I'm an immortal in heaven

Chapter 908
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A sound of horseshoes sounded outside Qingxia Temple, and then the sound of horseshoes stopped, followed by the sound of greetings from soldiers and officials.

Immediately afterwards, Xuanshang saw a tall, tall, handsome young man dressed in a fourth-rank official robe of the Tang Dynasty, with a green scarf tied around his hair, and a jade belt around his waist. Guan Guanmen walked in.

Xuanshang looked at this young man suspiciously. She must be the new prefect of Bailu City, right?Just really young.

And Xuanshang's eyes are blurred, she is 39 years old this year, but she always feels that the appearance of this new prefect is very familiar, as if she has seen it somewhere?

A person named 'Mei Qing' slowly emerged from her already blurred memory, at this moment Xuanshang suddenly realized, why does this new prefect look so similar to 'Mei Qing'?
Immediately afterwards, another name named "Mei Xianzhang" appeared in Xuanshang's memory. Xuanshang remembered that the girl who was not afraid of being beaten or dying, and asked herself to return to Kuixingyan no matter what, had disappeared from her memory. It's been more than ten years.

Xuanshang originally thought that Mei Xianzhang was dead, but when she saw the new prefect who looked so similar to Mei Qing, Xuanshang's heart began to jump involuntarily.

This is all a coincidence, all of this is just a coincidence, how could she, a lonely girl, become the prefect of the imperial court?
Thinking of this, Xuanshang's heart finally settled down again, and then she brought all the Taoist nuns and personnel in Qingxia Temple to pay respects to the prefect.

"Caomin Qingxia looks at Xuanshang and pays homage to the prefect."

"Meet the prefect."

As the Qingxia audience knelt down to Mei Xianzhang, Mei Xianzhang, who was pointing to the whip, slapped the whip twice in the palm of his hand, then directly walked around Xuanshang and the others with his hands behind his back, turned around and entered the main hall of Qingxia Temple Inside, the officials behind hurriedly followed.

Xuanshang and others who were ignored were full of doubts and surprises, but without Mei Xianzhang's order, they knelt on the ground and dared not get up.

The statue of the Supreme Lord is enshrined in the main hall, but the surrounding layout is full of strong smell of powder.

Mei Xianzhang circled the statue of Taishang Laojun twice, and then said to the master of the prefect's mansion behind him: "From today on, all worship activities in Qingxia Temple will be stopped, and all the statues will be moved to the prefect's mansion for disposal." , Also, all the personnel of Qingxia Temple were brought to the prefect's mansion for review."

Hearing this, the chief secretary was taken aback immediately, and quickly asked: "Prefect, why is this?"

Mei Xianzhang stared at the master book and asked, "During the Qingxia Temple, have there been any incidents of drowning or abandoning babies in these years?"

The chief bookkeeper was taken aback when he heard the words, but he didn't know how to answer. He had been the chief bookkeeper in Bailu City for six years, so of course he knew whether these things happened or not.

On the surface, Qingxia Temple is a Taoist temple, but in fact it is a kind of "negative product" under the background of Tang Guozun Taoism. Qingxia looks like a Taoist temple, but in fact it does the same thing as a brothel. They recite Taoist scriptures not for practice, but for fun.

But after all, Qingxia Temple is different from ordinary brothels. The people here are all celebrities and dignitaries from all over the Tang Kingdom.

Since you are doing this kind of business, it is inevitable that there will be drowning and abandoned babies. After all, you can't expect the old men to be responsible for just playing around, right?And Taoist nuns also have to keep 'pure', so what's the point of carrying a 'evil seed'?

But if you know it, you know that this kind of thing can't be exposed. The Tang Dynasty strictly prohibits civilian drowning and abandoned babies. Not only the human court, but even the underworld punishes drowned and abandoned babies extremely severely.

