At four o'clock in the morning, the winter days are extremely short. It seems that nothing has been done yet. The sun above our heads begins to slowly set towards the west. In the blink of an eye, most of the afternoon has passed.
Liang Jiugong, who stood under the eaves at the entrance of the Xingchi Zen Room and guarded the door for two generations of emperors, could not hear anything at first. Gradually, he could vaguely hear the conversation between the father and his son with relieved laughter coming from the inner room.
The sound was mixed with the chatter of the tenth and fourteenth princes from time to time.
I couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, feeling that no matter what the content of the conversation between the emperor and the late emperor was, as long as the father and son could untie their knots and chat smoothly, it would prove that the emperor came all the way with a child this time.
Everyone went to Wutai Mountain with great fanfare from the capital to pray for blessings. They got what they wanted and gained.
Compared with the majestic Forbidden City, which is always cautious and cautious, fearing that one wrong step will lead to catastrophic situations, the pace of Qingliang Temple located in the mountains is very slow, as if even time has slowed down here.
Liang Jiugong raised his head and squinted his eyes to admire the persimmon tree not far away, whose leaves had already fallen off and whose branches were covered with red fruits. He looked at the white cat with mandarin duck eyes leisurely swinging its long tail and taking a nap in the branch.
While his master was happy, he couldn't help but
Relax your mind, move your steps and lean against the outer wall of a bluestone meditation room where the sunlight can just shine, rub your back against the wall, like the lazy white cat in the tree, and close your eyes slightly
Open your eyes and quietly enjoy the rare warm winter sun in this quiet mountain.
Just when his whole body was warmed by the sun, he raised his arms and stretched comfortably, and he felt a little sleepy and wanted to move a rocking chair to lie down and sleep for a while, when he suddenly heard a faint sound coming from the front.
Footsteps.
He opened his mouth and yawned loudly, raised his eyelids and looked forward. When he saw it, he saw the eldest brother, the prince, the fourth brother, and Princess Kejing, the four brothers and sisters, walking towards the Zen room in full swing. He couldn't help but be startled.
busy
He shook his head to drive away all the sleepyheads, then with a smile on his face, he quickly walked up to him, one step at a time, and stretched out his arms to stop the leader who was walking in the front. He was so high-spirited and couldn't hide the joy in his body.
Brother, he bowed and said with a smile:
"I would like to greet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the eldest elder brother, the fourth elder brother, and Princess Kejing. Your Majesty is sitting in the Zen room with the ten and fourteenth elder brothers, exchanging Buddhist teachings with Master Xingchi. They have said that no other people will be allowed to enter and disturb them.
, I wonder what the four of you want to do when you come here together?"
Yin Reng, Yin Zhen and Ke Jing all stopped when they heard this and all turned their gazes to Yin Ti, wanting to see how their eldest brother would perform next and prevaricate Liang Jiugong.
Liang Jiugong's words were within the range of Yinti's expectations. He faced the curious gazes of the four people around him and took out a fire seal from his arms.
Under Liang Jiugong's puzzled eyes, he clamped the fire folding piece between the middle finger and ring finger of his right hand and flexibly turned it a few times, then grinned his white teeth and said with a big smile:
"Eunuch Liang, don't you think that I have eaten two vegetarian meals in a row, including sweet potatoes, and I think that I am idle in this temple now, so why not go to the vegetable field in the back mountain in person? After a while, I picked up a few sweet potatoes, found some dead branches and grass, built a fire and roasted them, which was both fun and a way to pass the idle afternoon time."
"Unexpectedly, when I went to find Baocheng and the three of them with the fire certificate, I accidentally discovered that we brothers and sisters had similar minds. The three of them actually had the same idea as me, so the four of us walked from the side room together. "
When Yinzhen, Yinzhen and Kejing heard this, they nodded in agreement, saying that what their eldest brother said was right. They just thought the sweet potatoes tasted good, so they wanted to go to the back mountain to eat some roasted sweet potatoes.
Liang Jiugong, who had been the general manager of the Qing Palace for so many years, had already developed his eyesight. He observed that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Fourth Elder Brother, and Princess Kejing who were standing aside all reacted for a few seconds after the elder brother's words fell. The person who started nodding vigorously knew that this person definitely didn't know that the elder brother would say "roasted sweet potatoes" beforehand.
