Chapter 39: Mandate of Heaven
In the afternoon, the side hall of the Boundless Pavilion hangs the purple corridor.
Under the corridor full of falling wisterias, two people are playing against each other. One of them, wearing a moon-white arrow sleeve, reclined in front of the chessboard, holding a freshly brewed tea in his right hand, and hooking a pale green purse embroidered with a touch of bamboo leaves on his left index finger, turning back and forth, his eyes closed, not dozing off, but waiting for the other person playing with him opposite.
It was Taifu Xie who was playing against him, his right index finger and middle finger were holding a sunspot, and his hand was held high in the air above the chessboard.
Xu waited too long, and Yu Qing opened his eyes a little impatiently when he was dying. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw that Mrs. Xie was hesitant, his left hand still on his beard, and he kept stroking it.
"Master Taifu, the gentleman is indecided, but he can play stinky chess~"
After that, Yu Qinglin took a sip of the new tea before the rain, strengthened the elbow of his right hand, took advantage of the situation to get up, and the purse hooked in his left hand was retracted to his waist again.
"Humph! Xie is not good at chess, and he can't play anymore!! ”
With fragile beads of sweat on his forehead, Taifu Xie looked at the chess game in front of him again and again, no matter where the son in his hand fell, the person who lost in the end would be himself. Yes, Mrs. Xie simply threw the sunspot that had been pinched by him for a long time in his finger and stained with sweat directly into the chess box.
"Then Mrs. Xie, can you tell me about General Xu now? You're a close friend of him, but don't tell me you don't know him. ”
Yu Qinglin smiled secretly, but what he said in his mouth and what he thought in his heart were not the same thing at all. In terms of playing chess, he is also ranked third in Zhishui Peak, ordinary chess players play against him, it is not easy to win him, this Xie Taifu can play with him so far, it is rare.
"Hmph, Lao Xu is bold and informal, which is like you, scheming, calculating, and overcalculating."
Mrs. Xie said, but his eyes were still glancing at the unfinished chess game that was being cleaned up, and he couldn't help but think of the scene of playing chess with General Xu before. In fact, his chess skills are not as good as General Xu, but his friend just likes to let himself.
Yu Qinglin nodded, looked up at Mrs. Xie, and looked in a reverie, thinking that he wanted General Xu as a friend.
"When Yu first came to Yecheng, he was fortunate to serve endlessly, and I heard the guards in the palace say that the camp was originally garrisoned by General Xu, although he was ordered to stick to the imperial city, but he was not at the disposal of the emperor, how could he listen to the emperor and go to the northern frontier to garrison the border?"
As he spoke, Yu Qinglin lifted the pot of tea on the tea stove on the side of the chessboard and poured it for Mrs. Xie. He didn't want to beat around the bush, since Mrs. Xie didn't know what he was trying to ask, he would say it bluntly!
However, he probably underestimated Mrs. Xie's caution, Yu Qinglin asked for a long time, only to see Mrs. Xie carefully moving his two eyes, as if he was paying attention to whether there were other figures around, and watching Mrs. Xie's eyes go back and forth for a few reincarnations, and after a while, I finally saw Mrs. Xie have a new movement.
He just said that he didn't plan to continue playing chess, so he picked up a handful of sunspots in his hand, pressed them on the chessboard one by one, and laid out a square within a square, which looked like a unique pattern.
"There is a place in the palace that does not see the light of day, it was set up by the first emperor, and the number of dead soldiers is not known, and the dispatch of the camp belongs to the head of the dead soldiers, the first emperor, who once gave the small jade order that can call the dead to King Xiankang. However, later, the jade order disappeared after the death of King Xiankang. ”
Lowering his voice, Mrs. Xie put away the chess pieces one by one and put them into the chess box. The lid was closed, and Mrs. Xie slowly got up.
"Oh? How did Master Taifu know this? ”
There was no response, Yu Qinglin had a guess in his heart, he needed to go to Zhishui Peak again.
"Mr. Yu, it's time to give a lesson to the two highnesses, please."
At this time, Mrs. Xie walked to the direction of the main hall outside the corridor as he spoke, and arched his hand to Yu Qinglin, who was still sitting there behind him, and left in a dashing manner.
said to go, Yu Qinglin also moved at the same time, but before stepping out of the Boundless Pavilion, the purse on his waist shook. Sensing the movement in his waist, Yu Qinglin muttered softly and talked to the purse.
"Fang Cai, it's a little inappropriate to use you as a bet on the chess game, but you should also know that I won't lose this game of chess, why, even you don't believe me?"
While speaking, Yu Qinglin found a place in this hanging purple corridor that others couldn't notice, and his body turned into smoke and disappeared.
By the time Yu Qinglin stepped on the ground again, he had already arrived at the foot of Zhishui Peak.
Because of the dust in his hand, Yu Qinglin had an awkward trouble, so he came all the way to the wind, and when he arrived at the foot of the mountain, he actually felt a little tired, after all, he was lying comfortably on the dust on weekdays.
