Chapter 088 – Going up the Mountain and into the City to Enter the Palace

Black monk surnamed Yang Taiyou, born in East Vietnam’s top scholar Yang, since childhood, drowning Bo hundred, thirteen years old shaved his family, read the Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, especially good at yin and yang magic, although monks, but from the Qingxu Palace priests to learn the Taoist arts as well as the doctrine of war, twenty-four years old traveled to the Longhu Mountain, was the great real Qi Xuan frame face after some reprimand, Yang Taiyou, not angry, but happy, and then recommended to the capital to serve the Crown Prince, and then the late Empress Dowager chanting blessings, presided over the Royal Yongfu Temple. Afterwards, he was recommended to serve the Crown Prince in Beijing, then recited sutras and prayed for blessings for the late Empress Dowager, presided over the Royal Temple of Eternal Happiness, assisted the late Emperor to conquer the kingdom, and accepted several great eunuchs in the palace to be the Bodhisattva preceptor disciples during the period.

The world is settled, like to wear black clothes of the old monk declined the title of master of the country, in the Yongfu Temple dedicated to study Buddhism, has long been severed from the family, and even more with the power and nobility of the dynasty without the slightest involvement, under the West Basement wall, had persuaded Xu Snapdragon not to kill Shuozhu Fang Xiaoli, and ultimately, rumors and Xu Snapdragon to cut robes and cut off the friendship, nearly a decade of lamenting the confusion of the Ch’an discipline of law and purpose is not clear, the creation of the phase of round said that, the “original meaning of the eight sects” “to dispel delusions of salvation slightly by the scriptures, etc., but only does not engage in any Buddhist debate, the self-titled “not monk frank old man”, have to assist in the construction of the country, but willing to loneliness, just bear the crown prince grandson and other dragon children and grandchildren of the auxiliary reading, three years ago resigned from the yongfusi temple presided over the palace and the main record monks, solo travel north and south of the Yangtze River, the dragon see the head and not the tail, today appeared in the city of Tai’an, in order to escort the king of the northern Liang into the capital, but the human butcher Xu Snapdragon! After seeing the black-clothed old monk, insisted on walking into the city, before this scene appeared, Xu Snap and he walked side by side, traveling to the palace gate.

A rich man dressed in Xu Snapdragon hands inserted in the cuffs, in the capital spindle road walking leisurely, smilingly said: “Yang Tai Sui, I heard you received a closed disciple, run to the Shang Yin Palace of Learning? I can say in advance, playful to playful, really caused a big event, then you and I do not interfere to protect the calf. Also, the red-armored man is your disciple, right? This is the last time. I am very curious about the red armor people have long been your bodhisattva disciple Han Diao Temple removed armor skin, how come now there are five more red armor of the generals? You old bald ass, do what sinister plan? What, are you still upset with me? You’re just like a girl. It’s just that I didn’t promise you not to kill the 600 scholars back then. The two of us for many decades of life exchange friendship, say do not want to do without?”

The black-robed monk said in a curmudgeonly manner, “It’s none of my business.”

Xu Snapdragon narrowed his eyes and looked at the strange weather of the capital city that he had not seen for many years, and said: “Give me a bottom, is that kid the bastard of that person? Otherwise how could he get the Rune General’s Red Armor from Han Sable Temple, and how could he let Han Sable Temple, a human cat, lower his eyebrows and be a slave.”

The old monk frowned, already ferocious god bitter look, more and more hideous, not angry, walking in the crowded downtown, but under the old monk’s lead, no one can get close to him and Xu primrose side, such as a slippery fish swimming in the water and grass.

Xu primrose laughed: “bald donkey does not deny, I can when get the answer.”

