Jing'an Temple is built in the middle of the mountainside, the road is a natural stone step, people must step on countless stone steps step by step, step by step, along the way is not boring, Chu Xiang saw the color of the pink peach blossom here, it is now almost winter, the peach blossoms in the peach garden of the long forbidden palace have long been gone, the bright petals have fallen, but the peach blossoms in the Guiyun Mountain are still in full bloom, not limited by the season, and the fragrance of blooming

"Niangniang, look, Ling'er is playing with that bird there!" Ayu pointed to a peach tree not far in front of her, and looked in the direction of her fingertips, indeed on a fragrant branch, Ling'er was pecking at each other's feathers with a petite bird, Ling'er naturally wanted to come to this Jing'an Temple with Chu Xiang, she was not afraid that this fat bird would fly away, and she couldn't help but feel sour when she saw its free appearance, when would she be free?

Although there was the protection of the army on the way here, Chu Xiang knew that there should be many shadow guards following her in a place where she couldn't see, and the four brothers the day before yesterday were just protecting her on the surface, Liang Qi was not at ease after all...

Among the four brothers, Lei has been laughing with the maids in front, although he looks similar to the three elder brothers, his personality is completely different, the same black and dense hair, a pair of slender peach blossom eyes under a pair of sword eyebrows, and the smile is very charming, and the snow is different, Chu Xiang looked at him slightly sideways, he has been silent, the ice-sculpture-like face does not show any emotion, the eldest brother is much more stable at night, giving people a gentle and elegant feeling, and his demeanor is similar to Lei, but he is more calm than him

"My sister's four guards are very handsome, and the palace is very greedy when she looks at it" Rong Ting caught up from behind, she wore a gouache embroidered white lotus pleated skirt today, wearing a simple jasper hairpin on her head, and she didn't have the thick makeup on her face, she looked like a weak rich lady, and after speaking, she walked towards Chu Xiang and turned her foot to jump into his arms when she passed by the snow

Xue changed from Chu Xiang's right side to her left side side by side with the night in a flash, Rong Ting threw herself into the arms of the accompanying eunuch, her face was red, Chu Xiang had already seen her behavior clearly, and pretended to be surprised and said, "How can my sister be so careless, if she twists her ankle, it will be worth the loss."

Rong Ting embarrassedly helped the maid to stand on her feet "What my sister said is that I just passed by and tripped over a stone, but my sister's guard martial arts are not bad" After speaking, looking at Xue who was walking in front with an expressionless face, Lei heard the movement here and ran towards Chu Xiang and at the same time inserted a peach blossom in her hair in his hand

"Niangniang wearing this peach blossom is very beautiful" The peach blossom eyes kept discharging, and the wind patted him on the shoulder, "Don't be unreasonable, Niangniang, please don't blame him"

Chu Xiang touched the peach blossoms in his hair, looked at Lei who was fighting with the wind, and said, "It's okay" Ling'er flew down from a tree in the distance and stepped on Rong Ting's bun, looking curiously at Chu Xiang's peach blossoms in his hair

"Ah, sis, there's a bird in your hair!" Rong Ting's maidservant shouted in surprise, "Ah! Hurry up and get rid of it for Hongu! Come on! At this moment, how could Rong Ting have the appearance of being weaker, Ling'er stepped on her bun several times, and when she saw Chu Xiang beckoning to it again, she pecked it again before flying away and landed on Chu Xiang's shoulder

Rong Ting's bun was trampled up, and the jasper hairpin was half hung on her hair, and Lei didn't shy away from laughing when he saw her appearance, "Where did the bird come from to be so clever!" Rong Ting's face was difficult to see, "You dare to laugh at this palace! Aren't you afraid that this palace will tell the emperor to punish you for your crimes! Lei touched his chin and blinked his peach blossom eyes, "I'm so scared, brother, she wants to punish me to the emperor!"

The night who had not spoken stood up and hugged his fists " Niangniang thought twice, Lei didn't mean to laugh at Niangniang " Rong Ting got cheap and didn't give up " Think twice? Is this palace so easy to talk to? My sister didn't come out to explain why your guards were so blind? ”

Chu Xiang is holding a pastry to feed Ling'er, "My sister asked Bengong, and Bengong didn't know how to answer, but there was one person who could answer my sister."

"Oh? Who? ”

"The Emperor"

In an instant, Rong Ting's face was like the stone steps under her feet, looking at the bird in Chu Xiang's hand and Lei didn't care about the mockery, and her fingertips were buckled into the flesh "That's it, since the emperor has no right to interrogate, my sister should hurry up the mountain after a long delay" After speaking, he helped the maid to walk towards the mountain leisurely

"Lei, don't be so reckless next time" Ye said solemnly, "Okay, okay, it's not easy to come out to relax, brother is still so serious, a few of you are standing on Niangniang's side like a black-faced god, all of them affect Niangniang's good mood!" With that, he disappeared into the stone steps

"Don't take it to heart..."

