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In the courtyard of the prefect's mansion, Xi Yangyu was drinking with Yue King Li Hui.

.When I was traveling in my early years, I once stayed overnight in an inaccessible mountain in the country of Jing. In my dream, I saw a strange beast that was as big as an elephant and with a short nose like a pig. Its teeth were like sawtooth. The whole body is turned out of the mouth. Now that I think about it, it may be the 彖 in the Book of Changes. The word 彖 is an elephant (彖 yue), and the word Xiang yue is a small elephant (Xiang yue). who also

'Jew' is a rare and exotic beast that has been extinct for many years. It has little guts and will be frightened by any wind and grass. Therefore, it has to climb to the top of the tree every day to look around to confirm that there is no risk. After climbing down the tree, it still does not Don't worry, I have to climb the tree again, so hesitant, so the world has the word hesitation. In my early years, I was lucky to buy a piece of leather from a Zhou merchant.

If His Highness is interested, I will send it to the palace after the plague has dissipated.

Xi Yangyu flapped his fan gracefully, talking eloquently, from studying to Taoism, and then from Taoism to strange beasts.

Li Hui always had a smile on his face, nodding his head from time to time in response, Then thank you Xi Siye.

Every time I talk with Xi Siye, I can broaden my horizons. If there is no such burden of being a prince, I really want to travel around the world like the previous tours.

It's good or bad to travel around the world. Poisonous insects, beasts, evil cultivators, villains, the danger is still too great.

Xi Yangyu smiled and said: Your Highness is a prince, and he is in charge of the governor of Xiangzhou. The military governors of the seven states of Xiangzhou, Wei, Li, Wei, Ming, Xing, and Bei have high positions and dignified status.

The so-called gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, such things should be left to the people under his command.

Si Ye's statement is exactly the same as that of the old gentleman in my house.

Li Hui smiled helplessly, These years in the academy may be the happiest and freest days in my life.

When Xi Yangyu heard this, the corners of his eyes moved slightly, but he only sighed slightly.

Li Hui casually picked up the porcelain wine cup on the table, admired the patterns on it, and suddenly said: Xi Siye, you have a lot of experience. When I was in the military in Duxiang Prefecture, I heard a folk story by chance.

oh?

Xi Yangyu smiled reluctantly, What is it?

It's about the period of the former Sui Dynasty. Wei Chijiong, the general manager of Yecheng at that time, was rebellious and rebellious. He intended to coerce the people of Yecheng and the soldiers rebelled against him. In the end, his deeds were revealed and Yecheng was burned by the court of the former Sui Dynasty. The people of Yecheng have since then Moved to Xiangzhou to govern.

Li Hui said unhurriedly: This matter is full of doubts, I think that Yu Chijiong is just a mere general manager, how could he persuade the people and soldiers in the city to join him in rebellion.

However, the former Sui court, who heard the news of the rebellion, chose to burn the whole city, the most violent and cruel method, and did not only punish the chief culprit.

I have checked the library pavilions in the academy and the imperial palace, and most of the classics in them are unclear.

Li Hui glanced at Xi Yangyu, saw that the other party was still unresponsive, and continued: I'm quite interested in this, so I asked my subordinates to investigate again, and visited the old people in the mountain villages around Xiangzhou, and heard another version of the story.

Yecheng was the Buddhist capital at that time, and the people in the city worshiped and made offerings to the Buddha. The Buddha they offer is called Thousand Head Buddha, which looks like a pagoda with a thousand heads and tens of thousands of arms, which looks like a Buddha but not a Buddha.

At that time, Yu Chijiong almost fell into madness when he saw the real body of the Thousand-headed Buddha.

What frightened him even more was that apart from him, none of the people in the city felt that it was abnormal to enshrine such a 'thing'.

So he ordered to set fire to the whole city, and the precarious former Sui court, in order to cover up such a rumor of evil spirits, also described the matter as a failed rebellion.

After finishing speaking, Li Hui took out a stone box with a magic-sealing talisman attached to it from his bosom, gently placed it on the table, opened it and pushed it towards Xi Yangyu, This is the thousand-headed Buddha statue confiscated from that mountain village by my subordinates. .”

I saw a conical stone Buddha statue quietly lying in the pure white silk cushioned by the stone box. It was poorly carved and full of signs of wind and rain erosion. Countless Buddha heads and Buddha hands could be vaguely seen.

It's also a rare thing. Let's take it as a return gift for your piece of animal leather, Xi Siye.

Li Hui smiled.

