I'm watching the gate in the jail

Half a month later

A few days ago, Jin Yiwei sent a team of people dressed in casual clothes to inquire about the news in Xishan.Sure enough, they found out that someone had seen a young mother and daughter in Cuiwei Mountain a long time ago.

But there is no further news.After all, it has been a year.

As for Dongcheng Bingma Si, who was ordered to monitor the Wangwo Pavilion, he also sent news.It is said that this courtyard is indeed a bit weird. Almost every three or five days, the door will be closed and individual visitors are not allowed to enter.

The strange thing is that although the door is closed, the lights inside are still there, and music can be faintly heard. It is obvious that someone is still having fun inside.

Bingmasi's brother once knocked on the door to inquire, and that Lin Sanniang said that the yard was occupied by nobles today, but they just didn't accept outside guests, and it was no big deal.

It is not uncommon for distinguished guests to rent out the entire brothel in Bensi Hutong.After all, the most indispensable thing in the capital is dignitaries.Most of them are Wuling youths who quarrel with each other, spend a lot of money, and laugh.

"When that 'noble man' comes next time, ask Bingma Si to report and we will send someone to follow up."

Yang Xiuxian pointed to the table with his fingers and said, then turned to look at Wanda who was surrounded by the crowd.

"I won't do it! Why me? There are so many people in the institute, I don't want to!"

Wanda, who was crushed in the chair, let out a desperate roar.

Yang Xiuxian couldn't help laughing, covered his mouth, coughed dryly twice, raised his head and shouted at Deng Xiang, "Mr. Deng, be gentle. Don't hurt thousands of us!"

"My lord, don't worry. I thrush my wife's eyebrows every morning. I'm good at this."

Holding an eyebrow pencil in his right hand, Deng Xiang turned around and agreed.

"Oh, Mr. Wan, don't move around. What should I do if I poke your eyes? Obediently let me draw your eyebrows longer. My wife said that long and thin eyebrows are popular this year. Hey, Mr. Wan , your original eyebrows are a bit thick, why don't you use a knife to shave them thinner?"

"How dare you! I'll kill you!"

Wanda almost jumped up from the chair in a hurry, but was pushed down again hastily.

"Rouge is here, Rouge is here! Give way."

Qiu Zijin waved the brocade box in his hand, and quickly stepped into the door of the side hall.

"I asked the salesman who sells rouge and gouache. This rouge is the favorite color of young women in the capital this spring, and it's called 'Human Face Peach Blossom'. Come, come, give it a try for thousands of households."

As he spoke, he squeezed into the crowd, and flauntingly opened the small jar inside the brocade box.

"How is it? Does it look good?"

A whole jar of red, fragrant and pink rouge was exposed to Wanda in front of Wanda by women in later generations called "death Barbie pink" rouge.

"Wow, it's so pretty! It's pink. It's not much more delicate than Dahong's."

"Which peddler did Qiu Jiansheng buy it from, and tell him to wait outside. I'll buy a can for my mother-in-law later."

A group of "steel fools" highly praised Qiu Zijin's taste, saying that he is worthy of being a future Hanlin scholar.Although he hasn't married a wife yet, his picky eyes are already much higher than those rough men who married their wives.

Even Gao Hui nodded silently, two words clearly written in his dull eyes: good looking.

Look good on your head!

"I won't do it! Don't put this thing on my face! Help!"

Seeing that Qiu Zijin, a gentle scum, actually dug out a big lump of weird pink paste and put it on his face.Wanda closed her eyes and desperately called for help.

The scene was extremely chaotic.

Let's look at Wanda, who was "ravaged" by everyone and covered in "big men".

Now he is dressed in a spring shirt.On top is a short-breasted short jacket embroidered with lilies in water onion color, and over the outside is a large blouse of tender ginger yellow. Below it is a horse-face skirt with peacock blue embroidered flying cranes. A small red shoe with a raised head.

Our Wanda, the majestic Jinyiwei hereditary Lord Qianhu, the emperor's uncle.Today, as soon as I walked into the gate of Beizhen Fusi, I didn't even have time to tie the donkey.He was dragged to the side hall by a group of stinky men who were too excited, and forcibly took off the original flying fish suit, and changed into this tender female outfit that can pinch water.

