It is said that Liu Tong left all affairs of the Lu State to his eldest son and confidants, and devoted himself to resettling the Liu family in Japan. On this day, letters from the Lu State came, which were all ordinary things. His wife also sent a clever small Western pocket watch.
Liu Tong opened his pocket watch and took a look. There was a piece of paper hidden inside, folded in a square shape. There was a policy written on the paper, which was Zhu Tong's handwriting.
After seeing this, Liu Tong's eyes widened, he took a few sharp breaths, and without hesitation ordered someone to send a message back: "I like the pocket watch my wife gave me very much. I understand its meaning. It's very good."
." He regarded Zhu Tong as his confidant more and more. He burned the note and said, "Tell my wife, Xiaoliu is a lucky man." Liu Tong's glory has not diminished after his fiftieth year. The last time he returned to Lu State to marry a daughter, he gave her as a gift.
With a few drops of rain and dew from a concubine, the concubine gave him a new son, who was three or four months older than Prince Lu.
As everyone knows, this time it was not Zhu Tong's idea.
After the Calabash Monk arrived in the Lu Kingdom, he immediately realized that King Lu was just a puppet and there was no benefit to be gained from following him, so he secretly found Zhu Tong and surrendered to the Liu family. Zhu Tong knew his details and only said "I know".
Send him away. Seeing that Mr. Zhu obviously didn't trust him, the Calabash Monk came up with a plan.
The youngest son of King Lu and Aunt Liu is about to be one month old. Very young children all look similar. It is better to find a monk and a Taoist priest, just say that the child is in danger, and send him to a temple to raise him for a year and a half. Wait until the child is born in the temple.
When he came out, his appearance had changed a long time ago, and no one would be able to tell if he was replaced by a child of the Liu family. The future King of Lu would be a descendant of the Liu family.
Zhu Tong listened and nodded and said: "What a steal." Then he looked at the Calabash Monk and said, "It seems that you really have General Liu in your heart." The Calabash Monk hurriedly said a series of compliments.
Zhu Tong then called Liu Shu, the eldest son of Liu Tong, to discuss it and said: "This plan is not bad. The only big disadvantage is that the child cannot be from the Liu family, but can only be a child of an ordinary family or a loyal servant of the Liu family.
's children."
Liu Shu said: "Why can't it be from the Liu family? If you were from another family, wouldn't it mean that you were conquering Lu for an outsider?"
Zhu Tong said with a smile: "The eldest son, go back and talk to your mother-in-law and see if you have any ideas."
As expected, Liu Shu returned home to discuss with his mother. Mrs. Liu waved her hands repeatedly: "Nonsense! Your father gave you a new brother last time. Do you want to replace him? He is also your father's biological son, so let's just pay it forward."
"There's no telling if your father will not be able to protect you and let him become the King of Zhenlu in the future. With your status, it's impossible to save your life."
Liu Shu said nonchalantly: "The military power is in my hands, what can he do?"
Mrs. Liu said: "You are no better than your father. What if he wants to hand over military power to others? Don't look at Mr. Zhu who is helping you now. It is because your father ordered him to help you."
Liu Shu said: "I think he treats me better than he treats me."
Mrs. Liu just shook her head: "You don't know." She then added, "The person who came up with the idea had bad intentions. He wanted to cause discord between you and your father."
Liu Shu laughed and said: "Mom, you are overthinking it. After all, that person can't see me at all, and there is no way to write to him. In the end, it was not me or Mr. Zhu who wrote to him? Please change it." Then he turned around.
Go out and see Zhu Tong.
Zhu Tong didn't even move his eyebrows when he heard the person below shouting, "Uncle Liu is here." He just buried his head in reviewing the documents and said, "Uncle, have you understood?"
Liu Shu said: "You literati have a lot of twists and turns in your belly! My mother said that what you said is absolutely true. She will write to me later and just say, 'Replace her with an ordinary child.'"
Zhu Tong sighed: "My uncle is also a bit naughty. Mo Chengri only spends time in the barracks."
