Chapter 240 The Bodhisattva Knows(1/2)
Yue Hua responded to his order and walked to Gala with his sword. Gala was about to leave with Yue Hua, but he suddenly stood up.
"Is there any Buddhist temple nearby?" She looked at Gala with a little surprise.
Gala had to nod, "There is an ancient temple, but the incense is not strong - does Sister Jiang want to go with her?"
"It just so happened that I wanted to go in the incense too and ask for a sign back. It's rare to go out, so it's better to go with us and accompany us to enjoy the scenery. There is no disturbance here, so it should be great." Pei Qi walked over with a smile and looked at her grandfather Jiang Zhan, as if she was asking for advice.
Jiang Zhan did not stop him and said, "It is difficult to walk on the mountain road, so bring a few more people."
Pei Qi responded to the order.
In addition to Jiang Zhan, there was another big Buddha Yang Jian sitting. Pei Qi could not be negligent and rude, so she bowed to Yang Jian, and the corner of her skirt swayed in the mountain breeze. She was raised in the high school since childhood. Although Jiang Zhan's power was not as prominent as he is now, she also had a place in the court. The mansion with a scholarly and beautiful family tutor was very good. She was born with a dignified appearance and had a lot of contact with noble ladies and royal relatives. She bowed so well and looked like a decorative person.
Yang Jian sat upright in the middle, unable to remain indifferent in front of Jiang Zhan and his son. He just nodded slightly, then lowered his eyelids and went to get the pastry on the plate to eat.
Pei Qi didn't mind either, so she turned around and told her sisters to rest for a while and not to make trouble, so she called two servants and maids to follow her.
Gala was happy to walk with her, so that Yang Jian was not suspicious, so he went there together.
The roads in this area are quite flat, and under the cool autumn sky, the clear scenery is full of refreshing scenery, which makes people feel refreshed. The two of them are watching the mountain scenery and talking about nearby scenery. Recently, interesting news in Beijing have not mentioned any of the things related to Yang Jian next to them, and the atmosphere is quite harmonious.
Since Jialuo and Pei Qi met, they have only met three times. The first time was outside a cave gate in Jianzhang Palace. Princess Ningyuan went to find Yang Jianshi in a hurry. It was Pei Qi who gave the siege and took Princess Ningyuan away, which made Jialuo very grateful. The second time was Yiqiu Palace, and the two had no contact at all. The third time was Qingsiyuan in Jianzhang Palace, which was considered to have said a few words.
Gala has no bad impression of Pei Qi. At least, compared to her elder sister Fu Jin, Pei Qi's behavior is more like a gentle and considerate elder sister. Even though she knows that Pei Qi is staring at the position of Queen Jianzhang Palace, Gala does not feel disgusted with her current words and deeds.
Therefore, the journey has been quite pleasant.
When they arrived at Chengshou Temple, the governor inside held a hand in hand and led the two to the Main Hall.
Pei Qi really came to ask for a visa. After incense, she asked for a special offer. She accompanied the maid and went to find the abbot to explain the visa, and asked Gala and Yue Hua to wait for her outside the palace for a while.
Gala allowed himself to light incense and knelt in front of the Buddha, looking up at the solemn and compassionate Buddha statue. Close your eyes and make a pious wish in your heart—
May Yang Jian be healthy and everything be safe.
May Yang Jian stabilize the government and achieve his ambitions.
May Yang Jian find what he loves and fulfill his life for the rest of his life.
My heart seemed to be a little sore and ached. Thinking of his figure and face, I felt happy.
Gala knelt on the ground and kowtowed, slowly got up and entered the incense.
After leaving the Main Hall, standing in front of the Buddha Hall, the faint sandalwood lingered around it, the maple trees in the courtyard were pleasing to the eye, and the mountains were undulating in the distance, you could see the open space where Yang Jian was, a valley separated by a silence. His posture of sitting upright seemed to be close to him - his solemn eyebrows and upright figure were clearly talking about state affairs with Jiang Zhan, but looking at her, he always added a hint of gentleness. When she proposed to indulge in incense alone, she even felt worried. In addition to arranging Yue Hua to accompany him, she also asked Liu Zheng to follow him from afar.
Did he notice it? Gala didn't know. But this was a rare opportunity and should not be abandoned.
As farewell is approaching, I feel guilty, apologized, lost, and even regretful. It is a taste I have never seen before, which almost made her shake. Even her steps are heavy, like wearing shackles, carrying the full memory of the past six months, carrying the gratitude to Yang Jian and the debt.
It turns out that turning around and leaving is not as easy as I imagined.
But the road is right in front of you, and there is no reason to hesitate to retreat.
Gala held his hands tightly in his sleeves, stared at the lingering smoke for a moment, calmed down, and then looked at Yue Hua beside him, "Sister Yue, I have some doubts and want to ask the monks in the temple alone, I hope you can wait here for a while."
