Standalone Northern and Southern Dynasties

Chapter 17 I am afraid that the world will not be in chaos
The system has changed again.

To be precise, the system map changed again. Su Ze unlocked a new area, and a big question mark appeared on the map.

The place unlocked this time is naturally Yongning Temple. As expected, the entire map is bright red. Now there are Yulin Imperial Guards, Tingwei Guards and Bailu Cao envoys in Yongning Temple. The level of security is probably almost the same as that of the Imperial Palace, so it is naturally a red area.

And a golden question mark fell in the Yongning Temple area.

Damn system, it actually issued a task in the red zone. Su Ze has decided to give up this task. Saving his life is the most important thing.

Su Ze picked up the chess piece representing the cavalry slave Su Da and hovered over the Yongning Temple area. Sure enough, the system popped up the same prompt as in the palace:

[Dangerous area "Yongning Temple", adventure commissions available: 1 Replacement of garrison duty, 2 Theft, please choose? ]

[Attention!!! "Qinnu Suda" will encounter huge risks when operating in this area. The risks may affect the host, please choose carefully. ]

Su Ze decisively gave up the idea of ​​letting Su Da take the risk to come to Yongning Temple, and instead entrusted him to continue raising horses in Jianyangli.

Su Ze opened the store interface again. There was still one day before the next refresh. What made Su Ze anxious was that he was short of money. What if he got something good but couldn't afford it?
Looking around this magnificent Yongning Temple, do you think you want to steal?
However, stolen items cannot be stored in the system's warehouse, and stolen property cannot be used for consumption in stores. It must go through the "stolen goods" process before it can be turned into your own property.

Now that we are trapped in Yongning Temple, how can we sell the stolen goods?

How about letting Su Da go and make money tomorrow? Can't we also ask Su Da to set up a stall in Sitong City?
Su Ze was worrying about not having enough money to buy new items after the store was refreshed. In the monk's room on the other side of Yongning Temple, three important officials of the Northern Wei Dynasty were also sighing.

Cui Guang first said: "The Queen Mother ordered Princess Chenliu to stay in Yongning Temple temporarily and return home after the case is investigated."

Chief Justice Pei Yanjun's face became even uglier. The case of the empress dowager's assassination involved the Yulinlang and Hubenlang who were guarding the empress dowager. These imperial attendants were all scion of the Jia family.

It also involves Yongning Temple and King Qinghe and the General Manager who built the Yongning Temple. One is a royal temple, the other is the ruling king, and there is the General Manager who is in charge of the construction. This case is already very complicated.

Now add a princess.

The Supreme Court has investigated many people today, and all the monks who were responsible for cleaning the Yongning Temple Pagoda were arrested and taken to the Supreme Court Prison, but there are no useful clues so far.

The only progress that can be considered is the part where the golden bottle on the top of the Yongning Temple wooden pagoda is connected, which shows traces of human cutting.

The same traces were found at the bottom of the fallen golden bottle.

Now, the craftsmen of the General Construction Department are collecting the fragments of the golden vase that fell on the street and studying the reasons for the fall of the golden vase on the Yongning Pagoda.

It was not a problem with the construction of the Yongning Temple Pagoda, but man-made destruction. Mu Shaoyou, the Junior Supervisor of the Imperial Construction Bureau, felt a lot more relieved. Although this could not completely clear the Imperial Construction Bureau of suspicion, after all, the Imperial Construction Bureau, who was most familiar with the Yongning Temple, was also the most likely to have committed the crime. But at least this proved that someone wanted to murder the empress dowager, not that there was a problem with the construction of the Yongning Temple.

The pressure has been transferred from the Ministry of Works to the Ministry of Censors, and Censor Pei Yanjun already wants to resign.

Cui Guang was also worried. Having experienced many political turmoils, he had already smelled the scent of a coming political storm. He looked at the Chief Justice Pei Yanjun and asked.

"Pei Daqing, who destroyed the golden vase on top of the Yongning Temple pagoda?"

Pei Yanjun said with an unpleasant expression: "These bald donkeys in Yongning Temple, as long as you pay, there will be monks to take you upstairs. In recent days, there are countless people waiting to go upstairs, and no one can tell clearly."

Pei Yanjun is from a noble family and has always valued manners. The fact that he said "bald donkey" was enough to show that he was really angry. In the divine capital Luoyang, high-rise buildings are forbidden areas, which is also to prevent assassins from climbing up to observe the terrain of the divine capital.