Knowing that these young masters are usually restless little clever guys, there must be something fishy going on when they suddenly come to this Zen room together. He calmly bowed his hands and bowed, smiling softly. road:
"Brother, I remember that the young monks dug a lot of sweet potatoes from the vegetable field at noon, cleaned them up and sent them to the dining room. There is a lot of open space in the temple, and there are also some in the dining room. There is a lot of dry firewood. Just bend down and grab some dry firewood and sweet potatoes and you can light a fire and roast them in the temple. Why go all the way to the back mountain? Besides, you can just follow the route we took in the morning to go to the back mountain. , why do you have to take a detour and pass through this Zen room area?"
When Yinfeng and Yinzhen heard that Liang Jiugong had come up with something to refute their elder brother's words, they couldn't help but touch their noses with a guilty conscience. Ke Jing also looked around for a moment.
When Liang Jiugong saw this, the smile in his eyes deepened.
Yinti raised his eyebrows without any panic, then stretched out his hands and grabbed Liang Jiugong's right hand.
Liang Jiugong was unexpectedly grabbed by Yin Ti, and was stunned for a moment. Before he could react, what was the elder brother doing? The next moment, he saw the elder brother's litchi eyes shining brightly, and his face looked full of admiration. Looking at him, he shook their intertwined hands up and down, glanced aside a few times like a thief, and then lowered his voice and said:
"Eunuch Liang is indeed Eunuch Liang. He immediately saw through what he told a lie."
The people from Yinti, who were also confused by their elder brother's actions, became even more confused when they heard Yinti's words. Even Liang Jiugong was a little stunned, and he began to be confused about the elder brother's initiative to undermine him. What kind of trouble is this going on?
Yinti looked around carefully and found that there was no one else around, so he whispered with a smile:
"Since Mr. Liang is so smart, I won't hide anything from you."
In the blink of an eye, Yinti's tone became a little pitiful, and he said softly:
"Mr. Liang, you also know that I love eating meat the most. When I was in the palace, I would not have the energy to study if I didn't eat meat."
Liang Jiugong rolled his eyes in his heart and wanted to say the following: Brother, forget it, you will not have the strength to study in the study room after eating meat.
As if Yinti didn't see the teasing expression on Liang Jiugong's face, he continued on by himself:
"You see, now that I have eaten two vegetarian meals with clear soup and little water, I am very hungry for oil and water! It just so happens that the sky is so sunny this afternoon. I listen to Baocheng, Xiaosi, Yaya
Personally, I also say that I am greedy for meat, so
I thought of taking my younger brother and my sisters together to try our luck in the back mountains to see if we could encounter pheasants, wild ducks, wild rabbits, etc. Then we would find a grass nest and clean them up on the spot, stringing them with tree branches.
Eat it roasted."
"If a group of us went out directly through the back mountain gate, wouldn't it be too conspicuous? It happened that at noon, I heard little Tang Monk say that there happened to be an inconspicuous small door behind their meditation room, so I came here to play with little Tang Monk
On the signal of my son, I asked the little novice monk who was sweeping the floor to lead the way and bring us here. I was about to find the small door to sneak out to eat barbecue, but you discovered me."
"Don't you think this is a coincidence? If Eunuch Liang, you are also hungry for meat, and when I return from the original route, you will stand under the persimmon tree and wait. I promise you that I will wrap you up with a clean cloth.
Come back with a piece of rabbit leg."
Yinti didn't even stumble, he patted his chest and quickly finished all the words he had been brewing in his stomach.
Liang Jiugong's eyes widened. He raised his left hand hanging by his side and pointed at Yinti: "Brother, you, you."
"You" couldn't tell the next content even after a long time.
Yinfeng, Yinzhen, and Kejing also suppressed their laughter. They all lowered their heads and rubbed the open space on the ground with their toes, for fear that they could not help but laugh on the spot. They felt that although the elder brother's words were a bit hurtful, they were very suitable for him.
As for the character design, as soon as he said it, he knew that this was his true thoughts from the bottom of his heart.
Yinzhen couldn't help but shake his shoulders twice, thinking in his mind that his eldest brother's words must not be false. He took the fire fold and went to find the prince brother. He was probably greedy for meat!
Liang Jiugong silently said twice in his heart, "That's good, that's good."
