Chapter 449: The Emperor Lives on the Street
Wu Hou stood outside the temple gate, knocked on the door panel and shouted: "Lao Xiao, are you not inside?" ”
Xiao Gui, Zhang Xiaojing and Dai Wang each guarded the door with weapons, and asked Lao Xiao, who was guarding the temple, to go out to contact, and the two talked for a while, Wu Hou didn't seem to notice anything abnormal, and turned around and left the temple gate.
Wuhou walked two steps and ran back, and whispered excitedly: "Shangguan, you are right, there are other people in Lao Xiao's temple, so I will go and inform Jin Wuwei who patrols the street." ”
Li Siye clasped his hands on his chest and nodded, leaning against the corner of the wall and waiting, his eyes squinting at the dark night sky.
After a while, Wu Hou came to the outside of the Buddhist temple with his soldiers, but saw the courtyard door wide open, and immediately rushed into it to fight with Xiao Gui and others, who knew that there was a loud noise in the courtyard, and the flames began to rise, and at the same time the sound of swords hitting each other was thumping.
If he rushed over at this time, he might be able to get an unexpected harvest and save the saint from their hands. Of course, this is not his main goal, the person behind the plot has not yet appeared, and the other party will definitely be unbearable to jump out. He had to know who this person was.
The battle in the broken temple has ended, and the few people summoned by Wuhou seem to have been wiped out, and they will definitely transfer the emperor away.
But after waiting for a while, Zhang Xiaojing and the others ran out of the temple and began to withdraw separately, but the saint was not among them.
"What's going on?"
They marched in two directions, Dai Wang stood at the base of the wall and stayed for a moment, and Xiao Gui, who was at the forefront, turned around and shouted, "Dai Wang, keep up!" ”
When they disappeared into the street, Li Siye walked quickly to the place where Dai Wang stayed, squatted down and took out the fire fold, pulled off the cap and blew lightly, gradually dimmed the light, and he could see the handwriting on the wall.
"The emperor stole away? Ran to Pingkang Fong? ”
Li Siye was in the bright place to make it more convenient to move, he ran out of the door of Shengye Fang, and quickly headed towards Pingkang Fang.
When he arrived at Pingkangfang, he saw a group of people looking for pig thieves, and Li Siye quietly followed them into the houses deep in the street.
He stood on his side beside the pigsty, standing on tiptoe and looking inside the wall, where a black pig lay and slept soundly, and there was no sign of anyone coming.
Not far away, a carriage came, Li Siye quickly dodged to the root of the wall, and saw several people in the shacks welcoming out, saying "Mr. Zhu is back!" The carriage stopped in front of a wooden house, and the couple led the children out of the carriage, and an old man came out of the carport, and he stood on the wheels of the carriage in the wind, looking at everything around him strangely and curiously.
The only one who can have this kind of expression can only be the emperor who is not diligent and does not distinguish between grains and grains, his appearance is so embarrassing, so embarrassed that people can't believe that he is the Son of Heaven.
Li Siye bypassed the back of the house, stood in front of the window and could hear the voices of the people inside, it turned out that this street was a slum near Pingkangfang near Beiqu, and the shantytowns were all inhabited by poor children and disabled or lonely old people, and that Mr. Zhu was a household official, who kindly helped the elderly and children here.
He stood outside and pursed his lips and smiled, the old emperor didn't see the suffering of the people, and thought that his Tang Dynasty family had pigs, chickens, and white rice for every meal, so it was a kind of re-education for him to experience life here.
He meditated against the wallboard and listened to the voices coming from inside, and a child named Zhu Xuan had taken the zodiac from a certain Sogdian, and the emperor recognized it and asked the child what it was.
"This is the zodiac travel instrument, in the ninth year of the old calendar, Liang Lingzan, who joined the army, taught himself astronomy and mathematics, and spent his spare time building it. At first, he just made a wooden mold, and after being known by the sage, he praised it, and the sage ordered the master and Liang Lingzan to change it to copper.
The child was very intelligent, and spoke of these old events very clearly, and eloquently, which aroused the approving laughter of the two adults in the family, and the emperor took over and said: "Use it to measure the angle of the twenty-eight nights from the extreme north of the celestial sphere......"
