Chapter 34 I am so grateful!
His towering presence intimidated the leading man, but he clung to the pottery tightly and said stubbornly, "We're escorting the Holy Buddha! How dare you go against us?" He spat and snorted, "How dare a bunch of outlaws be so arrogant!"
Upon hearing this, Master Ruan immediately grabbed Ruan Qingsong's arm and whispered, "Qingsong! Don't get angry. Don't bother with them. Don't you know about the Holy Buddha Temple?"
As an editor of the Hanlin Academy, who had been in the court for a year and was also the prince's tutor, Ruan Qingsong naturally knew about it.
Your Majesty already believes in these things, and many of the things in the Imperial Observatory come from the Holy Buddha Temple.
This is not an ordinary temple. It is said that the monks inside are all eminent monks and highly respected.
But these guards don't treat them as human beings! !
Little did she know that Ruan Mian also heard these words. Her eyebrows moved slightly, and she thought of a monk named Puhui in the original book.
She stepped out, blocking the way of the guards, her eyes cold as she said, "I want to see if Master Puhui will tolerate your robbery!"
After saying that, she strode towards the post station. When she met someone who tried to stop her, she kicked them away without hesitation and shouted something inside.
"Puhui! Don't you want to save your master? I'll tell you how!"
In the original book, the Holy Buddha Temple encountered a disaster and Puhui's master was on the verge of death. He was burdened with an important task and headed north to seek help from His Majesty.
However, he was used by the fifth princess to deceive the emperor into building a large mausoleum, which led to a natural disaster that year that emptied the national treasury and left no food for disaster relief. Then heavy snow filled the valleys, many people froze to death, famine broke out, and the people were left with no chance of survival.
This was all part of the plan of the Fifth Princess and the Prince of Yan, to gradually dismantle the current regime.
But the ones who really suffered and sacrificed were countless people. They were countless victims like Ruan Fu.
And this monk Puhui, from his initial kindness, completely lost himself in the extravagance and decadence of Kyoto and the wealth and power of the emperor.
It harmed a lot of people.
So Ruan Mian rushed into the post station and saw Pu Hui coming out of a room. The guards who followed him saluted hurriedly.
"Master, this woman is just an exiled prisoner, talking nonsense here! I will take her away immediately!"
"Take her away!"
Ruan Mian stared straight at Pu Hui and said only one sentence: "I'll tell you how to save your master."
Pu Hui's face changed slightly, and he looked at Ruan Mian with doubt. Seeing that the guards were about to take her away, he immediately spoke out to stop them.
Seeing this, Ruan Mian strode into the room in front of the shocked eyes of those people and kicked the door shut!
At the same time, the Ruan family outside was very anxious, and the people from the Qi Mansion who had not spoken for a long time also took the opportunity to talk nonsense.
"You're really courting death!!"
"Sir, are we just going to let Shengpu bump into us and implicate us? He is a highly respected monk! How can we let her do what she wants?" However, Ruan Mian sat down expressionlessly and took out some banknotes from his pocket.
When Pratt & Whitney saw this, he was shocked!
Just as he was about to speak, Ruan Mian slammed the banknote on the table.
"You went to Kyoto simply to seek help. Your Holy Buddhist Temple has been destroyed by evildoers, leaving thousands of monks homeless. Your master is seriously injured and needs a famous doctor to save him.
Take these banknotes for emergency use now, and then go to Shengpu Island to find a miracle doctor named Zili, who can cure your master."
The silver notes here are worth more than one thousand taels! !
Pu Hui was astonished. "Young lady, how did you know that my Holy Buddha Temple was in trouble? And where did you get all this silver?"
She is an exiled prisoner, how could she have so much cash!
Ruan Mian was well prepared, and he lowered his voice to sound mysterious: "To be honest, although I am just an exile, there are adults behind the scenes arranging some things."
"Although the Holy Buddha Temple is far from the capital, it is a place that His Majesty values, so naturally there are informants keeping watch. However, the journey is long, so just in case, His Majesty passed certain tasks down through the ranks, and finally into my hands."
"These banknotes are what Master Xie wanted."
"Thank you, sir? But the Prime Minister..."
Pratt & Whitney was shocked for a moment, but soon felt relieved.
"Your Excellency is His Majesty's most trusted person, and our Holy Buddha Temple is the temple that His Majesty holds most dear. In this time of distress, His Majesty has asked Your Excellency for assistance. We... are truly grateful!"
"You also know that this matter cannot be handled openly. Since you have received the instructions from the Lord and His Majesty, please return immediately. As for my affairs, you don't need to interfere."
Ruan Mian stood up. These banknotes were all looted from the Qi Mansion anyway.
In the original book, the Holy Buddha Temple also helped refugees, and the abbot did a lot of good things.
In this case, this money should be used to accumulate merit for the ancestors of the Qi family.
At this moment, Monk Puhui was naturally grateful: "In this case, I will show up at the prefect's birthday banquet tomorrow, and then I will set off immediately."
He was able to have guards escort him all the way from the Holy Buddha Temple thanks to the friendship between the prefect Ding Cheng and his master.
After the temple suffered a disaster, the abbot wrote a letter, and Ding Cheng immediately sent people to meet the temple, under the pretext of helping Puhui to go to Beijing, but in fact Ding Cheng still had selfish motives.
So much so that in the original book, these two people committed all kinds of evil in the later period.
Since it has come to this, Ruan Mian simply extinguished the flames of their relationship!
"Does the venerable monk know the true face of the prefect? He exploits the people's wealth, abuses his power for personal gain, commits countless evil deeds, even forcibly abducts women, and commits all sorts of evil deeds!"
"Master Ding is not like that. He has a very good relationship with my master and often donates incense to the temple. He..."
Ruan Mian interrupted him, "Whether he is like this or not, you will see for yourself tomorrow when you go to his house! Then I hope the monk will uphold his compassion and fight for a way out for the suffering people."
After saying this, she opened the door and walked out without hesitation.
When she returned to the team, her brothers and the others looked at her anxiously, fearing that something might have happened to her.
Liu, already harboring a grudge, couldn't help but grumble a few more times, "It seems the monk was merciful and let you go, little jerk. Let's see if you dare to continue to act arrogantly on the road to exile! You were robbed this time, but you won't be so lucky next time."
As soon as she finished speaking, the guards came out one after another, and everyone was so scared that they quickly shrank to the side.
However, this time they did not come to continue stealing things, but returned all the things they had just stolen to them with smiles on their faces.
Not only that, they also brought some delicious food, thick mattresses, and clothes, and invited them to rest in the inn.
"Miss, it was all our fault before. We were blind and didn't recognize the real man. We bumped into you! Please don't hold it against us."
"Yes, yes, girl, these things are given to you by the monk. If they are not enough, I will send people to the city to buy more."
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