According to the rules of Western Chu, people who come back from outside need to go to the national temple to live in the national temple for ten days to purify their hearts without regrets, even if they are the princesses of the dynasty, they must abide by them.

The national temple in Western Chu is called Lingche Temple, where the sacred tree that was originally in the palace was transplanted for thousands of years.

"If you go anywhere and don't feel comfortable, tell your brother that it's just for show."

Su Xiao was reluctant to give up, he was afraid that the temple would be boring, and he was not like a king, but like a loving mother looking forward to the return of her wanderer.

"It's okay, it's just ten days, and it will pass soon."

Midsummer knew that Su Xiao cared about herself, but this was really not enough, so she should follow the customs.

Under the eyes of his brother Su Xiao, Midsummer got into the carriage to Lingche Temple and left the palace.

Midsummer leaned on the windowsill and closed his eyes to rest for a while, and fell asleep unconsciously, until he heard a call from the coachman.

"Princess, it's here."

The coachman called.

"Okay."

Midsummer rubbed her eyes, she was still a little sleepy, she took a deep breath and slowly got out of the carriage.

There was a person standing at the door of the temple, and that person was known in midsummer, that was Shi Ran, the sister-in-law of the prime minister, that is, Shi Fengyue's brother.

But at this time, Shi Ran had already shaved his hair, was wearing a plain blue-gray robe, and there was a row of monks standing behind him, although they had different shapes and appearances, but none of them had emotions in their eyes, pious and boring.

Shi Ran was uncomfortable by Midsummer's gaze, although he had known that this would happen, but he was still a little uncomfortable and embarrassed.

"Relief, hello."

Midsummer put away his scrutinizing gaze and spoke plainly, as if he was catching up with an old friend.

"Hello princess, these days I have wronged the princess to stay in this pure heart and few desires for ten days."

Relieved, he raised his head and looked at Sheng Xia and said, Sheng Xia was still as radiant as before, and she was worthy of the girl he once liked.

"If you are not aggrieved, you should come here to cultivate your self-cultivation, the scenery here is beautiful and the scenery is pleasant."

Sheng Xia waved his hand and said, he couldn't help but look at the monks here a few more times, these people didn't dare to look at her with her head down as if she could recite the Buddhist scriptures at any time, she was the only woman in this place.

It can be described as all old, quaint and even somewhat dilapidated buildings, boring and closed monks, and the only thing that has some vitality may be the sacred tree that does not belong here.

The incense here is not very prosperous, and it can even be said that there are very few, because faith has long been a thing of the past, and now the people of Western Chu have long stopped believing in Buddhism, and they will not even believe in the local Tao.

She followed Shi Ran and walked around the temple, and didn't say a few words along the way, because she was not a familiar friend, and now she was not the same person, so naturally she had nothing to say.

And the only thing that I am interested in in the middle of summer is probably the Sutra Pavilion, which preserves the most complete and complete Buddhist scriptures in the country.

The reason why the national temple is a national temple is because it is the first temple in Western Chu, and the reason why it is also a national temple now is because it is also the only temple in Western Chu.

Because of its scarcity, even if not many people are convinced, it is still worthy of the title of Kuniji.

"Stay here."

Relief led Midsummer to a high-class wing, where the neatly arranged and furnished things were some expensive mahogany furniture, not even like the wing room that a temple should have.

"This is your room? Since it's yours, I can't take possession of it. ”

Midsummer glanced at the furnishings of the room, saw a pen and a few Buddhist scriptures on the table, and casually flipped through it and found that it was all copied by Relief, and he knew that this room was originally relieved.

Even she had already guessed that she might already be the abbot of Lingche Temple, otherwise how could she live in such a good room.

"You are the princess of your country, naturally you want to live the best, and you and I don't need to be polite, although you and I are rusty, but I still treat you as a sister in my heart, rest early."

Relieved as he spoke, he picked up the pile of Buddhist scriptures that were originally on the table, and planned to send them to the room where he was now living, and he was about to turn around and leave after speaking.

In the middle of summer, he didn't leave the back, lowered his head and fiddled with the quilt on the bed that was neatly folded like a tofu block, made the bed and lay down, and there was a unique smell of the new quilt, and even the smell of sunflowers, it seems that there is a special arrangement here.

Shi Ran and her had a marriage contract, she didn't know how to get this back, and Shi Ran became the abbot of Lingche Temple.

Midsummer was not very sleepy, she got up and lit the incense burner placed on the cabinet and lightly lit it, and after a while, the whole room was filled with the smell of soothing incense, and her thoughts drifted away.

In the memory of Midsummer, Shi Ran has always been a person who doesn't like to talk much and is not sociable, but he is very good at reading and doesn't want his younger brother Shi Fengyue to be as bohemian, but seems to have inherited the intelligence of the prime minister, and is a famous poet in Xichu, almost every day there will be female poets from all over the country to see the face of this young talent.

