Love Affairs in Chang’an Chapter 281: Here again

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Daming Palace, in front of Xuanwu Gate.

A team of Qianniu Guards ran across the gate, stopping Qin Mubai, Princess Gaoyang and others.

"His Royal Highness, General Qin, please forgive the last general for being rude." The leader Qian Niu Bi was expressionless, and said in an official tone, "The last general is here on order, and I am here to wait for the princess and the general. ."

"It seems that Li Ji has already sent someone to report to His Majesty the Emperor." After Qin Mubai and Princess Gao Yang looked at each other knowingly, they stepped forward and said: "Say, what is your Majesty's purpose?"

"Your Majesty said that Princess Gaoyang and Qin Mubai will help the coffin to go to Dajiao to see and drive." Qian Niuwei replied.

"I see." Qin Mubai nodded and returned to Princess Gao Yang, looking at her worriedly, "Did you hear it, Dajiaoguan."

"Hmm..." Princess Gao Yang's reaction was surprisingly calm, and she nodded gently, "Let's go then!"

"I will see your majesty and concubine de consort later..."

"Mu Bai, don't worry." Princess Gao Yang interrupted him and took a deep breath, "Let's go!"

"Okay." Qin Mubai nodded, and the appearance of Concubine Yin De appeared in his heart.

This is the end of the matter, Princess Gao Yang’s heart knot has been untied, Li Shimin, you don’t have to worry about him at all. The only thing that is a bit reassuring is the Yin De concubine who may have been broken in the big angle view.

How would this poor woman see the body of her only son?

……

Qianniuwei led the way, Qin Mubai and others guarded Li You's coffin, walked into the imperial city, and went to the big corner of the harem of Daming Palace.

Today's palace is exceptionally deserted, and there are few people on the way. Perhaps the emperor has already sent someone to make arrangements. Therefore, all walks along the way are all deserted.

Princess Gao Yang has been silent, her expression is a bit dignified, but her eyes always show a firm look, as if she has made some important decisions, and she is constantly cheering herself up.

The big angle can see it. Several hundred guards stood at the door, and Qin Mubai had known each other.

At this point, the Qianniuwei retreated, and a group of Baiqi came out of Guanzhong, first met Princess Gaoyang and Qin Mubai, and then started to carry the coffin into Guanzhong.

Qin Mubai called a familiar Baiqi privately, and asked: "Your Majesty can be in sight."

"Yes." Baiqi replied in a low voice, then looked around vigilantly, and said in a low voice, "Be careful, general. Your Majesty is unhappy today, and the roar of his old man is heard from the room from time to time. "

"To scold Concubine Yin De?"

"The general will not know... anyway, the general must be careful."

"I see. Go ahead!"

At this moment, several monks walked out of the Taoist temple. He walked out of the Taoist temple without squinting with his hands together, and didn't say hello to anyone.

"Strange, where are the monks in Taoist temple? And the drivers of these big-headed monks don't seem to be small, they don't seem to put Gao Yang and this general in their eyes, and they don't come to make a fight when they meet." Qin Mu Bai whispered to himself.

Princess Gao Yang was standing next to Qin Mubai, watching those Baiqi moving coffins quietly, and then whispered: "It's the monks of Famen Temple, the royal temple. These monks use people who are outsiders to gain the Tao. The eminent monk thinks of himself, he can't kneel down when he meets the emperor, and has been deeply favored by the holy."

"Famen Temple?" Qin Mubai groaned curiously, and said, "Is that the famous'Ashoka Temple'?"

"Yes." Princess Gaoyang nodded and said, "Famen Temple is located a hundred miles west of Chang'an. Its original name was Ashoka Temple. There are more than 5,000 monks in the temple. It was a few years ago, my grandfather. Emperor Wude renamed it "Famen Temple". I heard my father talk about this temple. It seems to be hundreds of years old and was built at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. There is a Buddha Pagoda in the temple, which is dedicated to the Buddha. The relics of Muni Buddha. A few hundred years ago, a man named Ashoka unified Tianzhu and divided the relics of Buddha Shakyamuni into 84,000 and sent them to various Buddhist holy sites to build towers for worship. It is said that, The word'tower' was created at that time. Before that, I had never had such a word in Central Plains."

"Gao Yang, I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable." Qin Mubai also deliberately distracted Princess Gao Yang so that she would not be too nervous, so she smiled and said, "Famen Temple, I have also heard of the famous name for a long time, but I have never watched it. Let’s go see it together when we have time."

"Okay..." Princess Gao Yang smiled and nodded, but there was a feeling of paleness and powerlessness in her smile.