Chu Xiang looked at the temple in the distance, "Is this palace a narrow-minded person? In other words, the safety of this palace depends on your protection" The implication is that as long as you don't kill people and set fires

Jing'an Temple is really as suitable for raising people as Rong Ting said, the temple is surrounded by a dense bamboo forest, occasionally there will be one or two birdsongs, but it will not affect the quiet feeling of the temple at all, a small monk outside the door is waiting, and when he saw Chu Xiang coming up, he greeted him

"But the donor has come to worship the Buddha and burn incense?"

"I heard that Zen Buddhism here is rare in the world, if you are fortunate enough to learn one or two, you can know the reincarnation of cause and effect of all things in the world, so I came here to disturb and rude."

"Amitabha, the Buddha only crosses the fateful people, the abbot waits for the donor for a long time" said that the little monk led Chu Xiang and others into the Jing'an Temple, the temple really has a cave, into the courtyard on both sides of the viewing corridor, the courtyard is a lotus pond, the fish in the pond around the lotus leaves free play. I saw a lot of scenery along the corridor on the left, and I didn't know what incense was lit in the temple, and I felt like I forgot my troubles

"The donor, the abbot is in the meditation room, but only the donor is allowed to enter."

Chu Xiang looked at the group of people behind him and said, "You guys go to the residence to rest for a while" Ayu looked at Chu Xiang and asked uneasily, "Then the slave maid too?"

"You clean the meditation room, and come here in an hour to wait" After the order, he looked at the little monk and said, "There is labor"

Pushing open the carved mahogany door, the incense inside was actually different from the outside, and there was a hint of coolness inside, an old monk kneeling on the futon with his back to Chu Xiang was chanting, and said after hearing the voice

"The donor is noble and illustrious, and his body is surrounded by phoenixes, which is Amaterasu"

Chu Xiang slowly walked to the futon and knelt down, "How does the abbot know that I am noble and prominent, surrounded by phoenixes, and besides, what does Amaterasu mean?"

The old monk opened his eyes and looked at the Buddha statue in the middle, and the rosary in his hand kept rolling, "Providence, incomprehensible" "Does the donor have doubts in his heart when he comes this time?"

"The abbot is a man of God, and I do have a confusion that the abbot wants to explain."

The old monk took a stick holder from the table in front of him and motioned for her to shake it. Chu Xiang took the stick, closed his eyes, and began to ask for a sign intently, snap, a bamboo stick fell out of the tube, picked it up and handed it to the old monk

"Amitabha, this sign is a sign, the donor's pursuit must be extremely sinister, don't exhaust it, you can retreat, the donor can think about it."

Chu Xiang had already expected in her heart that the jade pendant in her hand was called Chasing the Sun, and today the abbot said that there must be a relationship between the two in Amaterasu, and after thinking about it, he asked again, "Does the abbot know Chengrenzong?" I heard that he had two jade pendants in his hand, one for chasing the sun and the other for Amaterasu, but these two jade pendants disappeared after a hundred years of Chengrenzong..."

The old monk turned his hand on the rosary for a long time, "The donor will destroy it as soon as possible, if the sky is still there, it will be a big chaos"

Why destroy it? Isn't there a solution? Chu Xiang asked impatiently

"Someone has died because of it, this person, the donor should know, the old man is up to the end, after all, the heavenly opportunity cannot be leaked"

Someone died from it... Chu Xiang's eyes were slightly red, and he tightly held Luo's skirt in his hand, A-Niang...

"The donor meditates here to understand the way." After speaking, the old monk got up slowly, bowed to Chu Xiang, and walked out of the meditation room

Chu Xiang looked at the Buddha statue holding the fairy grass in front of her for a long time, and a line of tears slipped from her eyes, what should she do? How, exactly? Ye Xueqing handed it into her hands but did not indicate the reason, intentionally or unintentionally revealing Amaterasu, A-Niang's death, everything is a mystery!

She, like a bird wrapped in a mystery, can't fly out

On the beam, a pair of extremely cold eyes looked at her quietly in the meditation room, and when she heard the footsteps, she suddenly disappeared in place...

"Mother? Ayu's voice sounded at the door, and Chu Xiang wiped the corners of his eyes to calm down "This palace wants to go to the lotus pond to have a look, you go and get some pastries for this palace." "No"

When Chu Xiang pushed the door out, there was no grief on his face, and the temple was cool and cool, and occasionally there was a neat chanting sound, Ayu helped her slowly walk along the corridor to the lotus pond, and she could see the pool clearly by sitting on the chair in the corridor. Reached out and took the pastry, broke it into several pieces, and threw it down little by little.

