Chapter 147: The tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop
Chapter 147: The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn’t stop
October 20th.
After the heavy rain, the air was exceptionally fresh. Two carriages stopped steadily outside the Wen family. The female family members had already boarded the carriages. Liu Chengfeng, wearing a round-neck Confucian shirt and dressed like a rich man, was riding in front.
, on the left and right were several helpers transferred by Lao Huo to serve as escorts. It was still early at this time, the red sun was slanting in the sky, and the air was filled with light water vapor.
"Let's set off." Liu Chengfeng rarely travels. He used to set up a calligraphy stall to make a living, but now it is for his future, fame and fortune. After fighting for so long, he still has no clue, so he simply took advantage of today to go out and have fun.
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The group of people went directly from the Wen family to Chaoyang Gate. Chaoyang Gate is an important trade route. In addition to escorting goods to Beijing by water, merchants from all over the country can only cross the land route through Chaoyang Gate. Not only because of Chaoyang Gate.
There are many warehouses on the side, and merchants' goods can be docked on the spot. More importantly, this is the only city gate with a relatively loose guard. After all, grain is transported to Beijing by land and water. Not only the water route, but also the land route is through Chaoyang Gate.
A large number of carriages and horses are pouring in. If they are strictly guarded and searched one by one, I am afraid that not many will be able to enter the capital by nightfall.
As for the Ministry of Revenue, they were urging the grain to come in every day and waiting for the accounting and inspection, but the commander of the Beijing Guards simply turned a blind eye.
Although it was early in the morning, there was a long queue outside Chaoyang Gate. When the guards opened the door, they did not let people stop to check. Instead, they impatiently urged the car in front to move quickly to make room for the car behind.
The end of the year is approaching, and it is time for the Ministry of Revenue to calculate taxes, taxes and grain. Every day, people go to negotiate with the Jingwei Command and Envoy Department. Although the Ministry of Revenue is not as good as the Ministry of Personnel, it should not be underestimated. After all, they are tight.
Relying on the cabinet, there are cabinet ministers above them who are looking out for them, so of course the Jingwei Commander-in-Chief cannot afford to offend them.
When Liu Chengfeng saw this crowded scene, he couldn't help but frowned. He wanted to fight his horse and lead his family to squeeze out, but was stopped by a guard soldier from the capital. He shouted: "You are only allowed to enter, but not to leave. First come first."
Wait half an hour."
Liu Chengfeng was speechless, smiled, and negotiated with the soldier: "Brother, it's convenient..."
"It's convenient for you, but not for us. Let's go on one side. If you're not in a hurry, just go through Chongwenmen."
Liu Chengfeng gritted his teeth and glared at the soldier. The soldier crossed his arms and said, "What! Are you not convinced?"
The carriage and horse in front poked their heads out, Wen Chenxi said: "Husband, forget it, let's go through Chongwenmen instead."
The curtain of the second car was opened, and Wen Chenruo stuck his head out and said, "We'll go over here today, brother-in-law, and beat them!"
The soldier couldn't help being speechless at the pair of sisters. He was about to curse a few words, but Liu Chengfeng was even more speechless than him. He said: "Okay, okay, I'm convinced. Come and go to Chongwenmen." After that, he turned his horse around.
Head, leading a group of people in the direction of Chongwenmen in dejection.
The few attendants couldn't help but secretly wonder, how could they not know what Mr. Liu's temper was like? This was a man who dared to kill people with a sword in Shangdongchang, but now he was mute after bumping into such a guard.
On fire? It’s a bit too confusing.
One of the guards plucked up the courage and hurried up to lead Liu Chengfeng's horse. He asked, "Sir, I'm just a guard, why should I be angry with him? We are Jinyi Guards, what are we afraid of the Beijing Guards?"
Liu Chengfeng smiled slightly and said: "You haven't seen so many grain trucks. Do the trucks want to enter the city? We are just doing things impartially. If we go out, the trucks entering the city will have to wait outside, and we don't know how much delay it will take.
It's almost time, I just blame me for not asking around first, not knowing that Chaoyang Gate was so lively."
The guard scratched his head and found it difficult to accept Liu Chengfeng's words. These hundreds of households seemed to be very reasonable when they were being reasonable, but when they were unreasonable, they were like animals.
After coming out of Chongwenmen and taking a detour, we were already delayed for half an hour. Fortunately, the official road outside was fairly flat. After walking south for an hour, we could already see a bare forest ahead. Liu Chengfeng was stationed on his horse.
Looking from a distance, I couldn't help but ask: "Is that the peach forest?"
"That's right, it's Jinyao Taolin. Going further south, it's Beitongzhou."
Liu Chengfeng nodded, pointed to a temple near the water next to the peach forest and said: "Let's go to the temple for a walk. Although the peach blossoms have not bloomed, I heard that many of the sweet-scented osmanthus trees planted in the temple have bloomed.
Let the two ladies go pick some flowers together later."
Everyone continued to set off. In fact, this temple does not occupy a large area, but the incense is very popular. The name of the temple is obvious. It is said that merchants along the way raised donations to ensure the smooth flow of goods. There are not many tourists who come here to rest, but they often travel to the north.
There were many merchants from Tongzhou and Beijing. Liu Chengfeng helped Wen Chenxi out. Wen Chenruo, who was in the carriage behind, said: "Brother-in-law, I want to help you too."