There is a good saying - "If there are no conditions, then create conditions."

In the case that there are no female guards in Jinyi in Beizhen Fusi, in order to investigate the case, the industrious and intelligent civil servants of Ming Dynasty decided to wrong thousands of their households... Ask him to disguise himself as a woman and sneak into Cuiwei The Miaoyin Temple on the mountain.

Only then did the above chaotic scene emerge.

"Master Yang, take a look, how are you doing! Isn't our Master Wan good-looking? Isn't it 'extraordinary in beauty', and is three points more beautiful than those real girls?"

Everyone hurriedly pushed Wanda, who had closed her eyes and given up struggling, to Yang Xiuxian.

It has to be said that Deng Zongqi is indeed a romantic man who is proficient in boudoir pleasures, and that Qiu Jiansheng who always eats, he has a really good eye for choosing rouge.

Although it was only a thin layer of gouache, Wanda's original eyebrows were slightly elongated, and some pink rouge was lightly dotted on her lips and cheeks, which can only be regarded as light makeup.

But we can't hold back Mr. Wan's natural beauty.

He originally had a small frame, and his face was only the size of a palm.A young man whose stature has not yet grown, has an indisputable beauty in himself, and it is not against his harmony to wear women's clothes.

And just like what Wan Zhen'er said, the stepmother, Miss Wu, was born well, and her second brother was also handsome.

Wanda originally had fair skin, with big watery eyes.Whoever looked at it didn't like it, but they all said that he was the reincarnation of the golden boy in the painting, and he was festive and cute.Especially deeply loved by middle-aged and elderly women.

Now after dressing up like this, as long as she doesn't speak, she will look like a delicate and lovely girl.No one can recognize him, this is a man.

Wanda closed her eyes and frowned. She didn't hear Yang Xiuxian's reply for a long time, so she couldn't help opening her eyes curiously.

Then I saw Yang Xiuxian's expression that seemed to be a smile but not a smile, and he was working hard.

"It's really ugly! I even said I quit."

Wanda yelled angrily, reaching out to tear off the hair crown on her head.

"My lord, don't be like this! It was so hard to invite the combing lady to come in and get it done. If I do it again, it will take another hour."

Deng Zongqi hurriedly grabbed his hand, turned around and slashed Yang Xiuxian with his eyes.

Mr. Yang is also really, didn't you see that thousands of households are about to explode, why don't you say a few words of comfort.

Hey, this Wanqianhu has exactly the same temper as his "little black", so stubborn.

Today's clothes and headgear were specially borrowed by him from his wife.These are all new products from Suzhou.His daughter-in-law specially prepared to celebrate the end of the new year and wore it at the beginning of spring.

No one in the entire capital has worn this style yet.

If an adult accidentally broke it, would his wife chop him? !

Thinking of this, Deng Xiang rubbed his swollen cheeks with great fear.

His Majesty may also think that the scene of the four hundred heads ostentatiously ostentatious with the Lantern Festival Lanterns on the Xisi Archway is too indecent and goes against the festive atmosphere of the capital.So when the lanterns were lit on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, they ordered people to remove their heads.Let everyone have a festive Lantern Festival.

Mrs. Deng and Zongqi Deng have been married for many years, so she naturally knew that her husband would be on duty every fifteenth night, so she never returned to Beijing.It was not until February that she came back from her natal family in Daxing County with the child.

As a result, as soon as she entered the door, she saw Deng Zongqi, who was supposed to be on duty in the Jinyiwei yamen, opening her closet, taking out clothes and skirts with a wretched expression.

While picking and choosing, she also muttered: This looks good, she must look good in it...

Turning his head again, he saw a pile of jewelry on the small table in the center of the room.

Taking a closer look, all of them are treasures that I am reluctant to take out to wear on weekdays, and they are scattered on the table in such a big way.

Good guy!

The old lady has only been here for a month, yet you have even found the little ones, and you want to take out the old lady's precious clothes and jewelry for that vixen to use!

Mrs. Deng didn't care about the child's presence, and slapped Deng Zongqi in the face with a slap.

No matter how Deng Zongqi explained that these clothes and jewelry were used for handling cases, she would not believe it.Pulling Deng Xiang's ear all the way into Beizhen Fusi.

