Duan Mingchong and Sui Yan stayed at Xiangguo Temple for another day.
Duan Ming Chong was busy with the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heaven all day. Sui Yan had nothing to do, so he had to go to the small stone lantern building in Xiangguo Temple by himself to see the long-lived lanterns that Duan Ming Chong ordered.
The small building was full of burning stone lanterns. As soon as Sui Yan entered, he ran into Master Geng Xue who was holding a Buddha bead.
Sui Yan: "…"
Sui Yan scolded in a low voice, secretly saying that the enemy's road was narrow, but because of courtesy, he couldn't turn around and leave.
He stepped forward, nodding as a salute: "Master is well."
Geng Xue returned a salute with a faint smile, and said lightly, "What is the Lord Marquis doing here?"
Sui Yan didn't blink his eyes: "I'm lost."
Geng Xue smiled, wondering if he believed his nonsense or not, he turned sideways and said, "Where do you want to go, the poor monk will guide you."
Sui Yanpi didn't smile, gritted his teeth and said, "Go... go to the Dharma Hall to listen to the Dharma."
Geng Xue said with a smile: "That's really a coincidence. Today is just the poor monk's turn to speak the Dharma at the Dharma Hall. Lord Hou will come with me."
Sui Yan: "…"
Sui Yan gritted his teeth and followed Geng Xue to the Fatang.
He stared at the back of the monk's head, full of thoughts - if he grabbed a ball of snow and smashed it on the monk's bald head, would Gengxue's temperament to see through the red dust directly beat him regardless of his image.
But Sui Yan only dared to think, but did not have the courage and leisure to do it.
He kept thinking about it all the way, and finally followed Geng Xue to the law hall.
There have been many monks in the Dharma hall, all of them sitting on the Dharma seats, holding the beads in their hands and closing their eyes and reciting the scriptures.
Geng Xue walked to the center stage of the Dharma Hall and folded her hands in a salute.
There is a huge screen behind the seat of the law, vaguely painted with the pattern of wild animals, Sui Yan didn't pay much attention to it, and chose a place by the door to sit down at random, intending to sneak away later.
Just as he sat down with his legs crossed, a surprised voice appeared beside him: "Forgetting to go home?"
Sui Yan tilted his head: "Ah."
It was Gann Ho.
Jiang Enhe wrapped a circle of small Buddha beads in his hands, and was kneeling until his legs were numb. When Sui Yan suddenly appeared, he looked at him tearfully as if he had traveled thousands of miles to finally see his relatives.
Sui Yan was taken aback and whispered, "Why are you here?"
On the throne, Geng Xue had already started to speak the words of Sui Yan and Gan En and the Guluzi that he could not understand.
Gan Enhe snorted and said very aggrieved: "Yesterday Hou's mansion was mixed with assassins, and General Suixun was assassinated..."
After only the first sentence, Sui Yan almost jumped up: "What?!"
Geng Xue said, "Master Hou, is there any problem?"
Everyone turned to look at him.
Gan Enhe pulled him desperately: "General Yi Sui's skills won't happen at all, what are you worried about?!"
Sui Yan was dragged by Jiang Enhe and knelt back again, smiled at Geng Xue, and continued to lower his head.
Geng Xue didn't care, and continued to teach the scriptures.
Gan Enhe also whispered in a low voice, and was pulled up by Sui Yan who couldn't sit still any longer, and hurried out of the court regardless of everyone's expressions.
Geng Xue opened one eye and closed the other, ignoring him. As long as the ignorant Hou Ye didn't come to steal his lottery, everything would be easy.
Gan Enhe was dragged away by Sui Yan, still shouting, "Hey, hey, wait a minute, wait a minute! I still want to listen to Buddhist scriptures!"
Sui Yan pulled him to a quiet pavilion outside the law hall, then let go, took a deep breath, and said, "Tell me about the assassination yesterday?"
Gan Enhe was still pointing at Fatang: "Jing!"
Sui Yan probably couldn't wait any longer. He even grabbed a mass of falling snow from a tree beside him, and threatened, "If you don't talk about it, I'll stuff the snow in your neck."
Gannhe: "… "
Gannhe looked at him in shock: "Sui Wanggui! What are you crazy about?!"
