Mountains and rivers pray for peace

Chapter 105 Goodbye Cousin
Huo Xian was startled, Huo Qi asked him to destroy the jade statue!

"Do you know how much the royal family values ​​this Jade Guanyin! We will destroy it on our own initiative, and if it is discovered..."

That is a capital crime of beheading.

Huo Xian can no longer look at his younger sister with ordinary eyes.With Huo Qi's courage, even if she pokes a hole in the sky, she probably won't blink.

There is no direct marriage tie between Ningguo Gongfu and the Tian family. Emperor Xiaowen still gave preferential treatment to Ningguo Gongfu. This was because he took into account the kindness his father taught him when he was the Taifu, and also because of Huo Ruhai's support despite all opinions. The friendship of Emperor Xiaowen to carry out the new order.At that time, Emperor Xiaowen issued the order to promote the virtuous, not only because Emperor Xiaowen himself was determined to reform, but also because he needed such a political achievement to prove that he was a wise king.

And Huo Ruhai risked offending half of the courtiers to assist Emperor Xiaowen in carrying out the virtuous edict, and finally allowed Emperor Xiaowen to gain a firm foothold in the comments of later generations.

But this does not mean that the emperor will forgive everything the Huo family has done, not to mention privately destroying the jade statue that the royal family wanted to worship with great fanfare, which can already be regarded as an open dissatisfaction and provocation against the royal family.

"Brother, think about it carefully, is this jade statue precious, or is the life of a living person precious? If you fight hard, you still have a chance to survive. If you sit and wait to die, the entire Huo family may be dragged down by this matter. You also know that now There are a lot of people in the hall who want to take Raho's family into the water, and they will not let go of this ready opportunity."

Huo Qi's brows and eyes turned cold, so much so that his speech carried a bit of hostility that he hadn't noticed.

bold?

The bolder ones are yet to come.

For Huo Xian, she still concealed a part after all.Because she knew that Huo Xian would not fully accept her plan, so she only said the part that Huo Xian could accept.

Huo Xian looked at Huo Qi thoughtfully.

What Huo Qi said was right, there are only two roads in front of him now.Either wait for Emperor Xiaowen to see the Jade Guanyin turned into a statue of respecting the noble concubine, and unleash a thunderous fury that will affect him, the escort general, and even the entire Huo family.Either use the hands of the abbot to destroy Yuguanyin, and dig out the cancerous tumor in Baotan Temple by the way.

The lesser of two evils, perhaps Huo Qi is right.

He thought for a while, and finally nodded: "I believe in my sister, you can try your way."

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In a blink of an eye, the day of the incense offering came. This incense offering was the biggest event of the year at Baotan Temple. All the monks were in high spirits and looking forward to it. They sent Zhike monks early to welcome the guests on the mountain road in front of Baotan Temple.

Today, Baotan Temple was surrounded by inner guards sent by the palace early in the morning, Huo Qi didn't go anywhere, just stayed in the meditation room and meditated.Not long after, someone knocked on the door of Huo Qi's room, but it was Baoqin who came.

Standing at the door with a qin in his arms, he said with a smile: "Miss, madam has arrived at the meditation room in the south, the eldest young master asked the servants to welcome you, so that it will be convenient for you to show your face in front of the ladies later."

Huo Qi was overjoyed, and hurriedly followed Baoqin to the meditation room on the other side. As soon as he entered the door, he saw that Mrs. Wang was already waiting for her.

The mother and daughter hadn't seen each other for a few days, and seeing Huo Qi in men's clothes, Wang immediately got up and took her over, teasing: "Following your elder brother, you really will become a veritable mud monkey."

She then pointed at a set of blue-colored woven gold jacket and skirt on the couch, "Put it on first. If someone finds you dressed like this, there will definitely be problems. You don't have to be polite in front of me and your father, but today you are so careless. .”

Because Daqi is rich in products and prosperous in economy, the folk customs are relatively more open.The young lady can take the maidservants out to the theater and drink tea without reporting to the elders, but it is very bold for a man like Huo Qi to dress up as a woman and follow his elder brother to the temple.

Fortunately, Huo Qi has a steady temperament, so Huo Ruhai and Wang are very relieved that she will go out.

What's more, some experience and principles can only be learned by rolling around among the people. If you stay in the boudoir every day, it is not easy to develop a broad vision, so Wang usually doesn't like to be too attached to her.But when it comes to the critical moment, you still have to follow the old-fashioned rules, and you can't make a wrong step.

Huo Qi naturally agreed, changed his clothes, let Baoqin comb his hair again, and followed Wang out of the house, only to see that Huo Xian was already waiting outside.

Huo Xian was leaning against a bodhi tree. When he saw Wang and her daughter coming out, he immediately went to greet her: "Mother, sister!"

