Master Rinpo walked in from outside the courtyard and saw Hao Qing and the Queen Mother here. After bowing to the Queen Mother, he turned around and asked.
"Master, I... I was sweeping the yard. The Queen Mother was ordered just now, so I..."
Master Rinpo nodded, "Queen Mother, Hao Qing is my disciple. Just give me whatever you ask me."
"When I woke up this morning, the poor monk asked the donors to identify it. It was indeed Haoran who was sweeping the fallen leaves by the lake yesterday."
Yesterday, Cui Yun was wondering who told Xu Wan that Queen Mother Feng Jia was here. Since it wasn't those deaf-mute people, it must be someone from this temple.
Therefore, Sheng Shaoqing asked Cui Jun to tell Master Rinpo and ask the deaf-mute people to identify themselves so that they could know who was talking too much.
Obviously, the result was almost exactly what she guessed.
"However, please forgive him this time for the sake of his first offense. The poor monk will give him a good lesson."
Master Rinpo said with a worried look on his face, "He violated the five precepts, made false claims, and talked too much."
Hao Qing shrank his neck, he knew that if Senior Brother Haoran's mouth was left alone, it would cause disaster sooner or later.
Sheng Shaoqing waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter. It's just a small matter for the Ai family. Master can do whatever he wants."
After Master Rinpo thanked him, he took Hao Qing and left.
As soon as Hao Qing went out, his master pulled him back by the ears, "Master! Master! It hurts!"
"I'm just saying, why are you so weird lately? Yesterday you even offered to come here to clear the snow. It turned out to be to "encounter" a noble person?!"
"What? Now that you have enough food and clothing, you want to abandon Buddhism and return to secular life?!"
Hao Qing rubbed his painful ears, "Master, you misunderstood!"
Master Rinpo was very angry, "Why did I misunderstand?"
"Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking. Yesterday Haoran has completely disgraced Jingning Temple. Please be calm."
Hao Qing muttered, "Senior brother is senior brother, and I am me!"
"Why, what's the difference between you two? Not only do you want to gain power, but your senior brother is more promising than you. He told me shamelessly that he wanted to restore the glory of Ten Thousand Buddhas in the past."
"Senior brother, that's just wishful thinking!"
Master Rinpo was so angry with these two disciples that he said, "Just know that he is just wishful thinking! What about you, what do you want to do?!"
"My heart is not as big as that of my senior brother. I just want to be grateful to the Queen Mother."
Master Rinpo was confused by these words, "What does this mean?"
Hao Qing lowered his head, "When my mother kicked me out, I was only eight years old. Fortunately, Master took me in. I have enough to eat and live to this day, and I can still feel the compassion of my Buddha. But...my mother...
...In order to feed my brother, she can only eat Guanyin soil every day, just to save money for her brother."
"Last month I went down the mountain to beg alms, and I couldn't bear to see her skinny appearance. But on the second day, Yun Shangshu issued an edict to divide the fields according to the population of each household. If there is unclaimed wasteland, whoever reclaims it first will be the owner.
, and if you don’t have money to buy seeds, the government can give you credit first..."
"My mother fainted while receiving the seeds. Yun Shangshu asked someone to come and treat her. Later, I wanted to thank Yun Shangshu, but he said: Monks pay attention to fate. If you want to thank, then thank the Queen Mother in the imperial city. If there is no Queen Mother,
I have no chance to be here either.”
"So, you came to clear the snow for the Queen Mother today?"
Hao Qing nodded and said dejectedly, "This is the only thing I can do. I will sweep a whole house of snow for the Queen Mother. I only hope that the Queen Mother will sweep away all the snow in the world."
Master Rinpo sighed. He was moved by his disciple's sincerity. The anger he was angry with Hao Ran this morning had quietly dissipated. He touched Hao Qing's head and said, "It would be great if your senior brother knew this... People are valuable."
You have self-awareness."
"You have been sweeping snow all morning and you are tired. Go back and rest first."
After hearing this, Hao Qing bowed and left, returning to his room. Unexpectedly, there was an uninvited guest waiting for him in the room.
"Junior brother, I didn't realize that you usually act innocent and ignorant, but behind your back, you behave like this!"
"Senior Brother Haoran, what are you talking about?"
"Why should I be scolded when I serve Sasao, but you should be loved and cared for? Why are you so sincere and I just cling to power?!"
Only then did Hao Qing realize that his senior brother had heard the conversation between him and his master, "Senior brother, I don't know what you did, but I did mean every word from the bottom of my heart."
"Wait for me!" Haoran said this, turned around and slammed the door.
Hao Qing shook his head, "Senior Brother, I don't know what he said to offend Master and the Queen Mother with his bad temper."
Sheng Shaoqing enjoyed the snow in the snow for a while and then returned to the room. After warming up by the fire for a while, he hoped that there would be good news this time.
After Cui Yun passed the message, he also walked in. Seeing that the cloak on the Queen Mother had not been taken off, he blamed Aning and said, "The Queen Mother is in the house, why don't you take off the cloak? What if you go out and catch a cold again?!"
"I don't blame Aning, it's just that I'm a little cold and don't want to untie it."
Cui Yun came over, took off his coat and put it aside, and then said, "Man, Wei Chen has sent him away and brought his words. However, Wei Chen still has another idea."
Sheng Shaoqing's eyes encouraged her to continue, "The people reported by Yun Shangshu are all from aristocratic families. I am worried that taking them down is a small matter, but offending aristocratic families is a big deal."
Although these aristocratic families would usually fight to the death for some seemingly meaningless things, with bloodshed, but when faced with foreign enemies, they could show extraordinary common hatred.
Cui Yun was not there when Wang Shanggong reported that day. Sheng Shaoqing naturally knew where these people were from, so she followed Cui Yun's words and asked, "Then what do you think?"
"Their crimes are obvious, but what the family cherishes most is their reputation. It hurts the face of so many families at once, and I'm afraid it won't look good in the end."
"Then you said that if the national law is violated, the Ai family will not be able to enforce the law impartially?"
Cui Yun frowned, "That's not what Wei Chen meant... Wei Chen thought that we should come up with a perfect solution, otherwise we would be in such a mess like today..."
When Sheng Shaoqing saw her mentioning today's events, she felt annoyed, "Ajun, the Ai family feels..."
Cui Yun raised his head and looked at Sheng Shaoqing, and he understood in his heart that the Queen Mother was as she thought.
There is a traitor among them.
Otherwise, why did those people run so fast, and why did they split into two groups so cautiously?
Mrs. Li has been in Yeting Prison unable to deliver the news, and Wang Shang Palace has not leaked the news. There is only one possibility, and that is that there is an insider in their Yongguang Palace.
In the entire Yongguang Hall, there were only a few people who could approach Sheng Shaoqing to serve him closely. The rest of them would stay away when Sheng Shaoqing talked.
Aning, Forsythia and Cui Yun are all people she trusts more, so who can it be?
"Queen Mother, could it be Zhang Qing?"
Sheng Shaoqing thought about it and felt that Zhang Qing was the most suspicious.
