Flowers bloom and fall, spring goes and spring comes back again.
When Wumu takes off his Western clothes, when Wuliang returns to his former appearance as a monk named Xiaobao under the snow-capped mountains.
When the young monk Wuliang was about to see the realm of Nascent Soul.
Only then did Sanzang realize that Li Xiuyuan and his junior brother at the foot of the snow-capped mountains had always been by his side.
At this time, Sanzang had been invited into the king's tent by Ye Hu Khan of the Turks in the west of Suiye City. Li Xiuyuan and the young monk settled in an inn in the city.
At this time, Sanzang had left Chang'an City for two full years.
Two years later, Li Xiuyuan is now eighteen years old, and even the young monk is fifteen years old.
Along the way from a young monk under the snow-capped mountains, Wuliang has read the "Ksitigarbha", "Tao Te Ching", "Poems", "Books" and other documents left by the Qin Empire.
In Li Xiuyuan's opinion, the current young monk is considered a monk who is good at both civil and military affairs.
The exotic customs did not bring much emotion to Li Xiuyuan. Sanzang has not left, and he has not yet gone to see Wu Mu's relatives.
Most people in Suiye City believe in Zoroastrianism, and Buddhism is a pagan in their eyes.
Sanzang was summoned by the Khan, and the young monk felt very uneasy, fearing that his senior brother would cause some trouble here.
Guarding a pot of spiritual tea, the young monk looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked: "Brother, are you leaving Wuhuan?"
For the young monk, Li Xiuyuan took care of him like a real brother. Seeing that the breakup was imminent, he felt very reluctant to part with him.
After a moment of silence, Li Xiuyuan said: "I have taught you the skills you want. You will be a Yuanying realm monk in a few years."
The young monk also understood that he might not be able to cross the threshold mentioned by the master in less than twenty years.
And all of this is because of Li Xiuyuan.
The young monk, like Sanzang, has a Buddha heart and wants to go to Tianzhu.
When he heard these words, his eyebrows couldn't help but frown, and his eyes were gradually occupied by a deep feeling of reluctance.
After a long silence, he followed Li Xiuyuan's example and sighed.
Said: "How long will brother stay here, or can Wuliang and senior brother return to Chang'an and find him on the snow mountain to continue practicing?"
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan replied: "I don't know, I still have some trivial matters here. After that, I will travel all the way to Chang'an."
Without the little monk and Sanzang, Li Xiuyuan can eat enough for himself, and the whole family is not hungry, so he naturally does not have to worry about the itinerary.
The young monk also knew that his brother had spent a lot of energy protecting him and his senior brother from the wind and rain all the way here.
Although helpless, there is no way.
After all, when he was in Chang'an, Li Xiuyuan told him that his journey would stop at Broken Leaf.
What he didn't expect was that although this place was far away from Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, there were still apricot flowers blooming in the inn.
The spring is passing, and the petals on the branches have turned into the red mud under the trees.
The two waited quietly in the inn for three days, and finally received news about Sanzang.
Like the young monk, Sanzang was reluctant to part with Li Xiuyuan here.
However, Li Xiuyuan had to calm down, looked at Sanzang and said: "Send you a thousand miles, but you will eventually have to say goodbye. I seem to have gained more insights from this today."
Being sad about spring and autumn is not what he wants.
He wanted Sanzang and the young monk to break away from Suiye City, even though the three of them had to go through countless life and death crises along the way.
Sanzang's heart is in Tianzhu, but he wants to stay in this strange city for a while.
He wanted to see how magical the hometown of the guy who was born seventy-three years after Sanzang left was.
Sanzang was filled with emotion in his heart and murmured: "In the eight hundred miles of Mohe Yanqi Desert, my junior brother and I are almost dead, and the donor is not willing to reveal his true face..."
Li Xiuyuan touched the little monk's head and smiled: "That's not true. Wuliang has always known that I am with you, but I didn't let him tell you."
