The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Liu Tong handed over all the affairs of Lu to his eldest son and confidantes, and devoted himself to resettling immigrants in Dongying.One day, there were letters from the State of Lu, all of which were ordinary things, and his wife even sent a clever small Western pocket watch.Liu Tong opened his pocket watch and saw that there was a piece of paper hidden in it, folded squarely; a strategy was written on the paper, which was written in Zhu Tong's handwriting.

Liu Tong opened his eyes wide after seeing it, took a few breaths, and ordered someone to send a letter back without hesitation: "I like the pocket watch my wife sent me very much. I understand the meaning behind it. It's very good." up.Nai burned a note casually and said, "Tell my wife, Xiaoliu is a blessed one." Liu Tong's glory has not diminished in the past half a century.The last time he went back to the country of Lu to marry a daughter, he gave a concubine a few drops of rain and dew by the way. The concubine gave him a new young son, who was three or four months older than Prince Lu's son.

As everyone knows, this time it was not Zhu Tong's idea.

After the gourd monk arrived in the state of Lu, he immediately realized that the king of Lu was just a puppet, and there was no benefit to follow him, so he quietly found Zhu Tong and surrendered to the Liu family.Zhu Tong knew his details, and sent him away with only three words "I know".The gourd monk saw that Mr. Zhu had obviously never believed in him, so he came up with a plan.

Today, the youngest son of King Lu and Aunt Liu will be full moon.Very young children all look about the same.It's better to find a monk or Taoist priest, just say that the child has a disaster, and send him to a temple or Taoist temple to raise him for a year or so.When the child came out of the temple, his appearance would have changed a long time ago, no one would be able to tell if it was a child from the Liu family.The future King Lu will be the seed of the Liu family.

Zhu Tong listened and nodded and said: "It's a steal." Then he looked at the calabash monk, "It seems that you really have General Liu in your heart." The calabash monk hastily said a series of compliments.

Zhu Tong then approached Liu Tong's eldest son, Liu Shu, to discuss it, and said: "This plan is not bad, but there is only a huge disadvantage, that is, the child to be exchanged cannot be from the Liu family, but can only be a child of an ordinary family or a loyal servant of the Liu family. children."

Liu Shu said: "Why can't it belong to the Liu family? Wouldn't it be like going to the Lu country for an outsider if it was someone else's?"

Zhu Tong said with a smile: "Young Master, go back and talk to Lingtang, and see if Lingtang has any ideas."

Sure enough, Liu Shu went back to discuss with his mother. Madam Liu waved her hands again and again: "Nonsense! Your father added a new brother to you last time. Could it be him? ; In the future, if your father does not take advantage of the situation, it is unknown to let him become the king of Zhenlu. With your status, it is impossible to save your life."

Liu Shu didn't care and said, "The military power is in my hands, what can he do?"

Mrs. Liu said: "You are always inferior to your father. What if he wants to hand over the military power to others? Don't think that Mr. Zhu is helping you now, it is because your father ordered him to help you."

Liu Shu said: "I think he treats me better than my father."

Mrs. Liu just shook her head: "You don't know." Then she said, "The person who came up with the idea has bad intentions. He just wanted to cause discord between you father and son."

Liu Shu laughed and said, "Mother thinks too much. Anyway, that person can't see my old man at all, and he can't write to him. Is it me or Mr. Zhu who wrote to him in the end? Just change it." Nai Hui Go out to see Zhu Tong.

Zhu Tong heard the people below shouting "Uncle Liu is here" and didn't even move his eyebrows. He just immersed himself in reviewing the documents, and said in his mouth: "Uncle, you have already asked me?"

Liu Shu said: "You literati have a lot of twists and turns in your stomach! My mother said, what you said is very true, write to me later, just say 'replace it with ordinary children'."

Zhu Tong sighed: "Master, you should also be careful, Mo Chengri only spends time in the barracks."

Liu Shu snorted, "It's a troubled time. Although I don't have much ambition, I know that whoever wins the barracks wins Lu!"

As soon as Zhu Tong heard this word, he couldn't help lowering his head and rolling his eyes: "These words sound like the tone of that Mr. Zhou Ji who came back from the Red Bone Story."

"It was he who said it. He nagged me for a long time when I was in Luzhou last time." Liu Shu said, "You and the gentlemen are in charge of the government affairs anyway." He patted Zhu Tong's shoulder with a smile, and said nauseously , "Zhu Qing, you've worked hard~~" Zhu Tong glanced at his hand and slapped it away.Liu Shu was not annoyed, and ran away whistling.

A few days later, Zhu Tong wrote the note and stuffed it among Mrs. Liu's presents to Liu Tong and sent it over.Unexpectedly, the letter sent back by Liu Tong still asked his own newborn son to replace his grandson's name.Zhu Tong was thinking about it, when someone came to report that Mrs. Liu had sent a confidant woman to see her, and Zhu Tong ordered her to come in.Knowing who the visitor is at a glance, Zhu Tong hastily stood up and bowed: "I've seen Madam."

Mrs. Liu nodded: "Mr. Zhu's reputation is well-deserved." Nai sat down and looked at Zhu Tong and said, "Look, Mr. Zhu, what should I do?"