Although he was quite speechless at the idea that the eldest brother had just lived in the temple for one day and one night, and he didn't even last twenty-four hours before he wanted to kill animals and eat meat, without any regard for the temple's rules and regulations, but he looked at the big brother
After the elder brother said these words, the prince and others lowered their heads in "ashamed". The fourth elder brother even shook his shoulders with "guilt" and wanted to cry. Princess Kejing's exposed face was also red.
, my heart couldn't help but feel a little soft again, I felt that these noble little masters didn't need a meal when they were in the palace! I had lost some weight during the bumpy journey here, and to be honest, the vegetarian meal in Qingliang Temple was too
It's really ordinary, and besides, they are not monks. Even if they really have to go to the back mountain to find some meat to eat, it doesn't count as breaking the precepts. As long as these monks who eat fasting and chant Buddha's name are not informed, wouldn't it be fine?
Having made up his mind, Liang Jiugong watched the eldest brother imitate the twins holding the imperial concubine's legs, raising his little head and wanting to drink from his grandma, blinking his big eyes pitifully, the corners of his mouth twitching involuntarily, and moving his right hand from his big brother.
The elder brother broke free from his hand, coughed twice and said:
"Brother, when you go to play in the back mountains, you need to pay attention to safety. Remember to put out the fire after you leave. Although this winter is not like summer, with mountain fires happening because of the hot temperature, the weather has been dry these days.
, those dead branches and leaves are the easiest to ignite. You must avoid this. Come back early when you are full, and there is no need to bring meat to the slave. You go out quietly, and the slave will pretend not to know about it.
Son."
"Oh, Liang Shuda, you are so considerate! Don't worry, I will be careful about fire prevention."
Yinti changed the name to the more intimate "Shuida", smiled at Liang Jiugong, then tugged on Yinreng's sleeve beside him, and motioned to his younger brother and sisters to follow quickly.
The smiles in Yinfeng, Yinzhen, and Kejing's eyes had not dissipated. They were afraid that Liang Jiugong would see the clues again, so they all said "hmm" angrily, like quails, hunching their necks and following their elder brother's steps.
Go ahead.
Liang Jiugong smiled and watched the four brothers and sisters go away. He felt in his heart that even though the eldest brother was tall and tall, standing next to the emperor, he would be almost as tall as their khan, but he still loves to play. His Royal Highness.
Seeing as I have become more and more stable in the past few years, I can't help but want to eat vegetarian meals twice in a row, but I still can't resist the craving for meat.
He gently rolled his slightly stiff neck, yawned twice more, and leaned against the wall where he had just stood, closing his eyes and basking in the sun.
When Yinzhen followed Yinzhen in circles to the back of Xingchi Zen Room, Ke Jing couldn't help but burst out laughing and whispered to Yinzhen beside him:
"Fourth brother, I didn't expect that my eldest brother can actually deceive people when he is serious. I just listened to him making nonsense in front of Eunuch Liang in a serious manner, and I turned red while suppressing laughter."
Yinzhen also smiled and nodded. Just as he was about to speak, he saw their eldest brother running at the front with a vigorous posture, squatting under a rectangular window about two meters wide and more than one meter high, waving to them.
Indicate.
His eyes lit up, and he realized that Yinti had found the perfect position to eavesdrop on the corner of the wall. He quickly moved forward with his hands on the wall, and then the four brothers and sisters squatted side by side under the window sill like skewers of candied haws.
Put your ear firmly against the wall and listen.
A secret guard hidden in the canopy not far away was confused when he saw this. He had just heard the eldest brother said that they were going to have a barbecue in the back mountain, so he told his friends to follow the four young masters secretly.
To protect them, I just followed the four brothers and sisters to the back of the meditation room. I saw that they did not continue to move forward, but instead squatted here and took root like mushrooms.
After seeing this scene, the young secret guard didn't know what to do now. He was the only one here and there was no one to discuss with him. He raised his arm and "clicked" with his hand to break a small stick.
He originally wanted to hit the dead branch on the window to let the emperor who was talking inside know that someone was eavesdropping outside, but he was worried that he could not control his strength. If he accidentally broke his glass window,
The fragments would accidentally fly out and hit the four brothers and sisters below.
