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Chapter 716: Don’t worship the Lotus Sect, worship the Zen Sect [ask for a monthly ticket! ]

Quiet courtyard, main wing.

The morning light shines on the messy bed.

The exposed skin of the sleeping pretty girl exudes a fiery red glow.

Her little face was flushed red, perhaps because of the unusual movement of spiritual energy, or because of the trouble she had with her lover not long ago.

With each breath, the fiery red halo waxed and waned, like the breath of a dragon.

The wardrobe, the beams, the bed, the desk... the whole room was creaking.

The swings in the yard were dancing in disorder.

Within a radius of dozens of meters, it seemed as if they were bearing a huge invisible pressure.

At some point, all the visions ceased.

The swing swung lower and lower.

Zhao Qingxiu's pair of blind starry eyes slowly opened.

Inside the bed.

A long bronze sword hung upside down above his head.

She sat up as if she didn't see anything, and tilted her ponytailed head towards the empty pillow beside her.

After a while, the girl who had overcome the nightmare hugged his pillow tightly and buried her little face in it.

He didn't even bother to look inward at his surging dantian, which had already reached the sixth level and had the astonishing "miracle of trapped dragon".

Finally, I found a trace of Tan Lang's warmth on the pillow.

Zhao Qingxiu was suddenly happy.

……

Jiangzhou lobby.

After seeing off the messenger sent by Wang Caozhi, Ouyang Rong sat alone for a while.

He then met with Yan Liulang and Pei Shisan Niang one after another, and then left the Jiangzhou government office.

I was supposed to have a good vacation, but when I encountered some breaking news, I couldn't help but come here.

Ouyang Rong shook his head.

"What a life of toil..."

Under the slightly strange looks of the clerks and minor officials around him, Governor Ouyang, who had asked for leave, left the Jiangzhou hall with clean sleeves.

Ouyang Rong returned to the carriage.

Ali waited outside for a while, but when he heard no movement from inside the car, he asked quietly:

"Sir, where are you going?"

Ouyang Rong seemed to come back to his senses.

"Let's go back to Huaiye Lane. Junior Sister should be here today to discuss the birthday gift with Aunt. Let's go back and take a look."

"Yes, son."

"By the way, I didn't go home last night. Didn't anyone come to look for me?"

"Reporting to the Master, no."

"Okay, got it."

Ouyang Rong closed his eyes again. In fact, after getting on the car, he went to take another look at the Merit Pagoda.

Ouyang Rong stayed overnight in a quiet courtyard last night, which was unexpected...mainly because he didn't expect the embroiderer to be so emotional.

In fact, the embroiderer is a person who lacks love and is infatuated. Once she is ignited, it is indeed a bit hard to resist.

It just so happened that Ouyang Rong had more than 1,300 merits left and had nowhere to put them.

So dry wood meets fire...burns all night
In the past, if he didn't come home like this, the women in Huaiye Lane would definitely be worried and might even run to Xunyang Palace to look for him.

And now, Ouyang Rong did not go home to spend the night, but just sent someone back to inform... and no one said anything.

Everyone knows where he is.

Inside the carriage, Ouyang Rong stretched lazily.

This time, more than 1,300 merits were injected into the embroiderer at once. I don’t know whether she will respond in terms of her cultivation.

After each injection, the embroiderer was in perfect condition, except for a somewhat touching redness on her little face and skin, which didn't seem to make much of a difference. Oh, and she blushed more easily.

This made Ouyang Rong doubt the quality of the purple mist of merit.

Thousands of merits can be exchanged for several good blessings, and the effect of converting them into spiritual energy cultivation does not seem to be anything special, otherwise why has the embroiderer not broken through yet? Ouyang Rong remembered that the embroiderer seemed to have been at the seventh level of cultivation before... Could this purple mist of merit have some magical power that he has not discovered?

No matter what, more merits were injected this time, which was a bit tiring, but I don’t know if the effect will be more intense.

Ouyang Rong was thinking.

The carriage suddenly stopped.

"what happened?"

Ouyang Rong asked curiously. He glanced at the scenery outside the window and saw that they were not far from the residence in Huaiye Lane. The carriage had arrived at the next street.

"Sir, someone is waiting for you."

"Who?"

The well-informed Ali said:

"Look at this carriage and the maid, they seem to be from the palace."

Ouyang Rong lifted the car curtain and took a look.

It’s Her Royal Highness the Little Princess.

They blocked him on the street outside Huaiye Lane again.

Her personal maid Cai Shou was standing in front of Ouyang Rong's carriage. She came up and said a few words to Ali.

Ouyang Rong got off the car immediately.

……

"What is the matter, Princess?"

"There's something going on with Dalang. Let's go to the palace."

In a low-key carriage, Ouyang Rong had just got on the carriage when Li Guoer said a few words, which made Ouyang Rong look sideways.

He asked curiously:

"Why is it His Highness who is here to inform you?"