"I'll go with the girl. Your Highness has given instructions to protect the girl's safety."
"What is the danger of such a small Buddhist temple?" Gala smiled and looked at Yue Hua's suspicious gaze, without evading, "Don't worry, I said I would not do anything to blame Your Highness."
Yue Hua was silent.
After being a guard for several years, she walked alone through the thousand-mile journey from Beiliang to the capital. She has always been alert and sharp. Some of the strange things about Gala today cannot be hidden from her eyes. Moreover, there was nothing wrong along the way, but when she arrived at Chengshou Temple, for some reason, she always felt that someone was peeping in secret and trying to do something wrong.
But Gala's request is really hard to refute, not to mention that Yang Jian's order is only for protection rather than surveillance, and Yue Hua would not stare at him without hesitation, just adding to the gap.
She hesitated for a moment, finally withdrew her gaze and clasped her fists at Gala, "Your Highness is still waiting for the girl to go back, please try not to delay."
Gala nodded, entered the hall, and walked around the solemn and compassionate Buddha statue to look for the monks in the back hall.
Outside the hall, Yue Hua suppressed the urge to chase after Gala was seen entering the Buddha statue.
This Buddhist temple is remote and few people come. Today, everyone in the capital rushed to the famous mountains and temples, and it was even more deserted. Except for Gala and his party, there was no pilgrimage. She stood in front of the hall with a sword, thinking that Gala should be planning something. Without real evidence, she dared not intervene to stop it. She walked quickly through the courtyard and saw Liu Zheng standing there with three guards not far away, and felt a little relieved.
Just as he was about to withdraw his gaze, he saw the person who was gradually walking over behind Liu Zheng, his face suddenly darkened.
Pei Yun? How could he be here?
Pei Yun made great contributions to overthrow Yuwen Jian because of his resignation. Although he was punished for dereliction of duty, he was demoted to Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, fined him a lot of salary, and finally saved his official position. All his responsibilities were in Honglu Temple. Why did he run to Chengshou Temple alone? He also only wore an inconspicuous blue shirt.
He was staring at Dugu Jialuo sneakily on the way to the north. Could it be related to the abnormality of Dugu Jialuo today?
Yue Hua thought this way and couldn't help but keep a close eye on Pei Yun, and the sword changed to shake hands.
Pei Yun greeted Liu Zheng on the other side and walked in with his head in a silence. He seemed to have something to do. When he arrived at the gate of the Main Palace, he suddenly looked up and saw Yue Hua standing coldly, and was stunned.
"Why are you here?" Pei Yun spoke first.
Yue Hua didn't respect him either. He stared at him condescendingly, and a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "I still want to ask, why are you here."
Pei Yun did not answer, and was about to pass her into the hall when he suddenly heard a very low scream from inside.
Before Pei Yun could react, Yue Hua had already rushed out like an arrow leaving the string and rushed into the hall.
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Make three wishes before the Buddha—
May Yang Jian be healthy and everything be safe.
May Yang Jian stabilize the government and achieve his ambitions.
May Yang Jian find what he loves and fulfill his life for the rest of his life.
In the Main Hall, the governor seemed to be knocked out and crawled on the ground. The red lacquer and golden door leaf behind the hall was still shaking violently. Looking around, except for the divine curtain under the Maitreya Buddha statue, there was no trace of anyone.
Yue Hua was slightly shocked and called out Miss Dugu, but no one answered.
At this moment, the servant who followed Pei Qijinxiang hurried over with crying voices, “Help! Help! Save my girl—” When she saw Yue Hua, she immediately knelt on the ground, “Please save my girl’s life, she was kidnapped by the thief!”
"What's going on?" Yue Hua sternly.
"My girl is unanimously unanimous. Suddenly, a few people rushed out, knocked over the abbot and maid, caught her and ran away. Please..."
Before she finished speaking, Yue Hua's face suddenly changed, and a whistle came out of her mouth. He immediately asked, "Which direction?"
"Over there—" The servant was panicked, his face changed, pointing to the back of the mountain, "Over there."
When Yue Hua heard this, he immediately flew to chase him out. Liu Zheng led the guards to come hurriedly and followed her to chase him out.
The servant lady was still sank on the ground. Pei Yun, who was the slowest, rushed over and learned that someone was plundering Prime Minister Yuwen’s daughter. Prime Minister Yuwen and the emperor were nearby. He immediately took her out of Chengshou Temple and met the guards who rushed over from behind to explain the reason.
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At this time, Gala was hidden in the divine curtain under Maitreya's seat, and people were unknown.
Her plan was originally very good, and the grandmother decided to do this Tongshiling and asked Su Wei to send her a letter - if she went to climb the mountain next to her, there were many people and eyes, Yang Jian would definitely send more people to follow her, which would be inconvenient. Chengshou Temple is deserted today, and there are old friends who Tan knew, so it is best to do it.