In the end, it was Yang Xiuxian who came forward to resolve the turmoil.

By the way, I also praised Mrs. Deng, saying that she is virtuous and beautiful, and that the daughter she gave birth to is well-behaved and cute. Only when the ancestral grave of the old Deng family smokes is smoking can he marry such a good wife.

It is said that when Mrs. Deng was happy, she donated all the best clothes and jewelry for them to handle the case as a disguise.

"I'm warning you, these clothes are all made of high-quality materials. And my jewelry is all brought from Nanjing by entrusting someone."

Mrs. Deng took her daughter and walked to the gate of Jinyiwei Yamen. She turned her head and pointed at Deng Xiang's temple, "If you dare to damage it a little, I want you to pay for a brand new set. No! Two sets, three sets of brand new ones!"

Rubbing his hot cheeks from the beating, he had just walked out of the painful memories, and when he turned his head and saw Master Wan started to mess with his clothes, Deng Zongqi was so frightened that he hurriedly begged for mercy.

"Lord Wan, ancestor Wan, little ancestor! This subordinate doesn't want to die young yet. If you are wronged, just treat it as 'died for the country'."

Hearing that he even said such words as "sacrificing his life for the country", Yang Xiuxian knew that it would not be good to continue to make trouble.

He hurried to Wanda's side, put his hands on his shoulders, and said seriously.

"Lord Wan, everyone is a dignified man. The subordinates know your grievances. The subordinates also feel wronged for you."

"Well……"

Wanda looked suspiciously at the arc of his mouth, and felt that what he said was a little different from what he did.

"But we are all here to handle the case, aren't we? Don't you want to find out what's wrong with the 'Forgetting Me Pavilion' and the 'Miaoyin Temple' as soon as possible? Besides, except for you, the whole Beizhen Fusi... oh no, the whole In the Jinyiwei yamen, who can wear this woman's attire—Gao Hui?"

Gao Hui, who had never disobeyed any orders from his superiors, took a step forward and nodded.

"Okay, my lord."

As long as you can save Mrs. Song's mother and daughter, you can wear women's clothes.

"..."

The entire side hall fell into a deathly silence.

Wanda looked at Gao Hui, who was eight feet tall, with a hulking back and two eyebrows as thick as Crayon Shin-chan, and imagined how he would look in women's clothing...

It's so cold, this woman's skirt looks really cold.

"Forget it, I can wear women's clothes to investigate the case."

Wanda pointed to Qiu Zijin, who was watching a good show while holding a rouge box.Gritting his teeth, he said, "But he has to wear it with me!"

Because this "Miaoyin Nunnery" is a small temple, the gate is closed on weekdays. It is only open to believers on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, as well as the Christmas and enlightenment days of the gods, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

Therefore, everyone waited for half a month until today, the first day of February, before they started to act.

Standing at the gate of Fusi in Beizhen, watching Gao Hui driving a car with vermilion roof and pink walls slowly towards the west of the city, Deng Xiang nudged Yang Xiuxian with his elbow a little uneasily.

"My lord, can it really be just the three of them? How about we take an extra team of brothers and secretly ambush around Cuiwei Mountain."

Naturally, he wouldn't worry about Gao Hui's skills, but this time he was pretending to be a domestic servant who sent the lady to incense, and could not enter the nunnery.

At that time, only Master Wan and Qiu Jiansheng, who was pretending to be his girl, went deep into the tiger's den, which was really worrying.

"Master Wan is quite skilled, don't worry. Although Gao Hui can't go in, he will still meet them outside."

Yang Xiuxian raised his head and looked at the sun, there was still some time before noon.

"In the past few days, let the soldiers and horses in the west of the city keep a close eye on it, especially at night. The 'Forget Me Pavilion' will definitely take action in these two days. In addition, in our own yamen, it is the turn of Xiumu's brothers to be wronged for the next two days. For a while, they are all on standby in the yamen, ready to act at any time."

"Yes, my lord."

Yang Xiuxian glanced in the direction of the alley of our department, and smiled coldly, "It is estimated that the case will be solved in just two days."

"My lord, where are we going now?"

