The difference from what Li Xiuyuan imagined was that the death of Emperor Ming of the Great Zhou Dynasty did not cause riots in the imperial city, nor did it cause too many waves in the dynasty.
Because the late emperor passed down the imperial edict orally, the Prime Minister Yu Wenhu had no choice but to obey the order and make Yu Wenyong the emperor, who was the Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
After Yu Wenyong ascended the throne, he posthumously named Yu Wenyu the Ming Emperor, with the temple name Shizong and was buried in Zhaoling.
After suffering for several years, Li finally became the empress.
I don’t know what she said to Xiao Hei, let alone what benefits the new emperor promised Xiao Hei. Three days after entering the palace, Xiao Hei returned to No. 47.
Seeing Xiao Hei, who had changed over the years, but who had not changed much like her brother, Shuzi couldn't help but pinch his face a few times.
Sighing again and again: "Brother, it's so unfair. I don't know how many Shuzi's children have been given away. Why is this guy Xiao Hei still looking like this?"
Xiao Hei circled Shuzi a few times, shook his head and said, "It's impossible. Sister Shuzi married brother Lao Liang and must have given birth to a baby. Why did she change back to her former appearance?"
After saying that, he dove into the backyard and shouted: "Brother, Xiao Hei is back."
Li Xiuyuan, who was sitting under the eaves reading a book, nodded and asked, "Is everything done?"
"That's natural, how about now?" After Xiao Hei said that, he turned to look at Shuzi who came in from outside the store, and smiled: "Did brother give Sister Shuzi some spiritual wine again?"
"No rush, wait until I leave in a few days."
Li Xiuyuan looked at Shuzi and smiled: "Your sister Shuzi has an ageless appearance to begin with. I just helped her remove a trace of the power of time on her face."
Shuzi heard what the two were talking about and couldn't help but ask: "Brother, are we going to Tianshan Mountain?"
"Of course I want to go."
Li Xiuyuan lit the stove on the table to boil water, looked at Xiao Hei and asked, "What about you? Are you going to the desert Tianshan with me to have fun, or are you staying in the palace to enjoy the blessings?"
Xiao Hei thought for a while and said with a smile: "Xiao Hei is just playing in the palace and we will talk about it when my brother comes back."
Upon hearing this, Shuzi couldn't help but frown and asked: "Xiao Hei, aren't you scared to be here alone? We are going here, but we don't know when we can come back?"
Having said this, even Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but frown.
He looked at Xiao Hei and said, "Who wants to keep you? Is it the emperor?"
Xiao Hei shook his head and said with a smile: "The emperor has no time to care about Xiao Hei. Of course it is the Queen... Xiao Hei has never stayed in the palace before, so this time he is enjoying himself."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and said in a solemn voice: "This time, we may stay longer, probably for more than ten years. You know the rules."
Xiao Hei curled his lips and said with a smile: "I know, I don't care about my own business, but my brother has to tell me what I don't care about. I can't be a stupid person, right?"
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, his head was as big as an ox, and he thought, why don't you go?
The only thing that reassures him about Xiao Hei right now is that this guy is not afraid of poison just like him.
Even if someone in the palace were poisoned again, it would not be a problem for Xiao Hei. Thinking about it this way, he could be allowed to stay in the palace for a few more years.
It's just a good thing for Xiao Hei to experience more ups and downs.
"I'll think about this tonight. I'm afraid you pig brain won't be able to remember it. I have to write it down for you one by one." Li Xiuyuan sighed. "You can cause trouble for me."
Xiao Hei didn't mind the trouble, looked at him and laughed: "Xiao Hei will go to the academy to see the teacher tomorrow, and then go to the palace. My brother and Sister Shuzi are going to the desert, so I won't see you off."
Li Xiuyuan was speechless for a moment when he heard this. He looked at him and said quietly: "The academy is no longer the academy it used to be. Of course, Master doesn't know whether he has become a saint..."
After speaking, he pointed at Shuzi and said: "Your friend in Daqin back then will only be Sister Shuzi in the future. Don't say the wrong thing again when you are away from home."