Li Siye muttered in a low voice outside: "Why are you talking about astronomy again?" ”
Maybe the emperor felt the simplicity and kindness of these people, or maybe he thought he had learned the truth - this was just at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and it was far from reaching the truth, and the life of the people outside Chang'an was even more difficult. He actually began to make official vows, to support all the poor people on this street, and to make Zhuci a household servant, and asked his son to study in Hongwen Hall.
It's not impossible at the moment, it's nothing to feed a street of people and promote a person to be a household servant for the emperor, it depends on whether they can survive the storm of the emperor's fall.
Let Kunpeng see what happens to the life of the ants, either the Kunpeng's wings are broken, or the ants are crushed to death by it.
The two men inside did not laugh, but there was a brief silence, and it seemed that they had recognized the true identity of the emperor.
Li Siye decided to get into the bottom of the carriage in advance to prevent them from rushing into the palace. However, he can't appear in front of the emperor, the thoughts of the ancients are the most difficult to guess, especially the emperor who is high up, people who have seen the phoenix fall to the dust may not necessarily die, but there will definitely be no good reward, and his future development plan is not in line.
This may be the reason why An Lushan used Dai Wangqi to provoke him to come to Chang'an, wouldn't it be a great achievement for him to save the driver himself? How could this fat bearded man be kind enough to cheapen himself? Just imagine, how can a person who sees the emperor fall into the dirt can be reused, and how will he meet in the court in the future. In the past, Yan Ziling avoided Emperor Wu Liu Xiu and did not see him, wasn't it out of such considerations?
The Zhu Ci family and the saint sat in the car, and they looked restrained. The coachman was pulling the cart in front, feeling that the horse was moving slowly, and he couldn't help muttering, "Why is this cart so heavy today?" ”
Zhu Ci sat cross-legged on the wall and said, "Our car can't enter the Daming Palace." ”
The emperor spoke: "Others need fish bags to enter the palace, I don't need to, I can enter with this face, hehehe." ”
"You can't enter Daming Palace." A pinched voice came from under the car.
Li Longji looked around and asked in a vigilant voice, "Who?" Whoever is out there, don't be sneaky! ”
"I'm Beidou Navigation."
"What are you doing in the north, it's a man who stands up and talks to me, where are you hiding? What is the intention? ”
"The saint doesn't have to know who I am, the saint is high in the Nine Heavens, could it be that the soldiers on duty outside the Daming Palace also know your face? The saint has heard of the danger of the white dragon fish entering the abyss, and if you fall into the mortal dust, you will be no different from ordinary people, where can you be safe. ”
The emperor was not angry unexpectedly, but instead narrowed his eyes and asked, "Then according to the opinion of the Peking Hero, where should I go?" ”
"Turn the corner ahead, go to Xinghuafang Yang's mansion, you should know the road, there is the mansion you gave to the Yang sisters. Letting someone who can enter the Daming Palace take you into the palace is the best strategy. ”
"Where have I been? Since they were given Chang'an last year, they have often entered the palace, but I have never been out of the palace to see them. ”
Zhu Ci hesitated for a moment and began to advise the emperor, telling that nearly half of the more than 10,000 officials in Chang'an City were buying officials, the institutions were bloated, they did not do practical things, and the local officials exploited the people. This is a good officer, but it is a pity that his advice will not have any effect.
A gang of thieves stood in the distance, and had already taken out their murder weapons and were ready to intercept them, but who knew that the carriage had turned a corner at the entrance of the alley.
The group of people was shocked and suspicious and said, "What's the matter, don't they enter the palace?" Why did you turn around in the direction of Wubenfang, did you want to enter the imperial city? ”
As soon as the carriage drove to the side street of Wubenfang, a large number of soldiers rushed in front of it, and Li Siye shouted loudly under the car: "Turn around!" ”
The coachman was about to pull the horse's head across, but Li Longji got out of the carriage, raised his nose and said proudly: "Don't turn around, these are my soldiers, I am the saint of the Tang Dynasty!" ”