Chapter 190: From Where It Came From

Cheng Ke raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Li Xiaonuan, and asked hesitantly:

"You went to see the master and told him?"

"Spoken? Say what? I went to see him, and when I went there for the first time, I didn't know where he lived, so I asked the abbot of Kongxiu, and then I went directly. ”

Li Xiaonuan said with a smile,

"There is a strange thing in the forest where the master lives, and every time I go, he is waiting for me."

Cheng Ke straightened his eyes and stared blankly at Li Xiaonuan for a moment,

"Master, I thought there was only one gentleman who left without telling me like this, and the master and Mr. have been friends for decades."

Cheng Ke sat up, looked at Li Xiaonuan, and became puzzled,

"Xiao Nuan, what is the reason why the master is so special to you, have you thought about it?"

Li Xiaonuan looked at Cheng Ke, was stunned for a moment, and stayed for a moment before shaking his head and saying:

"I don't know where the master is, except for me, only Mr. has passed like this, I thought that everyone who wanted to see the master went directly to the courtyard to find him."

Cheng Ke's eyes widened and he laughed in amazement,

"The forest outside the master's courtyard, I don't know how many people are guarding it, without the master's nod, let alone the courtyard, even the forest, you can't get close."

Li Xiaonuan tilted her head to look at Cheng Ke and furrowed her brows,

"Who the hell is the Master? That forest is big and boundless, but not anyone who wants to keep it can hold it. ”

Cheng Ke raised his hand and stroked his forehead, sighed a few times, sighed a long time, moved to Li Xiaonuan's side, and said in a low voice:

"I don't know if I should tell you about this, Xiaojing and I also eavesdropped."

Li Xiaonuan hurriedly moved, stuck to Cheng Ke's side, leaned over and signaled to him,

"You say"

Cheng Ke stuck to Li Xiaonuan's ear and said in a low voice:

"The master is the younger brother of the emperor's relatives, and I heard that they are still twins."

Li Xiaonuan's eyes widened in astonishment, and he exclaimed in a low voice:

"I've never heard that the emperor has a younger brother, and he is still a relative."

"Hmm."

Cheng Ke's expression became solemn, and he said thoughtfully:

"Said that he was born to speak, the emperor said that he was a demon, to drown, I don't know what happened later, I actually survived, has been kept in the palace in the Buddhist hall, as if I never spoke again, after the death of the emperor, suddenly said that he wanted to become a monk, and went to the gospel temple, I asked my father, my father said that he was a tomorrow, the world knows, not a mortal, the emperor has a big event, must first ask him to do it."

Li Xiaonuan was terrified in his heart, he knew where she came from? Or does he come from the same background as her?

Cheng Ke looked down at the pale Li Xiaonuan, and hurriedly reached out to hug her,

"Don't be afraid, these are all rumors, they are all rumors, don't worry, he is just a profound Dharma, and he is just a person who has attained enlightenment."

Li Xiaonuan looked up at Cheng Ke with difficulty, and said in a somewhat hoarse voice:

"He can...... He's really ...... Not mortal. ”

Li Xiaonuan hung his head and was silent for a moment before continuing:

"He said he could see people's souls, and I thought he was talking nonsense."

Cheng Ke smiled bitterly, patted Li Xiaonuan lightly and asked:

"How did he tell you about the soul?"

"Hmm."

Li Xiaonuan lowered her eyes and said vaguely:

"He said I'm blessed."

"He heals you and keeps you reciting the Heart Sutra, also because he sees you blessed?"

"That's what he said."

Li Xiaonuan leaned his head in Cheng Ke's arms, lowered his eyes and whispered, Cheng Ke squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, laughed lightly, looked down at Li Xiaonuan and asked:

"I heard Gu Xiao say that you only need to read a book once, you can remember it, no matter what you learn, as long as you look at it, you can get through, is it true?"

"Not exactly."

Li Xiaonuan moved a little uncomfortably,

"It's faster to remember things, you have to learn things, it's no different from ordinary people, Gu Xiao is stupid."

Cheng Ke said with a smile:

"Gu Xiao is not stupid, not particularly smart, Xiao Nuan, you are unmatched in your intelligence, the master is only afraid that he saw this place, so he looks at you differently, if you want to say blessings, I am afraid that the blessings of my aunt and Xiaojing are even deeper, I heard my father say, one year, the master said that there are too many difficulties in the world, and I want to invite a blessed person to come to the Gospel Temple to help him burn this incense, please is my aunt, at that time my aunt was already pregnant with Xiaojing, and the emperor has always loved Xiaojing very much, one is because he is a young son, and the other is to come,"

Cheng Ke paused, and then said:

"My father said that the master had never said explicitly whether it was my aunt, or the child in my aunt's womb, or both, that this blessing was profound. That's it, the master has never had anything special about his aunt or Xiaojing. ”

Li Xiaonuan listened intently to Cheng Ke's words, hesitated for a while, looked up at him and said slowly:

"The head incense of the thirty-third year of Tianxi was burned by me for the master."

Cheng Ke half-opened his mouth, looked at Li Xiaonuan in amazement, and only came to his senses after a while, coughed a few times like saliva, lifted the curtain and looked out, turned his head to look at Li Xiaonuan, and asked in a low voice:

"Who else knows about this?"

"Ancestor, I only told her."

Cheng Ke breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head, looked at Li Xiaonuan with a smile in his eyes, stretched out his hand to hold her, and laughed sullenly.

