Originally, Yin Zhiping left Lin'an and only went to Xiangyang to participate in the full moon ceremony of Guo Xiang and Guo Poyu, so he only asked the emperor for a month's vacation. This month's time, if it is just to go back and forth to Xiangyang, it will be enough.

Unexpectedly, not long after participating in the full moon ceremony of the Guo family's dragon and phoenix fetus, he received the news of Ma Yu's death, so he rushed to Zhongnan Mountain with Guo Jing and others to mourn Ma Yu. Ma Yu's funeral was followed by Qiu Chuji's succession ceremony, and after the ceremony, he proposed the reform of teaching affairs, and when he left Zhongnan Mountain, it was already the twentieth day of the first month. Then he went to Shandong first, and together with Bai Yuchan, he helped Sun Zhihe open up the situation of officially establishing the Shandong diocese, and selected another group of Quanzhen disciples who went south. By the time I left Shandong, it was the end of February, and I finally returned to Lin'an today, and it was already the twilight of March.

Since I left Lin'an in November last year and now I have come back, almost half a year has passed.

When Yin Zhiping stood at the bow of the boat and saw Lin'an City from afar, he couldn't help but sigh and sigh with emotion. There is a saying that "the world is impermanent", and no one can predict what will happen in the next moment, and how things will end when things change. Originally, according to the plan, he just went back and forth to Xiangyang to participate in the full moon ceremony of the Guo family's dragon and phoenix fetus, and then he would return to Lin'an. Who would have expected that so many things would happen to him this time, and he didn't return to Lin'an until March after the Chinese New Year.

Along the way, he had already learned that at the New Year's Day court meeting on the first day of the first lunar month of this year, Emperor Lizong gave up the name "Jiaxi" that had been used for four years and changed the name to "Chunyou", and this year is the first year of Chunyou.

The ship was not long in coming. He entered Lin'an City, and waited until Yin Zhiping led a group of Quanzhen disciples to the Wanshou Temple. He handed over all these disciples to Li Zhichang to arrange, and he went to rest first.

Li Zhichang was Yin Zhiping's right-hand man in the south. And it's a matter of all the time. Therefore, Ma Yu's funeral and Qiu Chuji's succession ceremony, Li Zhichang did not return to Zhongnanshan to participate, and stayed in Lin'an to take charge of Yin Zhiping. If Li Zhichang left again, then no one would be able to hold the field.

On the day I returned to Lin'an, it was almost evening. It didn't take long for it to get dark and night, so Yin Zhiping did not enter the palace to see Emperor Lizong that day. It wasn't until the morning of the second day that he changed into the golden crown robe given by the emperor and entered the palace to face the saint.

He had a gold medal from the emperor in his hand. You can enter and leave the palace at any time, and when you get to the palace, after the eunuch reports, you will soon be summoned. Today, the emperor was enjoying the flowers with Jia Guifei in the imperial garden of the back garden, and Yin Zhiping also went to the imperial garden with the eunuchs.

Now is the season of spring, to the royal garden, but see a hundred flowers in full bloom, full of greenery, all kinds of flowers fragrant. There are swarms of bees and butterflies, which is different from the scene Yin Zhiping saw in the autumn and winter last year. Emperor Lizong was walking with Jia Guifei by the lake, and Emperor Lizong was very happy to see Yin Zhiping coming. Before he could get closer, he greeted him and said, "Yin Zhenren, you're finally back." When you left Lin'an last year, you only took a month's leave. I don't want to go for more than four months, if it weren't for Li Zhenren to tell you that it was you Quanzhen Sect Leader Immortal Go. I am also worried that Yin Zhenren will never return. ”

Yin Zhiping knew that the "Li Zhenren" in the mouth of Emperor Lu Dao referred to Li Zhichang, and Li Zhichang also told him about this yesterday. But the emperor saw that he had not returned to Lin'an for a long time after a month's vacation. Li Zhichang was summoned to the palace for interrogation. Li Zhichang had already received the news of Ma Yu's death at that time, so he did not hide it and told the emperor the truth.

