The night is getting deeper, the city gate has been closed, the whole city is very quiet, the backyards of many shops have lights on, these are the people who live in the shops at night to look after the shops, a black shadow borrows a hook to climb up quickly. I climbed up the high wall and quickly climbed in. The lights were also on in the backyard of the tea house. This is the only shop selling tea in the city. Tea is already a daily drink for ordinary people in the south, but it is not yet popular in the north. Only a few wealthy families enjoy it, so there are very few tea shops in the capital, and there are only three relatively large shops in the entire capital. Except for Wan Tea House in the metropolis, although its business is not very good, it occupies a large area. Covering an area of four acres, which is twice the size of an ordinary store, Wanchun Tea House is divided into front halls and backyards, with hundreds of rooms, numerous courtyards, and a very complex structure.
In a small courtyard in the middle, which is also brightly lit, there are several people sitting in a living room in the middle. In the middle, there is a female lay practitioner with hair who is sitting in the middle. She is about forty years old, but her hair has already She is gray and wears a washed bhikkhu robe. From her brows, you can still see the beauty and dignity of her youth. Her surname is Shen and her common name is Shen Wuhua. She is from the Shen family in Wuxing, Jiangnan. Sixteen years ago she She was the queen of Empress Chen.
The imperial concubine Zhang Lihua was favored, so that she lived in silence in the palace. When the prince Chen Yin was deposed and Empress Chen re-established Zhang Lihua's eldest son Chen Shen as the prince, Shen Wuhua became desperate and dedicated herself to Buddha in the palace. Soon, Sui Dynasty The army destroyed Chen, and the Sui army invaded the palace. Shen Wuhua was rescued from the palace by his confidant Hualien in the chaos. They fled to Hengshan, used the palace in Hengshan to establish Nanhua Palace, and called themselves Nanhua laymen. They adopted three hundred homeless people. The orphan of the Southern Dynasties who can return has lived in Hengshan for sixteen years.
Yesterday morning, she had just arrived in Beijing with her granddaughter. This time she came to Beijing because she heard that her former husband Chen Shubao was on his deathbed, so she came all the way to the capital to see him one last time. The tea house was opened by one of her adopted sons. The adopted son's surname is Yuan, and he is the son of the former prince Zhan Shi Yuan Xian. His name is Yuan Sizu. At this time, Yuan Sizu is sitting at the bottom. He is about twenty-five or six years old, with dark skin. He is of medium height and has a pair of particularly bright eyes, which makes him look like he is He is smart and capable, and this tea house is an asset in his name.
Sitting opposite him was a man in his thirties. He looked not in good health, with a pale face and a sick look. But he was in good spirits tonight. This man's name was Cheng Nan, but Cheng Nan It's just a pseudonym, but his real identity is Chen Yin, the former crown prince of the Chen Dynasty. After the fall of the Chen Dynasty, he was escorted to the capital as a prisoner of war and lived in the capital for more than ten years.
In the early years, Sui Dynasty officials monitored him very closely. His every move was monitored, but as time went by, people gradually forgot about the Chen Dynasty, and the monitoring of Chen Yin became increasingly lax. In seven years, he has become an ordinary civilian and no one pays attention to him anymore.
It is now the fourth year of Renshou. According to the official files, he should have died of illness in the 20th year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign. In fact, he did not die. Instead, he took the alias Cheng Nan and moved around Jiangnan and the capital.
Chen Yin has never forgotten his homeland. In the twelfth year of the founding of the Emperor, he founded a school called Nanhua School, which has the same name as the Nanhua Palace founded by his mother Shen Wuhua, specializing in teaching the etiquette of the Han people in the Southern Dynasties.
He used the exchange of etiquette as a cover to contact many old officials and wealthy families of the Chen Dynasty. Gradually, they came to have a common goal. When he was released from surveillance in the seventeenth year of the founding of the emperor, they formally established Nanhua. Hui, meaning the Southern Chinese Association, takes the restoration of the Chen Dynasty as its own mission, and Chen Yin serves as the leader. After several years of development, their power has gradually expanded, mainly using business as a cover, in Hangzhou, Huzhou, Quanzhou, and Mingzhou , Luoyang and the capital both have their power, and this Wanchun Tea House is actually their stronghold in the capital.
At that time, Shen Wuhua adopted 300 homeless orphans from the Southern Dynasties. As these orphans grew up, most of them became key members of the Nanhua Society. In this way, Shen Wuhua became the leader of the Nanhua Society. Important figures, plus Shen Wuhua was the former empress of the Chen Dynasty. She was kind-hearted and frugal, and was extremely respected by the scholars and people of the Southern Dynasties. Although Shen Wuhua herself did not join the Nanhua Society, she became the spiritual leader of the Nanhua Society. .
Shen Wuhua knew about the Nanhua Society. She neither supported nor opposed it. However, she greatly appreciated the good deeds of the Nanhua Society in helping orphans and widows, rescuing children, and opening pharmacies to help the world and save the people. She also acquiesced in the internal treatment of her by the Nanhua Society. As a spiritual leader.
