The Warm Jade of the Red Chamber

When the delegation from Qianxiang Kingdom came to visit, Emperor Chunyou held a banquet in the palace.

In this kind of communication between countries, even if there has been a lot of trouble before, this kind of superficial work will always be done.

Emperor Chunyou and the Empress sat at the head. The Supreme Emperor was not present because he was unwell. In recent years, the Supreme Emperor has become more and more old, after all, he is so old.

Headed by the crown prince, several princes are also present. Standing together, the spirit of Minjing County Wang Zhuangwei seems to be much worse than others.

Emperor Chunyou frowned and glanced at Zhuang Wei, but the occasion was wrong, so he didn't say anything.

This son, since what happened to Jia Yuanchun, has not been able to marry a high-ranking daughter-in-law he likes. It seems that he has finally lost his desire to compete for favor and has become promiscuous, eating wine, listening to operas, and taking care of children Concubine, life is really absurd.Emperor Chunyou wanted to reprimand him, but this son had already grown crooked from the root, so it would be better to dawdle like this than to teach him to repent and "move forward".Just looking at his sluggish appearance, his face was a little morbidly pale, he was a little worried after all, thinking he had time to ask the imperial doctor who asked Zhuang Wei for a safe pulse, no matter what, he was his son after all.

Naturally, Zhuang Ye was going to attend this kind of occasion, and he was actually quite happy to hang around in front of the Qianxiang Kingdom Mission. The envoy of Qianxiang Kingdom's face suddenly became a little ugly.

Emperor Chunyou almost laughed when he saw it, his younger brother, no matter how old he was, still had the temper of a child.

Zhuang Yu and the three twin brothers all followed behind Zhuang Ye, showing the same high-spirited look. The four of them swaggered past almost in the same posture. Seeing in the eyes of familiar people, they couldn't stop laughing. , although Zhuang Ye and Zhuang Yu's father and son have always been strong, they don't look at the sky with such superficial eyes. It can be seen that this is deliberately narrow.But it's no wonder, when Qian Xiangguo came to commit crimes, the idea was to let Zhuang Ye go and never return, but unfortunately his strength was not as good, so he was beaten up, can you blame Zhuang Ye for not giving them face?

But in the eyes of the people of Qianxiang country, this is blatant contempt and provocation, especially the two children behind Zhuang Ye, who are obviously still young, but still want to imitate Zhuang Ye's appearance, holding their hands behind their backs Dudu's little belly walked across in front of them like a crab.This way, in the eyes of many people in Dajing, it looks angry and funny, but in the eyes of Qianxiang people, it seems that even a child can ignore them.

But now Qianxiang Country's national strength is not one or two points weaker than Dajing's, and the strength of the navy at sea is even worse. Even if they want to be tough, their backbones can't stand up.

Princess Yimeng and Prince Fu Sheng, who are the empress dowagers of the Qianxiang Kingdom, stood at the front of the delegation of the Qianxiang Kingdom. When Zhuang Ye and his son walked past them, they were the first to receive their squint. vision.

Zhuang Ye and Zhuang Yu didn't avoid Princess Yimeng because she was a woman. Qianxiang's national conditions were different from those of Dajing, and Yimeng was the empress dowager, so she couldn't be treated as an ordinary woman.

It's just that Princess Yimeng seems to be a bit out of place, her brows are light, she doesn't care too much about Zhuang Ye and his son, but Prince Fu Sheng's palms hanging by his side involuntarily tightened, unable to hide the anger in his heart, but he I can't hold it back, Qianxiang Kingdom doesn't have the strength to fight against Dajing at all now, so I can't get out of this tone, if he conflicts with the generals of the Dajing Dynasty because of his so-called dignity and pride, it will be his own trap The country is injustice.

In the eyes of Zhuang Ye and his son, it was normal for Fu Sheng to react like this, and it would not lead to strong hostility towards Fu Sheng because of this, but it was inevitable to take precautions secretly.

Zhuang Yu, on the other hand, took another look at Princess Yimeng. The appearance of Princess Yimeng made Zhuang Yu feel a little embarrassed when he knew the reason. Hakama got involved.

In the past few years in Dajing, Princess Yimeng has been quite low-key, which is also related to the court's restriction of her social circle.After all, Dajing is a social situation in which men are superior to women and pays attention to the defense of men and women. How can men make friends with Princess Yimeng?As for women, men don't want their wives and daughters to learn from the women of Qianxiang Kingdom. Not only do they want to be equal to men, they even want to be the rooster in the morning, so they don't like their female relatives to associate with Princess Yimeng.

Simply put, Princess Yimeng doesn't like socializing, but is very interested in Buddhism and morality. She often seeks out monks and asks questions. She even opened a Zen restaurant in Beijing, where eminent monks or Taoist priests are specially invited to give lectures on Buddhism. On the Road.

