Chapter 2: Senior Brother Hongren suddenly came back
Cui Yining had been talking about a few years and was completely shaking in Jiangzhou. Although three years ago, he was arrested by the Tang army when Lu Chengde was escaping because he intended to cover Lu Chengde's escape. But no one expected that manager Li Fugui actually knew Cui Yining. So after a dramatic scene, Cui Yining confessed the secret passage of Lu Chengde's escape.
Of course, although Zhou Shaode found Lu Chengde and the old manager Lu Zhi's escape from Cui Yining, everyone knows that in fact, he still did not find Lu Chengde until Li Fugui and Zhou Shaode left Jiangzhou.
In fact, it was not until the Jiangling City was broken and the news of Xiao Xian's surrender reached Jiangzhou that the Jiangzhou servants found a messy corpse that was cut a few times and then set on fire under the advice of a hunter. After the Lu family identified it, they determined that this was the corpse of Lu Zhi who escaped with Lu Chengde.
After careful investigation of the scene, Fei Liguo, a Jiangzhou offender, came to an astonishing conclusion. Lu Zhi was caught five times, and was then blocked by one, and then set fire to the body. According to Fei Yue's offender, the only person who committed the murder of Lu Zhi was caught off guard was probably one person, Lu Chengde!
As for why Lu Chengde cruelly silenced his followers on the way to escape, Fei Fuzuo also said frankly that he didn't know, but he provided the most likely reason. Lu Chengde believed that Lu Zhi was too old and would affect his abscond, so...
Then Jiangzhou City began to offer a reward to capture Lu Chengde, but unfortunately, three years have passed so far, but Lu Chengde's whereabouts are still like a rock sinking to the sea. The last news about Lu Chengde was last year, and some people said they saw Lu Chengde in Quanzhou.
What can a person who committed a serious crime go to Quanzhou?
Therefore, although these people in Jiangzhou are still offering rewards to Lu Chengde, everyone believes that Lu Chengde might have already taken a boat to overseas.
As for Cui Yining, who had to betray Lu Chengde's escape route, was released from prison on the third day after he was arrested. However, he was loyal and did not flee the Lu family like other servants, but instead took some of the remaining families of the Lu family to give birth to children and began to work diligently to revive the Lu family.
He first borrowed hundreds of stagnants of money from the quality warehouse of Dalin Temple through the relationship between Wukong, the youngest son of the Lu family, then got two boats, rented a large cargo warehouse, and started the shipping business. Because the Lu family had never done anything similar before, so when everyone thought that Cui Yining would definitely lose all his money.
What unexpected happened again, Cui Yining's shipping business was incredible. A year later, he not only went to Dalin Temple but also bought more than a dozen boats.
Then Manager Cui's business is getting bigger and bigger. Now every day, Manager Cui transports two or three ships of goods from Jiangling. Even the people in Jiangzhou said that Manager Cui's cargo warehouse had even gone down the river and drove to Suzhou.
However, the developed Manager Cui was not carried away, and he was even more proud of his words, "the young man was short."
He was very respectful to the only male member of the Lu family now, Lu Wukong, who was ordained as a monk under the seat of Master Daoxin. Therefore, when everyone in Jiangzhou mentioned the Cui Yining and Cui, they would raise a thumbs up and say, "It has feelings and righteousness!"
Now the affectionate and righteous manager Cui Yining is sitting on a Hu chair beside the bed, holding a stack of bamboo paper, Xiang Zheng lazily tilted on the bed with a respectful look on his face. Wukong, who had no image, reported the world's major events in the month summarized by the intelligence network in his hand.
As the saying goes, a clever woman cannot cook without rice. Although Wukong has an advantage that no one can match in this era in matters such as spies and intelligence organizations, when he does not have the right man in hand, he can only temporarily ask the Zen monks to regularly summarize the things he inquired into Cui Yining in Jiangzhou Liuli Fairyland.
Therefore, compared with the so-called intelligence network, not to mention that compared with the organization where Wukong is located a thousand five hundred years later, even if it is the Jinyiwei hundreds of years later, the sticks are different from the heaven and earth. Wukong himself even estimated that this so-called intelligence network may even be inferior to the Tiance Inner Guard in Li Shimin's current hands.
But then again, it’s just a commercial intelligence network, not a military spy network, and there’s no need to be so professional, so Wukong isn’t really concerned about it.
"Well, Uncle Cui, repeat the passage you just read." Wukong raised his head and said thoughtfully.
"Yes, young master!" Cui Yining agreed and began to go back and recite, "All officials have given Yongye fields, one hundred hectares of princes, sixty hectares of official officials..., thirty acres of monks..., all the entries of the entries, Yongye fields, etc. are not allowed to be bought or sold, otherwise, they should follow the rules..."
A monk or a monk will have thirty acres of Yongye Field. Wukong touched his head with his hands? Then what about the rest of the land? Could it be that Li Yuan really planned to confiscate the remaining temple fields? Of course, if Li Yuan really did this, it would definitely cause civil unrest.
