What happened early in the morning slowly spread to the outside world. When Princess Dongyang heard about it, she accidentally knocked over the teacup. Gao Zihan hurried forward and wiped the hands of Princess Dongyang with a handkerchief: "Mother, be careful of burning."
How could Princess Dongyang still have the heart? She wanted to take care of the water on her hand, so she quickly asked, "Where is the saint?"
"Both the saint and the empress have been imprisoned. In which palace are they imprisoned... slaves? I don't know."
Princess Dongyang lost her strength and leaned on the collapse, unable to recover for a long time. Wu Zhao actually imprisoned the emperor! What the hell is she trying to do
As a member of the Li family, Princess Dongyang instinctively sensed a hint of crisis.
In Princess Yi'an's mansion, Li Zhen also stood up in surprise when she heard these things: "What did you say? The Empress pulled her own son down?"
The maid bowed her head, not daring to speak. Princess Ngee'an's mansion was cleaned not long ago, and now there are so many eyeliners in the mansion, how can the maids dare to talk about the queen's rights and wrongs. Because of the involvement of the cat demon, Li Zhen was forced to shave by the Queen of Heaven, and now her hair hasn't grown back. With a veil wrapped around her head, she looked nondescript. Li Zhen has always been very repulsed to see people, but now, before she had time to put on a fake bun, she just stood in front of the maid, and there was no response.
Li Zhen was stunned for a while, then murmured: "Are they all crazy?"
Sun Gongqing, the king of the Eastern Capital, felt that the fact that his mother and child were imprisoned was enough to shock the world. Unexpectedly, what was even crazier was yet to come. In October, a fisherman in Yongzhou fished up a white stone in the Luohe River, engraved with "The Holy Mother Comes, Yongchang Emperor".
The saint's mother, isn't that the Queen of Heaven? The river produces pictures, Luo produces books, and the sages follow them. Finding pictures in the river is a sign of good luck. Some people in the court praised this as an auspicious gift from heaven, and the Queen of Heaven was overjoyed. She ordered this white stone to be a treasure map, and at the same time led a group of officials to visit Luoshui to accept the treasure map.
On the day of receiving the picture, the town demon priest accompanied him, and also went to Luoshui to worship. Bai Qianhe, Zhou Shao, and Mo Linlang saw the "treasure map" salvaged from the water, turned their heads together, and silently looked at Li Chaoge.
Li Chaoge straightened his neck and looked ahead, pretending that he didn't know anything. As long as she is not embarrassed, it is someone else who is embarrassed.
After the incident of presenting the treasure map, the pace of Tianhou's momentum was significantly accelerated. She took the place of the emperor in charge of the government, amnesty the world, built Mingtang, and vigorously promoted the Jingguang Tiannv and the Great Cloud Sutra. In the autumn and winter of the twenty-fourth year of Yonghui, auspicious signs continued to appear in various parts of the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court complied with the destiny and honored the queen mother as "the Holy Mother of God".
However, the Queen felt that it was not enough.
Not long after Li Chaoge came down to court, he was called away again by the Queen of Heaven. The people in the demon town are used to it, and they do their own things as usual, but after Li Chaoge came back today, she became extremely silent.
The commander is not only taciturn, but also behaves strangely. Bai Qianhe bumped into Zhou Shao quietly, and asked in a low voice, "The commander has already stood in front of the flower garden for a stick of incense. What is she looking at?"
Zhou Shao glanced out, indifferently: "Oh."
Bai Qianhe glanced at Zhou Shao in disgust. He felt bored, so he ran to Mo Linlang's side to gossip: "Sister Mo, use your eyes to see if there is something under that piece of soil?"
Mo Linlang became more cautious after hearing what he said: "What?"
"I don't know." Bai Qianhe blinked his big eyes, and said, "Look at the commander who has been staring at it for so long, maybe there are treasure maps, secret passages, former imperial jade seals and so on."
Mo Linlang believed it was true, she walked to the window, looked carefully for a long time, her expression gradually hesitated: "I think... that seems to be just dirt."
Bai Qianhe followed to the window and muttered, "Really? Take a closer look."
Li Chaoge had heard the chatter behind the window a long time ago. She poked the dirt on the ground with her sword and said, "Come out and have a look. So? Some people come to the main hall for a meeting."
Bai Qianhe, Zhou Shao, and Mo Linlang soon came to the main hall, and they sat in their seats one by one, and there was a handful of grey-brown granular dirt-like things in front of each of them. Seeing this posture, the three of them couldn't help but become serious. Bai Qianhe clasped a little with his fingertips, and licked it with the tip of his tongue.
