'Tap tap'

A sound of horse hooves was heard outside Qingxia Temple, and then the sound of horse hooves stopped, followed by the sounds of greetings from a group of palace soldiers and officials.

Immediately afterwards, Xuanchang saw a tall, handsome young man wearing the robes of a fourth-rank official of the Tang Dynasty, with his hair tied up with a green scarf and a jade belt around his waist. He walked in from the gate of Qingxia Temple, surrounded by a group of officials from Bailu City.

Xuan Shang looked at the young woman with doubt. She must be the new governor of Bailu City. But she was really young.

Xuan Shang's eyes were blurred. She was already 39 years old this year, but she always felt that the new prefect looked very familiar, as if she had seen him somewhere.

A person named "Mei Qing" slowly emerged from her long-fuzzy memory. Only then did Xuan Shang suddenly realize, how come this new prefect looks so similar to "Mei Qing"?

Then, another name called "Mei Xianzhang" appeared from Xuanshang's memory. Xuanshang remembered that the little girl who was not afraid of being beaten or dying and asked her to return the Kuixing Inkstone no matter what had disappeared from her memory for more than ten years.

Xuan Shang originally thought that Mei Xianzhang was dead, but when she saw the new governor who looked so similar to Mei Qing, her heart began to beat uncontrollably.

This is all coincidence, all just coincidence. How could she, a lonely girl, become the prefect of the imperial court?

Thinking of this, Xuan Shang's heart finally calmed down a little, and then she brought all the Taoist nuns and staff in Qingxia Temple to pay their respects to the prefect.

"I, Qingxia Guanxuanshang, come to see the governor."

"Greetings, Governor."

As the people of Qingxia Temple knelt down to kowtow to Mei Xianzhang, Mei Xianzhang, who was holding a horse whip, slapped the whip twice in his palm, then walked around Xuan Shang and others with his hands behind his back, turned and entered the main hall of Qingxia Temple, and the officials behind him hurriedly followed.

Xuan Shang and the others who were ignored were full of confusion and surprise, but without Mei Xianzhang's order, they knelt on the ground and dared not get up.

The main hall houses a statue of Laozi, but the surrounding decoration is filled with a strong smell of cosmetics.

Mei Xianzhang circled the statue of Taishang Laojun twice more, then said to the chief clerk of the prefectural governor's office behind him, "From today on, all worship activities at Qingxia Temple will be suspended. All statues will be moved to the prefectural governor's office for disposal. Also, all personnel at Qingxia Temple will be brought to the prefectural governor's office for investigation."

When the chief clerk heard this, he was startled and asked quickly, "Sir, why is this happening?"

Mei Xianzhang stared at the chief clerk and asked, "Has there been any cases of drowning or abandoning babies in Qingxia Temple over the years?"

The chief clerk was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't know how to answer. He had been the chief clerk in Bailu City for six years, so of course he knew whether these things were true or not.

Qingxia Temple is a Taoist temple on the surface, but in fact it is a "negative product" under the background of the Tang Dynasty's respect for Taoism. Qingxia Temple looks like a Taoist temple, but in fact it does the same things as a brothel. The Taoist nuns here also recite Taoist scriptures, but they recite the scriptures not for spiritual practice, but for fun.

However, Qingxia Temple is different from ordinary brothels. It welcomes celebrities, nobles and dignitaries from all over the Tang Dynasty.

Since they were doing this kind of business, it was inevitable that there would be drowning and abandonment of babies. After all, you couldn't expect the masters to just have some fun and then take responsibility, right? And the nuns also had to maintain their 'purity'. What would it matter if they carried a 'bastard'?

But even though we know about it, this kind of thing cannot be exposed. The Tang Dynasty strictly prohibits the drowning and abandonment of infants among the people. Not only the court on earth, but even the underworld has extremely severe punishments for drowning and abandoning infants.

"This Qingxia Temple is a Taoist temple. These Taoist nuns are all well-versed in Taoist scriptures and have a kind and righteous heart. Such a thing would not happen." The chief clerk said after hesitating for a moment.

"Haha." Mei Xianzhang sneered and said to the chief clerk, "Check your conscience and see if it's still there."

After all, the chief clerk was the third in command of the Bailu City Governor's Mansion, so it was naturally embarrassing for him to be spoken to in person by Mei Xianzhang.

After all, she is the third place winner in the imperial examination, and he is the third place winner who dares to beat the Shangshu in the capital. I have heard of her fame for a long time, but I didn't expect that I would run into her head-on.

When Mei Xianzhang took part in the imperial examination, he won the third place among more than a thousand outstanding scholars selected from all over the country in the Tang Dynasty. This was already a remarkable achievement.

It stands to reason that a person who wins the third place in the imperial examination should stay in Beijing to serve as an official, but Mei Xianzhang was a restless person. On the third day after her name was called out in the Golden Hall, she beat up the then Minister of Civil Affairs on Zhuque Street. This was because the Minister of Civil Affairs was old but not yet old at heart and had semi-forced a sixteen-year-old girl to be his concubine.

So how could he tolerate Mei Xianzhang's violent temper? He fully demonstrated the spirit of "Lun Yu" and pulled the Minister of Civil Affairs out of the sedan chair and beat him up on the way to court.

This incident caused a huge uproar in the court and the country at that time. Fortunately, the Prime Minister Yu Jiang saved Mei Xianzhang. Otherwise, not only would he not be able to become an official, but his title of Tanhualang would have been revoked.

However, Mei Xianzhang was left idle from then on, and the court did not assign her any official position until it was discovered that the Minister of Civil Affairs had allowed his family to annex land and occupy fertile farmland. Only then did Mei Xianzhang's luck turn around, and people praised her as a loyal and righteous man who was not afraid of power to punish "corrupt officials."

Therefore, it was precisely because of his good reputation among the people of Chang'an City that Yu Jiang arranged an official position for Mei Xianzhang as the magistrate of Nanzhou County.

It's just that Mei Xianzhang's ability is too strong. He served as a county magistrate for three years and achieved remarkable political achievements. The scholars and people of the entire Nanzhou praised him. Even those high-ranking officials in the court who were against women serving as officials could not suppress him.

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