After the prosperous Tang Dynasty

Seeing the increasingly depressed expression on Xiao Yansui's face, others naturally noticed Li Tan's curious gaze just now.

Xiao Heng's eyes were barely visible, and he moved his sister towards the younger Goro, turned around a little, and blocked Li Tan's sight as if nothing had happened.

For Li Tan's curious eyes, Li Chu looked a little funny, but also felt emotional, after all, he was still a child!He put one hand on his younger brother's shoulder, and after Li Tan looked away, he turned to Mrs. Pei and Princess Xinchang with a smile and said, "It's already noon. Auntie and Mrs. Pei are going to have some vegetarian food?"

Mrs. Pei nodded with a smile, while Princess Xinchang looked at her three nephews and nieces, and said: "You have already eaten your meals, so I won't greet you."

Li Chu smiled and nodded.

He brought his younger brothers and sisters out to play today. Ximing Temple is the place where the imperial scriptures were built. The incense is very prosperous, but there are many people. It would be fine if there is only his aunt, Princess Xinchang, but he has to go with Xu Guogong and Xiao's family. , things will spread out, but it is not beautiful.

After a few more polite words, the two parties parted ways.

After a group of people from the Xiao family entered the courtyard and walked away, Li Wenning smiled softly, "I seldom met Xiao Liuniang before, I heard that she didn't often go to other houses with Mrs. Pei as guests, and thought Liuniang was shy. See, I don't think so."

The little girl was born delicate and lively, Yuxue was cute, even with a red and swollen mosquito bag on her face, and after being stared at by everyone curiously for so long, she didn't show the slightest shyness, but turned her head and asked about the person staring at her coming.Speaking of this, Li Wenning couldn't help but smile at Li Tan who was just asked back by Xiao Yansui.

Li Tan: "..." He really has never seen someone get bitten on the face by a mosquito and then go out to burn incense in a temple.

"This is the only girl in Xu Guogong's house. Even if she doesn't know anyone else, everyone knows her. Maybe it's because she thinks she is young, so she is not in a hurry to go out and walk around!" Li Chu said casually.

Li Wenning was still puzzled, and said in confusion: "There are no other sisters in Xiao Liuniang's family, and she is alone, so she just happens to go out more often to play with the little ladies from other families?"

Li Chu patted his younger sister on the head, didn't say much, just shook his head and smiled: "A child who is only five years old is regarded as a treasure by the elders at home, and a group of children get together and fight if they are not sure Now, even if I want to get to know some handkerchiefs, I'm not in a hurry."

Li Chu and Li Wenning's biological mother, Wu Shi, was confiscated into Ye Court because of her father's crimes, and was given to the then prince Li Heng as a palace servant.Although he was favored by the prince Li Heng because of his weak and modest personality and dignified appearance, Wu's status was low and gave birth to the eldest son of the prince, but he passed away when Li Chu was four years old and Li Wenning was only one year old...

As for Li Tan, he came from a palace man surnamed Zhang in the prince's mansion. He was not valued at all, and he lost his mother when he was young.

Although Li Chu is the eldest son of the prince, his mother's family is not obvious and his connections are thin.Since his father Zhong Wang Li Heng was established as the prince in the 26th year of Kaiyuan, he has been subject to political attacks from Prime Minister Li Linfu, Shou Wang Li Mao, and Concubine Wu Hui.Tang Xuanzong was noncommittal about this, as if he had no intention of protecting the prince.

What's more, the Xiao family's family members are quite deep. When Princess Xinchang first married, Xu Guogong Xiao Song's wife, He Shi, received extremely high treatment when she entered the palace.

Under such circumstances, Xu Guogong Xiao Song had always stayed out of the East Palace matter and never revealed his intention to hand over the East Palace. Prince Li Heng himself was also cautious and did not make friends with important court officials in private.

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Beside the Banzu case, the monks from Ximing Temple had already delivered the fast food.These days, high tables and chairs are not yet popular, Xiao Yansui looked at the sitting postures of Mrs. Pei, Princess Xinchang and others, her expression remained unchanged, but she went straight to find a comfortable position to sit down.

Goro and Xiao Wu were lively and laughed when he saw this, and quietly reached out and poked his sister twice.

Xiao Yansui turned her head abruptly without warning, she herself was expressionless, which startled Xiao Wu, took a breath of cold air, covered her heart and almost jumped up.

The two brothers and sisters were playing around, and the elders present just smiled and didn't intervene when they saw it.

Not long after, another clever servant girl came and delivered a message for Princess Wan'an, and said respectfully, "Princess Xinchang, Mrs. Pei."

"Seventh Sister is also in Ximing Temple today?" Princess Xinchang wondered.In the early years, when Ruizong Li Dan passed away in Baifu Hall, Princess Wan'an thought that Ruizong prayed for blessings and became a female Taoist priest. However, she did not leave the palace and has been living in the palace all these years.

After all, Buddhism and Taoism have different paths, although they happened to meet Li Chu and three people today, but Pei and Princess Xinchang did not expect to meet Princess Wan'an here.

The clever servant girl hurriedly replied: "The princess was originally invited, one is to taste the spring tea grown in Ximing Temple, and the other is to discuss scriptures and Taoism with Master Daoyuan."

