Home Categories romance novel Growing lotus every step of the way 7. Picking Jiangnan lotus

Chapter 22 Chapter 22 Li Ying

After Bisu arrived in Jinling City, he first found an inn to stay in. That night, he changed into night clothes and sneaked into the inn. He found the envoy's residence of the Song Dynasty, found Yang Hao, and told him about the situation in Kaifeng. After Yang Hao left, Yanyan and Wawa also quickly packed their luggage, escorted by Mu Yu and Yang Hao's confidant guards brought out from Luzhou, and quietly left Kaifeng mansion, followed the imperial envoys to the south for a few days to make sure no one was following them After that, he turned to the west and dived in the direction of Huashan.Relatively speaking, that place is less war-torn, and it is also easy to live in seclusion. This is the place that Yang Hao and them had discussed in advance. After they made all the arrangements, they came to Jinling to meet.

In Kaifeng, Zhu'er, who knew the truth, had already agreed to take good care of Miaomiao. As for the house, it was just like when Doll left Bianliang last time. Lao Hei and others were also handed over to Miaomiao. They were originally the stewards and bodyguards of the inner court, and they were more adept at doing these things than Mu Yu. When Yang Hao heard that everything was well arranged, he felt overjoyed, so he asked Bi Su to go back to the inn first, and often went to the century-old "Yan Chi Lou" where Yanyan and Wawa had already agreed to meet up, waiting for them to catch up. When you arrive, notify yourself in time.As soon as Bi Su heard this, he bid farewell to him immediately, took out the post at night, and returned to the inn.

In the following days, Li Yu had a big banquet on the fifth day and a small banquet on the third day. He treated Yang Hao very hospitablely. Because of Yang Hao's arrogant attitude, Li Yu really didn't want to continue dealing with him, but after listening to what Xiao Zhou said about Yang Hao What Hao did in Jinling, he was indeed a little worried that Yang Hao's trouble-making temperament would cause conflicts with the ministers of the Tang Dynasty. No matter how disrespectful he was to himself, he would not dare to do too much. Banquets held him by his side until he returned to Song.

Li Yu was very bookish. He always believed that when the Song State attacked the Han State, not only did he not send troops to help Han at Liu Jixing's request, but he also wrote a letter to the Han State for the Song State, urging Liu Jixing to surrender.He also professed to the Song State before the Han Dynasty was destroyed, downgraded and reorganized, and recognized himself as a courtier. It can be said that he was benevolent to the Song State. Since Zhao Kuangyin accepted that he was a courtier of the Song State, there was no reason to send troops to crusade against the Tang State.The main concern of keeping Yang Hao by his side was that his overbearing attitude would make some Tang civil and military ministers disrespect him and cause diplomatic disputes.So he followed Xiao Zhou's suggestion and often invited him to the palace for banquets.

Yang Hao had to go to Li Yu's invitation, but Bisu was walking around the streets these days, looking for his ideal person. Bisu is a good woman, and there have been many women, not only the women in the brothel with money, but with his appearance, he has also seduced some ladies and wealthy ladies, but the one who made him so emotional , but for the first time in his life. When Yang Hao sent him to inquire about folk news in the Jianghuai area, he met her for the first time. Although he never said a word to each other, and never had any interaction with her, he just fell in love with her and couldn't help it .Just because, when the girl who had never spoken to him, passed him by, she smiled softly at him because he made way for her.

That smile was so gentle and kind, Bisu vaguely remembered, it seemed that his mother had such a gentle and reserved smile when he was a child.For many years, during the war, his relatives have all died. He has no relatives and no reason, wandering in the rivers and lakes, like a rootless duckweed. The girl's sweet smile aroused the feelings in his heart. That girl is a nun.
It's not easy to find her. There are four hundred and eighty temples in the south of the Yangtze River, how many buildings are in the misty rain, and there are more than four hundred and eighty temples in the south of the Yangtze River under Li Yu's care.

Li Yu loves beauty, poetry, Buddha, and loves to play chess.The wind of sycophantism in the south of the Yangtze River has become more and more intense since Li Yu succeeded to the throne.Every day when he retired from court, he and Xiao Zhou would change into monk clothes, meditate, chant sutras, and do their homework.Zhang Bo, a member of Zhongshushe, didn't believe in Buddhism, but he fell in love with the emperor. Every time he saw Li Yu, he would talk about Buddhism with him, so he became his favorite minister and became a prominent official.With this person as an example, all the military capitals of the Korean and Chinese swarmed to believe in Buddha.

