Bianliang is a city that never sleeps, and it is soft red in the lights. Whether it is the supreme palace in theory, or the newly completed Genyue, which has the atmosphere of a tent pot in the world, also brings a bit of the smell of fireworks because of Bianliang.

But even a metropolis like Bianliang that sings everywhere, jokes everywhere, and even the small people of Shengdou enjoy extremely high benefits, there are some places that always have an atmosphere that is incompatible with the capital.

For example, the Imperial Historical Tower, also known as "Wutai".

Although the imperial history platform in Bianliang did not really have a large group of crows gathered like the Han Dynasty, the large group of crows in it with a temperament like crows and biting people like kings also made this place look particularly gloomy, and both officials and people were afraid to avoid it.

Another example is the Kaifeng Mansion.

The gloomy temperament of the Kaifeng Mansion has a origin, not because there was once a famous minister like Bao Zheng who once took charge of Kaifeng Mansion, and not because of the ballad of "If the joint is not enough, there is Yan Luo Bao Lao". It is because the master of Kaifeng Mansion has never been a civil official who has received the dispatch of "Quanzhi Kaifeng Mansion", but a family of officials who have held the official position in Kaifeng Mansion for generations.

Even when a famous minister like Bao Zheng took charge of Kaifeng Mansion, he was still tricked by these officials.

And the officials are different from the civil officials, this middle class directly facing the small people of Shengdou, although they have no official status, they have more convenient gray authority than the civil officials. So much so that the dignitaries and nobles in Bianliang City wanted to do something that was inconsistent with the law, and they never paid attention to the Kaifeng prefect, but asked these officials to do things.

Who doesn't know that these officials in Kaifeng Mansion are all big families in Bianliang City. Although these officials are low-key, the guilds and merchants in Bianliang City, as well as those who are called beggars and are actually gang leaders, hand over to them every year The benefits they hand over to them every year are also the belongings that those small Beijing officials can't earn in their lifetime!

Even their immediate superiors have nothing to do with these officials. Who in Bianliang City doesn't know that the officials of Kaifeng Mansion have never been very polite to their officials, and even have the saying of "disobeying Kaifeng Mansion and filial piety to Yushitai".

This point, Wang Ding, who now knows Kaifeng Mansion, has the deepest experience.

Before taking charge of Kaifeng Mansion, Wang Ding served as a deputy envoy for the preparation and delivery of several terms in the southeast Zhulu, and in terms of qualifications, he can be regarded as a party member. But since he got the dispatch of this "Quanzhi Kaifeng Mansion", he has only been sent by Xiao Gui Cao, and he has no idea of refreshing the accumulated shortcomings, and he only hopes to complete his term of office as soon as possible, get rid of the turbulent undercurrent in Kaibianliang City as soon as possible, and say goodbye to this hot potato-like dispatch as soon as possible.

With this attitude, Wang Ding had little motivation for his own dispatch. At this moment, it was the time of the rising moon in the cool moon, and he was in the inner hall of Kaifeng Mansion, setting up a small banquet, and in the sound of the piano rhyme of several girls' school books, he was happy with several staff.

Today, Wang Ding's luck is not good, he has a dangerous rhyme, and he is not the kind of person who has a talent in poetry and songs.

A high-ranking official who has achieved the position of the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture actually shows timidity in a sentence, which is also a rare thing in Bianliang, where poetry and wine are romantic. Several girls' schools still have a soft look on their writings, but the word "village" in their hearts has long been overflowing.

Wang Ding didn't know that these hook women, the so-called "one loves pretty, two loves talent, and three loves money", is just pretending to be for their own family. If he can't chant a good sentence at this moment, he still doesn't know what kind of strange words will come out of the land of the fence in the future, and where will he lose this face? At this moment, he glanced at the old official in Kaifeng Mansion and probed his brain outside the door.

Wang Dafu was in a bad mood, and when he saw the old official shrinking his head and brain, his heart was full of irritation, and he shouted: "Wang Laolao, what are you doing there!"

Hearing the anger in Wang Ding's words, Wang Laolao immediately understood that he had hit the fire of the Wang Governor's Mansion, and walked in with his body bowed, and reported to Wang Dingyu in the most concise language: "The supervisor of the East Water Gate sent people to report that there were Taoist people who took lotus leaves from Bianshui into the capital gate, and the people along the way were all immortals descending, and it had become a gathering trend. ”

Other Wang Ding listened to it, but the gathering of the people made his head suddenly bigger.

After night in Bianliang City, it has always been Jin Wu who can't help it. Although the nightlife of Dumen is extremely rich, and the streets are still full of people in the middle of the night, but in such a metropolis, once there is an incident of a crowd gathering, it is inevitable that nothing will go wrong.

Specific to the daily work of Kaifeng Mansion, it is a big market that has to come to the Great Xiangguo Temple "Ten Thousand Surnames Trading" several times a month, and Kaifeng Mansion always has to dispatch all the officials up and down to maintain order.

