Daoist Abandoned Wisdom

The next day, before Tao Xinian woke up, Yuan Yao had already entered the palace.When Tao Xinian woke up, the sun was shining brightly through the window.He put on his clothes and walked into the courtyard.

Seeing that he was awake, Abo came over bouncingly and asked, "Master Daoist, what do you want to eat?"

Tao Xinian straightened his clothes and said, "You can do whatever you want."

He looked up and saw that Su was still sitting on the roof basking in the sun, his whole body was lazily.

"Su Huan, why don't you go back to Pingcheng?"

Su also said: "I haven't received the reward money yet, so I will never go back. If your family gets the reward money back from the palace today, I will go back on the road."

Tao Xinian thought to himself, if Yuan Yao's booklet was uploaded, it is estimated that there is no reward.

Su also said: "If I can't get the reward, I can accept five taels of gold from his own pocket."

"You have the nerve to say that nothing was left on the road, and it was all paid by the Taoist priest and the great monk. It should add up to several taels of silver!" Abo yelled at Su Huan on the roof.

"If Empress Hu rewarded you with money, wouldn't it be a big loss for me not to get any of it? In short, I have to wait for General Yuan to come back from the palace."

After a while, he said again: "Let me calculate first, how much reward General Yuan can get." After finishing speaking, he took out a few copper coins from his pocket, muttered for a while, and threw the copper coins out.

When the copper coins fell, he looked at the arrangement of several copper coins and said, "It's strange, he is poor and has no money. And..."

"And what?" Tao Xinian asked from below.

"And it seems woe."

"Just talk nonsense!" Abo said, "It's all just going to the palace to return to life, can there be disasters?"

After Tao Xinian heard this, he became uneasy. He knew that Su Huan's fortune-telling was always very accurate.

"Su Huan, I want to go to the palace. You can control ghosts, so follow me. Ah Yao brought a memorial with him today, I'm afraid something will happen to him."

"What?" Abo was startled, "He has nothing to hand over the papers! Who do you want to participate in?"

"About the pagoda."

Su Huan lay back on the roof again, and said, "No hurry, if you want to go, you can go at night. He is also a member of the Yuan clan. He is not a rebellion or a heinous crime, so he will not be punished easily. At most, he will be closed for a while."

Tao Xinian entered the room, rummaged through Yuanyao's room for a while, and found the defense map of Luoyang Palace City.If Yuan Yao hadn't come back after dark, he and Su would go into the palace to have a look.

Yuan Yao went to the palace to return to his command, but the palace officials said that Empress Hu was discussing matters with several ministers, so they waited in the side hall all the time.An hour later, he was finally summoned.

In front of Empress Hu, he did not present the written book first, but presented the documents written by Qu Jia, the king of Gaochang, to Empress Hu.

Not seeing her for half a year, Empress Hu seems to be getting more and more beautiful, like a peony in full bloom.After the death of the first emperor, she quickly got out of the haze of losing her husband. After gaining more power, she lived a better life than before.

"General Yuan, you've worked hard. It's winter again, the road is not easy, is it?"

Yuan Yao replied: "The Empress Dowager Xie is sympathetic, this journey is indeed not easy."

The maid beside Hu Hou took the document from Yuan Yao's hand, Hu Hou stretched out her slender hand to open the document, looked at it for a while, but suddenly frowned, and asked: "General Yuan, when you are waiting in Gaochang Kingdom, what will King Gaochang do?" But do you intend to marry Princess Gaochang to you and marry Dawei?"

Yuan Yao said: "There is such a thing."

"This matter concerns the two countries of Great Wei and Gaochang. Why did you make such a hasty decision on your own?"

Yuan Yao shouldn't decide on his own. The shilling messenger sent the letter back to Luoyang, and then the Northern Wei court made the decision.But he was not happy to do so, he was afraid that the imperial court would really allow this matter.His stay in Gaochang is also a matter of good and no harm to Wei.His status is not noble, if the two countries go to war, he will be an abandoned child.

"I already have someone I love, and I don't want to be Gaochang's son-in-law. Even if the Queen Mother orders, I will never obey."

