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Chapter 102: Clear Rules and Precepts

The bright red sunrise just emerged on the Jiangdong Gate Tower, and there were already a long queue of chariots and horses at the gate. There were many people at dawn, most of them were peddlers and pawns. After the sun came out, people of all kinds became more complicated.

Zhu Gaoxu and Du Qianrui were sitting in the carriage, Wang Bin drove the carriage, Wei Da and Zheng He each led their horses, and the group lined up for nearly half an hour before reaching the city gate. Two rows of armored soldiers were being questioned and searched one by one, no wonder so many people were blocked.

The group was stopped without exception, and the general at the door said, "Everyone in the car is coming down!"

Zhu Gaoxu bent down from the carriage as he said, then turned around to help Du Qianrui get out of the carriage. Immediately, a soldier used a tassel to open the curtain and poked his head into the carriage and took a few glances.

The general asked, "What should I do when I go to the capital?"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "I live in Shangyuan County and I just left the city yesterday."

As soon as he spoke, he spoke, and the general turned around and saw the soldiers next to the carriage nodding, and immediately waved his hand: "Go away quickly, there are many people behind you."

Zhu Gaoxu and Du Qianrui got on the carriage and entered Jiangdong Gate safely. After a while, he couldn't help but lift a corner of the curtain of the car and looked back at the capital city tower.

...They entered the outer city and did not go to the inner city gate, but detoured to the Taiping Gate on the north side of the inner city and arrived at Xuanzang Temple.

Zhu Gaoxu was waiting in the carriage. Before long, Zheng He came over with a monk. Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the monk and suddenly felt familiar. Seeing the monk slowly walking to the carriage, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly remembered: In the spring of the first year of Jianwen, the prince was poisoned in the capital mansion. The monk who followed his fourth uncle Xu Zengshou to visit the prince was this person!

"Please get in the car and talk." Zhu Gaoxu immediately determined that this person's identity was true.

Qingyuan lifted the straw curtain and saw Du Qianrui. He immediately said, "Amitabha!" After hesitating for a moment, he still came up. Zhu Gaoxu slapped the carriage and the carriage left immediately.

The monk looked at him without squinting, avoiding the woman in the car, and said to Zhu Gaoxu: "We have seen him, can you remember him?"

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said, "My fourth uncle is also a member of my father. I didn't know before going south."

Qingyuan nodded, then took out a key from his arms and handed it over. Zhu Gaoxu took it and put it in his arms silently.

After a while, Qingyuan said again: "The donor is on the road south of Jilong Mountain, waiting for me to meet later..." He lifted the curtain of the car and looked at it, "Stop the car first, I will enter Taiping Gate separately."

Zhu Gaoxu took a photo of the carriage twice, Wang Bin made a sound, the carriage slowly stopped, and Qingyuan immediately went out.

Zhu Gaoxu and his group continued to walk forward, but they didn't even interrogate when they entered Taiping Gate. The inner city gate was not as strict as the outer city, which was similar to usual. The government army only looked at those strange-shaped people.

After waiting at the foot of Jilong Mountain for a while, he received Monk Qingyuan.

Zhu Gaoxu had never been here, but he had the memory of King Gaoyang before, and he had a little impression. The first thing he thought of was a nunnery on the mountain called Jiming Temple, which was called the Medicine Buddha Tower, which was very famous in the capital.

Qingyuan is a monk, why did he buy a house next to a nunnery? This really made Zhu Gaoxu think of something. What he thought of was one sentence: Can a monk touch me, can I touch me?

But this is an illusion. If Qingyuan was a fake monk, he ignored the rules and regulations, and there was no need to find a nun... For population considerations, Taizu stipulated that women under forty should not become monks and nuns.

The mansion is in Jilong Mountain, and it may be just because Jilong Mountain and Xuanzang Temple are close to each other, so they are inside and outside Taiping Gate. Moreover, the houses in this place are quieter than elsewhere, with less ears and less complicated people.

Jilong Mountain is not high, and you can see the Medicine Buddha Tower at the foot of the mountain. They walked along a road northwest for a while and saw a building, one of which was full of shops selling incense, candles and paper money, obviously coming for the business of pilgrims at Jiming Temple. Qingyuan simply said words such as "left" and "forward" in the carriage. The carriage and the horse riders walked through the street with many shops and turned to a quiet alley.

After a while, Qingyuan said, "It's here."

Zhu Gaoxu lifted the curtain and handed the key to Veda. As soon as the door opened, the carriage and horses entered the yard one after another.

After Qingyuan got off the car, he looked at Du Qianrui again with a look. Zhu Gaoxu didn't understand his meaning and doubted Du Qianrui's identity? Or was he giving Du Qianrui a score? Anyway, Qingyuan didn't ask, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to explain.

The house is indeed ordinary and not big. It is even a small courtyard with a row of brick and tile houses, with white dust on the walls, and a two-story pavilion to the east. The sound of wooden fish in the Chicken Temple can be heard faintly, and the place is very secluded and peaceful.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu asked, "My father said that someone in the capital had contacted Mr. Li, but wasn't this done by Master Qingyuan?"