"This Qingxia Temple is a Taoist temple. These Taoist nuns are all familiar with Taoist scriptures and have benevolence and righteousness in their hearts. There will be no such thing." The master said after hesitating for a while.

"Hehe." Mei Xianzhang sneered, and said to the master: "Touch your conscience to see if it is still there."

After all, the chief secretary is the third in command of the prefect's mansion of Bailucheng, so it's embarrassing for Mei Xianzhang to say that in person.

After all, it was Tanhualang, and she was the one who dared to beat Shangshu in the capital. He had heard of her fame a long time ago, but he didn't expect to bump into her head-on.

When Mei Xianzhang took part in the imperial examination, he won the honor of Tanhua among the more than 1000 outstanding scholars selected from all over the country in the Tang Dynasty, which is already very remarkable.

It stands to reason that Tanhua should stay in Beijing as an official once, but Mei Xianzhang is a restless master. On the third day after the test of Tanhua's Golden Palace roll call, she beat up the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Zhuque Street. Yes, it's just because the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is old-hearted and forced to marry a 16-year-old girl as a concubine in a semi-forced way.

So how could Mei Xianzhang's violent temper be tolerated, and he gave full play to the spirit of "Luan Yu", and was directly pulled out of the sedan chair by Mei Xianzhang on the way to the minister of the Ministry of Minbu and beat him up.

This incident caused an uproar in the ruling and opposition parties at the time, and it was the then prime minister Yu Jiang who protected Mei Xianzhang, otherwise, let alone being an official, Tan Hualang's fame would have been deprived.

But Mei Xianzhang has also been left idle since then, and the court did not arrange any official position for her. It was not until later that the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs condoned her family to annex the land and found out that the matter of enclosing fertile land was found out. A loyal man who is not afraid of power to punish 'corrupt officials'.

So it was precisely because of his good reputation among the people in Chang'an City that Yu Jiang arranged for Mei Xianzhang to be the magistrate of Nanzhou County.

It's just that Mei Xianzhang's ability is too strong. He has been a county magistrate for three years, and his achievements are outstanding. The whole Nanzhou scholars and people are praising him. Even if the high officials in the court want to suppress women, they cannot suppress them .

In the end, under the strong pressure of those high officials in the imperial court, Mei Xianzhang was forced to be suppressed for another three years. It was not until the memorials showing Chen's political achievements could no longer be suppressed that she was reluctantly promoted. The prefect of Bailu City.

"Master Jiang is just guessing, so why is the eunuch using words to ridicule him?" The second in command of the eunuch's mansion, Fu Cheng, said at this time: "Besides, even if there are really cases of drowning and abandoning babies in Qingxia Temple, There is no evidence either, do you have evidence, eunuch?"

Fucheng's meaning is very simple, you just came to take office as the prefect, why are you in such a hurry to rectify these things?Besides, when you just came here, even if infant drowning and abandonment really happened in Qingxia Temple, do you have evidence?
But Mei Xianzhang just smiled lightly and said: "The evidence, I am the evidence."

"What?" The Fucheng and the master couldn't help being stunned when they heard this, they looked at each other with doubts and questions in their eyes.

"This prefect, we don't understand what you mean." The head book said.

Mei Xianzhang said indifferently: "Mansion Lin, Master Jiang, do you know who my parents are?"

Lin Fucheng and Master Jiang were startled again, and then they clasped their hands together and asked, "I really don't know about this, how dare I ask your father, the magistrate, who is the mourning hall?"

Mei Xianzhang said: "My father's name is Mei Qing. As for my mother, she is kneeling outside right now, and that Qingxia Temple Master named Xuanshang is."

"Ah?!" All the officials present were stunned at this moment, even Lin Fucheng and Chief Secretary Jiang were surprised and looked at each other speechlessly.

Teams of government soldiers came in and out, arresting all the people in Qingxia Temple, not even a single gatekeeper was spared.

At the same time, all the Qingxia temples were closed down, and all the Taoist statues were removed and sent to the prefect's mansion for disposal.