Empress Hu smiled, and the pearl hairpin on her head swayed lightly, she said: "You do have a backbone, but you should know that it is a felony to deceive the emperor without reporting it!"

The crime of deceiving the emperor can be big or small, and if he is not the son-in-law of Gaochang, it will not be a loss to Wei.He raised his head and said: "This minister is about to report this matter to the Queen Mother. King Gaochang intends to marry the Great Wei. The minister has his own heart and is not the best candidate. Please also ask the Queen Mother to decide this matter with all the ministers."

Hu Hou's red lips parted slightly: "If I say you are the most suitable? General Yuan has already intended to resign and travel around, and it is no problem to go far away."

Yuan Yao was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Please don't make fun of my minister, the Empress Dowager."

"What Aijia said is the truth. King Gaochang wrote that he didn't want his sister to marry far away, and asked the Northern Wei Dynasty to send a man from the clan of the right age to Gaochang. In order to compensate, he is willing to grant this man a large land, with one person under ten thousand."

"Queen Mother, Gaochang is only a vassal state of our Great Wei. Logically speaking, it is reasonable for the princess of Gaochang to marry Luoyang. If the two countries are at war, the princess will be the hostage and can contain Gaochang. On the other hand, our clan of the Wei Kingdom ..."

"Oh?" Empress Hu got off the couch and walked up to Yuan Yao, "General Yuan still wants to teach me what to do?"

"Wei Chen dare not."

"General Yuan, didn't you already intend to resign from office and wander around, and you are usually reticent and unwilling to say more, why are you talking more and more now? Ai's family heard that you went to Dr. Cui's house last night."

"The Queen Mother is really well-informed. I went to Dr. Cui's house just to catch up on the old days. You should know that Dr. Cui is an old friend of my father, King Jingzhao."

Empress Hu raised her eyebrows and said, "General Yuan, I think you still have something to say to Ai's family?"

Yuan Yao knew that now was not the best time, but since it was here, he bit the bullet and acted according to the original plan.

He presented the booklet and said, "Empress Dowager, since the minister left, you have built the Yongning Pagoda regardless of the obstruction of the ministers. You recalled the late emperor's condolences. That is the empress dowager's deep affection for the late emperor. I have nothing to say. But the late emperor When he was alive, he was diligent, thrifty and pragmatic, opposed extravagance and waste, especially controlled the construction of Luoyang Buddhist temples and pagodas. Now the pagoda has been half built, and the wood is done. I want to ask the Queen Mother to save some money on the decoration of the pagoda, so as to comfort the spirit of the late emperor. Now... ..."

"Okay, the first emperor wanted to scare the Ai family, and the Ai family didn't know about this?"

Yuan Yao raised his head and saw a shadow behind the bead curtain, like a monk, and couldn't help but feel a thump in his heart.

"General Yuan, originally you came here today, and Ai's family was going to reward you. But you are deceiving the emperor and bringing out the late emperor to scare Ai's family. Ai's family thinks that it is more than enough to punish you for the crime of disrespect!"

Yuan Yao bowed his head and remained silent. It seemed that he could not escape being convicted today.

"Because you are a descendant of my Yuan family, you will not be sent to Dali Temple. The Ai family punished you to go to the Forbidden Palace to pray for the late emperor for seven days. You think about the late emperor so much, and I believe that praying for the late emperor is not a punishment for General Yuan."

Yuan Yao saluted and thanked him, and said: "The minister accepts the crime, but please think twice about the pagoda." After finishing speaking, he stood up and followed the palace people to the outside of the palace.

Sitting on the couch, Hou Hou watched Yuan Yao being taken away by the palace servants, and threw the booklet aside.

"Wei Xin, do you think the late emperor would hate the Ai family?"

A young monk came out from behind the curtain. He was handsome and tall. If he hadn't lost his hair, he must be a lovely gentleman.

He said: "The empress dowager is too worried. The first emperor has passed away, so naturally she will not hate the empress dowager. After a person dies, there will be Yin officials in the underworld to lead the way to hell. After reincarnation, they will not remember anything."

Hu Hou's mouth hooked into a smile: "It's true, he loved me, how could he hate me?"