Xi Yangyu fixed his eyes on the Buddha statue, and after a while, he pulled his eyes away, and forced a smile: Your Highness is so loving, it is really a shame.

He Lai Zhesha said, Xi Siye, you are my enlightenment teacher, please accept it.

Then, respect is worse than obedience.

Xi Yangyu slowly closed the lid of the stone box, got up and said: I suddenly remembered that there are still some documents brought from the academy that have not been processed, please excuse me first.

Go slowly, sir.

Li Hui looked at Xi Yangyu's back as he turned and left, and waited until the other party was completely away, and the guard standing like a wooden stake in the corner of the courtyard nodded to him, and then slowly let out a foul breath.

Dealing with smart people is hard work.

The words just now seemed ordinary, but they were actually a mutual test between Li Hui and Xi Yangyu.

Nowadays, the open and secret struggle between the king of Yue and the prince has become more and more obvious. Both sides are recruiting troops in the court, and even extend their connections to the army, the township department, and the school palace.

King Yue has always wanted to subdue Xi Yangyu for his own use.

Xi Yangyu first mentioned 彖, 彖, the one who speaks is also like the image. It means to determine good luck. Xi Yangyu, as the secretary of the academy, has a detached position, and he doesn't want to get involved in the unpredictable succession dispute when His Majesty is in full swing and the head of the mountain has not yet retired.

The explanation of the beast is also about his hesitation.

And King Yue mentioned that he also wanted to go out for a trip like a school tour, which led to Xi Yangyu's unsalty persuasion, which just brought the topic to Xi Yangyu's words, which were very similar to the nagging persuasion of the old gentlemen in his palace.

This is the second implicit invitation.

These years in the academy may be the happiest and freest days in my life\

,"It also expresses King Yue's determination to take a step towards a more claustrophobic palace, not wanting to succumb to the status of a prince.

If ordinary bureaucrats,

Li Hui didn't need to spend so much thought on creating an atmosphere, carefully crafting the deep meaning behind every sentence, constantly inviting him warmly, and tying the other party to his chariot.

Just show your identity and future.

However, Li Hui could only proceed step by step and test again and again for the high-ranking school secretary.

Fortunately, the result is still perfect.

At the end of the conversation, Xi Yangyu called himself Chen.

'It seems that Xi Yangyu is indeed interested in the Qianshou Buddha in Xiangzhou in the former Sui Dynasty, as the person I arranged in the Zhenfu Division said.

But, what's the secret behind this? Could it have something to do with Xi Yangyu's left hand that has never been seen? '

Li Hui paused, shook his head, and put this matter behind him.

There was no way he could force a Master Zhuxiao to tell the secrets about his family and life, not to mention which monk Zhuxiao didn't have any secrets, as a superior, there was no need to make it so clear.

Xi Yangyu is gone?

The girl's voice came from outside the courtyard. Li Hui looked at Li Leling who was walking towards him with the corner of his mouth curled up, and rubbed the center of his eyebrows helplessly, After all, he is our secretary in the academy, so it's better to respect him.

Li Leling said in a cold tone: The plague in the city is so serious. As Master Zhuxiao, who receives the salary of the Yu Kingdom, he doesn't use his power of thought to help build wards and dig waterways. Instead, he drinks and chats in the mansion. Why should he be too respectful?

The Chang'an court didn't appoint him here. He is mainly here to protect his only daughter. It's normal not to help with building houses.

Regarding the people he was recruiting, Li Hui still defended Xi Yangyu,

Li Hui rubbed his chin, squinted his eyes, looked at Li Leling, and said with a smile: Why, a certain person already loves Wu Jiwu and hates Wu Jiwu before he even gets through the door?

The personal grievances between Li Ang and Xi Yangyu were not a secret in the academy.

The reason why Li Leling can't understand Xi Yangyu is largely because Li Ang, who is just an ordinary student, is exhausted to develop a special medicine.

And Xi Yangyu, who is the secretary of the school, can drink tea leisurely all day long.

Fourth brother!

Li Leling's face flushed slightly when he mentioned the matter of going through the door, and he hugged his hands in front of him angrily, and his mouth pursed unconsciously.

Okay, okay, for my brother's slip of the tongue, can I punish myself with a glass?

Li Hui poured himself a glass of wine with a hippie smile, and drank it down. I have some feelings in my heart.

Ever since she went to school in the academy and got to know Li Ang, Li Leling was no longer as sluggish as when she was sick, and the smiles on her face increased a lot, she still acted like she was when she was a child.

But well.