The black-clothed old monk still does not explain and does not refute, his mind is in an ancient state of mind. Xu Snapdragon snickered: “Yang taiyou ah Yang taiyou, some time quite admire you, accompanied by the king as accompanied by a tiger, you as long as you live two or three more decades, it is expected to auxiliary dragon three dynasties, everyone is happy to you as a bodhisattva, and then look at the Dragon Tiger Mountain, in order to consolidate the status of the national master, do everything, there is an old man spelled out the two katas do not want to even change the fate of the sky, and you, nothing to do, eat fasting all day to read Buddha, smacking of Jingjing. All day to eat fasting and read the Buddha, smack of the capital boring, just out of the city to walk, this is the day of the gods. Bald ass, when are you going to meet my eldest son Feng Nian? He is different from me, believes in Buddhism, maybe you guys can talk.”

The old monk shook his head and gently reminded, “It’s here.”

At the end of the road, the main gate of the Imperial City in the south was visible.

According to the law of the dynasty ten days a morning court, just morning has begun, Xu Snapdragon came a little late, outside the door only parked car and horse family slaves, can’t see any of the court dignitaries.

The first door of the Imperial City, three que, huge eaves and ridges, left and right each have white jade lions, a pair of horse monument, hanging on the door of the founding of the University of a couplet written by a university scholar, “the sun and the moon are bright, the mountains and rivers are majestic”. Door north of the left and right corridor room one hundred and ten, known as Thousand Steps Gallery, even the eaves through the ridge, guarding the Palace of Baohe, that is, the people’s mouth in the Palace of the Golden Emperor.

Black-clothed monk Yang Taiyang sighed: “You go to the court dressed like this?”

Xu primrose laughed: “I go to the carriage to change clothes, in northern Liang did not have the opportunity to wear, these years of pampering, put on a lot of weight, I do not know the fit is not fit, if you can not wear it will be trouble.”

The old monk had a rare headache helpless expression.

Xu primrose laughed, walking towards a carriage with only a few royal personal escorts left, the iron horsemen under the king’s flag naturally can not be brought to the root of this imperial city wall, what is the behavior. The black-clothed Yang Taiyou did not move, still standing a hundred feet outside the door, look sullen. Back then, he was still a monk seeking success and fame, Xu Snapdragon has taken six hundred black armor to break out of Jinzhou, he advised the late emperor, Xu Snapdragon for the late emperor to do the vanguard, a civil and a military, complement each other, at that time, the late emperor regarded the two of them as the right arm and right hand arm, had climbed up to Baohe Temple to drink in the door, moonlit night together to talk about the world’s great events, Xu Snapdragon not read much, always be forced by them to recite poetry, rough and vulgar, every time they have been Joke, drunkenness will be wantonly lying across, who pillows who’s arm, it does not matter, the last time we meet, is Xu Snapdragon extermination of Western Chu returned to the capital to be appointed as a great pillar state, just talk to each other, and then no more years of unbridled fear. After that, he will no longer participate in politics, only talk about Zen and poetry.

After that, he was authorized by the late emperor to drink a parting wine with Xu Snapdragon.

It was only then that that marvelous woman entered the palace alone, with a sword and a white shirt. After that, he never had the face to see Xu Snap again.

Xu Snapdragon is not far from the carriage, a carriage Mercedes Benz came, driving horseman a head of sweat, Xu Snapdragon waved his hand to indicate that the gun fairy Wang embroidered the same teacher brother Han Laoshan do not be on the side of the side of the hooves of the two high horse, just signaling a royal family kept a high person to go to the car to take a long time ago to get a ready to take a robe, ready to put on a good to go to the palace in the morning court.

Just should be the sentence horse good to be ridden people good to be bullied, Xu Snapdragon for the carriage rushed did not mind, that powerful residence out of the horseman but smacked this hunchbacked old man in the way, as the court which official’s not long-eyed slave, the car masters were delayed because of the body has a problem with the time of the morning court, all the way to urge a lot of, and even dragged him to be scolded countless, of course the mood is terrible, in a fit of rage, the whip smashed the people, Xu Snapdragon smiled! Xu Snap smiled, without any action, Han Bushan then grabbed the whip, pulled the horseman down, a foot on the chest, click, directly stepped on two ribs broken.

