I opened the Taoist Temple in Datang

As New Year's Eve approached, the palace became more and more lively.

On New Year's Eve, early in the morning, Li Miaozhen was wearing warm winter clothes, standing under the eaves of Anren Hall and watching the palace people making firecrackers.Gunpowder had not been invented in the Tang Dynasty, but smoke and noise could be produced with saltpeter.

The palace people cut a large bundle of bamboo from Guizhen Temple in advance, then put saltpeter in the bamboo tube, and then lit it with fire.After they finished making firecrackers, they tried it, and it really made a crackling sound.

"Get rid of the plague evil, good luck and peace!" Xue Cairen muttered from the side.

Li Miaozhen is looking forward to the Chinese New Year, she wants to grow up quickly, and the palace will be more lively during the Chinese New Year.Tonight, there will be a large-scale 'Nuo' ceremony in the palace, which she has been looking forward to for a long time.

"It's time for His Majesty's edict to be issued." Xue Cairen said to himself.

The gate of Anren Palace is deserted, except for Guizhen Temple, no one visits it.A gust of cold wind blew by, the palace gate moved slightly, Xue Cairen's eyes lit up, and then faded away again.

"Your Majesty, don't you remember me?" She said sadly, and after a while, she looked at Li Miaozhen fiercely again: "Chong Niang, you don't want you anymore! Your mother doesn't want you either!"

Li Miao's heart is as calm as water, and she knows that in this situation, she should hurry away: "Yes, thank you for your kindness to me. I'll go and see Xiaoli." Xiaoli is the lynx she stole from the circus troupe. Raised in the palace.

"...Go." Seeing her like this, Xue Cairen had nothing to say.She hesitated for a while, then went back to the dormitory to dress up, and went out to visit her old sister Chang Cairen.

Chang Cairen has a gentle temperament and once lived with her in Anren Hall.Although Xue Cairen didn't get the emperor's edict and couldn't attend the palace banquet, she thought of a coup, she might as well follow Chang Cairen and get in together...

Stepping out of the palace gate, Xue Cairen suddenly thought that he went empty-handed, and did not bring any gift for Chang Cairen.Just as she was about to turn back, she saw something shining in the corner of the wall, and when she got closer, it was a gold ring.

A gold ring set with black stones.

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Xiaoli is still a little timid recently, especially the two big white geese are always quacking beside her because of their size.

Li Miaozhen asked the palace servants to make a nest for her, but Xiaoli refused to sleep, and went to squat in an abandoned lantern.Li Miaozhen thought that there was no rabies vaccine in this era, so she decided to avoid it before she was familiar with it.

The little animals lived in a small room full of sundries, Li Miaozhen was going to change a place for them, she was worried that Xue Cairen wanted to eat roast goose tonight.Although An Ren Dian is not short of such food, but Xue Cairen's behavior has always been unexpected...

Looking around, probably only Guizhen Temple is the safest.Li Miaozhen went out with her belongings after thinking clearly, and heard Xue Cairen's cry that sounded like a loudspeaker.

Li Miaozhen was standing next to the side hall of Anren Hall, across the courtyard and a palace wall, Xue Cairen's voice came from behind the wall: "Li Chongniang! I blame your mother for giving birth to you in nine months , offended His Majesty, and made me unable to even go to the palace banquet!"

She frowned sharply.

"I worked so hard to raise you, you white-eyed wolf, you were born without a mother, it made me suffer..."

The atmosphere in Anren Hall was disturbed very strangely by Xue Cairen, even the two geese looked at her in unison.The palace servants in front of the palace were a little nervous, and said to Li Miaozhen: "What's wrong with the talent, he must be bewitched! Princess, don't take it too seriously."

This is not bewitching, this should be what Xue Cairen is thinking.

Li Miaozhen stood calmly in front of the hall with her little hands in her hands, Xue Cairen was yelling and cursing outside the wall, it seemed that she had left Anren Hall, but she didn't know why she was yelling through the wall.Immediately afterwards, the ancestors of the Li family were also greeted by her, and even the history of His Majesty the Emperor visiting brothels when he was young was called out by her.

The palace servant was stunned: "The talent must be bewitched! Princess, now—"

Before he finished speaking, outside the palace wall, Xue Cairen's yelling and cursing were replaced by a slap in the face.A calm, serious middle-aged female voice sounded: "Xue Luan'er, are you crazy!"

Outside the palace gate of Anren Hall, a middle-aged female Taoist priest wearing a lotus crown and Taoist robe was surrounded by everyone and looked at Xue Cairen sternly.

Looking at Xue Cairen again, he has already been pinned to the ground by several strong women, his hair is disheveled and his mouth is blocked.Li Miaozhen ran over and saw the old temple master standing aside, with a anxious expression on his face.

Seeing her coming, the old temple master whispered: "This is Princess Yuzhen, come, come here!"

Li Miao also guessed in her heart, walked over and saluted politely.When I lowered my head, my eyes fell on Xue Cairen, and I saw that her eyes were loose, and she was quite different from ordinary ones.

"Eldest princess," she said with her head up, "Xue Cairen has been ill recently, and everyone says she is confused. Can you let her go? I must be optimistic about her."