"Going west to Tianzhu is your and Wuliang's practice, not mine."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said seriously: "I have practiced Buddhism and Taoism. My practice is very chaotic. I cannot be your teacher Sanzang."
"If I lecture you at will, it is likely to affect your most profound understanding of Buddhism. Therefore, you are going to Tianzhu to find the highest Buddhist principles..."
Sighing, Li Xiuyuan smiled: "I am cultivating my mind along the way. Come to think of it, I have to thank you and Wuliang for your company."
Wuliang nodded, took Li Xiuyuan's hand and asked, "So, brother, are you leaving us?"
"It's not that I want to leave, but that you have to take advantage of the time and move forward."
Looking at Sanzang who was still frowning, Li Xiuyuan said seriously: "The Tang Dynasty is fighting against the Eastern Turks, and the people there need the Buddhist scriptures you brought back from Tianzhu."
After hearing this, Sanzang couldn't help but clasping his hands and said, "Amitabha, Sanzang should retrieve the true scripture as soon as possible."
On this day, Li Xiuyuan took out his treasured spiritual wine.
After having three drinks with Sanzang and the young monk, I couldn't help but sigh again and again, thinking that it would still be a long way to go.
Sanzang rested in the inn for a few days, and after discussing it with Li Xiuyuan, he finally took the monks from Gaochang State and said goodbye to Suiye City with Wuliang.
The long pavilion is shorter than the pavilion, which refers to the imperial city of Chang'an.
Outside Suiye City there is only a clear sky, vast fields, windblown grass and low cattle and sheep.
Standing on the not-so-high soil slope, Li Xiuyuan waved goodbye to Sanzang, the young monk and his group.
The weather was fine that day, it was the end of spring and the beginning of summer, and it was also the best time for Sanzang and his party to go west.
Out of sight, the figures of the group gradually disappeared.
Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but murmured softly: "I advise you to drink another glass of wine and go west to Yangguan without any old friends."
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Also on this day, Li Xiuyuan came to the door of a short earthen house in the west of the city and knocked on the door hidden deep in his heart.
A young woman opened the door, and behind the woman stood a timid boy.
Li Xiuyuan clasped his hands and asked: "I come from the Tang Dynasty and came to see Wu Mu's family..."
He did not tell the news of Wu Mu's death immediately, but first tried to find out whether the two were Wu Mu's wife and children. He wanted to confirm something.
Also responsible for the dead Ebony and the living.
When the woman heard this, a sincere smile appeared on her face and she said: "I am Lisa, Wu Mu's wife, and this is Wu Tan..."
When the little boy heard that he was his father's friend, he saluted Li Xiuyuan.
The woman welcomed Li Xiuyuan into the house, poured him a cup of milk tea, looked at him and asked, "Sir, have you seen my husband? Where is he?"
Looking at the young woman in front of him, Li Xiuyuan choked for a moment.
After a while, he murmured: "He can't come back..."
"Ah...my ebony..." The woman immediately fainted and fell into her son's arms.
The boy also screamed: "Brother, my daddy..."
Silently, Li Xiuyuan poured two bowls of spiritual wine and waited for the woman to wake up so that the mother and son could drink a bowl of spiritual wine first.
He spent another quarter of an hour telling the story of his encounter with Wu Mu, and said with a wry smile: "This is God's will."
When the woman was extremely sad, Li Xiuyuan took out a small wine jar, a scimitar, and a bag of gold coins.
He looked at the woman and said, "This urn contains Ebony's ashes. This knife also belongs to him. The gold coins are the money he earned for you, mother and son."
Many of them were money bags that Li Xiuyuan robbed from bandits. After all, Wu Mu didn't have so many gold coins on him.
The woman hugged Ebony's ashes and cried again. Together with the boy, the earthen house was filled with sad crying sounds for a while.