This led to relief as if he was not very well received by the male poet, and from time to time other young talents would come to diss the concubine of the prime minister who was not good at words.

But these things, Shi Ran doesn't care about them at all, and the relationship with Shi Fengyue is not good-looking, Shi Fengyue's younger brother is always mischievous, and Shi Fengyue dislikes Shi Ran, this brother is insensitive, anyway, the two people don't look down on each other.

The marriage contract between Shi Ran and Midsummer was made by the prime minister and the overlord of Western Chu, in order to stabilize the right to restrain the king of the south, although the king of the south is loyal and dedicated to the society, but there are always some individuals who say something out of tune in the ear of the king of the south, anyway, it means that the king of the south is the most suitable for the son of heaven and even more suitable than the overlord of western chu.

However, Nanwang has never listened to these things, if he had listened to him, he would have fallen to the ground, and he had no feelings for Midsummer, and he was good for Midsummer just because he had a marriage contract.

Midsummer doesn't like this kind of stuffy gourd, and she doesn't have much contact on weekdays, she likes her brother and Shi Fengyue and Yun Xuehua the most, plus Gu Jing who followed them, and a few people wandered around the mountains and rivers, and there was no shape.

And Shi Ran seems to have no friends at all, and he doesn't like to talk to people, and he is depressed every day, but he is very similar to Yun Xuehua, the son of the Southern King, in terms of talking less, but Yun Xuehua at least talks a lot in front of acquaintances and has friends.

Midsummer thought about it so much, and it seemed that the relief was just that impression.

Midsummer was a little sleepy, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Not surprisingly, she still had nightmares, and after each nightmare it was difficult to fall asleep again, she put on a dress and went out for a walk, and the ghost sent her to the sacred tree.

But everything in front of him made Midsummer creepy.

"I'm going to cast the most poisonous curse, Jerem Nanfeng, right? Hahahaha-"

Said with a crazy and hideous smile.

Midsummer saw that Shi Ran was watering the sacred tree with blood, and there were several monks standing next to him, these monks were not surprised at all, and it was obvious that they were already accustomed to it.

"Relieved, what are you doing here? Why did the blood water the sacred tree? ”

Seeing this, Midsummer only felt ridiculous, relieved to hear Midsummer's voice, immediately put his hand behind his back, wrapped a piece of cloth around the wound, and walked towards Midsummer.

"Surprised, right? I tell you, I am cursing people, I am cursing a person who will never recover, and his bones will be ashes, and he will not be loved in the world. ”

As he said that, his anger rose again, and his angry eyes widened as if there were all kinds of tastes, and the person he cursed was the one who killed his brother.

"Relieved, how did you come here to become the abbot here?"

Midsummer vaguely felt that all this was not simple, she should be relieved that this was a feudal superstition, but she didn't know why the rich and noble nobles who were obviously good didn't come to this place to be the abbot.

"Then I'll tell you a story......

Relieved to tell a story about him.

Legend has it that the sacred tree can fulfill people's wishes, and it is said that Xichu has enshrined a son of a god for generations, and the purest blood in his body can communicate with the gods and open peace for all generations.

However, Midsummer heard the inside story of this story, the founding of Western Chu was originally an unjustifiable vassal state, which started from the grassroots, in order to recruit troops, so he weaved a legend about the son of God, and took one of his good brothers as the son of God to stabilize people's hearts.

That brother was the immortal of the prime minister's family, and slowly the position of the son of God spread to Shi Ran's body.

Originally, the prime minister was unwilling to let Shi Ran be the son of a god who had nothing to do, and a certain uprising in Western Chu said that Western Chu would soon destroy the country in the name of the perennial godless son of Western Chu.

Later, after seeing through the red dust, he was called by the prime minister to be the son of God and the abbot of Lingche Temple to calm the anger of the people.

"Child, for the sake of the country, we still have to give up some ......"

The prime minister comforted Shi Ran and said that he knew it and reasoned with it, and persuaded Shi Ran to become the abbot here.

From now on, it is impossible for Shi Ran to have any children's affection.

After listening to it, Midsummer only felt that it was unfair, for an illusory legend, a young talent who was originally bright left home like this, and everyone kept saying that it was for the country.

But this plan was really useful, and it really put down the uprising.

"Hehe, I really hated my brother in the past, but when I learned that he was beheaded when he died in Shengguo, I realized that I didn't hate him at all, I just hated him and didn't befriend me, he didn't like me as an elder brother."

Relieved's hand slammed into the sacred tree, and all his previous grudges against his brother were gone, and he wished he would never see his stupid brother again, until he really couldn't see it anymore, and he didn't know how much he cared about this brother.

"Condolences and change."

Midsummer patted her relieved shoulder and comforted.