It was not until the third watch that Hongli coaxed Xianyue to sleep. After she fell asleep, he asked Jinping to wait in the hall, while he quietly left and returned to the Yangxin Hall.
Before he could stand still, Hongli's words came to his ears, "Immediately spread the news that Master Yun Zhongzi and Master Kong Jing have entered the palace."
Xiao Wu was stunned for a moment, and reminded softly: "Your Majesty, the palace door is closed now, or..." Before he could finish his words, two eyes as cold as steel daggers fell on him, making him tremble.
With knots all over his body, he quickly closed his mouth, not daring to say any more; at the same time, Hongli's voice sounded in his ears again, "I'm telling you, please open the palace door immediately and let the two of them enter the palace. Who dares to stop or delay it?"
, shoot to death without mercy!"
After hearing the last four words, Xiao Wu trembled and hurriedly went down to deliver the order. As he retreated, the Yangxin Hall fell into deathly silence, with only the sound of the clock every hour as a reminder.
With the passage of time in Hongli.
However, after a while, Xiaowu pushed the door open and walked in. He greeted Hongli who was sitting behind the imperial desk with his eyes closed and was concentrating. He whispered: "Your Majesty, the master and the master are here."
The monks who came in with him saluted each other. Hearing their voices, Hongli slowly opened his eyes. After waving to Xiao Wu to close the door, he looked at the two men who were still energetic despite their age.
: "Do you two still remember why I brought you here?"
Yun Zhongzi bowed his head and said: "Pindao remembers it because of the twelve elder brothers. Over the years, Pindao and Master Kongjing have been trying to pray for the twelve elder brothers and try to complete the destiny of the twelve elder brothers.
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Hongli said expressionlessly: "Then tell me, have you thought of a way?"
The two looked at each other, and Yun Zhongzi said: "Returning to the emperor, it is no small matter to complete the destiny. Master Pindao and Kongjing have already checked the ancient books of Buddhism and Taoism respectively, but we still need..."
"Do you still need time?" Hongli interrupted him coldly, "It's been ten years. I've given you a full ten years, isn't it enough?"
Master Kongjing recited the Buddha's name, bowed and said: "The poor monk understands that the emperor loves his son very much, but it is not easy to change the destiny with manpower. Please wait for a while longer. The two monks will definitely do it as soon as possible."
Find a way to complete your destiny."
"I can wait, but what about the twelfth brother? He has smallpox, how can he wait for you for another ten or twenty years?" Hearing this, Yun Zhongzi and his wife were shocked. They had prayed for Yongcang separately the day before yesterday.
Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, Yongxing would be seriously ill. Smallpox is preventable and cannot be cured. Once contracted, it is almost a terminal illness. Only one person in a hundred can survive smallpox.
Before Emperor Kangxi invented vaccination, a member of the royal family died of smallpox almost every year. Even Emperor Kangxi had suffered from smallpox in his childhood, but he was blessed with great blessings and survived in the end, but he also suffered from smallpox on his face.
scar.
"Your Majesty..." As soon as Yun Zhongzi said two words, Hongli raised his hand and said: "I have decided, I will use the method you said."
If Yun Zhongzi was shocked when he heard that Yongxing had smallpox, then he was panicked now. He said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, this method is too sinister and goes against the harmony of nature. It must not be done; and... Pindao just listened to his master before.
I have mentioned it, but no one knows if it is really useful. I hope the emperor will think again and again."
Facing his words, Hongli said without any doubt: "I have thought very clearly that there is nothing more important at this moment than saving Yong Cang's life. Whether it harms Yin De or harms the harmony of heaven and earth, I must save him."
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"Your Majesty." Yun Zhongzi hurriedly knelt down and said, "Once this is done, public resentment will definitely boil over. People all over the world will say that the Emperor is cruel and unkind, causing the Emperor to remain infamy for eternity and suffer the resentment of all people."
Hongli had already thought of this and said without hesitation: "Let them scold you if they want. I must save Yong Cang!"