There are already many Buddhist temples in the south of the Yangtze River, and Li Yu issued an edict to build more than a thousand Buddhist temples on Niutou Mountain in the south of Jinling City. There are nearly 100,000 monks.These monks don't plow or weave, spend money and food, and hide money to tell the pan, and then go to the horses to strip the people, which makes the people resentful. You must know that monks do not have to pay taxes, perform military service, or serve corvee. Therefore, in ancient times when there was a shortage of labor, the court generally strictly limited the number of monks. Otherwise, if there were too many monks, the country’s financial and material resources would suffer greatly. It was for this reason that Emperor Sejong Chai Rong made a great effort to exterminate Buddhism, destroying more than 30,000 Buddhist temples and letting hundreds of thousands of monks go back to the secular farming.However, Li Yu did the opposite. Not only did he abolish the "Purduation" system for reviewing monasticism, but also because he was a Buddhist believer, he also personally competed with Taoism for believers as an emperor, stipulating that if a Taoist priest is willing to change his career to believe in Buddhism, The government rewarded two taels of gold.

There is a lot to be done in this, so real monks and fake bald donkeys are all over the mountains and plains, and many of them are only seeking profit.For example, someone attached to a Buddhist temple, but in fact he was just a disciple, but his family property became a Buddhist field, and he could not get a penny of taxes from the imperial court.Some people pretended to be Taoist priests first, and then changed their careers to become monks as soon as they got the spy, taking the opportunity to receive rewards from the court. It is also thanks to the rich family left by Li Yu's father and ancestors that he can withstand such a toss. Today, the national power of the Tang Dynasty has declined to this point, and the morale of the army and the people have been lost, which has nothing to do with it.When there are more and more monks who eat without working, and the sesame oil money offered by the people cannot support the survival of so many monasteries, Li Yu actually decreed that the monks should be supported by the court. To several times more.

As a result, the trend of sycophancy in the south of the Yangtze River is more prosperous, and there are many monks. Even the nuns of nuns have no less than a hundred nuns. For a specific person, Bisu couldn't ask the abbot to call out all the young and beautiful nuns in the nunnery to show him, so after two days of searching, there was no news of that young nun, and instead, he was repeatedly accused by some old nuns. Ni beat him out as a thief who stole incense and jade. With an idea, Bisu simply changed into a woman's dress and pretended to offer incense and worship Buddha. In this way, he could enter the halls and houses of various nunneries without being hindered by others. I searched for it.Generally speaking, the scale of a nunnery and the number of female nuns are much smaller than those of a monastery, but it is not easy to see all the nuns in a nunnery. Only when doing homework in the main hall, all monks will They appeared in a concentrated manner, so every time Bisu went to a nunnery, he had to patiently hang up to the nuns to do their homework.

