Chapter 43: The First Visit to Wanshanni Temple (Part I)
(There will be a change today, and the second watch will be at 20:00) "So, you just haven't seen An Ruoxi for more than two hours, have you?" Yang Lihua listened to Shen'er's words, breathed a sigh of relief, and asked. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"But Niangniang, I've searched the whole monastery and I haven't found her? Since I was ordered by Niangniang, accompanied Miss An to the Wanshanni Temple to become a monk, Miss An has always been in addition to following the monks and nuns to the main hall to do homework in the morning and evening, do not go anywhere, today such a situation, or the first time it appeared, I am worried that she has a mistake, can not explain to the mother and the prince, so anxious to run back to report to the mother first. Shen'er's tone inadvertently revealed a sense of anxiety and unease.
"Well, have you ever mentioned this to the other monks and nuns in the temple?"
"Niangniang has a word first, and the maid does not dare to mention this matter to the monks and nuns in the temple without authorization before she comes back to report to Niangniang."
"That means that apart from you, no one in the temple knows about An Ruoxi's disappearance right now." Yang Guang sat on the side, listened for a long time, and couldn't help but interject and ask.
"Yes."
"Ah Zong, it is inconvenient for me to enter and leave the mansion at the moment, can you take a trip to Wanshanni Temple on my behalf to check An Ruoxi's whereabouts?" Yang Lihua looked at Yang Guang and asked.
Yang Guang was secretly suspicious of An Ruoxi's mysterious disappearance, suspecting that her sudden disappearance today was related to the uninvited guest who sneaked into the Jin Wang's Mansion seven days ago. ā
"Shen'er, you go back to the temple first, remember, about An Ruoxi's disappearance, you can't mention it to anyone before King Jin goes to Wanshanni Temple." Yang Lihua signaled Yang Guang not to leave in a hurry, turned to Shen'er and admonished.
Shen'er agreed, turned around and went out of the room.
"Eldest sister, do you have anything else to tell me?" Yang Guang hurried to Wanshanni Temple to verify whether the conjecture in his heart was correct or not, and stood in place and asked Yang Lihua.
"Wanshanni Temple, there are currently hundreds of concubines and concubines of the previous Zhou Dynasty who are monks and concubines here, think that An Ruoxi Although it was originally Jiangzuoren's clan, but served beside the sister of Praruo for many days, and many concubines in the original Zhou room acquainted, Ah Zong, you go to Wanshanni Temple to check its whereabouts and whereabouts, in my opinion, it is not appropriate to make a big noise to the monks and nuns in the temple, and directly state its affairs, just knock on the side and search in secret. I don't expect An Ruoxi to be cut off so quickly, and he will never return. ā
Yang Wen recalled that seven days ago, when Yang Lihua first arrived in his house, after hearing An Ruoxi's explanation about his unintentional abortion, he felt a sense of awe for the queen and queen mother of the previous dynasty. I thought to myself: This eldest sister is quiet and weak on the surface, and every time she is about a major event, she can see the city in her chest, and if she talks about her intelligence, she is definitely not under her mother Dugu Jialuo.
Yang Lihua saw his confused look, mistakenly thinking that his thirteen-year-old little brother didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of him, and said to Yang Guang with a deliberate smile: "You come here, the eldest sister will teach you, how to do it." ā
Wanshanni Temple is located in the southeast corner of Xiuxiangfang in Chang'an, is a large-scale nun temple covering an area of hundreds of acres, with five courtyards, thousands of monks and nuns. This nun temple was built in the early years of the Western Wei Dynasty, when the prime minister Yuwentai, who monopolized the power of the Western Wei Dynasty, believed in Buddhism and built dozens of monasteries in Chang'an City for people to practice, and Wanshan Temple is one of them.
Later, in the Wei Dynasty of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, there were many queens and concubines in the palace who believed in Buddhism, but they were limited by their identities and were inconvenient to practice in person, so they adopted a workaround and found more substitutes to convert to Buddhism and practice on their behalf. In time, when Emperor Wu of Zhou Yu Wenyi reigned, he decreed that Wanshan Temple would be changed into a nun temple, which was specially used for palace concubines and noblewomen to find substitutes and become monks.
After Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian was founded by Zen and founded the Great Sui, because there were thousands of palace concubines left by the Northern Zhou Dynasty, there was nowhere to place them, and because Yang Jian himself had received the favor of a monk and nun since childhood, and had the experience of growing up in the nun temple for more than ten years, so he specially issued a holy decree for this purpose, and opened the Wanshanni Temple into a temple dedicated to the monks and nobles of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to show his respect for the palace concubines of the previous generation. It's just that while Yang Jian found a place for the more than 1,000 ladies and wives in the past that was satisfactory to them, he also issued a secret edict: The personnel changes of the abbots, deacons, and acquaintances of Wanshanni Temple who should be in charge of monks and nuns are all determined by Queen Dugu Jialuo.
This seemingly ordinary secret edict actually put the more than 1,000 former court concubines who were placed in the Wanshanni Monastery to practice under close surveillance.
Yang Guang took Xian Yuluo and the "tail" that could not be shaken off - Zhang Xutuo, came to the mountain gate of Wanshanni Temple, and the monks and nuns in the temple had already received the news and reported it to the deacon of the temple.
Xinyi got a report, saying that the king of Jin had arrived in front of the mountain gate, and he didn't have time to inform the abbot and senior sister of the temple to be strict, so he hurriedly led a group of monks and nuns to welcome him outside the mountain gate.
"I don't know if His Royal Highness the King of Jin has arrived at our temple, and there is a loss of welcome and rudeness, please don't blame His Royal Highness."
At the age of nearly forty, she was born white and pure, with sparse eyebrows and fine eyes, and she never spoke, but she naturally had a three-point smile on her face, which made her feel very cordial at first sight. She said that she asked Yang Guang not to blame, but she stopped her body outside the mountain gate and did not let Yang Guang enter the temple.
Yang Guang visited Wanshanni Temple for the first time, and was very surprised by the appearance of so many bald nuns in front of him, while his eyes couldn't stop scanning the faces of the monks and nuns in front of him, and said to his heart straight to the point: "Xiao Wang was entrusted by the eldest sister to come to the treasure temple to make incense and pray for the late Jieguo Gong. I don't know what to call the master? Is it feasible? ā
Seeing Yang Guang's young age, he looked childish, while showing his intentions to himself, he did not forget to peek at himself and a group of monks and nuns behind him, pursed his lips and smiled, put his palms together, recited the Buddha's name, looked at Xian Yuluo and Zhang Xutuo who were standing on the left and right behind Yang Guang, and replied: "The poor nun likes to be the deacon of the temple. His Royal Highness doesn't know that the queen has a decree now, and no men are allowed to enter or leave Wanshanni Temple. His Royal Highness was entrusted by Tianyuan Niangniang to come to the temple to incense and pray for blessings, and the poor nuns should serve His Highness, but these two ......" said, pointing at Xian Yuluo and Zhang Xutuo with their hands, with a look of embarrassment on their faces.
Yang Guang had long been annoyed that Zhang Xutuo followed him without landing a step, and heard that Xinyi deliberately stopped him outside the mountain gate and did not allow him to enter the temple with him, so he turned around and instructed the two: "You just wait here, and I can enter the temple alone." ā