As for the lanterns in Shangyuan, the Jinmingchi martial arts in March, the Buddha bathing meeting in April, the Duanyang celebration in May, the welcoming competition of the palaces in June, the Zhongyuan Pudu in July, the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the Chongyang Chrysanthemum Festival in September, and the most important Tianning Festival official birthday and the winter solstice suburban altar sacrifice ceremony......

This is really a month that cannot be stopped all year round, and maintaining order in Kaifeng Mansion is also the heaviest and most tiring errand.

In addition to the suburban sacrifice at the end of the year, whether it is the Four Seasons Celebration or the transaction of the surnames of the Great Xiangguo Temple, there has never been a shortage of criminal cases. Small cases such as pickpockets stealing are not mentioned, and the abductors abduct good families is the most important. I don't know how many high-ranking officials' families are in the small ya, and the county lord and county lord of the clan family have been abducted, and none of the ten who can be recovered are survived, and most of them are alive and dead.

Not to mention this kind of sudden gathering event, Kaifeng Mansion did not arrange manpower in advance at all, and there was no room to even greet those beggar gang leaders. In this way, I don't know how many headless murder cases will be backlogged in the second hall of Kaifeng Mansion tomorrow!

Although he was sent by the "right to know Kaifeng Mansion", Wang Ding had already realized that since the founding of the country, there have been more than two Jiazi, and Kaifeng Mansion has changed a prefect in an average of seven months, and few have done a full term. But even if Wang Ding wants to transfer to another position, he has to be transferred out, instead of being bitten down by the mad dogs of Yushitai in disgrace!

Having made up his mind, this Wang Dafu, who knew Kaifeng Mansion with the power of Guanglu Doctor, stood up suddenly: "What are you still stunned about? Immediately dispatch manpower to take care of the area around Dongshuimen, especially the section from Zhouqiao to Yujie, there must be no chaos!"

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However, overnight, the rumors of "Lotus Leaf Immortal Weng Chaotianzi" have made Bianliang City crowded. Among them, I don't know how many people have lost their purses, stepped on their shoes, and how many little ladies' heads and sweat towels have been taken away by those unscrupulous people.

This can be regarded as Wang Ding's effective handling, but before the matter was out of control, he finally suppressed it. Otherwise, not to mention pickpockets and abductors, even if the crowd gathers, crowding and stampede, there will be many murders.

In the same way, various theories are also transmitted along the streets and alleys of Bianliang, from the east end of Nanmen Street, which is full of people, to the state bridge, which is full of houses and storefronts, to the west of Zhuquemen Street, where 72 shops are gathered.

At the east end of the Suzaku Gate, whether it is the hook fence of the Pig Killing Alley or the teaching workshop close to the Pig Killing Alley, it is the place where the news spreads the fastest. Out of the Suzaku Gate, the south of Longjin Bridge is Taixue, a group of idle eggs, hormones have nowhere to vent, so they have to choose one of the two on the "pointing the country" and "leaning on the red cui", and the girls in the teaching workshop have a wonderful chemical reaction.

These students who care about current affairs, under the ancestral system of Dr. Yourongshi of the Great Song Dynasty, plus most of them are from official eunuch families, and they don't know the sinister nature of political disputes. Immediately, they gathered in the Goolan Washer and started a new round of Shilin sarcasm. For a time, those poems that ridiculed Qin Shi Huang for not looking for medicine and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty favored Fangshi came out one by one.

It's a pity that the girls in the Goulan Washer looked at the poems of the Seven Laws and the Five Uniques, and finally just pouted, picked up the red tooth clapper and sang it, which was still the most popular fragrant Xiaoling during the Xuanhe period.

For example, "a ball of muscles and bones can't help spring", and for example, "just carry a plain hand before the flower, but the clouds fly and the rain is scattered", between the bright eyes and bright teeth, it makes the hearts of the students who are full of enthusiasm for the country wave a trace of different emotions. In the blink of an eye, the impassioned "He should repay Jun's kindness" was replaced by a shallow and low singing "I hope that the beauties don't join hands".

On the East Cross Street, groups of idlers are also gathering around the storytellers on the side of the road, listening to these people who make a living by their tongues, and describe the strange events of the East Water Gate last night:

"The emperor of the Great Song Dynasty sits on Bianliang, and the monarch is the minister and the virtuous people are healthy. Xian Weng is dedicated to the Son of Heaven, and now he has left Lotus Leaf Township. Rank honored guests, the little old man has three in his sixties this year, he has seen the son of heaven in the four dynasties, met Yao Shun Linxuan, Yu Gao is in power, I am a big Song He, it is really happy every year, the years are peaceful, and there are these classes of auspicious rui, it is Jing Xingxian, Qingyun out, Gen Yuecheng, Liquanyong, Manna Luo, Jiuding Zhu, Zizhisheng, Yao Caomao, Ruihe Dance, and the immortals. ”