Li Hui paused for a moment as he put down his wine glass. Li Ang is indeed excellent, even after thousands of years,

Yu Guo, Li Yu's clan, and Li Hui himself were all buried in the loess.

Li Ang can also shine in the annals of history with the help of penicillium and artemisinin.

But a sage does not necessarily mean that he is equivalent to a good husband-in-law.

Fourth brother? Fourth brother?

Li Leling's voice brought Li Hui back to reality, and the girl said angrily, I'm talking to you.

Sorry, I got distracted after drinking.

Li Hui smiled apologetically, What did you say just now?

Li Leling mumbled: I said, you are also very concerned about the affairs of Taiyuan Mansion.

In addition to the plague, there is also the autumn harvest outside the city. So much grain to harvest. Thousands of villagers are trapped in isolated farms. They can wait, but the food in the fields cannot wait.

Understood, I will let people do it. The government soldiers and monks will help harvest the grain, and the various companies will transfer, sell, hoard, and turn it in. The money obtained from selling the grain will be returned to the villagers, and the excess will be refunded and the deficiency will be compensated. No. Let the villagers suffer.

Is that all right?

Li Hui said to his sister with a smile, sighing again from the bottom of his heart.

Li Leling was smart since she was a child, and now that autumn is almost over, the food in the fields really can't wait any longer, if they don't harvest early, the bottom people will suffer in the end.

At that time, maybe there will be a villain who will blame the reduction of food production and the bankruptcy of farmers on the strategy of containing the plague and Li Ang, who formulated the strategy.

The dignified Princess Guanghua, the imperial jewel who is most favored by the emperor and empress, considers Li Ang so thoughtfully and meticulously,

The latter still stayed in the laboratory with Dr. Qiu Feng all day and all night, and the folding beds they slept on were put together, and they were almost covered with the same quilt.

This is really a bit.

Tauren feeling?

Li Hui rubbed his smooth chin, and once again thought of the novel term circulated from Chang'an Lanling News.

Li Leling had no idea what was going on in Li Hui's head, and was still rambling on about the plague.

Until the guard at the corner of the courtyard, holding a note, stepped forward solemnly, Your Highness, I just received a secret report.

What secret report?

Li Hui took the note, glanced at it casually, then his complexion changed abruptly, and he said in a deep voice, Immediately summon the Taiyuan prefect, no, not just the prefect, call Xi Siye, He Fanshuang and the others over.

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In a short while, most of the important people in the Taiyuan Mansion, such as the captain of Zhenfusi, the general of Zhechong Mansion, etc., were summoned to the hall of the Taishou Mansion.

Li Hui deliberately did not call the master of the Haotian Taoist Temple in Taiyuan Prefecture, the representative of the Wang family, etc., to ensure that everyone present was his own.

Let's have a look.

Li Hui glanced across the hall, and threw the secret report and a few talismans whose ink was not completely dry on the table.

This is a talisman?

The general of the Zhechong Mansion looked at the talisman with the picture of a strange child on it, with a puzzled look on his face, Aren't all talismans written with words?

Not all talismans are words,

The captain of the Zhenfu Division of Taiyuan Mansion said solemnly: Like a god-shattering cloud talisman, the inscriptions inside are a mixture of words and images.

The more parts of the image, the older the origin of the talisman.

This is the Plague Ghost Talisman.

Xi Yangyu and He Fanshuang spoke at the same time, He Fanshuang paused for a moment and did not continue,

Xi Yangyu explained indifferently: It originated in the late Han Dynasty. It is said that it can resist plague ghosts.

However, it has been tested by the monks and academic palaces of the past dynasties, and it has no effect. There is a high probability that it is an invalid invention used by a monk in the countryside to make money.

After finishing speaking, he paused, observed the characteristics of those talismans again, and said in a deep voice: It's just that the paper, ink marks, brushwork, and drying time of these talismans are all different.

It was written by different people, at different times, in different places, and in different materials.

The shape of the pattern is also different from the original Plague Ghost Talisman.

That's right, this is a doorman of my house who found it in the poor city in the south of the city. Someone posted these talismans and the instructions for using the talismans on the doors of every household.

Li Hui nodded, and with a gesture of the palm, the guard behind him put a stack of papers on the table.

The specific effects and detailed usage methods of the Plague Ghost Talisman are written on it.

. Post the plague ghost charm on the door of other people, and you can transfer the plague ghost to others, and you will be protected from disaster.

The captain of Zhenfusi read the above text word by word, his face was ashen, This must be a conspiracy of evil spirits and heretics!