At this time, the Lingshu had been unloaded from the chariots and horses, and more than a dozen hundred riders lifted the coffin and slowly entered the Taoist temple. In order to facilitate the entry of Lingshu, the gates of Taoist temples were all demolished. It seems that the emperor is indeed well prepared.

A Baiqi came up to hold his fist and worshiped: "His Royal Highness, General Qin, Your Majesty would like to please."

"Well, lead the way." Qin Mubai took Princess Gao Yang's hand and patted it gently in the palm of his hand, smiling.

Princess Gao Yang also smiled, and the two stepped in front of them, and followed the Baiqi towards the Taoist Temple.

The Taoist aunts in Guannei disappeared, and they passed through several porches all the way, only the emperor’s melee soldiers and soldiers were defending. After a few hours, Qin Mubai and Princess Gao Yang went to a small independent courtyard and stood in front of a room door.

Baiqi led the two of them here, and withdrew from Xu Yuan with a fist. Lingshu was also quickly carried over.

Qin Mubai and Princess Gaoyang were waiting to ask for a meeting, and the door was opened from inside. Li Shimin stood in front of the two of them, glanced at them blankly, and calmly said, "Come in—bring in the Lingshu!"

"Yes."

Everyone agreed, and Qin Mubai and Princess Gao Yang entered the room with their feet back and forth. All the Hundred Cavalry Guards carried the casket in, and they all retreated silently.

Within a hundred steps in the entire courtyard, there are no other people.

This room is exactly the Buddhist room where Concubine Yinde rests on weekdays. At this time, with her head covered in frost and white hair, she was still kneeling on the futon, bowed her head and nodded, silently facing the bronze statue of Lao Tzu's blue bull.

Li Shimin personally turned the door back, cut his hands behind his back, and walked to the coffin.

He curled his eyebrows, gritted his teeth, his cheeks bulged slightly. Staring at the coffin without speaking, the meaning in his eyes is very complicated.

The room is quiet, and you can clearly hear the bang of the candle burning.

After a long while, Li Shimin cleared his throat and said, "Your son is back."

The Concubine Yin De, who was kneeling on the futon, trembled slightly without saying a word, stood up silently and turned around.

Suddenly, Qin Mubai's heart twitched... Concubine Yin De, hasn't seen her in just one year, she actually looks ten years old? !

Princess Gao Yang was obviously more shocked and distressed. She looked at Concubine Yin De with stunned eyes, her eyes were red, and her voice trembled: "Mother Concubine..."

"Good..." Concubine Yin De smiled lightly, walked forward and gently stroked Princess Gaoyang's bun, then stretched out her hand to stroke the coffin, and stroked it like she did. With the newly painted coffin, he muttered: "My son, you are back..."

No one spoke.

At the moment, it seems that everything is so inappropriate.

Li Shimin has always maintained such a look, silent, solemn, sharp and complicated, and he doesn't know what he is thinking.

"Open the coffin, let me take a look at him." Concubine Yin De did not cry either, her expression and eyes were abnormally calm, and said lightly.

Qin Mubai turned to look at Li Shimin and asked for his opinion.

"Don't look at me." Li Shimin said lightly.

Qin Mubai nodded, thinking: If it were not for the monarch's reservation, Li Shimin would have already lifted the coffin by himself. Hey... after all, blood is thicker than water, why didn't he want to look at his shameless son for the last time?

So Qin Mubai stepped forward, untied the rope wrapped around the coffin, and slid the coffin open.

The body has been embalmed, and there is no smell in the coffin. And the pretense was pretty good. At this moment, Li You seemed to be asleep with a smile on his face, but his face looked like white paper.

Li Shimin, Concubine Yin De, Princess Gao Yang, all quietly looked at Li You's body and fell silent.

Unexpectedly, crying and losing voice and emotional out of control, the three of them are so quiet and surprisingly quiet right now.

Princess Gao Yang has been holding Concubine Yin De, for fear of her mother fainting or something. At this time, Concubine Yin De gently put aside Princess Gao Yang's hand, put her hand into the coffin, and stroked Li You's face.

"You'er, You'er..." She whispered softly, as if Li You slept in the morning when he was young, and she was calling him to get up.

Li Shimin took a deep breath and sighed heavily. He cut his hands on his back and tightened his brows.

"Mother, just cry out..." Princess Gao Yang looked at her mother like this, she was already distraught, her voice trembling softly, "You will feel better when you cry."

"My mother doesn't cry. Why is mother crying?" Concubine Yin De smiled instead, caressing Li You's face kindly, with clear crow's feet in the corners of her eyes.