Hiss... It tasted like real dirt. Bai Qianhe asked: "Commander, what is this?"
"earth."
Bai Qianhe was stunned for a moment: "Huh?"
Li Chaoge glanced at everyone in the audience, spoke uprightly, with a serious face, and said: "Now, I have an important task for you. This task is related to the survival of the demon town. Only success is allowed, and failure is not allowed."
Everyone stood up, solemnly waiting for Li Chaoge's next words. Li Chaoge was very satisfied with their performance, and said: "Now, you take these soils home, each of you goes to the warehouse to get a bag of seeds, and goes all out to plant flowers. Be sure to plant them within two months. produce flowers that can bloom in winter."
There was no sound in the main hall, and after a while, Bai Qianhe tentatively asked: "What is the code to plant? Flowers, or..." Literally, to plant? Flowers
"Plant? Plant flowers." Li Chaoge said seriously, "The soil is not enough for you to dig by yourself. No matter what you need for fertilizer, flower seedlings, and seeds, it is not a problem. As long as the flowers can bloom on the first day, all expenses will be spent All will be borne by the demon town master. After the completion, I will give you a great credit."
Zhou Shao silently pushed the dirt in front of him a little further: "I can't take such a big credit. I won't take it."
Bai Qianhe wasn't in the mood to talk at all, he poohed hard, trying to spit out the soil he had eaten just now. Mo Linlang was the only one present who was able to maintain her composure. She looked at the soil and then at the seeds, her eyebrows twitched strangely: "Commander, it's fine to subdue demons and demons, why is this kind of thing? It's up to us Tube?"
Li Chaoge too? Want to know. Tianhou called her over today, saying that although there are many auspicious signs, they are not natural enough, and people will suspect that they are created by humans. It is best to create a shocking, unique auspicious auspiciousness that can best prove that the Queen of Heaven is ordered by the sky.
For example, on the day when Tianhou presides over the Yuanri court meeting, let a hundred flowers bloom to celebrate Tianhou's ruling.
Li Chaoge cursed hard in his heart, outrageous.
She can work hard to catch monsters, but how can she manage the flowering? But if Tianhou sent her the task, Li Chaoge couldn't do it? He could do it. She stared at the soil of the flower garden for a long time, and felt that it would be better for Lin Yuan to envy the fish and make a net. She couldn't delay any longer, so she planted a few seedlings first and tried.
What if it happens
Unfortunately, the miracle didn't happen to Li Chaoge. Several crops of flowers were planted, and the Zhen Yaosi was digging the soil inside and outside, but none of them successfully germinated.
Bai Qianhe stared at the motionless flowerpot in front of him, thinking that this was something. He was a thief of his generation, even if his reputation in the world was mixed, but at least he was a man of indomitable spirit. Put it here? What are you doing growing flowers
Zhou Shao held up his thick fingers to carefully loosen the soil with the flower shovel, and inadvertently dug up the bulb.
Mo Lin Lang also? On the verge of collapse, she can't, she really can't. She tried every method she found out from the spirits, and added various strange materials to the soil, but none of them succeeded. In the end, Bai Qianhe and the other three put the empty flower pots in front of Li Chaoge. Everyone's faces were almost the same color as the soil.
"Commander, it's not that I don't work hard, it's that I really can't."
"Commander, you can't kill without nodding your head. I can't stand this kind of torture. Change the mission."
Mo Linlang also shook his head slightly: "Commander, it's against the season to bloom in winter, let alone me, even the flower demon? There's no way?"
Li Chaoge pressed his eyebrows with a headache, waved his hand, and signaled them to go down. In the past few days, not only Bai Qianhe and the others have been tortured, but also Li Chaoge. She mobilized all the maids in the princess mansion, and went to the imperial garden to ask for several palace maids who were good at tending flowers and plants, but no one could make the flowers bloom in winter.
Moreover, what Tianhou wants is not a certain kind of flower, but a hundred flowers.
Li Chaoge tried for several days at the Princess Mansion and the Demon Lord, but they all failed. What's worse, such a delay, a month has passed.
There are only 30 days left before the first day requested by Tianhou.
Li Chaoge encountered the biggest crisis in her career. She was worried all day in the town of demons, and after returning to the princess mansion, she leaned against the table? Continue to worry. At dusk, when Gu Mingke came back from Dali Temple, he saw that the princess mansion was digging everywhere.
Gu Mingke looked at the dug potholes on the road and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Gu Mingke has been paying attention to it for several days. At first he dug in the garden, but now it's fine, he dug directly into his yard.
