The camp of the Hundred War Army.
Liu Mingzhi rushed over in a hurry, asked the soldiers where Liu Chengqian was, and went directly to open the door of Ye Baotong's temporary residence.
Under the candlelight, Liu Chengqian sat alone on a chair and silently held the cakes prepared by Ye Baotong's messenger. He had no idea what kind of situation his mother was in now.
Hearing the door being pushed open with a clang, Liu Chengqian was frightened. When he saw Young Master Liu standing in front of the door clearly, he looked happy and jumped down in a hurry to greet the door.
"Dad, why are you here, Uncle Ye?"
Liu Mingzhi raised his hand and patted Liu Chengqian's forehead. Looking at the boy's much stronger physique, the look of relief in his eyes flashed away.
"Where's your mother?"
Liu Chengqian shook his head in confusion and pointed in the direction outside the city.
"My mother and I took a carriage from Yingzhou back to the capital together. We parted ways after we arrived outside the city. She said she still had some mundane matters to deal with and would come over to reunite with her children when she was done."
"Did she say anything?"
"No, the kid just wanted to ask, and my mother scolded me a little, asking me if I was disobedient, but the kid didn't dare to ask more? I listened to my mother and went to the capital on my own!"
Liu Mingzhi couldn't help but frown, and raised his hand to rub his forehead.
"Repeat to me everything your mother said to you. If you really can't remember, just give a rough outline."
"Yes, I got off the carriage with my mother..."
Over two cups of tea, Liu Chengqian succinctly recounted the conversation between himself and the third princess.
Liu Mingzhi thought for a long time, but could not deduce any clues about the whereabouts of the third princess.
This silly woman should never do anything stupid.
"Dad, did something happen to my mother?"
"Don't talk nonsense. Nothing happened to your mother. You can have a good rest at your Uncle Ye's place tonight, and ask him to send someone to take you back to your grandfather's house tomorrow morning.
Dad still has some official business to deal with, so he will go back when he is finished. "
"Okay, I understand, dad, please do your work first!"
"You should go to bed early and eat less sweets, it's not good for your teeth!"
"Oh, I see!"
Liu Mingzhi exited the room with a harmonious expression. When he closed the door again, his face immediately darkened, and he hurried towards the Bai Zhan Army's military camp.
"See the big... handsome man!"
"Where's Ye Baotong?"
"Reporting to the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief has gone to the city wall."
"Immediately send an order, asking him to mobilize 10,000 elite soldiers, and a group of ten will search for traces of the carriage riding on the third princess Li Yan in the capital and all the important roads near the state capital.
The first person to find the whereabouts of the third princess will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold, and the one who brings the third princess back will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold! "
"I have been ordered to resign from my humble position!"
Ye Baotong's personal guards left, and Liu Mingzhi also found five torches from the camp and tied them on his back, got on his horse and ran towards the outside of the city.
Following Liu Mingzhi's order, the news of a large number of soldiers and spies being dispatched made the atmosphere in the capital, which had finally calmed down a little, become tense again.
The people immediately retreated to their homes and stayed shut for fear of another war.
The mansions of various dignitaries were in commotion. They didn't know what happened, so many soldiers knocked on the door and asked.
Liu Mingzhi had no time to worry about what kind of commotion his order would cause in the capital. After lighting the torch with a fire stick, he galloped on the official road in the north of the city. According to Liu Chengqian's oral description, he looked sharply for the possibility of the third princess. Will leave clues.
However, he had just ordered Zhou Baoyu and the others to lead troops to Tongyuan County to transport back the grain and grass that the Xue Bizhu sisters had hoarded. There were so many horse hoof marks and ruts on the official road that it was impossible to tell which rut mark was the carriage the third princess was riding on. What's left.
Fortunately, there was only one carriage for the third princess. Once he found the ruts of the separate lanes, he provided Liu Mingzhi with a trace to search for.
The moon is high in the sky, and the silver glow is shining.
The bright torches and the sound of horse hooves on the official road came and went one after another, continuously!
The soldiers of the Baizhan Army, a group of ten cavalrymen, were looking for traces of the third princess.
However, their joining made the clues above the official path more complicated.
After the horse's hooves stepped on it, almost all traces of horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts were erased.
The night became increasingly silent.
The cock crows for the first time.
twice.
Three times.
Until dawn broke in the east, and a bright light in the east faded away into the darkness of the night.
Liu Mingzhi received a summons from a man in a hat.
Fifty miles southwest of the capital, within Yun'an County, is Yunping Nunnery on Ziyun Mountain.
Liu Mingzhi's eyes, which had not slept all night, were a little red, and due to his nervousness, his eyes were clearly bloodshot.