For a while, Princess Gao Yang didn't know what to say, but she cried.

At this moment, Li Shimin said as if talking to himself: "I, I am going to plate his body with gold and chrome and place it in the sacred mound of the Ashoka Tower."

"Oh?" Qin Mubai couldn't help being a little surprised.

"Why, do you think it is wrong?" Li Shimin asked rhetorically.

"No. Weichen is just a little puzzled." Qin Mubai said truthfully.

At this time, Concubine Yin De chuckled and said: "The Li family regards Laozi as the ancestor and respects Taoism. His majesty's son is to be buried in the Ashoka Tower of Famen Temple. No wonder General Qin is puzzled. Up."

The implication was that it meant to report the injustice for Li You. According to the royal custom, when the prince and princess died, they were buried in the mausoleum of the first emperor. At the moment, Empress Changsun has been buried in Zhaoling, the tomb where Li Shimin will be buried a hundred years later. According to common sense, Li Youdang was buried in Zhaoling. Even if he did not "have the right" to be buried in the mausoleum during his lifetime, he should be buried in the countryside in the honor of Wanghou. Nowadays, he is not allowed to "go into the soil for peace", no wonder Concubine Yin De is so angry.

Li Shimin's reaction was very calm. He said, "I know you will be unhappy. I did this with good intentions. Taoism advocates the practice and attainment of the Tao during a lifetime, while the Buddhism emphasizes reincarnation and karma in the past. Bless you. The sins of this life are so heavy that the demons have not been eliminated. I hope that he can purify the demons and go to bliss under the transition of Buddhism, so that he can be a peaceful and good person in the next life. What's wrong with this?"

Qin Mubai nodded without saying a word. He guessed in his heart that the incident of Li You this time had a great impact on Li Shimin. Even after his own Xuanwu change became the throne, he probably left a shadow in his heart. He hated it, and it could be said that he was afraid of his son, following him to do such a thing. Day defense and night defense, such a thing happened after all. Right now, he wants to put Li You's body in Famen Temple without burying it. To put it nicely, he will let him go through the Buddhadharma and rebirth in bliss, but the deep meaning is that there is some "hanging corpse alert"?

He hopes that his other sons will take Li You as a warning.

"What a cruel father." Concubine Yin De shook her head with a smile on her face, but she was extremely bitter.

Princess Gaoyang didn't know if she thought of this layer, but she shed tears, did not cry or speak.

"Hey...whatever you want!" Li Shimin sighed again, shook his head, and said, "This is the end of the matter, and everything is irreversible. I only hope that Li You will not repeat the same mistakes in the next life!"

"Hey! He is dead, you don't even forgive him." Concubine Yinde shook her head and stared at Li You's face, her eyes revealed bottomless despair and sorrow, muttered, "You Son, thank you for your good father! If there is an afterlife, it is the greatest blessing for you not to be born in an emperor’s house!"

Li Shimin glanced at Concubine Yin De with annoyance, then turned to Qin Mubai and said: "Mu Bai, close the coffin!"

"Yes." Qin Mubai replied with a hand and was about to step forward, and Concubine Yin De suddenly said: "Slow!"

"What are you going to do?" Li Shimin's voice was a bit heavy, with majesty.

"Don't do anything."

Concubine Yin De took out a pair of scissors she had prepared, and both Princess Gao Yang and Li Shimin screamed: "Stop!"

Yin Defei smiled faintly, cut off a bunch of her own white hair and sprinkled it into the coffin.

"You'er, remember the mother's taste. In the next life, I will still be my child."

"You!..." Li Shimin stared at Concubine Yin De wrongly and angrily, not knowing what to say.

"Why, does this also offend your Majesty's Longwei?" Concubine Yin De threw the scissors on the ground and clinked abruptly.

Then, she turned around, walked to the bronze statue in an unusually calm manner, and sat down on her knees again as before.

"Mother..." Princess Gao Yang seemed to feel something wrong, so she hurriedly walked to Concubine Yin De and squatted down, and asked in a low voice, "Are you really going to be a monk?"

"There is a family, and there is no family, what is the difference? A monk and a monk, what are the similarities and differences?" Concubine Yin De said lightly, "cut the troubles and cut off the fate of this life. Since your majesty said that Buddhism can cultivate future karma Sin, then I will become a nun. I will spend the rest of my life, hoping to renew the bond between mother and child with Youer in the next life. Gao Yang, you can do it for yourself, don’t think of me again."

