The Favored Concubine in the Palace_The Feast of Masks [Complete] (122)

After walking for more than ten days, they changed boats. The King of Jin was worried that Yao Niang would get seasick, but fortunately she didn't. They took another five or six days of boat ride before they reached their destination.

Because the team of people and ceremonial guards from the King of Jin's Mansion had not arrived yet, the King of Jin and his companions stopped there temporarily and found an inn to stay in.

It was the time when spring was warm and flowers were blooming, and more and more people went out of the city to visit spring.

There was nothing to do, and he was traveling light, so the King of Jin originally planned to take Yao Niang out for a stroll, but he was scared back by the crowd when he left the city. After asking, he found out that there was a Taoist temple nearby, and there was a Taoist priest in the Taoist temple who was very effective. Today was the day he started preaching.

Preaching was secondary, after all, there were not many people who could understand and had wisdom. However, after each preaching, this Taoist priest would select three believers to help him perform divination and fortune-telling. It was said that it was very effective and accurate. These common people all went for these three hexagrams, maybe they could choose themselves.

The King of Jin was dismissive of this, he used to not believe in such nonsense. But Yao Niang was very curious, she had never seen what was called hexagram divination.

Seeing this, the King of Jin could only accompany her to play, originally to take her out to relax.

They went outside the city, but it was just a small Taoist temple that looked a bit dilapidated.

In the current situation where Buddhism is flourishing and Taoism is in a downturn, the King of Jin was not surprised that it would be such a situation. However, there are quite a lot of believers, because the venue is limited, even people are standing on the treetops and hillsides, and on a stone platform in the field, there is a Yin Yang fish Tai Chi diagram carved in the middle, and a Taoist is sitting cross-legged on it.

The sermon has already begun. In the field, except for the circle around the stone platform, some people are listening attentively, and more are talking to their left and right. From time to time, there were little kids making noises, and the woman stood up and chased them to beat them, and several young children were fighting and playing with each other.

It was just like a market.

King Jin raised his eyebrows and motioned to Yao Niang: "Are you going over again?"

Yao Niang looked embarrassed. She had finally come out, but she didn't expect it to be like this. She thought that so many people came here, and they must be pious in their hearts, but she never expected it to be like this. It didn't seem that this Taoist had any profound Taoism, but it looked like a rough stage troupe in the countryside.

Yao Niang was an honest person, so she shook her head.

King Jin sneered, took her hand, and the group was about to leave. Xiao Bao stretched out his hand over there and called her mother.

Xiao Bao let Yu Chan hold him, wearing a thin indigo-colored cotton coat and trousers, and a small hat on his head, just like the dress of an ordinary rich family child. Yao Niang and King Jin were also dressed in ordinary clothes. This time they came out to pretend to be the master and wife of an ordinary merchant family.

The masters were all dressed so low-key, and Fucheng and Anyi were also dressed in cloth. In short, this group of people was not eye-catching. Except that the master and his wife were too handsome and beautiful, they attracted two villains, but we won't mention it for now.

"Xiaobao, what's wrong with you?" Yao Niang asked.

At this moment, the scene suddenly became quiet. Yao Niang turned around and saw that the Taoist priest on the stone platform was actually looking at them.

"Hey, go quickly, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Someone said.

Yao Niang was still a little confused, but King Jin said to her: "You didn't want to watch the fortune-telling, but you didn't make a wasted trip."

Uh...

As he spoke, King Jin had already led her through the narrow path opened by the crowd and went to the stone platform.

When he got closer, he found that the Taoist priest looked like an immortal, with white hair and a childlike face, and a shiny and ruddy complexion. He looked like a Taoist master.

"I am Hanchuanzi, I never thought that I would see three people with such strange fortunes here today, and the three of them are from the same family, so I will give you the three hexagrams today." As he said this, he whispered a few words to a little Taoist boy next to him.

The little Taoist boy said to the audience that the people for today's three hexagrams had been selected. Although there were endless complaints, people still dispersed.

Here, Hanchuanzi looked at King Jin with a smile on his face and asked, "What do you want, donor?"

"Nothing."

"Everyone has something to ask for."

"What I want is not something you, a Taoist priest, can give."

"That's right, what you want is a big thing, and it's really not something I, a Taoist priest, can give." Hanchuanzi said with a loud laugh, not caring about King Jin's attitude.

It was not until then that King Jin looked Hanchuanzi in the eye.

King Jin had seen many monks and Taoist priests who cheated under the guise of being highly skilled in Taoism. Sitting in his position, anyone who came to him to play tricks was seeking nothing more than wealth and power.

At this time, King Jin looked at Han Chuanzi, not because he thought he was very advanced, but because he was suspicious of whether he had leaked his whereabouts.

His eyes were sharp, and he looked at Han Chuanzi again, then lowered his head and said to Yao Niang: "Are you hungry? It's time for lunch."

