Sun Yicheng has been looking at Li Suniang, he has witnessed her being disemboweled, but after a few days of hard work, he was able to go to court to complain, and now although he is weak, he came out to see her off, what a miracle!

He was still very curious about those knives and scissors, but he hadn't seen them since that day, and asked Duofu, only that no one could open the princess's medicine box, and asked Shen Qi, who said that all the green clothes had been burned. He shuddered, and quietly glanced at the princess, that day, he quietly took off the green clothes he was wearing and hid it, but the princess led someone to search it out, and ordered Qingfeng to pluck his two white beards on the spot as punishment.

At this time, I don't know what the princess was talking to Li Suniang, which made Li Suniang look bitter and kowtow again and again. He shook his head and got into Di Renjie's carriage.

Shen Mengxi didn't tease Li Suniang much, but ordered Duofu and Chunzhi to take Li Suniang back quickly. She left the two and four guards behind, took care of Li Suniang for half a month, and waited for her to recover well, and then went to chase the large army.

Shen Mengxi has no shortage of slaves and maids, if Li Suniang really has a difficult life and wants to follow her, she will help her through this stage, and then let her go free. It's just that she doesn't want to give anyone the impression that she can help people unconditionally.

The most stable relationship between people is to use each other, which is equal and long-lasting.

So, one must make oneself a useful person! - Don't be afraid of others taking advantage of you, no one is the most terrible thing to take advantage of you.

Li Suniang was obviously not in a desperate situation, and the Zhou family did not dare to provoke her again in the short term, Shen Mengxi saw that Li Suniang did not mention Zhou Wenyan's matter again, so he let the team set off.

Zheng Xianling took his wife, children, and subordinates to send them out for ten miles before going back.

Along the way, he still believed in the reins, shopping and eating, Di Renjie did not urge, and Qian Shikang did not dare to urge. In fact, they also have a time limit to take office, but no one mentioned it.

Wu Youji is even more of an ornament, his carriage is closely behind Shen Mengxi's car, and he lives next door to Shen Mengxi at night.

Two days later, when he arrived at the Songshan boundary, Shen Mengxi said that he wanted to go to Shaolin Temple to see, and no one had any opinion.

The guards who delivered the message chased after him and reported the message from Luoyang:

The toys bought on the way were sent to Qixia and Anning Mansion, Luo Liancheng guarded the city gate with peace of mind, and Anning was also taken back to the house by his in-laws, although he did not preside over the feed, but the living conditions improved, but among the twins, unlike the one of the Wang family, he fell ill and died in the villa; The melons and fruits bought along the way, the red leaves picked, the amulets obtained by chance, etc., as well as a box of hair dye cream were also sent to the palace. Sun Yicheng's expression was unpredictable after receiving the order, and Shen Mengxi laughed when he saw it.

The fire in the Ming Hall was extinguished for seven full days, and the magnificent Ming Hall and Heaven were all reduced to ashes. And Emperor Wu didn't directly cut off Huaiyi's head, but ordered him to rebuild the Ming Hall.

If Huaiyi has any design talent, Shen Mengxi doesn't believe it, this coquettish monk is at most a project supervisor.

Ming Hall, is the imperial dynasty will worship the heavens of the ceremonial building, and with the ancestors, like the Temple of Heaven in later generations to pray for the year. This burned down Ming Hall is known as the "Vientiane Shrine", is the place where Emperor Wu ascended the throne, and it is the largest wooden building in history, 294 meters high, and the golden phoenix that symbolizes the empress on the top of the dragon is as high as more than 90 meters. The building and construction technology of Mingtang is shocking, it can be described as the pinnacle of Tang Dynasty architecture, and it was burned down like this, and even Shen Mengxi wanted to cut that Huaiyi directly.

Xiang Yu burned Afang Palace, the British and French troops burned the Old Summer Palace, the Kuomintang Changsha fire, and even the villagers loved to burn people's grain hoards and firewood piles, fires, and destruction.

Where did Huaiyi get the courage to dare to burn down Mingtang?

Emperor Wu didn't kill Huaiyi, did he still have some true feelings for him?

Shen Mengxi shook his head, it was all bad things, don't think about it anymore.

******

Shaomu Mountain, Shaolin Temple abbot Hui An got the news early, led more than 1,000 monks to greet outside the mountain gate, chanting Amitabha Buddha.