The red carp in the lotus pond was startled at first, and then shook its tail fin and circled around the pastry a few times before eating it one bite at a time, and slowly more and more fish swam over to scramble for the first place, Chu Xiang looked at the fish and smiled, the smile of the beauty is really hard to change, Liang Qi has exhausted all his methods in the imperial city and has never seen her smile

Ayu looked at Chu Xiang with a smile on his face from the side, and was also shocked for a while, "Niangniang is so beautiful when she laughs" "Huh? Could it be that this palace is usually extremely ugly? "How! Niangniang is also amazing on weekdays, but the slave maid has not seen Niangniang smile since she followed Niangniang, and today I know that Niangniang's smile is so beautiful, and the slave and maid can't help but envy the emperor"

Chu Xiang put away his smile and looked at the fish playing around in the pool, but there was no response, Ayu knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he knelt down, "Niangniang spare your life, Niangniang spare your life!" "Good time" Get up, the palace is tired" Ayu hurriedly got up and helped her back to her residence, their residences are all meditation rooms in the temple, and the layout inside is the same, Ayu packed up for a long time before she was satisfied with the clothes of the mother in the cabinet.

Xiao Quanzi had already fried the decoction, Chu Xiang frowned, drank it out, and the bitterness in his mouth spread to his heart, "Can there be candied fruit?" Ayu poured two from a small jar "The slave forgot that the emperor specially ordered the slave and maid to fill some candied fruit in the morning, saying that the mother must not be able to bear the suffering when she drinks the medicine."

Chu Xiang walked to the bed after taking two pieces of candied fruit, the bed was not as comfortable as the Mingluan Palace, the bedding of the Mingluan Palace was a whole piece of warm jade, sleeping on it was not hot in summer and not cold in winter, Liang Qi also spent a lot of money to get back a whole piece at that time...

There is a thin layer of gauze on the outside of the bed, and the scene inside is faintly visible.

"Ayu, where do you sleep?" Ayu was making the mattress when she heard a reply, "The slave and maid are sleeping outside, and the mother can call the slave and maid if she has something" "Outside? Where did the bed come from? Chu Xiang looked at the unobstructed outer room, and couldn't find where to sleep

The slave maid can use the extra chair to build a bed, and the mattress can be spread underneath, and the slave and maid can rest assured that the mother will not sleep alone in the meditation room Chu Xiang looked at Ayu who made the bed, and his heart warmed, this little girl was clever.

"Do you want to gain fame?" Ah Yu raised his little face and said happily, "Yes, Ah Kui is very smart, and it should be his greatest wish to read books and gain fame since he was a child!" "This palace can introduce a person for him, this person is Ma Guoning, a civil official of the dynasty, and it should not be a problem for him to give you a guide or two to get famous."

"This! Why is the mother.." Ayu was speechless with excitement, tears streaming in her eyes

"If you take care of this palace for your hard work, it will be regarded as a reward." What Chu Xiang said was very simple, but it was true that she wanted to help her.

"The slave and the maid have thanked the mother, and the slave and the maid are willing to be a cow and a horse for the mother in this life!" Ayu cried and said that tears were flowing down

"Okay, don't get the futon of the main palace wet"

Ayu blushed and wiped away her tears, and after laying out the bedding, she took out a piece of incense from the small bag and put it into the incense burner

After Chu Xiang changed into profane clothes, he pulled down the veil and remembered something and said, "The palace is tired today, so you don't need dinner, you can go to eat then" "Then the slave maid will wash some fruit for the mother, and the mother can eat some when she wakes up when she is hungry" "You are free, don't make noise to the palace"

Ayu walked back to the outside room gently, sat on the chair and sorted out Chu Xiang's bags, there were a lot of things in it that she hadn't had time to sort out, the emperor ordered a bunch of thousands of instructions to take care of Niangniang, Niangniang was so good to her, she must be worthy of Niangniang!

The dinner time in Jing'an Temple is different from the dinner time in the imperial city, Ayu heard Xiao Quanzi knock lightly on the door before opening the door and going out "Shhh, Niangniang is resting" Xiaoquanzi covered her mouth and whispered, "Our family is noisy?" "No, what's the matter?"

"The little monk in the Fangcai Temple said that everyone wanted to go to the dining hall to eat, and our family thought that Sister Ayu would come to inform him."

Ayu looked back at the room, "But if I leave, what will I do?" Xiao Quanzi scratched his head, and he didn't know what to do for a while. Suddenly, I heard a cold male voice behind me, "You go to eat, just leave it to me" Ayu and Xiaoquanzi were shocked, Ayu stumbled and asked, "Are you??" " Snow "

It turned out that the emperor sent her to protect her mother, so the slave and maid were relieved, and the slave and maid were in trouble during the meal... Shadow Guard"

Xue bowed her head lightly to show that she understood, and Ayu and Xiao Quanzi went to the dining hall to eat together

Gently push open the mahogany door, a fragrance came to the nose, smell it and know that it is a soothing incense, slowly walk to the bed covered by the tulle tent, pick up a corner with your hand, and see the beauty behind the light veil, the beauty sleeps sweetly Obviously, this fragrance is very useful

Sitting on the bed and looking like a cat, she couldn't help but stretch out her hand "heart"