Chapter 57: The Pearl of the East China Sea
Mingyue Palace was built in the last years of the former Wei Dynasty, and Wei was the name of the previous dynasty. At that time, the world was in turmoil, the princes stood side by side, and the Jiangdong Ying clan was in a corner of peace and orthodoxy. After the rise of the Great Zhou Taizu, he swept the world, in order to coerce the public opinion and echo the orthodoxy of the Jiangdong Ying clan in the previous dynasty, but the orphans of the previous dynasty were mourned, and only one daughter was left, which was the princess of Dongping. After Taizu ascended the throne, he treated him well, regarded it as his own, and promised it to the Jiangdong Ying clan to win the hearts of the people. And renamed Jiangcheng Yuxiang County as Dongping County for generations as the fief of the princess of Dongping, and established a prayer platform in Dongping to express that it does not forget the legacy of the previous dynasty.
After that, it was a big construction, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build a princess mansion for the princess of Dongping in Dongping County, Jiangdong Ying and the royal family are not short of money, so the princess of Dongping is built bigger and bigger, only slightly inferior to the two Kyoto cities, and finally simply named after the palace.
Princess Dongping doesn't like red makeup and loves arms, so she simply named Mingyue Palace and inherited martial arts to start a sect. It is bordered by the East China Sea, and takes the meaning of the bright moon on the sea. In Dongping County, Dongping County, Dongping County, and the East China Sea pray for the three-legged platform.
Before his death, Taizu also issued a decree that Dongping County would be hereditary and replaced, inherited by the bloodline of Princess Dongping, the daughter of the Ying family, and the title of Dongping County Lord, because the fief was in Dongping County, so it was also called Dongping County Lord.
The contemporary county lord of Dongping is Ying Lanqi, the lord of Mingyue Palace, that is, the granddaughter of Princess Dongping.
"Mingyue Palace doesn't only accept female disciples, it's just that because the palace masters of the past dynasties are all women, the proportion of female disciples is slightly higher. Zhuo Shan patiently explained to Chen An, who smiled calmly, but only God knows where his mind drifted.
Last night, after the Jade Dream Bird and the people from the Mingyue Palace converged, they had no scruples, and they hurried overnight, and appeared in front of a magnificent palace at dawn. The resplendor is not enough to describe its eventuality, red bricks and green tiles, carved beams and paintings, extremely luxurious.
Chen An walked on the flat green brick road, and always had a feeling of familiarity, but he didn't want to think deeply, so he had to forcibly focus his attention on Zhuo Shan, who was leading the way in front.
Tak Shan dutifully acted as a tour guide.
"The front of the Chaohua Palace is the main hall of the Mingyue Palace, but there are all major events in the palace, they are discussed here, and the Yueying Pavilion behind is the residence of the palace master, although it is not a forbidden place, but you are a man, you must abide by the palace rules after entering the palace, and you can not break in at will. ”
Chen An pursed his lips, how awkward the word "entering the palace" sounded. I also saw Zhuo Shan pointing to a building complex in the east and said: "There are Tingchaofang, Guanhai Garden, Xiaoyin Pavilion, and Nishang Hall are all where the disciples in the palace practice, and even the Wujing General Library is also located there. Our Mingyue Palace's Tibetan Scripture Pavilion inherited the Martial Arts Pavilion of the previous dynasty, with a collection of more than 40,000 books involving all kinds of divine skills, you can go there to choose the right martial arts practice for yourself after apprenticeship, of course, your master will give you guidance and solve doubts......"
Somehow, a strange scene came to Chen An's mind, a middle-aged man dressed in a green coat embroidered with a four-clawed python pointed to a seven-story pavilion and said to him: "This is the secret vault of the Holy Court Martial Mansion, which contains 760,000 books, not only all kinds of magic secret books, but also the number of tricks, Qimen Dunjia, the Poison Sutra of Medicine, even the barbarian thaumaturgy such as taming beasts and feeding Gu are also involved, and you will learn here from now on." ”
He was in a trance, the scene so realistic that it slowly overlapped with the current situation.
