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Chapter 29 Chapter Twenty Nine

Yang Hao and Ye Luwen stepped into the Golden Palace. Yesterday, they were still rivals at the sword, but today they are the envoys of a country standing in the court of the Tang Dynasty. Although they are dressed grandly and have a solemn demeanor, the hostility between the two is very strong. Obviously, as soon as the two boarded the hall, Ye Luwen filed a complaint in front of Li Yu, condemning the envoys of Song Dynasty for personally leading people to use force to retaliate because of verbal disputes among their subordinates. This morning, they found that they also killed themselves One of his subordinates vented his anger and demanded that Tang Guo severely punish the murderer and give him justice.

Yang Hao secretly said: "This savage-looking guy is really insidious, let me just say, the two sides have already met each other in battle, and they led their troops to fight. After all, they just occupied a yard each. As for sending a spy to sneak in?" , What kind of information can he spy on, fortunately, I know what the gangsters outside the Marco Polo Bridge were trying to find a moral reason for themselves, this guy is exactly the same." Yang Hao listened calmly, and before Li Yu asked, he stepped forward and gave a long salute, and said calmly: "Master, what the Khitan envoy said is wrong. The Khitan people took the initiative to provoke us yesterday, trying to take the plan that our lord arranged for us. In order to stop the arrogance of the Khitan people, Yang led his people to stop them. After the empress, the foreign ministers strictly restrained his subordinates and never took any action against the Khitan envoys and their subordinates. About this matter, Master Huangfu Jixun led his troops to maintain order between the two posthouses last night, so he can be a witness."

In Huangfu Jixun's heart, the idea that "the northerners are strong and cannot be defeated by our southerners" is unshakable. Now the people of Song Dynasty are from the north, and the people of Khitan are also from the north. Both sides have thicker thighs than him, neither of them He can provoke them, but in comparison, Song people are close neighbors, and they are more threatening, so they naturally tend to have more people in Song Dynasty psychologically. In addition, Yang Hao just asked him to say something fair, not fabricated out of thin air. The Khitans would not take their anger out on him either.

So Huangfu Jixun hurried out of the shift and stood still, held the wat and said: "My lord, I was ordered to be stationed in the concierge courtyard. Last night was peaceful, and there was indeed no dispute between the two sides." Ye Luwen said angrily: "My lord, they want to vent their anger and kill people, so naturally they will not come here in a grand manner, but this envoy has just come to Tang, and in the south of the Yangtze River, except for this Song envoy, he has never had any grudges with others. Yesterday, the two sides just had a quarrel. Discord, my people died violently in the night. It was not their actions but which one? I was invited by the Tang Kingdom to send an envoy to the two countries for the friendship between the two countries. Now that I am treated like this in your country, should the lord give us this? The country will explain it to each other."

He raised his eyebrows, roared loudly, and the sound shook the roof tiles, which made Li Yu's face change color, and quickly stood up to appease him: "Master Yelu, don't need to be angry. Regarding this matter, Gu will definitely..." Yang Hao suddenly said: "Lord Yelu, where did your subordinate die and where was the injury?" Ye Luwen glanced at him coldly, and said: "This morning, I found that the body was left in a flower garden in the corner of the wall. There was no injury on my body, but how could my bodyguard die for no reason? It must be plotted by someone. The matter is about to be investigated by the king. Once the truth is found out, I will definitely not let you go!"

Yang Hao snorted coldly and said, "If someone died in your country's envoys, what does it have to do with me from the Song Dynasty? There is no reason to bite me, and I am going to ask the lord to return my innocence. Where is your dead person? Come up and have a look, I'm an upright officer, if I don't do anything wrong, I won't be afraid of your investigation." Yeluwen raised his eyebrows and said loudly, "Okay! The corpse is outside the palace now, please send someone to carry it up to see what happened." The two gourd warriors put down their weapons, and the lower hall lifted the unlucky ghost up. Yelvwen pointed at the dead body and said loudly: "My lord, my bodyguard has always been strong. My unprovoked death must have been conspired by someone, and the murderer must be There is no doubt that Song people."

