Fragrance Stealer

"My lord, you're being polite, has Princess Ake been found?" Song Qingshu asked.

"Although I didn't find her, I have already found out where she is now, just, just..." Wu Sangui suddenly became hesitant while talking.

"Could it be that the lord has something to hide? Where there is a need for the help of an official, the lord can just speak up." Cannibalism is soft-spoken and short-handed. Song Qingshu just received a generous gift from Wu Sangui, and he is not willing to take it for nothing.

"I'm afraid Master Song is really needed this time." Wu Sangui smiled wryly, "It's not convenient for me to go to the place where Ake is, and it doesn't matter if my subordinates go."

"There are such strange places in Shanhaiguan?" Song Qingshu looked at Wu Sangui in surprise.

Wu Sangui had no choice but to explain: "Ake's mother has a special status. Not long after she gave birth to Ake, she went to the Sansheng Nunnery outside the city to lead her practice. Due to the influence, I haven't seen her for many years. Now Ake just listens to her." When we arrived, we were about to be sent to the palace, so we ran to Sansheng Nunnery to look for her mother."

Song Qingshu's heart moved: "Could it be that what the lord is talking about is Chen Yuanyuan, the most beautiful woman in the world?"

Hearing other men commenting on his forbidden goods, Wu Sangui touched his nose, laughed dryly, and did not speak.

"Weeping six armies are all plain, and the prince became a beauty in anger. The prince's heroic demeanor back then has always made my subordinates admire him." Song Qingshu said with emotion.

Displeasure flashed across Wu Sangui's face, and he snorted heavily: "Your Majesty Song, don't need to sarcasm." It was a great hatred in his life to bring Qing soldiers into the customs back then, so he couldn't help but lose his composure when Song Qingshu mentioned it.

"My lord misunderstood, and I really mean it sincerely," Song Qingshu said with a solemn expression, "People in the world can only blame the lord for betraying the Han people for the sake of a woman, but no one blames Li Zicheng for his short-sightedness. Back then, if Li Zicheng could restrain his subordinates and treat the prince’s family well, why did the prince be forced by the situation to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, only to be called a traitor by the Han people? In my opinion, the prince can bear the world’s infamy for the one he loves. He's a real good boy."

What Wu Sangui said made Wu Sangui's face twitch endlessly, his expression seemed angry, dazed, and relieved, and finally calmed down, and said in a deep voice: "Master Song, we are all courtiers of the Qing Dynasty now, please be careful about what you say."

"No matter what the prince thinks in his heart, what I just said is indeed from the heart." Song Qingshu cupped his hands, "Then I will go to Sansheng Nunnery first and invite Princess Ake back."

"Okay, Mr. Lao Song, you can tell their mother and daughter that everything is the king's intention." Wu Sangui said.

Coming out of Prince Pingxi's Mansion, Song Qingshu rode his horse to the Sansheng Nunnery, all the way, but felt extremely desolate, frowned slightly, secretly startled: "Could it be Wu Sangui's trick, sending people to ambush me on the road to plot against me? Then he slowed down and looked around vigilantly.

Song Qingshu breathed a sigh of relief when he arrived at a small nunnery with the words "Sansheng Nunnery" written on the plaque.Opening the door and entering, the surroundings are spotless, there are several camellias planted in the courtyard, a Bauhinia tree, and a white-clothed Guanyin is enshrined in the center of the hall. After staying with the most beautiful woman in the world for a long time, even the bodhisattva has a trace of the beauty of the world?

Only the sound of footsteps was heard not far away, a woman came over, saluted Song Qingshu Heshi, and said: "The monks are quiet, see Mr. Song." The voice was soft, speaking with a Suzhou accent.

This woman was about 40 years old, wearing a light yellow Taoist robe, with picturesque features, unspeakably beautiful. Song Qingshu thought that A Ke was already enough to make a country, but unexpectedly compared with this woman, she was still three points inferior.

A Ke was standing beside the Taoist nun, holding her hand, and proudly raised her clean chin to Song Qingshu.Song Qingshu saw two stunning beauties with similar looks standing together. Under the reflection of each other, they looked more like sisters than mother and daughter, and he was a little stunned for a while.

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Seeing Song Qingshu staring straight at his mother, A Ke couldn't help but snorted coldly.

Song Qingshu came back to his senses, and replied: "So it's Princess Pingxi, Song was rude, but I didn't expect that the princess is more beautiful than the rumors."

Chen Yuanyuan heard this kind of talk a lot, and didn't take it seriously, she smiled lightly: "It's just a stinky skin, the little girl only hates her natural appearance, and it has harmed the people of the world." Speaking of this, her eyes turned red, and she couldn't bear it. I can't stop crying.