At that time, what should I do? Well, this umbrella needs to be considered carefully, and then go to the master to discuss it.
"Also, the Taifu Order Fu Yi once again gave His Majesty a memorial to clear the teachings of His Majesty. Do I need me to read it for you?" After Cui Yining finished reading the equalization system that Li Tang had just promulgated, he turned the bamboo paper in his hand a page, and then asked carefully.
"No need!" Wukong waved his hand lazily, "I can think of him as he would say something, Uncle Cui, actually I don't completely agree with Fu Yi's words. At least, I still agree with the saying that monks and nuns do not marry, which violates the transformation of heaven and earth, and bears the way of yin and yang. It is really depressing that monks cannot get married..."
Cui Yining lowered his head seriously and looked at the bamboo paper in his hand, pretending that he had not heard Wukong's words.
"By the way, Uncle Cui, how many important officials in the court are now supporting Fu Yi?" Wukong asked again.
"Not many..." Cui Yining replied after looking through it, "Apart from some small officials of the fifth and sixth ranks, the only real important officials is the Taipu Qing Zhang Daoyuan."
"Is Zhang Daoyuan the only one?" Wukong murmured, "It seems that Lou Guandao's hand is not very long! So who else is besides Duke Song who refuted Fu Yi?"
"There are so many of this. In addition to Duke Song, Duke Xinchang County, Duke Jiang, and Duke Pei of the Left Prince all objected." Cui Yining glanced at the bamboo paper in his hand and replied.
"Yes, so many people are opposing it!" Wukong breathed a sigh of relief and said in a sarcastic tone, "Our Buddhist sect is indeed majestic and domineering. It would be a terrible thing to be relieved by the way. I have to say that this is really a bad news that cannot be worse. By the way, Uncle Cui, do you have no good news to tell me?"
"Good news?" Cui Yining flipped through the bamboo paper in his hand, "Young Master, you have told us to pay more attention to the gods. Not long ago, the monk Jizang of the Sanlun Sect passed away. Is this considered good news?"
"Well, this is of course good news!" Wukong laughed unkindly, "It is of course good news that these monks with more fame than Master Daoxin died. It is best to hang a few more, just if the monks from Tiantai Sect were also killed."
After Cui Yining looked up at Wukong, he lowered his head without saying a word again.
After spending so long with Wukong, Cui Yining finally found a way to deal with Wukong. No matter what Wukong said, as long as he could pretend to be unable to hear it, he would pretend to be unable to hear it.
"Oh! Every month's news is like this kind of boring thing. Either the monk is in trouble again, or the Taoist priest is showing off again!" Wukong yawned boredly, "Uncle Cui, is there any news?"
After Cui Yining flipped through the bamboo paper in his hand, he answered affirmatively, "No more, young master!"
"Then that's it, you can go ahead and get busy!" Wukong waved his hand, "I'll sleep for a while..."
Before Wukong's friend could fall asleep comfortably on the bed, he heard a sound of footsteps outside, and followed a chubby little monk in front of him, "Uncle Little Master, I finally found you? Master Daoxin said that you must go back to Dalin Temple no matter what, today!"
"I said Wuneng, you should find a better reason to lie!" Wukong lazily put on his clothes and didn't move. "When I came out in the morning, I told Master Daoxin that I would go to Lu Mansion to participate in the ancestor worship tomorrow, and the master has already agreed to me. When I go back now, how can I get along with the ancestor worship tomorrow morning? Is the master still planning to let me get off Mount Lu in the middle of the night?"
"I didn't lie to you, Master Uncle," said the fat novice monk named Wuneng to Wukong seriously, "At noon today, I first saw Master Hongren return to Dalin Temple, and then followed Master Tonghui to call us and ask us to come to Jiangzhou City to find you, Senior Brother Wukong, and said that Master Daoxin told you to go back to Dalin Temple no matter what.
"What?" Wukong's sleepiness disappeared and he jumped out of the bed, "Wu Neng, what did you say? Senior Brother Hong Ren returned to Dalin Temple at noon today??"
As the saying goes, tofu is made by brine, and one thing is reduced to another! After Wukong, who is fearless and indifferent to life and death, came to the Tang Dynasty, the only person who truly felt a little scared was his solemn etiquette. He was a master of the monks at the same time. He was the master of the great brother, which was the true Zen Five Patriarch Hongren in history.
It is no exaggeration to say that in the days when there was Senior Brother Hongren, Wukong always felt that he was living like a year.
"That's right, uncle!" The little fat shakimi ran away a little panting, "But I saw Senior Brother Hongren with a stern face and looked unhappy, so there must be something wrong."
"It should be impossible to have trouble?" Wukong waved his hand indifferently, "After all, with the ability of Senior Brother Hongren, there will be no trouble. I'm talking about Senior Brother Hongren with a stern face. I said Wuneng, you have been in Dalin Temple for more than a year. Have you ever seen Senior Brother Hongren without a stern face? He looks very happy?"
Chapter completed!