The old Taoist priest left with his disciple, and Qingqing and her sister went to the academy to attend school.
Within two days, Qingyu, who had almost recovered from her injury, also said goodbye to Xiaohei and hurried back to the palace, saying that she wanted to see what the empress would look like after breaking through.
Wine shop No. 47 finally calmed down a little.
The old shopkeeper had nothing to do and spent most of his time meditating, practicing alone in No. 46.
Now that he has arrived in the imperial city of Da Zhou, he only has to wait for the day to leave, so he doesn't need to worry about the safety of the two little girls.
Everything is taken care of by Li Xiuyuan and others.
Even if the family has enough people, Li Xiuyuan can only open the door for half a day every day to do business, and spend the rest of the time sitting in the backyard watching the three of them reading and practicing swordsmanship.
Shuzi watched Li Xiuyuan holding the bamboo sword and whittling it for so many days, and couldn't help but frown.
Asked: "Brother, the two sisters are just using it to practice swords. Do you want to work so hard to sharpen their swords?"
Xiao Hei opened his mouth but said nothing.
Li Xiuyuan smiled, looked at Shuzi and Xiaohu and said seriously: "Ordinarily, one of you is my sister and the other is my disciple. I should forge two spiritual swords for you."
Xiao Hei nodded when he heard his brother say this.
He said with a grimace: "It's a pity that my brother is now a poor man and doesn't have any materials for making swords."
Shuzi glanced at Xiaohu and immediately shouted: "This is not possible, brother, you have to think of a way for us."
Xiaohu also said eagerly: "Sir, can't you just ignore Xiaohu?"
Xiao Hei shook his head, he had nothing to do, because he knew that the treasures Li Xiuyuan had were all forged in the Five Realms Tianshan Mountains, and they were not given to Yelu Mingzhu, Watson and others.
I gave it to the old Taoist priest and asked him to take it to his relatives at the foot of Mount Xumi.
With a faint smile, Li Xiuyuan looked at the two of them and comforted: "Fortunately, I am afraid that you will have to practice with my master for countless years. This spiritual sword will only cause trouble to the master."
At this point, Xiao Hei couldn't help but laugh: "Just be content. Even Xiao Hei is reluctant to give the treasure of the old Taoist priest. It's really an advantage for you."
Before Xiaohu woke up, his husband had already thought about everything about his future, and he didn't know what to do for a while.
He could only hold Xiao Hei's hand and laugh.
Shuzi sighed and asked in a low voice: "Why can't my brother forge swords in Dazhou? Even ordinary iron can be made into fine steel in my hands, right?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "I don't have the intention, so naturally I can't make a good sword."
After thinking about it, he explained: "Perhaps, this side of heaven will not allow the sword I made to appear. Xiaohei and I have to abide by the rules that you don't want to abide by."
Xiaohei looked at the two of them and said seriously: "Sister Shuzi and brother Xiaohu, you will understand more truth after you follow the old Taoist priest and leave Dazhou."
No matter whether the two of them were unwilling to do so, Xiao Hei did not dare to say anything at this time.
He was even more sad than Shuzi. He still didn't know which world he would go to with his two sisters.
Shuzi was silent for a moment, then suddenly said with a smile: "That's right. How could we have survived these years without the spirit sword?"
Xiao Hei was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered something.
He quickly corrected her: "That's not what I said. If you change the world, you will naturally need a good spiritual sword by your side."
In his opinion, if he didn't explain this truth clearly to the two of them, Xiaohu would be like an idiot and use Dazhou's long sword to fight against the monks above the nine heavens...
Isn’t that just courting death?
Li Xiuyuan glanced at Xiao Hei and explained to Shuzi: "The way of heaven in each world is different, and the cultivation techniques and even the spiritual energy will not be the same."
"The true energy that you are so proud of now will probably have to be cultivated all over again when your master is there. You will have to ask my master about this in the end."
When Shuzi heard this, she glared at Xiao Hei: "You already knew about this? Why didn't you tell me?"
When Xiao Hei heard this, he immediately said with a grimace: "I can't even beat you now, what can I say?"