It was no exception when he came to the Jingxin Nunnery on this day. He burnt incense, applied sesame oil and money, and waited in the nunnery until the nuns were doing their homework in the main hall. He couldn't help but sigh and leave the main hall, and walked out of the second courtyard, but he didn't see the nun who made him so dreamy. Just as Bi Su was about to get away, he turned his head inadvertently, and suddenly saw a corner of black clothes flashing across the yellow Buddha wall. Into a side courtyard. Bi Su's heart skipped a beat, all the nuns are chanting scriptures in the hall now, why is this nun not in the hall?He subconsciously chased after her, and saw a nun slowly turning around a corner of the monastery with two buckets of water.The fat black clothes couldn't hide her delicate body like a crescent moon. Just looking at the back, Bi Su's eyes straightened: "It's her, it's her! The sky pays off, and it really told me to find her." gone." At that moment, Bi Su was like a demon, his feet moved involuntarily, and he chased him from behind...
These days Yang Hao often goes in and out of the palace, and has become a frequent visitor in the harem.There are too many contacts, it is not always easy to show disrespect to Li Yu, his attitude gradually becomes more polite, Li Yu is overjoyed to see it, and he only said that his enthusiasm and inspiration made this arrogant and rude envoy of Song Dynasty also respect him With the meaning of reverence, those who entertained him were even more attentive. At that time, the atmosphere of banquets must be accompanied by singing and dancing, and Yu Niang was the head of the Tang Palace singing and dancing troupe, so naturally she must be present at every banquet.Yu Niang was originally a lotus picking girl from the south of the Yangtze River. She was selected into the palace at the age of sixteen.Her mother was born in Persia, so she is of mixed race, her eyes are slightly blue, and the eye sockets are European-style, with a strong sense of three-dimensionality.Her original lotus-picking dance is very graceful. Once her tall and slender figure dances, it looks like a lotus flower, and her pitching and swaying posture is extremely graceful.Li Yu is a master of this way, so he admires her the most. Although Li Niang is not Li Yu's concubine, she is also his favorite woman. After singing and dancing, she is often asked to wait by her side, because she is familiar with Yang Hao, and it is not a state banquet. Apart from Yang Hao, only palace maikos are present. There is no need to have any scruples with the servants in the palace, so when the wine is in full swing, Li Yu can't help but let loose, and often have intimacy with Yu Niang. This girl is gorgeous and natural between looking and looking, with a frown and a smile, she is a beauty of a generation, in front of Yang Hao, she looks straight into Yang Hao's eyes with an incomparably fragrant "skin cup". Yang Hao couldn't help sighing secretly: "The scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is indeed not as rigorous as that in the north. There is no concubine in the court of the Song Dynasty who is so intimate with the emperor in front of foreign ministers. This Li Yu really doesn't look like an emperor." It is indeed rare for an emperor who likes to live a self-destructive and selfish life like Li Yu. Needless to say, the song "Bodhisattva Man" vividly describes his affair with his sister-in-law Ziying who has not yet become a queen. The life after marriage is also undisguised. A song "Yi Hu Zhu": "The evening makeup is just over. Shen Tan lightly injects a little bit, revealing a lilac to people. A Qing song, temporarily citing the broken cherry. The sleeves are broken Yin Seke. The cup is deep swirling and washed with fragrant mash, and the embroidery bed is leaning against the tenderness. Chew the red velvet, and spit at Tan Lang with a smile." The charming scenery of the husband and wife is undoubtedly exposed, and at this moment in front of Yang Hao's How can there be any scruples when making out with a maiko face to face. With a "skin cup", Li Niang poured the wine into Li Yu's mouth, but she seemed to know that Yang Hao was looking at her, she snuggled into Li Yu's arms, but smiled back at Yang Hao, her coquettish and charming style was not without provocation It meant that Yang Hao jumped in his heart, and quickly lowered his eyes: "Li Yu's harem has three thousand beauties, and there is only Li Yu's well in a thousand hectares of land. I wink." Just as he was thinking wildly, a waiter came in with a lot of performances, bowed his head and said something to Li Yu, Li Yu frowned, let go of his little waist, and said displeasedly: "Guzheng and Yang Zuoshi are drinking, Didn't you see it?" The waiter panicked and said: "My lord, these are all cases of prisoners waiting to die. There has been a backlog for a long time. There is a secretary urging them urgently. I would like to ask the officials to take a look at them and give them a reply." Seeing this, Yang Hao said with a smile: "National affairs are the most important thing, the lord of the country should go and review the official documents by himself. The next official is already drunk, so I will leave." Li Yu was not exhausted, and smiled at him: "I am fond of playing chess. Although I am the best at Go, I have been immersed in chess for a long time. I just heard the kind of chess that Yang Zuoshi said. It seems very interesting. The lonely king is just about to see it, so the left envoy is not in a hurry to leave, I will lead the left envoy Yang to the chrysanthemum garden to enjoy the flowers first, and the lonely king will come as soon as he goes." After the banquet was over, Li Yu followed the servant to the side hall to deal with the official documents, but Yang Hao was led to the back garden by the woman.After Xiao Zhou's orders, Yu Niang deliberately created a scandal with Yang Hao. Unfortunately, she never had the right opportunity to meet him in private, so she could only flirt with her eyebrows in the hall, and used her flirtatious tricks in front of Li Yu to attract him. Then Yang Hao was tempted.It was rare to have this opportunity at this time, so she couldn't help but speak softly in front of him, and her attitude was a bit too intimate. It's a pity that when she was dancing in the hall, although Yang Hao couldn't take his eyes off him, he often showed her a man's instinctive appreciation for beauties, but this kind of private environment was well-regulated and he didn't look sideways.In fact, this is also a common problem of most men. When sitting off the stage, they can comment on the beauty on the stage, but they can't let go in front of her. Yang Hao only answers when he asks a question. The