Dajing officials originally thought that Princess Yimeng had other plans for opening the Zen Tower. After all, as the empress dowager of a country—the future empress, she doesn’t want to benefit her own country.However, after a secret investigation, it was found that there was really nothing wrong with this Zen building. Even the eminent monks and priests invited were all famous in the Dajing Dynasty, and the Buddhist principles and morals they preached were all Persuading people to do good deeds does not encourage them to become monks, let alone accept those who have a mind to hide from the world because of unsatisfactory life. Only those who have the root of wisdom will be taken back to their respective temples and Taoist temples. Therefore, because Zen Generally speaking, the number of monks who become monks in Weilou is not too many, and it does not affect anything.

That's why the Chanwei Building can be kept open like this, but there are always people watching in the dark.

Princess Yimeng often goes in and out of the Chanwei Building, and she is not as restrained as a local woman, she does not hide her visits very much, and there are quite a few people who have seen her.Princess Yimeng became more and more obsessed with Taoism, and even invited a Taoist nun to go back to ask for advice every day. Seeing that if she hadn't assumed the status of the emperor's daughter, she might have gone out to practice as a monk.

Just because she couldn't get what she asked for, she was extra lenient and kind to those who came to the Chanwei Building to talk about Buddhism and Taoism to those who wanted to become monks.

Once a middle-aged man came to the eminent monk and asked to be shaved and become a monk. His wife and children followed behind and complained that he was indifferent. Qian Liang settled down and told them not to cut off the man's way out of the mortal world.In the end, the eminent monk still did not accept the man, but the man ended up finding a small temple outside Beijing to become a monk. His wife and children got a thousand taels of silver, bought a house and land, and it was considered safe.But within half a year, the man couldn't bear the hardships of the temple, and ran home, Princess Yimeng never asked their family for the silver taels, the family got so much silver for nothing.Since then, this incident has continued to happen. Princess Yimeng has given out silver taels several times, but those people came here with the idea of ​​making money for nothing. They were cheated several times, but Princess Yimeng never did it again. This kind of thing, if it happened like this, messed up the atmosphere of eminent monks talking about Buddhism and Taoists talking about Taoism in the Zen Taste Building, this is what Princess Yimeng can't bear.

But on that day, two young men had a dispute in the Chanwei Tower. One insisted on becoming a monk, and even the eminent monk from Wutai Mountain had already let go of his promise to accept him as an apprentice, but the other was clinging to his hand, crying and crying.

Princess Yimeng couldn't help but stepped forward to persuade and encourage them, but because of this, she recognized two teenagers. The one who wanted to become a monk was Li Ran, and the one who was crying was Jia Baoyu.

Princess Yimeng didn't know why, but she felt happy when she saw Li Ran and Jia Baoyu. The men and women in Qianxiang country were not too defensive. Although she was a little restrained when she dreamed of Dajing, she met someone who liked her and talked together. Today she is not too taboo.

Li Ran was going to become a monk, Princess Yimeng felt happy, and felt that Li Ran should have taken this path.

As for Jia Baoyu, the feeling of Princess Yimeng is much more complicated. I always feel that there is something hidden in this young man that I have been pursuing for a long time but I don't know what it is.

After several contacts, Princess Yimeng felt more and more that Jia Baoyu was the key, the key to whether she could get the Dao, but she couldn't figure it out, it seemed that someone deliberately erected a hard stone tablet in front of the truth to block it. She caught her sight, but she was helpless, she was thinking a lot, and naturally she was out of her mind.

When Prince Fu Sheng saw Princess Yimeng like this, he didn't say much, he just turned his head away. It is impossible for him and Princess Yimeng to have any brother-sister relationship in public or private, so naturally he wouldn't rush to get along with Yimeng. Princess Meng is close, and the siblings often can't speak three words a day, and sometimes they can't even meet face to face.

Prince Fu Sheng has stayed in Qianxiang Kingdom for the past few years. Although he does not have the name of a crown prince, he has the reality of a crown prince. It is really unwilling to ask him to go back to the country and return his power in peace.

So this time he begged the queen to agree to come to Dajing together, but in fact he wanted to marry a daughter of Dajing's clan as his concubine, so as to gain Dajing's support and help him win the throne.

But when he arrived in Dajing, Fu Sheng found that his younger sister had no one to teach her in the past few years, and she was not proficient in government affairs. The throne of Xiangguo, who else?

The banquet was about to start, and the queen sent a maid to take Princess Yimeng to the side of the female family. Although Princess Yimeng's status was equivalent to that of a prince, she could do as the Romans did, and there was no reason for Princess Yimeng to sit among a bunch of big men.

In the past few years in Dajing, Yimeng has gotten used to this, but Fu Sheng's eyes showed joy. With Dajingchao's attitude, he obviously has a greater advantage than Yimeng.

Therefore, during the banquet, Fu Sheng talked and laughed freely, and his words were humorous, which left a good impression on the clan officials of the Dajing Dynasty.

But Yimeng, staring at Daiyu at this moment, refused to make mistakes.