Yang Hao wandered around the corpse twice. The corpse was tampered with by his men. The clothes were messy and the hair was fluffy. He had already changed into ordinary clothes instead of the night clothes. Naturally, Yelvwen would not change them for him. Wearing a nocturnal suit, causing trouble for himself.Anyway, if he has nothing to do, he will make trouble, not to mention that there is indeed a dead person now. Yang Hao squatted down and sniffed carefully, and said, "My lord, there is a faint smell of alcohol on this person, presumably he has been drinking." Yelvwen was stunned, he only heard that the man he had sent to plant dirt had turned into a cold corpse and sent it back, and ordered his servants to search for it, but there was no scar on his body, thinking that although he couldn't find it in the Song Guoguan It is so beneficial to find a person from the post in the post, and it is more or less an attack tool, which is beneficial to occupying morality, so he brought his body. The royal family, of course, would not search for the corpse in person.

When Yang Hao said that there was a faint smell of alcohol on the corpse, Ye Luwen couldn't help but feel annoyed in his heart: "This bastard, he dared to drink alcohol when he was asked to do something! Yes, I told him to be discovered by the Song people on purpose so that Imprisonment, before the Song people complained, I preemptively searched the Song people's residences, so that they would not be able to afford it. This bastard was originally going to be discovered, so naturally he would not be so cautious." Ye Luwen argued strongly: "I am a Khitan who loves wine. I eat three meals a day without strong alcohol. What's so strange about drinking?"

Yang Hao smiled. He looked up and waved to Huangfu Jixun. Huangfu Jixun glanced at Li Yu. Li Yu was noncommittal. Huangfu Jixun came over with his wat and asked, "Yang Zuoshi, what's the matter?" Yang Hao reached out to take his wat board, moved the dead body's face covered with mud, flowers, plants and leaves left and right, and said to Huangfu Jixun: "My lord, please smell it carefully, what is the smell?" Huangfu Jixun sniffed it, and said, "Hmm..., there is a faint smell of alcohol." Yang Hao said: "The body is already stiff. It has been dead in the middle of the night, and the smell of alcohol is still overflowing. It seems that you have drunk a lot."

In fact, the smell of alcohol is not strong, if you don't smell it carefully, it is hard to detect, but Huangfu Jixun doesn't know how much alcohol should be on his body if he has been dead for so long, so he nodded and said: "Yang Zuo To make sense, this man really did drink a lot." Yelvwen said angrily, "What are you doing?" Yang Hao ignored him, and said to Huangfu Jixun: "If you smell it carefully, there is still something there." Huangfu Jixun smelled it again, but he didn't smell anything, he moved closer, his nose almost touched the dead body's face, and after sniffing carefully, Huangfu Jixun's face revealed some strange expressions.