Shaolin Temple was built in the 19th year of Taihe of the Northern Wei Dynasty, after which the Indian monk Bodhidharma came to Shaolin Temple to teach Zen Buddhism, Zen Buddhism gradually became the largest sect of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, Bodhidharma is known as the ancestor of Chinese Buddhism, Shaolin Temple has also become the ancestral court of Zen Buddhism, known as the first temple in the world.

Shen Mengxi went to Shaolin Temple when he traveled, and the Shaolin Temple at that time was a seven-entry building, with a grand scale and an area of more than 50,000 square meters. At this time, the scale of Shaolin Temple is not so large, it was hit hard at the end of the Sui war, but the thirteen monks of Shaolin helped Qin King Li Shimin to crusade against Wang Shichong, and Li Shimin gave Shaolin Temple forty hectares of land, and allowed Shaolin Temple to train monks, open killing rings, and eat wine and meat. In addition, the Tang Dynasty royal family has always attached importance to Shaolin Temple, Gaozong Li Zhi, often with the Empress Wu to Shaolin Temple, now the temple has left his own inscription of the tablet, there is a flying white book on the wall of the "fly" word, is also his own book.

Shen Mengxi accompanied by Hui An, and went to pay homage to his grandmother, that is, the spiritual pagoda of Emperor Wu's mother Yang, who died at the age of 80 and was the stepfamily of Wu Shi Tong (covenant). Born in Hongnong Yang, she was the daughter of Yang Da, the prime minister of the Sui Dynasty, on the contrary, Wu Shi Tong was only a timber merchant, and only because of his meritorious service to Li Yuan did he get the official position of the Ministry of Industry. She dragged on until she was 28 years old due to war and mourning before marrying into the Wu family and gave birth to three daughters, Wu Zetian was her second daughter. Wu Shi Tong died early, she was very affected by the pouch of some of her predecessors' sons, until she was almost seventy years old, Wu Zetian was in power to really enjoy the blessings, and it was also a good death, Emperor Wu called the emperor, and respected the old lady as "Empress Taizu Xiaoming Gao".

Emperor Wu attaches great importance to Buddhism, that is, this year, he also specially plated many statues of gods in Shaolin Temple and welcomed them into the palace for worship. Also this year, Emperor Wu sent someone to Guangzhou to invite Zen Master Huineng into the palace, but Huineng did not go to the hospital, and Emperor Wu did not blame him.

A group of people, outside the hall to go out shoes, white socks silently walk in the Bodhidharma hall, quietly, in this solemn atmosphere, everyone paid homage to the statue of the Bodhidharma patriarch, the so-called worship of the Buddha, the sin extinguishes the river sand, so everyone sincerely worships the Buddha, just because no one dares to say that they have not done something wrong.

Then enter the Daxiong Treasure Hall, which is the main hall of Shaolin Temple, dedicated to Shakyamuni Buddha, Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha and Maitreya Buddha. Hui An said that these three Buddha statues represent the present, past and future lives of Shakyamuni Buddha.

Shen Mengxi listened and looked at the Buddha statue blankly, how many lives she experienced from 2020 to the Tang Dynasty, is it to the past life or the future? Is she living someone else's life, or is it her own? Will she end up in peace, or will she follow her own path?

She stared at the Buddha statue for a long time, silent. The people who followed him didn't dare to make a sound, and for a while, the needle drop in the hall could be heard, and Hui'an couldn't help but look up at Shen Mengxi.

After a full quarter of an hour, Shen Mengxi breathed a sigh of relief, and the eyes of the Buddha statue seemed to be more merciless.

Shen Mengxi closed his eyes and left.

After worshipping all the Buddha halls, I also visited the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, watched Tallinn, and finally watched the fist and foot performance of the eighteen Arhats of Shaolin, and everyone was empty.

The food in Shaolin Temple tastes average, and there is no such thing as wine and meat.

Shen Mengxi was only two hundred guards, Shaolin Temple could not afford to supply grain and grass, so he deliberately brought a few carts of grain and grass, and now, listening to the bell sound on the pagoda, it seems that when he eats the food in his mouth, he has a different taste. The children are all psychologists, the most observant, they know exactly when they can be presumptuous, when they should be restrained, the most naughty Jane is behaving in the temple, and they don't make trouble with the children of the Qian family.

