Chapter 489: Returning to Beijing

He kept three points in his speech. Of course, Mi Xiaomiao could not tell Wang Ping'an about the affairs in the inner palace. No matter how much Wang Ping'an was favored by Li Zhi, he was still a foreign minister. It is said that everyone knows the secret, but he must not tell it from me!

Mi Xiaomiao was well aware of this. He said something, that is, he abides by this principle and did not offend Wang Ping'an. He also expressed his suggestion that Li Zhi was not close to anyone, but that the people he was close to were a little unethical. How could it be unethical? There was only one situation: the people he was close to were the emperor's harem figures.

Wang Ping'an also blinked and said, "I have a niece named Wu Meiniang who works in Lixia Palace. Her mother was sent to Xuzhou by me. After I returned to Beijing this time, I plan to take my parents from Xuzhou to Chang'an. Naturally, her mother would follow her. I would like to ask, "Does the palace allow concubines to see relatives? Are there any taboos?"

Mi Xiaomiao nodded and thought to herself: "You know that thing, so you don't know who told you, but I can't say much to you."

He said, "There are so many taboos, but there is no need to go into the palace to meet. Isn't your niece in charge of the peonies in Lixia Palace? You can ask her to choose the flower fat yourself, and then let her mother dress up as a flower farmer and wait in the Yeting Palace. Then we will meet each other, and we still have to worry about any taboos."

Wang Ping'an said a word and nodded. There was no doubt that Li Zhi and Wu Meiniang had really hooked up together, otherwise Mi Xiaomiao would not say that. Since he knew that Wu Meiniang was in charge of planting peonies, it means that he must have paid attention to it in daily life. Why should he pay attention? Of course, Li Zhi would go there often. Otherwise, a little palace maid who planted flowers could be able to see the eyes of Grandpa Mi. Grandpa Mi was very busy, and he would not pay attention to the useless people!

Wang Ping'an sighed in his heart. It was really time to come sooner or later. It was impossible to stop it, so he could only let it go. But then again, why should I take care of it? Without Wu Meiniang, there would be no prosperous Tang Dynasty? Even if I had to take care of it, it was not her business, but An Lushan's father... or grandpa, etc., as long as I discovered it and slaughtered it with one knife, there would be no future troubles.

Mi Xiaomiao looked at Wang Ping'an and said, "Prince, what are you thinking? You said it's not uncomfortable, but you actually feel very uncomfortable, right?"

He sat next to Wang Ping'an and said, "This time, General Shi Da ordered our family to come to comfort you. Don't take the frustration in front of you, and don't complain. Once you complain, it will eventually reach the emperor's ears. You will be really disappointed at that time. Even in the future... it will be very rare to be proud!"

Wang Ping'an knew that he had misunderstood. He was thinking about Wu Meiniang, but he was not disappointed or not. He had learned at the banquet just now that he was idle. It was probably because Shi Zhongchen was afraid that he would not see through the situation in the court and complained randomly, which caused the emperor's displeasure, so he kept leaving himself idle, so he asked Mi Xiaomiao to say this.

He smiled and said, "Mr. Mi laughed. I am a lazy person, not an official. After returning to Beijing, I can study behind closed doors, study medical skills carefully, get a few more prescriptions, and sell them for money to invite everyone to drink."

Mi Xiaomiao said: "It's right that you can think of this. Also, it's about the scientific examination next year. You are not the deputy chief examiner. This is also one of the responsibilities. But when the Ministry of Personnel revoked your responsibilities this time, he didn't mention this matter. General Manager Shi estimated that the emperor would not forget this... Ha, for the rest, please go back to Beijing and ask Lord Chu!"

Wang Ping'an said, Chu Suiliang was the chief examiner, and he was one of the deputy chief examiners. Since the emperor did not mention this, it means he still has hope! He asked, "I naturally have to ask after returning to Beijing, but this chief examiner... what does it mean?"

Mi Xiaomiao laughed twice, stretched her waist and said, "Where do we know how to go to the family? Our family just knew that when General Shi Da was just gaining power, he personally promoted a group of people in the Yeting Palace and gave them to the emperor for use. Isn't these people just used them now?"

Wang Ping'an nodded, because he was going to let himself choose a team for the prince! He said, "It's night, Lord Mi has worked hard to travel, so I'll have a rest. I'll go back to bed, too."

As he said that, he walked to the door, and suddenly he turned around and asked, "What has the excitement from the emperor?"

Mi Xiaomiao was slightly stunned, and she couldn't hide it. She would rather tell the truth. He said, "I fainted twice and my body is worse than before!"

Wang Ping'an stopped talking and left the room and brought the door to Mi Xiaomiao. Mi Xiaomiao sat on the bed, sighed softly, took off her clothes and covered her with her quilt, and went to bed.

Wang Ping'an returned to his room, and two little girls were serving him to wash his face and feet. After Wang Ping'an went to bed, he thought to himself: "Li Shimin is afraid that he will not be able to do it. His illness is most afraid of being stimulated... Some things are really a god, and they cannot be changed!"