"Mom, do you still recognize this old gentleman?"
Chen Yin was introducing an elegant-looking old man in his fifties to Shen Wuhua. Shen Wuhua looked at him for a long time and suddenly said: "Are you Wang Sengbian's son?"
Wang Hao fell to his knees, with tears streaming down his face, "Queen, this old minister is Wang Hao!"
Wang Kun was Yang Liang's counselor. After Yang Liang surrendered, he escaped from Taiyuan City with his son. He was betrayed by an acquaintance and his son was killed. The pursuers searched for him everywhere. In desperation, he killed a woodcutter and attacked him. After changing his clothes, he beat the woodcutter's face to pieces, pretended to be dead and escaped. The pursuers mistakenly thought he was dead, so they cut off the woodcutter's head and sent him to the capital to ask for merit.
Wang Yu has changed his name to Wang Mo and is hiding in Chen Yin's mansion. After Chen Yin told Shen Wuhua about his experience, Shen Wuhua sighed softly and said: "Since Wang Yu is dead, you will be called Wang Mo from now on." , I don’t want you to die a second time.”
Wang Mo nodded. He and Xiao Mohe were also core members of the Nanhua Society. Their plan to use Yang Liang's troops to regain the Chen Dynasty failed. Xiao Mohe was killed. Wang Mo could no longer appear in public and could only become Chen Dynasty. Yin's military advisors gave him advice.
Shen Wuhua frowned, "Why haven't you come back from the dust?"
"Auntie, I've been back long ago!"
As soon as Shen Wuhua finished speaking, the sweet voice of her granddaughter came from outside the door. Then, a slender and beautiful girl who looked like a hibiscus appeared at the door. This was Niu Niu coming back from shopping. In fact, she had been there for an hour. She had come back a while ago and hid in her room, carefully looking at the jewelry Yang Yuanqing bought for her. She tried on the new dresses and jewelry one by one. Everything made her happy. She wanted to give it to her. Great-aunt, take a look.
When Chen Yin and others saw Zhang Chuchen coming in, they knew that their grandparents had something to say, so they winked at everyone. Everyone quickly stood up and retreated.
Shen Wuhua was the aunt of Niu Niu's mother, Shen Qiuniang. Shortly after Shen Qiuniang took Niu Niu back to the south of the Yangtze River, Niu Niu went to Hengshan and became a disciple of Shen Wuhua's personal maid, Hualien layman. Shen Wuhua himself did not know martial arts. , but her personal maid Hualien was extremely skilled in martial arts. She rescued Shen Wuhua from the palace during the rebellion, and Shen Wuhua recognized her as her younger sister. The two lived together in Nanhua Palace. Hualien called herself Hualien Lay Buddhist and adopted Niuniu four years ago. As a close disciple, he taught her powerful martial arts.
The Hualien layperson herself was not a member of the Nanhua Society, but all the twelve disciples she accepted were members of the Nanhua Society. This also included Niuniu, whose father was General Chen Chao and was killed by Shi Wansui. When she learned that Nanhua Almost all members of the association are descendants of the Chen Dynasty like her. In order to revive the Chen Dynasty in her motherland, she joined the Nanhua Association without hesitation a year ago. This was also the last word left to her by her father: "Daughters are also women." .Repeat the old mountains and rivers'.
Shen Wuhua, however, was not very in favor of Niu Niu joining the Nanhua Society. Shen Wuhua's parents had passed away, and several brothers and sisters also died in the war. Shen Qiuniang was the only niece left, and Niu Niu had only one daughter, so she had no interest in Niu Niu. She loved her very much and hoped that Niuniu could marry a good family and live a peaceful life.
She pulled Niu Niu to sit down. Seeing a piece of white fox fur in her hand, she smiled and said, "Where did this come from?"
Niuniu wrapped the white fox fur around her great-aunt and said with a smile: "Didn't I tell my great-aunt? I have a brother Yuan Qing. I saw him today. This is how he honors you. Great-aunt, are you warm?" "
Shen Wuhua was born as a queen. She also had this kind of precious fur when she was young. More importantly, she had been practicing Buddhism for many years, so she looked down upon such external things. However, Niu Niu's filial piety made her very happy. She said with a smile : "If I'm not wrong, this should be his way of honoring your mother. Hasn't he always been at the frontier? How would he know about me?"
"No! This is what he gave to my great-aunt. The gift he gave to my mother is a pair of jasper bracelets. Great-aunt, do you want to meet him?"
Shen Wuhua knew her granddaughter's thoughts very well. She stroked Niuniu's hair lovingly and nodded, "I really want to see him."
The grandfather and grandson were talking in low voices in the inner room. At this time, a man wearing a black warrior robe quickly walked into the room. He was Niuniu's senior brother Zhang Zhongjian.
Zhang Zhongjian is twenty-five years old this year, ten years older than Niu Niu. In addition to Hualien, his master is a Kunlun slave who is highly skilled in martial arts. He has traveled all over the world seven years ago. When he returned to Nanhua Palace at the beginning of this year, he His martial arts skills amazed everyone.
