The queen covered her mouth and was speechless for a moment.
First, she didn't expect that a bamboo leaf in her brother's hand would be so powerful.
Second, she was recalling the time when she followed her master and danced in the wind with a bamboo sword in her hands.
Thinking of this, the Queen's face showed a faint smile, followed by a look of doubt.
She always felt that something was wrong with the brother in front of her, until she quietly recalled the sword energy and lightning breath left in the bamboo garden.
So she couldn't help but exclaimed.
In Li Xiuyuan's unquestionable eyes, as the empress, Duo'er exclaimed: "Brother, what kind of swordsmanship is this? Why didn't you teach me back then?"
Holding half a cup of spiritual tea, Li Xiuyuan replied calmly: "This is a sword, but it is not a sword."
"What does this mean?" Jue'er frowned slightly.
Li Xiuyuan sighed, reached out and picked up a piece of chrysanthemum petal blown by the wind from the ground, pinched it among the flowers, and gently smelled the gradually disappearing fragrance.
Said: "I taught you back then to see the world with your heart and see the principles and laws of this world..."
Jue'er nodded: "I remember, the ants in the mountains crawled through the road, and the ruts that the carriages in the imperial city ran over were also the road..."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said calmly: "That is just the Tao you see with your eyes. There is another Tao in your heart. Maybe you have seen it, maybe you Still need to think about it..."
Regarding the way of a king, he could not teach the queen in front of him, nor could he teach Jui'er who called him big brother back then.
Even though he was only one step away from the emperor in the royal city, he could sit on that chair as long as he wanted.
Only he refused.
Neither Jue'er back then nor the empress in front of her had reached that step in history.
Just like the sword energy that he slashed out from the bamboo leaf in his hand with a snap of his fingers, he could only warn the monk in front of him, intentionally or unintentionally, not to be too proud.
Monks and kings in the world must always maintain a boundary.
As long as you cross the line, you will be punished by this side of heaven. Even if you don't take action, there will be a day when the consequences will come.
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but said: "When I was practicing here, I warned the guardian elders in the temple at the foot of the mountain that Buddhist practice was not allowed at the foot of the mountain..."
"Later, in order to let the young monk Wuliang at the foot of the mountain see this world clearly, I persuaded him to return to the secular world first and then think about whether to continue practicing Buddhism..."
"What happened next? What happened to the little monk?"
Holding the half cup of warm tea in her hand, Jue'er took a sip and instantly remembered something unspeakable, and her brows furrowed deeper.
She knew some things, and the brother in front of her probably knew them too.
But she is a younger sister, and there are some things she cannot tell.
In the same way, because Li Xiuyuan is his elder brother, it is difficult for Li Xiuyuan to say it clearly directly.
To put it bluntly, the empress in front of her has experienced the temperaments of men and women loving each other, but Li Xiuyuan is still a blank slate when it comes to matters between men and women.
So the two had to play riddles.
Li Xiuyuan, after thinking about it, had no choice but to use the story of the little monk Wuliang to warn the queen in front of him.
Although he also knew that his words would not be of much use after all.
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan smiled and said, "Wuliang went to Tianzhu with Sanzang. Sanzang came back and told me that Wuliang returned to secular life in the country of Shewei in Tianzhu and married a merchant's daughter..."
Wuliang's later story comes from Sanzang, and even Sanzang did not attend Wuliang's wedding.
Because at that time, one of them had returned to secular life, and the other was still measuring every inch of the magical land in the Buddhist country with his feet.
Hearing this, the Queen couldn't help but sigh quietly.
Looking at the autumn chrysanthemums blooming in the garden, he asked: "
My brother said this and asked Juier about the swordsmanship.
What does it matter? "
With just one word, the Queen bypassed the problem that neither of them wanted to face.
Li Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment, and then thought of something.
To teach Buddhism to a monk who is trapped in a demonic state is to play the harp to an ox.
The current empress is just like the monk who has entered the devil's way when it comes to love between men and women. She can only hit the south wall one day, or the fire of life burns to the end.
Only then will a trace of good thoughts arise, just like the mayflies that live and die, vying to hear the Tao at the last moment.
After understanding this truth, he no longer struggled.
The dragon ball was in Dui'er's body. Sure enough, it was the right thing to not let the old monk refine it for Dui'er and Gao Yue'er.
It was still early, and the flowers that had blossomed in the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years had just begun to bloom, and he could afford to wait.
With a faint smile, Li Xiuyuan's hand holding the flower gathered a trace of water-like power, and the soft and boneless chrysanthemum suddenly spun briskly between his fingers.
Li Xiuyuan said quietly: "Because you only see this petal in your eyes, you can no longer see the sword intention between my fingers."
After saying that, with a snap of his fingers, the petals between his fingers turned into a bolt of lightning and flew out of the bamboo garden again, flying towards the unknown place in the mountains.
As a result, the Empress heard "Boom!" again in her ears.
Sighing, Li Xiuyuan continued: "You can't even see clearly the sword intention between my fingers, let alone the people in this world."
When the empress heard this, she couldn't help but murmur to herself: "Flowers are not flowers, swords are not swords, people are not people...Brother, is this truth so profound?"
With a faint smile, Li Xiuyuan replied: "The so-called happiness and suffering, impermanence, purity and impurity, selflessness, reality and unreality, refuge is not refuge, sentient beings are not sentient beings..."
"This is the Dharma of Buddhism. Back then I taught you the Buddhist scriptures, and Tripitaka brought the scriptures back from Tianzhu and enshrined them in Yuhua Temple. Why don't you take them and read them?"
