Ma'am, is there someone out there?

Xiangye Temple is the most incense-filled temple in the capital. The abbot Guihai who preached the scriptures is a famous eminent monk. Every day, countless faithful men and women come to Xiangye Temple to listen to Abbot Guihai's lectures.Of course Shen Qing's family had no interest in monks chanting scriptures, but the Empress Dowager couldn't help listening to them.Moreover, it is rare to go out of the palace and go everywhere, so let them accompany them to Xiangye Temple to worship Buddha and listen to scriptures.

The abbot obviously knew the Empress Dowager, and he nodded slightly when he saw the Empress Dowager. Although he didn't come up to say hello, the vegetarian food after the lecture was specially distributed.Several people ate at separate tables with the pilgrims in the lobby, and arranged them alone in the small courtyard.

The small courtyard is where the abbot lives.A lush linden tree is located in the courtyard, under the tree is a round marble table, and several stone stools are scattered here and there.

Lu Chen sat upright, his eyes only on the table, and Shen Qing who was beside him squeezed his palm indiscriminately, telling him not to be nervous.However, Empress Dowager Qi's gaze was so obvious that Lu Chen couldn't ignore it at all.

They traveled in plain clothes this time, and they didn't bring anyone with them. Along the way, the Empress Dowager watched him closely.The queen mother looked at him for a while, and then at Xiaobao for a while.As soon as she saw Xiaobao, she remembered Lu Chen's appearance when she was a child. She had a lot of questions in her heart to ask, but she choked back the words.

Shen Qing poured tea for the Empress Dowager and acted as Lu Chen's mouthpiece.

"Queen, you drink tea."

The Empress Dowager smiled, she had a good impression of Shen Qing.At the beginning, she also disagreed with this marriage in every possible way. She had seen Shen Xianfeng's eldest son before, he was a skinny boy, and he lacked a bit of anger.She was very dissatisfied, and only reluctantly agreed under the persuasion of the old Liang Wang.Now it seems that this young man is very good.Lu Chen's spirit is very good, and the little baby is also raised in vain and fat.

"The little baby is called Xiaobao, he is really a lovely child."

"Xiaobao, come here." Shen Qing called Xiaobao back who was full of crickets in the grass, "Xiaobao, call grandma."

Xiaobao stared at the queen mother with round eyes, without any shyness, he called out crisply: "Grandma!" There were so many grandparents in Qingzhou that Xiaobao called, and he didn't feel shy about calling one more grandma. .

The queen mother was very happy when she heard this, touched Xiaobao's head, and hugged him in front of her.The Queen Mother hasn't held such a big child in her arms for some years.Seeing that Xiaobao and Lu Chen looked alike, she liked it more and more, so she happily took off the only agarwood Buddha bead she was wearing in her hand, and put it on for Xiaobao.

Lu Chen knew that the string of Buddhist beads had been worn by the Empress Dowager since she recited the scriptures.

Xiaobao has no interest in Buddhist beads, he prefers shiny beads.But when someone sent him off, he was happy to continue.And Xiaobao thinks this grandma is also good-looking, so he likes good-looking ones!

"Listen to you, Xiaobao is six years old." The Empress Dowager asked Shen Qing with a smile.Lu was so dull that he didn't like to talk, so the queen mother let him go, and was more willing to chat with Shen Qing.

Shen Qing nodded: "It's six years old, and already knows how to recite the Three Character Classic."

"He's really a smart kid." After the queen mother finished speaking, she suddenly thought of something, and suddenly her face changed.According to Xiaobao's age, it should be after Shen Qing married into the General's Mansion.The Empress Dowager felt a little sorry for Shen Qing, a good man, but he has wronged this child.

Shen Qing didn't understand why the Empress Dowager suddenly looked apologetic.

Just as he was talking, the young monk from the temple brought the vegetarian food, and as soon as the vegetarian food was on the table, Shen Qing knew it was bad.But no, when he looked up, he saw that the big one and the small one were all gone, and the two bitter faces were stretched out.

No meat to eat, just eat grass, they are not rabbits!

But Buddhism is pure, and Shen Qing is not good at giving them another small meal, so he can only promise the two of them that they will make delicious food for them in the future, and put away the two long-drawn bitter faces.

The queen mother on one side couldn't help but smile, this family of three is really interesting.She felt relieved.

"Father, there are radishes." Xiao Bao looked at the radishes and sighed.

Vegetables in the monk's temple are fine, but the vegetables fried in the temple are not oily, completely different from those fried by Shen Qing, not to mention the radishes that Xiaobao doesn't like.Xiaobao counted the radishes on the table, white radishes, carrots, and took a bite of a steamed stuffed bun with radish stuffing.

To raise a son is to support an ancestor.

"Go back and eat delicious food."

Xiaobao took the opportunity to order: "Lamb chops!"

Just as Xiaobao finished talking about the lamb chops, before Shen Qing could answer, Lu Chen suddenly vomited.

The queen mother who didn't know the truth quickly stood up, with a worried expression on her face: "What's the matter, are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Lu Chen shook his head, his face turned slightly pale, he quietly pulled Shen Qing's flesh, and poured out all his resentment on him.Looking at the green and white radishes and vegetables on the table, Lu Chenguang no longer had any appetite, and when he heard the lamb chops, he felt like he was smelling of lamb, and his stomach felt sour.

Shen Qing helped Lu Chen's waist, quietly took out a sour plum from the small cloth bag in his bosom, stuffed it into Lu Chen's mouth, and wanted to explain it to the Queen Mother, but he couldn't explain this kind of thing, he could hide it if he could.