Li Xiuyuan ignored the two of them and continued: "So, when you leave this world, you really need a good sword."
"For more principles of practice, you can only ask my master."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the two of them and said with regret: "I am not a good gentleman, so I can only lay a good foundation for you two. From now on, you must practice hard with my master."
When Xiaohu heard this, he stopped yelling.
Just looking at Li Xiu's pinhole, he said blankly: "No sir, Xiaohu would have died in the hands of bandits if he followed his mother in the desert."
Shuzi couldn't stop her tears from flowing down when she thought of the past events of Da Qin.
Looking at Xiaohu and Xiaohei, he said, "You also know that if it weren't for my brother, Shuzi would have died in this yard long ago."
Smiling softly, Li Xiuyuan looked at the two of them and replied seriously: "Xiao Hei and I are also very happy to meet you in Daqin."
When Xiao Hei heard this, he chuckled and said, "Brother, that's right. Xiao Hei has an extra sister and brother. I'm really happy."
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The flowers blooming in spring, the wind in summer, and the falling snow in winter.
The days passed quietly between the fingers, and in a blink of an eye it was spring again with apricot blossoms blooming.
In last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Li finally broke through to the Nascent Soul realm that she had longed for with the help of a spiritual soup.
The Queen, Gao Yue'er's junior sister, also refined the last elixir with the help of the old shopkeeper on the first day of spring.
Ashina, who had just established her foundation last summer, finally completely changed her physique with the help of the elixir after practicing hard for half a year.
Once he broke through the golden elixir realm.
For Ashina, who comes from the depths of the desert, this is something she has never dared to imagine.
All this happened because he disguised himself as a man and met Xiaohei and Shuzi in a tea shop in Tubao on the day he ran away from home.
From that moment on, she started dreaming.
From the desert to the Tianshan Mountains, and then from the desert to the imperial city of Zhou Dynasty.
She went from being a princess in the desert to becoming the empress of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and she practiced all the way from a mortal to the realm of golden elixir she is today.
On the day of the break, Asuna held Shuzi and cried for half an hour. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying. She didn't stop crying until the two little girls came home from school.
The old Taoist priest also got a small vat of spiritual wine from Li Xiuyuan as he wished.
He knew that with this small vat of spiritual wine, he and the little Taoist priest on Qingniu Mountain could change their fate.
Everything flows slowly like running water.
Everything seems to be a little different again.
The Great Zhou and Northern Qi would still fight from time to time, but they were no longer as fierce as Xiao Hei's fight in Dingzhou.
Emperor Wu, who had solved his internal problems, was ready to solve more hidden dangers under Li's persuasion.
Since the war between the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, monasteries have occupied farmland and reaped benefits without working, firstly to avoid taxes, and secondly to avoid military service in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Emperor Wu only made a rough estimate: there were two million Buddhists in the Zhou Dynasty and more than 30,000 monasteries.
In the second year after Emperor Wu came to power, there was a drought in Guanzhong. He ordered the households to sell their food rations, but the monks took advantage of the famine and made usury loans.
Those who committed crimes even hid themselves under the Buddhist law and plotted rebellion.
After experiencing these various things, coupled with Qingyu's experience in Dingzhou City that day, both the Li family and Emperor Wu remembered it in their hearts and never forgot it.
Emperor Wu originally advocated Taoism, but later began to worship Buddhism. He was influenced by the teachings of Confucius during the Qin Dynasty and firmly believed that Confucianism must be used to govern the country.
At that time, Wei Yuansong, a monk who had returned to secular life, argued that Emperor Wu should establish an ideal kingdom on earth to replace the Buddhist kingdom in heaven.
For a long time, Wei Yuansong had been married to the Taoist priest Zhang Bin. Both of them were good at martial arts and deeply trusted by Emperor Wu.
Not long after the spring of this year, Emperor Wu personally visited the Taiji Hall to preside over Buddhist and Taoist discussions. Zhang Bin fell behind in the debate with the monk Zhixuan.
Emperor Wu remembered the chaos in the Dazhou temple and reprimanded Buddhism for being unclean. Zhixuan replied that Taoism was even more unclean and contradicted Emperor Wu in person.