Walking back to the inner hall, Deng Xiang couldn't help asking curiously when he saw Yang Qianhu started to untie his clothes.

"Isn't today the first day of junior high school?"

Yang Xiuxian took off his coat and hung it on the hanger behind him.

"We big men can't go to the 'Miaoyin Temple', so let's go to the 'Guangji Temple' in the city to offer incense. Change clothes."

Cuiwei Mountain was called Pingpo Mountain before the Ming Dynasty.Because Zhu Jianshen's grandfather, Princess Cuiwei, the beloved daughter of Emperor Xuanzong, was buried here, it was renamed Cuiwei Mountain.

This place belongs to the branch of Xishan Mountain, the altitude is not high, it is exquisite and lovely, and it is full of greenery. It is worthy of the name of "Cuiwei".

Wearing blue coarse cloth clothes and a six-in-one hat, Gao Hui, dressed as a domestic servant, jumped out of the carriage, took down the horse stool from the carriage frame, and knocked on the carriage door.

"Miss, here we are. Get out of the car."

Wanda opened the curtain curiously and looked outside, only to find that their car was parked in front of a small mountain gate.

There were only two or three wives squatting on the ground selling incense at the door, and there were no pilgrims around, so the two wives just chatted one after another.This desolate appearance was in stark contrast to the crowds at the entrance of the Mercy Nunnery half a month ago.

"Snapped!"

Wanda wanted to stick his head out to have a look, but Qiu Zijin, who was sitting next to him, slapped the back of his hand hard.

"How can there be such an immodest lady like you. Pay attention to your identity."

As Qiu Zijin said, he pulled down the curtain past him.

Looking at Qiu Zijin, who is wearing a double-ringed bun, with a small red velvet flower on his temple, dressed in a bright yellow jacket and a two-color mandarin duck belt around his waist, and dressed like a little girl, Wanda couldn't help laughing again. up.

"What are you laughing laughing!"

Qiu Zijin gritted his teeth and said.

It's really gentle and sweeping the floor. If the gang of Guozijian see his appearance today, Qiu Zijin will not be a man in the future...

If this guy hadn't agreed to make him a golden jade scallop, he wouldn't have agreed to wear Lao Shizi's women's clothing!

"Get down quickly, and then help Miss Ben out of the car."

As Wanda said, she stretched out her palm "weakly".

"I've never seen such an unruly girl like you. Pay attention to your identity."

Seeing Qiu Zijin jump out of the car resentfully, open the car door for him, and put his hand on the back of his hand with a look of reluctance, Wanda smiled triumphantly: This is called "return the other in the same way."

"Amitabha."

The three were about to walk into the temple together when a young nun stopped them at the door.

"Everyone, Tanyue, the small temple is quiet and does not accept male guests."

Wanda, who was holding his head with his coat, winked at Qiu Zijin through the gap in his clothes.

"Master..."

As soon as Qiu Zijin opened his mouth, he realized that his voice was so rough that the little nun jumped. He coughed twice, changed his false voice, and said in a "coquettish" way, "Master, he is our servant. We are accompanying my lady." Come for the incense."

"In that case, please wait a moment outside the temple."

The little nun scanned the three of them with her eyes, saw Wanda's gorgeous dress, and saw that the maid was also dressed very well, guessing that this lady was a lady from a rich family, she greeted them with a smile. Please enter the nunnery.

Gao Hui saw that they had all entered the gate, tied the carriage under a big willow tree at the gate of the temple, and squatted down beside the carriage with his sleeves folded up.

After a while, I found that there were no pilgrims going up the mountain, and the two chatting old ladies were going home for lunch.So he turned around quietly and disappeared in a forest.

The little nun looked at the three of them just now, and Wanda and the others also looked at her all over.

Not right.

Qiu Zijin quietly shook his head at Wanda, signaling him to be careful.

Wanda, who doesn't go to temples very much, doesn't know the rules of the Jialan nunnery, but when Qiu Zijin was in his hometown, he often accompanied his mother and family members to go out to offer incense and pray for blessings, so he knew the way inside.

You must know that although Buddhism says "all beings are equal", there are more precepts for female nuns, that is, bhikkhunis, than for monks.

