"Layman" is a Buddhist term used to refer to Buddhists at home, who have received the "three refuges" and "five precepts". Three refuges: the so-called refuge in the Buddha, the law, and the Sangha. The five precepts are: not to kill, not to steal, not to commit adultery, not to lie, and not to drink alcohol.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were not many people with the title of layman, but Li Bai's Qinglian monk and Bai Juyi's Xiangshan monk were the most famous.

In the Song Dynasty, there are more and more people with the name of laymen, and the famous monk Huiyuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty once said: there are two laymen: one is a person who accumulates wealth and wealth, and is called a layman. The two: lay monks and home monks, called lay monks.

And the most admired by the Song people is the Buddhist layman: Vimalaya.

This person is a worldly person, but he is also a transcendent Zen being, who lives a worldly life of princely and aristocratic luxury, but who is regarded as the bodhisattva who has attained the deepest reality, higher than the monastic practitioners.

And this is the highest ideal life that the Song people, especially the literati who have no ambition for their careers, yearn for.

I yearn to be like Vimalaya, to have a beautiful wife named Innocent, and a pair of male names under my knees: Good Thinking Boy, female name: Moon Girl's happy life.

Yi'an's answer left Ye Qing with an oh oh nod, and Liu Qingyan on the side despised Ye Qing, really don't understand that such a person who doesn't understand anything, and doesn't even understand the origin of the layman, can actually export it into poetry.

In that Yongjin Building, he was able to make a song on the spot, and even the laymen praised it again and again, "If life is only as first seen." ”

What's even more hateful is that such a good poem was easily given to Wen Wan by this idiot!

Li Qingzhao grew up watching Liu Qingyan since he was a child, and since he came in, Liu Qingyan has a cold face, and he has no kind words for Ye Qing, how can he not know the truth?

It's nothing more than the mentality of a hundred flowers and flowers competing for beauty between girls, but he can't just because Ye Qing is willing to cooperate with him, and he is cheaper, right?

So after answering Ye Qing's doubts about the layman, he said with a smile: "I can promise you, but you shouldn't expect too much from the help they can provide." Although I don't know what you're going to do, but as the deputy commander of the Imperial City Division, you're going to the Northland secretly, obviously to do something beneficial to the imperial court, but if the two or three thousand people are involved because of your errand, don't blame me for turning my face and denying people at that time! ”

"Don't worry, I'm not familiar with the Northland, my people are over, I just need a guide, and we will deal with the rest ourselves, and it will definitely not affect your people, even...... If this happens, maybe we will have more cooperation in the future. Ye Qing had not paid attention to Liu Qingyan, who seemed to have an enmity with him, and looked at Li Qingzhao and said with a smile.

"Don't say it too soon, lest you get off the stage by yourself. But you must promise me that from today onwards, the Imperial City Division will no longer be able to investigate my business in the Northland, especially those that are bought and sold at low prices. And in the future, in the Yan family's business, every time the fleet or convoy goes to Sizhou, they must help me ...... for free. ”

"Hello, goodbye." Ye Qing got up directly, waved his hand and was about to leave.

"Stop, do you want to leave like this?" Liu Qingyan also got up and said: "This is what I mean, let me tell you the truth, in the past two years, Liu Qingyan has been responsible for the assistance of the Northland, and they only recognize me as ......." ”

"Whether you are responsible or the layman is responsible, I won't be able to do this deal? You're too embarrassed, aren't you? The Imperial City Division will cover you thousands of miles away in the future, and you still want the Yan family to transport it to you for free, why don't you simply move the Yamen of the Imperial City Division to your oblique wind and drizzle building, so that the business and everything will belong to you, and you can do things completely according to your mood in the future. Ye Qing raised his eyebrows and did not give in.

"What does Lord Ye mean?" Li Qingzhao waved his hand and motioned for Ye Qing and Liu Qingyan to sit down, and asked in a calm voice.

"The Imperial City Division can open the door for you, this is already my limit. The Yan family can try my best to lobby for you, but it is the Yan family's decision to help you or not, and there is no reason to be free. Ye Qing looked at Li Qingzhao's smiling face and said calmly.

Li Qingzhao nodded unexpectedly, and said with a hint of sarcasm in his words: "Lord Ye is just a leader of the Imperial City Division, and there is a commander above, why dare you say that you can be the master ......of the Imperial City Division." ”

"Hehe, don't talk to me, I, Ye Qing, agreed to you, so naturally there is a way to do what you say, but this is not a matter of worrying about the layman." Ye Qing saw that Li Qingzhao's tone had loosened, and the smile on his face resurfaced.

Li Qingzhao smiled, his original intention was to test why Ye Qing dared to take on such a big package in just a few days after he first joined the Imperial City Division.

But looking at the young man in front of him, there was a trace of eccentricity everywhere, but he was inexplicably willing in his heart and chose to believe his every word.

Ye Qing naturally knew that Li Qingzhao pointed out his position as deputy commander, and why did he dare to speak out so loudly when he had just joined the Imperial City Division, and was there any bigger backer behind him?

But who can I tell you this? Who do you dare to tell me? What's more, even if I tell others that my backer is the old man of the Emperor Zhao Gou, I'm afraid that even after I say it, no one will necessarily believe it, right?

But the reason why Ye Qing dared to be so confident was not because he was talking wildly, naturally because he had something to rely on, that is, the piece of ink jade pendant that Zhao Gou gave him when he first met Zhao Gou in the West Lake.

