Chapter 121
Chapter 120: Flower fairy
What happened early in the morning gradually spread to the outside. When Princess Dongyang heard it, she overturned the tea cup by mistake. Gao Zihan hurriedly stepped forward, and wiped her hands with Princess Dongyang with her kerchief: “Aniang, be careful.”
How can Princess Dongyang still have the heart? Want to take care of her? On the water, she hurriedly asked, “Where is the saint?”
“The saint and queen are all locked up. Which palace are they locked up in… Wait for the slaves? I don’t know.”
The princess Dongyang leaned back on the collapse, unable to return to her senses for a long time. Wu Zhao actually imprisoned the emperor! What does she want to do?
As a member of the Li family, Princess Dongyang can instinctively smell a crisis.
In Princess Ngee An’s mansion, Li Zhen heard these things, and she stood up in surprise: “What did you say? The queen pulled her own son down?”
The maid bowed her head and dared not say anything. The Princess Ngee’s Mansion was cleansed not long ago. Now, I don’t know how many eyeliners there are in the mansion. How can the maid dared to talk about the Queen’s right and wrong. Because of the cat demon’s involvement, Li Zhen was forced to shave by the queen, and now her hair has not grown. With a veil on her head, she looked nondescript. Li Zhen has always been very repulsive from seeing people, but now, before she has time to wear a fake bun, she stands directly in front of the maid without any response.
Li Zhen was taken aback for a while, and muttered, “Are they all crazy?”
King Sun Gongqing of the Eastern Capital felt that the mother prisoner was already shocking enough to the world, but he didn’t expect that the crazier ones would still be behind. In October, a fisherman in Yongzhou fished a piece of white stone from the Luohe River. It was engraved with “The Mother of God, Immortal, Yongchang Emperor”. The fishermen felt very different and offered the white stone to the imperial court.
The saint’s mother, isn’t that the Queen of Heaven? The river publishes pictures, Luo publishes books, and the saint does it. Finding pictures in the river is a good omen. Some people in the DPRK praised this? It was auspiciousness from heaven, and the queen was overjoyed, and ordered this white stone to be a treasure map. At the same time, he led the officials to visit Luoshui to receive the treasure map.
On the day of receiving the picture, the Town Demon Division accompanied him and went to Luoshui to worship. Bai Qianhe, Zhou Shao, and Mo Linlang saw the “treasure map” salvaged in the water, and looked back at Li Chaoge in silence.
Li Chaoge straightened his neck and looked forward, just pretending to be himself? He didn’t know. As long as she is not embarrassed, others are embarrassed.
After the presentation of the treasure map, the Queen’s pace of building momentum has accelerated significantly. On behalf of the emperor, she was in charge of the government, amnesty the world, built Mingtang, and promoted the Jingguang Heavenly Girl and the Great Cloud Scriptures. In the autumn and winter of the twenty-fourth year of Yonghui, auspicious auspiciousness continued to appear in various parts of the Tang Dynasty, and the court complied with the mandate of heaven and gave the queen mother the honorary title of “The Holy Mother of God”.
However, the diva felt that it was not enough.
Not long after Li Chaoge came down, he was called by the Queen. The people in the Town Demon Division were accustomed to it. They did their own things as usual, but when Li Chaoge came back today, she became extremely silent.
The commander was not only reticent, but also behaving strangely. Bai Qianhe quietly bumped into Zhou Shao, and asked in a low voice, “The commander is already in front of the flower bed? I have stood a stick of incense, what is she looking at?”
Zhou Shao glanced outside, indifferent: “Oh.”
Bai Qianhe glanced at Zhou Shao disgustingly. He found it boring, and ran to Mo Linlang to gossip: “Sister Mo, use your eyes to see if there is something under the soil?”
What did Mo Linlang say? Be cautious: “What? What?”
“I don’t know.” Bai Qianhe blinked his big eyes and said, “Look at the commander’s stare for so long, maybe there are treasure maps, secret roads, front? Chao Yuxi, etc. below.”
Ma Lin Lang believed that it was true, she walked to the edge of the window and looked carefully for a long time, her expression gradually hesitating: “I think…that seems to be just soil.”
Bai Qianhe leaned over the window and muttered, “Really? You take a closer look.”
Li Chaoge had already heard the chirping behind the window. She pierced the soil on the ground with a sword and said, “Come out and see. All? Someone came to the main hall for a meeting.”
