In the very center of Linze City, there is a stone tablet seven or eight zhang high, which is taller than any house in the city. This is also the rule set by the city lord and the prince himself - the buildings in the city shall not be higher than this monument, and the violators will be cut in half.

If you think that it was built higher than this monument, and you cut off half of the house, then you understand half of it. Half of it means that the owner of the house and the craftsmen involved in building the house are also cut in half. As for whether to cut it like a waist chop, or to cut it vertically from the top of the head to between the legs, this is not as dead as the regulations, you can pick it yourself.

How so? Because the upper half of the stele was densely engraved with many names, and it was dyed red with cinnabar. The lower half of the stele is still empty, very flat, and nothing is engraved, showing the preciousness of the stone - it is actually a huge phoenix stone. Yes, the names engraved on it are all the former subordinates of the prince, all the subordinates who died for the prince, and all the heroic souls who died for this Nanqi battle. Directly south of the stele, there is a temple, where the sound of chanting is heard day and night, praying for the souls of the heroes and the soldiers who are still alive. The incense in the temple is vigorous, and there is an endless stream of believers and pilgrims inside and outside the city, and you can see the smoke rising from a distance, and those who don't know think that there is a fire. This monastery was also the destination of the princess's trip, and the palanquin driver carried the princess to the door, and the princess struggled to stand up on one leg in order to show respect, and let the two maids slowly move into the door with her help.

"Amitabha, I don't know that the princess is in person, I have missed the welcome, forgive my sins." A monk who was sweeping the floor inside the door clasped his palms together.

"It's okay master, please don't be polite. I didn't tell you in advance, just because it happened suddenly, and I was in a hurry to find the unheard master, but I didn't know that the master was there. The princess said eagerly.

"Yes, I don't hear that Master is lecturing for the disciples, Madame will be later." The monk turned and went up the steps.

Chen Yuan followed all the way in disguise, bought incense at this moment, mixed into the crowd and entered the inner hall to light candles, and secretly glanced at which room the monk entered. After burning the incense, he took advantage of the unpreparedness of the people, and deftly sneaked into the inner courtyard of the back of the hall.

"Madam, I heard that Master heard that you were here in person, and the disciple has been dismissed, please go to Fangzhong to talk about it." After a while, the monk came back and said.

"Okay, the tired master will lead the way, you two will carry me over." The lady said to the maid again.

"Master! Help me! My son was captured by a ghost a few days ago! Now the soldiers in the palace are all saying that they have seen ghosts! What a good thing that is! You're a master, save me! "As soon as the princess entered the house, she cried pear blossoms with rain.

"Madame, be uneasy, and sit down and speak to me carefully. Whether it's a practice or a practice, I'll know after listening to it. "Master Fei Wen stroked his beard, and it looked like there was something.

"Okay, you two step down first!" The princess turned to the two maids and said.

"Yes." The two maids answered at the same time, went out the door, and slowly closed it.

With a slight "click", the door was completely closed, and the princess stopped crying in an instant, her face changed faster than turning a book, and she shouted in a suppressed voice: "What's the matter!" Where are so many medicines! ”

"How do I know! I'm all here, and that's all I have left! It's all up to you! Master Feiwen also instantly lost the fairy style and solemnity of Fang Cai, and also shouted in a suppressed voice.

"The last bit you gave me, I used it up yesterday! Who else in this city has so many medicines and so many people besides you! The princess said.

"Impossible, the amount is only so much, the sect master gave it. Besides, even if so many people are numb at the same time, who is the ghost? "The monk said.

"That's right! Just a little time, let hundreds of people see it, and it can't be found by awake people, tired and tired, she doesn't have that ability. The princess said.

"You didn't ask her first?" The monk asked.

"I didn't ask, it's definitely not her, I'm in the house all morning, and besides, she doesn't have any medicine in her hand, so she picks it up from me every time." The princess said.

"Then there's only one possibility." Monk Dao.

"What?" The princess asked in a low voice.

"Those soldiers, there is no hell at all." Monk Dao.

"Then they collectively said what the hell, but why?" The princess asked.

"yes...... Why? The monk fell into deep thought.

"Don't talk to yourself, don't worry about it yet. Count the distance, his father will be back tonight, you hurry up and finish what needs to be done. The princess said eagerly.