Li Xiuyuan didn't say much, but quietly recited the Rebirth Mantra several times.
It wasn't until the woman regained some consciousness that he spoke seriously about what happened next.
There are too many gold coins and the children are too young. This place is no longer suitable for living.
"Lisa, regardless of whether Wu Mu still has any relatives, you can't take out these gold coins... I will help you buy a house tomorrow... and then help you exchange these gold coins for silver coins..."
It took a quarter of an hour for Li Xiuyuan to make an arrangement between mother and son.
The mother and son drank a bowl of spiritual wine. This night was probably the night when their physiques changed fundamentally. From then on, the two of them had a hundred years more vitality than the mortals in Suiye City.
After listening to Li Xiuyuan's arrangements and knowing his painstaking efforts, the woman said gratefully: "Thank you so much, my benefactor, you are the god sent by God to save our mother and son."
He repeatedly told the mother and son not to reveal the cause of Wu Mu's death to anyone for the time being, until he had arranged their residence.
On this day, Li Xiuyuan asked the innkeeper to introduce a house in the south of the city, a small courtyard made of stones.
On the same day, Li Xiuyuan bought this large courtyard.
In his opinion, the current Wu Mu's wife and children have to keep a low profile so that they can keep those gold coins and not be remembered by others.
Early the next morning, Li Xiuyuan hired a carriage to help Lisa move the few things at home to the new courtyard.
It took another day to buy furniture and daily necessities in the city.
I bought a lot of rice, flour, oil and salt, and finally stopped after setting up a winter circle around the yard and filling the shed with firewood.
He looked at the woman and said, "Lisa, I'm at the inn not far ahead. If you need anything, come to me."
Wutan looked at the new home in front of him with curious eyes.
Holding Li Xiuyuan's hand, he shouted: "Brother wants to stay for dinner."
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly, touched his head and said with a smile, "Okay."
That night, Lisa cooked a delicious meal with the mutton bought by Li Xiuyuan. Li Xiuyuan used a magical elixir to help both mother and son break through from the first level of Qi gathering to the fifth level.
In his opinion, this kind of cultivation is enough for Wu Tan to protect himself in Broken Leaf City.
As for whether he can practice to a higher realm in the future, that is not something he can control.
The next day, Lisa took Wu Mu to the backyard of the inn and found Li Xiuyuan.
Looking at him, he said sheepishly: "Sir, we drank the soup you cooked yesterday and we feel much stronger today. What's going on?"
Li Xiuyuan took out the copy and handed it to the woman.
He said: "This is the simplest method of cultivation. You can try to practice it. Before I leave Tianzuiye City, come and ask me if you don't understand anything."
When Wu Tan heard this, he immediately screamed and pulled his mother's hand and said, "Let Wu Tan protect my mother from now on."
Lisa was speechless for a moment, she just touched Utan and sighed softly.
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while, then looked at her and said seriously: "When Wu Tan grows up, I must never leave you again. Although you can make money by going to the Tang Dynasty to do business, your life will be in danger at any time."
The gold coins he gave were enough for the mother and son to live on. Even if they started a small business in the future, they would still be able to live a prosperous life.
There is really no need to go on business adventures like Wu Mu. Either he will die under the knife of bandits or in the mouth of wolves.
Lisa did not expect that the benefactor in front of her was a great monk. With just a wave of his hand, the mother and son became different.
Silently he accepted the tips Li Xiuyuan gave him.
But he took out a roll of things tightly wrapped in a silk scarf from the bag and handed it to Li Xiuyuan.
Although there was reluctance in his eyes, he said firmly: "This is something Wu Mu got by accident when he was doing business in the past. Wu Tan and I can't understand it. Today I give it to my husband as a souvenir."
Li Xiuyuan nodded, gently opened the heavily wrapped silk scarf, and finally revealed a roll of sheepskin.
It hasn't been unfolded yet, but I looked at the three words on it and was speechless...