Bai Qianhe, Zhou Shao, and Mo Linlang soon came to the main hall. They sat in their positions one by one. In front of each of them was a gray-brown granular, soil-like thing. When the three of them saw this, their expressions couldn’t help being solemn. Bai Qianhe buckled a little with his fingertips and licked with the tip of his tongue.
Hiss… It tastes like real soil. Bai Qianhe asked: “Commander, what is this?”
“earth.”
Bai Qianhe was taken aback for a moment: “Huh?”
Li Chaoge glanced across the audience, speaking righteously, with a serious face, and said: “Now, I have an important task for you. This task is related to the survival of the Town Demon Division. Only success is allowed, and no failure is allowed.”
All of them stood up and waited solemnly for Li Chaoge’s next words. Li Chaoge was very satisfied with their performance and said: “Now, you will bring this soil home, and everyone will go to the warehouse to pick up a pack of seeds and go all out to plant flowers. Be sure to plant them within two months. Flowers that can bloom in winter.”
There was no sound in the main hall. After a while, Bai Qianhe asked tentatively: “What is the code for planting? Flower, or? Is it…” Literally, planting? Flower?
“Plant? Plant flowers.” Li Chaoge said solemnly, “This? You don’t have enough soil to dig by yourself. No matter what you need for fertilizer, flower seedlings, and seeds, it won’t be a problem. As long as you can make the flowers bloom on Yuan Day, everything will be spent. All will be borne by the Town Demon Division. After the completion, I will give you a great achievement.”
Zhou Shao silently pushed the soil in front of him a little further: “I can’t take this? I can’t take any credit. I won’t take it.”
Bai Qianhe didn’t have the heart to speak, he tried to spit out the soil he had just eaten. Ma Linlang was the only one who was able to maintain her composure. She looked at the soil and the seeds again, her eyebrows twisted into a strange ball: “Commander, let’s drop demons and slay demons. Why is this kind of thing? It’s ours. Tube?”
Li Chaoge too? I want to know. The Queen called her over today, saying that although there is a lot of auspiciousness, it is not natural enough, and the people will suspect that it was created by man. It is best to create an auspicious that shocks the world, is different, and can best prove that the queen was ordered to heaven.
For example, on the day that the Queen of Heaven presided over the Yuan-Japanese dynasty meeting, let the flowers bloom to celebrate the Queen’s reign.
Li Chaoge cursed vigorously in his heart, outrageous.
She can work hard to catch monsters, but how does she care about blooming things? But the Queen gave her the task, and Li Chaoge couldn’t do it? It did. She stared at the soil of the flower garden for a long time, and felt that Linyuan envy the fish should retreat and make a net. She couldn’t delay any longer, and planted a few seedlings first.
What if it is done?
Unfortunately, the miracle did not happen to Li Chaoge’s head. Several crops of flowers were planted, and the town demon division was plowing the soil inside and outside, but none of them germinated successfully.
Bai Qianhe stared at the quiet flowerpot in front of him, and he felt this? What was it called? He is a generation of thief, even if his reputation is mixed, he is at least an indomitable man. Put it here? Why grow flowers?
Zhou Shao held up his sturdy hands and fingers, carefully loosened the soil with the flower shovel, and cut the bulb off inadvertently.
Ma Linlang is also on the verge of collapse, she can’t, she really can’t. She tried every method she found out with the spirits, and added all kinds of weird materials to the soil, but none of them succeeded. Finally, the three of Bai Qianhe placed the empty flower pots in front of Li Chaoge, and everyone’s face was almost the same color as the soil.
“Commander, it’s not that I don’t work hard, it really doesn’t work.”
“Commander, you can’t kill but nod. I can’t bear this kind of torture. Let’s change the task.”
Mo Linlang also shook his head slightly: “Commander, winter blooming is against the season, let alone me, even the flower demon? There is no way.”
Li Chaoge pressed his eyebrows with a headache and waved his hand to signal them to go down. In the past few days, not only Bai Qianhe and a few people have been tortured, but Li Chaoge is also uncomfortable. She mobilized all the maids in the princess mansion, and went to the Royal Garden to ask for several palace people who are good at treating flowers and plants, but no one can let the flowers bloom in winter.
Moreover, what the Queen wants is not a certain kind of? A specific flower, but a hundred flowers.
Li Chaoge tried several days in the Princess Mansion and the Town Demon Division, but all failed. To make matters worse, it was such a delay, and a month had passed.
There are only 30 days left until the Yuan day requested by Tin Hau.
Li Chaoge encountered the biggest crisis in her career. She spent a day worrying about the demon division of the town. After returning to the princess mansion, she leaned against the table? Continue to worry. In the twilight, Gu Mingke came back from Dali Temple and saw the princess mansion was digging everywhere.
