MTL - Pihanjin-Chapter 17

Xier is her child.

No matter when, she couldn't let go of that piece of flesh in her heart.

Mu Fulan stared at the man beside the bed who was looking down at her, motionless.

Xie Changgeng stared at her eyes.

Her two empty eyes, which were originally from the pain of a nightmare, gradually became clearer.

In the end, it seemed that he finally recognized who he was, but he didn't say a word, just slowly loosened his body, turned inward, closed his eyes again, and seemed to fall asleep again.

As soon as he came in, he heard a low moan coming from her from the bed. The voice sounded full of suppressed pain and sadness, like crying.

He came over and saw that she was in a nightmare, her brows were furrowed, her head was full of cold sweat, her eyelashes kept shaking, her arms were hugging her own body, and she was curled up tightly on the bed. It was extremely painful.

Although she knew that she hated herself, but seeing her like this, she couldn't bear it for a while, so she called out to her, and finally woke her up, but she didn't expect to call out such a name when she was about to wake up.

Xie Changgeng stared at her silent back towards him, and his face slowly turned cold.

He didn't ask any further questions, stood up straight, turned around and left the house.

He went to the study and returned in the middle of the night. After closing the door, he took out a bed cover from the chest and placed it on the couch opposite the bed.

The couch is designed for sitting, not long enough to barely sleep.

He lay down.

Silent all night.

In the next few days, Liu Houpin summoned Mu Fulan to the palace to accompany her. When the wives of those officials in Beijing learned that the Princess Mu of Changsha married to Xie Changgeng had arrived in the capital, they came to visit them one after another.

Mu Fulan was busy dealing with people from all walks of life during the day. At night, he shared a room with Xie Changgeng and slept on separate beds. He also left early and returned late.

In a few days, it will be the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

In the past few years, Empress Liu gradually began to be keen on the gods and Buddhas. Not only did she spread good fortunes, she frequently did Buddhist deeds in the palace where she lived. During the year, on the Buddha's birthday in April and the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, she even had to leave the palace. , and personally went to Chijian Huguo Temple to worship the Buddha.

Today is the day when Empress Liu went to Chijian Huguo Temple to worship Buddha.

From the imperial palace to the Huguo Temple outside the city, the resident matters along the way cannot be neglected. The **** of the trip fell on Xie Changgeng, and he was the commander. Empress Liu expressed her piety, and Wu Geng was about to set off. Xie Changgeng got up and left at the third watch.

When Liu Hou bowed to the Buddha, he naturally brought his valet and his wife.

Mu Fulan was in the group.

After Xie Changgeng left, Mu Fulan stayed awake until four or more, got up, washed and dressed, ate a few bites of breakfast at random, brought two maids, and got into the carriage and went out together.

Xie's house is very close to the palace, just cross two streets.

When Mu Fulan arrived, the sky was still dark, but outside the west gate of the palace where Empress Liu was going to leave the palace, the fire stick was bright and bright as day. The garrison troops in armor were already lined up on both sides of the palace gate. One after another luxury car, in the endless screeching sound of the wheels running over the ground, carrying a group of women with the most noble status in Shangjing to gather here. Under the command of the deacon and eunuch, the servants parked the carriage at the designated position according to the position, and lined up to welcome Empress Liu out of the palace.

Jiedushi was a foreign official with a second-rank position. According to the order, Mu Fulan's carriage should have been in the back, but when the deacon and **** saw the carriage of Xie's house, he immediately greeted him with a smile and led him to the one in front near the palace gate. The location is stopped.

The weather is cold, and it is not hard to go out early and wait for Empress Liu to leave the palace. It is not difficult for these wives who are pampered on weekdays, but it is worth boasting that they can get the opportunity to go to Huguo Temple with Empress Liu to worship the Buddha. The dignified things, the ladies of every family and prefecture, not only do not think it is hard, but they are proud of it.

Everyone knows that Xie Changgeng was appreciated by Empress Liu. Even the wife he married, according to rumors, the princess Mu of Changsha, who was supposed to be wicked by Empress Liu, had only been in Beijing for a few days, and she was summoned by Empress Liu to accompany her in the palace several times. The love house and Wu, the hugeness of Rong En, can be seen. This morning's trip to pay homage to the Buddha, and the arrangement of Mr. Mu's accompanying driver position, is even more evidence.

Sitting in the carriage, Mu Fulan knew that he had become the focus of everyone's attention.

She picked up a warm woman handed over by the maid in the same car, and when she closed her eyes and leaned on the seat, she heard the manager of Xie's house say from outside the car: "Master Weng, Princess Qi asked someone to bring you Zhang Qiu Gai. "

Mu Fulan opened his eyes.

The maid opened the door.

A steward held Zhang Huqiu in his hand, stood in front of the car, bowed and smiled and said, "My princess said that Shangjing is very cold, and Lord Weng is used to living in the south. I happened to have an extra one in the car, so I asked Xiao to pass this to Master Weng."

King Zhao Long of Qi was one of the clans who had the closest relationship with the emperor. He lived in Shangjing in his early years. After Empress Liu took power, the relationship with the clan was tense. Among the many vassal kings, it is also considered to be highly regarded. In recent years, Empress Liu has expressed her kindness to King Qi, and King Qi has come to Beijing every year to participate in the annual festival of the ancestral temple.

Princess Qi should have also arrived in Beijing these few days.