Looking at the disciple of the Suzaku Division wearing a bamboo hat in front of him, Liu Mingzhi's expression suddenly relaxed.
"I got it, I'm ordering the brothers of the Suzaku Division to go back and rest! By the way, I want to give a message to the General of the Hundred Wars Army, asking him to gather the brothers of the Hundred Wars Army to garrison outside the city, so there's no need to keep running around!"
"Yes, my subordinates are resigning!"
The sun rises in the east.
Outside the nunnery of Yunping Nunnery in Ziyun Mountain, Liu Mingzhi was being blocked by a little nun who was about 28 years old, with a slim figure and wearing plain clothes.
"Donor! Donor, you really can't bring weapons into the pure land of Buddhism! Please don't embarrass the poor nun, okay? The nunnery master will punish the poor nun!"
Normally, Liu Mingzhi would definitely laugh at such a young beauty who had escaped into Buddhism, but she really had no such intention at this time.
Looking at the little nun who was standing in front of him to prevent him from entering the nunnery, Liu Mingzhi had to surrender.
"Little Master Yunhui, I can leave this sword outside, but you must take me to find the woman who came to Yunping Nunnery late yesterday night."
"This...but the female benefactor and the nunnery owner repeatedly confessed..."
"Monks do not lie. If Master Yunhui lies in front of the Buddha, he will be punished!"
"Poor nun...poor nun...poor nun, please go and ask the nunnery master. Can the donor please wait for a moment?"
"Okay, I hope little master Yunhui won't keep me waiting too long!"
"No, no, I will come back as soon as I go."
The little nun seemed to have never seen the dangers of the world. She easily believed Liu Mingzhi's words and ran towards the nunnery without hesitation.
When the little nun Yunhui disappeared, Liu Mingzhi hesitated again and again and hid the Heavenly Sword that he relied on for self-defense in a bush on the left and right side of the mountain road, and walked towards Yunping Nunnery this time.
In the main hall of Yunping nunnery, smoke curls up, and a statue of Guanyin is enshrined above.
A nun in her early forties was admonishing the third princess who was kneeling on the futon.
"The female benefactor's fate is not over, and the poor nun really doesn't dare to let the female benefactor escape into the pure land of Buddhism and spend the rest of her life at the Green Lantern Buddha."
"I'm sorry, last night you told the believer that as soon as dawn breaks, the believer insists on becoming a nun, so you will ordain the believer and allow the believer to become a monk and escape into Buddhism.
Now that the believer has made up her mind, and her future in the secular world has nothing to do with the believer anymore, please ask the master to ordain the believer! "
"The female donor thought twice, how could it be decided in a few words to escape into Buddhism? The past cannot be settled..."
"Yun Hui has met the nunnery owner, nunnery owner, there is a benefactor outside who calls himself Liu and is looking for this benefactor Li!"
When the third princess heard the little nun's words, she couldn't help but tremble a few times, and her phoenix eyes closed together in pain.
"Please ask the Master to ordain the believing girl!"
"Amitabha, sin, sin, female donor..."
"Yan'er!"
When the third princess heard the familiar voice outside the palace door behind her, her delicate body trembled, and she lowered her head silently, not daring to turn around and look.
Little nun Yunhui stared blankly at Liu Mingzhi standing outside the temple door, looking so beautiful and embarrassed.
"Donor, you don't keep your word!"
Master Lingxu, the master of Yunping Nunnery, turned around and glanced at Liu Mingzhi, who was standing at the door of the temple, smiling bitterly and shaking his head.
"Amitabha, donor, this poor nun is so polite!"
"Liu Mingzhi has met Master Lingxu, how polite you are!"
"Yunhui, Yunqing, Yunyu... you guys can wait outside the nun's hall!"
"Yes, nunnery master!"
Lingxu led a group of disciples from Yunping Temple to exit the main hall, and Liu Mingzhi slowly walked towards the third princess.
Looking at the statue of Guanyin Buddha on the altar, he took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and placed it on the altar table. He picked up three sticks of high-quality incense, lit them and inserted them into the incense burner.
"Yan'er, if you feel irritable, you can build a Buddhist hall or Taoist hall at home, eat fast, worship Buddha, or practice Taoist scriptures!
But if you dare to escape into Buddhism, cut off your hair and become a nun, or tie your hair and become a Taoist nun! "
Liu Mingzhi squatted silently in front of the third princess who did not dare to look at him. He raised his hand to hold up the princess's flawless white chin and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"If any Buddhist and Taoist sect in the world dares to accept you as a member, they will kill you.
If you enter Buddhism, I will kill Buddha; if you enter Taoism, I will destroy Taoism!
If you don’t believe it, you can try it! "