Zhuo Shan said: "The west side is the Wuying Palace, which is the residence of our disciples, divided into the front hall and the back hall, the male disciples live in the front hall, and the female disciples live in the back hall. She gave a rare playful smile, but in exchange for Chen An's expressionless nod. Zhuo Shan said in her heart that she was still smiling just now, but now she is cold, this Senior Brother Ming's temper is really changeable, is it really like Uncle Yu said that he hurt his brain when he searched for treasures?
She looked at Xu Qingrui who was walking with her head down at the back of the team, wondering, why is this little girl so quiet today, she chatters and makes noise on weekdays, it seems that she has really grown up and knows how to pretend to be a lady in front of the guests.
Just when she was thinking nonsense, the group had already arrived at the Chaohua Palace.
Two rows on the left and right of the Chaohua Palace, roughly looking, there are no less than 100 people, all of them are deacons in the palace, a pair of beautiful women who are ten years old are on the throne, this woman is not wearing palace clothes, wearing a water blue silk Luo skirt, pure white jacket, long hair in a bun, phoenix eyes with might, it is Ying Lanqi, the master of Mingyue Palace.
Qi Yan, a beautiful woman in a silk dress, walked in first, standing first on the left, while Granny Yu only stood at the end of the left head, leaving the three Zhuo Shan sisters to stand outside the hall with Yumengying's mother and son.
It didn't take long for the people in the hall to withdraw one after another, but Chen An and the others were called in, Ying Lanqi first smiled at Yu Mengying and said, "Senior Sister Yu, don't come unharmed." Even when she smiled, her forehead was slightly raised, her back was straight, and she was full of luxury.
Although Yu Mengying was called senior sister, she didn't dare to take it big, so she hurriedly bowed down and saluted: "Disciple Yu Mengying, I have seen the palace master, and the matter of the dream warbler, the palace master has bothered a lot." ”
Ying Lanqi still smiled: "It's okay, you are a disciple of Mingyue Palace for one day, and you will be a disciple of Mingyue Palace for the rest of your life. ”
Yu Mengying breathed a sigh of relief, and turned her head to Chen An as if she had put down a falling rock, "Don't hurry up and apprentice." ”
Although Chen An's memory is lost, there is a pride in his heart, he can play a clown in front of Yu Mengying, but there is always some resistance in the face of other people, but his mother is urging him tightly, so he has to wait for Ai Ai to come forward, and he is about to bow down, but he heard Ying Lanqi wave his hand and say: "This matter is not urgent, the matter of apprenticeship is very important, of course, the palace should accept apprentices to be courteous and thorough, edict the whole palace, encyclical martial arts, you first be a registered disciple in the palace, and then hold a ceremony of apprenticeship." ”
Yu Mengying's heart was cold, Ying Lanqi's move was not to see the rabbit and not scatter the eagle.
Then I heard Ying Lanqi say: "Although he is a registered disciple, he should be treated according to the palace master's personal hand, Senior Sister Qi, you will personally order it." ”
"Slap and give a sweet date", Yu Mengying thought, but the situation is stronger than people, what else can I say, fortunately, Mingyue Palace accepted this child, our plan is half successful, as long as Jie'er is properly hidden during this time and survives this time.
The smile on her face remained unchanged, she took Chen An to bow down, thanked Ying Lanqi, and followed Qi Yan to settle down.
Xu Qingrui left with them, and only Ying Lanqi, Zhuo Shan and Li Caiyi were left in the huge palace.
Ying Lanqi got up and said, "You come with me." Then he turned into the apse and left.
Zhuo Shan and Li Caiyi glanced at each other and hurriedly followed.
The three of them came all the way to Ying Lanqi's residence, Yueying Pavilion, and Ying Lanqi sat down at the top of the hall, and began to bow her head and meditate without speaking. Zhuo Shan and Li Caiyi stood aside, not daring to be impatient.
After a long time, a middle-aged woman walked into the hall door, wearing a plain robe that was incompatible with the bright colors of the women in the palace, looking like an ordinary peasant village woman, but the plain robe was clean and crisp, and the hair with a few silver strands was combed neatly, and this temperament was not comparable to that of ordinary village girls.
Zhuo Shan and Li Caiyi saw the visitor, their faces were flushed with a hint of joy, Li Caiyi shouted first: "Master, is your old man out of the customs?" The person who came was none other than her master, Zhuang Lan, the great elder of Mingyue Palace.
