Remembrance of Tianyin's Adventure

The author has something to say: in time for the May [-]st holiday, you can have time to modify it, and finish it early.

When Zhan Zhao returned to Kaifeng Mansion with Gongsun Ce and others, Bao Zheng was still waiting for him with a lamp in his study.Zhan Zhao wants to report Guo Zhongqing's confession and Lian Caiyun's body into the coffin to Bao Zheng in detail, but Bao Zheng stops him.Bao Zheng only asked him to briefly describe the case, and then ordered him to go back to his room to rest.

After Zhan Zhao took Cheng Yin away, Gongsun Ce told Bao Zheng everything, including the scene where Zhan Zhao met Lian Caiyun.Although Bao Zheng has a resolute temperament, he can't help feeling deeply sorry for this pair of lovers who have no destiny.

Zhan Zhao sent Cheng Yin to the guest room, helped him take off his rain-soaked clothes, and dried him with hot water.The continuous busyness made Zhan Zhao's breathing more disordered, and suddenly his throat tightened, causing a violent cough.Zhan Zhao hurriedly supported the table and sat down, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, and covered his mouth.Cheng was shocked to see a few patches of dark red on the snow-white handkerchief, Huo Di pulled Zhan Zhao's hand, and saw that the handkerchief was stained with bright red again, his little hand couldn't help trembling with fright, tears rolled in his eyes: "Blood... Why is there so much blood?" Zhan Zhao frowned, and quickly put away the handkerchief.

Cheng Yin hugged Zhan Zhao's waist with both hands, buried his head in his chest, and cried, "Brother, don't scare me!" The little face pressed against Zhan Zhao's chest suddenly felt a scalding heat, which made him stand up in shock. He straightened his body, widened his eyes and said, "Brother, do you have a fever?"

"It's okay, I'll be fine tomorrow." Zhan Zhao held his thin arm and said, "It's you, don't catch a cold." He got up and found out the dry monk's clothes and shoes from the bag Cheng Yin brought, and helped them one by one He puts on.

Cheng thought that even his sister had never had the opportunity to take care of him like this, so sad for a moment, and shed a lot of tears, and suddenly thought of something, he took Zhan Zhao's busy hand and said, "Brother! Since that fortune teller is so profound Spells, maybe he can bring my sister back to life? And my master, and Grandpa Situ, and..."

Zhan Zhao hadn't thought about these things, but he couldn't hold extravagant hopes, took Cheng Yin's little hand, sat down beside the bed and said, "Do you know how many people in the world have lost their loved ones just like you?" They also have longing, also have reluctance, and long for the dead to be resurrected! But if everyone gets what they want, wouldn’t the world be in chaos?" Holding Cheng Yin's shoulders, he said, "I know, these days have been hard for you. You have bid farewell to your only family member twice at a young age, and it is inevitable to be sad. But now that your sister has been buried in the ground, everything has been settled, and you should go back to Xiangguo Temple to practice in peace."

Cheng Yin lowered his head aggrievedly and said: "Cheng Yin also knows that Buddhists should get rid of all emotions and six desires, but I...but I just can't forget Master, I can't forget my sister..."

"If you can't forget it, don't forget it!" Zhan Zhao stroked Cheng Yin's head and said, "Brother hopes that you will not only miss your own master, but also respect other people's masters; not only miss your own sister, but also care about other people's sisters. Forget, you are a monk, pretending in your heart that you are a sentient being!"

Cheng Yin stood up, clasped his hands together, held his head high and said, "Cheng Yin swears to the Buddha, to his master and sister, and to his elder brother: in this life, we must take it as our mission to transform all living beings!" Wiping away the tears from his face, Cheng Yin said : "From now on, Cheng Yin's tears will no longer be shed for himself, but for all sentient beings!"

"Good Cheng Yin!" Zhan Zhao nodded and said, "This is the great compassion!"

"It's on fire! It's on fire!" A loud shout in the distance interrupted the conversation between the two, and the voice seemed to come from the woodshed.Zhan Zhao asked Cheng Yin to stay in the room obediently, and rushed to the fire scene by himself.

When he came to the front, he saw that the woodshed had caught fire.Under the command of the dynasty, all the government servants were carrying wooden barrels and brooms to fight back and forth.

Zhan Zhao hurriedly asked Wang Chao, "Where is your lord?"

Wang Chao said: "I'm still reviewing the case files in the study. With Zhang Long and the others protecting me, Mr. Zhan doesn't have to worry."

Zhan Zhao discovered that the fire started from inside the firewood house. Although it was fierce, it was damp after the rain, and the spread was not widespread. Besides, there was nothing important in the firewood house. It can be seen that the arsonists had no intention of attacking east and west, murdering Bao save.