Looking up, looking at the majestic mountains under the sun, Yu Qinglin only felt dizzy, anyway, he came to find her, now that he is too lazy to go, it is better to simply go there first, perhaps, she is also there.
Following a stream near the foot of the mountain, Yu Qinglin soon came to the north valley of the water stopper, which is also the end of this stream. There was a cottage beside the lake that was much simpler than the man's bamboo garden at the top of the mountain.
"Squeak", Yu Qinglin pushed open the door of the house, a cold breath came to his face, and there was a slight smell of wine, it seemed that his senior sister had just left from here.
"Alas, a good room, how come it became a wine cellar and workshop in her hands......" Yu Qinglin looked at the large and small wine jars and dry wine ingredients in the room, and finally pinched his nose, turned around and walked out of the hut with a look of disgust.
In fact, this room was originally his residence, but many years ago, one afternoon when he got carried away, he lost this room as a game of chess to his good sister.
Well, this is also the reason why he was obviously born in Zhishui Peak, but he can only "borrow" to live in King Kang's Mansion.
Thinking about this corner of this unpleasant memory, Yu Qinglin suddenly noticed that on weekdays, the mountain guarding formation that he had to be changed every time he came was actually withdrawn, even if she drank no matter how drunk she was, it would definitely not be like this.
Thinking back to the messy appearance in Fang Cai's hut, and vaguely remembering the half-joking words she had once said when she was setting up the formation, "People are in the ......" Thinking of this, Yu Qinglin frowned rarely.
Unless...... Don't...... Isn't there something wrong with that old woman?!
With such a bad idea in his heart, Yu Qing came to the wind under his feet, and ran directly to the bamboo garden on the top of the peak with a superior body technique.
At the same time, the dust was also turned out by him and held in his palm, and the Yuan Gong in his body was raised, as if the enemy was in front of him.
However, when he rushed to the bamboo garden in such a hurry, and slammed the door again, what he saw was Fei'er who looked back at him in surprise. Of course, Xiao Hei was also looking at him, but he couldn't see it. Because, Xiao Hei has grown up a lot again, even if he just squats there, he is a head taller than him.
Suddenly, as if she knew something, Fei'er stared at his face and began to laugh uncontrollably, and even Xiao Hei shook his tail behind him.
"Fei'er? Where's your master?! ”
When he said this, Yu Qinglin's urgent concern had turned into no less than ten times his anger.
He seems to have been tricked by his good sister again......
"Uncle Shi, Master made a bet with me, she said that you will knock on the door again at this time today, but she went to visit her friend and left you a letter, and besides, Fei'er didn't peek, hehehe......"
Fei'er said, took out a folded paper from under the case and handed it to Yu Qinglin, and took Xiao Hei to the lotus pond in the backyard to feed the carp.
The letter was really for him, and the handwriting was indeed his good sister's, and the content of the letter was very short and concise.
"Stupid dragonfly, come to Lingfeng Temple."
Crying and laughing, Yu Qinglin left after reading the letter, of course, before he left this time, he first cast a spell to cover the entire water stopper.
Leaving only two children at home, he was not at ease.
At the same time, in the meditation monastery on the mountain behind Lingfeng Temple, there are also people sitting down next to a tea table, but the last time the guest who came here was Yu Qinglin, but this time the person who came was Yu Qinglin's senior sister. Moreover, this time, the one serving tea next to him was a little monk with thick eyebrows and big eyes.
The little monk is the little apprentice of the master of pure life - true wisdom. Now, he was holding a pot of new tea in his hand and pouring it one by one for the newly arrived guest and his master. However, his eyes were glancing to the side, wandering around, as if looking for something. It's just that the figure he was looking forward to appearing in this Zen courtyard with a pair of cute apricot eyes did not appear.
Stunned, but he refused to believe it, insisting that the figure might just be joking with himself, and hid for a while. The heart is not dead, and Machi still looks around the courtyard with the corner of his eye, completely unaware that the tea in his teacup is almost overflowing.
"Ha, Zhenzhi, don't look at it, my sister didn't bring Fei'er out this time."
The woman wearing a black robe, when she saw that the tea in the teacup of the Pure Life Master was about to overflow, her left hand stretched out in time and blocked the spout of the teapot, and while speaking, she raised her eyes to Zhenzhi with an interesting look on her face.
As soon as the words were broken, Zhenzhi suddenly came back to his senses, and hurriedly put down the teapot in his hand, his face did not change, his hands were folded, and he bowed slightly to the smiling female crown in front of him, and said: "Amitabha, the monks don't speak, and I ask the Taoist aunt not to lie about it." ”
With that, Machi stepped back, turned around and went to the ashram to continue copying his unfinished sutras.
"Tut, I said Jingsheng, you said that you could change his more real temperament, why is it that now it is getting more and more ......"