Zhuang Lan was also happy when she saw the two of them, but she reprimanded: "Why are you so rude in front of the palace master?"
Ying Lanqi had just ascended to the position of palace master, and she was already not strict, she had seen them get close before, but now she interjected: "Senior sister, Mr. Shang has settled down?"
Zhuang Lan nodded and said: "Mr. Shang has an old relationship with the ancestor, it is not difficult to ask him for help, after the matter is completed, organize someone to copy a copy of what he deserves to him, the key is still in the Ming family, clear about the truth of the treasure, before deciding the trade-off." ”
Ying Lanqi looked at Zhuo Shan and the two and said, "You should tell what you saw this time, as it is, and don't miss a mistake." ”
Zoshan hurriedly complied.
Half an hour later, Zhuang Lan muttered, "So the family is willing to hand over the key to us with Ming Shaojie?"
Ying Lanqi had already gotten the news, but she didn't know it very well, and after listening to Zhuo Shan's description, she nodded slowly and said: "Yu Mengying really means this, I want to use the key of Wujing Pavilion as a bargaining chip to let us shelter Ming Shaojie, I have some concerns so I didn't agree directly." ”
Zhuang Lan approvingly: "The palace master is cautious, this is good, our Mingyue Palace is also in the position of a bull's ear in Jiangdong, if you make a promise easily, you can't fulfill it when the time comes, and it will make fun of the people in the rivers and lakes." This time, countless sects from all over the world have gathered here, even we must be cautious, otherwise it will be a catastrophe, whether it can guarantee the safety of her son, no one can say. ”
Zhuo Shan's voice trembled, and she said with three points of disbelief: "Master, it's really so serious. ”
Zhuang Lan nodded solemnly: "Because the treasure is suspected to be the secret vault of the former Dynasty Wufu, so this time there are many sects like carp crossing the river, among which there are countless stronger than us, and if you don't deal with it properly, it will indeed make us very passive." ”
She paused and continued: "But there is no need to be too pessimistic, there is Mr. Shang in charge, at most a competition to determine the seat, it should not be able to fight, after all, the one who did it is still that treasure, if it is really the 'Wufu Secret Vault', everyone can share it, there is no need to fight to the death." ”
Zhuo Shan's face was a little pale, but Ying Lanqi still looked worried.
"I'm afraid that the court will interfere. ”
Hearing this, Zhuang Lan also showed a cautious expression: "The imperial court and the north are sharpening their knives, and the war is about to break out, and there is no time to care about our life or death, I am afraid that the Fuzhou Guard will be involved, Feng Zhengyan is not a good match." ”
Li Caiyi said strangely: "Aren't we on good terms with the imperial court? How could Feng Zhengyan come to deal with us." ”
Zhuang Lan smiled bitterly and rubbed her head: "Silly girl, that's what outsiders think, once a son of heaven and a courtier, our existence has long made the kings of the past generations dissatisfied. Therefore, the old palace master insisted on building the Mingyue Palace in the direction of the Jianghu sect, and tried to stay away from the temple as much as possible. Now it seems that it is definitely a wise move, the Holy Lord ignores the dynamics of the Bright Moon Palace, and acquiesces in our actions. He will already be the greatest mercy to us if he does not kill them all. ”
Li Caiyi was silent, knowing for the first time that under the glamorous appearance of Mingyue Palace, it was difficult to take such a wrong step and never recover. Zoshan's mood also became depressed.
"I'm not worried about Feng Zhengyan, firstly, the imperial court will not deliberately deal with us if it still wants to maintain its superficial brilliance, and secondly, he secretly has his own holy court's martial arts secret vault, and there is not much demand for treasures, so there is no reason to be embarrassed by us, at most he will fish in troubled waters on the side. ”
Ying Lanqi said with a faint expression: "What I'm worried about is the matter of Haizhou at the beginning of the year, Haizhou and Fuzhou are so close, I'm afraid of ......"
As soon as the word "Haizhou" came out, there was silence in the hall, and Zhuang Lanqiang smiled: "You think too much, now that the war situation in the north is tight, it seems that characters like him must have been transferred to the north by the saint as soon as possible, how could they stay in the south." ”
Ying Lanqi sighed lightly and said, "I hope so." ”