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Chapter 66
Chapter 66
Xie Lian turned his head and asked, "How do you say it?"
Admiration said: "The homeless street children in the imperial city are all a group. They often come to my house to ask for food. I know all of them, and I have never seen this child."
The young child looked at the admiration and said nothing. Fengxin doubted: "Who do they always ask for food? Are you? Are you willing to give it?"
Mu Qing glared at him and said: "It's too much, what can I do if I don't give it?"
Fengxin still felt incredible, stopped talking, and said: "Oh."
Xie Lian looked at them talking and wanted to laugh. Mu Qing said again: "And there are several patches on his clothes. It seems that this stitch must be newly supplied by adults. There is at least one older person in his family. Maybe the family is not very good, but it is definitely not a beggar."
Xie Lian naturally never pays attention to the stitches of the patch, and I don't know if it is made by adults, but Mu Qing used to be a handyman of Huang Jiguan, and he did a lot of piecemeal work at home. Take a closer look, and it is true , asked: "Are there any adults in your family?"
The young boy shook his head and said with admiration: "There must be. He doesn't go back, and most of the family is looking for it now."
The young child said: "No, no! No one!" As if afraid of being sent back, he opened his arms after speaking, as if he wanted to hug Xie Lian. He was still mixed with mud and blood, and Fengxin couldn't see it anymore, and said: "What are you doing, child? It's okay to be in a hurry just now, are you still ignorant. This is His Royal Highness, Your Highness, do you understand?"
The young boy suddenly retracted his hand, but still looked at Xie Lian and said: "The family quarreled and was kicked out. After walking for a long time, there is nowhere to go."
The three looked at each other. After a long while, Feng said: "What should I do?"
An imperial doctor suggested: "If your Highness is in trouble, you can put him here and leave a few palace servants to take care of him."
After pondering for a moment, Xie Lian shook his head slightly.
After all, he was afraid that Qi Rong would not give up, and he would sneak out to find trouble, and said, "I think, let me take care of him first, and wait for him to be hurt. It seems that his family can't take good care of him. When Xin turned back to deal with the stalls that Qi Rong knocked over, he sent a few people to find where the parents of this child were, and let them know so that they don't have to worry."
Fengxin nodded: "Okay."
With one arm still hanging, he wanted to lift the young child with the other. Xie Lian said with a smile: "You are injured, let's forget it."
Fengxin didn't care, and said: "It doesn't matter if one is broken and the other is broken. I broke both hands, and I can take him up the mountain with his collar in his teeth."
Mu Qing rolled her eyes secretly and said, "Forget it, let me come." But he just took a step, and the young boy jumped off the bed and said, "I can go by myself."
The expression of resistance is beyond words, making the second step of admiration extremely embarrassing, and I don't know if I should continue. Seeing that this little boy had five broken ribs and one leg, he was still alive and well, Xie Lian really didn't know whether to laugh or feel distressed, and said, "Don't run around!" After speaking, he bent over and hugged him.
The three took a child and went out of the palace gate. Because Qi Rong had just made trouble on the street, disturbed pedestrians, and knocked over a lot of stalls, Xie Lian was deeply guilty, shameless to see the people of the imperial city, and the whole group was disheartened, dared not show their faces, and stalked the path Walk. Along the way, the young boy was very well behaved in the arms of Xie Lian, let him not make a sound, he has been silent, Fengxin stared: "This kid kicked me yesterday, but today he looks like this, it really looks at people. Dishes."
Mu Qing said: "His Royal Highness, it is naturally much more attractive than ordinary people."
I don't know why, even if he speaks kind words, his words are always a little uncomfortable. Fengxin didn't want to ignore him at the moment. After walking for a while, the wind said: "No. I still think, Your Highness, you can't just hold a child of unknown origin for others to see."
Thanks for the pity: "What's the big deal?"
Feng Channel: "You are His Royal Highness!"
As he spoke, he caught a glimpse of a tattered scooter at the alley in front of him, and said, "Put the child there and drag it away!"
Mu Qing immediately said: "Let's talk about it first, I won't drag this thing up the mountain."
Wind channel: "No one expects you to drag." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and dragged the young child out of Xie Lian's arms. As soon as it was in his hands, the young child began to struggle again, thanking him: "Forget it, forget it. Maybe someone else wants this car!" And Fengxin has already put people on the car. At this moment, someone not far away suddenly said, "Are you... the prince?"
Immediately someone shouted: "Yes yes yes! That is the prince! Yesterday his mask fell off, and I saw his face with my own eyes! It is him!!!"
"catch him!!!"
The three of them all groaned in their hearts. Although Xie Lian didn't think that he did something wrong in the sacrifice to the sky yesterday, he also knew that others didn't think the same as him. The interruption of Yueshenwu is a great ominous sign, and the royal family and nobles are taboo. The common people have passed the excitement of yesterday, and after thinking about it, they will ask everywhere what this accident means, and they will probably not be more forgiving. In addition, Qi Rong was making trouble in the street today, causing a lot of resentment. If you are surrounded at this time, it is probably not good. Before thinking about it, Mu Qing yanked him and said, "His Royal Highness, run!"
Fengxin also dragged the scooter and urged him: "His Royal Highness, I broke an arm and can't stop these mob, go!"
However, outside the alley, the people on the street rushed over excitedly, blocking all the way out. The four of them had no way to retreat. Seeing that countless pairs of wide-open eyes were surrounded, Xie Lian thought hard: "It's a big deal to be beaten, I won't fight back!"