"Sister Xie, aren't you busy with your aunt's birthday ceremony? I happened to be passing by here when I was going out, so I let you know."

"What's going on with Dalang?"

"You'll know when you go there. It's related to Wei Anhui."

Li Guoer narrowed his eyes and said.

Ouyang Rong looked a little strange.

……

Xunyang Palace, study.

Xie Lingjiang and Lu Ya are not here.

Ouyang Rong and Li Xian's family gathered together.

After carefully looking at the beautifully handwritten letter in his hand, his brows first frowned, then relaxed, and then frowned again.

When he was halfway through reading it, he couldn't help but look up and ask Li Dalang who was standing beside him with a dazed look on his face:
"Princess Anhui invites you to worship Buddha at Tongfo Temple again?"

Li Dalang had a complicated expression and nodded: "Yeah."

Li Xian frowned and sat at the very top with a serious look on his face.

Princess Wei Mei, who was beside him, had a rather unhappy expression on her face. After hearing what Li Dalang said, she snorted coldly.

Li Guoer said directly:

"Look behind you, that's the Buddhist temple that Wei Anhui invited Li Dalang to go to."

"Guanyin Temple, what's wrong?"

Ouyang Rong asked.

"What's the date?"

"The 15th of this month."

When his eyes saw the agreed time at the end of the envelope, Ouyang Rong's words gradually paused.

He flipped through it again and said softly:
"According to Ms. Rong, wasn't Princess Anhui going to leave on the fifteenth?"

Li Guoer nodded and said, "Before we part, I want to make an appointment with Dalang for the last time to burn incense and worship Buddha together. Also, Ouyang Lianghan, look at the temple that Wei Anhui asked Dalang to go to."

"Guanyin Zen Temple?"

"Do you know where it is?"

"It sounds familiar."

"Guanyin Temple is one of the ten famous temples in Jiangnan, located in... Fenghuangling, Hukou County."

Ouyang Rong blurted out subconsciously: "Hukou County?"

"Yes."

Seeing Ouyang Rong's gradually furrowed brows, Li Guoer nodded and said:

"I saw this name and looked it up. It's in the nearby Hukou County. Ouyang Lianghan, didn't you send someone to investigate in Hukou County? Don't you think it's a coincidence?"

"Ah."

Ouyang Rong lowered his head and read the letter carefully over and over again.

After a while, he put down the letter and said thoughtfully:

"Wei Anhui said that on the 15th, there will be a temple fair to welcome and send off the Buddha's bones at Guanyin Temple. She wants to go and offer sacrifices on behalf of King Liang. In addition, she will offer the clothes and hats of her third brother Wei Shaoqi to the temple on behalf of King Wei and set up an incense tablet..."

Li Xian suddenly said:
"Princess Anhui did not attend the celebration ceremony on the 15th and left early. Could it be that she wanted to miss the temple fair at Guanyin Zen Temple because of this incident?"

Wei Mei shook her head and said in a strange tone:

"It's not right. It's just a memorial tablet. Why not enshrine it in Xunyang City? Isn't there a Donglin Buddha? Or you can send it to Donglin Temple. Why go to Guanyin Zen Temple?"

Everyone looked at each other in silence.

Li Guoer said crisply:

“There is a detail. If I remember correctly, although Wei believed in Buddhism, he believed in Zen Buddhism.

"And Guanyin Temple is a famous Zen temple, one of the few Zen temples in Jiangnan, and Donglin Temple is a famous Lotus Temple."

Li Xian suddenly realized:

"It seems to be true. The Wei family, including my mother, used to prefer Zen Buddhism. Two years ago, Master Shandao of Donglin Temple took advantage of our influence and came to Beijing to preach Buddhism, which made the Lotus Sect famous. This is how we have the Donglin Buddha now... It makes sense when you think about it this way. No wonder Wei Anhui chose the faraway place instead of the near one."

After hearing this, everyone quieted down and looked thoughtful.

Ouyang Rong nodded slowly:
"You mean, Wei Anhui's departure before the celebration ceremony may not be as complicated as we thought. It is indeed related to the reason why she invited Dalang this time. Is it to go to Guanyin Zen Temple to worship Buddha and settle the tablet of Wei's third son?"

"It's just a possibility, in case we become suspicious." Li Guoer nodded slightly: "Of course, it is not ruled out that there are indeed other purposes."

Ouyang Rong looked thoughtful.

After waiting for a while, Li Guoer asked:
"what are you thinking?"

Ouyang Rong glanced at her and said:
"This morning, people from Hukou County reported that they couldn't find the thin man. It seems that he has never entered the county. They also didn't find any unusual behavior of Duan Quanwu colluding with this man. There was no abnormality in the Hukou County military camp. They are busy suppressing bandits."

"What did you order?"

"Let them look for it again. Just as His Highness said, we cannot rule out the possibility that there are other purposes."

"Yes."

Ouyang Rong suddenly said: "Wait a moment, I'll go ask."

"Who to ask?"