She managed to come to the temple alone to enter the incense, and used the reason for finding the monk to solve the problem, and then, according to the arrangement of her grandmother, she found the monk with a scar under her neck and hid it secretly. In the temple, there was someone who was arranged by Tan in advance, and would ride a horse to escape from the back mountain in clothes similar to her. When Yue Hua realized that something was wrong, the monk would say what she wanted to tell Yang Jian.
At that time, even if Yang Jian refused to let him go, if so many guards were watching him, he would be misled by his substitute and chased him down the mountain. She would change into inconspicuous clothes and be escorted down the mountain by the person arranged by her grandmother, and then meet with Tan and escape from the capital.
Who knew that before she arrived at the palace, she had not yet mentioned the person she was looking for to the governor, a tall and ferocious monk rushed over and knocked her out without waiting for Gala to exclaim. The man immediately knocked Gala out of the governor, dragged Gala under the curtain of divineness, and his companions pretended to be a robber and fled out.
The exclamation that Yue Hua heard did not come from Gala, but from the governor.
The vicious monk took advantage of the gap between guards and carried Gala and hid behind a door in the corner.
When the next wave of guards rushed to search the Buddhist temple, there was no trace of Gala or Pei Qi except for the servants and maids who fainted beside Pei Qi.
The evil monk carried Gala, afraid that she would wake up, so he sucked two mouthfuls of the mystery and medicine, and then went out of Chengshou Temple through a secret passage. Half an hour later, he went to a hidden stone chamber and placed her on the ground, side by side with Pei Qi, who was also unconscious.
Inside the stone chamber, Meng Qing sat upright in a tiger-skin chair, looked at the two beauties side by side on the ground, and nodded with satisfaction. Then, he got up and left the stone chamber, walked around the secret passage made of stone for a while, pushed open the empty door leaf, and the sun shone outside.
This is the plum blossom peak that is more than ten miles east of Tongshiling. It is named after the plum blossoms in the mountains. There are not only plum trees, but also red maple and ginkgo that stretch for miles. At this time, the red and yellow alternate, making it extremely bright.
Yuwen Shu and his son are enjoying the scenery in the villa on the mountainside.
Although there are many people who come to the Mei Blossom Peak to climb, the only ones who can step into this villa are the Yuwen family.
Meng Qing still had to hide his movements outside. When he arrived at the Yuwen family territory, he had no scruples and quickly walked up the stairs. When he arrived at the observation deck, he clasped his fists and said to Yuwen Shu: "Prince, the person you want has been caught."
Yuwen Shu was a little surprised, "Which? Jiang Zhan's granddaughter? So fast?"
Meng Qing grinned and was quite proud, "Yesterday I went to Tongshiling to see the mine, and then went to Chengshou Temple to burn incense for the Buddha. It was a great opportunity. I actually met Pei Yun and his son there. I vaguely heard that they were going to come to Tongshiling to climb up today and also took Pei Qi with me. I thought, since he brought the women, she would definitely go to the temple to burn incense, so she set up an ambush. Who knew that I really asked me to leave. Not only did she come to the door, she brought more people and caught them without much effort."
"Thank you, brother!" Yu Wen Shu of course comforted her, but asked again: "What are Pei Yun and his son going to Chengshou Temple to do?"
"I'm afraid the old dog has a sharp nose. He smelled the copper mine and wanted to go over and find out. But don't worry, the brothers there have been dispersed for a while, and the people left behind are hidden. With his ability to Pei Yun, he will never be able to dig out anything in half his life." Meng Qing didn't care much about this, and just stretched out his hand and said, "You are here, the prime minister, go and have a look?"
Yuwen Shu laughed and immediately stood up, calling his second son Yuwen Ji and Li Bing to see.
The Yuwen family is not prosperous. Although Yuwen Shu is greedy for power and bribery, he is afraid that the wife of the family will never take a concubine in her life. Only Yuwen Jian, Yuwen Ji brothers and Yuwen Lanzhu are under his belt. The two brothers are suppressed by the old wife of the family, and they dare not take a concubine. Yuwen Jian's wife has been mourned, and the renewal of marriage has not been decided, so there are only two women, Fu Heng and Yuwen Lanzhu.
But the two women were pregnant one after another, and Yu Wenjian was trapped in prison again. Today, he came out to climb the high ground, and only father and son, Li Bing, a son-in-law who temporarily lives in the prime minister's house.
The four people arrived in the stone chamber, and Pei Qi and Garo were still unconscious.
Yuwen Shu recognized Pei Qi, but looked at Gala, and couldn't help but look at Meng Qing, "Is this next to you?"
"I guess he came with Pei Qi, which granddaughter of Jiang Zhan is probably Jiang Zhan."
Is Jiang Zhan’s granddaughter? Yuwen Shu frowned.
He had not seen many female relatives in the Jiang family. He could recognize Pei Qi because Concubine Duan often invited her into the palace. Occasionally, she met her in the palace corridor and remembered her face.
To be continued...