Chapter 205: Driving a Bai Lu to the Pear Garden

"Princess, Princess!" The palace maids guarding outside the small building were already accustomed to the men coming in and out of the Princess Princess Yuzhen Temple!

She was also used to Qian Chen and the others having one more person with them every time they went out. But seeing Si Qingguo simply change into a Daoist robe and wanting to go out alone, she hurriedly followed behind and said anxiously: "Is the Princess going out? I will go and call the honor guard!"

"No need!"

Si Qingguo saw the palace maid's anxious face, almost crying.

Helplessly, she turned her head and frowned: "Although this identity of mine is precious, there are always a lot of people following me when I go in and out. And whether I am a princess or not is not up to me, but up to the pomp. Without someone familiar following me, if I just go out alone like this, I fear I won't be able to pass the entrance guard."

Qian Chen thought it was right. If a dignified princess was like an ordinary female Daoist, without bringing anyone, or only bringing one maid to the street, I fear not many people would recognize this identity.

He pointed at the palace maid and said: "Then take her!"

He turned his head and asked: "How many people around you are trustworthy?"

Si Qingguo shrank her neck and whispered: "On the side of Great Jin, the people around me were all left by my mother, and my father was suppressing them. How many people do you think are trustworthy?"

"How many?"

Qian Chen was really not familiar with these palace intrigue ways, only hearing Si Qingguo say: "Just two people... Later, my father discovered that one of them was the Emperor's person. There are too many twists and turns in the palace. I can open my heart to my senior brother at first sight, but I dare not to them."

"What's more, I have only replaced this identity for a few days, how many people can I trust?"

Qian Chen had to turn to Sima Chengzhen and ask: "Does Ziwei have any trustworthy manpower?"

"Acting in the identity of Princess Princess Princess Yuzhen, there must be people around. We can find a few female Daoists to dress up and disguise as Princess Princess Princess Yuzhen's maids."

Sima Chengzhen's complexion was a bit strange. He pinched a spiritual formula with his right hand, and only heard him call out. More than a dozen palace maids walked out from all over the Princess Princess Yuzhen Temple, all dressed as female Daoists, respectfully bowing to Sima Chengzhen first: "Greetings, Zhang Tian Shi!"

These palace maids had just lined up when more than a dozen female Daoists also walked over from the Jin Xian Female Temple next door, bowing to the Zhang Tian Shi in turn.

The two teams of people set up the honor guard...

The two female Daoists at the head held flying swords. Although the restriction level was not high, they were also proper Daoist flying swords. Then there were two female warriors holding iron whips and bone clubs behind them. These two warriors practiced Daoist protective methods like the "Nine Bulls and Two Tigers Skill." Although their arms and legs were not very thick, they truly had a majestic spirit, and the bone clubs in their hands were also proper copper melon hammers, not the kind of things like the Xuanhuang Ruyi in Qian Chen's hands.

Immediately following were six female Daoists, holding brocade banners and precious canopies, carrying lotus-shaped and brocade-cloud-shaped curtains and umbrellas, protecting Princess Princess Princess Yuzhen in the middle. Behind them were female Daoists holding banners and precious bottles. Qian Chen casually inserted the lotus flower that he had previously plucked and hidden the Qinghong Sword in into the precious bottle.

The female Daoist holding the precious bottle smiled at him, her smile bright.

Finally, there were eight female cultivators playing music, including the pipa, bili, drum, and square chime.

The cultivation base of these female Daoists was at least at the Penetrating Law realm.

And those brocade banners, precious canopies, curtains, umbrellas, banners, and precious bottles were all good magic treasures. The Soul-Binding Rope that Qian Chen had already eliminated was nothing more than this.

This complete honor guard formation was set up just like this.

The brocade banners, precious canopies, curtains, and umbrellas were a set of magic treasures.

When activated, the precious canopy would hang down three or four layers of spiritual light, like a blue-white cloud barrier, blocking in front of and behind Si Qingguo. The umbrella could even protect the Princess closely like Qian Chen's Heavenly Net Umbrella. The canopy gathered from the feathers of spiritual birds and colorful phoenixes could also emit precious light.

