Early summer is the best time of the year, with emerald green everywhere, neither cold nor hot, and it will feel relaxed if you wear few people.

Li Chengqian watched Xiao Jinyang wake up and drink a few sips of millet porridge, and rode back to the East Palace very easily.

But the mansion of Duke Xiao Yu of Song Dynasty was filled with sadness.

Several generations of people in the Southern Dynasty believed in Buddhism. In Xiaoliang, Xiaoyu's generation, they still worshiped Buddhas. In order to make worship of Buddhas, a small Buddhist temple was built in the back garden of Xiao Mansion.

The small Buddhist temple is surrounded by green bamboos, which is very quiet. Since Xiao Yu was driven out of the court by Li Chengqian, Xiao Yu has implicated the monks in Chang'an City because he has implicated the monks in Chang'an City. He knows that his sins are serious, so he has been living in the small Buddhist temple to recite scriptures and atone for his sins.

A few days ago, Xuanzang and his party came back from Tianzhu to join him. Xiao Yu was very happy and thought that the Buddha gave him a chance to make up for his hard work because of his hard work.

Through his communication with Xuanzang, he admired Xuanzang's character and knowledge very much, so he designed to let Xuanzang meet Li Shimin, hoping that Xuanzang could take the opportunity to plead for the monks in Chang'an to save them from the sea of ​​suffering.

But unexpectedly, Xue Rengui led his troops to surround the entire Xiao Mansion and rushed into the small Buddhist temple to grab Xuanzang from the Lanketuo Temple in Tianzhu Kingdom, and stolen all the relics and statues of the Buddha from the Eastern Palace.

This made Xiao Yu feel as painful as if he had been removed from his heart and liver. On the one hand, he was very afraid that he would be sent to the eighteen levels of hell by the Buddha when he died, but on the other hand, he felt very sorry for those sacred treasures.

In his seventies or eighties, he cried in front of the monks in the small Buddhist temple, and his eyebrows and beards were stuck together.

Xiao Yu cried and stomped his feet to curse Li Chengqian's destruction of scriptures and slandering Buddha. He would sooner or later go to the eighteen levels of hell.

Xuanzang, who was sitting cross-legged next to him, calmly recalled the details of his meeting with Li Chengqian in the palace. By repeatedly recalling the details of his meeting with Li Chengqian, he was sure that Li Chengqian wanted to use him. But he couldn't figure out what Li Chengqian was going to use him for, so he kept sitting there silently.

Xiao Yu cried for a long time and saw Xuanzang not coming to comfort him. He couldn't help but secretly look at Xuanzang. Xuanzang was sitting there like a dead grey wormwood, only to think that Xuanzang was suffering too much and was mentally ill.

Xiao Yu was shocked when he saw this. In his opinion, Xuanzang was a person who had become a Buddha and a saint. If Xuanzang had an accident in his mansion, wouldn't he have to be more guilty?

So Xiao Yu wiped his tears and walked to Xuanzang and whispered: "It's all my fault. It's my fault that the master has caused the loss of the scriptures and Buddha treasures. Now that I have already done this, even if I sacrifice my life, I will fight with the Eastern Palace and bring the scriptures and Buddha treasures back. Please don't worry too much. If the master becomes sick due to worry, then I will be unable to redeem his sins even in the eighteenth level of hell."

Xuanzang came back to his senses and looked at Xiao Yu. His face slowly regained his spirit. He took a deep breath and said, "This is a problem for my Buddhist school. How can I involve the old Duke?"

Xiao Yu was ashamed when he heard this. In the past few days, he only said that he had designed Xuanzang to meet Li Shimin to plead for thousands of monks in Chang'an City, which were still suffering in Longyuan.

But he did not dare to tell Xuanzang clearly that he was the monk in Chang'an City who was killed by Li Chengqian's revenge.