Gu Mingke looked at the dug potholes and asked: “What are you doing?”
Gu Mingke has been paying attention for several days. He first dug in the garden, but now it’s fine, he dug directly into his yard.
Jiao Wei was also confused and said, “I don’t know. It seems that the princess wants to plant flowers.”
“Planting flowers?” Gu Mingke raised his head, looked towards the snow-flooded sky, and whispered, “Planting flowers in winter is really whimsical. Forget it, let me ask her.”
Gu Mingke walked into the study following the instructions of the maid. A charcoal fire was burning in the study, the innermost window was half opened, and the west wind rolled into the house with broken snow, knocking the tassels on the windows to scatter.
Li Chaoge sat at the table, propped his chin with one hand, and stared at the scroll in front of him bitterly.
Gu Mingke walked over, picked up a roll casually, looked at it, and asked, “Simin Yueling, what do you think about this? What do you do?”
Li Chaoge took a long breath and leaned back on the seat back, pinching his eyebrows with a headache?: “What is there? How can I let the flowers bloom in winter?”
This kind of whimsical idea, it is the handwriting of the Queen of Heaven. Gu Mingke put down the book and arranged the table calmly: “Hundred flowers have time orders, there is no way?. Are you worrying about this during this period of time?”
Li Chaoge sighed. She also felt that there was no way, but the diva wouldn’t listen.
Gu Mingke saw Li Chaoge’s appearance and persuaded: “The manpower has something to do with it, but it doesn’t have it. You can’t change the flowering period of the farming hours, forget it.”
Li Chaoge sat up hard, his eyes still shining: “I don’t believe it. I must be able to find a way to make them bloom?”
Gu Mingke nodded calmly. He had already persuaded her. If she doesn’t listen, she can do it herself. Gu Mingke stood up and said, “Then look for it slowly, I’ll go first. My yard was originally flat and level, but it will be unsightly after you dig it. Don’t dig it.”
Li Chaoge nodded casually: “I know.”
Didn’t he just dug a few plots of land? They all filed a complaint here, stingy.
Li Chaoge flipped through agricultural books, looking for ways to urge blossoms in every corner. But farmers rely on the sky for their food. Except for certain politicians, who can be whimsical and grow crops against the farming season? Li Chaoge rummaged through Agricultural Records, but couldn’t find any clues, and finally couldn’t help but fall asleep leaning on the table.
Gu Mingke criticized the dossier in his study. Lu Qi came in and urged her to rest. Gu Mingke responded with a plan to turn off the lights first, lie to them and read them quietly. After blowing on the lamp, he felt that he had been sitting for a long time, so he stood in front of the window to breathe.
Standing in the wind, he quietly watched the broken jade and chaotic jade flying in the night. After watching for a while, he suddenly found that there were still lights in Li Chaoge’s yard.
It’s this hour, she hasn’t slept yet?
Lu Qi and Jiao Wei had already retreated, and Gu Mingke silently came to the main courtyard without disturbing others. Gu Mingke’s clothes swept across the threshold, and the maid still leaned on the door frame and dozed off, but no one was coming.
Gu Mingke went to the study room and found that the window was still open, and Li Chaoge fell asleep on the desk. Gu Mingke frowned: “Nothing.”
She is still a mortal, sleeping with the window open, and she is not afraid of catching a cold. Gu Mingke stepped forward and called Li Chaoge softly: “Li Chaoge, wake up, go to bed and sleep.”
Li Chaoge’s arm was pressed on the scroll, his eyebrows were still frowning, even in his sleep, he was worried about the affairs. Gu Mingke sighed helplessly, he picked Li Chaoge up and sent her to sleep in the sleeping hall.
Although Gu Mingke moved loudly, his voice was extremely soft, and the maid in the hall felt nothing. Li Chaoge was chasing the flower essence in her dream, and suddenly felt weightless. She opened her eyes suddenly and was about to start when she heard a familiar cold voice behind her: “It’s me.”
Li Chaoge breathed a sigh of relief. Her mind hadn’t reacted yet, and her body had already taken off the attack. Li Chaoge fell backwards. At this time, she realized that she was actually being held by Gu Mingke.
Li Chaoge jumped down subconsciously: “What are you doing?”
“Don’t make trouble, it’s already here.” Gu Mingke put Li Chaoge on the bed and said, “You can sleep well when you are tired, lying on the table with the window open behind you, don’t you be afraid of shoulder pain tomorrow.” Gu Mingke put her aside. On the bed, the hands tied around her back and the legs were bent away, as if they were supposed to be. He was so plain that Li Chaoge was embarrassed to mention it. At this time, she moved her shoulders and found that her back shoulders were really sore.