"How? What does Master Huangfu think it smells like?" "Uh... this, it's not very good to say. It seems... as if... it should be... the smell of urine?" "Wow!" Yang Hao patted him on the shoulder vigorously, and praised: "Heroes see the same thing, and I smell urine too." "Bah, bah, bah!" Huangfu Jixun couldn't help feeling sick when he thought about how he was sniffing against the dead body's face just now. Yang Hao stood up and said to Li Yu: "Master, this Khitan warrior is tall and powerful. If someone tries to harm him, it is impossible for him to have no scars left by resistance, so it is impossible for him to kill him." Yelvwen gritted his teeth and sneered, "It wasn't homicide, could it be suicide?" Yang Hao jumped in front of the dead body like a litigator, and talked eloquently: "This man was addicted to alcohol and died in a flower garden in the corner late at night. His face was covered with mud and flowers and leaves. After Mr. Huangfu's careful inspection, his face There is also a faint smell of urine on the upper and neck, based on this, I can conclude that this Khitan warrior did not die of homicide, nor did he die of manslaughter, but died of an accident." Li Yu listened to the cloud and mist, and asked quickly: "Accident? Please Yang Zuoshi make it clear, how did this Khitan warrior die in an accident?" Yang Hao bowed his hands solemnly and said: "After careful inspection by this officer and General Huangfu, it was found that the deceased had a strong smell of alcohol and the smell of urine on his face. Based on these clues, this officer speculates that... A Khitan warrior was so drunk that he got up late at night and went to a secluded place to drink. Because of the alcohol, he fell down and fell asleep on the spot. Because his mouth and nose were pressed on his own urine, he suffocated to death. The reasonable and closest cause of death." After Yang Hao said a word, there was an uproar in the civil and military affairs of the court. Yeluwen was so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven. He roared loudly: "People can't be so shameless. Shameless shame is shameless! Contrasting black and white, referring to a deer as a horse, and talking cleverly Rumorous and shameless words, unexpectedly... actually came from the mouth of you, the envoy of the Song Dynasty!" This Yeluwen's Sinology attainments are not shallow, a curse, Lao Tzu and Confucius have all, but Yang Hao smiled and said: "Don't talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality with Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching is written by Lao Tzu." Yeluwen jumped into a rage, snatched the golden melon warrior's weapon, and posed as a leaping horse with a spear horizontally. When Yang Hao saw it, he quickly opened his posture, lifted the wat board obliquely like a sword, squeezed a sword formula with his left hand, and shouted loudly : "Should we use force if we are poor at reasoning?" When Li Yu saw that the two sides were about to fight again, he couldn't help secretly happy in his heart, but his face was full of anxiety, he stood up and said: "Quickly pull the two noble envoys away, there is something to say, don't hurt the harmony between each other. " Seeing that the two sides were about to fight, Li Yu hurriedly pulled people away, talked nicely, and mediated in the middle. The drowned subordinates gave many pensions to suppress this matter for the time being. After the banquet was over, Li Yu said again: "The two noble envoys who came to the Tang country are lonely guests. I don't want you to spoil the friendly relationship between Song and Khitan due to some misunderstandings. Both ambassadors understand A person of great righteousness, I hope that I can put the state affairs first, and turn hostility into jade silk. Tomorrow I will go to the 'Jiming Temple' to worship the Buddha and offer incense. I also invite the two noble envoys to go with me. I hope that the Buddhist temple is a solemn and clean place, and my Buddha's compassionate and peaceful heart , can dissolve the anger in the hearts of the two honorable envoys." Yang Hao and Ye Luwen looked at each other, snorted coldly, clasped their hands together and said: "The lord invites, and the ministers leave!" After saying that, they turned back and left at the same time. Li Yu looked at the backs of the two, with a smile on his lips, beckoned to a servant, and ordered in a low voice: "Go, take a look at the opportunity to intercept Yelvwen, and invite him to Qingliang Hall to meet Guyi!" At this time, Chen Qiao was quietly waiting in Qingliang Palace...
When Yeluwen returned to the post, Ding Chengye greeted him immediately: "My lord, there is a letter from Shangjing." "Oh?" Yelvwen said movedly, "Father has sent a letter? What did you say?" "How dare the villain open the old prince's autographed letter, the letter is here, please read it, sir." Yelvwen hurriedly took the wax pill, went back to the inner room, crushed the wax pill, took out a thin piece of silk book, read it carefully for a while, then rolled up the silk book, and started to walk slowly in the room. Ding Chengye asked impatiently: "My lord, what did the old prince say?" Ye Luwen smiled coldly, and said: "As I expected, when I left the capital here, Xiao Chuo began to cut off my wings in the palace guard army." Ding Chengye was taken aback: "She did it first? Then what should I do?" Ye Luwen said: "It's okay, Xiao Chuo