After the meal, Shen Mengxi took a nap and asked Qingfeng to find a little novice and said that he wanted to meet Abbot Hui'an alone.

A quarter of an hour later, she was led from the novice to Hui An's monastery, where Hui An folded together at the door to greet her.

This is a separate Zen courtyard, surrounded by blue brick courtyard walls, there are several large trees in the courtyard, the meditation room is a wooden building, surrounded by a corridor, the corridor ground is very clean, there are traces of water in the distance, apparently just finished cleaning, not yet dry.

Shen Qi and Qingfeng stopped in front of the porch under the steps, a small novice opened the wooden sliding door, and invited Shen Mengxi to enter, Shen Mengxi removed his shoes on the side of the steps, stepped on the corridor, and walked in slowly.

This zhang room, is really a square Zen room, the furnishings are simple, a case, two futons, the wall is a Buddhist shrine, the corner of the wall is a low bookshelf. Nothing else.

The novice served the tea and withdrew.

"I wonder what happened to the princess?" Hui An asked straight to the point.

"I want to hear you talk about what it means to be in a past life, this life, and a future life." The sentences of the two are ancient and modern, and they seem to say their own words.

"Princess, do you know what is the core of my Zen Buddhism?"

For Zen Buddhism, Shen Mengxi knows very little, travel to Japan to see everywhere are selling Bodhidharma Buddha statues and tumblers of shops, a question only to know that Japanese Buddhism is imported from China, they respect Bodhidharma through seven disasters and eight tribulations, facing the wall for nine years of indomitable spirit, at the beginning of each year to ask for a Bodhidharma mascot, but are used to pray for wealth, smooth promotion. In China, her understanding of Buddhism is probably that the temple burns sky-high incense, the old lady recites Amitabha Buddha to seek the elimination of all diseases, the future life of great wealth and wealth, and the major temples become scenic spots to sell tickets and fees, before going to Japan, I didn't know Zen Buddhism.

"Straight to the heart?" She only vaguely remembered this sentence.

"Yes. If you don't set up a written word, don't pass it on outside the church; Pointing directly to people's hearts, seeing nature and becoming a Buddha. In other words, if you do not rely on Buddhist scriptures and rely on your own perception to experience the Buddha's principles, as long as you realize the Buddha-nature of your own mind, you will enter the realm of Buddhahood. ”

"Epiphany?" Shen Mengxi muttered to himself.

"In fact, several times of life and several times of death, life and death are endless, since the epiphany of lifeless, in all the glory and disgrace, everything in the world is vain, no life and death, no change. Mount Tai, the head of the five mountains, cannot be said to be non-existent because someone has not seen it; But, on the contrary, for someone who has never heard of or seen Mount Tai, Mount Tai really doesn't exist! ”

Shen Mengxi thought for a moment and nodded.

"This world, it's not a hell you don't know. In the world, if you feel bitter, it is bitter, and if you feel happy, it is happy. If you say it's a past life, it's a past life, and if you say it's this life, it's this life. To live is to die, and to die is to live. There is no definition of life and death. ”

Yes, people may always have more suffering and less happiness, who knows if this is the first layer of hell. Shen Mengxi was silent for a long time, and then asked, "Master, can ants see people?" ”

Hui An was a little surprised, she didn't understand the meaning of her question, she thought for a moment and said, "They shouldn't be able to see it, but they must know that there are 'people'." ”

"Are people like ants?" She wondered if anyone could really control other people's lives.

Hui An smiled, folded his hands and recited the Buddha's name, laughing without saying a word.

Seeing Shen Mengxi looking at him persistently and waiting for an answer, he said: "Big is small, life is death, people, if you can prove yourself, you can have less troubles." The princess is already lucky, so why bother! ”

Shen Mengxi and Hui'an looked at each other, and the old monk said ambiguous words from beginning to end.

His skin is smooth and delicate, and he is truly childish.

His eyes were black and pure, but there was also rejection written on them.

The monks are the most unrecognizable to their six relatives, and they are extremely ruthless, not to mention being a living person, looking at Hui'an's attitude of neither humility nor arrogance, probably for the royal family, for Emperor Wu's mother and daughter.

Shen Mengxi nodded, got up and left.

- In this world, there is no same troubles and happiness, and there is no real empathy. You still have to take responsibility for your own affairs and solve them by yourself.

This is true compassion.