For a moment, the entire Qingxia Temple was filled with wailing, and everyone shouted that they were innocent, but the government soldiers did not listen to their cries, and took them away in chains and shackles.

Lin Fucheng and Chief Secretary Jiang failed to stop Mei Xianzhang. After all, as a victim of Qingxia Temple, Mei Xianzhang herself was the biggest witness and victim of some illegal things in Qingxia Temple.

Xuanshang stared blankly at the scene in front of her, watching the Qingxia Temple where she had lived for more than 20 years being seized, her heart was both sad and broken.

At this moment, she most wants to find Master 'Ao Ren' to rescue Qingxia Temple, but she can't because she is also locked up.

Xuanshang didn't understand why the new prefect was targeting Qingxia so much at first, but when she was brought in front of the new prefect and followed the new prefect's questioning of the first sentence, she understood everything.

"Where is the Kuixing inkstone?" Mei Xianzhang asked, looking at the shackles and shackles in front of her, and a woman in her mid-mature but still quite charming.

Xuanshang was shocked as if struck by lightning, her complexion turned pale as paper in an instant, she stared blankly at Mei Xianzhang and said, "You are..."

"I am Mei Qing's daughter. As for you, you have never regarded me as your own daughter, so I don't need to recognize you as a mother." Having said that, Mei Xianzhang pointed at Xuanshang and said: " Is a bustard with thousands of people resting on thousands of people, without a trace of humanity, worthy of being the mother of a fourth-rank court official?"

Xuanshang was trembling all over, her face became paler and paler, Mei Xianzhang was sitting high above her, wearing the official uniform of the fourth rank of the imperial court, with a bright future ahead.

And she is just an old-fashioned skilled girl.

"Where is the Kuixing Inkstone?!" Mei Xianzhang shouted again, which only shocked Xuanshang into panic.

After a while, Xuanshang murmured: "Kui Xingyan is no longer with me, nor is it in Qingxia Temple. You will never find it."

When Mei Xianzhang heard this, his eyes turned cold, and he immediately got up and said: "Take it down and investigate carefully, and see what crimes she and the people in Qingxia Temple have committed over the years, and if they are found out, they will be punished together."

Afterwards, Xuanshang and the audience members of Qingxia were escorted into the prison of Bailu City, where they were given a 'Great Memory Restoration Technique'.

Five days later, all the crimes committed by the people in Qingxia Temple over the years were found out. Among them, 17 were drowned or abandoned babies, and 23 were murdered.

But what surprised Mei Xianzhang was that Xuanshang hadn't carried any cases on her body these years.

At the beginning, Mei Xianzhang was still a little unconvinced, so he took someone to examine it himself, and found out that it was Xuanshang who was selected by Liu Qingxia, the previous master of Qingxia Temple, as the next master of Qingxia Temple.

So Xuanshang only has the old debts of Mei Xianzhang and her father Mei Qing for the time being, and Mei Xianzhang looks a little depressed after getting this result.

Another three days later, Xuan Chang looked haggard, dressed in commoner clothes, and no longer had the charming and romantic look in the past.

She walked out of the prison with a bundle in her arms, looked at the sun in the sky, then looked dull, and walked aimlessly towards the outside of the city.

When she walked out of Bailu City and walked along the old road to the edge of Yanlai Lake unconsciously, she heard a sudden sound of horseshoes.

Xuanshang immediately turned her head to look, only to see a "handsome young man" dressed in white and wearing a jade scarf riding a horse among the catkins fluttering in the sky.

Xuanshang was in a trance at this moment, and suddenly returned to the scene where she met Pianpian's son Mei Qing by the Yanlai Lake 20 years ago when she was in her prime, and the young man riding a horse in front of her was exactly the same as Mei Qing.