After thinking about it for a while like an ant on a hot pot, he suddenly realized that the emperor's request was not to be disturbed, but these four brothers and sisters were just eavesdropping and would not disturb the emperor. Moreover, they were all
The emperor's own flesh and blood, even if the emperor really caught these four "little mice" who eavesdropped on the secret, he would not do anything serious. Alas, he should just be his own secret guard.
The secret guard, who was mentally building up his mind, simply pretended that Liang Jiugong had just taken the initiative to go blind, and leaned down even lower, carefully hiding himself in the branches of the tree crown.
Yinti and others didn't know that the four of them had been secretly released by the secret guards, so they all squatted in the corner and listened to their Khan Ama talking loudly at one moment and how he had conquered the vassal and the treasure island in recent years, and then in a gentle voice.
He talked about interesting things about the twins, and occasionally told in a low voice with grievance how many obstacles that bad old man Obai had put in his way before he took office, and how many bets he made on the government.
The four brothers and sisters listened and found out that these were all trivial things. They couldn't help but regret coming to squat in the corner. They also realized how verbose their mother was. The fourth brother/fourth brother was a talkative person.
How did it come about again? Listening to their Khan Ama inside, who wanted to talk about all his highlight moments in detail, Yinti really couldn't hold it any longer.
He was the tallest, and it was the most uncomfortable to squat and huddle in this small space. After a while, his legs became numb, and he couldn't help but sit down on the ground, leaning his head against the wall, and continued to listen.
Nearly a quarter of an hour passed, and when the other people could no longer hold on and leaned on each other to gain strength, their words of concern finally came faintly from within the room.
I only heard his Khan Amma asking in confusion:
"Master, Xuan Ye clearly saw you closing your eyes on the dragon bed, being packed up, placed in a golden coffin, and placed on the fire for cremation. The smallpox rash on your face was not fake.
You, how did you successfully leave the palace back then?"
After hearing these words, the four brothers and sisters looked at each other, and Yinti got up from the ground with a shudder. All four of them turned sideways and pressed their ears against the wall with burning eyes.
However, they held their breath and tried to listen, but for a long time they did not hear the sound in the inner room.
Yinti couldn't help but raise his head and pick out his ears with his little fingers, mistakenly thinking that his ears were not working properly. After a long time, he gradually heard their sighing voices again:
"Alas, I did have smallpox back then, but luckily God showed mercy and survived. At that time, many of the palace servants who served me in the Qianqing Palace died of smallpox infection. I took the emperor's hand and told him his last words beforehand.
The medicine that faked death was used, and the person lying in the coffin later was not the old man himself, but a bodyguard who looked exactly like the old man and died of smallpox."
"Back then, I was able to leave the palace smoothly only because of the help of the Empress Dowager and the secret guards. Also because of the smallpox outbreak, the Empress Dowager used fire to burn the corpses of smallpox patients to prevent the spread of the disease, and held a traditional Manchurian ceremony for me.
Cremation, so we can complete this great drama of changing the civet cat for the prince under the eyes of the royal family, the palace concubines, and the palace people."
Hearing this, Yinti, Yinzhen and Kejing couldn't help but fix their eyes on Yinreng. They didn't expect that their second brother/brother, the prince, would really guess the facts of the year to the extreme!
Perhaps the topic of the epidemic was too heavy. After he, Khan Ama, told the truth, the four brothers and sisters did not hear Khan Ama speak again for a long time. For a while, even the twins' little milk sounds were heard in the inner room.
Not here anymore.
Yinren glanced at the rose-red sun that was gradually setting in the west, pushed Yinti's arm with his hand, and signaled to his eldest brother that they should leave. If Liang Jiugong was too late, he would be suspicious and send someone to look for him in the back mountain.
There are four of them.
Although Yinti was a little disappointed that he couldn't hear the little Tang Seng's secret, he could still distinguish the seriousness of the matter. He nodded and took two steps forward with his neck curled up, when he heard his Khan's voice again in the inner room.
stand up:
"Master, is there anything special about your junior brother? He is the youngest but the most senior Buddhist master that Xuan Ye has ever seen in his life."
"Hahahaha, Zhikong, alas, the emperor doesn't know something. Zhikong is a born Buddha's hand, a son of the Buddha in the world. He is very talented in understanding the Buddha's Dharma. He is also rare in having a pure mind, a gentle nature, and having the same relationship with Lao Na's master.
