing a narrow coat with small sleeves, a light apricot skirt, and a lotus tassel cloak standing behind them. The wind in the mountains and forests kept pulling at her clothes, lifting one of her green silk into the sky, and wanted to let her whole body ride away from the wind. Mrs. Cheng is already an old woman who is over half a hundred years old, and she can see the beautiful scenery, and she can't help but shake her spirit. If her granddaughter is a delicate flower, this one in front of her is simply a flower fairy!
Because she felt that the person in front of her had compared her precious granddaughter, Mrs. Cheng's tone was very unkind: "Yo, it turned out to be Miss He, aren't you a lady, why are you so rude?" The housework of our Taoist temple is not your turn to take care of it! "When I was locked up in Fumian Courtyard yesterday, I heard Taishan say that He Angelica might be able to help them intercede, so Mrs. Cheng treated He Angelica as a fairy and Bodhisattva, and hung it on her mouth for half a night.
Now that time has passed, Mrs. Cheng has changed her face. She didn't hide the contempt in her eyes, looking up and down at He Angelica, phew, what a high-ranking daughter, isn't she just a wild girl with no father and no mother, and now she still has to live in their Taoist temple. Even if she has a beautiful face, she will be a concubine and a little in the future!
He Angelica was robbed of white, but he was not shocked or angry, a pair of rippling black eyes stared at Cheng Pozi with a smile, and said: "There are fifty taels of silver here, I don't know if you can be accommodating and sell the people in the car to a good family?" ”
Mrs. Cheng took the bag suspiciously, opened it, and suddenly her eyes straightened. There are five silver ingots in ten taels! Mrs. Cheng changed her face again, her face was red and shiny, her whole face smiled like a chrysanthemum, and she nodded again and again and said, "Okay, okay, okay!" Tsk, she is worthy of being a young lady from the Luo family, and she is really generous! Miss He, you are good-looking and kind-hearted, and you will definitely be able to marry a good husband in the future! ”
He Angelica smiled slightly: "Then please leave this matter to the two of you, the road is easy to walk." ”