The next day, Xie Shence did not enter Chuzhou City directly, but secretly left the manor and came to Langya Mountain.

Zen Master Zhiyong's spirit has always been very good, and Xie Shence saw that his appearance was almost no different from that of ten years ago, and it was estimated that he would live for at least ten years.

Lao Shangshu's funeral was presided over by the old Zen master, but the prince and Lin Lingsi had not yet arrived, and the old Zen master did not go down the mountain.

Xie Shence feels guilty every time he thinks of the old Zen master, feeling that he read so many Buddhist scriptures in vain when he was a child.

Read more Buddhist scriptures, kill more people.

"I've heard all the things you did, and it's very good."

In the meditation room, the old Zen master closed his eyes and lowered his head, turned his prayer beads in his hand, and said to Xie Shence, who was kneeling opposite.

Xie Shence was slightly stunned and did not answer.

Last time I came back because of the Cai case, the old Zen master didn't have this attitude towards himself.

Last time, I was very decent to admonish myself.

The old Zen master is a person who loves and hates clearly, he says that you are not good, that is, he really thinks you are bad, and when he says you are good, that is good.

It is very difficult for a high-ranking monk to have such a clear emotion, or that he should not have such likes and dislikes.

But the old Zen master has.

Of course, it is only manifested in front of a few people.

Xie Shence once asked the old Zen master a question.

It is said that the four major Buddhas are empty, why the old Zen master has obvious emotions about some things, the old Zen master did not answer. Xie Shence thought that what he said was very reasonable, so that the old Zen master was speechless, but he was severely trained by the senior brother for a month.

So from then on, when the old Zen master showed his emotional tendencies, Xie Shence did not speak.

Of course, he really didn't have anything to say at this time. There has always been relatively little talk between him and the old Zen master.

"You did it in the north, Wang Jianghuai told me. You did it in Jincheng, and the Wang family also told me. I also heard that you defeated the Qin people in Yuncheng. You're doing all these things well. ”

"But what you do best is something else."

"You let Your Majesty hold a lecture on martial arts and martial arts."

"It's a really good thing. Even outsiders like me think it's a good move. So I'm very happy. ”

Xie Shence looked at the old Zen master, bowed slightly and said, "This is what I should do." Although that wasn't my intention. ”

The old Zen master raised his head, looked into Xie Shence's eyes, and smiled slightly, the wrinkles on his forehead made his long white eyebrows tremble a few times.

"I'm even happier that you can tell the truth."

"Master deserves to say this about me."

Xie Shence was a little embarrassed.

"But!"

Xie Shence's expression was solemn, and he sat up straight, waiting for the words of the old Zen master.

Just know that there is a but

"But you're too anxious."

The old Zen master closed his eyes again and lowered his head.

Xie Shence's heart was slightly cold. He knew what the old Zen master meant.

In the past few years, there has been some quick success.

Xie Shence also knew that he was indeed in a hurry.

Whether it is frequently "sharing worries" for Emperor Jin, or secretly doing all the propaganda for the Xie family, or taking the opportunity to expand the influence of the Xie family, Xie Shence is a little in a hurry.

This urgency is not visible to outsiders. At most, I just think that the new Admiral will show up more.

The old Zen master is not in the court, or even in the Jin capital, so naturally he doesn't know some secrets, and he shouldn't know much about Xie Shence's situation. Because apart from Lao Shangshu and Xie Yun, basically no one is willing to talk to him about this.

But who is the old Zen master?

He is a powerful contemporary Buddha, and he is a figure who walked the world when he was young, how sharp is his mind? Although he lives in seclusion in Langya Mountain, the news is closed, but as long as a little news is revealed, he can get a glimpse of Duanmi.

The longer a person lives, the more he knows, and the more he knows, the more he sees things holistically. Xie Shence knows that there are always many secrets in his heart that are not spoken to people, and these secrets can often help them make accurate judgments on many things.

Therefore, in an instant, Xie Shence knew that the old Zen master understood what he wanted to do.

"Don't be too fast, or you won't have a chance of winning."

He nodded his head.

After sitting for a while, the old Zen master asked about the current situation of some old friends in the Jin capital, and then stopped talking.

Xie Shence waited for a while, then got up gently, barely made a sound, tried not to disturb the old Zen master who had already settled, took the door, took a deep breath, and then walked out of the Zen courtyard.

I saw many familiar people along the way, these people were extremely happy to thank Shence for returning to Langya Mountain, and shouted enthusiastically "Little Uncle" and "Little Uncle Ancestor", and Xie Shence also responded one by one, and if there was a good relationship before, he would take the initiative to stop and say a few words.

It's just that Xie Shence also found that there are many people, although they are also excited from the bottom of their hearts, when they talk to him, they no longer have the ease and joy they used to have.

Walking out of the temple, Xie Shence was still a little lost in his heart.

The happiest place used to be not the small school field where King Li Yan beat him all over his body, not the Huaijun military camp where Wang Ding practiced him and Wang Kui and Wang Zhong, or even the small courtyard where Wang Qingyan and Wang Jiehua often secretly visited in the Wang family's mansion.

It's the mountain.

Stealing the Zhang family's chickens, touching the Li family's dogs, and bullying the Wang family's children, Xie Shence, is the most interesting to claim the king and dominate the lawlessness in Langya Mountain.

