Chapter 218: Heaven and Earth are the Media

After Wu Xingsu left, Li Qing felt much more relaxed. When he walked through the middle courtyard, he came to the back courtyard. There were many large houses, most of which were in a single courtyard structure, and there was no one to see along the way. It was quiet. Some of them went out with Di Wuqi, and some worked hard all night, and they were already asleep at this time.

The sky is gloomy, and large black clouds float from the east, and constant thunder comes from the distant sky, reminding people that today is Jingzhe.

Li Qing looked at the sky and accelerated his pace.

The yard where Li Jingyan lived was at the end, close to his own residence. Several personal soldiers stood guard at the door. When they saw Li Qing coming, they immediately stood upright.

"Thank you all!" He nodded with a smile and walked into the yard. The yard was full of flowers and trees. There was a small pond in the middle of several rockery. The water was alive and flowed through a small canal.

Among the big trees and flowers, there were a row of houses with white walls and black tiles. As soon as Li Qing entered the yard, he stopped and saw Li Jingyan sitting blankly on the rockery rocks, staring at the swimming fish in the pool.

She was wearing a plain white long dress, which was her favorite color. From the side, she was graceful and undulating, her hair was simply tied up, revealing a swan-like white neck, her long eyelashes drooping, her crystal clear skin, and her nose was beautiful.

Li Qing suddenly remembered Chu Lianxiang last night, and she also had a gentle temperament. It was a pity that he restrained his mind, walked quietly behind her, gently hugged her shoulders, and said softly: "Did you have a good rest last night?"

Li Jingyan was shocked suddenly. When she heard his voice, she felt relieved and fell into his arms. She smiled and said, "I'm sleeping well!" It was ridiculous but with a little bit of pain. Li Qing held up her face and looked at her face carefully. Seeing that her eyes were a little blue, she couldn't help but shake her head and complained: "You must have been sleeping all night, thinking a lot. You will still live in my place tonight and sleep in my inner room."

"Li Lang!" Li Jingyan sighed slightly, and she stared at a lonely little red fish in the pool, "I think that if others marry a princess, they can rise up straight, but if you marry me, you will bring all kinds of obstacles to your career, and you may face three years of migration.

Maybe my elder brother is right, I am so selfish."

"What are you saying? Do you want to marry into Tubo? The only one in the world who can protect you is me. The emperor will definitely not make things difficult for me for money. I was delayed in Yangzhou for the first half of a year, and this matter will be over. Do you understand? I have written a letter to ask the imperial concubine for help. Don't you believe me?"

Li Qing was so anxious that blue veins popped up on his forehead. Li Jingyan smiled sweetly and kissed him gently, "Li Lang, my father has accepted your offer. I am your fiancée. It is your responsibility to protect me. How could I not believe you!"

"Okay! Be obedient, go pack up and move to me."

Li Qing helped her up and urged her, "Go quickly! It's going to rain. I'll go and make an appointment and come back soon. I'll talk to you after I come back!"

After saying that, he sent Li Jingyan into the house, and then went to the gate of the yard to instruct his personal soldiers to take good care of their children. Then he rushed to Huaiyang Restaurant to make an appointment.

Li Jingyan kept watching his back disappear, suddenly smiled miserably, and murmured to herself: "Li Lang, I am willing to die for you, but I can't implicate you, do you know? The second Li Xiangjie, my father has been dismissed."

Manager Lin never dreamed that Li Dongzhu, Li Zi, was the Minister of Revenue in the Tang Dynasty, who caused a sensation in Yangzhou, and the Jianghuai Transportation Commander. His eyes were as big as an egg, and his mouth did not close for a long time. Suddenly, he shouted "Ah!", and he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "I don't know, please forgive me! Please forgive me!"

Li Qing held back his laughter and helped him up. "I asked you to come, not to show off to you, nor to accept your kowtow. I'm looking for you for something."

Lin Dongzhu was a little scared, his legs were trembling, and he sat down slowly, looking at Li Qing timidly, thinking about whether to return the two thousand guan of money to him.

Seeing that he was timid, Li Qing smiled slightly and said, "I came to you because you are from the hometown. You are familiar with the situation here, so I want to ask you for help. Of course, it will also be your benefits."

Lin Dongzhu's shock and suspicion gradually faded away, and he thought that his old friend had become a high-ranking official, and his heart gradually became hot. Since ancient times, isn't it better to do things with the support of the officialdom?

"Sir, please say that the common people will do their best."

"Do you have salt merchant friends?"

Lin Dongzhu felt enlightened and hurriedly said, "Xiaomin's wife and uncle are big salt merchants, and Xiaomin also wants to change his career to make salt."

"That's good!" Li Qing called Gao Shi and said to Lin Dongzhu: "This is my aide Mr. Gao. You can take him to meet your wife and uncle. If you want to do it, you might as well participate together."

After pausing, Li Qing said again: "In addition, you can find me a bunch of local snakes, gangsters, and hooligans from Yangzhou. I'll hire them at a high price."

Master Lin hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can the underworld work?"