Unexpectedly, although the crowd rushed up, they did not beat him as expected. Instead, Shi Qi Ba stretched out his hands and threw him up, cheering in unison: "His Royal Highness!"
Xie Lian was thrown up and down several times, still maintaining a very calm description. Everyone said in a loud voice, "His Royal Highness, you jumped on Shenwu Street yesterday, it was really wonderful!"
Someone praised: "That jump was amazing! Really, I thought it was Emperor Shenwu who came in person, and I got goosebumps!"
Someone affirmed: "His Royal Highness is right to save the child! Other people's lives are lives, aren't our poor children's lives? If only I would do the same!"
Someone said angrily: "That's right. Today, I heard someone say that His Highness has done something bad, and I can't listen to it anymore. If the one who fell was a royal family member, I'm afraid those people would not say that. Your Highness, you are a thousand. Don't pay attention to this kind of person!"
"His Royal Highness is the one who really thinks about us..."
From the guilty conscience at the beginning, to the confusion on the way, to the end, was infected by these enthusiastic faces. The crowd crowded out thanks to the pity, and on the street, more and more people gathered. Fengxin, Mu Qing and the young boy were far away from the outer layer and could not be squeezed in at all. They could only follow the long queue and follow the parade. This crowd of people is actually no smaller than the pomp of yesterday's sacrificial tour. Every time Xie Lian wanted to leave, he would be forcibly shoved back, and he would be pushed to the top again, but he was not allowed to come down.
Xie Lian couldn't help but be amused and reassured: "The opinions of the common people and the national teachers are completely opposite. It seems that I am right."
When we returned to Taicang Mountain, the sunset was burning as intensely as ever.
Passing through the tall mountain gate, on the long bluestone mountain road, there are Taoists everywhere carrying buckets and carrying firewoods up and down. They greeted Xie Lian and his party one by one, and many looked at this strange four people in a car. Fengxin pulled the car with one hand, like a diligent young and middle-aged black cow. Xie Lian and Mu Qingtou laughed reservedly and half-dead at first, but then they were just casual.
The maple forest is long, and the wheels turn slowly. When climbing the mountain, Xie Lian pushed the car behind him. Because he was in a good mood, he casually asked the young boy, "Little boy, what is your name? What is red?"
The young child stared at him and whispered, "I... I don't have a name."
Thanks for a pity, and said: "Didn't your mother give you a name?"
The young boy shook his head and said, "My mother is gone."
Xie Lian felt pity and said, "Then what did your mother call you before?"
The young boy hesitated for a moment and said, "Hong Hong'er."
Xie Lian smiled and said: "Your nickname is quite cute, so I will call you that."
Hong Hong'er seemed shy as soon as she spoke to him, and lowered her head. At this time, twilight has come, and on the mountains in the distance, the lights of various palaces are lit up in clusters. Among them, the brightest is the highest peak of Taicang Mountain, Shenwu Peak.
The Shenwu Temple on Shenwu Peak is as bright as day, and the bright lights of the stars gather on the top of the peak. Looking at it, Xie Lian sighed.
The sigh is not because of hurt, but because the scene is too beautiful and spectacular. Every bit of bright light is a bright lamp enshrined in the Shenwu Temple. Every lamp is the most devout prayer of a believer. The more lanterns in the temple, the more powerful the priest will be. If you want to provide a lamp in the Shenwu Hall of Huangji Temple, it is hard to find a thousand pieces of gold. If you have money, power, ability, affection, and predestined relationship, you must have one of the five things before you can enter the meditation offering lamp. However, there are more people in the world who have none of the five.
The four of them stopped and looked at the splendid Shenwu Temple in a trance, with different expressions. At this moment, a slightly familiar voice shouted: "His Royal Highness!"
Xie Lian turned around and saw a white-faced young man rushing towards him, but it was the gatekeeper of the Four Elephants Palace, and said sternly: "Brother Zhu, what's the hurry?"
Brother Zhu saw Mu Qing behind him, his face was slightly embarrassed, and he pretended not to see him, and said: "The national teacher is invited, I have been looking for you for a long time, and now I am in the Shenwu Temple, waiting for you to go."
Xie Lian was stunned when he heard the words, knowing that most of it was for the accident of yesterday's sacrifice to Tianyou, and said: "Okay, there is Senior Brother Lao."
Ling Fengxin and Mu Qing took Hong Hong'er back to Xianle Palace first, and Xie Lian went to Shenwu Peak alone.
Outside the main hall, the lingering clouds of smoke from the incense cauldron dyed the entire Shenwu Temple like an illusion. On both sides of the incense tripod, rows of long-bright lamps are suspended in the air, neatly lined up into a lamp wall. Each long-bright lantern is written with the name and prayer of the person offering the lamp in dignified official script. Entering the hall, the two sides of the hall are also row after row of hanging lanterns. The ever-bright lanterns offered in the temple are more precious than those outside the temple.
In front of the huge shrine, the main national teacher was offering incense in front of the statue of Emperor Shenwu, and the three deputy national teachers were behind him, bowing to the statue together.
After Xie Lian entered, he bowed his head slightly and said, "National teacher."
Several national teachers turned their heads after worshipping and motioned him to come forward.So Xie Lian also went over, took the incense, and offered it devoutly.
After a long while, the national teacher said: "His Royal Highness, the few of us discussed it around, and there are only two solutions for the sacrifice to the sky."
Thanks for the pity: "The national teacher, please speak."
The national teacher said: "The first method is to find the child who destroyed the festival. I will wait for the opening of the altar. At least, I will seal his feeling as an atonement."