The dispute between mother and son continues.

"What's so strange about it! Old woman, I have been devout to the Buddha all my life, and isn't it a sincere reward for the Buddha's light to shine on Bao Ge'er? The old woman sneered at her son.

The middle-aged man's heart was filled with deep uneasiness, and he said: "The first batch of nine hundred and ninety-nine boys before the age of two was selected, saying that they were sent to the Buddha, but why didn't they see the Buddha's light shining to pick up the children? What does the Buddha want so many boys to do? Can he do it? Moreover, where can a one- or two-year-old child understand it?"

"Amitabha, you stubborn. Do you dare to question the Buddha's request?!" The old woman's wrinkles were all over her face, and she shouted angrily.

"Who knows if it's the Buddha's request? Aren't all the things we hear conveyed by the monks of Puhui Temple?"

"Then do you not believe in Puhui Temple? Abbot Ci'en has manifested the body of a bodhisattva, and at that time, the snake demon poisoned our common people, or Master Ci'en defeated the monster! You also saw it with your own eyes. Is this fake?"

"No, mother, it's not that simple. I was on an errand in the household of Zhao Daren, his family had a grandson who had just turned one year old, and when the first batch of summoning orders came down, he did not send his grandson, and then a monk of Puhui Temple came to the door, saying that he dared to change the information of the household department and conceal his grandson. ”

"Huh?" the old woman didn't understand, "This kind of good thing, why didn't Lord Zhao rush to send his grandson?"

"Mother, this shows that sending a child may not be a good thing. ”

"And what happened later?

"Later...... Lord Zhao bought a boy of the same age from the countryside and sent it to the palace. His grandson is still hiding in the backyard of the house, staggering to practice walking. ”

"Eh, is this Lord Zhao confused, reluctant to give up his little grandson, but in vain about his little grandson's future?"

The middle-aged man shook his head: "Is it really a future? When the second batch of summoning orders came down, more court adults were secretly buying boys and sending them to the palace as their children and grandchildren. Now there are no little beggars near the capital, and there are no boys to buy. If I find out that something is wrong, even if I scatter all my family wealth, I will buy a poor child to replace our brother. ”

"It's not as bad as you think, is it? The adults of the court may not be as sincere as the old woman, they only care about their children and grandchildren, but they are not devout to the Buddha. ”

"Mother!" the man shouted weakly, and there were too many voices in his voice to persuade the old mother's helplessness.

Thinking of something, the man whispered as he walked into the inner room: "I still ask my daughter-in-law to prepare the money, what if there is a third batch of summoning orders? ”

Waiting for the courtyard where he left, Ye Zhi, who was spying on the dream, was also surrounded by white mist, and when he was clear again, he arrived at a large family with pavilions, and the head of the house was an old Chen Ge who had just retired from the court, and in his study, the head of the house was discussing with his close attendants.

"Can't find anyone's teeth?" asked the old man in civilian clothes.

"It's not that they can't find it, it's that they only have adults and girls in their hands. Recently, boys are too sought-after, and the boys in their hands have been bought by the rich and wealthy in the capital. If you have children at home, even if you are still in your teens, you have to prepare a stand-in for your own children. "The chamberlain is a strong young man in his thirties.

"How's that good?" said the old man. "My two good grandsons can't be sent to the palace, and if they do, they will die. ”

The attendant approached his own adult and said in a low voice: "For the sake of the two little masters, why don't I also take someone to some remote mountain village to snatch the two children back?"

"This ...... This official was an upright and clear man, but now he has become a thief of chickens and dogs, ala......s, "The old man is crying and mourning, and he can't let go of his principles or his grandson."

"My lord, there's no time to hesitate. Now that so many boys have been robbed in the nearby mountain villages, the villages have formed their own security teams. We can only go to a small village farther away where we don't know the news. Besides, you are kind to officials and people, and you have many protégés, and many of them are powerful and powerful now, but you didn't tell you the news of 'preparing boys' earlier, which is ill-intentioned. ”

"How can the people above the court stay if their minds are not as good as wolves and tigers? But there are also good people, and the senior waiter of the Ministry of Rites, whom I have brought with me before, quietly told me to buy a boy. ”

"Ministry of Rites officer, does he have a boy in his own family?"

"He was alone, without a wife and children. However, he was responsible for purchasing the things needed by the monks of Puhui Temple, and when the convening order was issued, the monk Xinkang quietly asked him to buy a large amount of incense to worship the Buddha. ”

"Isn't it normal for a monk to order Buddha incense?"

"A big temple only needs two carts of Buddha incense a year. But he bought thirty carts and quietly transported them into the palace in the middle of the night. Now the palace is full of Buddha incense, making it like a fog, and I heard that many eunuchs and palace maids hit the wall because they couldn't see the road clearly. ”

"What does this have to do with boys?"

Chen Ge Lao cautiously looked around, making sure that it was impossible for anyone to overhear, and then whispered: "When Gao Shilang sent the Buddha incense to the inner courtyard of the palace, he said that the lotus pond there was fenced. In the distance, he heard the cries of children, more than one child. The frightened cry made him creepy and frightened, and he hurriedly fled from the palace after sending it off. ”

"Huh......?

"It's a secret you can't tell!

"Yes!"

"Alas, when the prime minister forced the emperor to take in the monks of Puhui Temple, I should have objected. After all, the wolf was lured into the house......"

Before the key question was concluded, the attendant hesitated and asked, "Then, my lord, do I still take someone to snatch the child?"

"......" The old man frowned and thought for a long time before he said, "Take a few more people." In addition to robbing two young children, he also robbed three twelve or thirteen-year-old boys. The old family's Tong'an, the old three family's Tongyu, Tongzhi, I also have three grandchildren. ”

"Yes!"

The attendant took the order, and when he walked over, he passed through the phantom-like Ye Zhi.

Ye Zhi frowned, looking at Chen Ge Lao, who was preoccupied, he sighed for a while, beat his chest for a while, and finally, he stopped talking, and only indifference was left in his eyes. He whispered, "I can't keep my children and grandchildren even if I am pure and good." Since you have been unkind to me, don't blame me for taking action against others. As he spoke, he was surrounded by a cold air.

Leaving this increasingly cold dream, Ye Zhi walked into a few more dreams, which were almost the same. Poor families are generally happy that their children can be selected to serve the Buddha, but the rich people, especially the families of high-ranking officials, are buying boys and even robbing boys.

Thinking day and night, dreams reveal people's deepest emotions, whether they are happy, painful, or worried. It's only been a few days, why are the people of the Han capital thinking about this? The overly concentrated content stopped Ye Zhi's footsteps. He had planned to see more of the dreams of the people in the palace, but now he could only wait for tomorrow.

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