Suddenly, Xuanshang woke up with a start, it wasn't Mei Qing, it was Mei Xianzhang!
'Sigh the law'

The steed stopped in front of Xuanshang, then Mei Xianzhang got off the horse, and walked lightly to Xuanshang holding the whip.

Xuanshang looked at Mei Xianzhang in front of her, Shen Ning asked after a while: "It was you. You let me out?"

Of all the people who were arrested in Qingxiaguan, only she was released now, and she was allowed to take away all her belongings. Don't think that this must be an order from Mei Xianzhang.

"Yes." Mei Xianzhang said: "Although you don't have the grace of nurturing me, you have the grace of procreation. On the premise that you have not committed any other crimes, I will repay your grace of procreation."

Said, Mei Xianzhang looked at the baggage in Xuanshang's arms and said: "Did they return all the things to you?"

Xuanshang nodded and said, "Give it all to me."

"Is it all your private money these years? How much?" Mei Xianzhang asked.

Xuanshang was taken aback for a moment, and then replied truthfully: "The bank note is 600 million taels, and all the jewelry is about 100 million taels."

"I'll give you a suggestion, replace them all with gold and silver as soon as possible." Mei Xianzhang said, "The world will soon be unstable, and gold and silver are the most reliable."

Speaking of this, Mei Xianzhang said again: "What are your future plans?"

Xuanshang was stunned for a moment, and then said with a melancholy expression: "Qingxia Temple is gone, I don't know where to go."

Mei Xianzhang said: "Find a reliable person to marry. You have so much money, if you don't have a reliable person to entrust your life to you, you won't live long."

When Xuanshang heard this, she immediately raised her head and looked at Mei Xianzhang in disbelief, "You said you want me to remarry?"

"Why? You've been doing things in Qingxia Temple for a long time, and you can't save face and get married?" Mei Xianzhang looked at Xuanshang coldly and said.

Xuanshang shook her head, not caring about the sarcasm in Mei Xianzhang's tone, and just said: "I am your father."

"My father is my father, and you are you. You and my father have never even paid homage to each other, so you are not my father's wife, and you are not worthy." Mei Xianzhang said lightly.

At this moment, Xuanshang felt mixed feelings, very sour, very blocked, and very uncomfortable. All the glory and wealth have passed away. She is nearly forty years old, but all those dignitaries, princes and nobles have left just for fun?Who can see her?
The only Mei Qing who was sincere to her was abandoned by herself, and now she is finally left alone, with no relatives and no home, this must be retribution.

"Hold this." Mei Xianzhang put a talisman into Xuanshang's arms, "This is an amulet, you wear it with you, as long as you don't sin against those monks, this amulet is enough to keep you safe all your life, this is my reward Your gift of birth."

After finishing speaking, Mei Xianzhang clapped his hands again, at this time an old coachman drove a carriage and came behind Xuanshang, Mei Xianzhang said: "This old man turned out to be a captain in the government army, with excellent martial arts skills, he is now I want to go back to my hometown to live in seclusion and live in seclusion, but he can escort you for a while first, and you can tell him where you are going, and after he escorts you, he will go back to his hometown."

After finishing speaking, Mei Xianzhang had no more worries, turned around and got on the horse, bowed to the old coachman and said: "Old man, I will trouble you then."

"What the eunuch said is nothing more than a little effort." The old coachman returned the salute with a faint smile and cupped his hands.

Mei Xianzhang said to Xuanshang again: "From then on, you and I will have a clean slate, and there will be no relationship anymore." After speaking, Mei Xianzhang didn't stay any longer, turned around and galloped away.

"Mei" Xuanshang opened her mouth to stop Mei Xianzhang, wanted to say sorry to her, but when she opened her mouth, she found that she didn't even know the name of this 'natural daughter'.

For a moment Xuanshang froze on the spot with his mouth open, the wind blew willows all over the sky and scattered the tears on Xuanshang's face.

The willows are still the same, but the human affairs have changed.If I knew today, why bother.

(End of this chapter)