Before Zhan Zhao could ask about the cause of the fire, several women had already been rescued from the woodshed.It's just that the method of rescue is very strange.If there is a fire on weekdays, once the trapped people see life, they will rush out of the fire first.But today these women were dragged out by the yamen servants, some even insisted on resisting, so the yamen servants had to beat her unconscious and forcefully carried her out.

In this way, it took a lot of effort to rescue all the people in the woodshed.Those who were rescued were all women in white clothes covered with white gauze, and there were dozens of them.

Zhan Zhao recognized these women, they were Tong Yun's handmaidens.After being escorted back to the government office that day, Bao Zheng thought that they were all victims, and he would not pursue the crimes they committed with Tong Yun, so he placed everyone in the idle room of the government office. They will be sent home one by one.

Zhan Zhao asked all the women, "Who lit the woodshed? Why did this person put you to death?" Everyone just lowered their heads to avoid Zhan Zhao's gaze, and no one answered.

Zhan Zhao looked at them in amazement and said, "Could it be that you set the fire yourself?" Everyone seemed to be touched, but they remained silent.

"Why?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "You were innocently disfigured and became slaves to the witch. You have already suffered so much, but now you are finally rescued. It is the reward of suffering, why commit suicide?"

A woman finally said: "The pain is the reward? Ever since the day we were disfigured, we have only suffered and no joy!" Weeping, "Master Bao is a good official. He said he would give us travel expenses so that we can go home and be reunited." Looking at his own face, he said, "But Lord Zhan! How can we go home like this? Parents will be sad, brothers will be sad, and folks will hide us like devils..."

"If it's just like this!" Another woman said: "My parents are weak and sick. For many years, I have been relying on me to mend clothes for others to barely survive. Now my face is ruined like this. Whose clothes Will you let me mend it?" Weeping loudly, "If I don't go back, my parents will starve to death; if I go back, my parents will also starve to death!"

A woman continued: "I have been engaged since I was a child. If I hadn't fallen into the hands of a witch, I would have been married long ago. But now I have become a ghost and a ghost. If I go back, how can my husband's family accept me again? At that time, where will the faces of parents be put? How can I live with the face?"

Another woman said: "My parents died early. Since I was six years old, I followed my three sisters to work for my brother and sister-in-law. If I don't work, I will starve and be beaten by my sister-in-law. My brother is cruel. Vicious, he sold all three older sisters into a brothel one after another. If I hadn’t been captured by the witch, I would have been sold too. How can I go back to such a world?”

All the maidservants complained to Zhan Zhao one after another, crying with sorrow and sorrow.They did nothing wrong, but suffered great suffering for no reason; they were still so young, and they were not accepted by the world just because their appearance was destroyed.Although the world is big, they don't know where to go!Zhan Zhao felt sympathy for them, but besides comforting them, he really didn't know what else he could do for them.

When Zhan Zhao returned to Cheng Yin's room, he saw that he was asleep on the table, so he stepped forward to pick him up and put him lightly on the bed.Looking back and looking around, the trainee cool breeze blows into the window with the cold air after the rain. He hurried to the window, closed the window firmly, and went back to the bed, took off Cheng Yin's monk's shoes, and fetched the thin quilt He covered it, so he was relieved.Unexpectedly, after a little slack, he felt dizzy for a while, his whole body had no more strength, so he simply leaned on the edge of the bed and sat beside Cheng Yin.The shadows of the candlelight lit up Cheng Yin's childish sleeping face, making him look colder and more lonely.Zhan Zhaosi thinks about it, and always feels that there is still something that his brother is not good enough for. If Caiyun is still alive, with her gentleness and delicateness, she will definitely take care of Cheng Yin meticulously.

After extinguishing the candle, Zhan Zhao walked out of Cheng Yin's room, just after he closed the door, he saw Gongsun Ce approaching, and asked in a deep voice, "The night is getting deeper, why don't Zhan's guards go to bed?"

Zhan Zhao was slightly surprised, and looked back: "Chengyin just fell asleep..."

Gongsun Ce sighed: "If Guard Zhan can devote half of his attention to taking care of Cheng Yin to taking care of himself, I won't have to worry so much!"

Zhan Zhao smiled apologetically, bowed his head and remained silent.

"Aren't you going back to the room with me?" Gongsun Ce walked all the way, and Zhan Zhao followed silently. When he walked to Zhan Zhao's bedroom, he saw a bowl of fragrant noodles in clear soup placed on the table, and hot mist flowed from the bowl. It rises from the air, making the whole room feel warm.Zhan Zhao knew at a glance that Gongsun Ce cooked the noodles himself, and felt very sorry, pointing to the two plates of pastries on the table, he said, "There are still a lot of pastries here, sir, why do you have to cook it yourself?"

Gongsun Ce said with a smile, "What? With the desserts from the two princesses, the guard Zhan will dislike my culinary skills?"

