The capital of Nanliang is healthy, the flow of people is like weaving, bustling!

Taking advantage of the continuous civil strife in the Northern Wei Dynasty and the inability to invade the south, Xiao Yan worked hard, thrifty and diligent, and after 30 years of operation, the people lived a prosperous life and the national strength was unprecedentedly strong.

However, decades of comfortable life also made Xiao Yan, the nearly seventy-year-old Emperor Wu of Liang, completely lose his enterprising spirit, and began to believe in Buddhism and ignore political affairs, and built Buddhist temples to worship monks and nuns. During this period, he sacrificed himself in the temple several times, became a monk, and each time he was redeemed by the imperial court with hundreds of millions of dollars, and was nicknamed the Bodhisattva Emperor.

For the birthdays of various Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Xiao Yan had to make a large number of sacrifices and offer wealth and land to the temple. Up and down, for a time the Buddhist temples of the Southern Dynasties sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, all of them were extremely magnificent, the number of monks and nuns reached more than 100,000, and a lot of financial and material resources were consumed.

Dugu defended Jingzhou City as he wished, and fought a bloody battle with Gao Aocao and Hou Jing for more than 40 days, and was besieged by Gao Aocao, Hou Jing and others after the grain and grass were cut off and seriously injured. Fortunately, Die Lian came to the rescue to avoid death, Yang Zhong, He Batsheng and others will desperately protect him to break out, and when there is no way to return to the north, everyone has to follow Xiao Xinzi, the princess of Nanliang, to cross south by boat.

But when Dugu pacified Sanjing, he killed the general of Southern Liang and offended many important ministers in the Southern Liang Dynasty, so Xiao Xinzi did not dare to directly introduce Dugu Ruwish and others to Xiao Yan, but lived in her own mansion, and it has been more than three months.

On the eighth day of the fourth month, the Christmas day of Shakyamuni Buddha, Xiao Yan brought the children of the royal family and hundreds of civil and military officials to gather in Tongtai Temple.

"Amitabha! The female benefactor is not ready to leave here, it is small to hinder the royal honor guard, and if the emperor's sacrifice is delayed, it will be a loss. ”

Butterfly Love, who knelt in front of the Buddha, raised his chin slightly, turned his head slightly, and instantly stunned the little novice who was responsible for maintaining order, although the face in front of him was covered under a layer of soft white veil, but the pair of black and clear eyes were like autumn water, as if they could reflect the light of heaven and earth, clear as promised, and unforgettable.

"I'm leaving, and Master Lao will light a lamp for me to pray for." Butterfly Love's voice was soft and ethereal, and as she spoke, she took out a few ingots of silver from her pocket and handed them to the little novice in front of her.

"The benefactor is blessed to the soul, the little monk will serve, but today is the Buddha's Christmas day, if the donor is not in a hurry, please wait, after the emperor worships the Buddha, there will be the abbot of the temple to open the altar to preach, I see that the donor is sincere, and will not miss such a grand event, you stay here, it is okay." Xiao Shami couldn't help but say something to stay.

Hearing this, Butterfly Lian smiled slightly and slowly stepped aside.

After a burst of drum music, the mountain gate gradually opened, and there was a person dressed in bright yellow, who came to worship the mountain step by step, looking pious. Behind him were more than a dozen young men and women, dressed in rich and luxurious clothes, and they followed the leader to bow down.

"The emperor is here!"

Naturally, there were people in the crowd who had seen Xiao Yan and shouted excitedly, and Die Lian also looked down the mountain with the voice.

Xiao Yan is tall and tall, and although he has been an emperor for decades, he is still thin. The six princes who followed him had a bit of a strong bookish atmosphere, like the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, with a different style.

"Look, that's the princess of our Southern Dynasty! It's so beautiful! Voices of praise began to emerge from the crowd.

Princess Nanliang, who followed behind the princes, was naturally Xiao Xinzi, and I saw that she put away her old smile, her face was solemn and serious, and she didn't have the slightest look of boredom after kneeling three times and knocking nine times.

When Dielian saw that she recognized that she was about to leave, she was stopped by the peasant woman next to her, "Girl! The emperor entered the Tongtai Temple, the conch sounded in unison, and the festival was about to officially begin, why are you in a hurry to leave? This time the prince and princess are here, which is a rare sight! ”

Dielian didn't want to say much, but gently pushed the peasant woman away, but when she turned around, she didn't notice that there was a little girl behind her.

"Wow... Mother, it hurts! ”

As the little girl screamed, the crowd began to stir, Die Lian thought that it was her own negligence and accidentally stepped on the little girl, but in the blink of an eye, several fierce men in black swept past him, and hurriedly rushed towards the royal honor guard who was coming down the mountain.

"There are assassins, protect the emperor!" There was a sharp voice from the honor guard, and Dielian hadn't understood what was going on? But he has been trapped as an assassin in the formation of the royal blood droplets.

Xiao Yan walked towards her slowly, and the emperor's mighty and domineering spirit forced her: "Who are you?" How dare you attack me at my sacrificial ceremony! ”

After that, those men in black had been slaughtered by the Royal Forest Army.

"I'm not an assassin, and I don't know any of these people!" Die Lian still had a faint tone, not caring at all that it was the supreme ruler of Southern Liang standing in front of her.

Xiao Yan frowned: "You're not from Nanliang?" As he spoke, he looked at Dielian again and said, "Tell me, who sent you, who wants to assassinate me?" ”

Die Lian looked at him, and there was a chill in his bright eyes: "I repeat, I'm not an assassin, none of these people survived, I naturally can't argue, please get out of the way!" ”

Xiao Yan didn't expect this woman to be so bold, she was about to order her to be executed, when a tall and handsome man standing behind him walked out.

"Father's anger, today is the Buddha's Christmas Day, it is really not appropriate to get bloody in the forbidden place of the Buddha, in the opinion of the sons, it is better to detain her first and bring her back to the palace to make a decision!"

Xiao Yan glanced at the handsome man in front of him, nodded slightly, and said: "Yi'er's words are reasonable, I usually recite Buddhist scriptures repeatedly, but today I am doing this, it is really against the rules and precepts, come here, take her down, and bring her back to the palace after the sacrificial ceremony." ”

After that, Die Lian was tied up by blood droplets, passing by Xiao Yi's side, a light breeze blew on his face, and the veil was gently picked up, just at this glance, the woman's face existed in Xiao Yi's memory without reservation.

Next, Xiao Yan and the princes and princesses continued the sacrificial ceremony, although Xiao Yi, who was sitting quietly on the futon in front of the hall, chanted Buddhist scriptures with the monks in the temple, but could not find the tranquility and indifference of the past.

Afterwards, the abbot of Tongtai Temple opened the altar to teach Buddhism, and countless believers listened to the Buddha's voice under the leadership of Xiao Yan, showing their piety. But Xiao Yi couldn't listen to it at all, and his mind just kept showing the face of the white-clothed woman just now.

After the teaching of Buddhism is completed, Tongtai Temple once again opens the mountain gate, displays all kinds of fish, insects, birds and beasts that Xiao Yan bought with money, and speaks the Dharma for him in front of the Three Treasures, grants three refuges and five precepts, and then puts them in the mountains and swamps, springs, ponds and rivers.

When everything was settled, the monks of Tongtai Temple would invite all the believers to eat fast, Xiao Yan also took off his dragon robe at this time, changed into monk's clothes, and personally added food to the believers, and the people shouted long live.