Qingyuan shook his head: "There is someone else."

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu felt relieved, so he walked with him to the two-story pavilion. Veda tried it a few times and opened the door. A smell of dust and rotten wood inside suddenly came. It was obvious that no one had lived in this place for a long time.

Qingyuan walked into the hall and said, "Mr. Zhong met Mr. Li or Chen first? When will he meet?"

The donor Chen he mentioned was Chen Xuan from the Governor's Office. Before Zhu Gaoxu left, the King of Yan meant to find opportunities to meet Chen Xuan... There were not many people who could use it. Chen Xuan had many memorials in Jiangfang, water warfare, etc., and he might take up the position of Jiangfang in the future.

Zhu Gaoxu asked, "Do you better meet 'Donor Li' first. Can you meet outside the city?"

"I'm afraid it won't work. Master Li said very tightly." Qing Yuan said.

Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment and said, "I want to choose a place to meet first. How about Master Qingyuan coming again after tomorrow?"

"Very good." Qingyuan said with one hand, "If nothing else, I will say goodbye first."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said, "Master Qingyuan is walking slowly."

After seeing off Monk Qingyuan, Zhu Gaoxu, Zheng He and others looked at all the rooms in the house first. He then climbed up to the pavilion along the wooden ladder and observed the surrounding terrain and routes from a high place.

However, when you are in the capital, if the incident happens, it will be useless to prepare anything. So Zhu Gaoxu and Zheng He and others discussed: This place should not be kept for a long time! Only by completing the work and leaving quickly is the most effective way to protect it.

Zhu Gaoxu called three men from the pavilion, took out a picture from his arms and placed it on a dusty table, greeted everyone to approach, and said, "There are still some people in the capital who know me. For the sake of caution, I will try not to go out..."

He pointed to the map and said, "No further ado, you will go to the city to see the place today. Apart from me, there are three people left, and only three sentries can be set up. Therefore, the place you choose can only reach three roads at most; so that you can discover it in advance when an accident occurs. Look at these maps, it is best to have places with such terrain."

A few people came over to take a look. The pictures drawn by Zhu Gaoxu were very rough, but also very simple. Everyone nodded one after another to agree.

Zhu Gaoxu handed the picture to Zheng He: "Let's go!"

Zheng He and others held their fists and took the order, so they went downstairs. Zhu Gaoxu was still sitting on this pavilion, which was on the hillside, and could see further from a high place.

At this time, Du Qianrui also walked up the pavilion, carried a wooden barrel, broom and other things. She whispered: "Clean clean this room first, and I will go to the kitchen to boil water and make tea for the young master."

Zhu Gaoxu responded, still looking outside the window. This scene appeared in his mind several times: the road at the foot of the mountain was suddenly filled with soldiers!

To contact Li Jinglong as soon as possible, it is obviously the fastest way to rely on the spies in the capital of the Yan Prince's Mansion; Qingyuan and Xu Zengshou are also relatively reliable... The most risky place is Li Jinglong's side. If Li Jinglong is unwilling to surrender but wants to redeem his sins, then it will be over!

...At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly saw the small door west of Jiming Temple open, and someone walked out with two buckets. He immediately took a step back.

The attic is located west of Jiming Temple, very far from the Medicine Buddha Tower and the various halls in the temple; but the small gate to the west of the temple is very close, and it is rare to see people moving here.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu felt a little weird... Although he couldn't see the bald nun's appearance clearly, in the sun, he could see that her skin was very white and she was not old. According to the decree issued by Taizu, it was indeed difficult to see young nuns in the nunnery in the Ming Dynasty at this time, let alone the nunnery at the foot of the emperor?

He observed for a while and it turned out that the nun came out to brush the toilet. She just scooped water from the bucket, bent over and raised her buttocks, and focused on working. Zhu Gaoxu saw that she was bent over and could roughly see the lines of her body, and guessed that the nun seemed to be pretty.

Zhu Gaoxu decided that she was just a little nun from Jiming Temple, so he didn't pay much attention. He looked at the scene at the foot of the mountain from time to time, and was still thinking about things.

"That nun is pretty good." Du Qianrui's voice suddenly said.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but look back at her, "Miss Du has a good look."

Du Qianrui smiled slightly, bent down and washed the cloth towel in the bucket, continued to wipe the table and bench, while following Zhu Gaoxu to look out the window.

At this moment, another nun came out and she suddenly kicked Xiao Ni's butt! Even Du Qianrui next to Zhu Gaoxu was surprised when she saw this.

Xiao Ni fell to the ground and immediately turned his head. The nun behind raised his hand and pointed at Xiao Ni on the ground, as if he was cursing something.

The pavilion is very quiet and there is nothing to notice. What happened outside Jiming Temple attracted Zhu Gaoxu's attention. He observed for a long time, and at this time he almost understood that bullying incidents were happening in the temple... Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself: There are rivers and lakes where there are people, and even the temples with Qinglantern and Ancient Buddha's pure heart and few desires seem to be no exception.
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