Zhang Zhongjian likes his junior sister very much. Although Niu Niu is still his distant cousin, this does not hinder his love for Niu Niu. Niu Niu just entered the capital yesterday. Today he wanted to take Niu Niu to buy something, but Niu Niu went to Yangzhou instead. He went to the mansion and met Yang Yuanqing again, which made him feel quite depressed.
He took a deep look at Niu Niu in the back room and found that she had changed into a brightly colored new dress, and felt a little sad.
"How is King Jin's situation?" Chen Yin asked him impatiently.
Not only Chen Yin, but also several other people looked nervous at the same time. Zhang Zhongjian shook his head and said regretfully: "The King of Jin is safe and sound, we did not hurt him."
Chen Yin sat down disappointedly. He could have succeeded last night, but there was a master in King Jin's car who rescued him in time. He sighed and said to Wang Mo: "I guess the assassination failed this time, and I want to kill him again. It’s very difficult.”
Wang Mo's expression was solemn. It was Wang Mo's strategy to assassinate the King of Jin. The purpose was to prevent the King of Jin from entering the East Palace and make King Qi the crown prince. The King of Qi, Yang Jian, was lustful and looked smart, but in fact he was fatuous. If in the future, Yang Jian If Zhen ascends the throne as emperor, the world will inevitably be in chaos, and then the opportunity for the Nanhua Society to rebuild the Chen Dynasty will come.
The world has been divided for hundreds of years, and dynasties have changed like a revolving lantern. Hundreds of years have allowed the people of the world to form a fixed mindset. The Sui Dynasty was only a short-term unification, and it will soon be divided again, and there will be several North and South dynasties.
The change of ten dynasties.
The same goes for Chen Yin and others. Hundreds of years of division between the north and the south have caused deep estrangement and hatred between them and the people of the Northern Dynasties. The Hou Jing Rebellion that occurred decades ago was caused by the beast-like Hu people of the Northern Dynasties, which almost destroyed them.
All the men in Jiankang City were killed, all the women were eaten, and all the nobles were massacred.
The Hou Jing Rebellion was only fifty years old, but the hatred and fear of the Southern gentry toward the Northern Hu people had been engraved in their bones. The Southern gentry also looked down upon the northern Han people. The northern Hu and Han people had been mixed together for hundreds of years, and their blood had long since disappeared.
No matter how pure they are, they have always believed that the truly pure-blooded Han people are in the south, that is, the Chinese people in the south.
That's why they wanted to name it Nan Hua Hui, Southern Chinese Association.
Wang Mo thought for a moment and then asked: "Who was the master who saved King Jin last night?"
"He moved too fast and couldn't see clearly in the dark."
Zhang Zhongjian thought for a while and then said: "I heard that the King of Jin recently had a close relationship with a frontier officer named Yang Yuanqing. This person is also the grandson of Yang Su, so I guess it is him."
After saying that, he quickly glanced at Niu Niu in the room.
"Yang Su's grandson, could it be that Yang Su has supported the King of Jin?" Chen Yin asked with a frown.
"It should have nothing to do with Yang Su."
Zhang Zhongjian is the chief minister of King Yang Xian of Qi. He knows the inside story better. "Yang Su's direct descendant Yang Rong is still working for the King of Qi. It can also be explained that Yang Su supports the King of Qi. In fact, the matter of the grandchildren has nothing to do with Yang Rong."
It has nothing to do with Su. He is in Luoyang now and doesn't care about the dispute between Jin and Qi."
"I know a little bit about Yang Yuanqing."
Wang Mo said next to him: "When Yang Liang raised his army, he also participated in the war against Yang Liang and made great contributions in Youzhou and Daizhou. This man has uncanny ideas and is good at fighting, so the King of Jin will win over him, but this man is not enough
For the sake of worry, don’t take it too seriously.”
Chen Yin walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, and then asked Wang Mo: "In your opinion, what should we do now?"
"Don't do anything now. Although the assassination has not become a big deal, it does not mean that they will not investigate. At this time, we cannot let the court discover our existence, so we should stop all activities."
Chen Yin nodded, "Then just follow what Mr.
He then said to Zhang Zhongjian: "Go back to Prince Qi's Mansion as soon as possible and continue to collect information from Prince Qi. Be more diligent these days to make him trust you and treat you as his confidant."
"Yes! I understand."
Zhang Zhongjian bowed and bowed, then slowly retreated. When he reached the door, he took another deep look at the back room, with a trace of disappointment flashing in his eyes.
The room was empty, Niu Niu and Shen Wuhua had left.
Note: Historically, Empress Chen died on October 20th in the fourth year of Renshou. Shen Wuhua was extremely sad about his death. Shen Wuhua lived in the capital until the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty before he fled to the south and became a nun. His Buddhist name was Guanyin.
Legend has it that she was the prototype of the later Chinese female Guanyin Bodhisattva!