Liu Shu hummed and said: "These are troubled times. Although I don't have much ambition, I still know that the one who wins the military camp will win the state of Lu!"
When Zhu Tong heard these words, he couldn't help lowering his head and rolling his eyes: "These words sound like the tone of Master Zhou Ji who came back from Red Bone Chronicles."
"Originally, it was him who said it. When we were in Luzhou last time, he nagged me for a long time." Liu Shu said, "Anyway, you and the gentlemen are responsible for the government affairs." He smiled and patted Zhu Tong on the shoulder, saying in a nauseous tone.
, "Zhu Qing, thank you for your hard work~~" Zhu Tong glanced at his hand and slapped it away. Liu Shu was not annoyed and ran away whistling.
A few days later, Zhu Tong wrote the note and stuffed it into Mrs. Liu's gift to Liu Tong and sent it over. Unexpectedly, the letter sent back by Liu Tong ordered his own newborn son to replace his grandson's name.
Zhu Tong was just thinking about it. Someone came from outside to report that Mrs. Liu had sent a confidant to ask for an audience. Zhu Tong ordered her to come in. He knew who the visitor was at just one glance. Zhu Tong stood up and bowed in salute:
"Meet Mrs.
.”
Mrs. Liu nodded: "Mr. Zhu is well-deserved." She sat down and looked at Zhu Tong and said, "Mr. Zhu, what should we do?"
Zhu Tong said with a smile: "Don't worry, madam, the general just didn't think about this part."
Mrs. Liu sneered and said, "How could he have thought less about it? Anyway, both Shuer and Xiaoliu are his sons, he doesn't mind."
Zhu Tong said: "Sixth Master has just been born and has not yet been educated. The most important thing about how to raise this child is his mother, maid, and sir. The Supreme Emperor values civility over martial arts. Since he is the eldest grandson of the Supreme Emperor, he must follow the guidance of his grandfather.
The best idea is to let the young prince learn to read and write, write poems and poems, and avoid military history. But this matter must not be revealed to the second aunt, otherwise she will teach the young prince not to engage in martial arts. If she
If you know that your son is your younger brother, you won't be afraid."
Mrs. Liu nodded repeatedly: "Mr., you are still thinking far ahead!"
The plan was decided. Mrs. Liu knew that the Queen Mother believed in Buddhism and ordered people to go outside to find some eminent monks who were showing off.
But he said that although the Calabash Monk was favored by King Lu, he was just a guest on the street and had no bodyguard with him. On this day, he was wandering on the street when he suddenly felt a chill coming over him, as if he had met an assassin in Jin that day.
As usual, he looked around hurriedly, but did not see anyone suspicious. He screamed in his heart, the more invisible he was, the more powerful he was. When he left Taiyuan, he was in a hurry and had no time to explain to King Jin. King Jin was here
The princes of each family had spies around them, and King Lu was also indispensable. King Lu was a brainless man, so Bao Buqi casually told others that he had gone to Jin to investigate. If the people of King Jin knew about it, he would have jumped into the Yellow River.
Can’t even wash it off!
He rolled his eyes and hurried back home. Then he picked up his pen and wrote a long letter to King Jin. He said that on that day, the people of King Lu mistakenly thought that he was one of their own and sent him a message.
It was said that King Lu wanted to summon him back to the Kingdom of Lu for something urgent. He thought, how could he miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? So he hurried to the Kingdom of Lu. Now he had received extremely important news. Later, he gave himself to Liu Tong.
He wrote down the idea he came up with, regardless of whether Liu Tong used it or not. He just put the letter on his desk casually, and pretended to go to sleep. When he got up the next morning, he saw that the letter was still there, but he slightly changed the idea and settled it.
Xin Lai handed the letter to the post office to be sent to the Kingdom of Jin, and asked a good friend to forward it to the King of Jin.