As he said, he led Yao Niang back. His actions seemed to be ordinary, but in fact, if someone who knew martial arts saw it, he would know that the woman in his arms was protected by him without any leaks, and any attack could be blocked at the first time.

While walking, An Yi had already come to the right side of Yu Chan, and he and Fu Cheng were on the left and right.

After walking a little far, a voice came, but the wind was a little strong and it was dispersed.

Yao Niang asked curiously, "Did you hear what that man said?"

Prince Jin shook his head, "He's just a Taoist who's cheating people."

Chapter 98

It was two days later when the ceremonial convoy of Prince Jin's Mansion arrived.

During these two days, the King of Jin took Yao Niang to visit Tongzhou. Tongzhou is the end of the canal and a water and land hub, and is also known as the granary of the capital. Anyone who enters Beijing by water must first go to Tongzhou, and it only takes half a day from Tongzhou to Beijing.

This is the first time that Yao Niang has been out in public without worrying about people's eyes. The King of Jin took her to eat at all the famous restaurants in Tongzhou, big and small, and bought a lot of things.

Yao Niang seemed to have met the King of Jin for the first time. She never knew that he was so familiar with the "people". In her impression, the King of Jin should be aloof from the world. If he was asked to go to the street to buy vegetables, he might spend ten taels of silver to buy a chicken egg.

In fact, she was proved wrong. The King of Jin was very familiar with the prices on the market. He knew everything from a bowl of wontons sold by street vendors to jewelry sold for more than a thousand taels in silver shops.

Yao Niang asked him curiously, but the King of Jin just raised his eyebrows and didn't bother to pay attention to her. Later, she learned from Fucheng's explanation that being a vassal king is not just about giving orders. It is about people's livelihood and war, and the best way to reflect people's livelihood is the local prices of the season.

Although Tongzhou is closer to the capital, the prices are higher than Jinzhou, but after all, they are the same, and they are not much higher.

"Your Highness, you are really amazing."

Yao Niang never hesitates to praise herself, and the King of Jin does not show it on his face. Later, he took Yao Niang to visit more places. If it were not for the brothel, he might have taken her to visit. Anyway, the theater, Yao Niang went in to open her eyes.

So when she learned that the princess and others were coming, Yao Niang was still a little reluctant to leave.

"When we go to the capital, there will be more delicious and fun things, but after entering the capital, we will not be too free."

This is the real reason why the King of Jin took Yao Niang out to relax this time. Yao Niang came from a small family. Although the rules of the palace are big, they are not applicable to her. But it was different when he entered the capital. Under the spotlight, there were all kinds of people, and there were many people who took advantage of the situation. The word "rules" was the most popular word among the women in the capital.

"When we get to the palace, I will find an aunt to teach you the rules, and you may go to the palace to meet the emperor." It's not possible, it's a certainty, but the King of Jin will not put so much pressure on Yao Niang.

But he changed his nature of muttering, and when he saw no movement, he turned his head and found that she was actually playing with Xiao Bao. The mother and son were having fun playing with a little mouse folded with a handkerchief.

"Did you listen to what I said?"

Yao Niang covered the little mouse in her hand and asked Xiao Bao to guess which hand it was in. She didn't hide it well at all. In order to coax her, Xiao Bao deliberately guessed wrong frequently, and only occasionally got it right, which made Yao Niang happy and laughed continuously.

"Of course I listened. You said that you would find an aunt to teach me the rules, and you might go to the palace to meet the emperor..." As she said, she put two fists in front of Xiao Bao.

Xiaobao guessed wrong again, and he had clearly revealed his tail.

The King of Jin was so stupid that it was unbearable to watch. The big one was stupid, and the small one was stupid.

Yao Niang didn't notice it at all, and was amused to laugh. She smacked her son, "You have to look at your mother's hand, it will definitely be different."

The next round continued.

The King of Jin suddenly felt very worried.

The rules for the princes to enter the capital are not the same as usual. After the reunion, the King of Jin ordered people to submit a memorial to the capital.

After waiting for a day, the memorial was sent back from the capital, and it was approved by a red pen.

After waiting for another day, the officials of the Honglu Temple finally arrived.

Recently, the Honglu Temple has been very busy, with the emperor's birthday, foreign envoys coming to the court, and the vassal states coming to the capital. They have to take responsibility for the reception, and they must not be negligent. Once they are negligent, it is light to despise the foreign envoys and vassal states, and it is heavy to disturb the emperor's interest.

As for the foreign envoys, the most difficult ones to serve are the vassal kings. There are two types of vassal kings: one is the local vassal kings in the frontier, and the other is the vassal kings with royal blood who are enfeoffed in various places.

Fortunately, it was the King of Jin who came this time. Although the King of Jin was a little cold, it was better than the moody and unpredictable King. For example, when the King of Lu came to Beijing before, he whipped several officials of the Honglu Temple, which made people complain bitterly, but they couldn't complain.

After the officials of the Honglu Temple arrived, they set up a case and announced the decree, and the King of Jin's ceremonial motorcade could enter Beijing.