Shuzi looked at Xiao Hei and said seriously: "After Shuzi went to her hometown with Zhang Liang, there was no news that she had lost her teacher when she returned to the imperial city."
Xiao Hei nodded thoughtfully: "Xiao Hei understands."
If the master is not here, then brother Zhang Liang is naturally no longer here, let alone brother Xiaohu.
Thinking of this, Xiao Hei couldn't help but look at Li Xiuyuan and asked: "Brother, where are sisters Mu Mu and Yu'er? The old monk will never change, right?"
"They are different."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said, "They are waiting for us to go back."
Xiao Hei thought for a while, took Shuzi's hand and asked: "Next time when we leave, can we take sister Shuzi with us?"
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and said with a smile: "If you stay honest and don't cause trouble, I think God will let us leave together."
Xiao Hei smiled: "I will definitely not cause trouble, brother, don't worry."
Thinking about leaving the imperial city, Li Xiuyuan stood up and said to Shuzi and Xiaohei: "Let's go shopping and buy some clothes for Xiaohei and you. There is no place to buy them in the desert."
Xiao Hei laughed when he heard this: "Xiao Hei wants to buy a few more, and so does Sister Shuzi."
Shuzi took his hand and walked out, smiling lightly: "Brother, I have to buy a few things. I can't go to the desert and be cold."
The group closed the shop door, laughing all the way, and headed towards the market in the imperial city.
Xiaohei played with Shuzi for three days on the 47th and then returned to the palace, just because he was afraid that someone would miss him.
Shuzi didn't try to persuade her to stay. Since her elder brother was relieved to let Xiao Hei stay in the palace, she also wanted to go out for a walk in the desert. Even if she couldn't find Zhang Liang's master,
It’s not a bad idea to go and see the Tianshan Mountains.
Spring was not yet over, and apricots were still hanging on the trees. Li Xiuyuan was a little upset because he couldn't eat them.
After renting a carriage, the two quietly left the imperial city and headed for the border.
Shuzi was extremely excited. Ever since she drank the spiritual wine that Li Xiuyuan gave her, she had returned to her girlhood overnight, and now she was curious about everything.
In her words, this is new life, a yearning for life.
The only thing that dissatisfied her was that Zhang Liang didn't stay with her all the time.
Holding a book in his hand, Li Xiuyuan sighed and said, "Zhang Liang has his own destiny. It would be unreasonable for me to help him a lot."
Shuzi thought for a while and replied: "I have thought about it for six hundred years, and I have figured it out. If my eldest brother hadn't saved Shuzi's life at that time, how could I have witnessed the miracle with my husband?"
After leaving the city for a day, the carriage traveled a hundred miles and stayed in an inn at night.
After dinner, Shuzi went back to the house to rest early. Li Xiuyuan closed the door and brewed a pot of spiritual tea.
Opening the things Xiao Hei gave him, when the aroma of tea started to bloom, a long sigh sounded in the room.
Li Xiuyuan smiled: "For example, after all the deaths yesterday, will there be joy in life when I wake up?"
Silently, the visitor put on the green shirt that Li Xiuyuan handed him. After sitting up, he bowed deeply to Li Xiuyuan and said, "I heard the old monk talk about the desire to die in the temple. I never understood it."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and said: "Although we are hiding the truth, from now on you have to bid farewell to the prosperity of your life. From now on, the green lantern will accompany the Buddhas. Can you adapt to such a life?"
The visitor sighed, looked at the spiritual tea in his hand and said leisurely: "I used to be reluctant to let it go, and it wasn't until I was dying that I realized that everything was just a dream after all."
After thinking for a while, he said: "I was dead yesterday. Please give me a new life, sir."
Li Xiuyuan sighed again after hearing this, and murmured: "You are going through a lot of hardships. I have a senior brother named Minghui. How about you call me Huiming from now on."
"The darkness of the past frightens the red bird, and the bright moon in the desert illuminates the green lantern. Although the desert is bitter, it is a good place to go."
