The next day, when everything was recovering, he walked out of the house, and Hua Manlou was already sitting on the stone platform, teasing a little golden finch in his hand while tasting fragrant tea.

As Li Yi walked out, the little finch that was originally in Hua Manlou's hand suddenly flew up, and then landed on Li Yi, who was walking slowly, chattering non-stop, extremely cheerful.

Seeing this, Hua Manlou couldn't help but shake his head and sighed lightly, "I also specially fed it some food before, and now you run to where you are as soon as you go out, it really hurts it in vain." ”

Li Yi teased the little finch on his left shoulder with his right hand, and said with a smile: "I don't know why, some small animals have always been close to me since I was a child." ”

Hua Manlou said with a smile: "To be able to get the love of these innocent little animals, Brother Li must be very kind in his heart." ”

Li Yi shook his head, he was kind in his heart, Li Yi never thought of himself like this, as long as it had nothing to do with him, even if the sky fell, Li Yi would not necessarily care, and in the face of the enemy, he would definitely act vigorously and kill him under the sword.

"Lu Xiaofeng, I really can't do anything about this, you can't be unreasonable like this, you can't bully an honest monk!"

Turning his head, he saw Lu Xiaofeng walking out of the outside like a gust of wind, sitting directly on the stone bench, picking up the teacup in front of Li Yi and drinking it, causing a black line to flash Li Yi's brows again.

"Lu Xiaofeng, I really can't do anything about this, you asked me to send out all the ribbons, but now you ask me to find two more for you, where am I going to find you now!" When Lu Xiaofeng was gobbling up, a monk with a wide body and a fat body, a round face and big ears also walked quickly into the courtyard.

Later, he noticed Li Yi and Hua Manlou in the courtyard.

The monk didn't expect that there were other people in the courtyard, so he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then saluted: "I've seen the flower donor, I've seen this donor." ”

Li Yi and Hua Manlou nodded slightly in return.

"This person is a dishonest and honest monk in Ciyun Temple, don't look at him with a fat head and big ears, his uncle Master Shengtong is also a master of entering the congenital, and he was also a Buddhist disciple. ”

"This is Li Yi, the thirteenth prince of the Tang Dynasty. Lu Xiaofeng chewed the food in his mouth and introduced vaguely.

After Lu Xiaofeng's introduction, the honest monk saluted again, "It turned out to be the thirteenth prince who won the first place in the Tang Dynasty prince competition some time ago, and the poor monk is honest and polite." ”

It's just that Li Yi is a little curious about what this master Shengtong did to provoke him to be expelled from Buddhism, but in front of an honest monk, this matter is not easy to ask, so he can only suppress it temporarily.

"The master is too modest, it's just a small fight!" Li Yi smiled, but in his heart he was a bing, Buddhism and Taoism are the same, very secretive, ordinary people are hard to find, although there are many Taoist temples now, but there is not one of them that really belongs to Buddhism and Taoism.

After the introduction, the honest monk continued to wrap around Lu Xiaofeng, "Lu Xiaofeng, you can't be so unreasonable, the ribbons that can allow warriors to enter the palace to watch the battle were sent out by you, but now you ask me to find two more for you, both of them are sent out, where can I find them for you?"

Lu Xiaofeng rolled his eyes, "If there is no ribbon, how will you let the two of them go in when the time comes?" said and pointed to Li Yi and Hua Manlou.

Hearing the words of Lu Xiaofeng and the honest monk, Li Yi and Hua Manlou suddenly understood.

The decisive battle between Ye Gucheng and Ximen Blowing Snow at the top of the Forbidden City has already caused a stir in the rivers and lakes, and everyone wants to enter the palace to watch, but where is the Daming Palace? How can it be possible for many people from the rivers and lakes to gather in it.

However, for the decisive battle between the two top swordsmen in the world, the annoying sword warriors are all fascinated, even the palace makes everyone can't bear the curiosity and fascination in their hearts, and they are naturally unwilling to give up.

Therefore, the palace decided to send out forty specially made ribbons from the palace, and those who obtained the ribbons could enter the palace to watch the battle between the two masters.

However, some time ago, Lu Xiaofeng was in a hurry, where did he still have time to deal with the warriors who kept coming to the door to ask for ribbons, and then handed over this matter to the honest monk.

Now it seems that he forgot to say that he said it at the time, and sent out all the ribbons, and he didn't even leave the one for himself and Hua Manlou.

Seeing this, Li Yi smiled lightly, "It's okay, with my identity, even if I bring Brother Hua to watch the battle, presumably the Lord of the Ming Dynasty will not have any opinions." ”

When the honest monk heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, "Yes, as the thirteenth prince, it is not a piece of cake to bring someone into the palace to watch the battle, and this ribbon is naturally useless." ”

Then he laughed twice, "What, monk, I still have some things, I won't be here for long, Lu Xiaofeng, if you have something, find the monk and me!" After speaking, he left quickly, and his naïve attitude caused Hua Manlou to chuckle again and again.

