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Chapter 25 The Temple Interview

Zhu Biao returned to the East Palace in a heavy mood. After the New Year, his father's desire to kill Li Shanchang became more and more obvious. Yesterday, An Hou Lu Zhongheng and Pingliang Hou Feiju were arrested for the Hu Weiyong case. This was obviously the father's preparation for Li Shanchang's imprisonment in order to hype the Hu Weiyong case. It has been eleven years since then. The rebel leader was executed eleven years ago. The rest of the party still found the truth. If he wanted to add a crime, he would be fine. Zhu Biao knew that this time, Li Shanchang could not escape no matter what. He sighed helplessly and closed his eyes tiredly. He couldn't control it, and he didn't want to care anymore.

The sedan chair stopped in front of the East Palace. Zhu Biao walked back to his bedroom surrounded by a large group of guards. As soon as he returned to the bedroom, the crown princess quickly came up and Yingying bowed and said, "I will meet your highness."

"My beloved concubine is exempted from gifts." Zhu Biao sat down and waved his hand in annoyance, "I'm in a bad mood, so just step down if you have nothing to do!"

Zhu Biao's princess was Chang Yuchun's eldest daughter. Chang Yuchun died early. Zhu Yuanzhang thought of his loyalty and righteousness and ordered Zhu Biao to take his daughter as his concubine. Zhu Biao did not like this princess very much. He liked the second concubine Lu even more. However, due to his father's affection, he always maintained a respectful relationship with Chang. Respecting Rubin as a friend may be commendable, but as a couple in the same bed, this respectful relationship with Gu Biao contained too much helplessness and rationality. However, in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, after his eight-year-old eldest son Zhu Xiongying died, Zhu Biao apologized for the Crown Princess, and the relationship between the couple was gradually repaired. Especially her second brother was promoted to Princess Taibao, and Zhu Biao relied more on Chang.

Zhu Biao was flipping out a book from the desk, and then he found that Chang was still next to him. He was about to speak when he suddenly realized, "Does your beloved concubine have something to come to me?"

Chang nodded and whispered to Zhu Biao: "The second brother just heard news from you. You have to wait for that person to arrive."

'Li Weizheng is here!' Zhu Biao was excited. The young man he met in Dingyuan County left a deep impression on him. Li Weizheng's sharp eyes and far-sighted foresight made him admire him. Although he also knew that Li Weizheng was very likely to enter Beijing, he was still worried about it, fearing that he would not come if he had any accidents. Now he actually came, which really made his heart feel happy. The boredom of the day was suddenly wiped out. He immediately called his guard leader Yu Ping and said, "Do you still remember the Li Weizheng we met in Haotang Town? He has arrived at Changsheng's mansion. I will go to Jiming Temple to burn incense to Queen Xiaoci tomorrow. You can arrange for him to see me there. Be careful not to let the Jinyiwei discover it."

"Sir, obey the order!" Yu Ping bowed and went out to make arrangements. Zhu Biao looked at Chang again and couldn't help but smile: "My beloved concubine will go with me tomorrow to burn incense!"















Jiming Temple was first built in Jin Dynasty and has always been a famous temple in Jinling. It is also close to the tomb position chosen by Zhu Yuanzhang for himself, so it has always been incense and pilgrims. Three days ago, the imperial guards came to the temple to announce that today the prince would bring the princess to burn incense and ordered the pilgrims to avoid it. All the monks at Jiming Temple mobilized to clean the temple. In the past three days, they had cleaned the inside and outside of the mountain gate. One hundred young and handsome monks were selected as welcome teams. Each of them gave a new robe. However, the prince also spoke, and it would be enough to burn incense for a moment. Don't deliberately chase people. The temple wanted repeat customers. The pilgrims would never annoy them. Now they can welcome the prince and not throw away the pilgrims. They were happy that the abbot chanted Buddha's name repeatedly and praised the prince's kindness.

Early that morning, the gate of Jiming Temple opened early. The pilgrims who had already been waiting outside the gate rushed in. The monk who was so panicked that he shouted repeatedly: "Dear donors, please forgive me. There are distinguished guests in the temple today. Let's wait for a while outside."

Most of the pilgrims came before dawn. After waiting in the middle of the night, they were all irritated and were very anxious. After finally opening the temple gate, they were not willing to go out again. The monk shouted, the faster the pilgrims ran. Everyone ran away, and in a moment they ran away. There were only two young pilgrims, one man and one woman, left at the mountain gate. These two were naturally Li Weizheng and the mute girl who came as promised.

"Amitabha!" The monk from Zhike wiped his sweat. Finally, there were pilgrims who were willing to listen to him. He hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "Two donors, my temple today...."