It could be called an iron-barrel turtle formation.

Protecting the owner of the honor guard tightly.

The four people responsible for clearing the way were either sharp sword cultivators or protective warriors who practiced martial arts. When encountering an assassination, they could charge to the front and open a path for the people behind to protect the Princess.

The banners and precious bottles at the end were responsible for covering the rear, and the female Daoists who played music could also form an array to guard if necessary.

This complete set of honor guards was gathered together. Si Qingguo helplessly spread her hands to Qian Chen and said: "Look..."

Sima Chengzhen was also a bit embarrassed and whispered: "The main reason is that the Princess is also a female Daoist who has left home to cultivate. These two temples of Princess Princess Yuzhen and Jin Xian are both Daoist gates, so my words as Zhang Tian Shi are a bit more useful."

Qian Chen asked in a low voice: "Then why are these people so skilled in setting up the honor guard!"

Sima Chengzhen whispered: "When I, as Zhang Tian Shi, inspect the Daoist gates of the world, I also have to set up a pomp. Apart from the three mountain Daoist fields, the others of our Zhengyi sect have been used by the imperial court with various means to swallow them up. It just so happens that we will use the plan to let the imperial court help us cultivate talent."

"They are all our own people, so we just borrowed them!"

It turns out that these two maids of the Princess work a job at the Princess's place, and their main job is the honor guard pomp of the Zhang Tian Shi!

Si Qingguo rolled her eyes silently and questioned: "What about these magic treasures?"

"Naturally, they are from the palace! This set is a bit worse. After all, the best ones have to be used by the Emperor and Empress. The top-level set is the ritual vessel for offering sacrifices to heaven. If you support it, it is truly unbreakable even with a few magic treasures."

"Part of the ritual magic treasures in the palace were provided to the palace by our Daoist sect when the Great Tang was first established, and part were refined by the Imperial Equipment Supervisor later. When the Li Tang was first established, where did they have these things? They were all handled by us Daoist sect members after killing those fake monks in the previous dynasty's palace."

At this time, two more Daoists came to the front of the Princess Princess Yuzhen Temple, leading four divine and handsome white deer. Si Qingguo looked at the two maids guarding the door, and without waiting for her to greet them, they familiarly opened the door and let the two Daoists in.

Si Qingguo looked at the four soft, cute, white, and beautiful deer and suddenly said: "Are these the four auspicious signs in the Beast Garden?"

The Daoist who brought the deer bowed slightly and sang a promise: "Greetings, Zhang Tian Shi, and greetings, Fellow Daoist Princess Princess Yuzhen!"

Another Daoist tied the white deer to the Princess's carriage.

Sima Chengzhen looked at the simple carriage of Princess Princess Princess Yuzhen and sighed: "How much does the Xuan Emperor favor An Lushan? The carriage he gave him is actually better than the Princess's."

"I will let the people in the palace change a set for you later. Let's use the 'Sun and Moon Flowing Cloud Carriage' of Princess Taiping from the past!"

Si Qingguo boarded the carriage angrily. The female cultivators beside her didn't dare to look at her, but fortunately, Si Qingguo came back to her senses after being angry for a while. She thought: "Although Princess Princess Yuzhen was bullied? But I am not Princess Princess Yuzhen! The power of the Daoist sect is really terrible! If it were in Great Jin..."

She quickly smoothed her breath. If it were in Great Jin, if the Daoist Academy wanted to use a set of your carriage, would they still need to be sneaky? Tell the Emperor when you go back, and the Emperor can only accompany you with a smile, and have to ask diligently, what else do the Zhang Tian Shi lack? My palace maids are clever and sensible, and I will send some to the Zhang Tian Shi!

As the daughter of Zhang Tian Shi Tao, why could she toss the imperial clan upside down and bully those princes and princesses who were not against her?

Compared to her father, Zhang Tian Shi Tao, the temper of this Zhang Tian Shi Sima was already very restrained!