"Don't worry! It's almost there, an hour at most. It was supposed to be there last night, but the road was delayed. "The monk said.

"I ask again, is it really like you said, it doesn't do me any harm? It didn't have any effect, did it? The princess said with concern.

"Putting your heart in your stomach is like sleeping and dreaming, what is the difference between your son and my son? Who am I fooling and how can I fool you? The monk suddenly whispered.

"Don't say it's useless, if I help you this time, it can be regarded as helping my homeland. In the future, no matter what, don't bother my children again. The princess said.

"Absolutely not." Monk Dao.

There was a brief silence in the room.

"But why don't you take him back again, it's better for me to just put him on that street in the middle of the night when no one is around, and he will naturally go home when he wakes up." Monk Dao.

"Isn't it cool? What should I do if my baby is cold? The princess said angrily.

"Besides, I'll take it back and put it on the bed, it's like the ghost sent my son back to me after I begged you to do it, and his father can believe it." The princess said again.

"How do you bring it back, it's easy to bring it out, but it's hard to bring it back!" Monk Dao.

"What's so hard? The old way to bring it back, I said I went into the house to see things and think about people, retreated left and right, put it down and then came out to close the door, and waited for him to wake up. The princess said.

"Wonderful, wonderful, the princess is still as smart as ever." The monk praised.

The princess was silent.

Chen Yuan was lying on the beam, and when he heard this, he understood it completely. This princess clearly knows who the "ghost" is, and she often has dealings with her. And this princess seems to be the princess of some old country! This monk should also be someone from that country, the two are old acquaintances, maybe there is some old love. Curious, he cautiously peeked at the monk - isn't this the fortune teller from yesterday! Yesterday's level of disguise was not good, Chen Yuan said in his heart, and he could see at a glance that he was that person. Chen Yuan retracted his head again, and lay down and pondered: it is not far from what he guessed, and the little prince was stolen by the princess and handed over to this bald donkey. And the old bald donkey and the princess don't know what the hell they are doing, it doesn't look like they are trying to harm the little prince, and the princess's concerned tone and eyes towards her child can't be faked. They seem to be waiting for someone to come and do something to the little prince, and the princess is still worried about whether doing this will hurt the little prince. The person who was waiting was supposed to arrive yesterday, but he was delayed by something, and he would be there in a while.

"What about Yun'er? Are you okay? I want to see it. The princess asked, breaking the silence for a moment.

"Yes, it's in this house. Don't look at it, it's very troublesome, anyway, I'll take it back quickly, bear with me. "The monk said.

"Where's the house?" The princess muttered, glancing up and down, left and right, and Chen Yuan shrank again, clinging to the beams.

"Where do you look? I can still hang you from the beams! Don't look for it, it's safe. The monk said with a smile, drawing the princess's gaze back.

"Even if you look for the little prince all over the city, you can't find here. Even if they found this room, they would not dare to find the place where he was hiding. The monk said proudly.

Chen Yuan rolled his eyes when he heard it on the beam: You just say it clearly, the little prince was stuffed into the Buddha statue behind me by me, isn't it.

"How long will that take?" The princess asked again.

"Half an hour will do." Monk Dao.

"Then I'll go back first, and in two hours, I'll find a way to come back to you and pick him up." The princess said.

"Don't worry, you and he will be fine." Monk Dao.

"Qing'er!" The princess shouted.

"Squeak-" The two maids pushed open the door and walked in.

"Help me back." The princess said, then turned her head and said: "Then I will follow what you said, master, two hours later, when the yang energy is a little subsided, I will come with my son's underwear to ask you to do it." ”

"What an excuse!" Chen Yuan said in his heart, and went back and back justifiably.

"Madame, go, the stakes are very high, and the poor monk is here to prepare first. Madame, you have inconvenient legs and feet, just let the sedan chair driver carry you directly into the house later, it is not rude, no one blames. "The monk said.

"What a bald donkey!" Chen Yuan praised again, and justifiably let the box come in, so that people could go.

The princess thanked her head and bowed her head in return, and the corners of their mouths were shallow smiles, and at the same time they returned to normal the moment they raised their heads. The two glanced at each other, the princess went out with the help of the maid, and the bald donkey followed closely behind, and if she wanted to do enough play, she naturally wanted to send the princess out of the temple.

