The distance from the Li Palace to the Imperial Palace is not far.
It's just that with Chen Changsheng's current status, it's quite easy to enter the Li Palace, but it's a bit troublesome to enter the Imperial Palace, especially if he didn't report in advance, Xue Xingchuan was finally alarmed.
"Why did Dean Chen enter the palace late at night?"
"I'm going to see Luoluo."
Xue Xingchuan asked casually, Chen Changsheng answered more casually, and the heavily guarded palace opened the door.
Chen Changsheng followed an eunuch to the depths of the palace, and he woke up after a while. He didn't understand why Xue Xingchuan was so talkative. He didn't know, it was because Xue Xingchuan had waited for the Holy Empress to return from the other side of the secret door of the palace wall, and Xue Xingchuan thought that the Holy Empress had come to see the young man that time.
Similarly, looking at Chen Changsheng's back, Xue Xingchuan also couldn't understand why this young man behaved so calmly and naturally in front of him. He is the divine general of the Holy Empress, and his own brother Xue He was stabbed by Chen Changsheng in the wilderness. He cut off his left arm, but after Chen Changsheng returned to the capital, he met him several times, not to mention sorry, he wasn't even vigilant.
Luoluo had a good time in the palace, although the palace wall cut off the lively world, but compared with Qingye World, the sky and sun here are real, just a bit boring. So when she knew that Chen Changsheng came to see her, she was very happy. The two master and apprentice talked for a long time in the quiet garden, and they talked about happy things.
The topic only revolved around the big banyan tree and the lake, and it was just about the rapid improvement of the food quality of the Orthodox Academy, Xuanyuan Po's food intake became more and more exaggerated, Tang Sanshiliu's dark circles became heavier and heavier, and Su Moyu received a letter from his aunt. After receiving the letter, his face was quite ugly, and Zhe Xiu's face was still the same, like a dead person.
Chen Changsheng also talked about a dozen or so of the freshmen of the Orthodox Academy who were relatively talented, and said that if they were lucky, they should be able to pass the preparatory class, and they might even be able to rank in the second half of the top three in the imperial examination.
Luoluo was very happy to hear it, but compared to before, she talked a lot less. Most of the time, she just looked at Chen Changsheng with bright eyes.
Chen Changsheng thought about Shuang'er he had seen in Xu's residence earlier, and thought it was a natural change of the little girl after she grew up, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
Time passed quickly in the chat, and neither of them noticed that it was late at night, until Li Nushi, who was hiding in the bushes, felt something was wrong and coughed twice. It was only then that Chen Changsheng remembered his main purpose of visiting Luoluo tonight, took her hand and walked to the wall, blocked all possible prying eyes with his body, took out something and stuffed it into her hand.
Luoluo was a little surprised, looking at the stone bead in her palm, she didn't understand why her husband gave her this thing.
"I'm not sure if telling you the truth is good or bad for your practice, so I won't say it for now, but in short... this is a good thing."
Chen Changsheng looked at her and said, "Don't lose it, and hold it in your hand for a while when you have nothing to do. It's best not to let people see it."
Luoluo said seriously: "I will definitely not lose the gift my husband gave me."
When Jin Yulu sent Chen Changsheng away, he hesitated to speak.
Chen Changsheng was a little puzzled, and asked, "Uncle Jin, what's the matter?"
Jin Yulu sighed in his heart, after all, he still didn't say anything about it, and asked, "What did you talk to His Highness in the corner just now?"
Chen Changsheng said, "It's nothing, I gave her a little gadget."
At the beginning, Jin Yulu refused to be an official in Baidi City and made a living by farming, but he knew his temperament by looking at the silk robe full of copper coins on his body, and asked with interest: "Very valuable? Is it something from the Tang family?"
In his opinion, Chen Changsheng was very poor, and he used to rely on His Royal Highness Luoluo and Tang Thirty-Six to help him. Where could he get anything good, it should be a gift from the Tang family.
Chen Changsheng shook his head and said, "I picked it before, it's not worth much."
When he heard that it was actually a pick, and it was not worth the money, Jin Yulu immediately lost interest, and thinking about what would happen next, he couldn't help but get even more annoyed.
"Your Highness gave you so many good things, and you never thought of giving anything in return?"
A person like Chen Changsheng couldn't tell that this sentence meant something, and said honestly, "This is the best thing around me."
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By the time we returned to the Orthodox Academy, it was already very late at night.
Normally, Chen Changsheng had already fallen asleep, but he didn't today.
He went to the Baicao Garden first, then to the library, and then returned to his room.
Standing in front of the window, looking at the stars in the lake, he thought of the night sky cut by the black eaves in Li Palace.
It was Master's arrangement to go to Lingyan Pavilion. The box Wang Zhice hid in the wall was also told by Master, but the switch mechanism of that box has not been moved, which means that no one has opened that box. This also means that the master should not know the contents of Wang Zhice's notebook, nor would he know that Wang Zhice mentioned his name in it—Ji Daoren.
From Wang Zhice's notes, it can be seen that Taoist Ji was already very famous during Taizong's reign, and he could come and go to the palace and the mansions of princes and ministers at will. How about switching between identities freely
Chen Changsheng's eyes fell on the book at hand, which was the memorabilia of the Orthodox Academy. Earlier in this book, he found the date when Master took over as the dean of the Orthodox Academy and some major events that happened before and after, but he still couldn't figure out how Master could hide it from all living beings in the world, and most importantly, how could he Without hiding it from the Pope, you must know that they are brothers from the same school, and it is said that during the incident at the Orthodox Academy, the master died at the hands of the Pope... Is there any hidden secret in this
There are many things he can't understand about the whole thing. For example, the Pope's change was so sudden that the Taoist Siyuan and the Lord of Linghai that he had cultivated by himself broke with him. Why? He once asked the Pope face to face, and the answer he got was a very powerful reason, but it still completely dispelled his doubts.
How the world is like, can it really affect the choice of a saint
After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't figure it out, and it involved his master and senior brothers, and he couldn't communicate with Tang Sanshiliu and Luoluo. He shook his head helplessly, stuffed the book into the deepest part of the bookshelf, and walked away. Going back to the window, taking advantage of the starry sky falling in the night sky to calm down, close your eyes and start meditating, your spiritual consciousness moved slightly, and landed on the black stone bead.
The cold wind was blowing on his face, and he suddenly woke up. He appeared in Zhou Garden, still standing at the top of the mausoleum.