Thinking of this, Si Qingguo's anger smoothed out again, and she hurriedly touched the smooth and warm fur of the white deer in front of the carriage. The white deer turned its head and licked the back of her hand obediently.

The Pear Garden was not far from the Great Ming Palace. With the Thousand-Autumn Festival approaching, one could see the bustle of rehearsals in the Pear Garden, all kinds of wonderful music and heavenly flowers, accompanied by laughter and noise, and many women in gorgeous costumes running in the garden.

But this place was very close to the imperial palace; it was a gorgeous pavilion built half-suspended on the Qu River, and a garden composed of the surrounding architectural complex.

Along the way, there were bright sentries and dark scouts of the military marquis, checking heavily.

In front of the Pear Garden gate, a team of Thousand-Ox Guards strictly checked the personnel entering and exiting. Today was the Thousand-Autumn Grand Banquet, and the Pear Garden would inevitably arrange singing and dancing. If an assassin were mixed in, disturbing the Emperor and a group of princes and nobles at the banquet, that would be a major event that would shock Chang'an, and they wouldn't have enough heads to lose.

Just at this time, on the Qu River, a carriage pulled by four white deer came slowly, stepping on the clear waves of the river.

More than a dozen female cultivators dressed in Daoist robes, holding brocade banners and precious canopies, carrying lotus-shaped and brocade-cloud-shaped curtains, holding umbrellas and banners, followed the deer carriage on auspicious clouds.

To have such a pomp, it was definitely not an ordinary noble!

The Thousand-Ox Guard at the head greeted them, and a female official showed the fish tally in the gold fish bag. The Thousand-Ox Guard looked at the name on the fish tally and hurriedly knelt down: "I didn't know the Princess had arrived! Your subordinate will let you pass!"

He looked up and saw that the carriage was covered by green gauze and connected by pearls, unable to see the figure inside.

But with the fish tally and carriage, and the female official in front of the Princess, he didn't dare to doubt, hurriedly calling people to clear the way, and watching the carriage of Princess Princess Princess Yuzhen enter.

The most daring group of assassins who were about to take action at the Thousand-Autumn Grand Banquet were let into the Pear Garden by him just like that.

"In the Pear Garden, how many are Daoist sect people?"

Qian Chen could see through the green gauze from inside the carriage that many palace maids were coming and going on the road, and the green, green, red, and purple skirts were fluttering. The laughter of those young girls was very crisp, like silver bells blown by the wind under the eaves.

The sounds of sheng, qing, xiao, zheng, di, qing, konghou, bidian, pipa, and other gold, stone, silk, and bamboo were like jumping pearls and shaking jade.

The wind blew the curtains of the pavilions on both sides, revealing women in rainbow clothes and rosy capes at the windows, dancing with graceful figures, their dangling hairpins swaying slightly, and coral inlaid on them. There were also women in colorful ribbons, dancing and gliding in mid-air, their long skirts swaying like fish tails.

Some of them held pipas, some held horizontal flutes, reaching out to fly to the sky, their bare feet exposed from the edges of their skirts, white and cute.

Several music-playing heavenly women in the sky shuttled and flew, colorful ribbons fluttering, their figures graceful, giving people a sense of being overwhelmed.

Yan Shu watched with great interest. Those girls exposed their navels and long legs without any avoidance; it was the most beautiful scenery of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

It was definitely not something that could be seen in Wei and Jin.

Not to mention Yan Shu and Qian Chen, even Cen Can and other men, as well as Ning Qingchen and Si Qingguo, watched without blinking, admiring the beautiful and generous dance posture.

Sima Chengzhen moved his gaze away when he heard Qian Chen's question, and took the time to answer: "In the Pear Garden, there are tens of thousands of dance and music heavenly women and musicians. Among them, those who believe in the Daoist sect are no less than one hundred thousand. If we can persuade the Buddhist sect, then more manpower can be used. Gathering the 'Rainbow Feather and Feather Garment Song' is definitely not a difficult task."

"But we must first persuade one person before we can replace all the dance and music musicians tomorrow with our own people." ===== CHAPTER 206 =====