Chapter 48 Bathing
A few months later, a fire broke out in the Qingguo Palace, and the beautiful and noble East Palace was burned. Then news came that the eldest princess was locked in a cold palace by His Majesty.
Although her title and fiefdom were not taken back by the emperor, everyone knew that this powerful princess was completely away from the power center of the empire.
Immediately afterwards, the prince was sent to Nanzhao for envoy. It should be noted that the prince, as the crown prince, had committed a taboo when he was sent to another country. In the places like Nanzhao, miasma, poisonous substances were rampant, and the people of the Central Plains died nine out of ten. Your Majesty wanted the prince to die in Nanzhao.
Many people think of the reason. Over the years, the prince has performed mediocrely, not as good as the eldest prince, and not as good as the second prince. He usually only knows how to eat, drink and have fun. His Majesty wants to use this matter to abolish the crown prince!
Many people did not think about the cause of the incident to a deeper level, and only thought that His Majesty took his anger on the princess because of the eldest princess’ charge.
However, two months later, the crown prince came back from Nanzhao. The emperor did not expose his feelings because of the prince's hard work. Instead, he expressed his willingness to depose the crown prince in the face of a group of ministers.
I guessed the result. After hearing His Majesty’s personal statement about the dethronement of the crown prince, the court still opposed it. Not to mention the officials who defected to the crown prince, even the officials of the second prince were also expressing their meaning in silence. As for those capable ministers who were neutral and practical in the court, the opposition was even louder.
How can the crown prince of the country be easily changed? Once it is changed, it means that the system of officials in the presidency will undergo great changes, which should be unfavorable for the country.
That day, the emperor, who had never been angry in the court, was extremely angry and stood up and left the court meeting early. A few days later, the auspicious day of offering sacrifices to heaven was approaching. The emperor made arbitrary decision and took Qi Huwei, the Minister of Rites, Taichang Temple, and the Imperial Heaven Supervisory officials. Instead of going to the Qing Temple outside Kyoto to prepare for offering sacrifices to heaven, they went to Dadongshan, Danzhou.
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In front of the thatched hut in the dense forest of the low mountains in Dongyi City, two wooden barrels were placed for bathing. The barrels were filled with warm water of appropriate temperatures. Sigujian took a pot of petals he picked and sprinkled them into his wooden barrel.
Ye Qi looked at him and somehow thought of a certain film and television clip on Earth, reminding him with a teasing meaning: "Be careful to attract bees."
Sigu Jian curled his lips, took off his clothes naked, got into a wooden barrel full of petals, and said, "I haven't taken a shower for a long time, so of course I have to wash it well now."
Ye Qi also took off his clothes and drilled into the wooden barrel and said, "I don't know what rules you set, why do you need to take a shower before killing someone?"
Sigujian rubbed his upper body with his hands and said, "Actually, there is no reason. The people I wanted to kill in the early years were usually people outside Dongyi City. At that time, I was not used to taking a bath, and I was often called stinky when I was rushing to go. As a sword saint, I couldn't take an anger on others because of this kind of thing, so I always had to take a bath before going out to kill people, and then I developed a habit. Yun Zhilan and the others thought this might make sense, so now the disciples of Jianlu had to take a bath before killing people."
"I see."
After saying that, the two of them put their hands on the edge of the wooden barrel together, looked up at the sky, closed their eyes to rest.
The white fox, who had picked up the chicken legs from somewhere, walked on the edge of the two wooden barrels. It originally wanted to hand the chicken legs to Ye Qi. Seeing Ye Qi looking relaxed and comfortable, it was quite curious and jumped towards the wooden barrel. Ye Qi reached out and grabbed it in his hand and threw it aside. It put down the chicken legs in its mouth and screamed dissatisfied.
At this moment, in the dense forest of Jianlu, two steaming wooden barrels, and a fox ringing, making them feel so peaceful.
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Behind the Qingshan Mountain, the second generation of disciples of Tianyidao are here today, and they all knelt outside the temple.
Kuhe was alone in the temple, scrubbing the dust accumulated in the temple, waiting for the temple to be clean and clean, he got up and burned incense on the large furnace in the courtyard.
The fragrance was very long, and I don’t know what material it was made of. But in a while, the entire dilapidated temple was covered with a layer of incense smoke, and the breeze on the cliff could not move at all.
Half a day later, the incense burned out, Kuhe pushed the door open, and Langtao led an old horse, Kuhe took the reins and rode down the green mountains.
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Chen Pingping must be in Kyoto because the emperor is not in Kyoto, and he is the emperor's most trusted subject.
The yellow flowers in the dilapidated house in the yard were all gone last night, and Chen Pingping cut off the withered yellow flowers one by one with some pain.
"There are some troubles. The five great men don't know where they are, and Fan Xian is floating in the East China Sea these days." Fei Jie walked quietly in the house, waiting for Chen Pingping to cut off the last yellow flower, and then he spoke.
Chen Pingping took a piece of cloth and wiped the scissors and said, "Although Fan Xian is not very similar to his mother, in some ways, he is as stubborn as his mother."
"He has not decided on something. Even though he really wants to see something happen, he may not let that happen for some reasons. It was because of this that our Majesty moved him out of the capital and set the location in Danzhou."
Chapter completed!