Emperor Wu was furious and issued an edict: "The two religions of Buddhism and Taoism are cut off, all scriptures and images are destroyed, the ascetics and Taoist priests are dismissed, and ordered to be returned to the people. All obscene sacrifices are also prohibited, and those not included in the rituals are to be eliminated."
Emperor Wu not only destroyed Buddha, but also destroyed Taoism.
After the imperial edict was issued, Buddhas and scriptures were integrated into the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, monks were driven out to destroy pagodas, all Buddhist temples and garlands were converted into secular residences, and ascetics were dressed in white clothes.
As a result, millions of people were added to the labor force on Monday.
As a result, the scriptures and statues in Taoist temples were destroyed, and the monks and nuns returned to secular life and returned to military and civilian households.
After Emperor Wu destroyed Buddhism, he collected all the fertile land occupied by the temples as national revenue, paid taxes to the country to increase the dynasty's income, revived the Confucian tradition, and worked hard to unify the Northern Qi Dynasty.
Finally, because of Li Xiuyuan and Xiao Hei, Qingyu had a talk with Li.
The monks and soldiers of Xilin Temple outside the imperial city were disbanded, the farmland under the mountain was taken back to the imperial court, and most of the monks and nuns in the temple were also dismissed.
Only less than ten Buddhist halls and a pagoda on the back mountain are left, with less than 200 abbots, elders and monks.
After everything settled, Ashina took Li to the snow-capped mountains and practiced with the old Taoist priest for some days.
Before that, Qingyu had already arranged for manpower to build several more houses next to the master's wooden house.
This is to facilitate the two empresses to go up the mountain to practice from time to time.
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In the small courtyard No. 47, Li Xiuyuan took Shuzi, Xiaohu and Xiaohei to make apricot flower wine again.
On a day when the wine is fragrant, the apricot blossoms leave their branches and grow small green fruits.
Yan'er and Qingqing have become accustomed to practicing in the academy. Every day, either Xiao Hei or Xiao Hu personally picks them up and drops them off, allowing the two little girls to enjoy a strong sense of family affection.
Holding a scroll of scriptures, Li Xiuyuan looked at the dripping spring rain in front of him under the eaves, thinking that the falling flowers and flowing water would be gone in spring, and the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty would finally clean up the Buddhist temple.
Xiaohei is different from Shuzi and Xiaohu. He is deeply touched by the chaos in the temples of Dazhou and Northern Qi.
Seeing that the empress and Emperor Wu finally made up their minds.
He couldn't help but look at Li Xiuyuan and said, "Brother, you must not believe it. When Xiao Hei came out of Baiyu Temple in Liangzhou City, he knew that this day would happen sooner or later."
The old shopkeeper sitting next to him sighed and said: "Indeed, those monks don't look like monks. They are all fierce and evil, no less than the bandits in the world."
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly and said: "Evil thoughts and evil fruits will blossom and bear fruit. They do not follow the way of heaven and do not obey the king. Naturally, it will be difficult for them to gain a foothold in this world."
Shuzi took a plate of apricot meat that Li Xiuyuan had pickled last year, came over and put it on the table.
He picked up a piece, put it in his mouth, took a bite, and said softly: "This year's Xing'er is not enough to eat. If I had known, I would have planted two trees on the 47th."
Li Xiuyuan also picked up a piece and took a bite.
Unlike Shuzi, he has given up the taste of Fengyun City. He is recalling the time when he was still a dog and followed his master to the Apricot Blossom Valley.
Looking at the old shopkeeper, he smiled and said: "The peaches and plums are blooming and the pears are fragrant, but I still like the spring apricots that have a hint of greenness."
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Xiao Hei beside him nodded and replied while eating apricot meat: "I don't know if the two seniors guarding Tianshan Mountain have become gods..."
Shuzi looked at Xiao Hei and thought for a while and asked: "Tian Shan, where is Tian Shan? Xiao Hei, have you been to Tian Shan in the desert?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Hei had no choice but to reply honestly: "My brother has been to three Tianshan Mountains, and Xiao Hei has been to his Tianshan Mountains."
The old shopkeeper said: "I want to take a look too."
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