Without waiting for the friend in front of him to finish speaking, Master Jingsheng interrupted, "Amitabha, the past is all over the past, and now he is just the true wisdom of the old man's disciple. Besides, in terms of age, I'm afraid that my age is less than a fraction of yours, so why do you tease him with a 'sister' every time? ”
However, after hearing this, the female crown was not annoyed, took a sip of tea, and opened her mouth to fight back. "If you really want him to let go, you should have asked me to pour him a bowl of soul cleansing soup in the first place, and why did you give him a Dharma name that is too similar to his common name, Zhuo Zhizhen, called True Wisdom? knows that his temperament can't be let go after all. ”
Master Pure Life's eyes sank when he heard this, but he soon began to ask about something else. "Why haven't you seen the Daoist Elder coming? Isn't there something delayed on the way? ”
As soon as the words fell, the moon white quietly came to the wind, and the dust in his hand was still shaking restlessly, obviously, because of the fact that it was a bet, it had not yet lost its breath.
"Oh, green dragonfly, it seems that the food committee of King Kang's Mansion is really not bad, and you are raised to be round and jade, and you are so slow to come from the wind, but let me and Master Jingsheng wait."
"Old woman, you are really, leaving the two little ones in Zhishui Peak, and running out here to drink tea and chat, it's really a pleasure."
"Who is the old woman? I'm only a year old every fifty years, and you green dragonfly don't know it! ”
"Who is the green dragonfly? My name is Yu Qinglin, and you old woman don't know it! ”
Obviously they are from the same teacher, and they are almost brothers and sisters who have grown up together since childhood, but somehow, the two have always been so sarcastic to each other when they meet, even if they are still in front of Master Pure Life, they refuse to back down. It's not so much a sister or brother, but more like a neighborhood that splashes water on each other in the streets and alleys.
Master Jingsheng smiled helplessly, so he had to look at it, listening to the female crown and Yu Qinglin in front of him, you come and go, "swords, guns, swords, halberds", until about a cup of tea, he found an opportunity, and finally interjected.
"Regarding the matter of Xuanyuan Xuanyuan's left eye, do the two Dao Masters have any opinions?"
A word is like a spring breeze, Master Jingsheng hopes to use this to rest the quarrel between the two sisters and brothers, but he didn't expect that it was this problem that caused the war between the two.
Originally, Yu Qinglin learned from Taifu Xie that the small jade order could be used to mobilize the camp, and the small jade order was originally in the hands of King Xiankang, and he guessed that perhaps, the jade order was in the hands of Subigaro. And that cyan glass bead originally carried some memories of Subigara, so his senior sister might know where the little jade order went.
The three of them sat down, talked for a while, and finally settled on one thing.
The small jade order was given to Xuanyuan Jue, but Xuanyuan Jue took the initiative to give it to the emperor, in order to transfer General Xu out of Yecheng.
"You said that his temperament had changed drastically when he came in, so it seems obvious that he was affected by the untouched anger on the bead, and it is hard to guarantee that he will not become a tyrannical king."
Master Jingsheng heard the speculation of the female crown, and his hands couldn't help but fold and sigh again, "Amitabha, there must be a cause and an effect, if you only look at his temperament and aiding the treacherous and evil, and get rid of Zhengchen, you can't conclude that he will be a cruel king." ”
And here, although the female crown felt that it was for Xuanyuan Jue to find a way to let General Xu leave Yecheng for no reason, she was more concerned about the final result than this.
At the beginning, she and Yu Qinglin cast many spells on the bead just in case, but she was not at ease after all. Yes, she used the Taiyi Divine Technique to spy on the heavens.
In the mottled light and shadow, all she saw was thousands of miles of blood, devastation, mourning, and the firelight in the sky shrouded the entire Yecheng.
As the sun and the moon passed, the scene of purgatory on earth only became clearer and clearer in her eyes.
Therefore, she felt that instead of waiting, it was better to solve it directly.
Kill Xuanyuan.
"No! How can he be so reckless, what's wrong with him?! ”
Yu Qinglin heard the idea of the female crown and was silent, and the tacit Master of Pure Life got up from the tea case, and his eyebrows were cold, he didn't agree with this approach!
Everyone knows that the tiger hurts people and kills, so can you directly kill the tiger cub?!
Negative anger comes, and anger goes. Yu Qinglin flicked his sleeves and left, and the female crown knew that this time, he was really angry.
"Regardless of Buddhism, only friendship. Friend, you and I have only known each other for 30 years, but you only told me that the origin of that bead is extraordinary, and today you are even more determined to be that wicked person, what is the reason? ”
Master Jingsheng said, pouring a cup of tea for the female crown in front of him.
The female crown smiled, picked up the cup in her hand, and took a sip, but unexpectedly, the tea was already cold. Master Jingsheng saw that the left hand of the female crown, which had always worn Xuanjin gloves, was trembling.
After a while, I finally listened to her babble.
"Destiny."