Jiao Wei was also confused, and said, "I don't know either. It seems that the princess wants to plant flowers."
"Planting? Flowers?" Gu Mingke raised his head, looked at the sky where the broken snow was flying randomly, and said in a low voice, "Planting? Flowers in winter is really whimsical. Forget it, let me ask her."
Gu Mingke walked into the study according to the maid's guidance. There was a charcoal fire burning in the study, and the innermost window was half opened. The westerly wind broke into the house with crushed snow, knocking the tassels on the window flying in all directions.
Li Chaoge was sitting in front of the table, propping his chin with one hand, staring bitterly at the scroll in front of him.
Gu Mingke walked over, picked up a volume at random, read it, and asked, "Simin Yueling, what do you do with these?"
Li Chaoge let out a long breath, leaned back on the back of the seat, pinching the center of his brows with a headache: "Is there any way? Can let the flowers bloom in winter?"
This kind of whimsical idea sounds like the handwriting of the Queen of Heaven. Gu Mingke put down the book, and tidied up the table calmly: "Every flower has its own season, so there's no way? Are you worrying about this during this period of time?"
Li Chaoge sighed. She also felt that there was no way? But Tianhou didn't listen.
Seeing Li Chaoge's appearance, Gu Mingke persuaded him: "Manpower can help, but it can't. You can't change the flowering period of the farming season, forget it."
Li Chaoge sat up hard, his eyes still shining brightly: "I don't believe it. I can definitely find a way to make them bloom?"
Gu Mingke nodded calmly, he has already persuaded her, if she refuses to listen, then go make a fuss on her own. Gu Mingke stood up and said: "Then you look for it slowly, I'll go first. My yard is originally flat, but it will be unsightly after being dug by you, so don't dig it."
Li Chaoge nodded indiscriminately: "I know."
Didn't he just dig up a few pieces of land, and they all sued here, stingy.
Li Chaoge flipped through farming books, looking for ways to promote flowering in every corner. But farmers depend on the weather. Except for some politicians, who would be whimsical and grow crops against the farming season? Li Chaoge looked through the Agricultural Records, but couldn't find any clues, and finally couldn't help but fell asleep leaning on the table.
Gu Mingke was approving files in his study, and Lu Qi came in to urge him to take a rest. Gu Mingke responded, intending to turn off the lights first, and then lie to them and watch quietly. After blowing out the lamp, he felt that he had been sitting for a long time, so he stood in front of the window to breathe.
Standing in the wind, he quietly watched the broken jade flying in the night. After watching for a while, he suddenly found that there was still a light in Li Chaoge's yard.
It's already this hour, and she hasn't slept yet
Lu Qi and Jiao Wei had already retreated, Gu Mingke quietly came to the main courtyard without disturbing others. The hem of Gu Mingke's clothes brushed across the threshold, and the maid was still leaning on the door frame to doze off, but she didn't notice anyone coming.
Gu Mingke walked into the study as if he had entered no one's land, and found that the window was still open, and Li Chaoge fell asleep lying on the table. Gu Mingke frowned: "Nonsense."
She is still a mortal, and she sleeps with the windows open, so she is not afraid of catching cold. Gu Mingke stepped forward and called Li Chaoge softly: "Li Chaoge, wake up, go to bed and sleep."
Li Chaoge pressed his arms on the scroll, his brows were still frowning, even in his sleep he was worried about the affairs of the court. Gu Mingke sighed helplessly, he picked up Li Chaoge and sent her to sleep in the bedroom.
Although Gu Mingke moved loudly, his voice was extremely soft, and the maids in the hall didn't feel anything. Li Chaoge was chasing the flower essence in her dream, and suddenly felt weightless. She opened her eyes suddenly, and was about to make a move, when she heard a familiar cold voice behind her: "It's me."
Li Chaoge breathed a sigh of relief. Before she could react, her body had already let go of the attack. Li Chaoge fell back. Only then did she realize that she was actually being hugged by Gu Mingke.
Li Chaoge jumped down subconsciously: "What are you doing?"
"Don't make trouble, it's already here." Gu Mingke put Li Chaoge on the bed, and said, "Sleep well when you're tired from watching, lie on the desk with the window open behind you, so you won't be afraid of shoulder pain tomorrow." Gu Mingke put her down On the bed, the hands tied around her waist and legs bent? Pulled away calmly, as if it should be so naturally. He is so plain that Li Chaoge is too embarrassed to mention it. At this moment, she moved her shoulder and found that her back shoulder was really sore.