Turn off the lights and go to bed, don’t worry about the ancients!

In the next two days, more things happened. Fang Xuanling arranged the matters of Zheliu County one by one, and ordered the position of You Xiujie, the governor of Guazhou, to be escorted back to Beijing. The governor of Shazhou came over and met Fang Xuanling and Wang Ping'an. After meeting Fang Xuanling and Wang Ping'an, he believed that he was Wang Ping'an's own person since then. He specially recommended one person to temporarily serve as the governor of Guazhou. Fang Xuanling agreed. As a result, Guazhou had some connection with Wang Ping'an again.

The grasslands that originally belonged to the Dayan tribe, from Shazhou, to Zheliu, to Yumen Pass and Guazhou, were almost all involved with Wang Ping'an. It can be said that this is already the fundamental place for Wang Ping'an. Of course, the prerequisite is that Li Shimin no longer re-entered the title of Wang Ping'an to other fiefs.

The resettlement work of surrendering to the Turks was temporarily handed over to the governor of Shazhou and Gu Lantian. As long as you do it according to the precautions arranged by Fang Xuanling, there would probably be no major problems.

After all the matters were implemented, Wang Ping'an, Fang Xuanling and others took a team to return to Chang'an.

Everyone is happy to be able to return to Chang'an. It is hard and cold outside the pass, so there is really nothing to wait. Chang'an is better, and there is nothing to do. There is only one person in the entire team who is unhappy, and that is Wang Wendu.

Wang Wendu was kicked out of the lockdown by his ministers like a ball. He saw a huge contribution before him, but he didn't get any credit, and he even offended all the people for nothing. If he was not depressed, he would have been too open-minded and reached a heartless level.

Everyone knew that he was finished, so no one paid attention to him, but there were exceptions. For example, Xu Jingzong and Xu Jingzong were also an unlucky guy, but he was different from Wang Wendu. Wang Wendu went to Baoshan but returned empty-handed. He didn't even see Baoshan, and was arrested as a slave for many days. He either squeezed goat milk or picked up dry manure. He suffered a lot of life. After returning to Beijing, he still didn't know what would happen!

Both of them were frustrated, so they were able to negotiate, eating and sleeping together, and became brothers, and were taken under Tang Xuanzang and became lay disciples of Buddhism.

They were unlucky and did not joke with others. Tang Xuanzang saw it and immediately took advantage of the situation to talk about cause and effect. So, in order to find spiritual sustenance, they worshiped Tang Xuanzang's seat together.

And halfway through, a small apprenticeship ceremony was held, and Wang Ping'an presided over the ceremony. He was a monk from White Horse Temple. Tang Xuanzang gave the two of them the Dharma names.

Wang Wendu was always unstable and could not withstand the coldness of the world, so Tang Xuanzang wanted to name him Nai, but Nai only means to endure, but not to be full of energy. The meaning of a comeback is in it. The word "nai" is the same as "neng", and it means to endure, but Neng has more talented explanations, so he finally named Neng. Tang Xuanzang's disciple was from the Wu generation, so Wang Wendu's official name was Wu.

Xu Jingzong was slick and liked to flatter him. This was a poor mind and was not good for his practice. Therefore, Tang Xuanzang named him Jing, hoping that he could be a person cleanly and be a good person. Therefore, Xu Jingzong's Dharma name was Wujing.

Originally, Tang Xuanzang wanted to accept Wang Ping'an as his disciple and advised him not to worry about ordinary worldly affairs and to be a Buddhist disciple who is empty of all the four elements, and wanted to name him Wukong, but Wang Ping'an sternly rejected him.

Wang Ping'an's reasons are very legitimate and sufficient. He is the junior brother of the White Horse Temple. He made friends with Tang Xuanzang of his generation. How could he be his apprentice? Wouldn't that be a generation shorter? Of course, he refused to agree to this great monk if he wanted to take advantage of him.

Tang Xuanzang had no choice but to do it. As for Fang Xuanling... Fang Xuanling ignored him at all. What kind of junior brother is his apprentice? Let's go play with you!

There was only such a small episode along the way, and nothing else happened. I rushed back to Chang'an before the end of the year.

Before entering Chang'an, he was still a hundred miles away from the city. He was almost out of the capital. No officials came to greet him, but a large group of monks came, with more than 3,000 people, all monks from Chang'an and surrounding temples. All the presided over the temples arrived, and all the people were still there. Not only did they come, but they also brought more than 50,000 people, all good men and women who believed in Buddhism.

So many people are not here to welcome Wang Ping'an and Fang Xuanling, but to welcome Tang Xuanzang. Although Tang Xuanzang is not very likable when he is breaking willows and is full of allusions all day long, and anyone who sees him hides, but in fact he goes west to India and retrieves Buddhist scriptures. This was a very great thing at that time. He must have great perseverance. He is definitely an idol figure of this era!