Zhu Tong said with a smile: "Madam, don't worry, the general just forgot about this part."

Mrs. Liu sneered, "He didn't think much of it. Shu'er and Xiao Liu are both his sons anyway, so he doesn't mind."

Zhu Tong said: "The sixth master has just been born, and it is too late to raise him. The most important thing to raise this child is the wet nurse, maid, and sir. The Supreme Emperor values ​​civility over martial arts. Since he is the eldest grandson of the Supreme Emperor, according to his grandfather's will, he is the most important. Good. Let this young man learn to read and write early on, just fall in love with Ci Fu, and don't get involved in military history. Only this matter must not be disclosed to the second aunt, so she will teach the young man that he must never get involved in martial arts. If she knows The son is the younger brother, so I won't be afraid."

Mrs. Liu nodded again and again: "Mr. still thinks farther!"

The plan was decided.Mrs. Liu knew that the Empress Dowager believed in Buddhism, so she ordered people to go outside to find eminent monks who could pretend.

But he said that the gourd monk, although he was favored by the king of Lu, was just a Qing guest, and he didn't have any guards with him.That day when he was wandering in the street, he suddenly had a jolt and felt a chill, just like when he met an assassin in Jin country that day, he was busy looking around, but he didn't see any suspicious person.He screamed in his heart that it was not good, the more he couldn't see it, the more powerful he was.He was too hasty when he left Taiyuan, and he didn't have time to explain to King Jin.King Jin has placed spies around the princes of each family, and King Lu is probably indispensable.King Lu was a no-brainer, so Bao Buqi casually told others that he had gone to Jin to work as a spy.If the people of the King of Jin knew about it, he would not be able to clean himself up by jumping into the Yellow River!

He rolled his eyes and hurried back home.Nai picked up his pen and wrote a long letter to King Jin.He said, that day, the people of King Lu mistakenly thought he was one of his own, and sent him a message, saying that King Lu had something urgent to call him back to the country of Lu.He was thinking, how could he miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?So he rushed to the state of Lu in a hurry.Now we have received a very important piece of news.Later, he wrote down the idea he gave Liu Tong, regardless of whether Liu Tong used it or not.The letter was just placed on the desk casually, and he pretended to go to sleep.When I got up the next morning, I saw that the letter was still in the same place, but I changed my mind a little bit, settled down to Xinlai, and then handed over the letter to the post office and sent it to Jin State, and entrusted a good friend to forward it to King Jin.

It's a pity that this letter was lost halfway.Zhu Tong knew that the gourd monk was not an ordinary villain, so the special envoy secretly stared at him.This person has no relatives and no reason, who should he send letters to?The letter was intercepted as soon as it left the city, and sent directly to Zhu Tong's desk.Zhu Tong hurriedly invited Liu Shu to come and see.Liu Shu immediately wanted to draw his sword and kill the spy.Zhu Tong smiled and said: "Don't worry. The uncle only read the meaning of his letter. He thought that he came to Lu in a hurry without explaining to the King of Jin. If you were the King of Jin, would you let him go?" Liu Shu also thought about it. Reason, that's all.It's just that I can't help but tell Mrs. Liu when I go back.Mrs. Liu then complained to King Jin.

However, the people sent by the King of Jin waited for many days, but they never waited until the superiors changed their minds. On the contrary, after urging him once, they knew that the prince had never let this person go because of that letter.The gourd monk felt the coolness again this day, so he found an excuse to stay in Lu Wang's mansion and not come out.That's all for three or four days, but on the seventh or eighth day, there will always be times when the King of Lu asks him to go out to do errands.

This day, I just went to the shop to collect rent, and the gourd monk never came back.Just as the renter of the last family had been collected, the calabash monk had just left the house, and several people were fighting in the street, so they ordered people to go over and shout.The ones he brought out today are all those who are used to bullying others, and they all like to do this kind of deceitful things.Zong Lun couldn't go over to kick and curse, and just stood happily, no one was paying attention to the crowd watching more and more people around.Suddenly, out of nowhere, a big man wearing a bamboo hat flashed by.Before the calabash monk noticed something was wrong and shouted out, he drew his knife and stabbed him, piercing the man to death.The man flashed into the crowd and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

King Lu was shocked, but he didn't have to guess who did it, so he hurriedly consulted with the Queen Mother.The queen mother said: "It is obvious that the king of Jin heard the news and sent someone to vent his anger. Zuo is just a villain. If he dies, he will die." But the king of Lu refused, and ordered someone to call Zhu Tong to find the assassin.Zhu Tong agreed, what to do when he left Prince Lu's mansion, he didn't pay attention to King Lu's words at all.

The assassin just fled to a secluded place to change his clothes and take off his bamboo hat, he didn't even dare to go back to the inn.He slept on the street for two days, and never heard that anyone wanted to arrest him.So he boldly went back to the inn to rest for two days, paid the bill generously and went back to the state of Jin, and bought some earthenware before leaving.