Liu Chengfeng and Wen Chenxi looked at each other. Wen Chenxi couldn't help but smile and winked at Liu Chengfeng. Liu Chengfeng looked bitter and whispered: "There are differences between men and women. Although they are related,
My husband is also a gentleman, but if others see it, they will inevitably gossip."
Wen Chenxi smiled and said: "How can there be so many words? Help her down quickly."
After Liu Chengfeng received the decree, he immediately ran to Wen Chenruo's carriage and put his hands all over his body. Wen Chenruo's catkins were placed on his hands, and he felt that the hands were crystal clear, like fat.
As smooth as jade, Wen Chenruo got out of the car, and Liu Chengfeng said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, please don't do this again in the future. Your brother-in-law comes from an innocent family and is in public. He cannot be laughed at."
Wen Chenruo couldn't help but said: "What's the joke?"
The corner of Liu Chengfeng's mouth couldn't help but twitch, but he didn't know how to answer, so he could only say: "You and your sister will go pick some sweet-scented osmanthus branches later, and I will ask someone to open a wing in the temple..."
Wen Chenruo interrupted him and said, "Brother-in-law, why do you keep bringing up those osmanthus flowers? If brother-in-law wants it, he can just pick it himself."
Liu Chengfeng said: "I've only heard of women folding flowers and men destroying them. How can a manly brother-in-law pick flowers? That's what thieves do."
After saying that he stopped entangled with Wen Chenruo, he returned to Wen Chenxi and held her hand, climbed the steps step by step, and led a group of servants into the mountain gate. This temple is said to be a temple, but in fact it is more appropriate to say it is an inn.
, although there are incense and monks and laymen, but because of the large number of passing merchants, it has become a transit point. Liu Chengfeng paid ten taels of silver for the incense and asked for a room. A young novice immediately went to serve tea.
Come, Wen Chenxi and Wen Chenruo went to pick osmanthus flowers. Liu Chengfeng was a little worried and asked his followers to follow them.
Liu Chengfeng didn't want to do things like folding flowers, so he was bored in this room, so he couldn't help but look at the wing. The furnishings of this room were simple, no different from other places. The only difference was that
, I am afraid that there is one more small confession case. Liu Chengfeng walked to the front of the confession case and found that there were traces of incense ash here, but there was no Buddha statue. He couldn't help but laugh in his heart: "This is strange. Could it be that the Bodhisattva statue was stolen?"
gone."
He looked at the traces of the incense ashes and found that the incense ashes were scattered around. There was only an oval area without any traces of incense ashes. This must be the place where the Buddha statue was placed. When worshiping the Buddha, the Buddha statue was placed here and the incense ashes fell, so they were scattered everywhere.
Yes, but because the Buddha statue was originally placed in this empty space, it was naturally spotless. After the Buddha statue was taken away, this place became particularly eye-catching, as if a person had put plaster on his body and went out to bask in the sun, and when he came back, he was completely naked.
The skin was all black and red, and once the plaster was torn off, the flesh stuck to it was as crystal clear as snow.
Liu Chengfeng looked at the oval place and couldn't help but said: "This place is not big. Could it be that the Buddha statue you worship is only the size of a fist?"
He was confused and seemed to have remembered something. He took out the jade Buddha that he had taken from Wang Sili yesterday and placed the base of the jade Buddha in the empty space. Immediately, his eyes could not help but light up.
The blank space completely matches the base of the Emerald Buddha. What does this mean?
Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but narrowed his eyes: "Someone also installed the Jade Buddha here and paid homage to the Guangming Buddha. With so much incense and ashes, I'm afraid there are still many people visiting. Could it be that these people are also members of the Guangming Sect?"
Only then did Liu Chengfeng realize that the hidden Guangming Sect was anything but simple. Lei Biao in Yingchunfang and Zhaoming Temple actually had traces of the activities of the Guangming Sect. Could it be...
Liu Chengfeng's eyes flashed, he put away the Jade Buddha, and with a smile he called a young novice monk and asked, "Who lived in this wing a few days ago?"
The little novice monk smiled slightly and said, "Why does the donor ask these questions?"
Liu Chengfeng smiled lightly and said, "It's just a casual question. Don't you smell the fragrance of a woman in this room? Tsk...it turns out that this temple also accepts female guests at night?"
The young novice monk said quickly: "Although there are female Tan Yue coming and going in the small temple, they never stay overnight. This house was obviously occupied a few days ago by... a few noble people, but there are absolutely no female guests."
When Liu Chengfeng heard this, his eyes flashed and he said: "Noble, what noble?"
Just now, he deliberately said that there was a fragrance in the room, but it was just a test. When he heard the word noble, Liu Chengfeng immediately cheered up.
The young novice monk couldn't help but be speechless and said: "It's inconvenient for this young monk to say more..."
Liu Chengfeng reached into his sleeves and took out a handful of broken silver. He handed it directly to the little novice monk and said, "Be good, uncle will buy you some candies."
The young novice quickly thanked him and then answered seriously: "A few noble people came here a few days ago and brought dozens of servants. Naturally, those two noble people lived in the upper courtyard, but many servants lived here.
They speak with accents like those from Jiangxi, and the monk has no idea about the rest."
Jiangxi... noble people...
Liu Chengfeng closed his eyes and suddenly thought of someone.
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It's the end of the month, and Tiger is going to have his anus fucked. Well, why don't I get some monthly tickets?