After the honest monk left, Lu Xiaofeng, who was still a little lazy, sat up straight in an instant.

"There is a problem with the honest monk. ”

The first sentence of his exit also made Hua Manlou feel slightly surprised, "What do you say?"

"During this time, I always feel that this decisive battle is a little strange in the palace, and a series of things that have happened recently are all strange, but no matter what, every time I find the most important, the honest monk will appear and break the clue, just once, but it appears three times in a row, even if I don't want to doubt it, there is no way. ”

Then Lu Xiaofeng said the things he had found out during this period of time in turn, including his own suspicions and suspicions.

Li Yi nodded, "It seems that this honest monk does have a problem, although it can be explained every time, but if there are many coincidences, it is not a coincidence, but inevitable." ”

Lu Xiaofeng also nodded, "I think the same way, but I still can't figure out why the honest monk would do this if it wasn't a coincidence." ”

Li Yi was suddenly silent for a moment at this time, and then suddenly asked, "Lu Xiaofeng, you said that the snake you gave to Master Shengtong before was only one foot, and it was silvery-white?"

Lu Xiaofeng nodded, "Yes, that cold poisonous snake is indeed like this." ”

Li Yi glanced at Hua Manlou, the latter also glanced at him, and then sighed, "Needless to say, not only the honest monk, but even the so-called Buddhist disciple Master Shengtong has a problem, the snake you took is not an icy cold viper at all, although the icy viper is called icy cold, but its toxicity is fiery cold, so the bursts of icy poisonous snakes are half silver-white and half-fiery red, and they are definitely not silver-white all over." ”

Lu Xiaofeng's face was raised slightly, his eyebrows were furrowed, and his face was a little solemn.

Not only him, but also Li Yi and Hua Manlou, as the three of them investigated, the things became more and more confusing, but what was revealed showed that there must be some premeditation in this decisive battle.

Halfway through, Lu Xiaofeng sighed lightly, shook his head and said, "Forget it, I'm going to go to the West Gate to see Ouyang Qing later, do you want to go?"

This time I came to Daming, in addition to being able to avoid those who constantly wanted to visit after the war, there was also to meet the legendary Ye Gucheng and Ximen Blowing Snow.

But after thinking about it for a while, Li Yi still refused, "Someone has noticed me recently, for the sake of safety, I'm still here for the time being!"

Lu Xiaofeng nodded, and then left with Hua Manlou.

It was still noon, and Fang Ze once again arrived at the Rouge Pavilion and reported what he had found to Li Yi.

But this time, Li Yi heard another important thing from Fang Ze's message: "Are you saying that Shengtong originally started communicating with Nan Shizi and Ye Gucheng three years ago?"

Fang Ze replied: "Yes, if it weren't for the fact that our people in Ciyun Temple had helped Shengtong deliver the news in the past three years, I'm afraid no one would know about this." ”

"Are there any details about Shengtong?" asked Li Yi.

Fang Ze nodded, and handed over the information that had already been prepared to Li Yi.

"Shengtong, the first year of the ninth month of the fifth birth, at the age of eighty-nine stepped into the congenital, once located in the Buddhist Jinyun master under the door, but three years ago was suddenly expelled from the division, it is said that because Shengtong is too competitive, not suitable for Buddhism, after the Ciyun Temple to do the host. ”

There is very little information that can be found, but Li Yi keenly noticed that the time when he was expelled from the sect was also the time when the prince of Pingnan had a change, and the reason for his expulsion from the sect was also a bit strange.

After pondering for a moment, Li Yi said directly: "Go out, go to Ciyun Temple." ”

Fang Ze bowed down and immediately followed behind Li Yi.

As one of the few temples in the capital, the scale of Ciyun Temple is not small, and the incense is prosperous, and there are monks in the temple who distribute free gruel for 12 hours, but it is peaceful.

After letting Fang Ze go to pass the word, Li Yi visited the temple, and after a while, an old man with white eyebrows and long beard, quite a high-ranking monk, walked slowly, and bowed down after seeing Li Yi and said: "I don't know that the thirteen princes of the Tang Dynasty are coming, and I hope to forgive my sins." ”

Li Yi waved his hand, "The master doesn't need to be polite, but I suddenly heard that there is a senior monk in Ciyun Temple, who has always done good deeds and accumulated virtues on weekdays, so I was curious to take a look. ”

"Amitabha, the thirteen princes are serious, the people of my generation of Buddhism, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue is their duty, it is nothing. Master Shengtong folded his hands and said.

Then, after some small talk, Li Yi donated a thousand taels of silver as his incense money before he left slowly, and his style was completely like a rich son worshipping the temple.

However, at the moment when he stepped out of the gate of Ciyun Temple, Li Yi's face suddenly sank, "I didn't expect things to be like this." ”