Chapter 87: The Altar [3]

Xiantu was still attracted by the robe and Zen staff, but he didn't notice that the eldest grandson was frowning at him. Xiantu was wondering what the eldest grandson wanted to convey, and suddenly remembered the etiquette of yesterday's rehearsal.

It turned out that at this time, I wanted to invite the emperor, and the queen came to offer the first incense stick and pray for the prosperity of the country and good weather. Xiantu hurriedly shouted solemnly to the crowd below: "Please the emperor, the queen mother is on the stage to offer incense." ”

The emperor and the queen walked to the altar surrounded by the eunuchs, took the two pillars of incense in Xiantu's hand, and slowly inserted them into the oversized incense burner. The cigarette curled up, and the straight pillar of incense did not bend the slightest. In the words of these superstitious people, it is that the heavens received the prayers of the lower world. The crowd was again for a while: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live." The ears of Xiantu who shouted were numb, and he thought, is it useful to shout like this? Li Shimin didn't live to be 100 years old, long live it, hypocrisy!

Seeing that the emperor finished praying, Xiantu took out the sacrificial text and muttered it, in fact, he only learned a rough idea of these words yesterday, and there are many that he can't understand. However, Xiantu is very capable of fooling people, muttering words that he doesn't understand for a long time, and then handing them over to the emperor to burn in the incense burner.

Next, it was the turn of Master Xuanzang to come to offer incense, only to see the master take off the robe that shone with dazzling light, and after the incense, his knees crossed the ground and a group of monks chanted the scriptures, and suddenly the Dharma was boundless, and the sound of Buddhist scriptures was everywhere.

After chanting, Xuanzang got up and put on the robe he had just taken off, picked up the Zen staff that was thrown on the ground, and looked at the grass and trees of Datang affectionately.

"Your Majesty, the poor monk will go to the west to learn scriptures today at the behest of Guanyin, and this trip to the west will take as little as three or five years, and as many as seven or eight years to return, and I hope the emperor will cherish it." Xuanzang finished speaking affectionately, and looked at Li Shimin in front of him reluctantly.

"Mage, today you and I are brothers of the opposite sex, and from now on the mage will be the royal brother of the widow." Li Shimin said to Xuanzang affectionately.

"This, how is this good, how can the poor monk be virtuous, and I hope that the emperor will take back his will." Xuanzang was sweating nervously.

"Royal brother, you risked life and death for my people of the Tang Dynasty to go to the west to learn scriptures, how can you not be a royal brother. When the royal brother returns from his westward journey, the widow will be rewarded again. Li Shimin said gratefully.

"The poor monk thanks the emperor for his grace, may my Buddha bless the Tang Dynasty for thousands of generations and live forever." After speaking, Xuanzang clasped his hands together and silently recited Amitabha.

"Someone, bring the purple gold bowl I gave to Master Xuanzang."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The father-in-law replied.

After a while, a father-in-law walked up to the altar with a bowl in both hands. The emperor took the bowl and handed it to Xuanzang, and instructed: "The royal brother can rest assured that he is traveling westward, the widow has prepared the customs clearance documents and a thousand miles of treasure horse for the royal brother, and this purple gold bowl will be given to the royal brother on the road to use for fate." I also hope that the royal brother will have a safe journey and return as soon as possible. ”

"The poor monk thanked the saint." Xuanzang clasped his hands together and bowed down.

Xiantu stepped forward and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that Master Xuanzang should take a pseudonym, and there is a lot of convenience on the road. ”

"A pseudonym? Can the royal brother have a legal name? Li Shimin said curiously to Xuanzang.

"The poor monk's name is Tang Sanzang." Xuanzang replied.

"This Xuanzang and Tang Sanzang don't sound good, today the widow will give the royal brother Fangwai alias, and the royal brother's trip to the West Heaven can also be unimpeded."

"I hope that the Holy God will give me a name." Xuanzang pleaded.

"Well, in that case, I will give the name to the royal brother. Since the royal brother is a monk of my Tang Dynasty, it is better to take Tang as his surname and monk as his name, and it can also be more convenient on the westward journey. Li Shimin's words, from now on there is one more westward monk in the Tang Dynasty in the world, and there is one more monk in Journey to the West who seeks scriptures and worships Buddha, named Tang Seng.

I saw a father-in-law walking at this time, holding a plate in his hand, and two glasses of wine were placed on the plate, and the aroma of wine could be smelled from a distance.

"Brother Yu, today you are going to leave the homeland of the Tang Dynasty, and before leaving, the widow will give you a glass of wine, which can be regarded as a farewell." Li Shimin picked up the wine glasses on the plate and handed one of the glasses to Tang Seng.

Tang Seng waved his hand again and again in fear and said: "Your Majesty, you can't do it, the monks are the most taboo about wine and meat, how can you drink wine?" ”

Seeing such a flustered Tang monk, Li Shimin smiled slightly, grabbed a handful of soil from the ground with his hand, put it in the cup and continued: "Royal brother, I would rather miss the soil of my hometown and stop loving other countries. ”

What a classic sentence, "I'd rather miss my hometown and twist the soil, and rest in love with other countries." Xiantu pondered this sentence carefully, and felt that Li Shimin was very scheming, was he afraid that Tang Seng would not be able to stand the youhuo outside, and he would not be able to find anyone after taking the scriptures!

But he really thinks like this, it's really a bit of a villain's heart, Tang Seng will let go of the daughter country in the future, and he doesn't want such a beautiful and moving king, and he is dedicated to giving your old Li family the true scriptures. It's also for your old brother Li that he lost his happy marriage.

As mentioned earlier, Brother Li killed too many people when he was young, and although he was the Holy Lord, he also implicated many loyal ministers and became unjust souls. Since he became the emperor, there have been unjust souls asking for his life every night, if it weren't for his two godfathers guarding Li Shimin outside the door, Li Shimin would have been over by now.

Tang Seng said that although the first picture went in and inserted such a kick in this time to learn scriptures from the west, it was also Brother Li who wanted him to take the Mahayana teachings to resolve the grievances of the soul.

Here Xiantu was still thinking stupidly here, and Tang Seng and Li Shimin over there took their wine glasses and drank them all. I really can't see that this Tang Seng is still a master of drinking. It is said that the first time you drink without drinking, you will definitely be unbearable by the spicy wine, but even if Tang Seng drinks it in one gulp, he does not feel the slightest discomfort. I was a little suspicious, suspecting that this Tang monk was not a pure monk. But everyone knows that every suspicion of Xiantu is basically paranoia, so he didn't go deeper after thinking about it. I thought, let the Buddha decide!

"Precious on the way to the royal brother," Li Shimin said affectionately, and left sad tears, this kind of feeling is really rare in the emperor. (Anyway, there is no history book that any emperor is so good to monks, only Li Shimin is very good to monks.) )。

"Take care of your majesty". Tang Seng also said goodbye with tears. Xiantu suddenly felt that if there weren't so many people present, it would be hard to say that the two of them would have to have a hug or something.

Tang Seng walked down the altar, led the white horse that had been prepared for him, and walked towards the west with an extremely heavy heart, leaving only a touching back.

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