"History of Rong Women."

When Li Xian's family saw this, Ouyang Rong immediately left the house and disappeared along the corridor...

In the afternoon, approaching dusk, when the sunset glow filled the sky, the Li Xian family saw Ouyang Rong again.

Everyone gathered in the study of the palace.

Xie Lingjiang also came back and heard from Li Guoer that Li Dalang had received the invitation.

Ouyang Rong rushed back exhausted and went to the study without even drinking tea.

Everyone saw that he looked a little absent-minded, wondering what he was thinking about.

"Tan Lang, how is it?"

Li Xian asked with concern.

Ouyang Rong glanced at everyone, hesitated for a moment, and said:
"That's right. Ms. Rong said that Princess Anhui went back early on the fifteenth day. She was indeed going to visit the Guanyin Zen Temple in Hukou County to worship Buddha and burn incense, and place tablets for Wei Shaoqi and the others... This matter has been reported to her, and Duan Quanwu will be asked to send some people to protect her."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and immediately exchanged glances.

Ouyang Rong picked up the teacup, drank it in one gulp, and took a deep breath.

Li Xian tried to ask: "Tan Lang, it seems that we are a little paranoid. Do you want me and Da Lang to go to the celebration ceremony on the 15th?"

Ouyang Rong glanced at Li Xian but didn't speak immediately.

Li Guoer said: "Ouyang Lianghan, go back and check again. Isn't there someone in Hukou County? Go and see if it is true..."

Ouyang Rong frowned and interrupted: "I know."

Wei Mei walked forward and poured tea for Li Xian and Ouyang Rong personally, saying with a smile:

"Whether it was a false alarm or not, it's correct that Tan Lang arranged these backup plans just in case. In my opinion, it's good to be scared like this. We are more prepared now, which is a good thing... Tan Lang, you've worked hard."

"Yes."

Xie Lingjiang agreed.

As usual, she picked up a pear and peeled it for him, saying in a crisp voice:
"It is still the eldest brother who has acted properly and can see the big picture from the small details. Let's put it this way. We will continue with the preparations we have already made and do not withdraw. As for whether the prince and the prince will go to the celebration ceremony on the 15th, let's wait and see. Do not notify Ms. Rong Zhen immediately.

"As for Aunt Zhen's birthday ceremony on the 14th, you can go as usual. We can decide whether to go to the celebration ceremony the next day. Anyway, we have already prepared the excuse, and the initiative is in our hands."

"good."

"What Xie Xian's niece said is right. We should adapt to circumstances."

Everyone nodded and turned to look at Ouyang Rong.

Ouyang Rong looked around the study at the expressions of everyone, took the large white pear that Xie Lingjiang had peeled, and pursed his lips.

After a while, he took a bite of the pear and said incoherently:
"Can".

Everyone laughed.

After discussing it again, they were ready to leave. Just then, Li Dalang's weak voice came from the side:
"Father, Tan Lang, Sister...you haven't told me yet, how should I respond to the princess's letter? She has invited me repeatedly. If she really has bad intentions, she wouldn't be so stupid as to invite me every time. Now let's see..."

Li Xian and Wei Mei looked back at him and asked in unison:
"What are you looking at now?"

Li Dalang shrank his head.

Xie Lingjiang shook his head speechlessly, and Ouyang Rong coughed.

Li Guoer walked over and gently patted his brother on the shoulder:

"Then go ahead, brother. How about going back to the capital with her to meet the King of Liang and talk about the marriage directly."

Li Dalang: ...

……

When we left Xunyang Palace, the sunset was still on the horizon of the distant river.

The river view of Xunyang City is very beautiful and can be seen from any location in the city with a good angle.

Ouyang Rong boarded the carriage and gave an order:

"Go to Xingzi Lake. Also, call Liu Lang over."

"Yes, son."

Two quarters of an hour later, Yan Liulang entered the carriage, clasped his fists and asked:

"What do you want, sir?"

Ouyang Rong closed his eyes and pondered for a moment:
"Send someone to Hukou County immediately. No, you go there in person to deliver a message to Wang Caozhi, telling him not to look for him in the city or at the military camp anymore. Ask him to send someone to Guanyin Zen Temple to ask if there is any trace of the thin-faced man named Qian Chen."

"Yes, Mingfu."

Yan Liulang took the order and left in a hurry without asking why. He was going to Xunyang Ferry to take a boat and rush to Hukou County overnight.

Ouyang Rong watched Yan Liulang's back disappear, then turned around to look at the brilliant sunset in the sky.

He turned around immediately, lowered his eyes, patted his sleeves and said:
"Let's go, Ali, let's go to the courtyard to eat."

"Yes, son."

The carriage immediately drove towards a small courtyard on the shore of Xingzi Lake.

In the bumpy carriage, Ouyang Rong muttered imperceptibly:

"Xiu Niang's body should have recovered almost completely. She absorbed so much merit... I wonder how she is doing now."

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