Chapter 430 if line - Princess Reading

Pei Zhaoyuan replied that he was a descendant of the Pei family.

Zhizhi straightened up and said proudly, "My name is Pei Zhi, my father is Pei Lingyun, and my mother is Wu Yingniang."

Xue Che also reported his father's identity.

When Mingdeng heard this, he looked at the two children carefully, and indeed saw the shadow of the "two pillars of literature and martial arts" in the past between their eyebrows.

He lowered his head and asked Zhizhi: "You are Pei Lingyun's daughter, so do you know how to play chess?"

Zhizhi: "I only know a little bit. Playing chess requires sitting still for a long time, and I can't sit still."

"Hahahaha..." Murong Ji laughed when he heard that.

I didn't expect Pei Lingyun to give birth to a daughter with such a temper.

Then, he glanced at the children and saw the snowman behind them. Naturally, he also saw that his shoes were pressed under the snowman.

Mingdeng: ...

He was quietly reciting scriptures in the room, and Wuzhen hurried in to take away his shoes. It turned out that it was for this reason.

He was worried that Wuzhen had been cheated, so he found a pair of shoes from the cabinet and put them on before rushing over. He saw several children gathered there playing in the snow.

Ming Deng saw that the children's clothes were a little wet from playing, so he said:

"The weather is cold, come with me back to the courtyard to warm up."

The servants of the Pei family watched from the side. One of them went in to report to the mistress, and the others followed the young masters.

As Zhizhi and the others entered the monk's room, they felt a warmth.

The bright light allowed them to sit by the stove and dry their wet cuffs.

It was rare for Wuzhen to see other children coming to the monks' room, and his happiness was written all over his face.

He took out the pine nuts and preserved fruits he usually ate:

"Amitabha, please enjoy it, little donors."

"Thank you, little master."

Zhizhi took a bite of the preserved fruit and raised her eyebrows. "It's really delicious. Where did you buy this?"

Wu Zhen narrowed his eyes and smiled: "I didn't buy them. My master and I picked the peaches and dried them ourselves."

Zhizhi: “How did you do it?”

“Just pick the peaches first, wash them and slice them…” Wuzhen couldn’t stop talking about eating.

Mingdeng brought hot tea and gave it to the children.

He had never served tea or water in the palace or the prince's mansion before. He only learned how to do it after coming to Ciguang Temple.

The emperor's brother did not allow him to bring anyone to serve in the temple, and wanted him to experience the hard life in the temple.

As a result, Mingdeng found that doing these things was not very difficult.

When he first arrived, the only thing that made him feel a little uncomfortable was that there was too little food in the temple, so he would buy a lot of food every time he went down the mountain.

When he sat alone in the yard eating, there would always be a small shadow hiding quietly at the gate and watching him.

After looking for a few more times, the little shadow ran away again.

Mingdeng once caught the little shadow.

He is the youngest monk in the temple, Wuzhen.

When Mingdeng met Wuzhen for the first time, Wuzhen was still very thin, with thin arms and legs, and it looked like there was not much flesh on his body.

When Mingdeng looked at Wuzhen, Wuzhen was also looking at Mingdeng.

To be precise, it is the nut in the hand of the beholder.

There is no meat in the temple, only beans and vegetables, and no snacks. When Wuzhen was growing up, he would swallow his saliva when he saw food.

Mingdeng brought Wuzhen into the yard and told him, "Whenever you're hungry and want to eat, come to my place."

Wuzhen chewed the nuts Mingdeng gave him and nodded.

After that, Wuzhen came every day because he said he was hungry every day and wanted to come.

Mingdeng came to the mountain to practice Buddhism, partly because he was seeking purity.

It’s not the peace in the ears, but the peace in the heart.

After his mother died of illness, his father made Du the empress, but she was murdered by Empress Dowager Du and his third brother.

He naturally hated Empress Dowager Du and his third younger brother, but he also learned that it was his mother who first poisoned the concubines in the harem, so among so many brothers, only his third younger brother Murong Yu and his seventh younger brother Murong Xun survived by chance, and their mothers died after giving birth to them.

Mingdeng has been impatient since childhood, but beneath his impatient nature, he has a soft heart.

Empress Dowager Du and the third prince are the murderers, and so are the queen mother and the emperor father.

All the grudges were tangled into an unsolvable knot in his mind.

The only thing he was thankful for was that his royal brother did not die as a result of Empress Dowager Du's conspiracy.

If something happened to his royal brother, he didn't know what would become of him, and he didn't know how he would face these injustices.

After Mingdeng went to Ciguangshan, he still felt troubled when he occasionally thought of these things.

But every time Wuzhen came, he had no time to think about these things.

Wuzhen is a very easy-to-please kid. As long as he eats something delicious, he can be happy all day long.

When he was happy, he would talk non-stop beside Mingdeng.

As a result, he didn't even have enough time to recite scriptures, let alone think about the past.

Mingdeng thought this was a good idea, so he went to find the abbot of the temple and said that he wanted to accept Wuzhen as his disciple.

On the day Wuzhen became Mingdeng's disciple, he said to Mingdeng, "Master, you are like Buddha."

Ming Deng: "Monks should not flatter others."

Wuzhen: "I have never patted a horse."

Ming Deng: "...Why do you say that my teacher is like Buddha?"

Wuzhen: "Because the Buddha is very good and kind-hearted, and Master is also very good and kind-hearted."