Wang waved her hand and said with a smile: "Recently, I have heard a lot of gossip from those wives. I heard that this Jade Guanyin is a psychic treasure, so I have to pay my respects today."

Huo Xian agreed, but winked meaningfully at Huo Qi.

The brother and sister were leaning on Mrs. Wang on the left and the right. The family was preparing to go to the front hall to make preparations so that they could meet him in time. However, they didn't want to turn around and met Ms. Jiang, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, followed by Mrs. Jiang, whom they had not seen for a long time. Huo Qinglan.

Zhenyuan Hou's Mansion and Ningguo Duke's Mansion have always been on good terms, this is a well-known fact in the noble circle of the capital.But since the matter of the Huo family's eldest family and the Yuan family's plan to be in-laws fell through, and Huo Xian's attack on Huailin somehow had something to do with Zhenyuan Houfu, even if there is no real evidence, the relationship between the two has become delicate.

Several ladies who came early had meaningful expressions on their faces when they saw the mistresses of the two families meeting each other.

When Mrs. Wang saw Jiang and Huo Qinglan, the smile on her face faded by half, but since they bumped into each other head-on, she still spoke politely out of respect for her face: "Mrs. Yuan, we haven't seen each other for a long time. I don't want to see you here today." Here it is."

Jiang is in a good mood today. After all, the Jade Guanyin today was donated by members of the Yuan family. If it can make Her Majesty the Queen Mother happy, the Yuan family will also be happy.She was happy in her heart, and a smile naturally appeared on her face: "What a coincidence."

She poked her gaze back, looked at Huo Xian, and lingered on Huo Qi for a longer time before she retracted her gaze: "You have raised a pair of good sons and daughters, the son is promising, and the daughter is also handsome. It's a pity that our Yuan My family is not so lucky..."

The Jiang family hesitated to speak, but the meaning in the words was very clear, it was nothing more than a pity that Huo Qi did not marry into the Yuan family.She frowned again and gave Huo Qinglan an impatient wink at the back, Huo Qinglan took two steps forward to salute Wang Shi, and timidly called auntie.

Huo Qi sneered in his heart, Jiang's hypocritical appearance was really disgusting.In the last life, once Yuan Shao went out to socialize with his colleagues, he was only too drunk, and he went crazy and beat Lefeng for no reason, causing him to vomit blood.She asked Yuan Shao to give an explanation afterwards, but Yuan Shao said that she was just a maidservant, so she beat her as soon as she beat her.

At that time, she was so angry that she had a cold war with Yuan Shao for half a month, but she didn't know how Jiang knew about it, and called her to Qing'an Pavilion for questioning, and said that she didn't know the priority, and she gave her husband a bad look because of a maid. , It really is an unruly woman.

If it wasn't for Lefeng who was lying on the bed at that time begging her to calm down, not to offend Jiang and Yuan Shao for herself, so as to avoid even more sad days in the future, she would not have raised her hand to let her go.

Jiang's hypocritical face has not changed, but she actually said these words in front of Huo Qinglan, and she really didn't take this daughter-in-law seriously.Huo Qi glanced at Huo Qinglan who was standing behind Jiang, but saw that her expression was as usual, and she was unmoved at all.

It turns out that we have become a family through acting.

It's no wonder that Huo Qinglan was still able to occupy the position of Zhenyuan Hou's concubine after her pregnancy, and was not kicked away by a mean and ungrateful person like Yuan Shao.It's no wonder that the Jiang family, with eyeballs growing on the top of their head, looked down on the family status of the second bedroom of the Huo family so much, but still brought Huo Qinglan to Baotan Temple.

After hearing Jiang's polite words, Huo Xian wiped his nose uncomfortably.

He and Yuan Shao had a pretty good relationship in the past, they used to play together, they stayed outside the Great Wall for three years, now they have drifted away after returning to the capital, and they have no intention of getting close to Jiang's.

He is also lukewarm about Huo Qinglan, his cousin. In his eyes, except for Huo Qi who is his sister, any other sister is at best a relative. What's more, things are different from the past. Now the eldest and second bedrooms of the Huo family are still feuding. home.

Therefore, Huo Xian didn't show any warm expression on his face, he just followed the rules and bowed as a junior.

Seeing Huo Xian walk away and salute, Huo Qi smiled and blessed Jiang Shi: "My little girl has met Mrs. Yuan."

Jiang waved her hand and asked her to stand up: "I know you have always been a good person, but now you are becoming more and more charming. I fell in love with you when I saw you."

"Ma'am, it's absurd. My little girl, I heard that the Jade Guanyin was donated by Mr. Chen, is it an amazing treasure?" Huo Qi smiled lightly.

(End of this chapter)