"It's nothing. When I get down the mountain, I'll take him to eat some salty and spicy food. He just hasn't adapted to the tasteless food here. Men in the army are all meatless, right?" In Shen Qing's heart, Amitabha, I'm sorry Buddha, I blame you.

"It was I who insisted that you come with me." The Queen Mother apologized very much.She was so happy that she wanted to come to Hanye Temple with Lu Chen to offer incense.Every time Lu Chen went to battle, she would come to Hanye Temple to worship Buddha and burn incense.When Lu Chen went to battle for the first time as a teenager, the queen mother knelt in front of the Buddha statue and stayed up all night.But no matter how many scriptures she reads, she can only read scriptures.She has no power and can't do anything.

This is the regret of Empress Dowager Qi's life.

It was only a sour plum that suppressed the nausea in Lu Chen's stomach.Lu Chen was suspicious and fearful. What he suspected was that Xiaobao was quiet back then, and he didn't respond. What he was afraid of was that having something small at this delicate time made him have to worry a lot.

The assassin came in a strange way, and I'm afraid he won't be able to find the real behind-the-scenes person in the future.

Lu Chen knew that countless people would be watching his every move when he returned to Beijing this time.He can't be controlled by others, and he doesn't know who wants to kill him.

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"Are you better?" The queen mother stretched out the back of her hand and pressed it on Lu Chen's forehead. Her hand was as cold as when she was a child.

Lu Chen's eyes flickered for a moment, and he said with disgust: "It's cold in winter, you should wear more. It's very useful to ask the maid to prepare more soup soup at night. Shen Qing will feed soup soup every day."

The queen mother laughed, not knowing whether she was happy that Lu Chen cared about her, or because she was laughing at Lu Chen's last sentence.

The queen mother just smiled and didn't speak, Lu Chen's face became hot and he turned his head away.What are you laughing at? It's really annoying.

Shen Qing originally wanted to take Lu Chen to eat something else after accompanying the Queen Mother to eat the vegetarian food, but he didn't expect that after a while, the little monk who came to deliver the vegetarian food just now came again with a box of food.It turned out that the little monk was careless and gave less things.

The little monk couldn't stop apologizing and explained: "Young monk forgot to send all the things. This is what the abbot asked me to prepare separately. He said that the people present were physically special and couldn't bear the rough food in the monk's temple. The Buddhists are merciful and can make an exception. Oh, and also, this is the note that the abbot asked me to give this official."

The little monk was reckless, and ran away as soon as he finished speaking. He really didn't look like a monk.

Lu Chen unfolded the note, startled, and handed the note to Shen Qing.

"God-sent son, innocent. Fortunately, Amitabha."

The faces of both of them changed, and the Queen Mother couldn't help asking: "What did you write?"

"I didn't write anything." Lu Chen took back the note and hurriedly put it away, it didn't look like he didn't write anything.But since he didn't want to say it, the queen mother couldn't ask any more.

"There are more female pilgrims in Xiangye Temple recently than before." Lu Chen didn't want to talk about this, so the queen mother said something else.

"Really?" Lu Chen didn't pay much attention to whether the pilgrims were male or female.But there are indeed too many people.

"Of course you can't see it." The Empress Dowager laughed. Lu Chen is not the kind of person who can see this kind of thing, but it's too difficult for him. Shen Qing is as careful as a hair, "Did Zi Che see it?"

"Me?" Shen Qing was still not used to being called his name, he was arranging the other meals that the little monk brought one by one when he suddenly realized that he was being called.

"Ah, there are too many female pilgrims." Shen Qing talked, and tasted the porridge before pushing it in front of Lu Chen.The abbot is really considerate, the dishes are matched with meat and vegetables, the color looks more festive than before, even the porridge delivered is preserved egg and lean meat porridge, so you have to pay more for sesame oil.However, this abbot is too amazing, how could he know this.

Shen Qing had things about the abbot in his heart, but he didn't delay in speaking.

"I took a cursory look and found that most of the female pilgrims were young women with beautiful colors..."

Beautiful young woman of color?Lu Chen ate a few mouthfuls of porridge, then looked at Shen Qing suspiciously, why did he never notice this, only Shen Qing noticed it.

Lu Chen said inexplicably sourly: "You are really careful."

"Ahem. Then what, isn't this obvious? All of them are pink and green clothes..." Shen Qing's face froze, and seeing Lu Chen's expression, he knew that he was getting more and more wrong.But it wasn't his fault, really.Only Lu Chen would never be able to tell whether a woman was beautiful, and of course he couldn't tell whether a man was too.

Shen Qing was fortunate enough to be able to tell male and female by Lu Chen, and he repeatedly praised him for being good-looking, he must have done good deeds in his previous life.

To prevent Lu Chen from continuing to diverge, Shen Qing hurriedly said: "It's because of the draft." It is almost certain that the daughters of the Zhuo family will enter the palace, and the rest of the recruiting girls can only be selected as court ladies except for a few who can have a position. rise.But even so, there are still a lot of young women dreaming of prosperity and wealth.

The Empress Dowager put down her chopsticks, with a hint of worry between her brows.The Queen Mother knew that the two sons had an affair, so it was inconvenient to say more about her worries: "In a few days, the princess of the Xiongnu Kingdom will enter the palace."

"Princess?" Lu Chen knew nothing about this matter, and it was the first time he had heard about it, "The Huns sent the princess for marriage?"

The son has grown up, and the queen mother can't control it.When the emperor's son, the queen mother can't control it.She only hoped that the originally turbid water in the palace would not add any more waves.

It's just that misfortunes never come singly, the water in this palace is bound to be disturbed.