Before the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, Buddhism was once extremely prosperous. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The founding emperor Xue Zhao ordered the construction of the temple of the virgin, and the officials of the capital and the major prefectures and counties forcibly dispersed the monks and transformed the temple into a temple of the virgin in order to be able to deal with the mission in time, so that the Buddhist road quickly withered.

Today, although the status of Buddhism has been greatly improved, there is still an unattainable distance from the prosperity before the founding of the country. Among them, the most affected is the nunnery that accepts female monks.

Cihang Nunnery, where Mrs. An lived, is the only surviving nunnery in the capital, after the accident in the Duke of Jieguo, the officers and soldiers turned the Cihang Nunnery upside down in order to arrest Mrs. An, the female monks in the nunnery were also tortured, died, fled, and a huge nunnery was defeated almost overnight.

The first emperor was fond of small hands, and his favored concubines were all exquisite, among which the most favored was a concubine surnamed Luo, who was said to have a pair of delicate and small jade hands like a baby. Roche has been favored for more than ten years, but for some reason, he has never been able to conceive the dragon species.

Beauties are afraid of white heads, not to mention that there is never a shortage of young and beautiful women in the harem. As he grew older, Luo became more and more frightened, for fear that he would not be able to give birth to a son and a half daughter as a future dependent, and like those concubines who fell out of favor, he would end up miserable.

Luo's begging for a son was earnest, **** burned incense to worship the Buddha, and went out of the palace several times to the temple to make incense and make wishes. The other concubines were jealous that she had monopolized the favor of the first emperor, so they slandered the first emperor and spread rumors, saying that Luo Guifei was afraid that she would have an affair with the monks in the temple.

Although the first emperor did not listen to it, he also gave birth to the heart of prevention. Then he ordered the re-establishment of Cihang Nunnery, and mobilized nuns from all major states and counties to live in it, so that Luo could worship the Buddha and incense.

Cihang Nunnery was recovered because of a favorite concubine, and after the grievances of the Duke of the Kingdom were resolved, the new emperor ordered to rebuild it again, and the female monks who had fled before also returned to the nunnery one after another, including the Huijing Master who traveled with the old lady of An.

Mrs. Jing Hui is no longer the abbot and is concentrating on meditation in the grass hut on the mountain behind the nunnery. When Mrs. An came to the nunnery, she left her entourage and lived in the cottage, accompanied by Mrs. Jinghui.

On this day, the two were cooking tea and talking in the grass house, when a little nun came to report that a benefactor named Hongyu asked to see Mrs. An.

Mrs. An and Mrs. Jinghui have always talked about everything, and they have never concealed the true purpose of coming to incense this time. When Mrs. Jinghui heard Hongyu's name and knew that she was looking for someone back, she found an excuse to avoid it.

Mrs. An sat alone and drank tea, and waited for about two quarters of an hour before she heard a movement outside the door.

After a while, the door curtain opened, Hongyu showed her face, and said excitedly: "Madam, who do you see coming?"

Mrs. An looked at her and listened to her tone, and knew that she was looking for someone. Looking behind her, she was stunned at first when she saw a teenage boy walk in. When he saw the appearance clearly, he was shocked, his hand shook, and the teacup he was holding slipped to the ground and shattered with a "pop".

Hongyu hurriedly rushed up to check, "Madam, are you okay?"

Mrs. An didn't care about answering, staring at Mulan who was standing there quietly with straight eyes, and muttered to herself, "Guangyou ......"

Fortunately, the weather was cold, the clothes were thick, and there was not much tea left in the tea cup, only the shoes and skirt were splashed a little, and the flesh was not hurt.

Only then did Hongyu put her mind at ease, wiped off the water stains for Mrs. An, cleaned up the fragments of the tea cup, and couldn't help but blame herself, "I just wanted to surprise my wife, but I almost hurt my wife, it's really damned!"

When she first saw Mulan, she was very surprised and delighted because of Mulan's appearance and charm, and when she was young, she was very similar to Xie Guogong. In order to allow Mrs. An to see and experience it with her own eyes, she did not send a letter back in advance. Outside Cihang Nunnery, he also specially asked Mulan to change back into men's clothes.

Because Mulan is dressed in men's clothes, she is more similar to Xie Guogong.

Mrs. An was shocked as she expected, and even shouted out the name of "Guangyou" out of shape. Xie Guogong's name is wide and the words are wide, and before Mrs. An entered the nunnery to repair, he had been calling him by his words in private.

After entering the nunnery, he no longer called Guangyou, and everyone in front of him called him Grandpa Guo. Even when he learned of the death of Xie Guogong, he never pronounced these two words. At least Ruby hadn't heard of it, not once.

can make Mrs. An call out the name that has been buried in her heart for many years, which shows how similar the appearance of Mulan and Xie Guogong is.

Because of that similar face, the memories of my youth came flooding back like a tide. Mrs. An was immersed in it for a long time before she came back to her senses, withdrew her gaze from Mulan's face, and looked at Hongyu, "This is that child?"

"Yes, ma'am. Because of Fang Cai's accident, Hongyu's excitement couldn't help but be discounted, and her expression and tone were not as casual as usual, and she was respectful everywhere, "The slave has been carefully verified, and it is indeed the blood of our Guogong Mansion." ”

After saying this, he beckoned Mulan, "Girl, come and see the old lady." ”

On the way here, Ruby had already carefully taught rules and etiquette. Mulan knew that she would bow down when she met for the first time, although she was not used to kneeling and kowtowing to people, she didn't want to dwell on such a thing in front of an elder.

So he stepped forward, knelt down on his knees, and solemnly kowtowed, "Meet the old lady." ”

"Girl, call grandmother. Ruby reminded her.

"That's it. Without waiting for Mulan to change her words, Mrs. An spoke, "She just came back, and the first time she saw me, she was still a stranger, don't force her, just a title." ”

When Mulan finished kowtowing, she called her up, looked at her carefully, and asked, "What's your name?"

"Back to the old lady, my name is Mulan. Mulan let her look at it, neither panicked nor shy, "Mu who bathes, Lan of blue grass." ”

"Mulan. Mrs. An nodded slightly, "It's a good name." ”

He also asked her where she had lived all these years and with whom she had lived.

Mulan said what she had said to Hongyu again, and Hongyu also added a few words from the side, and Old Taijun only showed a slightly surprised look when she first mentioned Shouzhen Island, and then her expression did not change much.

After listening to them quietly, he asked again, "Can you read?"

Mulan nodded, "Recognize some." ”

"Did your mother teach you?" Mrs. An had never met the Yang family, but with her understanding of the Duchess of Jieguo, even if she was the daughter-in-law who was used to rush to joy, she would definitely not be far behind in all aspects.

"It's not. Mulan replied truthfully, "It was Ku Niang who taught me, and my name was also given by Ku Niang." ”

Saying this, seeing that Mrs. An showed an interested look, she continued, "Ku Niang is also a person who was exiled to Shouzhen Island, and she was seriously injured when she was rescued.

She was in a coma for a whole month, and when she woke up, she didn't speak or pay attention to anyone. Everyone thought she had hurt her brain and felt that her life was miserable, so they called her a bitter mother. ”

- (To be continued.) )