Chapter eight hundred and seventy seventh fragrant trace
Hundred War Army Camp.
Liu Mingzhi rushed over in a hurry, asked the soldiers where Liu Chengqian was, and went directly to open the door of Ye Baotong's temporary residence.
Under the candlelight, Liu Chengqian sat alone on a chair and silently held the cakes prepared by Ye Baotong's messenger. He had no idea what kind of situation his mother was in now.
Liu Chengqian was frightened when he heard the door being pushed open with a clang. When he saw Master Liu clearly standing in front of the door, he looked happy and jumped down in a hurry to greet him at the door.
"Dad, why did you come to Uncle Ye's place?"
Liu Mingzhi raised his hand and patted Liu Chengqian's forehead. Looking at the boy's much stronger physique, the look of relief in his eyes flashed away.
"Where is your mother?"
Liu Chengqian shook his head in confusion and pointed in the direction outside the city.
"My mother and I took a carriage from Yingzhou back to the capital together. We parted ways after we arrived outside the city. She said she still had some mundane matters to deal with and would come over to reunite with her children when she was done."
"Did she say something?"
"No, I just wanted to ask, and my mother scolded me a little, asking me if I was disobedient, but I didn't dare to ask any more questions? I listened to my mother and went to the capital on my own!"
Liu Mingzhi frowned involuntarily and raised his hand to rub his forehead.
"Repeat to me everything your mother said to you. If you really can't remember anything, just give a rough outline."
"Yes, I got off the carriage with my mother..."
Over two cups of tea, Liu Chengqian succinctly recounted the conversation between himself and the third princess.
Liu Mingzhi thought for a long time, but could not deduce any clues about the whereabouts of the third princess.
This silly woman should never do anything stupid.
"Dad, did something happen to my mother?"
"Don't talk nonsense. Nothing happened to your mother. You can have a good rest at your Uncle Ye's place tonight and ask him to send someone to take you back to your grandfather's house early tomorrow morning.
Dad still has some official business to deal with, so he will go back when he is finished."
"Okay, I understand, Dad, please do your work first!"
"You should go to bed early and eat less sweets, it's not good for your teeth!"
"Oh, I see!"
Liu Mingzhi left the room with a friendly expression. When he closed the door again, his face immediately darkened, and he hurried towards the Bai Zhan Army's military camp.
"See the big... handsome man!"
"Where's Ye Baotong?"
"Reporting to the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief has gone to the city wall."
"Immediately send an order, asking him to mobilize 10,000 elite soldiers, and a group of ten will search for traces of the carriage riding on the third princess Li Yan in the capital and all the important roads near the state capital.
The first person to find the whereabouts of the third princess will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold, and the one who brings the third princess back will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold!"
"I have been ordered to resign from my humble position!"
Ye Baotong's personal guards left, and Liu Mingzhi also found five torches from the camp, tied them to his back, got on his horse and ran towards the outside of the city.
Following Liu Mingzhi's order, the news of a large number of soldiers and spies being dispatched made the atmosphere in the capital, which had finally calmed down a bit, become serious again.
The people immediately retreated to their homes and stayed behind closed doors for fear of another war.
The mansions of various dignitaries were in commotion. They didn't know what happened, so many soldiers knocked on the door and asked questions.
Liu Mingzhi had no time to worry about what kind of commotion his order would cause in the capital. After lighting the torch with a fire stick, he galloped on the official road in the north of the city. According to Liu Chengqian's oral description, he looked sharply for the possibility of the third princess. There will be clues left behind.
However, he had just ordered Zhou Baoyu and the others to lead troops to Tongyuan County to transport back the grain and grass that the Xue Bizhu sisters had hoarded. There were so many horse hoof marks and ruts on the official road that it was impossible to tell which rut mark was the carriage the third princess was riding on. What's left.
Fortunately, there was only one carriage for the third princess. Once he found the ruts of the separate lanes, he provided Liu Mingzhi with a trace to search for.
The moon is high in the sky, and the silver light is shining.
On the official road, bright torches and the sound of horse hooves come and go, continuously!
The soldiers of the Baizhan Army, who formed a team of ten cavalry, were searching intensively for the traces of the third princess.
However, their joining made the clues above the official path more complicated.
After the horses' hooves stepped on it, almost all traces of horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts were erased.
The night became increasingly silent.
The cock crows for the first time.
twice.
Three times.
Until dawn breaks in the east, and a bright light in the east fades away into the darkness of the night.
Liu Mingzhi received a summons from a man in a hat.
Fifty miles southwest of the capital, within Yun'an County, is Yunping Nunnery on Ziyun Mountain.