"I'll wait here to see what this bald donkey is up to." Chen Yuan said in his heart, jumped to the tall Buddha statue, and landed without saying anything, not even a little wind, and not a trace of dust was raised. Chen Yuan walked around the Buddha statue, and also bent his fingers to knock on the circle, sure enough, there are solid mud tires everywhere, only the back of the waist is an empty sound, here is hollow.

"How do you open it?" Chen Yuan pondered.

"You can't beat it with one punch! It's too unlevel. Chen Yuan said in his heart.

"Where can the mechanism be? It must be nearby, isn't it in the courtyard? Chen Yuan circled around the Buddha statue, touching east and west, to see if he could open the back of the Buddha statue. Then there was a sound of footsteps, and it was the bald donkey who had returned!

"How can it be so fast? Follow the pretending princess to the temple gate one by one, how can it take half an hour, right? Why is this coming back? Chen Yuan wondered, at this moment he was directly in front of the Buddha statue, and in a hurry, he got under the offering table, and after entering, he found that the table was not long enough and did not hang down on the ground. It was too late to go out again, Chen Yuan looked up and saw that the back of the desktop was nailed with a horizontal bar for reinforcement in the middle, and he was immediately relieved. Reach out and pinch the bar with three fingers, then lift your feet off the ground. Chen Yuan just like that, leaning on three fingers, hung himself under the offering table like a bat, and he didn't know how long he would hang. Anyway, the face is very relaxed, and the expression is as comfortable as lying on the recliner under the shade of flowers in the afternoon after eating and drinking, touching the bulging belly.

The bald donkey's feet entered the door, and he stood still for a moment, then paced back and forth in the room, and shouted into the courtyard with a cup of tea: "Silence! ”

The sound of footsteps came from a distance, and listening to the sound and frequency, Chen Yuan expected to be not tall. Sure enough, a child came in and said, "Master, what are your orders?" But it was the voice of an adult.

"For the teacher two hours later, for the city lord's wife, there can be no slightest difference, you have to start preparing at this moment, you go out and close the courtyard door, guard the door, before the teacher opens the door, no one is allowed to come in." Bald Donkey Road.

"Yes, Master. Is not even the abbot allowed to come in? The old kid added.

"If the abbot comes, you can tell me loudly." Bald Donkey Road.

"Yes." The old child made a move and went out of the hospital, and the monk followed and plugged in the latch. When he returned to the house, he walked straight to the offering table where Chen Yuan was hiding, and stood still. Chen Yuan frowned, watching the bald donkey's two toes enter the table circumference, and he was slightly nervous.

"Hmm!" Listening to the monk's strength, it turned out that he pressed his hands on the table, and when he pressed downward, the four legs of the table sank down two inches. Then I heard a "click" sound from behind the Buddha statue, and Chen Yuan's heart said that the original mechanism was here, and it was pinched in my hand after looking for a long time. I have to say that Chen Yuan's light skills have reached the peak, and the whole person is hanging under the table, but he has not activated this mechanism. The monk walked over quickly, but there was no movement for a while.

Chen Yuan got out lightly, and also turned to the back of the Buddha statue, only to see a half-person-high hole opened at the back waist of the Buddha statue, and people had to squat to get in. However, after only two steps of squatting in and walking, he could stand up, it was a passage to the underground, only the hole was small, and the space inside was large enough that there were even steps. Chen Yuan walked down the stairs with his back against the wall, and if he heard someone coming up, he could swim up the wall at any time. After walking a hundred and ten steps, he went down the last step, and the space here was not very large, a space of three zhang square, and half of the two rooms without doors were occupied, and the rest was an open space, and there were some wine jars and wheat straw piled up in the corner, and there was nothing left. Gao Ye is about a foot long, there are torches on the walls around it, but it is not lit, and there is only a cluster of fire in the whole cave at the moment, illuminating one of the rooms, and there is an earthen platform stacked against the wall in the house, which is considered a bed, and a thick layer of wheat straw is spread on it, which is considered a mattress. Although the little prince has been doted on by his parents since he was a child, he has never been pampered, but this bed may be the worst he has slept in for so many years. Under the bright light, the monk was silent, looked at the little prince who was breathing evenly, and said to himself: "I slept so soundly, don't worry, you are your mother's lifeline, I will not hurt you, you can go home with your mother tonight." There's no way to slap you, and I've already helped you get rid of the poison. It's strange to blame you for being naughty, you love to run around, and you don't even tell your mother if you know what you shouldn't know. "It turned out that the beggar who slapped Ran Yun was also dressed as this bald donkey.