Li Qing shook his head, "The underworld is not good, just some unorganized gangsters can do it."

"Xiaomin understands that there are many people like this in the east and west cities. As long as the adults are willing to pay, they can call them dad."

Li Qing called Li Fei brothers and smiled and said, "Use your skills in the Hexi Corridor to organize a team for me. If you want money, just talk."

Suddenly, there were rapid footsteps outside the door, and a personal soldier shouted outside, "Governor! Something happened to the princess."

Li Qing was shocked and rushed out like a whirlwind. He saw a personal soldier jumping his feet in a hurry. Li Jingyan's maid next to him cried and wiped her tears, "What's wrong!"

Li Qing grabbed the collar of the personal soldiers and shouted anxiously: "Tell me quickly! What's wrong!"

"Princess, she is missing!"

"What does it mean to disappear? What happened? Didn't I tell you to take good care of her?" He saw the personal soldiers talking, and he pushed him away with hatred, then pulled the maid over, and asked anxiously: "Tell me slowly, what happened?"

The maid cried and said, "The princess said she was depressed and wanted to go out for a walk, so we accompanied her. The soldier brother followed her, but as soon as she left the door, the princess said she forgot her handkerchief and she would be gone when I took it back."

Li Qing's eyes swept to the personal soldier again. He was so scared that he knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly, "The princess ordered me to go back and urge me, and I would go in a daze. When I came back, the princess was gone."

Li Qing stomped his feet in anger and said in his heart: "Zhengyan, why are you so unconfident in me!"

Gao Shi walked to Li Qing and whispered: "Sir, do you see if the princess will be captured by them?"

Li Qing was shocked. He thought of the princesses and princesses that Li Jingyan said before leaving, and shook his head, "It shouldn't be!"

He then called Li Fei's brothers and said to the two: "You go to the military camp immediately and order all brothers to go out to search. Whoever finds them first will be rewarded with one thousand stakes and promoted to another level."

After saying that, he pulled the maid to the carriage and ordered: "Go back home immediately, hurry up!"

The wind was getting faster and faster, black clouds were pressing against the city, and the thunder exploded above the head. The Jingzhe Day in Tianbao's fifth year brought wind and rain, which made Li Qing particularly anxious.

The carriage was still there, the maid did not bring any clothes, money and supplies. It seems that she was not surprised, she was near Yangzhou.

After an hour, the rain was getting heavier and heavier outside. Li Qing held his hands behind his back, as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, paced back and forth in the room. Suddenly, the sound of running came from outside, and Li Qing rushed to meet him.

An officer bowed and reported: "Report to the Minister, I have been searching ten miles east of the city, but there is no single woman in white."

He was discouraged and immediately ordered: "Go and find it for me again! No matter what color of clothes it is, you can bring them back as long as it has a Beijing accent!"

"Remember the order!" The officer turned around.

Li Qing was anxious. It was dark and cold outside, and it was stormy and stormy. What should she do when she met a bad person?

He could no longer help but rushed to the door, shouting to the sky without saying a word: "Zhengyan, I know you don't want to implicate me, but do you know that if something happens to you, I will regret it for the rest of my life. God, bless her!"

He suddenly turned around. At this point, he decided to ask Li Chengshi for help.

Suddenly, a maid from Li Jingyan ran over in panic, holding a handkerchief, "Master! We found this in the box!"

Li Qing took it and shook it open, and saw two lines of words written on it:

‘Take three thousand worries, stay alone next to the ancient Buddha in the green lamp’

His handwriting is beautiful, which was written by Li Jingyan.

"Come!" Li Qing turned around and shouted, and immediately ran into five or six personal soldiers.

"Go and ask the locals in the mansion, where is the nunnery nearby?"

However, the personal soldiers did not move, looking at each other, and a person hesitated for a long time: "All the locals in the mansion were driven away by Master Liu! No one left."

Li Qing was stunned and remembered the order he gave to Liu Yan. He was so angry that he stomped his feet, "A bunch of idiots, won't you go outside to ask?"

Since there was a clue, Li Qing himself could not stay there, and then ordered: "Notify all brothers to search the nunnery in Yangzhou!" As for the consequences of the soldiers who broke into the nunnery, he didn't care. After that, he grabbed a robe and rushed into the rain.

Li Qing rode his horse and rushed around in the rain. The rain was so heavy that it seemed as if the sky was pouring down. His clothes were soaked inside and outside. The rain flowed down his neck, and almost couldn't open his eyes.

"Let's go look for it separately!" Li Qing shouted loudly in the rain.

In the heavy rain, lightning and thunder, he rushed out of the Ximen by horse. The personal soldiers behind him did not ride horses, so they could not catch up with him, and were gradually thrown away by him.

But Li Qing still did not look back. He suddenly remembered that the most famous temple in Chang'an was Daming Temple in Yangzhou. The only place where Li Jingyan knew was there.