When Gu Mingke saw her expression, he knew what she was thinking. Gu Mingke sat down on the edge, stretched out his hand to press Li Chaoge's shoulder and neck, and kneaded slowly: "Still thinking about the Empress?"
Gu Mingke's fingers are slender, with moderate strength, and the acupuncture points are pinched very accurately. Li Chaoge was pressed so comfortably that he was reluctant to refuse. Li Chaoge gave up, she leaned against the screen, let Gu Mingke's hand rest on her shoulder, and closed her eyes wearily: "The Queen of Heaven has an order to let all the flowers bloom on the first day, this task must be completed no matter what."
Gu Mingke remained silent, logically the Empress Dowager is Li Chaoge's mother, if she really can't do it, just talk to her mother. But Li Chaoge smashed his silver teeth and swallowed his blood. He would rather worry about it by himself than to mention it to his parents.
In the eyes of Li Changle, Pei Ji'an and others, Li Chaoge's behavior is undoubtedly stupid, but Gu Mingke can understand her mood.
Only those who are favored dare to be unscrupulous. For children who are not favored, the more high expectations a mother gives, the less she dares to disappoint others.
Gu Mingke didn't persuade anymore. Li Chaoge lay down for a while, feeling that his mind had rested, so he got up and wanted to go back and continue flipping through the book. Gu Mingke sighed slightly in his heart, he pressed Li Chaoge back on the bed with his hands hard.
"What are you doing?" Li Chaoge looked at him in surprise, "I want to go back and check the books. If I can't find a way? I can't even protect myself, so why should I rest?"
Gu Mingke paused for a while, then slowly said: "Is there no other way?"
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The next day, Li Chaoge looked at the sacrificial oration in front of him and asked, "Is that all right?"
"En." Gu Mingke responded lightly, "Although all the flowers have their own flowering period, if there is something strange and urgent, it is okay to temporarily change the flowering period?"
Gu Mingke taught Li Chaoge to write prayers for offering sacrifices to heaven. In ancient times, Taoism was prosperous, and there were high priests in the mortal kingdoms. Whenever there were major national events, the priests would divination to the heavens for good and bad luck. This sacrificial text is not divination, but it has the same function. It is to inform the sky of the state of the dynasty, and ask the heavenly flower fairy to cooperate.
The stability of the mortal dynasty is related to the peace of the three realms, and the flower immortals are all loose immortals, and generally they will not fight against the rulers of the dynasty. After Li Chaoge wrote the sacrificial oration, most of the little fairies would agree to it for fear of getting into trouble.
Sure enough, within a few days, the liturgy lit up one after another. Li Chaoge tried to plant the corresponding flower, and sure enough, it could germinate.
Li Chaoge immediately sent people to collect flower seedlings to prepare for the Hundred Flowers Festival on the first day. However, hundreds of flowers bloom one after another, except for one flower that does not bloom.
That is peony.
Li Chaoge was curious, so he wrote the funeral speech again, but this time he still got nothing.
Li Chaoge was surprised, and went to Gu Mingke with the sacrificial letter he had written: "Did I make a mistake in my sacrificial letter? Why didn't Peony Fairy respond for a long time?"
Gu Mingke was silent for a while when he heard the name, and said calmly, "She won't respond."
His tone is flat, but the meaning is very absolute. Li Chaoge raised his eyebrows suspiciously: "Why?"
why? Gu Mingke turned over a page of the book, but didn't answer.
Because the Peony Flower Fairy was deprived of the fairy bones by himself, knocked down the mortal world, and entered the reincarnation to suffer the sixth life. There are no peony fairies in the sky, how can there be a response to the sacrificial text.
Gu Mingke refused to say, even if Li Chaoge thought his attitude was strange, he couldn't ask anything. But if you think that Li Chaoge will give up in this way, it is a big mistake, man will conquer the sky, if the sky does not respond, she will go to find someone.
Li Chaoge dispatched all his hands to look for skillful hands who are good at planting flowers, especially peonies. Among the folks, Li Chaoge really found quite a few masters.
The Tang Dynasty loved peonies very much, and there are many Zhuangzi around Luoyang who specialize in planting peonies. Upon hearing Li Chaoge's request, a peasant woman wiped her hands on her clothes, wondering: "Let the peonies bloom in winter... My lady, peasant women have clumsy hands, so they can't grow this kind of flower."
This is the sixth Peony Skillful Hand they are looking for, and as expected, like the previous ones, this peasant woman has nothing to do.