Liu Mingzhi's eyes, which had not slept all night, were a little red, and due to his nervousness, there were clearly visible bloodshot eyes.
Looking at the disciple of the Suzaku Division wearing a bamboo hat in front of him, Liu Mingzhi's expression suddenly relaxed.
"I got it. I'm ordering the brothers from the Suzaku Division to go back and rest! By the way, I want to give a message to the General of the Hundred Wars Army, asking him to gather the brothers from the Hundred Wars Army to garrison outside the city, so there's no need to keep running around!"
"Yes, I am resigning!"
The rising sun rises in the east.
Outside the nunnery of Yunping Nunnery in Ziyun Mountain, Liu Mingzhi was being blocked by a young nun who was about 28 years old, with a slim figure and wearing plain clothes.
"Donor! Donor, you really can't bring weapons into the pure land of Buddhism! Please don't embarrass the poor nun, okay? The nunnery master will punish the poor nun!"
Normally, Liu Mingzhi would definitely laugh at such a young beauty who had escaped into Buddhism, but she really had no such intention at this time.
Looking at the little nun who was standing in front of him to prevent him from entering the nunnery, Liu Mingzhi had to surrender.
"Little Master Yunhui, I can leave this sword outside, but you must take me to find the woman who came to Yunping Nunnery late last night."
"This...but the female benefactor and the nunnery owner repeatedly confessed..."
"Monks do not lie. If Master Yunhui lies in front of the Buddha, he will be punished!"
"Poor nun...poor nun...poor nun, please go and ask the nunnery master. Can the donor please wait for a moment?"
"Okay, I hope little Master Yunhui won't keep me waiting too long!"
"No, no, the nun will come back as soon as he goes."
The little nun seemed to have never seen the dangers of the world, so she easily believed Liu Mingzhi's words and trotted towards the nunnery without hesitation.
When the figure of the little nun Yunhui disappeared, Liu Mingzhi hesitated again and again and hid the Heavenly Sword that he relied on for self-defense in a bush on the left and right side of the mountain road, and walked towards Yunping Nunnery this time.
In the main hall of Yunping Temple, smoke curls up, and a statue of Guanyin is enshrined above.
A nun in her early forties was admonishing the third princess who was kneeling on a futon.
"The female benefactor is not finished with her earthly fate. The poor nun really dare not let the female benefactor escape into the pure land of Buddhism and spend the rest of her life in the ancient Buddha of Qingdeng."
"I'm sorry, last night you told the believer that if she decided to become a nun at dawn, you would ordain the believer and allow her to become a monk and escape into Buddhism.
Now that the believer has made up her mind and her future in the secular world has nothing to do with the believer, please ask the master to ordain the believer!"
"The female donor thought twice, how could it be decided in a few words to escape into Buddhism? The past cannot be settled..."
"Yun Hui has met the nunnery owner. There is a benefactor outside the nunnery who calls himself Liu and is looking for this benefactor Li!"
When the third princess heard what the little nun said, she couldn't help but tremble a few times, and her phoenix eyes closed together in pain.
"Please ask the Master to ordain the believing girl!"
"Amitabha, sin, sin, female donor..."
"Yan'er!"
When the third princess heard the familiar voice outside the palace door behind her, her delicate body trembled, and she lowered her head silently, not daring to turn around and look.
Little nun Yunhui stared blankly at Liu Mingzhi who was standing outside the temple door, looking so beautiful and embarrassed.
"Donor, you don't keep your word!"
Master Lingxu, the master of Yunping Nunnery, turned around and glanced at Liu Mingzhi, who was standing at the door of the temple, smiling bitterly and shaking his head.
"Amitabha, donor, this poor nun is so polite!"
"Liu Mingzhi has met Master Lingxu, how polite you are!"
"Yunhui, Yunqing, Yunyu... you can wait outside the nun's hall!"
"Yes, nunnery master!"
Lingxu led a group of disciples from Yunping Temple to exit the main hall, and Liu Mingzhi slowly walked towards the third princess.
Looking at the statue of Guanyin Buddha on the altar, he took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and placed it on the altar. He picked up three sticks of high-quality incense, lit them and inserted them into the incense burner.
"Yan'er, if you feel irritable, you can build a Buddhist hall or Taoist hall at home, eat fast, worship Buddha, or practice Taoist scriptures!
But if you dare to escape into Buddhism, cut off your hair and become a nun, or tie your hair and become a Taoist nun!"
Liu Mingzhi squatted silently in front of the third princess who did not dare to look at him, raised his hand to hold up the princess's flawless white chin and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"If any Buddhist and Taoist sect in the world dares to accept you as a member, they will kill you.
If you enter Buddhism, I will kill Buddha; if you enter Taoism, I will destroy Taoism!