On the carriage came down a middle-aged Confucian wearing a fourth grade Yunyan civil official’s court dress, saw the family servant suffered a tragedy, burst into a rage, and then look at the old man’s face is so raw, do not care about the civilization, cursing, roughly in the angry reproach who’s subordinate dares to be arrogant and violent outside the imperial city, pointing at Xu Snap’s nose to ask him to report the name of the officials of the house, and then go to the court to impeach His Majesty the emperor in person, the flames of the bear.

This Confucian in the fourth grade, and the state pastor of the same rank, the Prince of the left concubine son, is to make people red East Palace Qing Gui position, this is not all, his father Liu Binzhong is the East Cabinet University Professor, the two important ministers, the dynasty of the civil service honors is the pole of the three halls and three pavilions, the East Cabinet, although the position of the end of the three halls and three pavilions did not award the full, together with the Temple of Wu Ying, Mandarin Hall, Wen Yuan Pavilion a total of only four, Liu Binzhong as one of the four people can be said to be honored extraordinary, plus His brother, Liu Tiren is silver green Lubao, father and son of three people in the same dynasty as an official, rumored to be a beautiful story. If not, he would not have dared to put words of impeachment outside the gates of the Imperial City, after all, the officials who can participate in the morning court, are not ordinary people.

Xu Snap looked at this four Prince left concubine son there spittle, a smile, an escort with a package jumped off the carriage, unlocked the back of the road out of the corner of the court dress, the Liu family Confucian officials glanced, subconsciously froze, in front of the old man or not as an official? But civil officials and military generals, I have not heard of this style of official clothes ah? Under the sky, the official clothes are far more than the size of the residence to be more not to “unauthorized use”, once uncovered, it is the end of the prison and sentenced to death. When the package completely open, surnamed Liu’s East Palace left concubine son will be completely staring at the eyes, python robe? That is a blue satin flat gold embroidered five-clawed python robe?

Python clothes, since ancient times is like a dragon clothes, and nine or five of the imperial dragon robe similar, but minus a claw. Embroidered with the dragon robe general “river teeth sea water”. This dynasty expressly stated that only the Prince can be embroidered nine python five claws, only the royal family can be used in bright yellow gold and apricot yellow color, the dragon python has a curved standing water, upright water, standing and lying in the water, standing and lying in the water, lying in the water, all lying in the water of the five kinds of postures, which level of which posture and there are strict provisions, and the whole lying in the water of the most respected, known as the group of dragons.

Surnamed Liu watched the old man in the underling service to put on the python robe, swallowed his saliva.

Tuan Long python robe.

Nine dragons with five claws, even more than Great General Gu Jiantang has one more claw! Blue large satin texture, this means that it is not a royal clan, it is a king with a different surname?

Count on your fingers, how many kings with different surnames are there in the dynasty?

That old man put on the python robe which is the only one in the dynasty, it is clear that he wants to go to the court, what’s more, in addition to wearing this dreadful python clothes, he also took over a sword.

Who can wear a sword to the court?

Even if the surname Liu is an idiot, he knows who the old man in front of him is!

King Xu Snap of Northern Liang.

After the old man put on the expensive and eye-catching python coat, he wore the Beiliang sword and walked straight to the south gate of the imperial city.

The left concubine son of a sound kneeling on the ground, no longer have the idea of going to court, is there to kowtow, on the stone plate, knocked out a pool of blood.

A python robe Xu Snapdragon walked into the imperial city.

The hole in the city gate is a little dim, after walking out, the human butcher covered the warm sun, squinting and looking toward the hall.

The two rows of lieutenants in front of and behind him knelt in unison.

The eunuchs were all as if they were on the verge of an enemy, yelling at the top of their voices, “The King of Northern Liang is coming to the hall!”

This hunchbacked old man walked slowly with a slight limp, seemingly oblivious to the fact that there was His Majesty the Emperor, Chief Counselor Zhang Julu, Great General Gu Jiantang, and the entire court waiting in agony.

He silently counted the number of steps, finally picked up the steps, looked back at the city gate, smiled, and said to himself, “Old age.”