characters in Jiangnan are delicate and delicate, and the teasing of the girl is too elegant. With Yang Hao's little knowledge of Chinese culture, how can he taste it? My mother didn't know his details, so she made some provocative words, bold and hot, but Yang Hao just said hello, and bowed like a ceremonial bow, and she couldn't help wondering to herself: "This Song envoy is an honest gentleman who doesn't like women. Still afraid of my identity? Let me try him again." "Master Yang, do you think that cluster of chrysanthemums is blooming well?" Yang Hao looked at the chrysanthemums following the instructions of the lady, and saw that the colors of the clusters of chrysanthemums were jade white, light yellow, pink, rose red, light purple... and the petals were engraved, curled, folded, spooned, and missing... ..., some are like pine needles, some are like hanging silk, some are like lotus seats, some are like dragon claws... Some are already in full bloom, like the smiling faces of beauties; With slender fingers, the most provocative thing is to hold the unreleased tender buds to the heart, and hold the petals implicitly, wanting to say but still ashamed. The chrysanthemum that I pointed to was milky white, the flowers were round, with stamens on the lower side, narrow and long like a dancing girl, and she said with a smile: "This chrysanthemum has a name called 'Dancing Girl under the Moon', look at it, my lord. It has a graceful appearance and a light body, does it look like a beautiful woman who dances gracefully, sings and dances under the full moon?" Mi Niang seemed to be drunk and weak, and she seemed to be a little lost. When she approached Yang Hao to give him advice, her plump breasts approached Yang Hao's shoulder unconsciously. The feeling entered his heart, Yang Hao only felt that she breathed like blue, and her delicate body was on the side, as if she could kiss her cheek with just one side of her head, so he stepped back without any trace, and said with a smile: "Originally, Yang I still don't know the way to do it, but let me tell you, there is indeed some resemblance." "Ah..., I'm drunk, I'm a little drunk, I'm going to rest by myself, I don't need to accompany you, the king has business to do, so Yang walked around the courtyard alone to sober up. " When she heard this, she couldn't help being startled, since she first showed her beauty, I don't know how many men have chased her under her skirt, but this is the first time she met the one who drove her away, could it be that this man is really a gentleman with high moral character, and Or what happened to Tao Gu in the past made him more wary?It's not easy for Yu Niang to be too eager, so she had to smile in response, and retreated gracefully. Li Yu's handling of official documents was not because Xiao Zhou asked someone to deliberately dismiss him, otherwise he might have used this opportunity to create some indisputable scandals for Yang Hao.Li Yu was swept away by the wine, and it was actually the hands and feet of the servants. Their purpose of doing it was not to create opportunities for the wife, but to make money for themselves. It turned out that Li Yu believed in Buddhism, so he made a joke about the laws of the country. Every time the pending death row case came up in the Zhai Daily, he would not deal with it according to the law. Instead, he set up a life lamp for each prisoner and placed it in the palace. In the monastery, if the lamp of life does not go out all night, after he comes to have an examination the next morning, the death row prisoner will be exempted from the death penalty and will be sentenced to other punishments instead. Buddhists have a fasting day every month. It is said that on this day, a Bodhisattva will come to the world. According to the world, he will compare good and evil.Increase all blessings.Li Yu excused his crime because the lamp of life was not extinguished, just to imitate the Bodhisattva.Little did he know that he actually became the God of Wealth Bodhisattva of those eunuchs and monks. This rule has been known for a long time, and the whole Tang country knows that whenever there is a murder case of a death row prisoner, his family will spare no money to bribe the servants in the palace and the monks in the temple. Present it to Li Yu on the fasting day, especially when Li Yu is busy with other things, so that he can't read the dossier. The monks in the palace temple will carefully take care of the life lamp of the condemned prisoner after receiving money from the family of the condemned prisoner. Even if it is blown out by the wind in the middle of the night or the lamp oil is burned out, they will let the little novice secretly relight or refill the lamp oil, so that Saving that person's life, I don't know how many heinous prisoners have saved their lives because of this. Since it is such a rule to re-examine the death row case on fasting day, how can Li Yu carefully review and scrutinize the files one by one like Zhao Kuangyin? Is there any discomfort in handling it?He browsed through it in a hurry, signed and bet one by one, and then, according to the old rules, had these prisoners inscribe their names on the number plates one by one, put a life lamp in front of the plates, and sent them to the Jingde Temple in the harem. Li Yu finished processing the files of death row prisoners that needed to be reviewed at an extremely fast speed, stretched his waist and walked into the Chrysanthemum Garden excitedly, wanting to let Yang Hao show the kind of chess that he said was relatively new and doubtful. Unexpectedly When I arrived in the chrysanthemum garden, there was no one there.Li Yu looked around in surprise, and ordered the two accompanying servants: "Yang Zuoshi thinks he is wandering in the garden? You two look around and let him come to see the lonely king." With a promise, the two servants moved to the left and right, and searched around the chrysanthemum bushes that were blooming furiously. Yang Hao just went to rest in the pavilion, just climbed into the pavilion, and suddenly saw a young palace man leading a girl through the flower path, looking at the back, Zhe Ziyu was quite similar, Yang Hao was amazed, he couldn't help it The ground chased after him.As a result, standing on a high place, he still got the whereabouts of the beauty in the palace dress. Once he entered the flowers, it was difficult to find someone. After wandering around for a long time, Yang Hao found himself lost. Like a chrysanthemum, he thought he broke into another palace. He also knew that the forbidden palace was not allowed to break into it, but... when he thought of Zhe Ziyu, Yang Hao bit his teeth and ran down a flower path. ...
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