But now Xie Shence has returned to Langya Mountain, but he no longer has the feeling of the past.

Even the last time he came back for the Cai case, when Taihu Lake was assassinated by Erli people and seriously injured and lived in Langya Mountain, those "disciples and grandchildren" could often visit the door and beat their teeth by the way.

Not anymore.

Is it because there is too much blood on your body? Could it be that in recent years, his reputation has made people fearful?

Walking to the residence of the senior brother, Xie Shence's mood slowly improved again.

Wang Jiehua took Cao Guan to prune the flowers and plants in the yard, and he was very busy, and the senior brother was busy stewing soup.

Senior brother is very happy that Xie Shence can come back, and even more happy that after Xie Shence comes back, the first thing is to come to see himself instead of the Wang family.

So the senior brother prepared a dish of Xie Shence's favorite chicken stewed mushrooms for Xie Shence.

The chicken is the wild pheasant of Langya Mountain, and the mushroom is the wild mushroom of the back mountain, which has been simmering for half an hour, and Xie Shence can already smell the fragrance when he is outside the door.

This is also one of the reasons why Xie Shence's mood can slowly improve.

The senior brother came out of the kitchen with an apron, nodded to Xie Shence, and then motioned for Xie Shence to accompany him out for a walk.

"Old Shangshu, don't be too sad."

Senior brother doesn't know how to speak, and he is generally reluctant to speak-otherwise Xie Shence wouldn't have been beaten so much back then--it's better not to speak.

Xie Shence naturally knew that Senior Brother was keen on his actions, so he didn't care, and said with a smile: "I knew it last year. I've been sad for a long time, but when I really come to see a familiar place without a familiar person, I still feel uncomfortable. ”

"I'm glad you think so."

Xie Shence thought to himself what kind of relief this could be, it was better to say that I had no heart and no lungs.

After that, the two of them had nothing else to say, but kept walking.

Unconsciously, I came to an open space outside the monastery, where the monks usually practiced, and there were wooden stakes and stones and other instruments on the side, as well as a few rows of sticks.

Xie Shence is very familiar here, because in addition to the small courtyard of the senior brother, it belonged here, and it was Xie Shence who practiced the most, and King Li Yan often went up the mountain, and it was also here that he taught Xie Shence the knife technique.

Senior Brother looked at Xie Shence, who had a look of nostalgia on his face, and said, "Try it?" ”

Xie Shence smiled happily and said, "Try it." ”

So they each took a stick from the shelves on either side and stood in the middle of the field.

After exchanging salutes, Xie Shence put the wooden stick on the ground with his right hand, stood up straight, and looked at the senior brother with straight eyes, without blinking.

Don't dare to blink.

The elder brother just stood with his hands in his hands, holding the front end of the stick with his right hand, leaning it casually on his chest and touching the end to the ground. The cropped monk's robe swayed slightly.

Xie Shence didn't move.

The sun gradually reached its highest point, and although it was cool on the mountain, the two of them stood under the sun, and the breeze blew, and it was also a heat wave.

Xie Shence was sweating profusely, and the senior brother was breezy and light, even the tip of his nose did not have the slightest sweat.

There was no flaw all over his body, and Xie Shence couldn't find a place to attack.

Sweat had already wet Xie Shence's front and back, and his eyes were sore and swollen, and it hurt very much from being stung by sweat.

Senior Brother smiled slightly.

Xie Shence roared, used a stick as a knife, and slashed towards the senior brother.

If there is no flaw, there is no flaw, and the senior brother will not move in place, even if he looks at it for a long time, he still can't find the slightest opportunity to make a move.

In fact, in order to stand comfortably, the senior brother has changed three postures. At this time, he held the stick in his left hand, holding it in the middle and back of the stick, and the stick leaned forward slightly.

A stick was split, the senior brother didn't move, but when the wooden stick was about to hit his head, his left hand turned, and the stick in his hand was like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, and quickly poked out, just a little bit, and then pointed Xie Shence's wooden stick to the side.

Xie Shence took a step across with his left foot, held the tail of the stick with his right hand, lifted the stick, and then lifted it up.

Senior Brother's left hand moved slightly, and the wooden stick in his hand was gently touched again, dissolving Xie Shence's attack.

As soon as his body turned, Xie Shence also held the tail end of the wooden stick with his left hand, and then used the tips of his feet as the axis, flipped his upper body, put the wooden stick on his shoulder, turned his body around a big circle, and released his right hand with lightning.

"Bang!"

The senior brother finally left the place, just a flash, and then hid to the side, Xie Shence's "collapse stick" hit the ground alive, and a deep stick mark appeared on the ground paved with yellow sand after the loess was tamped.

The figure rose again, and Xie Shence turned like a spinning top towards the place where the senior brother was standing again.

The senior brother held the stick with both hands, and suffered a blow from Xie Shence, and then quickly collided with Xie Shence.

Xie Shence couldn't retract it, he couldn't dodge, and he only had time to retract and release his abdomen, and he was beaten six or seven steps away by the senior brother, and he almost couldn't grasp the stick in his hand.

Just pierced the eyes, Xie Shence was defeated.

(ps: There is a chapter later with extra recommendation votes or something, and the flies are brazen to ask for one~.) ~）