After about a pillar of incense, Li Jing saw Master Duyu follow him into the abbot after the initiation.

"Empowerment, go back to your room and rest, you have to get up early tomorrow and hurry." Master Zhiqi deliberately took the empowerment, as if he had something to say to the Master of Monologue alone.

"What, junior brother, are you going down the mountain tomorrow?" The Master of Monologue asked in surprise.

"Senior brother, because I heard that Senior Brother Dujing had returned to Tiantai Mountain, the two of us rushed back to the mountain to look for him, but now that we don't see him return to the mountain, we must find him as soon as possible, so as not to have a long night and many dreams, and live in vain. After I leave tomorrow, the affairs of the temple should be completed, and the senior brother will have to take care of it more. ”

"I won't do my best. However, junior brother, about today's letter to the King of Jin of the Sui Dynasty, inviting you to Guangling, I want to hear how you plan to do it? Is it really as he said to Li Jing during the day, as long as the King of Jin is willing to take refuge in Buddhism, will you go to Guangling to make an appointment? Furthermore, when did there ever be a master-apprentice relationship between my junior brother and Princess Jin, why have I never heard of you, junior brother? The master of the monologue unabashedly asked Zhiqi a series of questions that he was most concerned about.

"Senior Brother is worried that if I am invited to Guangling, once Senior Brother Dujing finds out about this matter, there will definitely be a new dispute with me, right?" Zhiqi seemed to have expected that Duyu would come tonight and have this question, so he replied with a smile, "I am also worried, so I want to go down the mountain early tomorrow morning, and I must persuade Senior Brother Dujing to return to the mountain, so I can rest assured." As for a master-apprentice relationship with Er'er, this matter can be traced back to more than ten years ago, I was invited by Senior Brother Dujing, from the Central Plains to Tiantai Mountain to debate Buddhism with him, before encountering a flood that has not been encountered in a hundred years, during the disaster relief period and the current Jin princess met by the river, after thanking her for helping the poor with me, I once taught her the art of golden needle healing, seriously speaking, it is not considered that she has been accepted as an apprentice. ”

Li Jing listened really outside the window, and thought to himself: Zhiyu was probably because Duyu did not agree with his invitation to go to Guangling to go to the King of Jin during the day, so he deliberately avoided expressing his attitude on this matter, and I don't know if Duyu heard it.

"Yes, that is, after the great flood that year, the abbot and junior brother, you were invited to come to Tiantai Mountain, and after more than ten days of debating the true meaning of Buddhism with Dujing, you finally defeated Dujing, and won the position of abbot of Tiantai Temple in one fell swoop, and even dozens of disciples with Dujing also switched to your disciples. Over the years, Dujing has lived alone in the Houshan Temple, devoting himself to studying the essence of Buddhism, just to take back everything he has lost from your hands and restore his due dignity in front of all the disciples, so that in the end, he was burdened by the demons in his heart, and was used by the younger generation, and had a fierce dispute with the abbot and disciple. But junior brother, have you thought about it, even if you can persuade Senior Brother Dujing to return to Tiantai Mountain, once he learns that you ignore the Hu and Han divisions and go to Guangling to help Yang Guangfu Suijiangnan, what kind of actions will he make against you? I really can't bear to see that the tacit understanding that you and my brothers have easily formed over the past ten years has been ruined by the disputes in the world. Therefore, if the abbot can find and persuade Dujing to return to Tiantai Mountain, simply close the mountain gate, reject all the disturbances of the world, and concentrate on worshipping the Buddha is the right way. "Duyu sincerely hopes to maintain the status quo of Tiantai Temple, and it is meaningful to persuade Zhi to covet the Tao.

Zhi Qian deliberately avoided talking about this sensitive topic with Duyu, but when he heard Duyu say what was in his heart without reservation, he knew that it was inevitable that if he did not clarify his position to Duyu as soon as possible, sooner or later he would have greater differences with Dujing, and even make things out of control, so he patiently persuaded Duyu and said: "I understand Senior Brother's intentions, and I don't want to see Senior Brother Dujing and I have a disagreement over the Hu-Han Division, which will lead to a new dispute." However, didn't I have an all-night conversation with my senior brother before I went down the mountain last time, and I remember that my senior brother also agreed with my view that Hu and Han mingled together to form Huaxia, why do you have to close the mountain gate now, avoiding dealing with the world? It is true that the last time you and I just sat down and discussed, the king of Jin sent a letter to me and invited me to go to Guangling for a trip, the senior brother may be worried that once I am invited to go, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction and even opposition from the senior brother Dujing, and then provoke new disputes and break the balance status quo that has been maintained for many years, but has the senior brother thought about it, the Southern Dynasty has gone through four generations, and has always regarded itself as the orthodoxy of China, why is it unbearable to be swept away by the Sui Dynasty, causing Jiangnan to lose face? The "Lotus Sutra" has clouds: only by understanding the three flavors of the Lotus can we comprehend the true meaning of Buddhism. The first to bear the brunt of the three flavors of the Lotus needs to face up to reality and face reality. Although you and I, including Senior Brother Dujing, are monks, we must also face the reality that Nanchen has been destroyed by the Sui Dynasty, resolutely abandon the narrow obsession of the Hu and Han divisions, and think about benefiting the common people in the world, adapt to the times, promote Buddhism, and magnify our sect, which is the right path. If you are afraid of things and blindly avoid contradictions, how can you truly understand that the Buddha sacrificed his life to feed eagles and use the supreme Dharma to transform the world? ”

After Zhiqi said this in one breath, the room immediately fell silent.

At the same time, Li Jing, who was hiding outside the window and eavesdropping on the conversation in the room, was very satisfied with Zhiqi's persuasion of Duyu, thinking that Zhiqi Guo had the heart to go to Guangling to help Yang Guang Fu Jiangnan, so he quietly slipped out of Tiantai Temple and went straight down the mountain to Dongjiao City to complete his second mission.

Unexpectedly, Li Jing rushed all night, rushed to Dongjiao City at dawn the next day, first found a restaurant in the city to feed his stomach, and then found the Gu family's ancestral house in the east of the city according to the address he told him in his heart.

When Li Jing heard the news, he secretly estimated the time: He was ordered to come down from Guangling South to pick up the dust more than ten days ago, it shouldn't be the local government that picked up Gu Zi'er and Lichen on the orders of Yang Guang, so who would pick up the two of them before him?

He was unwilling to return empty-handed, so he pestered the people of the Gu family and repeatedly asked who picked up Gu Zi'er and Lichen, and why the people of the Gu family let him take Gu Zi'er and Lichen.

The people of the Gu family were still jealous at first and refused to tell Li Jing the truth, but later saw that Li Jing was anxious, took out the token given to him by Yang Guang, and threatened to go to the local government office to transfer troops to seal the Gu family's ancestral house, and then they were so frightened that they told Li Jing the truth: It turned out that ten days ago, a team of officers and soldiers held the fire sign issued by Wang Shao, who stayed behind in Jiankang, and forcibly took Gu Zier and Chen away in the name of urgently recruiting Chen and Gu Zi'er to Jiankang to listen to questions.