A Ke at the side saw that Song Qingshu made his mother cry when he opened his mouth, and couldn't help saying angrily: "Whether you really don't know or not, Princess Pingxi has someone else, my mother is not..."

Chen Yuanyuan's expression was also a little embarrassed. She was bought by Wu Sangui's daughter back then, and she was deeply loved. Moreover, Wu Sangui became a big traitor spurned by the world for him. She was actually very moved in her heart.I planned to love him wholeheartedly, but I didn't know that Wu Sangui was named the Queen of Pingxi by the Qing Dynasty, but she cared about her origin in the land of fireworks, and worried that making her the royal wife of the imperial court would cause people to laugh at her. Chen Yuanyuan knew his thoughts, and a Fang's heart suddenly cooled down, and she invited herself to the Sansheng Nunnery outside the city to lead her practice. Wu Sangui pushed the boat along the river, resulting in the current situation.

"Why should madam care about a mere title? After hundreds of years, who will still remember who is the current Princess Pingxi? They will only think that madam is the real Princess Pingxi." Song Qingshu said seriously.

Over the years, no one has dared to bring up the issue of status in front of her, for fear of making her sad and uncomfortable. Chen Yuanyuan often looks at herself in pity. Today, Song Qingshu explained it from a different angle, and found that her heart is much more comfortable. She said with a smile: "Little girl, you are being rude. You let Mr. Song stand for so long. Please sit down quickly and serve tea to the honored guests."

A Ke coaxed her mother to smile when she saw Song Qingshu's few words, and said angrily, "How do you know what happened hundreds of years later?"

"I came here hundreds of years later, so I naturally know." Song Qingshu's tone was full of calmness and confidence.

A Ke didn't bother to pay attention to him, and helped Chen Yuanyuan to sit down on the other side.

Soon the servants offered the tea, Song Qingshu opened the cover bowl, and there was a burst of fragrance, and the bowl was green, it was the new Longjing tea, a sneering smile appeared on his lips, and he thought to himself: "This Longjing tea is from the south of the Yangtze River. It’s very expensive to transport it here, and Chen Yuanyuan, a monk, is really very rich.” Another servant held a lacquer tray with eight colors of fine dots on it, and the white disk contained pine nut candies, small walnut cakes, Walnut slices, rose cakes, sugared almonds, mung bean cakes, lily cakes, sweet-scented osmanthus and bayberry are all Soviet-style dim sums, which are extremely delicate.

"Hey, my mother entertained you with good intentions, but you are laughing, so rude!" A Ke kept staring at him, noticed his expression, and couldn't help saying angrily.

Song Qingshu ignored her, but looked at Chen Yuanyuan and said, "Madam, do you know why I'm laughing?"

Chen Yuanyuan went in without knowing, and shook her head in confusion.

Song Qingshu stood up and pointed to a copper incense burner on the coffee table, in the center of which a wisp of green smoke was curling up, "I am the deputy head of the palace guards, and I know a thing or two about sandalwood. The precious sandalwood is just like the one burned in the Empress Dowager's room. It was originally used to calm the mind and calm down, but the lady is now practicing with her hair, so using such precious sandalwood will inevitably fall into the bottom line, as the saying goes. A stick of heart incense is opened in the cave, and the pine is wrinkled and half berry moss', as long as the wife is pious in her heart, she will naturally understand Buddhism, so why borrow something from outside?"

Chen Yuanyuan couldn't help feeling slightly embarrassed. Although the other party spoke politely, there was a strong sense of mockery in his tone. Looking at the cakes and tea carefully prepared by his servants, he felt even more vulgar.Recalling that as one of the eight beauties of the Qinhuai River back then, Chen Yuanyuan dealt with various princes and grandchildren, and would never make such a low-level mistake when dealing with people and things.I didn't expect that as I got older, my taste would fall into the cliché unknowingly.

"Thank you for your advice, my lord. Yuanyuan is wondering why for so many years, he has only a half-knowledge of the Zen principles in the Buddhist scriptures. It turns out that his heart is not sincere." Chen Yuanyuan got up and saluted.

Song Qingshu saw that when she was smiling, her eyes were separated, and when she was sad, she was charming, and he couldn't help but feel pity for her. He quickly stretched out his hands to hold her arms, and gently supported her: "I wonder what Buddhist scriptures Madam usually reads?"