Seeing the Queen's brows getting tighter and tighter, Li Xiuyuan simply shouted: "Mingkong, what about the Buddhist teachings you learned in Ganye Temple? What principles have you cultivated in the three years of hard training?"
Waving his hand, Li Xiuyuan stood up and left. He was going to pick some wild vegetables in the mountains and cook a clear soup to entertain his sister.
A gust of wind brings a touch of chill on the snow-capped mountains and the last scent of autumn flowers in the mountains.
At this moment, the Empress of the Tang Dynasty, like the honest monk who had just left, felt like a wake-up call and fell into an epiphany.
Just as Li Xiuyuan said, after three years of practice in the monastery, she also practiced Buddhism before the ancient Buddha Gudeng.
But once I return to the palace, I feel like the carp in the river has jumped over the dragon's gate, or like the stupid and ugly bird that finally transformed into a phoenix.
Gradually, the past and the original intentions of practicing in the mountains were forgotten.
Li Xiuyuan, who was walking in the mountains, silently paid attention to the dazed Jui'er under the eaves, and couldn't help but sigh quietly in his heart.
You think to yourself, I just gave you the opportunity to fight for the other side, but in the end you still have to realize and practice on your own?
I thought to myself that after all, you are not the swordsmen of Jin Wuming and Wang Yi at the foot of the mountain, you are my sister!
He bent down to pick a wild vegetable and murmured to himself: "If you weren't an idiot, you would understand my painstaking efforts."
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The two maids had a rare meal with their empress on the snow-capped mountains and drank two glasses of apricot blossom spirit wine. They were so surprised that they thought Li Xiuyuan was a god descended to earth.
However, the empress did not take it seriously and looked at the two of them and smiled: "It's a pity that I don't want a maid, otherwise I would let you two stay on the snowy mountain to help my brother pick flowers and make wine."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said calmly: "Life in the mountains is poor. Wild vegetables like these are delicious if you eat them once. But if you eat them every day, you will be miserable."
After nightfall, a moon slowly rises from the mountains.
The two maids went back to the room to whisper, no
Dare to talk too much in front of the Queen.
The queen smiled and said, "When my brother spoke,
Scared them away. "
Li Xiuyuan said: "You have never lived in the mountains. If there is a drought, you can only eat wild vegetables. Is it possible that you will be hungry?"
The fifteenth month was full, and on the night of the seventeenth, Li Xiuyuan and others arrived from Luoyang Dongdu, which was considered satisfactory.
[In view of the general environment,
Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but sigh when he thought about the situation when this girl was just learning to play the piano and her hands were scratched by the strings and bleeding.
The Queen couldn't help but frown and asked, "Brother, is there something on your mind?"
"I'm thinking about how you used to learn the piano."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and smiled bitterly and said, "If I had known that one day you would become the Empress of the Tang Dynasty, why would I have made you study the piano so hard?"
Even if Li Xiuyuan asked questions knowingly, he was still hurting Jing.
The Queen was stunned for a moment, and then she remembered those days in the mountains, and couldn't help showing some yearning look on her face.
After a while, he said, "Those days can never come back."
Li Xiuyuan did not ask the Queen why she came to Chang'an, nor did the Queen ask her brother how he had been living in the mountains these years.
There is a wine shop at the foot of the mountain, so Li Xiuyuan does not need to worry about her life.
The two looked at the full moon in the sky and were silent for a long time. The queen shook her head and said, "It's a pity that the guqin my brother gave to Jue'er is left in the palace. "
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while, but did not take out his guqin.
Instead, he said quietly: "I'm very happy that you can come to the snow-capped mountains."
There is a full moon in the sky, the bamboo shadows are dancing in front of the house, and the brother and sister are guarding a pot of spiritual tea. This is the most beautiful scenery in the world. There is no need for the sound of the piano at this time.
After a long time, the Queen sighed quietly.
There was some hope and some cowardice in his eyes.
He took one of Li Xiuyuan's hands and asked, "Brother, the master said before that he would leave me and my junior sister sooner or later. Will my brother do the same? Will you give up on Juier?"
When she said these words, there was an obvious look of confusion on the Queen's face.
Maybe she also understands that even if she becomes a queen, what will happen if she becomes an emperor?
Didn't the late emperor return to dust and dust to dust? Not to mention her father who left her long ago.
Caressing her slightly heaving chest and staring at the half-cup of spiritual tea on the table, the Queen tried to calm herself down, but in the end she was still terrified.
I couldn't calm down at all.
Thinking of this, she even had an impulse. If the queen didn't do it, she could follow the master and my brother was born to seek the path to immortality.
Thinking of this, she felt a little dizzy.
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and gave her some Buddhist nirvana power in his hand, and then he slowly relaxed her.
Even so, the Queen still looked a little confused. She looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked, "Brother, how about I leave the palace and move to the mountains to practice with you?"
It was quiet all around, except for the chirping of insects not far away.
Looking at his beloved sister, Li Xiuyuan's bright eyes were filled with mist. After a while, he said, "Your journey in this world is not over yet..."
"How long will it take?"
Thinking of the late emperor's ending, the empress became a little anxious and couldn't help but ask.
Li Xiuyuan patted her baby and said quietly: "Wait until you have seen enough of the scenery of the Tang Dynasty and are tired of this world. Wait until the day you really want to leave."
"I thought about it, your master is taking Xiaobao and Xiaoyue'er to practice now. I'm afraid he won't leave so soon. He should be waiting for you to come with him, right?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the full moon in the night sky and said quietly: "You still have two sisters on the 47th. Why are you so anxious?"
The Queen couldn't help but ask, "Can Jue'er leave with them?"
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