Before he finished speaking, Li Weizheng interrupted him with a smile, "So many people have run in, what's the point of just going out for us? Why not take us to a hall where distinguished guests will not go. After burning incense, donating money, go out through the back door. You see this is great."

"This... OK!" The monk from Zhike had no choice but to wave his hands to the two and said, "Please come with me, two donors."

The monk Zhike took Li Weizheng to the relatively secluded Shancai Boy Hall. The main hall was empty and there was no one. "Please wait here, two donors!" Zhike monk gave a bow and was about to leave, but Li Weizheng called him again. He took out a famous post and handed it to him and said, "If someone looks for me, you can find me here."

"The little monk must tell me." The monk from Zhike accepted the famous letter and hurried away.

"Brother, where is this?" the mute girl stammered.

From that night, Li Weizheng began his treatment plan. Based on his modern philosophy, he knew that the mute girl was not unable to speak, but was a psychological barrier, and she was afraid to speak. The more she was afraid, the more she was afraid, and thus formed a vicious cycle. Therefore, the key was to give her courage and encourage her to speak. Although it was simple, it was difficult to do. The mute girl had already deeply rooted in thinking that she was a mute. More importantly, the pencil invented by Li Weizheng gave her great convenience. He once swears to pat her breasts and promised not to dislike her because she was a mute. The mute girl had too much dependence, and whether she was talking or not was not very important to her.

For this reason, Li Wei was racking her brains, such as catching caterpillars to scare her, eating small tofu with the attitude of curing diseases and saving lives, etc., although it had a temporary effect, but it returned to its old state after the incident.

Until the eve of leaving for the capital, Li Weizheng finally thought of a reason and told her that if she was a mute, her child would be a mute in the future. Then she finally told the mute girl. She began to pluck up the courage to 'bayashi' with Li Weizheng. Although she was willing to speak only when they were alone, the mute girl still made rapid progress and could already say some simple sentences in less than ten days.

"Not bad! Not bad! I said it very well just now, and I was drunk with a shout of 'Big Brother'." Li Wei was smiling and said again: "But, if you want to say it slower, 'Big Brother' will be sweeter, you can try it."

The mute girl blushed and her pink fist hit him hard on the shoulder, "You... are so bad!"

"Okay! This sentence is very coherent and very interesting." Li Wei was trying hard to treat the mute girl's voice, and he smiled again: "Say it again, brother, you are necrotic. Let's delay the word "big brother" longer, a little coquettish, try it!"

"Ignore you!" The mute girl pouted and turned her back.

At this moment, a melodious bell sound came from afar, endlessly. The prince entered the temple. Li Wei was immediately put away his joking and walked quickly to the gate of the hall, but he saw the monk who was in a panic. There was a man following behind him. It was the chief guard Yu Ping. He stepped forward and bowed, "Mr. Li, your highness wants to see you, please follow me."

Li Wei turned around and looked at the mute girl, but she shook her head and said that she would not go. Li Wei was helpless and had to give a few words to the monk and hurried away with Yu Ping.

At this time, Zhu Biao had already eaten incense, and the Crown Princess went to worship the Bodhisattva. He was paced back and forth in a guest room with his hands behind his back, waiting for Li Wei to arrive a little anxiously.

"Your Highness, he is here."

Zhu Biao turned around and saw that Li Wei was being taken into the room. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Captain Li, we're meeting again."

Li Wei was coming forward and knelt down, saying in a deep voice: "Caomin kowtows to the crown prince."

"Mr. Li, please get up quickly." Zhu Biao quickly helped him up and said sincerely: "I don't have to kneel down when I see me in the future. Mr. Fang is the same. He is all his own people, so he doesn't need such a big gift."

"Yes!" Li Weizheng agreed and stood beside him with his hands down.

Zhu Biao nodded, "Okay! There is not much time, let's talk about it for a long time. I will set out for a tour of Jiangsu and Zhejiang the day after tomorrow. You can accompany me to go there."

‘Southern tour of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.’ Li Weizheng was slightly stunned. The prince had just returned from Fengyang and the assassin case was still in shock. Why did he want to go out again?

Zhu Biao glanced at him and smiled faintly, "You might as well guess why I was going to the southern tour?"

Li Wei changed his mind and blurted out, "Is it the emperor's intention?"

"It's true." Zhu Biao sighed, "Yes, the emperor is already ordering people to collect evidence of Li Shanchang's rebellion and transfer me out. No one in the court can change his determination."

Li Wei was thinking about it, but shook his head and said, "I think the emperor has transferred you out for your own good."

"For my own good." Zhu Biao frowned, "What do you mean?"

"I think the emperor is not afraid of Your Highness's case, but is afraid of Your Highness's body suffering in this case, so I asked you to go out and relax."


















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