Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 41 Only I understand my father!
Hai Huaiyi was an old man who had served Concubine Zhen for twenty years. It was only right and proper for Concubine Zhen to be informed of his death.

What's more, Yuzhen was trying hard to get back at the humiliation she suffered today, so now was the time for her to go to the palace and complain to Concubine Zhen.

But she flatly refused to tell Concubine Zhen what happened today.

Luan Nu couldn't help but look at her with a meaningful look in her eyes.

But Yu Zhen didn't notice it at the moment. She broke out in a cold sweat and felt panicky.

If we let that "bastard" continue investigating, he might actually find out something.

But that money...had long been exchanged for "Flying Immortal Pills"!
The bulk of the money was used to fund the Salvation Cult behind Gong Xinying to refine the "Elixir of Life".

No matter how stupid Yu Zhen was, he knew what impact it would have on him once his cooperation with the Salvation Church was exposed.

Because there is a precedent for this!

Fifteen years ago, your Majesty's younger brother, Prince Yong'an Ji Hongde, cooperated with the Salvation Church in his territory and sacrificed the blood of the people of the city to make elixirs.

It was the Imperial Master who personally went south, captured Prince Yong'an, and escorted him to Kyoto to be interrogated. As a result, the prince committed suicide out of fear of punishment in the prison of the Astronomical Survey Office.

This incident caused a sensation in the court and the country. Countless officials died in the palace, forcing Emperor Tianwu to order the killing of his own brother. The pillars in the palace were stained red with the blood of the officials who died in the palace.

Although Yuzhen was still young at that time, her fourth brother was already able to attend court and attend government affairs. When he came back, he always told her about these things in vivid detail.

This left a deep impression on the young girl.

It was after the incident with Prince Yong'an that the Daqian Dynasty hated the Salvation Cult. If their cooperation with the Salvation Cult was exposed...

The censors in the court will definitely keep picking at her like flies smelling rotten meat!
When she thought of this, Yu Zhen couldn't help but shiver.

"If the elixir of immortality is successfully refined and can help my father to advance further, why should I be afraid of these things..."

Yu Zhen secretly hated him.

She is the emperor's most beloved daughter, so she naturally knows what her father has really wanted over the years.

If it can help my father to make one step further, then the idea of ​​a prince competing for the throne... is a joke!
Which royal brother can live longer than my father?
The position of crown prince was just a word from my father.

Only in this way can the fourth brother, who has no chance of winning, achieve success overnight!
But now the pill has not been refined yet, because the most important "medicine guide" is missing.

If you expose yourself before this, you will only have faults but no merit!
Therefore, before the matter was accomplished, she didn't dare to reveal anything even to her mother and fourth brother.

Now the death of Hai Huaiyi is a small matter, but Gou Xiangxi's tracking of the whereabouts of the money in the princess's mansion is a big matter!
"Zhao Qi'an..."

Yu Zhen murmured these three words, muttering: "If Zhao Qi'an can obey my orders, then Gou Xiangxi and the medicine will all be solved."

"Getting Zhao Qi'an to obey me is not that difficult!"

"At this point, I can only believe that Xinying will not let me down!"

Her eyes gradually became firm, revealing a resolute coldness.

"Prepare the car, I want to go to Baiyun Temple!"

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"Second Prince?"

That night, Xiaowei sent a secret letter.

Zhao Qi'an was quite confused when he received the news.

He didn't know about the Baiyun Temple case, so how did it involve the second prince?

Moreover, the second prince even went so far as to use his connections in the Ministry of Justice and took the risk to rescue people from the Astronomical Observatory.

How big of a favor is this?

However, after Zhao Qi'an read the secret letter, his doubts were resolved.

The secret letter was a message from Zhao Guanxiang, explaining the whole story to Zhao Qi'an. The fact that the Second Prince could not have children was no secret in Kyoto.

However, the new princess consort is pregnant recently. This news was obviously suppressed deliberately. It is very likely that the second prince has set a trap for some prince to jump into.

"No wonder the Second Prince is willing to help. It turns out that Baiyun Temple contributed a lot to the Princess' pregnancy."

However, a trace of doubt flashed through Zhao Qi'an's mind, just like his adopted son.

Is the child in the princess' belly really the second prince's?

He naturally knew that the bloodline of the fetus in the princess's womb could not be wrong and must be from the royal family, otherwise it would not be hidden from the investigation of the royal experts.

But the problem is, there are countless capable people in the palace, but none of them can solve the problem of the second prince's heirs. How can a small recipe for having a child from Baiyun Temple be so effective?

Zhao Qi'an touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

It seems that there are still some secrets hidden in Baiyun Temple.

……

The next day, the sky was slightly bright, and the city of Kyoto was still shrouded in gray.

A carriage left the palace in a low-key manner and drove towards the east of the city. It called the soldiers guarding the city gate, opened the east gate of the city in advance, and left Kyoto City.

At 2:15 a.m., the carriage arrived at the foot of Baiyun Mountain in the suburbs of Beijing.

When the carriage stopped, the maid in green lifted the curtain from the carriage, jumped off, put the stool on the ground, and then lifted the curtain and said softly, "Master, we have arrived."

A woman walked out of the carriage. She was wearing a plain dress and a white hat with hanging down gauze, which obscured her face and made it difficult to see her appearance. All that was noticed was that her belly was slightly bulging, which did not match her slender figure.

She placed her hand on the arm of the maid in green, supported her belly, and carefully got off the carriage.

It can be seen that she is particularly concerned about her belly. She only dares to take small steps forward, paying careful attention to every step.

The master and servant entered Baiyun Mountain and walked up along the bluestone path.

At the mountain gate of Baiyun Temple, the abbot Cang Baizi was waiting there with his men. When he saw the master and the two women, he bowed and politely invited them into the Taoist temple.

……

In Baiyun Temple, behind the statues in the Sanqing Hall, there is an unknown secret room.

"The Green Lotus saves the world, the Virgin Mary is born..."

“Supreme Prajna Heaven…”

"I am grateful to the Spiritual Master of the Three Lamps for giving me flesh and blood, and giving me a child..."

In the small secret room, there was a strange statue the size of a palm placed on the incense table.

It is different from the two-faced statue with both male and female characteristics in the underground secret room behind the Baiyun Temple. Its appearance is like the "living Buddha in flesh and blood" made from the body of an old monk after his death, and the dried body is painted with gold lacquer.

The only difference is that this statue has the appearance of a palm-sized baby, sitting cross-legged in meditation, with a golden glow all over.

But this statue didn't look like a dead object, its chest was still rising and falling.

As the woman knelt three times and kowtowed nine times devoutly, the statue slowly opened its eyes. A golden light shot out from its eyes and fell into the woman's belly.

The woman felt a warm sensation in her stomach, and immediately showed joy on her face. She kowtowed again: "Thank you, Spirit Lord. May you bless me..."

……

After a moment, the woman left the secret room, and Cang Baizi, who had been waiting outside, walked forward quickly.

Cang Baizi still had that unnatural numb expression, but he spoke politely to the woman: "This time, I and my disciples are safe and sound, and I would like to thank the princess for saving me."

The princess smiled slightly and stroked the fetus in her belly: "You are too polite, Taoist priest. Wan'er should thank you for what she has today. Your temple not only helped me, but also helped Your Highness a lot. Your Highness and I will remember this kindness in our hearts."

No time to check, these two chapters will be updated first and revised later, kowtow to everyone orz
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