A year later.

At this time, the silence in Jingning Nunnery is as quiet as water. Under the slightly dim candlelight, the Buddha statues above the hall sat quietly on the shrine, looking down at the layman female disciple in plain clothes and silk under the hall in obscurity.

This 'noble' woman from the palace was sitting upright on the puff cushion under the hall at this time, with a flowing green silk, casually twisted into a simple bun, and only a wooden hairpin was strung together. The female disciple of the lay family knocked on the wooden fish placed in front of her knee again and again, but her heart was as incomprehensible as a thousand threads.

A year ago, she proposed to Yu Wenche to go out of the palace to teach the Buddha, and he agreed, but asked the temple to be determined by him. And today, a year later, she still can't figure out why he placed her in this Jingning Nunnery. Let's not talk about other places, according to the suburbs of Beijing, there are thousands of temples and temples. And he just placed her in this inconspicuous Jingning Nunnery.

Sure enough, the mind of the Son of Heaven is not so easy to speculate!

Calculating, the news from Empress Sun's side has been cut off for two or three months. However, just yesterday, Empress Sun sent someone to connect with her.

And in this joint, she was careful and found a lot of doubts and uneasiness. Those things are reasonable on the surface, and the years seem to be flawless, but she always feels that under this surface calm, there is an undercurrent rolling. In the palace, at this time, what kind of scene is it? Is everything still going according to plan?

To do this, she had to ask the man who gave her orders.

The man's answer was that everything in the palace was still under control. The man told her not to worry, and her current task was to find the person he asked her to find.

And the person he asked her to find was the woman on the portrait she had found in the ancestral hall of the Chen family earlier. I heard that the woman saw through the red dust decades ago, entered the Buddhist gate, and the place where she became a monk is this suburb of Beijing. This is also one of the reasons why she asked Yu Wenche to leave the palace and enter the nunnery.

However, in the past year, she has secretly visited almost all the temples in the suburbs of Beijing, and there is still no news about the woman. Like the woman in the portrait, even after decades of washing and destruction, I am afraid that it will stand out from the crowd and be outstanding! It should not be difficult to find her among all living beings. However, why, after a year of visiting, there is still not a single news about her. Don't...... Could it be that the information I learned earlier was wrong? Decades have passed, and the woman must have left this place a long time ago, right? In the past few decades, anything can happen, any variables can happen, or maybe that person is no longer alive......

A year ago, she agreed with Yu Wenche that she would go out of the palace to pray for the Buddha for half a year, and then return to the palace, however, this year has passed, and there is still no trace of Yu Wenche's meaning from the palace, or an oracle.

The cage made of gold, it is okay not to return, but there is no news at all, which really makes her a little worried, at this time the palace has undergone earth-shaking changes, and at this time, she is afraid that she is still in the dark without news.

She thought about going back to the palace to have a look, however, one is that she has a life and can't leave without permission. The second is that she is a concubine who has left the palace, if Yu Wenche does not take the initiative to take her back to the palace, it seems inappropriate for her to go back for such a reason.

The layman female disciple thought about it like this, and her thoughts were pulled more and more chaotic, and the action of knocking on the wooden fish in her hand became more and more chaotic.

Distraught, she simply set the wooden fish aside and stopped knocking on it. If you are so mindless and insincere, you are afraid that the Buddha will also blame you.

'Alas! She sighed heavily.

At this time, the door of the lobby 'squeaked' open.

A rickety old nun walked in with a slight trembling.

The back of the old nun is like an old arched bridge, as if it has been crushed by the weight of the burden, and can only face the ground year after year, as if it will always maintain a posture of prostration.

The old nun raised her head with all her strength and looked at the female disciple sitting at the front of the hall. Under the slightly dim candlelight, the slightly raised face of the old nun was as terrifying as a ghost. What a face! As if it had been devastated like a devil, strictly speaking, that face could no longer be called a 'face'. The facial features were completely distorted, the left eye was completely destroyed, the right eye still had a visible slit, and the lips were already twisted together with the nose. On the whole face, not even a single intact piece of skin could be found.

"Ning Hua!" , the old nun, called the female disciple of the lay family in a low voice.

The voice passed through the distorted mouth, and when it came out again, it seemed terrifyingly eerie.

The laywoman disciple who had just come out of the gods could hear the voice, and then came back to her senses.

"Mrs. Shi!" , the female disciple of the lay family, replied, and quickly got up to support the old nun.

If the people next to him suddenly saw this ghostly face in this silent night, I am afraid that they would be shocked that the seven souls lost six souls. It also took half a year for her to gradually get used to Mrs. Jingyun's face, so that she would not be stunned and stunned when she suddenly saw her.

What did it take to make this woman's face look like it had been destroyed by the devil?

For everything that happened before entering the Buddha's door, Master Jingyun has always been tight-lipped about it. It's just that once, Mrs. Shi said that it was caused by a fire, but the tone was understated, as if she was telling a story about someone else.

However, after experiencing such nightmares and misfortunes, what kind of strong heart does Mrs. Shi have to be so calm and calm, and not panicked?

However, this old nun with a devilish appearance has a bodhisattva-like charity and compassion in his heart. Except for her, the female disciples in the nunnery are all orphans, and almost all of them have been raised by her since they were babies. After becoming an adult, Jing Yun did not interfere with the female disciples' stay or stay. Whether to continue to stay in the nunnery, the dusk drum and morning bell, the ancient Buddha in Tsing Yi, or choose to leave, like ordinary people, go to the red dust, is up to the female disciples' own choice. She has never interfered.

According to Jingyun, everyone has their own life, everyone's path, and they can't be generalized or forced too much. Buddhism is about casual fate......

"Why haven't you rested yet?" , Lao Ni asked in a low voice. She wanted to smile kindly at the female disciple, but due to the burning of the fire, the muscles of her face had been tensed like a string full of bows, and she could not relax, let alone make a laughing movement.

However, the female disciple understood.

Although she and Mrs. Shi have only been together for a year. However, surprisingly, she understands Shitai's heart better than all the other sisters and sisters. It seems that something in the dark, like a bridge, involves her and Shitai's hearts.

"I'm a little bored in my heart, I can't sleep!" , the female disciple did not hide her true thoughts in front of Jing Yun. In front of Shitai, she was very relieved.

"As the saying goes, the authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear! Sometimes, you try to get farther away and maybe see better...... No more doubts and worries! ", Jing Yun said softly.

Seeing that the female disciple still looked gloomy, Jing Yun gently covered her hand on the slightly cold hand of the female disciple. The female disciple was slightly shocked, Jing Yun cracked her mouth again, as if she was smiling, and said: "What you can't figure out yesterday, you will figure it out today, what you can't figure out today, you will figure it out tomorrow, the truth will be revealed one day, and everything will be left to time!" In that case, why bother with your nerves, just go and rest! ”

After speaking, before the female disciple could react, the old nun staggered away again.