There is a fate between master and disciple, so he was accepted as his close disciple by his master."
"Born with Buddha's hands, a human Buddha's son?"
Kangxi's extremely surprised words came from the inner room.
The four brothers and sisters squatting in the corner outside also all widened their eyes. Except for Yinreng who widened his auspicious eyes because he knew how rare it was to have a "natural Buddha's hand", Yinti, Yinzhen, and Kejing all opened their eyes.
I was shocked by the four words "Buddha in the World" at the end.
Although the three of them don't know what kind of hand "Buddha's Hand" actually is, they have heard the Empress Dowager recite this "Buddha's Hand". The first meaning of these two words is "Bodhisattva". This "Buddha's Son" in this world
"Living Bodhisattva", dear, how high will this little monk's Buddhist attainments be when he grows up!
Because Yinti had always had a Tang Monk filter on Zhikong, he couldn't help but bumped Yinreng beside him with his right elbow and asked aloud:
"Baocheng, what exactly are Buddha's hands? Is it more powerful than the big earlobes of Khanmafa and twin Buddha statues?"
But because Yinti was too excited, he could not control his volume. What was worse was that when he turned around, Huozhezi fell from his arms and onto the bluestone floor with a "snap", and the two sounds were superimposed.
The volume emitted is really not too low.
Kangxi and Xingchi, who had been practicing martial arts with the martial arts masters since childhood, immediately knew that someone was eavesdropping outside the house.
The four brothers and sisters immediately panicked and hurriedly tried to escape along the wall. Yinti also quickly put the Huozhezi into his arms, feeling like he wanted to cry.
Yin Reng, Yin Zhen and Ke Jing were also at a loss for words and didn't know what to say.
Their success in eavesdropping was really because of their eldest brother and his tricks, and their failure was also because of their eldest brother and his tricks!
However, before the four of them could move forward two meters and escape the width of the window sill, the next moment they heard a "stab" sound as the glass window was pushed open from the inside, followed closely by a sweet little
The sound of milk rang from the window above their heads.
"Big, Ge, Ge, hide, cat, cat, duck~"
The four people who were trying hard to escape froze when they heard this. They turned their heads and looked back in disbelief, and saw Little Fourteen grinning with his little white teeth exposed, drooling, and tilting his furry tiger hat head.
Looking at them with curiosity.
Before the four brothers and sisters could react, the next moment, an identical little round face appeared from above the window sill.
Xiao Yinxiang also smiled and waved his little hands towards the four of them, with glistening saliva hanging from the corners of his mouth, and shouted happily:
"Tai, Zhi, Ge Ge, Shi, Ge Ge, Shi, Jiejie~"
As if the master asked and answered questions by name, the four brothers and sisters were called out by the twins one by one: "..."
Kangxi was also angered by the names of his two youngest sons. He stood up from his armchair and shouted angrily at the window on the north wall:
"Yinti, Yinreng, Yinzhen, Kejing, all four of you, get in here!"
The four brothers and sisters all put on masks of pain on their faces when they heard the shouts of their Khan and Ama who wanted to strangle them all at once. After looking at each other, they all stood up from the ground resignedly.
Yinti was the tallest, and when he stood upright, the window sill was just up to his neck, and his face was completely revealed in front of the twins.
Yinreng only had one forehead exposed, and he tried to stand on tiptoes to finally reveal most of his face.
Yinzhen and Kejing were not tall enough, so even if they jumped up they couldn't see what was going on in the inner room.
Yinti and Yinreng looked at the twins who were lying on the window sill and smiling at them. They had no idea what "bad things" they had done, and they wanted to bang their heads against the wall.
The twins moved their limp little bodies, and the two brothers saw Khan Ama standing by the armchair, transforming into an angry black-faced fire-breathing dragon again, as if his nostrils were breathing outward, and they couldn't help but trembled with fear.
The father and son looked at each other face to face. Yinreng moved his eyes to his side, Khan Ama, and caught a glimpse of Khan Amafa, who was looking at the two brothers with a face full of surprise. He raised his right hand and waved to them.
He waved, then forced a smile and said:
"Khan Amma, if I say that the four of us were just passing by here and wanted to slip out of the small door and go to the back mountain to play, are you and the master willing to believe it?"