"Mother, don't...I don't want you to be a monk! Mother, do you know that when a nun wants to shave her head, it's ugly!" Princess Gao Yang eagerly shouted, "Father, you hurry up Come and persuade the mother and concubine! She is a dignified concubine, if she really became a nun, would it be royal shame to spread it out?"

"Let her go!" Li Shimin felt a little bit of letting it go.

Qin Mubai silently closed the coffin. But my heart is mixed with feelings.

Li Shimin and Concubine Yin De are really enemies. The son is dead, and both of them are very sad, but they seem to refuse to let each other go. It seemed that they all attributed the sins of their son's life to the other party.

"Mubai, the funeral of King Qi is up to you." Li Shimin said suddenly, "I have already made an order to Master Huiye, the abbot of Famen Temple, and I will also assign Hubu, Taichang Temple, Officials from Taimiao will assist you. If you don’t understand anything, just discuss with them."

"Yes, we will follow the order." Qin Mubai promised.

Li Shimin nodded, his expression still solemn. He glanced sideways at Princess Gao Yang, with an expression that seemed like she was still resting, and finally couldn't help but call out: "Gao Yang."

Princess Gao Yang responded, wiped her tears, and walked to Li Shimin to salute: "The emperor is here."

Li Shimin stretched out his hand, stroked her head with pity, and said: "Later, I will come to Penglai Hall to see my father."

"Yes..."

"I'm leaving first." After saying that, Li Shimin turned around and prepared to go outside, but his steps were a pause. After looking back at Li You's coffin, his brow moved slightly, and finally strode away.

Qin Mubai and Princess Gaoyang watched the emperor go away. At this moment, they all felt that this nine-five-year-old man, no matter how quiet his expression was, they could hardly conceal the unspeakable sadness deep in their hearts.

In contrast, Concubine Yin De, she should have been crying bitterly, and it is not surprising that she even passed out. On the contrary, she did not even shed tears.

The sentence-"Mother doesn't cry. Why should mother cry?" It is like a needle, which can pierce people's hearts.

Perhaps she also felt that the death of Li You was not a relief to study. Or perhaps, grief is greater than death, her tears have already dried up.

……

Shortly afterwards, several officials from Zongzheng Temple, Hubu, and Taimiao came to ask Qin Mubai whether we can move the coffin of King Qi to Taimiao and offer sacrifices to the ancestors. Some simple royal funeral rituals.

Qin Mubai was about to ask Concubine Yin De. She turned her back to Qin Mubai, but first said: "Mubai, let them take it away! It's just a pair of skins, nothing to miss. You'er. The soul of you will stay with me."

"Yes..." Qin Mubai felt astringent in his heart, and didn't know what to say. So they greeted those people in, and carefully carried Li You's coffin out first, loaded it on a cart and transported it to Taimiao.

"You all go!" said Concubine Yin De.

"Mother...just let me accompany you, isn't it?" Princess Gao Yang begged with worry.

"Not good." Concubine Yin De shook her head lightly, but said firmly, "Let me, be alone with your brother for a while! Go to see your father, Mu Bai, do you have a lot of things to be busy? Go all, don’t worry about me."

Seeing that she said so firmly, Princess Gao Yang and Qin Mubai couldn't hold on, so they had to say goodbye and leave.

"Mu Bai, I am so worried about my mother. Do you think she will...find her short sight?" Princess Gao Yang said worriedly after she left the house.

"No." Qin Mubai replied without thinking.

"Really? Why are you so sure?" Princess Gao Yang was a little surprised.

"I don't know." Qin Mubai frowned, looked up at the tall and magnificent palace, sighed, and said, "It's just...feeling."

"Feeling..." Princess Gao Yang murmured and shook her head blankly, "I still don't worry. Or, how about we instruct those Taoist aunts to pay more attention to her and send some sergeants to protect her?"

"Okay!"

Later the two left Dajiaoguan, Princess Gaoyang went to Penglai Hall to meet Li Shimin, and Qin Mubai went to Taimiao.

Some great monks are doing some land and water dojos, and Sanskrit sounds are mingled with incense. Li You's body was taken out, and he took a bath and changed his clothes to prepare for the chrome plating. Qin Mubai deliberately instructed him to stuff the white hair of Concubine Yin De, together with a huge night pearl, into Li You's mouth to seal it.

If there is an afterlife, with Ye Zhuzhu's guidance, and with white hair as a letter, I think Li You should be able to find her mother in this life, and continue this unending bond between mother and child.

At this moment, Qin Mubai hopes that Li You can also travel to another world like himself. Like myself, I can meet a mother who looks the same as Concubine Yin De. Or better yet, he traveled a few years ago and became himself.

There, there is his beloved mother and sister.

He can... come over again!