Sui Yan grabbed Gan Enhe's arm and asked, "How on earth did my brother get assassinated? Did the assassin catch him? Who is it?"
Jiang Enhe was dumbfounded by his question, but when he saw that Sui Yan's face was a little gloomy, it seemed that he was really worried, so he said truthfully: "I told you that General Suixun is fine..."
The Hou Mansion was heavily guarded, not to mention that the guards in the Suixun Courtyard were all warriors who had fought on the battlefield for several years. Naturally, those assassins would not hurt Suixun in the slightest.
It's just that the assassins came inexplicably, and they rushed straight towards Sui Yan's side courtyard regardless of life and death, and Sui Xun happened to go to the side courtyard to find something, and ran into the group of black-clothed assassins head-on.
Suixun didn't say a word, and directly asked the guards to take everyone down.
Sui Xun is not like Sui Yan's wild way. He asked his subordinates to interrogate him according to the habit of being in the military camp. It was only in the second half of the night that he learned a name from a person.
- Duan Ming Chong.
Suixun's expression changed immediately, and people were silenced in secret, and the news was spread to Duan Mingchong in Xiangguo Temple overnight.
The details of it are not very clear to Jiang Enhe. He only knows that before dawn, Jiang Ning suddenly pushed open the door and barged in, dragging him out of the quilt.
Gan Enhe woke up from the cold and cried out in pain, "Sister! Second sister! I'm your younger brother, do you want to kill me?"
Jiang Ning threw the robe on him in disgust, and ordered coldly, "Quickly wash and dress, I have something important for you to do."
Gann and Lai Jiji put on their clothes and reluctantly said, "What's the matter?"
Jiang Ning said, "Go to Xiangguo Temple and ask for a peace charm for me."
Gannhe: "… "
Gannhe doubted that he had not woken up yet. Can this talisman still be requested for others
"For whom?"
Jiang Ning said, "Sui Xun."
Gannhe: "… "
Jiang Ning said: "I'm going to the Hou's mansion today. I'm afraid I won't have time to go to Xiangguo Temple. Anyway, you have nothing to do at home, so just run for me."
Gannhe looked at her in disbelief with trembling lips, and did not speak for a long time.
Jiang Ning snorted impatiently, took out a bank note from his sleeve, and threw it to Jiang Enhe: "Here."
Gan Enhe was completely devastated: "Sister, I am no longer a child, and I am not short of money!"
When Jiang Ning instructed Jiang Enhe to do something when he was a child, he would always give him a few pennies or some scraps of silver to run errands. Xiao Enhe was innocent and innocent at the time. Go to help my sister with errands.
And the grown-up Jiang Enhe could spend a lot of money at any time if he wanted to, and there was no shortage of money for Jiang Ning's errands.
Jiang Ning took the bank note and said, "That's right, I can save Suixun buying deerskin boots."
Gannhe: "… "
In the end, due to Jiang Ning's arrogance, Jiang Enhe ran to Xiangguo Temple alone in clothes and aggrieved.
Gan Enhe squatted on the ground, covered his neck with his hands, and said aggrievedly: "Who would have known that when I arrived here, I said that I would ask for another person's peace talisman and I would listen to a Buddhist teaching here. Listen then."
Only then did Sui Yan breathe a sigh of relief, and he touched Gann and the dog's head to comfort him.
"It's okay, let me ask you for a peace talisman together."
Gannhe looked up at him: "Who are you asking for?"
Suiyan snapped his fingers: "one for my brother, one for your sister, and one for His Royal Highness."
Gannhe looked at him expectantly: "What about me? What about me?"
Suiyan: "Oh yes, and you, then I'll ask if you can give me one of the three. If I do, I'll give it to you."
Gannhe: "… "
"Pooh!"
Knowing that Sui Xun was fine, Sui Yan also felt relieved, sneaked back to the court with Gan Enhe, and pretended to listen to Geng Xue talking about the heavenly book for a long time, and only then did he get a few safety talismans.
Suiyan handed a peace talisman to Jiang Enhe: "Here, it's for you."
Gan Enhe glared at him, but accepted it.
"What about my sister's? Give it to me, and I'll give it to her."
Suiyan shook his head: "No need, I'll go back and ask my second brother to give it to her."