With Zhao Gou's cunning character, it is obvious that he will never give someone a jade pendant casually, although Zhao Gou did not even mention that jade pendant when they met today, but Ye Qing believed that if he encountered any resistance when he was on an errand, that jade pendant should be better than anything else.

Otherwise, this is completely inconsistent with the style of a superior person, so he is mysterious and has no last resort.

Li Qingzhao nodded, then no longer asked Ye Qing what he relied on, after turning his head to look at Liu Qingyan, Liu Qingyan pouted at Ye Qing, who was also looking at her, and then happily pulled out a hairpin from his head, put it in front of Ye Qing's eyes and said: "This is a token, take him to find a person named Dong Chao, after he sees this hairpin, he will naturally help you as much as he can." ”

"Thank you very much." Ye Qing picked up the hairpin, and under Liu Qingyan's angry gaze, Chengxin put the hairpin on the tip of his nose, and sniffed it pretending to be intoxicated: "Ah......." ”

"Shut up!" Liu Qingyan looked at Ye Qing with a pale face, and gritted his silver teeth and said, "If you dare to say another word, don't blame me Liu Qingyan for being polite!" Also, you think that's the end of it? That is, in Yongjin Building, you can make a poem on the spot If life is only as first seen, then as long as you are now, in front of the layman and me, you are making a poem that can still be praised by the layman, you will pass the test! ”

"You're not sick in the head, are you? Why did I write the lyrics for you? Besides, people are all smiling and gentle, how can you beg with a straight face? Ye Qing was stunned for a moment and hurriedly refused.

Are you kidding! In front of Li Qingzhao, the first female lyricist in the ages, why did you let me make the first word, why didn't you let me say that I wanted to rebel in front of Zhao Gou!

But what Ye Qing didn't expect was that the female lyricist through the ages was also extremely interested in Liu Qingyan's proposal, and when she clapped her hands, she nodded again and again: "Qingyan's idea is good, the old man has rarely written lyrics over the years, and he rarely hears good words in Lin'an, how about Lord Ye make a song immediately?" ”

"I ...... You...... Liu Qingyan I ...... Can you change the conditions? Ye Qing's expression froze, and he stammered: "Talking about business is talking about business, but you can't bully people like this!" ”

"What? You can make words in Yongjin Building, but you can't do it in my slanting wind and drizzle building? Are you watching people put down dishes, or are you looking down on people! Liu Qingyan continued to say coldly.

In any case, if that life was only as it was when she first saw it, every time she sounded the song after Wen Wan told her, she would always think of the ambiguous affair that night between her and this hateful person in front of her.

But she regretted in her heart that this poem was given to Wen Wan, not to herself, if it was given to herself, maybe she would have regarded everything she was bullied that night as a misunderstanding that only she knew.

"Pay attention to the attitude, are you begging for words! Yes? Ye Qing looked at Liu Qingyan and pretended to be a serious reprimand, but in exchange for Liu Qingyan's angry white eyes, he retorted bitterly.

Li Qingzhao looked at the two bickering with a smile, after all, for her, if the two of them fought like this, it would only be good for the slanting wind and drizzle building, and there would be no harm at all.

If the Slanting Wind and Drizzle Building has the backer of the Imperial City Division in the future, then even if he can't wake up tomorrow, he will be very relieved to hand over all this to Liu Qingyan.

Looking at Ye Qing's relaxed appearance, he obviously had a plan in his heart, so he interrupted the bickering between the two and said: "Lord Ye might as well try it, if you can make a good song and sing it from the light smoke, it can be regarded as a good story of my slanting wind and drizzle building." ”

"I don't want to sing his words, but I sing the words of the layman." Liu Qingyan rolled her eyes and said disdainfully.

"That'...... Then I'll dare to show it off in front of you, and ask you for advice or two when the time comes? Ye Qing naturally had a plan in his heart, but in front of Li Qingzhao, even if he plagiarized other people's words as his own, he was very nervous.

"Lord Ye, please." Li Qingzhao looked at Ye Qing's eyes that gradually became deeper, and he felt a little palpitations inexplicably.

Ye Qing, on the other hand, was indifferent, still staring at Li Qingzhao's eyes, and slowly spoke: "Ask the world, what is love, and directly teach life and death?" There are double flyers in the south and the north, and the old wings have been cold and hot several times. Happy and fun, parting bitter, there are even more crazy children. You should have said: Stratus clouds, thousands of mountains and twilight snow, who does the shadow go to? Hengfen Road, lonely when the drums, the smoke is still flat. The soul is a little more groaning, and the mountain ghosts are crying in the wind. The sky is also jealous, and the warblers and swallows are all loess. Through the ages, in order to stay for the people, he sang and drank wildly, and visited Yanqiu. ”

As Ye Qing finished reading slowly, Li Qingzhao was silent for a long time, and Liu Qingyan's eyes almost fell to the table, she didn't expect that this idiot would actually watch the layman make such a sad good word!

"Hengfen Road, lonely when the drums, the smoke is still flat. Why? Li Qingzhao opened his eyes, looked at Ye Qing, who had already walked to the door, and asked.

"In the lower ancestral hometown of Yanmen Pass. This song will be given to Miss Liu, and it is a ...... for you and me. ”

"you! Who wants to make a deal with you...... Bah! Liu Qingyan got up angrily, but the lyricist had already opened the door and ran out, leaving only her and Li Qingzhao, still reminiscing about the poem.