"Today, the little old man doesn't talk about other idle things, only about the descent of this immortal. Ah, that brother said, I have never seen the gods ascend to heaven, and I have not seen the gods coming down, which are all unfounded words, which is biased. At that time, the Emperor of the Holy Ancestor of the National Dynasty, known as the Nine Heavens Si Ming Baosheng Tianzun, should be robbed and descended to the world, and he was the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor. At that time, there was a traitor to the Chiyou clan, with eighty brothers in a row, all of whom were copper-headed and iron-fronted, and invulnerable. This group of rebels rebelled against each other, and there was a group of gods and men of Feng Boyu Division to help. At that time, the Chiyou clan swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog, and trapped a Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor on Mount Tai, but there was a Nine Heavens Xuannu Niangniang, who brought the Heavenly Book Rune and the Spirit Banner Sword to Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor......"

"It's no wonder that the little old man said such an old story, he was really familiar with it in the past, but it shows that the fairy is a real one, and it is no wonder that many people are looking for him now. Oh, this honored guest, you said that in the past, there were many Taoist officials in Bianliang City, all of whom had magical powers, but why did you say that Lian Ye Weng was a god? It is said that yesterday evening, the little old man's family was waiting to eat and came out to eat, but they saw a lotus leaf floating on the Bianhe River. This lotus leaf is amazing, as big as a bamboo mat, green and beautiful, it is a different species that Xiao Laoer has never seen. On the lotus leaf, there is a Taoist man, with a strange appearance, shaking a banana leaf fan in his hand, sitting in the heart of the river, just like us laymen sitting on the mat, letting the waves in the river turn up and down, but not moving. The lotus leaf floated straight to the bottom of the state bridge, and I don't know how many idlers gathered along the way, but they only said, 'What a lotus leaf Weng, what a water fairy'! The Taoist ignored it, and got off the lotus leaf at home, and went to the north of the city......

The audience gathered around the old storyteller, including idlers who had time to have fun, hawkers who sold fruits and vegetables to wine shops and prepared to return home after getting money, and a few Taoists and monks, all of whom listened with relish.

Although there have been constant conflicts between Taoism and Buddhism in the past two years, especially last year, Zhao Ji was idle and bored and issued such an edict to modify the rituals and laws of Buddhism, change the Buddhas to the Great Awakening Golden Immortals, Bodhisattvas and Arhats have changed their names to immortals, and even monks and nuns have changed to "Virtues" and "Female Virtues". However, except for those who practice asceticism and participate in meditation, most of the monks and nuns in the world are just trying to have an iron rice bowl to ensure harvest in drought and flood, so they are changed to "desi", and it does not prevent everyone from going to the donor's house to fast. It's just that it's too troublesome to wrap a piece of silk around your head and tie a crown.

At that time, there were also many monks in Bianliang City, who asked the Taoist priest for the old Taoist crown to wear. It's just that the scholar in the capital has a bad mouth, and when he saw the scene of this monk wearing a Taoist crown, he made a few small sentences, and the Tao was "auspicious and good, there are few ancient times, and there is sesame grass on the gourd." ”

This is a monk who gets together, and he also has a friendship with a Taoist crown. The Taoist priest's name is Tong Huaizu, the monk's common family name is Zhong, the legal name is shallow, a small temple called Jingdesi at the corner of the new Songmen Street is a monk, but unfortunately the Jingdesi feng shui is not very good, all around are Qinglou Chu Pavilion, and there is a nickname called "Peach Blossom Cave", so that Jingdesi has no serious business. There is no one to take care of the business, but there are people who ask them to help pimp, compared to the bald prodigal son who came out of the Great Xiangguo Temple, the monk has to be regarded as a bald turtle slave.

Monk Jueqian said to Tong Huaizu: "In this world, it is really a Taoist who is respected, Brother Tong Dao, since it is said that the lotus leaf weng went to the north of the city." I think about it, only the Dongyue Temple of Suanzao Gate in the north of the city is a big palace, but Brother Qiao Dao is also practicing in the Yue Temple, can you know the whereabouts of the lotus leaf Weng?"

Tong Huaizu touched his goatee and sneered: "If you ask others, I'm afraid you won't be able to say a word, and when you ask Poor Dao, you're asking the right person." Last night, I was going to the Yuxian Temple outside the sour jujube gate to help my senior brother copy the scriptures, but a long-bearded Taoist knocked on the door to ask for accommodation. I see that his appearance is ordinary, but the banana leaf fan in his hand is oily, very cute, and he wants to spend two dollars to buy it, but he eats a soft nail from that person, so he is so angry. Listening to this description, he is left and right. If you are really a god, you will have endless wealth and wealth, and what kind of order will you put up in a small place such as the Jade Immortal Temple? It's just a bit of a trick, and you just want to mix up the position of a Taoist official. ”

Speaking of this, Tong Huaizu added another sentence: "If there is no noble person to recommend, don't say that you are a Taoist, even if you are a true immortal, you can't see the official family, and you can't ask for a reward!"