Li Chaoge sighed secretly, and was about to go to the next place, when he heard the peasant woman say hesitantly: "However, the peasant woman knows a person, their husband and wife love to grow flowers, and the wife is even more Lan Xinhui, with a clever mind. After her hands The flowers planted, no matter how delicate the species are, can grow up smoothly without even bugs. If it was her, maybe she could grow peonies that bloom in winter."
Bai Qianhe and Mo Linlang looked at each other, Li Chaoge's eyes moved slightly, and he asked, "Oh, who is she?"
Li Chaoge did not reveal her identity. The peasant woman only thought that she was an ordinary aristocratic girl in front of her, so she said carelessly: "This? It was many years ago. At that time, the peasant woman's family was still living in the country, and the couple The house is not far from each other. The couple are very affectionate, and they have nothing to do with the world. The husband sings and the wife follows, tends the flowers and plants, and there is only a black dog in front of the door to watch the house. Especially the lady, who is extremely beautiful and talks. She is also gentle and generous, and she only deals with flowers and plants on weekdays. We all say that she is a fairy from the sky. Her boudoir name... oh yes, it's called Peony."
Many of the women were named after flowers, but Li Chaoge didn't care, and asked, "Then what is her husband's name, and where does he live now?"
"Fulang, I can't remember clearly. This must have happened seven or eight years ago. I just remember that there were always hooligans harassing their family. Mudan couldn't stand it anymore, so she moved away with her husband, and seemed to live in seclusion in the southwest. Their family Is my husband's name still easy to remember...it seems to be Yang Hua."
"Yang Hua, Mudan." Li Chaoge read the two names silently and asked, "Where did they go to live in seclusion?"
The peasant woman slapped her forehead hard. She couldn't remember clearly, so she called out to the man at the top of her voice, "My son's father, Miss Peony and Yang Lang in our village, do you still remember?"
"Peony is such a beautiful lady, why don't you remember?"
"Bah!" The peasant woman spat angrily, and cursed, "I'll settle the score with you, you old man. Do you know where Yang Lang's family has moved?"
In the farmland, a dark and rough man scratched his head, hesitantly said: "I seem to have gone to Jiannan, a place called Pingshan."
Mo Linlang hurriedly wrote down these information, Yang Hua, Mudan, Ping Shan. Mo Linlang sighed in his heart while writing, Jiannan, it's so far away, will they still have time
Mo Linlang was busy writing, so naturally she didn't notice that Li Chaoge's eyes shrank severely.
Ping Shan
Li Chaoge was terrified in her heart, but she didn't show any abnormality on her face. She still calmly asked the peasant woman, "Do the couple have any relatives?"
Pingshan is far away from Luoyang, and Li Chaoge knows how difficult it is to find the road there. Yuan Ri Tianhou will use Baihua, and it must be too late to hurry now, Li Chaoge can only inquire about Yang Hua and Mudan's relatives, maybe other people still have the secret recipe in their hands.
"A relative?" the peasant woman thought hard with her husband. The peasant woman was the first to think of it, and said quickly, "I've never heard of Peony. She has always been alone. I have never seen her have any relatives or friends. On the contrary, it is Yang Hua. He seems to have a cousin. It's called Song Wen."
The peasant woman loves to chat at the entrance of the village, so she still remembers the relatives of Yang Hua's family after many years, but she doesn't know where Song Wen lived or where she is now. But this? It was not a problem for Li Chaoge. She asked Yang Hua and Song Wen's origins, and planned to go directly to Jingzhaoyin to check their household registration.
As a member of the public family, you can never rely on gossip when looking for people. Li Chaoge left with her hands. Before she turned around, she casually asked, "What does that black dog raised by Mudan's family look like?"
The peasant woman froze for a moment, not understanding why Li Chaoge asked this. She was straightforward and said enthusiastically: "It's black. It has very long hair and is very fierce. Peony is beautiful. Often, some gangsters come to make trouble. That black dog just bites people, and the mouth is even beaten out." It's a scar."
Mo Linlang and Bai Qianhe stood not far away, waiting for Li Chaoge for no reason. Li Chaoge nodded, without any fluctuation on his face, as if he was just asking casually. She smiled slightly at the peasant woman: "Thank you."
Sure enough, the black dog mentioned by the peasant woman was exactly the same as the demon dog that Li Chaoge injured when he left the Black Forest.
Li Chaoge clearly remembered that Gu Mingke was there at the time, and he took an elixir from the black dog's mouth. Where did this elixir come from? What is the relationship between Peony and Gu Mingke