It's a pity that this letter was lost halfway. Zhu Tong knew that this gourd monk was not an ordinary villain, so he sent someone to keep an eye on him secretly. This person had no relatives and no connections, so who could he send the letter to? The letter was intercepted as soon as it left the city.
, and it was sent directly to Zhu Tong's desk. Zhu Tong hurriedly invited Liu Shu to come and see it. Liu Shu immediately wanted to draw his sword and kill the spy. Zhu Tong said with a smile: "Don't worry. I only read the meaning of his letter, and I think he didn't explain it to the King of Jin."
When he understood, he came to Lu in a hurry. If you were the King of Jin, would you let him go?" Liu Shu thought it was reasonable, so he let it go. He just couldn't help but tell Mrs. Liu when he went back. Mrs. Liu then complained to the King of Jin.
The man sent by the King of Jin waited for many days, but did not wait for the superior to change his mind. Instead, he urged him once and knew that the prince would not let him go because of the letter. The Calabash Monk noticed the coolness again that day and made excuses.
Lai stayed in Prince Lu's Mansion and couldn't come out. He could pay it off in three or four days. On the seventh or eighth day, it was inevitable that Prince Lu would ask him to go out to do some business.
On this day, he just went to the shop to collect rent, but the Calabash Monk never came back. After collecting the rent from the last shop, the Calabash Monk had just gone out. Several people were fighting in the street, so he ordered someone to go over and yell at him.
The people I brought out were all people who were used to bullying others, and they all did this kind of thing. Even if they couldn't get around to kicking and cursing people, they just stood there happily, and no one paid attention to the surroundings and watched the excitement getting bigger and bigger.
There were more and more. Suddenly, a big man wearing a bamboo hat flashed out of nowhere. Before the Calabash Monk noticed something was wrong and shouted, he drew his sword and stabbed him, completely piercing the man's heart. That man was
He slipped into the crowd and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
King Lu was shocked, but there was no need to guess who did it, so he hurriedly consulted with the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother said: "Obviously King Jin got the news and sent someone to vent his anger. Zuo is just a villain, he will die when he dies.
"King Lu refused, and ordered people to call Zhu Tong to come over and find the assassin. Zhu Tong agreed, saying that he should do whatever he wanted to do after leaving Prince Lu's palace, and he didn't pay attention to what King Lu said.
The assassin simply went to a secluded place to briefly change his clothes and take off his hat. He didn't even dare to go back to the inn. He slept on the street for two days and never heard that anyone was trying to arrest him. So he boldly went back to the inn to rest for two days.
Da Fangfang paid the bill and returned to the Kingdom of Jin. Before leaving, he also bought some earthen rituals.
When King Lu saw that the Calabash Monk was being assassinated in the street, he thought that his two uncles, King Qi and King Yan, wanted his life, so he became even more afraid to leave the house. He was frightened all day long. It rained a few nights, and the sound of wind and rain could be heard.
There were a few strange noises
Then King Lu fell ill from fright. The house was in a rush again, with people asking for medical advice, people praying to gods and Buddhas, and people pointing fingers at the sky and cursing the earth.
That afternoon, the Queen Mother was kneeling in the small Buddhist hall to recite sutras. Suddenly she heard the sound of wooden fish outside and hurriedly sent people out to check. Several women went outside to check and said that no one was there. The Queen Mother felt strange. After a while,
, the sound of wooden fish was heard again, and there was still no one when I went out to check. There were three reasons. That night, a maid next to the Queen Mother heard from the guards in the palace that a monk had been knocking on wooden fish at the east gate of the palace for half a day. The Queen Mother couldn't help but stood up:
"The courtyard wall is deep. How can the sound of an ordinary monk's wooden fish be heard from outside the house? This monk must have a good way!" He ordered her to go down and ask the monk to come back to her as soon as possible if he comes again tomorrow. The next afternoon, the Queen Mother heard it again.
There was a sound of wooden fish. Not long after, a guard came back and said that the monk had come to knock on the wooden fish again. The Queen Mother ordered him to come into the house.