King Lu saw that the gourd monk was being assassinated in the street, thinking that both his uncles, King Qi and King Yan, wanted his life, so he was even more afraid to leave the house, and he was terrified all day long.It rained a few nights, and there were a few abnormal noises in the sound of wind and rain.King Lu fell ill from fright.The mansion was in a hurry again, with people asking for doctors and medicines, praying to gods and worshiping Buddha, and criticizing the world.

This afternoon, the Empress Dowager was kneeling in the Small Buddha Hall to recite scriptures, when she suddenly heard the sound of wooden fish outside, she hurriedly sent people out to check.Several women went to check outside and said they didn't see anyone.The queen mother was puzzled.After a while, there was the sound of wooden fish again, but no one was there after going out to check.So there are three.That night, a maid beside the Queen Mother heard from the guards in the mansion that a monk had knocked on the wooden fish at the east gate of the palace for half a day.The queen mother couldn't help standing up: "The courtyard wall is deep, how can the sound of ordinary monks' wooden fish come from outside the mansion? This monk must have the way!" She ordered that if the monk came again tomorrow, he would come back to her quickly.In the afternoon of the next day, the Queen Mother heard the sound of wooden fish again.After a while, guards came back and forth, saying that the monk came to knock on the wooden fish again.The Empress Dowager orders you to come into the mansion.

The monk was arranged by Mrs. Liu; Zhu Tong sent someone to knock on the wooden fish outside the small Buddhist hall—it was Jia Cong's gossip about the monk with a scarlet head in the early years, so he borrowed it.Mrs. Liu has been picking this monk for a long time, she is very good at pretending to be gods and tricks, and is good at coaxing people. The Queen Mother believed in him in just two or three hours, and insisted on sending the youngest son to a temple to be raised until his first birthday.King Lu heard that the youngest son was too lucky, so he turned against Lao Tzu. These days, he was sick to protect the youngest son from disasters, and wished he could send his son away immediately.

Princess Lu naturally refused.It's just that Liu Tong is not in the country of Lu, and Liu Shu doesn't care about such trivial things in the backyard, and she doesn't have a biological brother, so she has nothing to do with the mother and son, so she can only guard her son tightly, not allowing others to come closer.

Her nurse said, "Why don't you ask your wife to go?"

Lu Wangfei said lightly: "She is not my own mother. She is happy to obey the queen mother's words. How can she care about my life and death. No one can rely on me, only myself. If you dare to touch my son, kill me first Say it again!"

After hearing this, the Empress Dowager said: "It's nothing, she has to sleep anyway? How many days can a strong person hold it?"

Sure enough, Princess Lu guarded her son for three days, and seeing that no one came to snatch the child, she went to the next room to lie down for a while.After she slept for half an hour, the queen mother sent someone to take the little prince and then left, staying with the little prince and watching the servants who couldn't use half of their strength.

When the young son entered the temple, Mrs. Liu replaced him with three other nurses who practiced Buddhism, so the ones prepared in the palace were no longer needed.The queen mother didn't think there was anything wrong with this matter.Princess Lu wanted to go to the temple to take back her son, but no one told her where the little prince was, so she kicked down the door of the small Buddhist hall of the Queen Mother, pointed at her and said: "If there is something wrong with my son, I will definitely I can't spare your family!" Turning around and leaving.The queen mother was so shocked that she was speechless for a long time, and then she cursed: "Irreverent shrew!"

From this day on, Princess Lu will no longer live in the palace, and will lead people to search temples one by one to find her son.King Lu's illness is getting better gradually.The queen mother hurriedly recited the Buddha and said: "It can be seen that what the master said is very true! This child has too much luck and hurt his father. My son, you just don't worry. The grand master said that if you stay in the temple until you are one year old, the Buddhist family will replace you. He restrained his momentum, not only would he not hurt his relatives any more, but he could also encourage them!"

King Lu sighed: "I hope so." Nai smiled and said, "If he really has a very good fortune, he may be able to make a big profit if he doesn't guarantee it."

The Queen Mother chanted the Buddha again, and said happily: "Isn't it! You are the eldest son of a saint, and he is your eldest son." The mother and son looked at each other for a long time, knowing each other, secretly happy.

On this day, Princess Lu led a group of girls and daughters-in-law to set off early in the morning and arrived at the Kaiyuan Temple in the west of the city. After searching for half a day from front to back, she did not see the baby. Please don't blame Master." But he left some incense money and left.

The abbot said: "It's already past noon, the almsgiver might as well stay in the temple and eat some fast food."

Princess Lu smiled wryly and said: "I have disturbed the masters for a long time, I really have no face to eat the vegetarian meal of the master. It will be better to go outside for a shot later."

The abbot folded his palms together: "That's great! I understand what a loving mother thinks, and I don't mind having a meal."

Princess Lu saw that the old abbot was very sincere, so she stayed in the temple to eat fast.After eating a few mouthfuls, tears came down again: "Poor my child, I haven't seen my mother's face for so many days."

A little monk beside him said in a low voice: "If someone sincerely wants to guard against the female benefactor and leads people to and fro like this every day, how can it not alarm people?" Princess Lu suddenly looked up at him, then The little monk ran away with a whimper.