The Yongning Temple Pagoda is one of the three tallest buildings in the capital. Originally, tourists were prohibited from climbing it. It was only open to the public when dignitaries like Empress Dowager Hu came to pay homage.

I thought that there would be few people climbing the tower, but I didn't expect that these bald donkeys would let anyone climb the tower as long as they were paid in order to make money, making it impossible for the court judge to track down this line.

Cui Guang said, "The abbot of Yongning Temple is not doing a good job in supervising the temple. A demon sneaked into Yongning Temple and almost caused a disaster. Pei Daqing can report to the Queen Mother for a decision."

Pei Yanjun's eyes lit up. Cui Guang was indeed a veteran of three dynasties. He grasped the key point at once. The Supreme Court had been investigating for so long. If they could not bring forward an important person to give an explanation to the court, the Queen Mother would probably doubt the Supreme Court's ability to do its job.

What punishment the abbot of Yongning Temple receives is the Empress Dowager's own business, which also buys time for the Supreme Court's further investigation.

At the same time, in the monk's room deep in the Yongning Temple, Princess Chenliu, with the help of her maid Luzhu, took off her white monk's robe, revealing her graceful body hidden inside the robe.

The interior of this monk's house is very luxurious. Smokeless golden charcoal is burning in the copper charcoal basin. Although it is still cold outside due to early spring, it is warm as spring inside the monk's house.

Princess Chenliu lay on the couch, gently covered with a soft brocade quilt. Her snow-white skin and the shiny quilt were intertwined together, and the flickering candlelight illuminated her bright and pretty face.

A snow-white cat was lying beside the couch. As Princess Chenliu lay down, the cunning cat jumped directly into the princess' arms.

Even Lu Zhu, the maid who had served Princess Chenliu for a long time, was so overwhelmed by her beauty that she held her breath. For a moment, she didn't know whether she should envy the cat.

Luzhu lowered her head and wiped the princess' body with a warm cloth. She said with some concern:
"Your Highness, why didn't you reveal your identity and leave when the Queen Mother was in the temple? Now that Yongning Temple is sealed off, Your Highness will definitely be suspected by the Queen Mother."

Princess Chenliu chuckled and said, "My sister-in-law sent Cui Guang to deal with this matter. It's obvious that she doesn't want to make a big deal out of it."

Lu Zhu exclaimed: "This is an assassination attempt on the Queen Mother. Doesn't the Queen Mother want to know the truth?"

Princess Chenliu pinched the white cat in her arms and said, "There are many people in the court who are eyeing my brother, the Prince of Qinghe, but Cui Guang is the only one who avoids him. He is an important Han official who was once involved in Yu Zhong's abuse of power and is busy withdrawing from the court. The Queen's sister-in-law sent him to investigate the case, and it must be to make a big thing small."

Lu Zhu said quickly: "So that's the case. Doesn't the Queen Mother want to investigate?"

"My sister-in-law is quite capable. Even if my father favors Han officials, the prime minister of Wei can only be a prince. Prince Qinghe is her lover. Could it be that he will try to bring someone else in?"

The matter involved the Queen Mother's privacy, so Lu Zhu naturally did not dare to laugh, but Princess Chen Liu laughed unscrupulously:
"The court has only been stable for two years. Even if the Yongning Temple incident is to be investigated, it will only be done secretly. There will be no large-scale prison. Besides, I am just a woman and cannot inherit the throne. Even if the empress-in-law dislikes me, she will not use me as a target."

Lu Zhu said with conviction: "It's a pity that the princess is not a man with such talent. If the late emperor had not passed away so suddenly, your marriage would have been delayed."

Emperor Xiaowen died when Princess Chenliu was very young, so naturally he had no time to arrange a marriage for her.

The late emperor that Lu Zhu mentioned was Emperor Xuanwu. However, Emperor Xuanwu died suddenly and was unable to choose a good husband for Princess Chenliu.

Princess Chenliu said with a smile:
"Not being allowed to get married has its advantages. Wouldn't it be worse to marry a loser like my sister and drive herself crazy? Taxue, you don't want a useless male master, do you?"

"Distribute the cloth to the soldiers guarding this palace tomorrow. Cui Guang, that old turtle, doesn't want to make a big deal out of this, but I want to get to the bottom of it!"

(End of this chapter)