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Chapter 172 Temple

Xue Chongxun was really worried and often wanted to go against Princess Taiping. She wanted to get angry, but she couldn't really get angry every time. Every time she was very entangled by him. This time, Xue Chongxun clearly stated that she wanted to take revenge. Taiping was angry and felt that her son's heart was still on his own.

Taiping had no choice but to cruelly deprive him of his power, so he had to send someone to monitor him, especially Yu Zhong and other servants above the Xue Mansion, as well as the unknown woman Sanniang.

There are spies in Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice, and even the Censorate. Otherwise, it would be difficult to get real evidence when punishing others. All of these yamen were installed with people who were loyal to Princess Taiping, so they kept Xue Chongxun's confidant tightly, which was equivalent to binding his hands and feet.

Xue Chongxun also knew about this situation, but he didn't care. He had no intention of using assassination, because assassinating one or two people could not eradicate the Cui family's power. This kind of thing would not be resolved once it was bloodied. The best way was to hit it with one blow and throw it into the eighteenth level of hell.

He remembered someone: Yuwen Xiao.

Yuwen Xiao is a man who is hidden very deeply. He is a businessman in public and has entered the officialdom through official relations. The status of merchants in the Tang Dynasty is as low as other dynasties, but there is no restriction on entering the officialdom. For example, the Empress Wu Zetian was born as a wood merchant. The Yuwen family was originally a tea merchant, but Yuwen Xiao was not a businessman before... His background is that only Xue Chongxun, Sanniang, Bai Qimei and others know about it.

Now Yuwen Xiao is a military officer in Jingzhao Prefecture. Even if many people know about his daughter’s relationship with Xue Chongxun, they don’t expect him to be of use. So Taiping did not count him within Xue Chongxun’s sphere of influence.

Only Xue Chongxun knew that Yuwen Xiao was very quick to do dirty things.

He was inconvenient to visit Yuwen's Mansion; his subordinates were also under surveillance and were inconvenient to send someone to find Yuwen Xiao directly. But there was another way to contact him without knowing it: a tryst with Yuwen Ji.

One day after he came out of the Daming Palace, he went straight to Qianfu Temple. This place was the old residence of Prince Zhanghuai, and the current emperor Li Shouli is the biological son of Prince Zhanghuai... Every time Xue Chongxun comes here, he always remembers all the complicated past events since the Wu Zetian Dynasty. Qianfu Temple seems to be a witness to the story.

There is always the sound of wooden fish in the spacious Buddhist temple, "Ku tuk..." monotonous and boring, but in the past, this place should be a place for banquets, and there should be various music of stringed orchestral music, and beauties sing and dancing here. The vast ocean can turn into mulberry fields, and singing and dancing can turn into wooden fish.

Xue Chongxun paid for a stick of incense, lit it in the incense burner inserted into the golden Buddha statue, and then bent down to worship it for a few times. These temples have land outside the city, and pilgrims sometimes have to pay incense and oil, which can be maintained through these incomes, but they will still try to increase their income. For example, the incense and candles sold here are twice as expensive as outside. The donors will not think it is expensive and think that the money is given to the Buddha... Everything is based on economics. The Buddhist teachings do not tell the believers how to survive, but monks can always think of it.

After Xue Chongxun entered the turquoise, he looked around. Before Yuwen Ji could come, she walked out of the Buddhist temple and went to the corridor in the yard to wait.

Qianfu Temple cannot make people feel the quiet artistic conception. It has too many stories. Xue Chongxun's mood is not calm now, although there is the sound of wooden fish and the smell of cigarettes.

He suddenly remembered a story called "The Orphan of the Zhao Family". The Zhao family, a nobleman of Jin, was framed and destroyed by a treacherous minister, and the result was that an orphan was left to take revenge... Under the definition of revenge allowed by Confucian morality, he finally got back justice. Thinking of this, Xue Chongxun felt a little chilled, and he was a little puzzled, how could he become the evil side?

The power of justice cannot be ignored sometimes, and Xue Chongxun felt very stressed. So he planned that if he wanted to do it, he would never leave the spark of revenge.

After waiting for a long time, I finally saw Yu Wen Ji coming. She was dressed as a woman, wearing a green narrow-sleeved top and trousers. When she saw Xue Chongxun, she complained: "Why do you meet in the temple?"

Xue Chongxun said in a low voice: "We have memories here."

Yuwen Ji seemed to remember something, so she looked down at the ground with her eyebrows and her snow-white teeth gently bit her thick red lips. The two small movements made her look more charming.

Xue Chongxun remained calm and coaxed her first, otherwise if she thought Xue Chongxun had something to look for her, and if she didn't have any serious business, she might not ask for anything? Maybe she wouldn't be troublesome if she was angry and didn't do it well? Lovers and subordinates are completely different. You can clearly order your subordinates to do what they want, but you can't order your lover to do what they want, and you can only make her willingly do it.

Yuwen Ji whispered: "It's good to meet here, so that we won't be able to meet every time we meet..."