only dared to touch the palace guards directly controlled by the emperor, and she didn't dare to put her hand in my clan tent army. The father and the king wrote in the letter that the empress wanted to remove me from the palace guards. The confidants placed in the guards may provoke a backlash from our troops, so we have strengthened our vigilance in Shangjing. At this time, it is not appropriate to implement the strategy of first removing the leader and then sending troops to capture Shangjing. What my father means is that if you want to take what you want, you should give it first. You might as well show weakness to her and let her transfer my cronies in the palace guards away, so that she can think she has a plan and relax her guard.On the day of "Release the Stealing Day", the nobles and ministers of all ministries went to the capital, and when the emperor was out of the palace to have fun with the people, he launched an attack and wiped out Yeluxian, Han Derang, Yeluxiu, Xiao Tuozhi and others in one fell swoop, and then transferred the clan tent army Soldiers surrounded Beijing.Then I will launch the Northern Expedition of the Song Army, internally and externally coerce, force Empress Xiao to compromise, issue the Queen's order, respect me as the emperor, and marry me as the queen. " Ding Chengye said disappointedly: "'Release the Thief Day'? That was the 13th, 14th, and 15th day of the first lunar month. There is still one and a half months..." Yelvwen smiled and said: "That's right, there is still one and a half months, huh? Why are you more impatient than me? This is being an emperor, not as simple as being a bridegroom. Is one and a half months still a long time?" Ding Chengye concealed: "Oh, that's not the case, it's just...that Song envoy Yang Hao humiliated the lord so much, and the villain is also very angry. I really want to cut him into pieces immediately to vent my anger for the lord." Yelvwen was very happy when he got the letter from Shangjing, he smiled and said: "You are loyal to me, huh! Such a teasing and humiliation to me, I will never let him live through the day of 'release the thief' , now, might as well be patient for now, a month and a half, soon...will pass." On the next day, envoys from the Song Dynasty and Khitan accompanied Li Yu, the lord of Jiangnan Kingdom, to the "Jiming Temple" to worship the Buddha. In the vegetable yard, fresh vegetables were loaded onto the trolley. Master Virtue waved his hands vigorously and said, "Okay, you go to each courtyard to get all the monk's clothes that need to be mended and washed, and send them to the Jingxin nunnery later." "Yes, little uncle." Several great monks left, Bisu looked back to see that they had gone far, and hurriedly pulled Jing Shuiyue, pulled her under a tree, and took out a yellow flower from his arms. Lizi said as if offering a treasure: "Here, it's very fresh. I've washed it and I'll give it to you." Jing Shuiyue smiled sweetly, and waved her hand gently, Bisu forced her the fruit, pulled her to sit on the bluestone under the tree, and said: "This is my heart, I just left it for you, try it Well, it's very sweet, eat it, just take a bite." Jing Shuiyue hesitated for a moment, picked up a pear she was carrying in her monk's robe, and took a small bite. "taste good or not?" Jing Shuiyue pursed her mouth and nodded lightly, Bisu was greatly encouraged, took her little hand and said: "You think it's delicious, I'll get you a basket later, so that you can eat every day. " He held Jing Shuiyue's little hand, and her face blushed immediately. She quickly withdrew her hand, pointed to the rosary hanging on her chest, then pointed to the Buddhist temple behind her, and gave him a reproachful look. Bi Su chuckled and said, "I became a monk just because of you. The Buddha knows that I really like you, so he won't blame us." Jing Shuiyue panicked, and hurriedly piled up the pears, clasped her hands together, and moved her lips, as if she was repenting to the Buddha. "Shuiyue, Virtue used to be a shameless thief and a prodigal son who stole incense and jade. Even if he followed my lord, he just wanted to be born in a righteous way, and he didn't really want to be good until he met you. Shuiyue, you are the living Bodhisattva in my heart. The closer I am to you, the closer I am to the Buddha. Isn’t Buddhism saying that all living beings should be saved, so you should be merciful and save me, as long as you marry me , that is to turn a wicked person into a good person, what a great merit, even better than reciting a lifetime scripture." Bisu's sweet words made Jing Shuiyue flustered, she grew up so big, she had never heard anyone talk to her like this, she wanted to hear it, but was afraid to hear it, wanted to run away, but couldn't bear to make him sad, so she used Plug the ears with two fingers, close the eyes, and look like a cute ostrich. "I said before, I talk a lot, even if you don't talk, we're married, and we won't feel lonely at home." Bi Su pulled her little hand down: "Good Shuiyue, little teacher, is it right to listen to someone who recites scriptures?" Read it, if you like it, we can decorate our house like a Buddhist hall in the future, and recite scriptures for you every day, "Diamond Sutra", "Lotus Sutra", "Lengyan Sutra"... I will give it to you as long as you want to listen to How long do you read? Let’s hang a big clock in our house. I’ll be your official for one