Chen Yuanyuan hadn't had physical contact with a man for many years. When Song Qingshu touched her, her face blushed slightly, and a delicate blush oozes from her smooth, white and greasy skin, like a layer of rouge on white jade. The little girl has only read the Diamond Sutra, the Six Patriarch Altar Sutra, the Ksitigarbha Sutra, and by the way, the 42 Chapter Sutra."

Song Qingshuben asked casually, but he didn't expect to hear the news of the "42 Chapters", and quickly said calmly: "A "Diamond Sutra", half of which talks about the emptiness of sentient beings, and half of which talks about emptiness, is indeed a bit obscure. I understand. The central idea of ​​the "Sixth Patriarch Altar Sutra" is "to see one's nature and become a Buddha". A word of "nature" can confuse many people. All sentient beings are exhausted, Fangzheng Bodhi', although the great wish is great, but it is difficult for people to see hope. As for the "42 Chapters", I just heard that it is easy to understand, and I have never witnessed its content. I don't know if my wife has a collection here. , can you let me watch it next time?"

"My lord is indeed a great talent, and he has such a deep study of Buddhist scriptures." Chen Yuanyuan glanced at Song Qingshu in surprise, then turned around and ordered, "Ake, go to your mother's bed and fetch the "42 Chapters" by your bedside for Mr. Song to read." a bit."

"Oh~" Ah Ke felt dizzy after hearing it, so she hurried to the inner room and took it back quickly.

"Sure enough, it's Zhenglanqi's "42 Chapters"!" Song Qingshu thought to himself, and flipped through it for a while calmly. The other party was suspicious, so he returned the scriptures, "The content is indeed simple and fresh."

Chen Yuanyuan nodded and smiled, "That's right, I think this scripture is the easiest to understand."

Song Qingshu saw that she was wearing a Taoist robe, but was discussing Buddhism with him. He felt a little funny in his heart, continued to talk for a while, and said: "To be honest, the next time I come here is to pick up Princess Ake."

"Hmph! It's obviously your own fault. If you insist on letting me, a daughter, bear the burden, I will never enter the palace anyway." Hearing his words, A Ke's face immediately darkened.

Chen Yuanyuan thought of the infamy she had borne all her life, and she felt the same way: "Mr. Song, I hope you will report back to the prince. I will never agree to A Ke's entry into Beijing."

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"I don't know what you two are worried about?" Song Qingshu showed a puzzled expression, "In my opinion, Princess Ake's visit to the capital will bring benefits but no harm. Why are you so resistant?"

"What do you mean by all benefits without any harm?" A Ke wrinkled her nose and snorted, "Of course it is good for my father, it is good for you, it is good for everyone, but it happens to be good for me. unfavorable."

"Being the emperor's concubine in the palace, maybe one day you can be the mother of the world, what's the disadvantage?" Song Qingshu asked intentionally.

"Hmph, the position of queen may be rare for others, but I, Ake, don't. The main man to marry in this county must be handsome and capable, and the most important thing is that he can only love me for the rest of his life." At this time, A Ke was in high spirits, with a radiance on his face.

Chen Yuanyuan looked at Song Qingshu with some embarrassment, thinking that when she was young, she was wandering in the dust, and in the dead of night, it was inevitable that she would have such a girlish fantasy, but it was a pity that she would wake up from the cruel reality soon, and now she naturally hoped that her daughter could realize her dream. wishes.

"Since you don't want to be the emperor's woman, then it's easy." Song Qingshu wiped his sweat, "Otherwise, I'm really in a difficult situation."

"What do you mean?" A Ke looked at Song Qingshu suspiciously.

Song Qingshu said with a smile: "The princess can rest assured, after you enter the palace, the emperor will only make you a female official, and will never accept you as a concubine."

"How is it possible, she...she is so beautiful, the perverted emperor will definitely let me go to bed when he sees me." A Ke said coyly, rubbing the corner of her clothes with her small hands.

"Uh, actually." Song Qingshu thought for a while, and still planned to tell her the truth, "there are quite a lot of beauties in the palace, and there are several concubines who are as beautiful as the princess, such as Concubine Mi and Concubine Yi. They are beautiful, and compared to the greenness of the princess, they are more feminine."

Chen Yuanyuan looked at him with a strange expression, and thought in her heart: How dare he criticize the emperor's concubine behind his back, that tone... like a guest who used to hang around the Qinhuai River commenting on a brothel girl.

Although Song Qingshu didn't realize that he had committed the crime of disrespect, it was not good to judge another woman in front of two women, so he quickly said: "Of course these are not the key, the main thing is that you are sensitive as the princess, the emperor doesn't care It is convenient for you."