This monk was arranged by Mrs. Liu; it was Zhu Tong who ordered someone to knock the wooden fish outside the small Buddhist hall - it was Jia Cong who gossiped about the scabby monk in the early years and asked him to borrow it. Mrs. Liu picked this monk for a long time
, was very good at playing tricks and deceiving others. The Queen Mother believed him in just two or three hours and insisted on sending the young prince to the temple to raise him until he was one year old. When King Lu heard that the young prince was so lucky, he went against me. These days, he himself
Being sick is to protect this young son from disaster. I wish I could send my son away immediately.
Princess Lu naturally refused. However, Liu Tong was not in the country of Lu, and Liu Shu didn't care about the trivial matters in the backyard. She didn't have a biological brother, so she had no choice but to guard her son.
The bystander takes a step closer.
Her mother said: "Why don't you ask your wife to go?"
Princess Lu said calmly: "She is not my biological mother. She is happy to follow the Queen Mother's words, so she will not care about my life or death. No one can rely on me but myself. If you dare to touch my son, kill me first."
Say it again!”
After hearing this, the Queen Mother said: "It's okay, she has to sleep, right? How many days can a strong person survive?"
Sure enough, Princess Lu guarded her son for three days. Seeing that no one came to snatch the child, she went to the next room to lie down for a while. After she had slept for half an hour, the Queen Mother sent someone to snatch the little prince away and left, leaving him in the small room.
The servants and women around the prince could not exert even the slightest strength.
When the young prince entered the temple, Mrs. Liu replaced him with three Buddhist nuns. The ones originally prepared by the palace were no longer needed. The Queen Mother did not think there was anything wrong with this matter. Princess Lu wanted to go to the temple to retrieve her son.
No one told her where the young prince was. She was so angry that she kicked down the door of the Queen Mother's small Buddhist hall, pointed at her and said: "If there is anything wrong with my son, I will never spare your whole family!" He turned around and left.
The Queen Mother was so shocked that she was speechless for a long time. After a while, she cursed: "You rude shrew!"
From this day on, Princess Lu no longer lived in the palace, and led people to search temples one by one to look for her son. King Lu's illness gradually improved. The Queen Mother hurriedly chanted Buddha's words: "It can be seen that what the master said is true! This child is extremely lucky.
, but he hurt his biological father. My son, just don’t worry. The Grand Master said that if he stays in the temple until he is one year old, the Buddhists will calm down his momentum for him. Not only will he no longer hurt his family, but he will also be able to prosper his family!"
King Lu sighed: "I hope so." He smiled and said, "If he really has great luck, there is no guarantee that he will be able to achieve anything big."
The Queen Mother recited the Buddha's name again and said happily: "Isn't it true? You are the eldest son of a saint, and he is your eldest son." The mother and son looked at each other for a long time, understanding each other and secretly rejoicing.
On this day, Princess Lu led a group of girls and daughters-in-law to set out early in the morning and arrived at Kaiyuan Temple in the west of the city. They searched from front to back for half a day, but no trace of the baby was found. She sadly put her hands together and apologized to the abbot, "Sorry for bothering me, but I'm sorry."
I hope you won’t be surprised, Master." He left some incense money and left.
The abbot said: "It's already past noon, so the donor might as well stay in the temple and have some fast food."
Princess Lu smiled bitterly and said: "I have disturbed the masters for most of the day. I really don't have the shame to eat master's vegetarian food anymore. I'll just go outside and get a sharp tip later."
The abbot put his hands together and said, "How good! I understand my loving mother's thoughts, and there is no harm in having a meal."
Princess Lu saw that the old abbot was very sincere, so she stayed in the temple to eat. After eating a few mouthfuls, she suddenly shed tears and said, "My poor child, I haven't been able to see my mother's face for many days."
A young monk whispered beside him: "If someone sincerely wants to guard against the female donor, and leads people around like this every day, how can it not alarm people?" Princess Lu suddenly raised her head to look at him, then