At this moment, Li Xiuyuan thought of the grotto outside Yuezhi City. Time passed by, and the fat monk of that year was probably gone long ago.
What about the arrogant Touman Chanyu?
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but said calmly: "Even if the iron threshold is built for a thousand years, it will still need a few local steamed buns."
"Thank you sir for the name. Yesterday I was dead. From today on I am Huiming in the depths of the desert."
The person next to Li Xiuyuan was Emperor Ming, whom he met at Xilin Temple when he came down from the snow-capped mountains. Xiao Hei used a trick in the palace to finally let a piece of talisman paper be buried in Zhaoling.
It was only under the cover of the sky that there was darkness tonight.
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "When you get to the desert, I will ask a master to ordain you and complete your spiritual practice in the future. This will be regarded as building merit for your family."
Huiming bowed again: "It is indeed much easier to let go of the burden of the worldly world."
Nine days away, Lao Shang looked at the old Taoist priest and frowned and asked: "Is this guy going against heaven? Why doesn't God kick him back?"
The old Taoist priest stroked his beard and smiled: "You must be secretly having fun in your heart. My disciple is helping you enlighten the idiot who has been thinking about it for decades and can't figure it out."
"Look at him going to the Buddha to chant sutras and burn incense. It's just a show. In the end, he can't let go of the glory and wealth in his life. He only understands those truths when he is dying."
The old Taoist priest said seriously: "Even if he saved Shuzi back then, this plan to hide the truth from the world is not from the world, but it is not the way of heaven, so it is not against heaven."
The old monk was silent after hearing the words, lowered his head and pondered for a long time, and then said softly: "If you think about it carefully, it is also a cruel thing for him and Xiao Hei. Just in the blink of an eye, everything has changed."
"Didn't he build a courtyard there that will last for a thousand years? Let him work there slowly. Time won't be that fast this time."
The old Taoist priest sighed: "If he wants to experience all the things he has never forgotten, I am afraid he will have to live there for more than ten years..."
"What's interesting to me is that after Xiao Hei read the book, he didn't want to follow his brother. He would rather run to the palace, this little guy."
The old monk smiled: "You have to warn that guy Xiao Hei not to break the rules."
The old Taoist priest shook his head: "Xiao Hei is not just in the palace this time, he also has to go through his own hardships."
The old monk was stunned and blurted out: "Is it possible?"
"You guessed it, I guessed it too." The old Taoist priest smiled: "This world does not belong to my disciple alone."
It rained lightly in the morning, but it couldn't stop Li Xiuyuan's footsteps.
Shuzi noticed that there was an extra carriage. She couldn't help but look at Li Xiuyuan and asked, "Brother, is this your friend? Do you want to go to the desert with us too?"
Li Xiuyuan thought for a moment, pointed at the young man who came out of the inn, dressed in a green shirt and regained his vitality, and said with a smile: "This is my friend, Monk Huiming."
Shuzi met Huiming and asked in confusion: "Monk, you are obviously not tonsured and you are not wearing monk's robes?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly: "That's because you have never seen me practicing in the temple since I was a child, and I have never been ordained."
Huiming and Shuzi were both stunned and asked: "So the eldest brother (Mr.) once practiced in a temple?"
Li Xiuyuan handed Hui Ming a handwritten copy of the Ksitigarbha Sutra and said quietly: "The road is long, so start your practice by reading and reciting the scriptures."
Huiming took the Buddhist scriptures with both hands and replied with emotion: "I didn't expect that Sir still carries the Buddhist scriptures. It's really rare."
Shuzi thought for a while and asked: "Xiao Hei has always followed his brother. Will he read and recite Buddhist scriptures like his brother all the time?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the vast rain and fog outside the inn, shook his head, and got into the carriage.
After a while, he finally said: "When he was able to learn the Six Arts from Master, I was already burning incense and worshiping Buddha."
Shuzi smiled and got into the carriage: "I think so, he is just a fool."
Huiming got into the carriage at the back, sat down in the carriage, and opened the first page of the Buddhist scriptures. He saw two whole lines of small characters written on it.
As I left, as I came.