"What the master said? Although I am in the secular world, I have already taken refuge in the Three Jewels in my heart. Working for Buddhism is my lifelong wish. But I was dismissed from office and stayed at home this time..." Xiao Yu said very nicely before, but in the end he fell into the point of being powerless.

When Xuanzang heard this, he felt a little moved. Xiao Yu wanted to let go and said seriously: "What does the old Duke mean?"

Xiao Yu did not hear Xuanzang's voice differently, and whispered: "I am going to invite some ministers in the court in the name of my child. At that time, the master will use some advanced Buddhist teachings to convince everyone of Buddhism. These people will inevitably write to His Majesty to suppress the prince."

When Xuanzang heard this, he knew that he had misunderstood Xiao Yu, so he quickly stood up and folded his hands and lowered his head, "Thank you for your concern."

"Master is so polite!" Xiao Yuyi clasped his hands together and returned the favor.

Xuanzang said in a little embarrassedly: "It's just that I can only recite scriptures and translate scriptures, and there is no magical method."

Xiao Yu hurriedly said, "Master, don't be too humble. Just tell everyone about the vastness of Buddhism. Leave other things to me." Xiao Yu's meaning is very obvious. Monks like Xuanzang who are exchanging and selling domestically can show their skills a little.

Xiao Yu has always been very dedicated to Buddhism. How can he sit still when he decides a plan?

I immediately folded my hands together and bowed my head to the monks in the small Buddhist temple, and turned around and went out.

Watching Xiao Yu walk out Xuanzang feel sad. When Buddhism first introduced to China, it was actually very disgraceful. Some monks at that time were the main method to promote karma and retribution, feudal superstitions such as the eighteen levels of hell, and at the same time they also played some strange tricks, such as making something that China does not have to fool people, making a diamond and saying what his treasure is...

Sometimes they even sold some medicines. At that time, Chinese people's impression of Western monks was that they sold aphrodisiacs, or had some secret recipes. For example, there are stories in "Jin Ping Mei" and "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". Among them, Ximen Qing died in Pan Jinlian's room after taking the aphrodisiacs given by the monk.

"Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" tells a man who secretly took a monk's aphrodisiac, causing his lower body to grow violently and eventually grow into three legs.

But Xuanzang doesn’t know these things!

Xuanzang was still at a loss after thinking hard for a while, so he closed his eyes and held the rosary in his hand and chanted the scriptures silently. The other monks in the small Buddhist temple knew that he was thinking and did not dare to speak, so they looked at him with a breath.

After a while, Xuanzang chanted a scroll of Heart Sutra several times before opening his eyes, looking at the monks and saying, "Put it aside, let's go and say goodbye to the old country."

"Master, can we still ask for scriptures when we leave the Duke's Mansion?" Monk Jiashang hurriedly walked to Xuanzang and asked while helping him get up.

Xuanzang slowly stood up and looked at Cuizhu shaking in the wind outside the Buddhist hall and said: "I have seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the palace. Although I am disabled, I am also a dragon and a phoenix. I don't think he looks like a cruel and murderous person. The disaster of Chang'an Buddhism may not be like what the Duke of Song said..."

Although Xiao Yu has not confessed to Xuanzang yet, with Xuanzang's wisdom, he can see that Xiao Yu and Li Chengqian are not in harmony, so he believes that he is targeted by Li Chengqian this time, and it is very likely that he was affected by Xiao Yu's pond fish.

"Master, where should we live?" Monk Puguang turned out to be a wild monk in Lintao. Since he entered the Xiao Mansion, he felt that he had arrived in heaven. At this time, he felt a little reluctant to let him move out.

"Although His Highness captured the monks from Chang'an City, the temple is still from my Buddhists. We have not committed any crimes, we should be able to find a temple to live in." Xuanzang said as he slowly walked out of the small Buddhist temple and said to the disciples behind him without looking back: "Go to see Duke Song for your master."

When the monks heard this, they knew that Xuanzang had made a decision. They stopped saying anything at the moment, and simply packed up their salutes, and sat cross-legged and waited.
Chapter completed!