"I'll go see Seventh Sister later. I haven't been back to the palace for a while, and our sisters haven't had time to talk about myself." Princess Xinchang waved her hand, and the clever servant girl immediately obeyed. back down.

After eating vegetarian food, Xiao Yansui was still a five-year-old child after all, and stayed up half the night last night. He blinked his eyes in a daze, and his eyelids began to droop. He looked at the quiet, but his body could no longer hold on. Some are sleepy.The young gentlemen are still in high spirits, and seem to want to play in the courtyard of the ancient temple.

Mrs. Pei sent a few servants to follow the young man who wanted to go out to play, not to go to any dangerous places, and told her maid Yunxiu to take care of her daughter, and then accompanied Princess Xinchang to see Princess Wan'an.

A welcoming monk lowered his head slightly, clasped his hands together and saluted, and then led Xiao Yansui to the resting courtyard prepared for the benefactor. Yunxiu had been to Ximing Temple before, and the direction he was walking was also the same as before. Similarly, there is the sound of chanting scriptures in my ears, and when I look up, there is a reclining Buddha on the mountain wall, which is also a solemn treasure, so I don't doubt that there is him.

On the contrary, Xiao Yansui, who was sleepy, saw that the resting house in front of him was secluded and remote, and there seemed to be no other sound except the sound of chanting scriptures in the distance. The house has always been so silent, even the chirping of birds and insects in the mountains and forests is less than elsewhere.

The confusion in Xiao Yansui's heart was only fleeting, the front courtyard arrived, the monk led her into the house, and then retreated.

Yunxiu went forward to make the bed, Xiao Yansui's upper and lower eyelids were almost glued together, and soon lay on the bed and fell asleep.

When she woke up leisurely again, she had a splitting headache, and when she wanted to raise her hand but couldn't, she suddenly found that she was tied up with a rope, and her arms could hardly move.

Xiao Yansui, who was still a little headache and dazed, was so shocked that she woke up instantly. She pretended to be still asleep, but listened carefully to the sounds around her, and only after making sure that there was no other movement around her, she slightly Opening his eyes, he looked around quickly.

Realizing that his hands were tied behind his back, Xiao Yansui took a few deep breaths slowly, and after quickly calming down, he carefully recalled the tutorial on "How to break free from the rope when kidnapped by a kidnapper" that he had seen before, and looked at it Lock yourself up and find out if there are other suitable tools that can be used to save yourself.

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Luoyang City, Zhao Mansion.

After a night of strong wind and drizzle, the flowers faded to red.

In the small Buddhist hall, Mrs. Liu, who was thin and frail, was wearing a plain dress, kneeling on the futon piously and humbly, her hair on the sideburns was stained with a few strands of hoarfrost, except for two Only an ebony hairpin, without any decoration.

Zhao Junzhuo, who just came back from the poetry meeting with his classmates yesterday, has clear eyes and starry eyes. The 15-year-old boy has a handsome demeanor and looks like a handsome man, but there is no smile on his handsome face.

"Xiao Langjun!" Seeing Zhao Junzhuo hurrying towards the small Buddhist hall, the maidservant Yun Qiao who was guarding the door hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Zhao Junzhuo was originally the third in the Zhao family's life, but since five years ago, Zhao Junzhuo's father and his concubine, together with the children from the concubine's room, and Zhao Junzhuo's twin sister Zhao Concubine went together overnight Everyone in the Zhao family was terrified, and Zhao Junzhuo hated others calling him "Sanlang" the most, so all the people in the family changed their names quietly and called him Xiaolangjun directly.

"How is mother?" Zhao Junzhuo stood in front of the door of the small Buddhist hall, stopped for a while, and asked in a deep voice.

Yun Qiao hurriedly replied: "Young lady woke up early today, at Yinshi, she has been chanting scriptures and praying in front of the Buddha."

"En," Zhao Junzhuo responded in a low voice, and after signaling Yunqiao to retreat, he gently retreated to the door of the small Buddhist hall, knelt and sat on a futon beside Mrs. Liu, and said in a low voice: "Auntie."

In the small Buddhist hall, besides the Buddha, my mother has been secretly enshrining my sister's tablet.

Concubine Zhao went early, not as old as Dou Kou, because she died young and was a girl, let alone entered the Zhao family's ancestral grave, even if there is no decent coffin.

If no one cares about it, and there is no incense, it will be like those lonely ghosts wandering in mass graves...

The fragrance of Buddha on the case is full of Zen, and the face of the Buddha enshrined is compassionate, as if saving all living beings.

However, since the death of Concubine Zhao, Zhao Junzhuo no longer believed in these things...

Hearing Zhao Junzhuo's voice, Liu Shi murmured a scripture in his mouth before turning his head slightly.

Mrs. Liu always had a somewhat sickly and sad face, but still had a little frail beauty. On Zhao Junzhuo's face, she could vaguely see a graceful outline similar to Mrs. Liu.

Seeing his son who has gradually grown and become more and more outstanding, Mrs. Liu could not stop shedding a few drops of tears silently with the corners of his eyes covered with fine lines, his heart was like a knife, and he murmured silently: : "The lives of our mothers and daughters are all bought by your sister's life..."

Zhao Junzhuo responded in a low voice, his eyes slightly glanced at Concubine Zhao's memorial tablet, but a trace of complexity flashed in his heart.