"No wonder, since I married you, everything has been going well for me."

The two chattered and talked, and after a while, the car entered the mountain gate, Luo Chuan reported outside the car, Li Xiaonuan was busy waiting for Cheng Ke to get dressed, Cheng Ke jumped out of the car, got on the horse, and rushed to the front.

The car stopped in the temple, Zhuqing and Yukou helped Li Xiaonuan get out of the car, rushed to the princess's car, and helped the princess to get out of the car.

The abbot of Kongxiu had already greeted him and led the four of them into the main hall, and in the main hall, the ritual had already begun.

The prince and the princess put on the incense, knelt down and bowed to the old lady Li, Cheng Ke and Li Xiaonuan also stepped forward to worship, Cheng Ke accompanied his father to sit in the hall to listen to the scriptures, Li Xiaonuan helped the princess, turned the hall, Mrs. Zhou and Yan were already behind the palace.

A few sat in the Guanyin Hall and listened to the scriptures, and then after doing the rituals, the prince and the princess set off to go back, the ancient family lived in a courtyard, and Cheng Ke and Li Xiaonuan lived in the courtyard closest to the forest where Li Xiaonuan usually lived.

In the evening, Cheng Ke accompanied Li Xiaonuan out of the courtyard and walked along the faint path in the forest to the courtyard hidden in the depths of the dense forest.

The gate of the courtyard opened as usual, different from the usual empty, and the middle-aged monk wearing a snow-white straight dress stood in the gate, smiled at Li Xiaonuan, folded his hands and saluted, turned his head to look at Cheng Ke, and said in a calm voice:

"The master has ordered, please wait in the gatehouse."

Li Xiaonuan laughed, turned his head to look at Cheng Ke and said:

"In the past, Lan Chu accompanied me, and he was also waiting for me in this gatehouse, with tea and snacks to eat."

Cheng Ke looked a little embarrassed and raised his hand to rub his nose, nodded with a smile, and watched Li Xiaonuan go all the way along the corridor in the middle of the courtyard, before turning around and entering the gatehouse to sit and wait.

Li Xiaonuan walked all the way into the main courtyard along the bluestone Yong Road, the middle-aged monk standing at the door of the main house opened the curtain, Li Xiaonuan entered the house, the master of idealism sat on the large and unusual couch under the south window, and was slowly drinking tea, seeing Li Xiaonuan come in, beckoning, Li Xiaonuan smiled with a smile on his face, walked to the couch briskly, sat sideways on the edge of the couch, looked at the cup in front of the master of idealism, and asked in surprise:

"How did the master drink bubble tea today?"

"Well, I've been drinking for a while, so it's not interesting."

The master slowly took a sip of tea, tasting it slowly, Li Xiaonuan laughed, went to his shoes, sat cross-legged opposite the master, took another cup, poured a cup of tea from the purple clay pot, took it and tasted two sips, and nodded with a smile,

"It's called tea."

The master smiled and shook his head, put down the cup, looked at Li Xiaonuan carefully, and nodded,

"Not bad"

Li Xiaonuan drank the tea in the cup, poured tea into the master and his own cup again, looked up at the master, and said sadly:

"Today I am here to send the ancestor back, and she will leave for Shangli Town tomorrow."

"Hmm."

The master gave a plausible "um", looked at Li Xiaonuan, and said gently:

"It's just a reincarnation, there is a coming, there is a coming."

Li Xiaonuan nodded, took a few sips of tea from the cup, looked up at the master and asked:

"Master, what is Fukuzawa?"

"I don't know."

The master drank tea and said indifferently, Li Xiaonuan put down the cup, looked at the master and said:

"What has been blessed will be the enemy's woe, the master said, isn't it?"

The master nodded with a smile in his eyes,

"You have a point."

Li Xiaonuan tilted his head and looked at the master, a smile appeared on the corner of the master's mouth, looked at her, shook his head lightly and said:

"Don't think too much, just look at what is in front of you. Even if the way of heaven is changed, there are times when it is chaotic and changing, coming is the beginning, going is the end, even if you know that the end is the end, this road still has to be walked slowly, since you have gone, let's enjoy the scenery on the road. ”

Li Xiaonuan was stunned for a long time, nodded slightly, looked at the master and asked in a low voice:

"Does the Master know where I'm from?"

Master Idealism shook his head slightly, Li Xiaonuan looked at him directly, and then asked:

"Where did the master come from?"

Master Idealism smiled and shook his head,

"I can't see it, no one can see it, there is a saying in Buddhism, come from where you come from, go where you go."

Li Xiaonuan tilted her head and thought about it, nodded with a smile,

"I see, Master Xie."

The master smiled and nodded, Li Xiaonuan poured out the tea leaves in the pot, made a pot of tea again, and accompanied the master to drink tea and gossip for a long time.

Cheng Ke was a little anxious walking back and forth in the gatehouse, seeing Li Xiaonuan coming out, he hurriedly greeted him, the middle-aged monk handed a lantern to Cheng Ke, Cheng Ke took it, held Li Xiaonuan with one hand, went out of the courtyard gate, and carefully walked back along the forest path.

In the forest, on both sides of the path, lanterns were lit every dozen steps, guiding Cheng Ke and Li Xiaonuan, and after the two walked by, the lanterns were quietly extinguished. Behind Cheng Ke and Li Xiaonuan, they fell into darkness and silence

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