In this way, Suixun would not pursue the matter of suddenly leaving the Hou residence and following Duan Ming Chong to Xiangguo Temple.
Sui Yan Ruyi's abacus cracked loudly, the two ate a vegetarian meal at Xiangguo Temple, and Jiang Enhe came down the mountain with the Peace Talisman.
Sui Yan didn't even bother to look at the longevity lamp. When he returned to the yard, he found that the palace servants were packing things around, and it seemed that he planned to return to the palace.
Sui Yan walked into the room hurriedly, and saw Duan Mingchong sitting beside the couch, looking down at the sign in his hand, wondering what he was thinking.
"Your Highness?"
Duan Mingchong came back to his senses after being called by him, raised his lips and smiled, and said, "I'm back, is Xiangguo Temple fun?"
Sui Yan casually said a few words, "Are we going back? Are your Highness's affairs all done?"
Duan Mingchong nodded, nodded at the wooden box on the side, and said, "All the scriptures I copied in Xiangguo Temple are there, and the matter of the ceremony of worshiping the heavens has also been negotiated with Master Gengxue, and there is nothing important to be busy with. ."
Sui Yan said, "That's good."
Sui Yan's things will naturally be cleaned up for him. He only needs to hold the wooden sign he has cut and the peace talisman he asked for, and he will not be in charge of other things.
After half an hour, the group descended the mountain in a mighty manner.
It was not until the sun set that Suiyan and Duan Mingchong returned to Beijing.
It was too late. Tomorrow was a small year. Duan Mingchong couldn't stay any longer, so he only let the carriage stop at the gate of Hou's mansion.
Sui Yan tied the peace talisman he had asked for to Duan Ming Chong's waist seal, and after thinking for a while, he made up his mind, raised his head slightly, and said, "Your Highness will be nineteen after the new year, and the third and fifth highnesses have long since made up their minds. I have been married for many years, but I have never seen you have the idea of becoming a concubine, you are…”
He pursed his lips and said another word: "What kind of person do you prefer?"
Duan Mingchong was stunned for a moment, looked at him in astonishment, and then his ears turned slightly red.
Sui Yan looked at him expectantly.
Duan Mingchong thought about it seriously, and then said softly: "In a high position, it is inevitable that you can't help yourself, the father and emperor should be afraid of losing power, and he has never known which marriage to find me, if the family is too high. He will still be afraid, the door is too low, and he will inevitably implement it, so this has been delayed until today."
In the past three years, Duan Mingchong has seen through a lot.
He no longer blindly listens to the words of the emperor and others, he already knows how to judge the situation and distinguish right from wrong.
Duan Mingchong was telling the truth, but it was not what Suiyan wanted to hear.
Sui Yan said: "If one day, His Majesty actually bestowed the marriage, what would happen to His Highness?"
Duan Mingchong smiled and said, "Even if I get married, that person is probably a chess piece that restricts me. It can be anyone, so for me, it doesn't matter what I like."
Sui Yan smiled reluctantly, lifted the curtain and jumped out of the carriage, and bowed to Duan Ming Chong who was holding the curtain with a puzzled face.
Duan Mingchong was a little dazed. He didn't know where he was wrong, so he nodded: "See you tomorrow."
Sui Yan straightened up, looked up at him, and instantly resumed his smile, then smiled and said, "Okay."
Duan Mingchong just left.
Sui Yan stood at the gate of Hou's mansion, watching the carriage gradually go away, and then returned to the mansion a little tired.
When Suixun heard the news of his return, he came out to pick him up with a gloomy face.
Seeing Sui Yan from a distance, Sui Xun raised his voice and said, "You ran out of the house without saying a word. After so many days, you still know how to come back?"
Sui Yan looked up at him, rubbed his eyebrows, and said, "I don't."
Sui Xun approached and found that Sui Yan was tired and pale, he frowned and said, "Didn't you go out with His Royal Highness, why are you so unhappy? The prince bullied you? "
Sui Yan didn't do anything at all, but inexplicably felt extremely tired.
Hearing Sui Xun's question, he was about to shake his head in denial, but for some reason, after being stunned for a while, the angel almost nodded.
"Well, it's him."
Suixun: "..."
The author has something to say: Suixun: I'm just asking casually. I can't answer your words.