Zhan Zhao's cheeks were slightly flushed, and he lowered his eyes and said, "Sir, you made fun of me." As he spoke, he sat down with Gongsun Ce.

Gongsun Ce restrained his smile, and said seriously: "You have something important to do, I won't stop you, but you have to take care of your own health. You were trapped in the Tianyin sect's forbidden area, and you haven't eaten for many days. After being seriously injured, you woke up In less than a day, if you are so exhausted after running around like this, if you catch the wind and cold again, wouldn't it be even more difficult to recover from this wind and rain?" Said, put three fingers on the Zhan Zhaomai gate, fingertips touched With his scorching body temperature, his face instantly became gloomy.

Zhan Zhao smiled lightly, and comforted him, "Sir, don't worry, I have profound skills, and nothing will happen."

"No matter how strong your skills are, you can't stand your tossing!" Gongsun Ce stood up and said, "First change the wet clothes, and then eat the noodles to drive away the cold. When the medicine is ready, I will send someone to bring it to you. Go to bed and rest immediately after taking the medicine, and within three days, you are not allowed to leave the government office again!" Not allowed to question Zhan Zhao, he sighed, turned and left.

Taking off his wet and cold official uniform, Zhan Zhao sat at the table and picked up some noodles with chopsticks.The light noodle fragrance comes to the nostrils with a warm air, which is very refreshing.But after entering the mouth, I suddenly felt a rapid heartbeat, chest tightness, and the food in my mouth was hard to swallow.Thinking of Gongsun Ce's hard work cooking noodles for him late at night, he reluctantly ate a few mouthfuls.After a long time, seeing that there was still a lot of noodles left in the bowl, I wanted to eat another bite, but I couldn't swallow it no matter what.

Gongsun Ce was finally worried about Zhan Zhao, and delivered the medicine himself, followed by another person, Lin Xiaofu, a servant of the mansion, about eighteen or nineteen years old, not tall, but quite pleasing, everyone in the mansion Call him Xiaofuzi.

When Gongsun Ce saw the noodles in Zhan Zhao's bowl, and saw his increasingly haggard face, he couldn't help feeling distressed, and sighed: "If you can't take it down, don't eat it, just drink the medicine!"

Zhan Zhao looked at Gongsun Ce apologetically, took the medicine in his hand, and wanted to drink it immediately, but saw that the medicine juice was very thick, and the medicine fragrance that gradually rose up smelled very bitter, so he couldn't help frowning slightly.

"If you don't want to drink, drink it!" Gongsun Ce said, "I have boiled three big bowls into a small bowl, and if I boil any more, it will be dry."

Looking at the pitch-black concoction, Zhan Zhao smiled wryly in his heart: "No matter how bitter this medicine is, is it as bitter as Caiyun's medicine?" So he picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp.

Gongsun Ce felt relieved when Xiao Fuzi helped Zhan Zhao go to bed and went to bed, and went back to Bao Zheng's study.

Dawn is approaching, the night wind is gradually subsiding, and a few light rains are falling.Bao Zheng prepared the memorandum, and seeing that the time for going to court was approaching, he asked Gongsun Ce to put down the case file in his hand, and went to visit Zhan Zhao together.

Walking to Zhan Zhao's bedroom, Bao Zheng lowered his voice and saw Xiao Fuzi coming out with a teapot, "How is Guard Zhan sleeping?"

Xiao Fuzi frowned, bowed and replied: "Not very good!"

Bao Zheng didn't expect him to say this, and asked nervously: "Why is it not good?"

Xiao Fuzi bowed and made a gesture, asking Bao Zheng and the others to stay a few steps away from the door and said: "When I fell asleep, I had a severe fever and my breath was very unstable, and then I coughed again, and I couldn't suppress it even after drinking water. It was so painful that even my heart hurt, and I even vomited a few mouthfuls of blood."

When Bao Zheng heard this, his heart ached.

Gongsun Ce said anxiously, "Why didn't you call me?"

Xiao Fuzi said: "Master Zhan said that you are busy with work, so you won't let me go."

"You're obedient!" Gongsun Ce scolded Xiao Fuzi, "Where did your usual cleverness go?"

Xiao Fuzi quickly explained: "Master Zhan said it was just blood stasis, it would be better to spit it out."

Bao Zheng frowned, and said sharply: "How can you trust Zhan Huwei's words?"

Xiao Fuzi was startled when he heard the words, looked at Bao Zheng in disbelief, and thought to himself: "Didn't everyone in the mansion say Master Zhan never lied?"

Gongsun Ce asked, "What happened to him afterward?"

Xiao Fuzi said: "Later, I sweated a lot, and my underwear was soaked, but the heat has subsided a lot. It must be that the medicine of the husband has taken effect." He took a long breath and said: "It's just now that I'm more stable , seems to be asleep."