Yin Zhiping glanced at Emperor Lizong, who he hadn't seen for more than four months, but saw that his face was full of red light and his complexion was very good, which showed that not only after practicing the "Great Dao Fist" of the first layer of Yin Zhiping's "Quanzhen Internal Strength" and the second layer of the "Breathing and Breathing Technique", his physical fitness has been greatly improved, and he is full of energy, and he is obviously in a very good mood today. By the way, I glanced at Jia Guifei next to her, and she also looked very good, and there was always a smile between her eyebrows. But I don't know what happy events happened in the palace today, which made these two people look very happy.

However, although the emperor was in a good mood today, Yin Zhiping was not too casual, he still saluted respectfully, and after meeting Li Zong and Jia Guifei first, he said to Li Zong: "There are labor officials who are worried, and the ministers are afraid. If he fails to return as scheduled, he will have to ask the official family to punish him. ”

The emperor waved his hand and said, "Hey, what did the real person say? You have passed away, and you rushed back to Zhongnan Mountain to mourn, that is also the normal feeling of human beings, what is the crime? The real person is not only without fault, but also has merit?"

"Meritorious?" Yin Zhiping couldn't help but look dazed and confused, and he didn't understand what Emperor Lizong was trying to express.

Emperor Lizong smiled, but did not immediately answer Yin Zhiping's question, but first said to Jia Guifei: "Aifei, you have been out for a short time, and go back to rest first, and I will go to see you in the evening." Then he said to the eunuchs and palace maids who served beside him: "You all stand aside for the time being, I have something to say to the real person alone." ”

When Yin Zhiping saw the emperor's actions, he couldn't help but be even more puzzled. And Jia Guifei and the eunuchs and palace maids all respectfully took orders and retreated. Before leaving, Jia Guifei also glanced at Yin Zhiping, with gratitude in her eyes, but Yin Zhiping couldn't help but be a little confused, and couldn't figure out the current situation.

Emperor Lizong didn't turn back to look at Yin Zhiping until Jia Guifei and the others were gone, and there was no shadow. After he groaned slightly, he suddenly asked Yin Zhiping with a smile: "Jia Guifei is three months pregnant, I wonder if the real person can see it?"

This question made Yin Zhiping a little clueless, I don't know what the emperor meant by telling him this, but he still replied: "The minister is clumsy and can't see it." "It takes four or five months for a woman to become pregnant, and three months is not visible from her physical appearance. And at this time, women's clothes are mostly loose, even after the belly is slightly bulging, it can't be seen.

After saying that, he reacted, and immediately congratulated the emperor. He also knew that although the emperor in front of Lu Dao was the Son of Heaven, and he had married a lot of concubines in the three palaces and six courts, and he himself was quite a woman. But it has always been a lack of succession. So far, only one son and one daughter have been born. The son died two months after birth. The name is Zhao Wei, and he is posthumously crowned King Qi. The other daughter was born to Jia Guifei. Now the princess of Ruiguo, she was six years old at the time.

In addition to this son and daughter, Emperor Lizong did not have half a child, which not only made him regret himself, but also the entire court was very worried about it. The emperor has no children, and seeing that no heirs have been born in the past few years, I am afraid that there will be no more in the future, which saves hidden worries about the future successor candidate. There will inevitably be a battle for succession, which will make the court unstable. Now Jia Guifei is suddenly pregnant again. But how did Emperor Lizong dislike it.

Li Zong accepted Yin Zhiping's congratulations with a smile, and said to Yin Zhiping: "Jia Guifei can be pregnant, but thanks to a real person!"

When Yin Zhiping heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, and secretly said in his heart: "I'll go, what is this, what is thanks to me? Although you, Concubine Jia, are also very beautiful, and you are also a mature woman and beautiful woman that Lao Tzu loves for ten minutes, but I haven't thought about her at all." I have a crooked heart, what does it matter to me that she is pregnant, is it possible that she will still be my seed?"

