After a stick of incense, outside the Zen room in the back mountain of Tongqing Temple.
"call!"
When Pei Wende opened his eyes again, his consciousness had been separated from the flying civet cat.
With the return of this part of consciousness, there is also the "truth" about Lianhua and his escort team.
As mentioned before, Lian Hua actually belongs to the kind of Si Chenshi who doesn't like to take care of things.
Unless it is a duty, in most cases, Lianhua will never do anything beyond his duties.
Escorting a "treasure delivery" team from Chang'an is obviously beyond the scope of duties of most Si Chen envoys.
However, in fact, Lianhua did take responsibility for the safety of this escort team in Tanzhou, and even personally subdued Fei Lian, who was causing trouble.
This can only show that the team responsible for escorting is not simple.
After Pei Wende became a monk on behalf of Li Yi, Li Yi officially changed his name to Li Zhen and ascended the throne, becoming the seventeenth emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
After ascending the throne, Tang Xuanzong, who was known as the "Lord of ZTE" by later generations, wanted to retain the brothers Pei Wende and Hui Ji in the name of "reward".
Hui Ji, who had already had a tacit understanding with him, naturally stayed on without hesitation, but declined Li Zhen's reward.
But Pei Wende didn't want to get involved, so after accepting the title of "Fahai", he quietly left Chang'an and returned to Tongqing Temple in Tanzhou.
After learning the news, although Li Zhen looked regretful, he also chose to respect Pei Wende's actions.
But what Pei Wende never expected was that although Li Zhen no longer expressed the idea of wanting Pei Wende to assist him, he did not give up the idea of rewarding and showing favor.
So, after more than half a year of deliberation and thinking, Li Zhen finally came up with a perfect solution.
Aren't you, Pei Wende and Huiji, noble and unwilling to accept rewards from the imperial court?
Then I will simply not reward you two, but the entire Tongqing Temple. You can’t refuse this time, right?
Tongqing Temple is just a small mountain temple in Tanzhou. Even if it has a high prestige in Tanzhou, its origin and essence cannot be changed.
With a stroke of his pen, Li Zhen officially wrote a plaque of "Miyin Temple" and sent it to Tongqing Temple in Tanzhou along with the corresponding documents and land deeds.
When the plaque was delivered, Tongqing Temple was officially renamed Miyin Temple and became a major Buddhist temple designated by the imperial court.
And in order to show his sincerity, not long after the escort team set off.
Li Zhen promoted Pei Xiu and Pei Hong, father and son, and deliberately gave them a long vacation so that they could have time to go back to Tanzhou and have a good rest.
By the way, the imperial edict used to seal the Seal Temple was also brought back to Tanzhou.
From Li Zhen's perspective, there is undoubtedly nothing wrong with his approach.
Whether it was canonizing Tongqing Temple as Miyin Temple, or deliberately creating an opportunity for the Pei family and his son to reunite, it all reflected the importance that Emperor Li Zhen attached to Pei Wende.
However, the estrangement between Pei Wende and the Pei family is far beyond what outsiders can understand.
The reason why Pei Wende did not recognize his ancestor and return to the clan was not because the Pei family and his son did not recognize him, but because he did not want to.
"You're really going to cause trouble for me."
Pei Wende sighed helplessly. Part of the reason why Pei Wende left Changsha County and Chang'an as soon as possible was because he didn't want to see the Pei family and his son again.
Especially after Pei Hui's death, Pei Wende felt that he and the Pei family seemed to have completely broken off.
Who would have thought that this fate that Pei Wende deliberately ignored would eventually show signs of being renewed through Li Zhen's erroneous manipulation.
"Trouble? If it was really trouble, you would have been hiding long ago."
As if he understood Pei Wende's complaint, a stone not far away from him suddenly made a sound.
The next second, the stone started rolling like a living thing, and when it was about to roll in front of Pei Wende, it turned into a stone snake with its head raised.
The scaly snake body, the vivid posture, and the iconic cold expression...
Pei Wende recognized at a glance that this stone snake was none other than Xiao Qing.
Or to be more precise, this is a clone of Xiaoqing left by the waterfall in the back mountain at some point.
"Huh? When did you learn this skill?"
Pei Wende couldn't help but reach out and touch the stone scales. Pei Wende was surprised to find that this stone snake actually had a complete Qi vein in its body.
Although this energy channel is very rudimentary, the basic actions to maintain it are more than enough.
"Not long ago, after I completely digested two dragon beads."
He fiddled with his snake tail slightly, because although Stone Snake shares thoughts and memories with Xiao Qing, it is still slightly different from its original body in some aspects.
After all, unlike the three-headed and eight-armed magical powers of Buddhism, Wulin Shui's three-headed body was obviously built by taking shortcuts, so it naturally has some flaws.
Fortunately, Xiaoqing has the assistance of Dan Chenzi's "Inherited Spiritual Light". It won't take long to completely repair these flaws and use another method to cultivate the unique magical powers of Buddhism.
"Rather than this, what I'm more curious about right now is, what exactly is that so-called 'Buddha'?"
Out of pride, Yamashita's body did not eavesdrop on the ensuing conversation between Pei Wende and Hualian. Instead, he silently left the escort team and went to the inn to find a drink.
So Xiaoqing is now very curious, what exactly does the "Buddha" in Wu Yanqing's words refer to?
"Buddha?"
Hearing Xiao Qing's words, Pei Wende was obviously stunned for a moment, then smiled and shook his head.
"So that's why you took the initiative to talk to me?"
"If I remember correctly, you seemed to have vowed to quit drinking before, but then you disappeared when you turned around?"
“I thought someone wouldn’t take the initiative to talk to me until they successfully stopped drinking?”
Looking at Xiaoqing who was obviously angry and wanted to leave, but remained motionless out of curiosity, Pei Wende burst into laughter.
"Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore."
Seeing Xiao Qing's expression getting colder and colder, Pei Wende finally stopped laughing and explained.
"What Qin Tian Jian escorted over this time is a 'plaque'. It was the new name given to Tongqing Temple after Qiong Jun ascended the throne in order to win over my senior brother and me."
"As for the 'Buddha' in your mouth?"
"This is indeed the case. It was temporarily inserted into the escort team before the escort team left Chang'an."
When he said this, Pei Wende's voice paused slightly and his expression became slightly serious.
"It is the supreme treasure of Buddhism. Legend has it that it is a finger bone of Sakyamuni."
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