Seeing Hongli's determination, Yun Zhongzi was so anxious that he was sweating profusely and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, those are innocent lives. Do you really have the heart to kill them for your own selfishness?"
Ten years ago, Master Yun Zhongzi passed away. Before he died, he told him a way to change his destiny, which was to use ninety-nine boys who were born in the same year, month and day as the person whose destiny needed to be changed, and steal their heart blood at the same time.
It is said that Wu Zetian used this method to change his destiny and have the destiny of an emperor, but it is impossible to know whether it is true or not.
Therefore, the Dharma was too insidious, so it was not recorded in the classics. It was only passed down orally and was passed on to the next generation of masters before their death. It has been nearly a thousand years.
A few years ago, while Yong Cang was hunting with Hong Li in the Mulan Paddock, he was almost injured by a tiger's claw. Hong Li was frightened. After returning from the paddock, he immediately summoned Yun Zhongzi and the two of them, and sternly reprimanded them, saying that they had not hunted for many years.
If there is even an inch of merit, it is simply deception and deception.
Yun Zhongzi heard the murderous intention in his words and said this method out of desperation. Hongli was moved after hearing this. Yun Zhongzi and Kong Jing were afraid that he would really kill ninety-nine people in order to change Yong Cang's fate.
He was an innocent child, so he tried to persuade him in every possible way, and finally ordered Hongli to let go.
I gave up this idea and thought that the matter would be over. Unexpectedly, Hongli kept it in his mind and mentioned it again today, with a much firmer attitude than the last time. This... what should I do? Do I really want to watch those innocent people?
Are children killed?
Master Kongjing shouted the Buddha's name and said: "Your Majesty, children are innocent. Like the twelve elder brothers, they all have parents and brothers. If they die, their parents and relatives will be heartbroken. They do what they don't want, so why bother?
If you do it to others, I hope that the emperor will spare them for the sake of the goodness of heaven."
"If I spare them, who will spare Yong Cang?" Hongli stared at them coldly and said, "If the people at risk today were people from Ziyun Temple and Wanshou Temple, and were disciples of you two, you would still say the same thing.
If so?"
Master Kongjing wanted to say more, but Hongli already waved his sleeves and said: "I have made up my mind, you don't need to say any more!"
While they were talking, Yun Zhongzi thought of something, which gave him a glimmer of hope, and he said hastily: "Forgive me for the truth, once smallpox breaks out, it will get worse within a few days. In such a short period of time, there is absolutely no way.
Find all ninety-nine boys who were born in the same year, month and day as the twelfth elder brother; according to the words of our ancestors, even if there is only one missing, it will have no effect."
Meeting his gaze, Hongli suddenly laughed and said, "Don't worry, I can find all ninety-nine boys in one day."
Yun Zhongzi shook his head subconsciously and said: "This is impossible, there are so many people..." Halfway through, he seemed to understand something, and his voice trembled: "In the past few years, the emperor has been looking for someone with the same fate as the twelfth prince.
people?"
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The flight was supposed to take off at 19.15 last night and arrived in Ningbo at 21:00 sharp. As a result, it was delayed for more than 4 hours at Nanyuan Airport. We didn't get on the plane until after 11 o'clock in the evening. It was already after 1 o'clock in the morning when we arrived in Ningbo. We took a taxi to get there.
It’s already 3 o’clock at home, and I’m really about to collapse. I originally wanted to write an update at the airport, but after writing a thousand words, the laptop ran out of power. Wow, the battery of the laptop that has been used for five years is already old.
It melted, and I could only last about an hour. I got up early this morning to do errands, and only slept for four hours. I rushed home at night to write an update. I will update two chapters today, and there will be another chapter later. I will resume updating tomorrow.
Please forgive me. This is the first time the update of Xi Fei has been interrupted since it was serialized. I promise you that there will never be a second interruption before the book is completed. I am really sorry this time and ask for your forgiveness.