Chapter 406

One day yesterday, Shan Ning shut herself up in her room and let no one disturb her. She stayed alone for a whole day. The imperial concubine was worried. She woke up early and brought breakfast to ask for help.

After knocking on the door several times, no one opened it. The big imperial concubine was worried and worried. She asked someone to open the door. The room was empty, the bed was neat, one side of the window was open, and the room was cold. The big imperial concubine put down her things. She was restless and asked someone to look for it.

After the servant left, she was in a daze. She was thinking whether to go into the palace or not. In the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the corner of the paper under the pillow. She pulled it out and saw that it was a letter.

Four words on the envelope: my wife, please.

The imperial concubine trembled and opened the envelope. It was only a page in total. At the beginning, she expressed her heart. She said that it was a blessing for her husband to marry a wife. Her words were sincere. Although it was touching, the imperial concubine faintly smelled something bad.

Sure enough, it's not in vain for their husband and wife to spend so many years, and the content behind it is soon to see the crying imperial concubine.

The letter said: the Jiang fan case was due to my carelessness. The evidence on that day was conclusive, so I had the intention to settle the case early. So I decided to close the case before it was confirmed. As a result, more than 100 people of the nine families of the Jiang family died miserably. Today, when I think about it, I still feel guilty and uneasy. What's more, people in Tongcheng are suffering because of the lack of in-depth investigation. Jiang Xiang has a chance to take advantage of it, I can't shirk my responsibility for treason. It's too late to think about it. I feel guilty. I'm willing to hand over the seal of military talisman and leave my post to punish myself. I'm willing to sit down in the Buddha's room and recite Buddhist Scriptures for those who died of my negligence. I know it's shameful and abhorrent to abandon my wife and son, but only in this way can I feel at ease.

There are military amulets and official seals under the pillow. There is nothing else.

After reading the whole story, the imperial concubine fell to the ground with her feet soft and her head empty. After a long pause, she did not respond. When the maid came back to find her, she had a reaction. Two lines of tears fell down and cried out.

"How can you have the heart... How can you have the heart to leave us orphans and widows?"

The maidservant picked up the letter and looked at it. She also raised it, "imperial concubine, your highness... Your Highness has become a monk?"

The great imperial concubine thumped the ground and cried bitterly, "just don't leave your daughter-in-law. You don't even want your son. Shan Ning, you are so cruel. You know you are selfish. The day before yesterday, you still held me and said never to leave. Today, if you leave a letter, you should say that you have escaped. What are we? If you say no, why don't you? "

The maid helped the imperial concubine up from the ground. "Why don't you go into the palace and tell the saint and his wife that your highness hasn't gone far. Now, maybe he can come back."

The great imperial concubine wiped away her tears, but she didn't care whether her appearance was neat at the moment. She asked someone to prepare the car, take the letter and the military amulet official seal and go to the palace.

Before the sage went down to court, Mrs. Yu read the letter first, and then she cried. Her tears broke and fell down one by one. "My son, I just left. What do you want me to do? The eldest brother is not in good health. He can't bear the pain. There are mistakes. It's good to correct them. It's not all his fault. Why do he have to do so? "

He called the bodyguard and said, "go and ask your five Highnesses to send troops to look for them. Anyway, you have to get them back for me."

The bodyguard reminded, "the fifth Royal Highness is in the court, and it's not time for the next court."

Lady Yu patted the table and said, "then you go out to look for it. Can't we still use the two people in our palace? We shall go now! Go at once

The bodyguard said yes, but after all, Mrs. Yu had only a limited number of people who could be transferred. No one knew which direction Shan Ning was going. She went out of the city gate in all directions. Looking like this was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Zhou Leping came late. As soon as she entered the door, she heard the great imperial concubine and Mrs. Yu crying. She hesitated at the door and didn't know whether to go in or not.

She knew that Shan Ning was sent off by Zhu GuanLiang last night, and she knew where she was going, but she couldn't tell. But she was afraid that she could not help crying when she watched them. She hesitated at the door for a long time. Finally, the maid in waiting for Mrs. Yu came out to see her, so she had to go in.

Mrs. Yu stretched out her hand to pull her, crying pitifully, "you must have a way. You know the art of war and have been a general. You must have done a lot to find someone. You must have a way to find the boss for me, right? What do you think the boss is going to do? "

Zhou Leping couldn't resist the two pairs of sad and expectant eyes, so he had to say casually, "since the letter says that he is a monk, go to the temple to find him. I don't know if his highness rode a horse when he left?"

The imperial concubine shook her head. "There are no few horses in the stable. There are no horses."

"It's not fast to walk. Your highness is quiet when he walks. It should be in the middle of the night when everyone sleeps deeply before he leaves. It's only a few hours since now. Let's see which temples are close to the imperial capital. Send someone to stay on guard on the way. Maybe you can find your highness."

The two women cried, but fortunately, there was a sober one. Mrs. Yu seemed to be suddenly awakened by someone. She asked someone to call the former bodyguard back, gave a new order, and began to wait anxiously.

Zhou Leping thinks that it's nothing wrong for Shan Ning to do this. It's much easier for the imperial concubine and Mrs. Yu to say that he is a monk than to tell them that he is dead.

Even if you don't see him, as long as you know he's alive, that's the hope. The distance between the two places is much better than that between yin and Yang. As soon as the sage and Zhu GuanLiang separated, they were invited to Ruichun palace in a hurry. Mrs. Yu beat the sage and complained, "it's all your fault. If you hadn't forced me to hold on to this matter so tightly, the eldest would not have been forced to become a monk. Now that I'm gone, are you satisfied?" Zhu GuanLiang sat silent. Zhou Leping gently held his hand to comfort him. Zhu GuanLiang held her back. The sage read the letter from the beginning to the end, looked at Zhu GuanLiang again, took the seal of the military talisman, and sighed, "OK." Madame Yu's eyes widened, "what's good? The boss is a monk. What can you say? Send someone to look for it“ As he said, this matter has an unshirkable responsibility. If he does this, I will give an account to all the officials and the people. It's not a bad thing to become a monk. If the Buddha sits down and the disciples can understand it, it's all his nature. " The princess cried even more. Zhou Leping saw the same sadness from the saint's face as Zhu GuanLiang's, but he was trying his best to restrain depression, or he could see a little bit of sadness from the tip of his brow and the end of his eyes. The sage closed his eyes, paused, patted the table and stood up, "OK, don't cry. It's just that he's a monk and not dead. It's his own choice. No one forces him to do what he should do to dry his tears. Lao Wu, come out with me."