When he rode to the gate of Xiamafang, he found Wen Yuan standing there waiting.
"You didn't sleep either?"
"It's my turn to stand guard tonight." Wen Yuan looked very energetic, "The emperor called just now and asked me to wait for you here, in case you went the wrong way. He is not in Yuxi Palace, he is in the office. Get in the car, I'll take you there."
The lights of the Grand Palace were not turned off at night. The two rows of street lights on Zhuque Avenue were on, and the three main halls on the central axis were all lit with golden landscape lights. The lights of various government offices on the mountain were still on at this time, and there were people on duty at each government office in the middle of the night. Dots of lights are arranged on Purple Mountain like stars in the sky, and the arrangement of their positions seems to coincide with the number of Chen Dou.
But Zhu Xianfen is not inside, he does not live in the palace.
The car stopped in front of the palace gate on the west side of the palace. This place is outside the palace city, within the imperial city, not within the palace forbidden area, and is actually in the same circle as the Liubu Yamen. The regulations of the building did not comply with the royal etiquette. He could see the arrangement inside from the outside. The main building has two floors and is roughly in the middle of the entire building complex. But the surrounding area is divided into several irregular blocks like Huarong Road. Each block has different landscape trees and houses. You can also see the lush appearance inside in the dark, with canopy-like pines and cypresses swaying in the breeze. With.
This is more like a garden than a palace. However, the gate still maintains the shape of a palace, with a plaque reading "Changchun Palace" hanging on it.
"This is Xiyuan, where the emperor lives."
"Don't the emperor live in the palace?"
"He's not going to court, so why should he live in the palace? Anyway, the emperor doesn't need to be there for the operation of the court, so the emperor has been living in Xiyuan a long time ago. It's much more convenient here than inside the palace. After all, inside the palace There are palace restrictions on entry and exit, and etiquette must be followed even if there is no one inside. It doesn't matter here, just tell the guard room."
The guardhouse is right at the door, occupying a north-facing room at the base of the wall. Shangluo originally thought that there would be a Thirteen Taibao looking at the door like the warehouse and the back door, but there was no such thing. The doorman was an ordinary Jin Yiwei. The two of them showed their signs and went in.
Upon entering, there is a small screen wall and a small garden. The two of them took a shortcut on the stone pavement and used the landscape lights in the garden to see the way.
"By the way, I thought there would be Thirteen Taibao here. Are there none here?"
"The Thirteen Taibao? They are from Beizhen. Beizhen does not handle imperial missions, they handle official missions. So they do not serve directly from the emperor himself, and their tasks are very heavy. The place they guard is not centered on the emperor. It's about guarding a place where there are important secrets that need to be kept - so it's us who are directly attending to the emperor, otherwise I wouldn't have to be on duty here. Before I received the call just now, I was still drinking tea in the duty room."
"Then which one has the hard time, you or them?"
"This mainly depends on the emperor's character. Theoretically, North Town is the hardest, because they undertake most of the work on the Imperial Guard's surface, running around the prefecture, and the Thirteen Taibao also have to stand guard. On the surface of South Town, The only work we have is the imperial edict, and the internal work is only the handling of cases related to the imperial edict. Ha, but if the emperor is difficult to handle, we will be busy. The previous emperor liked to play Chuiwan, but fortunately this is a relatively widespread hobby. A group of golfers from South Town play with him every day, and they are quite happy. If it goes further, I don’t know.”
Hearing this, Shangluo felt a strange feeling, a faint uneasiness. Qi practitioners should have more things to do of their own, instead of being busy with general affairs. However, the key here is that Daozu is also the emperor, and the emperor himself becomes the only link between heaven and earth. Therefore, for Qi practitioners, the emperor who can communicate with Tao ancestors has become an extremely important existence. After all, if there is no Dao Ancestor, Qi Practitioners can only grope in the endless darkness. And only here in Daozu Town, the light is lit here, and you can always see the road to the immortal road clearly.
What makes Shangluo uneasy is that this road now has two passages leading to the sky. Although he has not actually met Daozu, Daozu seems to pay special attention to him. That kind of attention is not like treating one's descendants, but rather like treating one's disciples - a kind of mentor-to-teacher relationship that is separated by generations and is somewhat distant. Because Daozu has not yet taught him through words and deeds, he is only providing help in secret. But if he can really talk to Daozu directly in the future, this may even shake the relationship between the emperor and the monks.
Although the emperor himself didn't seem to care, the more he didn't care, the more entangled Shangluo felt. There are many problems that he could not see when he was a child, and of course the adult world can be cruel. As I grow older, I'm afraid all kinds of "expected" eyes will also be projected on me.
Wen Yuan patted him on the shoulder: "I know what you are thinking. In fact, at the beginning, I was quite envious of you. After all, you can communicate with Daozu."
"what about now?"
"Of course I'm still envious now. But when I think about it, you are very interesting, you are so interesting. Besides, we Qi practitioners don't have so many things that are just like a fly and a dog. We believe more that we can find our own path. The Taoist ancestor lights the lamp for us, not because he wants to watch us play monkey tricks below. To contribute to the world is to keep the Taoist heart from falling. When it comes to practice, you still have to rely on yourself. But..."
He paused for a moment, with a rare heavy expression on his face:
"You also know that not everyone is like me. I am still young, but there are many people who are no longer young. I still have a long, long way to go, but some people's paths are about to end. You today Have you seen those Romans too? They are always worried about the arrival of the day. They are too fragile. But even the gods will have signs of the small five decline before the big five decline."
"Do you suspect that the two celestial beings in seclusion felt Xiao Wushen?"
Wen Yuan nodded: "Maybe when they sensed Xiao Wushen, they might no longer be carefree in a moment. This reminds me of Lu Liang's lack of spiritual roots at that time. I always feel that this gap suddenly It separates her from the infinite future. But, hehe~"
He smiled: "Now you have come up with something very powerful, you did a good job~~ I just tried a bottle of radish, and when I took the first sip, I knew it was not just a battery, it was It can save many people, many, many people. Guess what~ It doesn’t digest! Yes, it doesn’t digest! It can’t be digested in such a short period of time. It’s still spinning in my stomach after two hours, making me burp now. I feel like the sea of Qi has been opened up! No, you can’t burp, otherwise the Qi will leak out. I am as confident now as I was on the first day of practicing Qi. You did a good job! When we went to break the golden branches, each of us drank three bottles of it first, and then we started again when we were full. Now I feel like I can even penetrate the heavens!"
(End of chapter)