Daming Temple is located in Shugang, northwest of Yangzhou, but it was pitch black in the rain. I didn’t see a single family, and I couldn’t tell the direction clearly. I was only instinctively flying in the rain. I don’t know how long I had been running. When I was passing through a large forest, Li Qing suddenly tied the reins. He seemed to hear the faint sound of chanting scriptures in the forest.

Li Qing jumped off his horse and walked in with the reins. The forest was dense and the rain was gone. Only in his ears could he hear unknown small insects chirping in every corner. There was a "rustling" sound in the bushes from time to time. He crossed a stream and was still dark in front of him. He plucked his courage and walked around for a long time. After walking around for a long time, he found that he had returned to his original place. There was still a chanting of scriptures in his ears. He pushed aside a few branches, but saw a corner of the eaves exposed by the forest. Li Qing cursed inwardly, pulled the reins hard, and walked over.

The temple is not big. Under the lightning, the gate was mottled, showing that it was a long time. Another lightning bolt. He vaguely saw the plaque on the door, with the words "Miao" and "An".

"Haha! I finally found the nun!"

The war horse seemed to understand Li Qing's intentions, and then he heard a long neigh. Li Qing was overjoyed and wanted to smash the door. When his hand reached the door, his strength turned into soft power. He stretched out his index finger and wrote the word "英" on the door. Then he kicked the door open, just knocking Shani who came to open the door and facing the sky, and the orange lantern rolled down to the side.

"Ah! I'm sorry," Li Qing hurriedly apologized, and went forward to help her. She saw that her monk's hat fell off, revealing a naked scalp. Through the hazy lantern light, she saw that her eyebrows and eyes were pretty.

When the nun saw a man breaking in, he was so scared that he got up and ran away. Li Qing followed her and chased her, "Little nun, don't run, I have something to say!" But the nun ran faster and rushed to the door of the brightly lit lobby. Li Qing suddenly stopped. Under the Guanyin statue in the lobby, two old nuns were holding lacquer plates, with a glittering razor on it, and the other held a magic weapon in his hand. His face was long and he was waiting with the perseverance under the Bodhi tree of tens of millions of years.

On the futon among them, there was a wonderful figure kneeling, with a white dress like snow and a black hair like a waterfall, scattered on her thin shoulders. She slowly turned around and showed a beautiful face, which was Li Jingyan.

Li Qing's throat sounded "gushing" and "Shocking Yan!" He finally shouted hoarsely. Li Jingyan was shocked, his palms were folded, and two clear tears slid down his white jade-like cheeks.

Li Qing strode forward, without saying a word, grabbed Li Jingyan's arm and walked out. Li Jingyan's horror scream came from his ears: "Li Lang, I have become a monk."

"Nonsense! Come with me."

Li Qing said intimately: "I still call me Li Lang when I became a monk. Which family is here?"

A gray shadow flashed, "Amitabha! Old Ni is the host here, please let go of his wisdom." An old Ni with wrinkles on his face blocked the way.

Li Qing took off the purple gold fish bag given by Li Longji from his waist and held it high in his hand and said, "I am the Minister of Revenue of the Tang Dynasty, the Transportation Commander of the Jianghuai Transportation Bureau, and the Censor. You can't stop the road!"

The host had some insight. Seeing that although Li Qing looked like a chicken caught in the water tank, he was wearing an official uniform and the things he held in his hand were indeed purple goldfish bags that were not allowed by high-ranking officials, he felt a little timid in his heart, but he said, "After entering Buddhism, you will leave the Three Realms, please come back!"

Seeing her eyes flashing, it was obviously a little unnatural, Li Qing couldn't help but smile secretly, let go of Li Jingyan's wrist, invited the host aside, and whispered to her: "Do you know what this woman is? Let the emperor's granddaughter, Princess Pingyang, you dare to accept her as a monk. This is the crime of extermination."

The host glanced at Li Jingyan. Seeing that she was extremely beautiful and noble and elegant, she couldn't help but believe Li Qing's words. She trembled with her hands and took out Li Jingyan's certificate of honor, "I haven't been to the government yet and I am not considered a monk."

Li Qing took the certificate of overdue and stuffed it into his arms. He hesitated for a moment, but when he came out, he exchanged it for a cabinet ticket. "This thousand guan is the cabinet ticket of Wang Baoji Cabinet. It can be cashed in Yangzhou. There is no need to record it. It is the incense money I donated to Gui'an."

This temple was dilapidated, and the statue of Guanyin has not been plated for decades. The incense is only a few dozen stakes a year. When did you see a huge sum of 1,000 stakes? At this moment, the host even shook his legs. He wanted to take it but didn't dare. After a long time, he said, "The Bodhisattva will blame him!"

"It's not stealing or robbing. Instead of spending money on the road, it's better to leave it to you to do good deeds. Why don't you dare to collect it?" Li Qing stuffed the counter tickets and the purple goldfish bag to her and said, "If a soldier comes to search the temple, you can use this purple goldfish bag as a basis and say my order, ordering everyone not to harass the nunnery again."

After saying that, he turned around and pulled Li Jingyan and ran out.

"Li Lang, listen to me!"
To be continued...