Gu Mingke knew what she was thinking when he saw her expression. Gu Mingke sat down on the side of the cave, stretched out his hand to press Li Chaoge’s shoulder and neck, and slowly kneaded: “Still? Thinking about the Queen of Heaven?”
Gu Mingke’s fingers are long and slender, with moderate strength, and the acupuncture points are particularly accurate. Li Chaoge was pressed comfortably and was reluctant to refuse. Li Chaoge gave up. She leaned on the screen, letting Gu Mingke’s hand rest on her shoulders, and closed her eyes wearily: “The Queen has an order to let Hundred Flowers open in Yuanri. This task must be completed anyway.”
Gu Mingke was silent, and the queen was Li Chaoge’s mother. However, Li Chaoge smashed Yinya and humiliated his blood, preferring to worry about himself, and never mention it to his parents.
In the eyes of Li Changle and Pei Ji’an, Li Chaoge’s behavior is undoubtedly stupid, but Gu Mingke can understand her feelings.
Only those who are favored dare to be unscrupulous. For children who are not favored, the more hope the mother gives, the less she dare to disappoint.
Gu Mingke did not persuade. Li Chaoge lay down for a while, feeling that his mind had come to rest, so he got up and wanted to go back and continue reading the book. Gu Mingke sighed slightly in his heart, and he pressed Li Chaoge back on the bed with his hands.
“What are you doing?” Li Chaoge looked at him in surprise, “I’m going back to look up the book. If I can’t find a way? I can’t even keep myself, so how can I rest?”
Gu Mingke paused for a while, then slowly said, “Is there no way?”
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The next day, Li Chaoge looked at the sacrificial text in front of him and asked: “Is this all right?”
“Yeah.” Gu Mingke faintly replied, “Although each flower has a flowering period, if something unexpected happens, it’s okay to change the flowering period temporarily?”
Gu Mingke taught Li Chaoge to write prayers for sacrificing heaven. In ancient times, monasticism was prosperous, and there were high priests in the mortal kingdom. Whenever a major national event occurred, the priest would divine good fortune to the heavens. This sacrificial text is not for divination, but its function is similar. It is to inform Yu Tian of the state of the dynasty, and please cooperate with the heavenly flower fairy.
The stability of the mortal dynasty is related to the peace of the three realms, and the flower immortals are all immortals, and generally do not confront the dynasty in power. After Li Chaoge wrote the sacrificial essay, those little fairies were afraid of causing trouble to the upper body, and most of them would agree.
Sure enough, within a few days, the sacrificial texts lit up one by one. Li Chaoge tried to plant the corresponding flowers, and as expected, they could germinate.
Li Chaoge immediately sent people to collect flower seedlings to prepare for the Hundred Flowers Fair on Yuan Day. However, hundreds of flowers bloomed one after another, and only one flower did not bloom.
That is peony.
Li Chaoge was curious, and wrote a new sacrifice, but this time he still got nothing.
Li Chaoge was surprised, and took the sacrificial resignation he wrote to find Gu Mingke: “Is there something wrong with my sacrificial text? Why did the Peony Flower Fairy not respond?”
When Gu Mingke heard the name, he was silent for a while, and said calmly: “She will not respond.”
His tone is plain, but his meaning is very absolute. Li Chaoge raised his eyebrows in doubt: “Why?”
why? Gu Mingke turned a page of the book without answering.
Because the peony flower fairy was personally deprived of the bones, knocked down the mortal world, and entered the cycle of reincarnation to suffer the suffering of the sixth world. There is no peony fairy in the sky, how can the sacrificial text respond?
Gu Mingke refused to say that even if Li Chaoge thought his attitude was strange, he couldn’t ask anything. But if you think that Li Chaoge will give up in this way, it would be a big mistake. People are sure to conquer the sky. If the sky does not respond, she goes to find someone.
Li Chaoge sent all his hands to find among the folks who are good at planting flowers, especially good at cultivating peonies. Experts among the folks, Li Chaoge really found a lot.
Datang loves peonies, and there are many Zhuangzi specializing in peonies around Luoyang. A peasant woman wiped her hands on her clothes when she heard Li Chaoge’s request. She said, “Let the peonies bloom in winter…Lady, the peasant woman’s hands are clumsy and can’t grow this kind of flowers.”