Although he complained like this in his heart, Yin Zhiping also knew that this was impossible. And if that happens. Wearing a green hat for the emperor, the emperor would not talk to him with such a smile now, and would have called the guards to arrest him and cut him into seventeen or eight pieces. So he was shocked though. I didn't understand the meaning of the emperor's words, but it didn't show it on his face. just made a puzzled look, waiting for the emperor to explain.

Really. The emperor saw the question on his face, and without waiting for him to ask, he smiled and said something to explain his doubts.

It turns out that it is not only Jia Guifei who is pregnant, but since the beginning of this year, five or six concubines in the palace have been diagnosed as pregnant and pregnant with dragon species. The situation suddenly improved, others may not be clear, but the emperor himself is very clear.

He knew that the reason why these concubines were able to get pregnant one after another was because Yin Zhiping passed on his "Great Dao Boxing Technique" and "Breathing and Breathing Technique", which made his previously weak body greatly improved and became stronger. In particular, the "Breathing and Breathing Technique" can directly absorb the Yuan Qi of Heaven and Earth and turn it into increasing and nourishing the Yuan Jing of one's own body. Since learning this kung fu last year, his ability in the first bed has become stronger, and he has realized the benefits and benefits of this kung fu. To be able to conceive these concubines is naturally the hard-earned result of his hard work day and night after his ability has been enhanced. In other words, this is naturally Yin Zhiping's credit.

After listening to the emperor's explanation, Yin Zhiping finally understood what the situation was, and why Jia Guifei looked at him with gratitude when she was leaving. At the same time, he also understood why the emperor wanted to leave everyone to talk to him about this matter alone, after all, talking about these topics involved some things in the room, so it was naturally difficult for the eunuchs and palace maids to listen and spread the emperor's gossip. However, the emperor came to express his gratitude to him for this, but it made him cry and laugh a little.

"Okay, when my brother first passed on the first and second layers of your "Quanzhen Internal Strength", he had the intention of developing you into a believer, but now it is good, but it has become a solution to the problem of infertility for you. Our Quanzhen Sect's kung fu is not specifically taught to you to have children!"

Yin Zhiping was a little guilty of this in his heart, but he still underestimated the emperor's attention to it too much. The so-called "there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great", the ancients attached great importance to the inheritance of future generations, and the more rich and noble the family, the more so, and the royal family paid more attention to it. This is because this is not only related to whether there is a future or not, but also has a direct bearing on the replacement and stability of state power.

If an emperor does not have an heir to take over the throne, it will cause instability in the government. And for the rights and position of the heirs, they compete with each other to attack each other, and even regard each other as enemies, and those who want to kill them quickly have never been many since the beginning of the dynasty. Since ancient times, the most numerous battles in the court have often been battles for succession. Therefore, whether the emperor has children or not, and how many sons he has, this matter is very important.

If it weren't for the importance of this matter, Emperor Lizong would not have expressed his gratitude to Yin Zhiping. So he said that Yin Zhiping had meritorious, and it was a great merit. He didn't expect that Yin Zhiping's kung fu would have such miraculous effects.

"The real person stepped forward to listen to the seal!" said the emperor with great joy.

"The minister is here. Yin Zhiping knelt down and listened to the seal.

The emperor said: "I have appointed you as the protector of the country, in charge of Taoism in the world, and the official is a doctor of the third grade of gold and purple Guanglu." ”

"Thanksgiving!"

Yin Zhiping bowed his head and thanked him. But I couldn't help but be surprised in my heart, "Protector of the Country", this is referred to as "National Teacher". He didn't expect to receive such a reward for entering the palace today, and it was for the credit that made him cry and laugh a little.

Speaking of which, in the end, he still takes the inheritance of his heirs a little too lightly.

First, he is from the modern world, and he is not married, so he doesn't pay much attention to it. And in his time, there were really many Dink families who chose not to have children. He himself doesn't particularly like children, and although he is almost thirty years old in modern times, he is still a bit like a big child in terms of temperament, where did he think about taking care of the children himself.

Second, after he crossed over to this ancient world, he was originally a monk and a monk. Although he inherited the original Yin Zhiping's memories and some ideas, he never had the idea of finding a woman to have a child. (To be continued......)