Monks need to hold 340 precepts, while nuns have [-] and eight precepts.It can be seen that the rules for female believers are far greater than those for men.Especially after Buddhism was introduced to Han, there were even stricter precepts in terms of male and female defense.

Generally speaking, according to the rules of the aunts' nunnery, no matter who the visitor is, it is the old nun who greets them.If there were only young nuns in the nunnery at that time, they would simply close the door and not open it, saving melon fields and plums.

These young nuns are all raised in the depths of the nunnery.Unless relatives from the lay family meet, or very familiar pilgrims come to the door, they will meet at the second door. Ordinary pilgrims will never see them at all.

And the nun walking in front of them didn't seem to be 20 years old, she was in her youth, no matter how she looked at it, she shouldn't be the one answering the door.

Looking at it from the back, although she was also wearing a bhikkhuni's dark Ziyi.But unexpectedly, a belt of the same color was tied around the waist, which immediately showed a graceful and graceful figure.

When they met each other abruptly just now, Qiu Zijin could clearly see that a thin layer of lead powder was applied to her face, and her eyebrows were also slightly swept away.

Just ask which decent nun would do that.

Not to mention how "Miaoyin'an" is, let alone this aunt, I'm afraid she is not a decent person.

With full vigilance, the two followed this charming little nun into the nunnery.

This "Miaoyin Nunnery" is built on the mountain, so it is not like those temples on the flat ground below the mountain. Entering the door is the Tianwang Hall, then the Maitreya Hall, and then the Daxiong Hall.

After entering the nunnery, one can vaguely see a hut with white walls hidden behind a bamboo forest.

The three of them walked southward on the cobbled path and turned several turns before reaching the hut.

"look……"

Wanda kicked the cobblestone road, signaling Qiu Zijin to pay attention to his feet.

The path paved with cobblestones is almost exactly the same as the stone used in the courtyard of the "Forgetting Me Pavilion" that day.It's just that it is different from the patterns of various flowers, fish and insects in the Forget Me Pavilion, the pattern on this path is only lotus.

The white cobblestones are paved with a picture of lotus flowers blooming all the way, which can be described as "lotus growing step by step".

"This time it may be..."

Qiu Zijin, who was familiar with Ying Tianfu's criminal files, suddenly had a very bad premonition.

what happened?

Seeing him stop, Wanda tugged at his sleeve and asked with his eyes.

Qiu Zijin didn't dare to say more, shook his head, and quickly walked up to him.

Walking to a three-bay carved gatehouse, the aunt turned sideways to welcome the two of them in.

Entering the door, there are three Buddha statues in the main hall, namely Sakyamuni Buddha, Amitabha Buddha and Medicine Buddha.They are all wooden tires painted with varnish, and there is no trace of gilding, which looks very simple.

From this point of view, it is no different from ordinary temples and nunneries, that is, it is poorer...

Qiu Zijin frowned slightly.

Wanda and Qiu Zijin bowed to the Buddha statue three times, and took the incense offering from the little nun before the Buddha.

"The two of us were burning incense in the Mercy Nunnery over Taoranting before. The teacher there told us that the abbot Xuanlian of the Gui'an Temple is the younger sister of Master Xuan Jing of the Compassion Temple. .Our young lady admires her deeply, so I come here to pay my respects.”

Qiu Zijin talked eloquently to the little nun, with one set of rhetoric, which stunned Wanda.

Hey, it's different for professional players who have read the book.

"Master Xuan Jing of the Mercy Nunnery is indeed our presiding senior sister. In this case, please follow me to the back hall."

The nun heard that Qiu Zijin, a little girl, was so eloquent, so her young lady must be more dedicated to Buddha, so she couldn't help but look at Wanda twice.

After entering the door, Wanda took off the clothes wrapped around his head, revealing the front face of Lushan.

The little nun saw that he was less than ten years old, with towering temples, pink cheeks and almond eyes, looking forward and looking forward, he was an extremely beautiful beauty.Looking at his outfit again, this style of clothing has never been seen before, it is new and strange, it should be a new item from the south.

The accent of the girl's speech was not like that of a Beijinger, so it was deduced that she was probably the daughter of a merchant from the south.If the daughters of officials and eunuchs come to burn incense, they will definitely hug each other. Most of them are nurses and maids, not just one servant and one maid.