When monks from various temples in the capital learned that Tang Xuanzang had returned to Beijing, all the hosts swept out and walked a hundred miles to welcome Tang Xuanzang and welcome him to the capital of the Celestial Empire!

The welcome ceremony was quite grand, and the luxury was amazing. The good men and women were really willing to spend money! Lottos one after another, pulling carts with white cows, and also bringing various birds in cages for releasing animals. There were even a rich man who brought food and a big pot to serve porridge along the way. No matter who it was, just chant Amitabha in the direction of the float where Tang Xuanzang was riding, and immediately get full!

Wang Ping'an retrieved all the Buddhist scriptures brought back from Tianzhu by Xuanzang of Tang, and there was no loss. At this time, these Buddhist scriptures were placed on the floats for the people to watch. As we walked along the way, countless people knelt down to the floats and recited the Buddha's name.

Looking at the grand occasion in front of him, Fang Xuanling said, "It's so extravagant. The prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty first appeared, and the people's lives are not yet rich. They can be used in the ceremony of worshiping Buddha, but they are so extravagant and wasteful. It's really heartbreaking! No illness, what do you think?"

Wang Ping'an did not say a word, neither nodded nor shook his head, nor expressed any opinions.

Di Renjie was always by his side. Seeing that Wang Ping'an turned a blind eye to such things, he said strangely: "Brother, I have read history books. I once said that during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, monarchs from various countries vigorously built temples and supported monks, so they spent too much. When there was war in the country, they could not even pay military salaries. Now that this happened to me in the Tang Dynasty, do you have any ideas?"

Wang Ping'an said to him: "What others believe in is their business. Even if you don't believe it, don't comment. Maybe you will believe it in the future!" He has always never talked about religion. Even if he is a lay disciple in Baima Temple, he never chants the Buddha's name, but he does not interfere with others chanting the Buddha's name.

Di Renjie smiled and said, "Brother's style is really rare."

After walking for a while, he suddenly said, "Originally, Xu Jingzong and Wang Wendu were the least popular here, but now they are both good. They actually took the float as disciples. It's really outrageous!"

Wang Ping'an smiled and said, "One of them is called Wuneng and the other is called Wujing. There is still a shortage of Wukong. Why don't you join in the fun and worship Xuanzang as your teacher and become that Wukong, and you can also ride on a float. You can't be so beautiful here, so you don't have to be so jealous of them!"

Di Renjie shook his head and said, "Then let it go, I don't want to listen to him tell allusions all day long."

Wang Ping'an said: "This is called "Sai Weng lost his horse, no wonder he is lucky. They were frustrated in the officialdom, but they regained their capital here and were worshipped by the people. This master recognized it as worth it."

He rushed to the front by horse and said to Tang Xuanzang: "Senior brother, I will lend you this white dragon horse. If you ride a horse into Beijing, it will show you the hard work of seeking scriptures from thousands of miles away than riding a float."

Tang Xuanzang smiled and said, "It's good that this is good. I am used to riding a horse. When Leng Ding rides a car, he is really not used to it." He really got off the float and rode on the white dragon horse. Xu Jingzong and Wang Wendu also got off the float and stayed by Tang Xuanzang's side, one left and one right.

When they got off the float, Wang Ping'an honestly and unceremoniously sat on it. He waved at Di Renjie and said with a smile: "Brother, don't you want to take the float? Come on, we two brothers are sitting in Beijing, it's pretty good!"

Di Renjie smiled and said, "Brother is really a trick!" He also got on the float and proudly held the scriptures.

After walking far away, more and more people were welcoming Tang Xuanzang. Di Renjie felt a little tired of sitting. He picked up a scripture and found that it was full of Sanskrit. With a thought, he hid the scripture in his arms and planned to keep it as a souvenir.

Wang Ping'an saw it and whispered: "You took Master Xuanzang's treasure, be careful that he will fight you desperately."

Di Renjie said, "If you don't have one or two books, what's the point of trying hard? At worst, you can push it on the head of the difficult ones. Who told him that the magic name is called "in trouble!"

Wang Ping'an nodded, and he also took out two scriptures, picked up the thick ones, hid them in his arms, and smiled and said, "Then I will leave a souvenir, don't tell others!"

The two brothers laughed in a low voice.

After walking for two days, I arrived outside Chang'an City after walking for 100 miles.

From a distance, I saw countless people standing outside the city, almost the same as when the Olympics were held, and I couldn’t count them!

Di Renjie shouted: "Brother, is this Master Xuanzang so famous? Are these people greeting him or coming to welcome you?"

Wang Ping'an remained silent and thought to himself: "The book once wrote that when Tang Xuanzang returned to Beijing, the Taoist customs rushed to welcome him and the city was stopped. It seems that it is indeed a historical fact! He left a beautiful legend for future generations, so should I leave something behind?"

He stood up from the float and shouted, "Senior Brother Xuanzang, I am willing to pay 100,000 yuan... I was wrong, I am willing to contribute to you and design a geese pagoda!"
Chapter completed!