No matter what happened in the past or later. During the half year that Mu Fulan lived in Shangjing as a child, her aunt had a good relationship with Princess Qi who lived in the capital for a long time. Princess Qi often came to the palace to accompany her. At that time, Mu Fulan did see Princess Qi often in the palace, but after her aunt died, she returned to Changsha by herself, and there was no contact after that.

Mu Fulan thought for a while, then asked the maid to take it over, asked the steward to thank Princess Qi on her behalf, closed the car door, and asked the maid to cover it, she just sat back as before.

After a while, the palace gate slowly opened, and the **** shouted in a long tone: "The Queen Mother is driving out of the palace—"

Before the **** could finish speaking, the two lines of imperial guard troops lined up outside the palace gate knelt down in unison. The women also hurriedly got off the carriage and knelt on the ground to greet them.

Although the crowd was large, there was silence all around.

Mu Fulan got off the carriage with the crowd, knelt beside the carriage, and saw Empress Liu, surrounded by the guards of honor, ride out in a chariot to the front of the palace, where she was helped by the **** into a chariot of the Six Sis Palace.

Xie Changgeng also appeared. He led a team of escorts, rode in front, and led the palace chariot to set off on the road.

Under the gloomy winter sky, this group of men and horses lined up, passed through the empty streets of Shangjing, left the city gate, and went to the Chijian Huguo Temple outside the city.

Mu Fulan sat in the carriage with his eyes closed, as if he was in a state of concentration.

There are eminent monks in Huguo Temple. It is said that by reciting the Buddhist chime scriptures, the souls of the dead can be relieved of their sins.

In the previous life, after Xie Changgeng became emperor, he built a Ming Tang for his Yuan Queen who died at the hands of the enemy after the Tallinn of Huguo Temple, and asked the monks in the temple to recite scriptures for her day and night to save the dead.

However, a ray of her soul wandered and wandered a few times, but she still couldn't let go of the last entanglement in the world.

For ten years, she never went, watching him posthumously proclaiming herself the Empress Yuan, he put a bunch of nice posthumous names on her head, gave her a spiritual hall in the palace, gave her a Xiu Mingtang in Tallinn, and saved her. The undead, and even later killed Qi Lingfeng.

But all he did was to deceive himself, ridiculous and hypocritical.

The Huguo Temple is approaching, and the sky is gradually getting brighter.

Mu Fulan opened her eyes, quietly lifted a corner of the warm curtain, and peered in front of her.

Xie Changgeng led the escort, always walking beside Liu's harem's car, with a loyal appearance.

Eunuch Yang took some of his apprentices and rode behind the bushes.

Mu Fulan knew that Xie Changgeng would not stay in Shangjing for long. In addition, now, the Hexi border of Jiedu is not peaceful, and the northerners have been eyeing them. It is estimated that the end of the year will pass, and by the beginning of next year, he will return to Hexi.

Mu Fulan was worried about his whereabouts after he left.

If they were an ordinary couple, her whereabouts would be clear.

If the husband loves his wife, he will take her to Hexi to take up his post.

If filial piety is the most important thing, she will go back to her hometown in Xie County to serve his mother.

Now, these two directions are obviously impossible.

Mu Fulan believed that her various performances after arriving in the capital would not lead to too much suspicion of Empress Liu.

What she was thinking about was the third situation that Brother Wang had also worried about. In the end, he will be left in Shangjing by Empress Liu under some pretext and become a hostage of Changsha.

If possible, she urgently needs to get someone by Empress Liu's side, so that she can know Empress Liu's movements in time and take precautions.

Not only is it urgently needed now. If you can get through this, have your own eyes and ears in the palace, and return to Changsha in the future, it will also help.

Mu Fulan's gaze stopped for a moment on the back of the **** named Cao Jin, and then lowered the warm curtain.

When she came to Shangjing, from the moment Cao Jinlai passed the message, she recognized that this young **** was the big **** next to Xie Changgeng ten years later. Mu Fulan guessed that it was very likely that he should be Xie Changgeng in Empress Liu now. The meticulous work around.

Xie Changgeng was a prudent person, especially after he became emperor, Mu Fulan saw with his own eyes that he did not trust people for ten years.

He knows people and makes good use of them, and he has countless capable ministers, but there is no one who is completely trusted, including those of his old ministries.

In the harem, even more so.

He did not allow Qi Hou to take a step into the sleeping hall, and he was extra vigilant about his diet. He was diligent in government affairs, and he reviewed the memorials every night until late at night, but there must be a sword lying on his desk. There was also a dagger hidden under the pillow he was sleeping on.

Nearly ten years without exception.

Only this Cao Jin is different.

Xie Changgeng not only only ate the food that Cao Jin had tried on weekdays, but also allowed him to stay in the palace and answer the call.

If it weren't for the old, how could a **** left by the previous dynasty get such trust from him?

The carriage under him suddenly jolted and stopped slowly.

In the direction ahead, there was also a faint noise of arranging carriages and horses.

"Master Weng, Huguo Temple has arrived."

The steward's voice rang from outside the car.

Mu Fulan lifted the warm curtain again and glanced out.

The front is at the foot of the mountain. The morning mist is shrouded in the mountains. A straight mountain step that is more than ten feet wide goes straight to the middle of the mountain, connecting the temple gate of Huguo Temple and the foot of the mountain.

The morning sun had just risen and shone on the majestic gate of the monastery. A group of monks were hurried out of the mountain gate to welcome Empress Liu.