Foreigners, that's easy to handle...

After making up their minds, the nun led them into the back hall, greeted them, and went to invite Master Xuanlian.

"It's over, it's over. My lord, this is really a disaster."

Qiu Zijin stood at the front of the door, sure that the romantic aunt had gone far, hurriedly closed the door, and started muttering nervously to Wanda.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? I think we've found another clue."

As soon as Wanda entered the door, he saw the lotus Avalokitesvara statue hanging on the wall. There was still a lotus seal printed on the lower left of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, which was exactly the same as the two paintings in the "Forgetting Me Pavilion" and "The Temple of Mercy".

It is said that Master Xuanlian can draw the 33 dharma bodies of Guanyin Bodhisattva, but I don't know which dharma body is the Avalokitesvara sitting in full lotus on the lotus platform in front of me.

"Guanyin? This is not Guanyin, my lord."

Seeing that he didn't understand the power of it at all, Qiu Zijin jumped up anxiously.

"This is the portrait of 'Old Mother of Wusheng'. Didn't you see that she is holding a Eight Diagrams mirror in her hand? How could Guanyin Bodhisattva hold a Taoist Eight Diagrams mirror?"

"Ah...could it be the real Cihang?"

Wanda, who has watched the TV series "Fengshen Yanyi", vaguely remembers that there seems to be such a god in the Taoist system who looks very similar to Guanyin.

"My lord, this is a nunnery, not a Taoist temple. There will be no Daoist Cihang."

Qiu Zijin was about to laugh at his ignorance.

"This is the 'Wu Sheng Lao Mu', the Holy Mother of the White Lotus Sect. This nunnery is the altar of the White Lotus Sect."

Wanda was taken aback.

"What is the White Lotus Sect?"

The author has something to say: Ah, in this section, let’s take a look at the relationship table of Lao Zhu’s family, and let’s go to Chenghua.

The first generation, Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu Emperor); the second generation, Zhu Yunwen (the grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor's grandson, Emperor Jianwen, who disappeared after the Jingnan battle); the third generation, Zhu Di (the fourth son of Hongwu Emperor, Zhu Yunwen's uncle, Yongle Emperor); the fourth generation, Zhu Gaochi (the eldest son of Zhu Di, Emperor Hongxi, who was relatively short-lived, died less than ten months after ascending the throne, which opened the path of tragedy that the old Zhu family emperors generally did not live long.

Five Daimu, Zhu Zhanji (Zhu Gaochi’s eldest son, Emperor Xuande, wise and powerful, unfortunately died early, at the age of 35); Sixth Daimu, Zhu Qizhen (Zhu Zhanji’s eldest son, Yingzong, had two reign titles. "Tumu Before the "Change of Fortress", it was Orthodox, and after "Change of Duomen", it was Tianshun. This big brother was instigated by the eunuch Wang Zhen to go to war, but he lost himself in the end, so he had to say his "Bei Shou" Some people say that the decline and fall of the dynasty was not caused by Chongzhen or Wanli, but by the transformation of Tumubao. I agree with this point of view. I was imprisoned in Nangong and lived a very miserable life. It is also because of getting along with Queen Zhou and other concubines and children during this period that the emperor has more benevolence and love for his wife. Before Zhu Qizhen After the death of the emperor, all but the empress and the biological mother of the next emperor must be buried, which is very cruel. But Zhu Qizhen decreed that after his death, the concubines do not need to be buried. Since then, there has been no custom of concubines being buried in the Ming Dynasty)

In the seventh generation, Zhu Qiyu (the second son of Zhu Zhanji, the younger brother of Zhu Qizhen, Emperor Jingtai, after Yingzong was captured, he had no choice but to ascend the throne with the help of Yu Qian, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Queen Mother Sun. But the emperor was nostalgic for the throne and abolished Zhu Jianshen He was also placed under house arrest after the "Change of Seizing the Door", and died of "unexplained reasons", not yet 29 years old)

The eighth generation, Zhu Jianshen (the eldest son of Zhu Qizhen, Emperor Chenghua. The brother-in-law of the hero of this article)

That's about it, it should be clear.