Bao Zheng looked into Zhan Zhao's room from a distance, and said to Gongsun Ce: "In this case, let's not go in and disturb him." He told little Fuzi a lot before leaving with Gongsun Ce.

At noon that day, Bai Yutang entered the palace according to Yi's order, and had lunch with the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager saw that Bai Yutang who was sitting opposite seemed to be dismissive of the table full of palace dishes, and asked with a smile, "What? Seeing that there are only sixteen dishes on the table, do you feel sorry for being neglected by the family?" As she spoke, she looked sideways. He looked at Chen Lin.

Chen Lin understood, took a step forward, bowed to Bai Yutang and said, "Didn't Hero Bai think that there are hundreds of dishes for each royal meal? To tell you the truth, the Empress Dowager specially ordered the imperial dining room to add four dishes to treat you today. Vegetables." Seeing the disbelief on Bai Yutang's face, he said again: "Hero Bai was born in a wealthy family, and he has always been well-clothed and well-fed. It must be a common thing to eat mutton. However, the current emperor is taking care of everything in order to keep the world safe. Last winter solstice, he was so busy In the middle of the night, I wanted to drink a bowl of hot mutton soup, but I was so hungry that I didn't let the imperial chef make it, do you know why?"

"Why?" Bai Yutang thought to himself, would such a thing happen?

The queen mother said: "It's nothing for the emperor to drink a bowl of mutton soup, but from now on, the imperial dining room will slaughter sheep every night, hundreds of sheep will be needed in a year, and it will be countless in the long run. It is a bad example, promoting extravagance, so I am willing to suffer from hunger for a while."

Bai Yutang immediately got up and cupped his hands and said, "The grassroots have been taught! Your Majesty's benevolence, morality and frugality are really a blessing to the people of Song Dynasty!"

The Empress Dowager smiled kindly and said, "It's rare to hear praises from you." She waved her hand and said, "Sit down quickly! Didn't the Ai family say that today I'm just talking about homely things, and there's no need to be formal."

Bai Yutang took his seat, thinking of the word "homely", he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

Halfway through the lunch, the Empress Dowager turned her back, leaving only Chen Lin by her side, and asked Bai Yutang bluntly, "I heard from Aijia that you like Chunni?"

Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment, the milky mandarin fish on the chopsticks almost fell into the plate, he quickly put it down and said, "The queen mother must not misunderstand, it is true that the grass people have a good impression of Chunni, but it is just a good feeling, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Helping her to avenge her father that day was only out of chivalry."

The queen mother pondered for a moment, and then said: "The Ai family also heard that Zhan Zhao entrusted Chunni to you?"

Bai Yutang muttered to himself, "Where did you hear about this?" He hurriedly explained, "The empress dowager learned! That day Zhan Zhao was poisoned and died soon. He was afraid that Chunni would not be taken care of, so he entrusted her to her. The poison has been cured, so his end-of-life entrustment cannot be counted." He sighed meaningfully: "Besides, Zhan Zhao is just wishful thinking!"

"What about Mei Niang?" The Empress Dowager looked at Bai Yutang suspiciously and said, "Don't you have any unreasonable thoughts about her?"

Bai Yutang thought to himself: "What's the meaning of this meal today?" Then he thought again: "What about him? If you don't say something now, I'm afraid you won't have the chance to say it in the future." He raised his head and said: "The grass people really like Mei. Mother, and not only like it, the grass people have wanted to marry her since they were young!"

The queen mother was a little surprised by his straightforwardness, but at the same time very relieved, she motioned Chen Lin to bring some dishes to Bai Yutang and said, "The Ai family warned you at the beginning that Mei Niang is a golden branch and jade leaf. If you are interested in her, you should do more Work hard. But you..."

Bai Yutang said discouragedly: "I'm afraid Cao Min's hard work will be useless, she only has Zhan Zhao in her heart."

The queen mother sighed: "Ke Zhanzhao only has Lian Caiyun in his heart." She already knew everything about Zhan Zhao and Lian Caiyun from the emperor.

Bai Yutang smiled wryly in his heart: "So what if Zhan Zhao doesn't like Mei Niang? Don't you know, Queen Mother, that Mei Niang is born with a temperament of admitting death?"

Just thinking about it, the Queen Mother said something amazing: "What if the Ai family grants you and Mei Niang a marriage?"

Bai Yutang really wanted to agree to the Queen Mother, but he couldn't open his mouth and said after a long time: "As long as Mei Niang is willing, the grass people will be happy. But Mei Niang will never forget Zhan Zhao, even if the grass people don't mind, she may not let it go. Even if Cao Min receives the grace of the Empress Dowager and marries her in, how can the two of us be happy?"

The queen mother slowly put down the jade spoon in her hand, and sighed in her heart: "Mei Niang, Mei Niang, what should you do if you let the queen mother take care of your marriage?"