day, and I’ll ring the bell for you for one day. When we have a child, we’ll shave his hair and make him a little monk. I’m the abbot, and you’re the abbot… ..." Jing Shuiyue opened her eyes wide and shook her head vigorously, and Bi Su smiled and said, "Why? You don't want our child to be a monk right after birth? Well..., that's right, our two babies must be handsome Terrible, how could he be willing to let him shave his hair." Jing Shuiyue was ashamed, her face was as red as a ripe pomegranate, Bisu said softly: "Shuiyue, do you know that you are the most beautiful woman in the world, and when you grow your hair, you will definitely be more beautiful and more beautiful. beautiful……" Jing Shuiyue was so embarrassed that she couldn't sit any longer, she stuffed the pear into Bisu's hand, jumped up and ran. "Hi!" Bi Su called out, looked at her back, and said with a smile, "My little teacher is as charming as a Bodhisattva when she smiles." He grabbed the pear and gnawed hard on the place where Jing Shuiyue had bitten After eating a lot, he chased in the direction where Shuiyue was fleeing.
Jiming Temple, in the Buddhist hall, Master Baojing wearing a red cassock and the first master waited beside Li Yu respectfully. The monks sat together and cut the "toilet slips" for the monks with a knife.The toilet paper is the "toilet paper" when going to the toilet. After all, there were only a few people who could afford to use paper to go to the toilet at that time. The monks used small bamboo chips to clean, and there was a great demand for this thing. Yelvwen and Yang Hao were accompanied by the Supervisory Academy and the Capital Supervisor respectively. One was on the left and the other was on the right. They were watching the murals on the murals and listening to the monk explaining the Buddhist stories in the murals. They saw Li Yu sitting among the monks cutting Yelvwen secretly showed contempt for Jane's appearance: "Such a dude is worthy of being the lord of a country and enjoying this beautiful country? He is really a waste. He left me yesterday. Between his words, there is a lot to do with our country. Forming an alliance means relying on each other, and I would like to pay hundreds of thousands of taels of tribute every year to protect the safety of the south of the Yangtze River. This waste has a lot of potential to be used, and I am not in a hurry to agree to him. Let me become the Khitan emperor. At that time, I will form an alliance with him again, attack from north to south, and destroy Song State. At that time, Jiangnan will also be in my pocket, and this thousand miles of splendor will be mine." Li Yu cut another bamboo brush, scraped it on his cheeks, tried it very smooth, without burrs, couldn't help smiling with satisfaction, stood up and said: "Hehe, although I don't often cut this thing, but the toilet slips I cut out It doesn't seem to be inferior to the masters." Master Baojing hurriedly bowed his head and praised: "The lord of the country is beautiful and intelligent, and everything in the world can't be difficult for the lord." Yang Hao heard it in his ears, and couldn't help but blushed slightly: "The majestic monarch of a country, who is not doing his business, actually helps the monks to make toilet paper, and even has to test it with his cheeks, for fear of scratching these great monks who are only supported. Our chrysanthemums, the people are not so pro-French. There are many beggars on the streets of Jinling, but you don’t see them. Alas, it’s time for your country to be ruined. The stigma is really stupid and cowardly to the extreme." Li Yu said with a smile: "Don't bother the masters, let's go to the temple for a walk, two honorable envoys, two honorable envoys..." After hearing this, Yelvwen and Yang Hao rushed to his side, Li Yu said with a smile: "I am a temple in the south of the Yangtze River, and the 'Jiming Temple' is the number one. The two envoys have never visited here. Come on, just do it alone." Go back to Zhike Monk and accompany the two envoys to visit the 'Jiming Temple'." "Jiming Temple" is a place where Li Yu often comes. The monks in the temple are not surprised. Everything in the temple is as usual. The front hall is still receiving tourists and believers who offer incense and worship Buddha. Accompanied by visiting various Buddhist temples, Li Yu casually talked about the places he passed along the way. Regarding the Buddhist rules, Buddhist scrolls and classics, there are all unique things in casual words, and the abbot Baojing also nodded frequently. Several people talked about Buddhism and Taoism all the way. When they arrived at a courtyard in the West Side Hall, and then went out to the Buddhist field and vegetable field of Jiming Temple. Li Yu stopped and was about to go around the back hall when he suddenly saw two monks standing under a tree. , can't help but look at them, Bao Jing is about to lead the way, and when he sees this situation, he also turns his head to look. Although the two of them were wearing loose monk robes, they could still be recognized by men and women. One of the handsome monks was his new disciple De Xing, while the other was a young nun with bright eyes and bright teeth.What good can a monk or a nun do by running to this remote palace, and let the king see it with his own eyes, and the abbot, the abbot, couldn't help but change his face.
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