The monk sighed and turned around with a torch, Chen Yuan was actually standing behind the monk all the time, and the monk didn't notice it at all. The monk turned around with a torch, and Chen Yuan also moved his steps, turning in the darkness that had been standing behind him. As if remembering something, the monk suddenly turned around again, Chen Yuan almost didn't keep up with the rhythm, and scolded secretly: Dead bald donkey.

I saw the monk slowly insert the torch into the groove in the wall, slowly took out a small wooden box from his arms, picked up a piece of wheat straw on the bed, scraped the contents of the box, and gently wiped it on the nose of the little prince. Then he threw away the straw, rubbed his hands again, picked up the torch and turned away. Chen Yuan did not follow him away, and after a while, he heard a faint "click" in the distance, knowing that the bald donkey had come out of this secret room, so he slowly sat on the wheat straw bed, and pressed the "mattress" crackling.

Chen Yuan also took out two straws, picked up the one that the monk threw on the ground with chopsticks, sniffed it, and then hurriedly forced out all the breath he had just inhaled. He cursed in a low voice: "This dead bald donkey actually made hemp boiling powder into hemp boiling paste, and continued to wipe it under Ran Yun's nose, no wonder the little prince has been asleep." ”

Chen Yuan looked at the little prince who was sleeping darkly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and his shoulders were soaked with saliva. So I put my mind at ease, it seems that this bald donkey really didn't want to hurt the little prince, but just now he said that the little prince knew something that he shouldn't know, could it be that this thing is something they are eager to know? And the little prince didn't even tell the princess about this thing, and the princess must have asked at the behest of this bald donkey, but there was no gain. The person they were waiting for came in a while, was there any way to make the little prince speak? Chen Yuan pondered in his heart, and gave up the plan to take the little prince out at this moment, firstly, the little prince would definitely not worry about his life, and secondly, he really wanted to know the ins and outs of this whole thing. This group of people set up such an ingenious bureau just to know something from the little prince, what is it? Chen Yuan felt that there were hundreds of cat claws scratching in his heart, and his lower abdomen was itching from his heart, and he learned that the number one beauty in the world was waiting for him in bed at the moment. So Chen Yuan decided to wait for the arrival of that person with the bald donkey, he also wanted to see what means that person had to make him open his mouth without hurting the little prince, and he also wanted to hear what the little prince would say. Chen Yuan pondered as he turned around the entire cave chamber, there was no place to hide, there was no bare furniture, and there was no place to cover it. Hiding behind that pile of wine jars, I'm afraid I won't hear it really. Use the gecko to swim against the wall and suck on the roof of the cave, and you can only pray that they don't look up when the time comes. It's the same as just now, standing behind you all the time, it's not realistic. For a while, there are two people, maybe even more, and their common blind spots will be very few, and they will change at any time. And in a moment all the torches will be lit, and then the whole cave will be very bright, and the shadows will reveal their tracks. Chen Yuan raised his eyebrows with a headache, looked at the sleeping little prince, and suddenly became happy - he slowly pushed Ran Yun to one side, pulled out a pit of the thick wheat grass under him, lay down in it, and then covered the wheat grass and the little prince on himself. It's good, flawless. The only flaw is breathing, just as it comes, it will be good to have a frequency with the little prince when the time comes.

There was not the slightest sound in the quiet chamber, not even the slightest wind. Listening to the breathing of the little prince, I don't know how long it has been, and Chen Yuan himself is about to fall asleep. At this moment, there was a crisp sound of "click", which made Chen Yuan cheer up 120,000 points. "It's coming!" Chen Yuan said in his heart, trembling with excitement. When people are about to learn something they have always wanted to know, especially if this thing is still a secret, it is inevitable to be a little excited. The wheat grass rattled slightly, and then returned to dead silence after Chen Yuan adjusted his breathing.