Mingdeng touched Wuzhen's shiny head and found that the child had been fed into a little fat boy without realizing it.

Dong-dong-dong-dong

The sound of the temple bells rang out, drifting slowly over the hilltops.

Zhizhi and others left Ciguang Temple and wanted to return to the city before sunset.

Mingdeng and Wuzhen stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the traveling figures in the distance.

Mingdeng looked at Wuzhen's reluctant expression and said:

"Wuzhen, if your master is captured and taken down the mountain to become a prince one day, will you also stand here and watch your master?"

Wu Zhen looked up and said, "Master, when will they come to arrest you?"

Ming Deng: “I don’t know.”

Wu Zhen said "Oh", then said:

"Then I also want to be captured. Wherever Master is captured, I should be captured there too."

Mingdeng smiled.

A cold wind blew.

"A-choo!" Wuzhen sneezed.

Mingdeng took Wuzhen back and put on the hat.

Wuzhen sniffed, "I hope it gets warmer."

…

Zhizhi and his group returned to Pei Mansion safely.

Over the next few days, the weather didn't get any warmer, nor did it get any colder.

During the New Year holiday, Pei Lingfeng brought his whole family back to Hedong to visit Pei Dingli and his wife.

Everyone celebrated the New Year together in a lively manner.

For the next two or three years, Zhizhi continued to study and practice martial arts with Xue Che in Chang'an, catching birds and riding horses in his spare time.

By the time Zhizhi was nine years old, Wu Yingniang and the villagers of Heifeishan had expanded their restaurant and turned it into a restaurant.

Pei Lingfeng and Pei Lingyun were promoted.

Pei Xuan also got a position as a small general in the Imperial Guard.

Zhizhi's cousin went to a government school, and her cousin went to a college.

Nine-year-old Xue Che decided that he wanted to be a civil servant in the future, so he worked even harder to prepare for the examination to enter the Hongwenguan.

And the nine-year-old Zhizhi no longer studied in the mansion.

She was summoned to the palace to be a study companion to the heir to the throne.

The one who chose her as a study companion was the Emperor's favorite Princess Ning'an.

Princess Ning'an was born to the Empress, the Crown Prince's younger sister, and the apple of the Emperor and Empress's eye.

But because she has been spoiled since childhood, Princess Ning'an has a flamboyant personality and is not as quiet as ordinary noble ladies.

Princess Ning'an doesn't like studying, she likes practicing martial arts.

In order to let Princess Ning'an study well, the Emperor and the Empress wanted to choose a study partner for her who was both virtuous and academically excellent.

Princess Ning'an said, "You can choose a study partner, but I want to choose by myself."

Finally, Princess Ning'an chose two study companions.

One is Yuan Caiwei and the other is Zhizhi.

Zhizhi was originally reluctant to go to the palace to study, but the imperial edict had already come down, and the Pei family could not disobey it.

So Pei Lingyun and Wu Yingniang coaxed Zhizhi to go first on the first day.

The adults all felt that with Zhizhi's personality, her study companionship in the palace would probably not last more than two days.

Unexpectedly, after Zhizhi went to the palace to study with me on the first day, he returned home in high spirits in the afternoon and said enthusiastically during dinner:

"I have to get up even earlier tomorrow and go to the palace early. I have an appointment with Caiwei and the princess."

"The princess took Caiwei and me to the martial arts arena and the horse farm. The martial arts arena and the horse farm in the palace are so big."

"The cakes in the palace are delicious too, fragrant and crispy, not greasy at all."

Pei Lingyun and Wu Yingniang asked carefully in the evening and learned that the three little girls had a lot of fun during the day and were even practicing martial arts together.

The couple felt that although their three children’s academic progress might not be obvious, their martial arts skills would definitely improve.

Soon, this conjecture was verified.

The Queen and Princess Ning'an also went to the royal spring hunt that year.

If Ning An wants to go, he must naturally take Caiwei and Zhizhi with him.

The three of them originally just wanted to hunt a few rabbits, but they accidentally hunted a tiger together.

The emperor praised the three children for their courage and wisdom, gave them some rewards, and personally praised them as "little heroes who fought tigers."

After the spring hunt, Zhizhi and Caiwei went to the palace to study together as usual.

Although they were in the harem, they would occasionally hear some news from the previous dynasty.

One day, Ning An said mysteriously to Zhizhi and Caiwei:

"Do you know Mi Po?"

Zhizhi nodded rapidly, "I know, I know! I heard when I was in Lingnan that the Mipo Kingdom is right next to Lingnan."

Caiwei's little brain started to spin: "Why did the princess bring this up? Are you going to go to war with them?"

"It's not about fighting," Ning An shook his head. "I heard that a Mi Po man named A Luying came and killed the Mi Po king, then fled from Mi Po to our Dayu."

Zhizhi: "Ah? Why did he want to kill the king?"

Ning An: "I don't know either. Anyway, he not only killed the king, but also brought Mi Po's treasure map with him, hoping to seek asylum in Dayu."

Caiwei: "Then will the emperor help him?"

Ning An shook his head: "My father is still discussing this matter with the court officials."

This news was shocking to the children.

Zhizhi took this matter to heart. After leaving the palace in the afternoon, she did not return directly to Pei Mansion, but went to find the villagers of Black Bandit Mountain.

In this Chang'an City, there is no news that they don't know.

She found Old Man Qin and Old Xu and asked curiously:

"Grandpa Qin, Uncle Xu, have you heard about the traitor Mi Po coming here?"