This? This was the sixth peony they were looking for. As expected, just like the previous ones, this peasant woman has nothing to do.
Li Chaoge sighed secretly. When he was about to go to the next place, he heard the peasant woman hesitate to say: “However, the peasant woman knows one person. Their husband and wife love planting flowers, and his wife is Lan Xinhui with good heart and dexterity. With her hands. The flowers that are planted, no matter how delicate the variety?, can grow up smoothly without even bugs. If it were her, she might be able to plant peonies that bloom in winter.”
Bai Qianhe and Ma Linlang looked at each other, Li Chaoge’s eyes moved slightly and asked, “Oh, who is she?”
Li Chaoge did not reveal his identity. The peasant woman only thought that she was an ordinary noble girl in front of her. The house is not far away. They are very affectionate. They have nothing to do with the world. The husband sings and accompanies the flowers and plants. There is only a black dog in front of the house to watch the house. Especially the lady, who is extremely beautiful and talks. She is gentle and generous, and she only deals with flowers and plants. We all say that it is a fairy from the sky. Her maiden name…oh yes, she is called Peony.”
Many of the women named flowers. Li Chaoge didn’t care, and asked: “Then what is her husband’s name and where does she live now?”
“Fu Lang, I can’t remember it a bit. It must have happened seven or eight years ago. I only remember that there were always gangsters harassing their family. Peony couldn’t bear it, so she moved away with her husband, seemingly to live in seclusion in the southwest. His husband’s name is still easy to remember… it seems to be Yang Hua.”
“Yang Hua, Peony.” Li Chaoge said these two names silently, and asked, “Where do they go to live in seclusion?”
The peasant woman patted her forehead hard. She really couldn’t remember, so she opened her throat and called their man: “My son, the Peony Lady and Yang Lang in our village before, do you remember?”
“Peony is such a beautiful lady, why don’t you remember?”
“Bah!” The peasant woman uttered angrily and cursed, “You are not serious, I will settle accounts with you later. Do you know where the Yang Lang family moved?”
In the farmland, a dark and rough man scratched his head and hesitated: “It seems that I have gone to Jiannan, a place called Pingshan.”
Ma Linlang quickly wrote down these information, Yang Hua, Peony, Pingshan. Ma Linlang sighed in her heart as she wrote, Jiannan, so far away, can they still have time?
Mo Linlang was busy writing, and naturally did not notice, Li Chaoge’s eyes shrank sharply.
Pingshan?
Li Chaoge was horrified in her heart, but she didn’t show any strangeness on her face. She calmly asked the peasant woman: “What else do they have as a couple? Are there any relatives?”
Pingshan is far from Luoyang by road, and Li Chaoge knows how hard it is to find the road there. Yuanri Tianhou will use Hundred Flowers. It is definitely too late to hurry. Li Chaoge can only inquire about Yang Hua and Peony’s relatives. Maybe, other people still have secret recipes in their hands.
“Relatives?” The peasant woman and her husband thought together. The peasant woman first remembered, and said quickly: “Peony has never heard of it. She has been alone and has never seen her. What kind of relatives and friends does she have. Instead, it is Yang Hua. He seems to have a cousin. It’s Song Wen.”
The peasant woman loves to chat at the entrance of the village, so she still remembers the relatives of Yang Hua’s family after many years, but where Song Wen lives and where she is now, she knows nothing. But this? It is not a problem for Li Chaoge. She asked Yang Hua and Song Wen about the hometowns and planned to go directly to Jing Zhaoyin to check the household registration.
As a public servant, you can never rely on gossip to find someone. Li Chaoge left with her hands. Before she turned around, she asked unintentionally, “What does the black dog raised by Peony look like?”
The peasant woman was stunned for a moment, did not understand what Li Chaoge asked this to do? She was straightforward, and said enthusiastically: “The black one has very long hair and is very fierce. Peony looks good, and sometimes punks come to make trouble, and the black dog bites at people, and the mouth tube was beaten out of this place. A scar.”
Mo Linlang and Bai Qianhe stood not far away, waiting for Li Chaoge for unknown reasons. Li Chaoge nodded, no fluctuations could be seen on his face, as if he was just asking casually. She smiled softly at the peasant woman: “Thank you very much.”
Sure enough, the black dog in the peasant woman’s mouth was exactly the same as the dog demon that Li Chaoge injured when he left the Black Forest.
Li Chaoge clearly remembered that Gu Mingke was there at the time, and he snatched an elixir from the black dog’s mouth. Where does this elixir come from? What is the relationship between Peony and Gu Mingke?