In front of the eldest princess, she did not dare to say too mature words, and tried her best to maintain the appearance that a five or six-year-old girl should have, and showed the appearance of a young adult.Princess Yuzhen glanced at her, and she caught her gaze fearlessly, and the sky blue pupils and Princess Chang looked at each other.

The eldest princess stared at her strange eyes for a long time.

"That woman's daughter." After a pause, Princess Yuzhen said slowly, "It's already this big."

The old temple master was about to say something, but she waved her hand, and the old temple master didn't dare to speak any more.She looked at Xue Cairen, and said coldly: "Today's New Year's Eve, there is a celebration in the palace, let Xue Cairen rest for a few days, so don't come out."

As soon as these words came out, Xue Cairen's crime of disrespect was spared.The old temple master was very happy, and hurriedly took Li Miaozhen to thank him, but unexpectedly the eldest princess left four strong women behind, and kept Xue Cairen under strict guard in the side hall of Anren Hall, no one could approach her.

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There was such a commotion on New Year's Eve, and the entire Anren Palace palace was sleepy, and the festive atmosphere was completely lost.

After seeing off Princess Yuzhen, the old temple master came back to see that Li Miaozhen was still standing at the original place, talking to Xue Cairen's palace servants.The two seemed to be gesturing something, then Li Miaozhen nodded thoughtfully.

"What did you find, little princess?"

Li Miaozhen looked up at her, and said seriously: "She said that just now Xue Cairen picked up a ring from here and put it on, and his whole body is abnormal. Monastery, do you think there is something wrong with this ring? "

The old temple master thought for a while: "Yes."

"There must be something wrong with it."

She stepped into the palace gate very determinedly, but the strong women guarding the gate didn't let her approach, and didn't give her any face.Li Miaozhen had no choice but to return to her secret base, and while Xiaoli was sleeping, she called out the biggest mouse in the dining room and let it steal the ring.

After finishing all this work, she was finally free and sat in a daze.

After a while, Xiaoli squinted her eyes to look at her, and after a while, she heard a thin, unmasculine voice: "Don't you hate her?"

"She's gone, and my situation is even worse." Li Miaozhen lowered her head slightly, and her temples swayed slightly.Palace people often tie her hair with a lake-blue silk ribbon, which better reflects the color of her eyes.

Xiaoli didn't make a sound, Li Miaozhen said again: "Besides, isn't what she said the truth? Because of raising me, she lost a lot. You see, she treats me badly sometimes, but she used to be naked when I was dying of fever. She never left to take care of me, and once sincerely wanted to make me laugh. I am very surprised that she always looks the same for a while, as if two people are acting separately."

She rested her chin in contemplation. She used to study history in general, but she didn't know many details in Tang Dynasty.It turned out that the original owner was rejected by the emperor because of her premature birth. The emperor was suspicious, did he doubt her bloodline?

Caoye Naji may be a foreigner, and maybe the emperor doesn't like her at all, after all, she doesn't even have a status.In the entire Taiji Palace, perhaps only the old Guanzhu could tell her the reason.

Guizhen audience members are busy preparing peach charms for the first day of the first lunar month.

Li Miaozhen glanced at it, thinking that after the big mouse stole the ring, he really had to find something for Xue Cairen to ward off evil spirits.She stepped into the main hall and burned a stick of incense to Sanqing.

When the old temple master saw her, he couldn't help asking: "Is Xue Cairen feeling better?"

She shook her head: "It's still the same."

"You can't let His Majesty know." The old temple master stayed in the palace for a long time and experienced many things, so he couldn't help sighing: "Jiang Jiao died because of talking too much."

Jiang Jiao?

Li Miaozhen had never heard of this name, so by the way, he remembered it as Old Jiang in his heart.The old Guanzhu talked about the past, and it turned out that this old Jiang was a good friend of the emperor when he was still the king of Linzi, and he was always by his side.Later, in the tenth year of Kaiyuan, Lao Jiang was exiled to other places by the distraught emperor because he leaked his private conversation with the emperor, which caused a bad influence. He died on the way to exile.

Since then, everyone inside and outside the palace is in danger and dare not speak more.

Li Miaozhen said: "It feels very familiar. Didn't the palace man yesterday and Xue Cairen today express their innermost thoughts?"

Seeing her blinking her eyes and thinking again, the old temple master smiled and said, "I'm just telling you a story, don't think too much, because if you think too much, you'll lose weight, and it won't look good."

Nowadays, plumpness is prevalent in the palace, Li Miaozhen felt that this era is really good, so she nodded sincerely, and said: "Monastery Lord, have you seen Cao...my biological mother?"

"Why do you think of asking this?"

Li Miaozhen rubbed her eyes, the old temple master thought she was going to cry, and hurriedly said: "I have seen, I have seen, but she is a great beauty. Our little princess grows up to be even more beautiful."

"Yeah, don't you like her?"

Lao Guan was at a loss for words, and after a while, he said: "Of course I like it, but people's thoughts have changed..."

The scene from five years ago appeared before her eyes.It was a fiery night, and the entire sky of Chang'an City was covered by crimson burning clouds. A woman with red hair and blue eyes was standing on the roof of Xingqing Palace, a sword was inserted into her heart upside down, dripping water from the tip Blood, she let out a mournful long moan...