Xue Chongxun smiled and said, "If I don't want that when I meet, you should be worried, right?"

Yu Wenji's eyes turned, she thought for a moment, and said angrily: "Then you actually asked me to come here. Are you tired of me?"

Xue Chongxun: “…”

Yuwen Ji said unyieldingly: "I've called it!"

Xue Chongxun opened his mouth and found that he was not on the side. He was as embarrassed as the person in the fable who sold spears and shields. He had to say with a shameless face: "Why don't we try it in the temple?"

"Bad thing!" Yuwen Ji cursed in embarrassment.

Yuwen Ji often argues with him, but Xue Chongxun doesn't care. And after such a mess, his mood seems to be getting better. He is worried about Jincheng, but it does not prevent him from liking Yuwen Ji at the same time. It was good in ancient times, so he would not be condemned and disloyal, false, etc. A broad mind is the feeling that a man should have.

Seeing that he was fooled, he laughed and said, "I was busy with some trivial matters during this period. I happened to be back early today, so I went to Qianfu Temple to enter some indulgent and oil money and asked for a seat in the room. This place always reminds me of you, so I asked you to come together, let's go to the room and talk."

Yuwen Ji pondered: "I know that when the scientific examination is in place, the temple can rent a vegetarian room for the scholars to study quietly, but we are in the same room as men and women, so do the monks allow us?"

Xue Chongxun smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about these things. What's the matter with us in broad daylight? I also gave them twenty coins of money. For the sake of the rich in sesame oil and silver, they will turn a blind eye."

After saying that, he took Yuwen Ji and walked north along the corridor for a short while, then opened a door. This was a room for incense rooms, where donors who incense were resting, drinking tea and even eating. Looking at this location, it was a room when there was no temple before.

After entering the room, Xue Chongxun bolted the door with his backhand and touched the letter in his sleeve with one hand. At this moment, Yuwen Ji said in surprise: "You don't... really want to be here?"

Xue Chongxun let go of the letter and said in a deep voice: "Do you want to try it?"

Yuwen Ji said embarrassedly: "I'd better not! Under the Buddha's nose, aren't you afraid of retribution?" She said as she looked at the corner of the wall.

Xue Chongxun turned around and followed her gaze and saw the mud statue of the Queen Mother. He immediately glared: "I wonder, how did Queen Mother come to the Buddhist temple?"

Yuwen Ji said seriously: "The Tathagata lives in the West, and the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother's family live in the East. Gods and Immortals can also communicate with each other."

Xue Chongxun said: "When will the Queen Mother and the Jade Emperor become a family?"

Yuwen Ji said a little angry: "I say they are one by one!"

"It makes sense..." Xue Chongxun nodded and said, "You see, gods can love each other, it doesn't matter if we have a good time, right?"

Yuwen Ji frowned and thought for a long time and said, "No! Gods cannot have seven emotions and six desires. Do you know the story of the Seven Fairies and Dong Yong? Didn't they be punished by God and finally broke up?"

Xue Chongxun said: "That's because gods and mortals cannot intermarry, just as humans cannot intermarry with chickens, ducks and geese."

Yuwen Ji said coquettishly: "You will mess around. I won't tell you anymore. In short, no, people should have a sense of awe for God."

Xue Chongxun asked quietly: "God does not allow the Seven Fairies to like Dong Yong. Should the Seven Fairies give up their feelings?"

Yuwen Ji was a little moved after hearing this. When she raised her head, she was in love with the water in her eyes, which made Xue Chongxun's heart move. At this time, she heard her say sadly: "But didn't they separate at the end?"

Somehow, Xue Chongxun remembered Jincheng again. The court system did not allow him to get Jincheng. Will they also end up failing like the Seven Fairies descending to earth? A god cannot defeat the heavenly court, and it is difficult for a person to defeat the country... Xue Chongxun felt anger in his heart, and he held Yu Wenji in his arms, looked at her eyes and said, "God's punishment, retribution, I'm not afraid, I want to learn from Sun Wukong and destroy that heaven!"

Yuwen Ji said in confusion: "Who is Sun Wukong?"

"Journey to the West..." Xue Chongxun suddenly thought of the story of Tang Monk's pursuit of scriptures in Journey to the West. The Tang Monk was a man from the time of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. It was impossible for this story to exist at this time... In fact, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang no longer exists, and maybe there will be no such story in the future... He said, "You have never heard of that story, I will tell you another day."

Yuwen Ji said: "I want to listen now. Let's sit down and tell me."

Xue Chongxun said: "How about we do something else now?"

"I'm afraid... If there are really gods, there will be no good result for us to blaspheme the gods like this." Yuwen Ji looked at him with a pleading look. After a moment, she suddenly hugged Xue Chongxun's waist and murmured: "I'm afraid I'll be pulled apart by retribution."

After hearing this, Xue Chongxun felt soft and gave up the idea of ​​indulgence. He sat down next to the wooden table, picked up the teapot and poured two glasses of water, cleared his throat and told the story.
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