The disappearance of Fang Qing, the young lady of the Su family, was a misunderstanding, and the person Wang Kun was going to tie up was Su Xiaoyu, the young lady of the Su family. Now, Fang Qing came back safely, and for the Su family, the two breaths that were hanging were finally relieved.

Su Xiaoyu's death is still shrouded in the Su family, and it is also a dark cloud hanging over Luoyang City.

In the afternoon, Xing Ruyi was wiping the jars with rouge in the shop, and when he caught a glimpse of Xiao Shengzi passing by the door, he called him in.

"Wasn't the young lady of the Su family recovered? Where are you going at noon? ”

"A wave of unsettled, wave after wave, there was a murder in the White Horse Temple."

"In the White Horse Temple? In this pure place of Buddhism, how did a murder happen. ”

"Who's to say it isn't." Xiao Shengzi shook his head: "Someone just went to the Yamen to report the case, saying that the master of the Pure Altar of the White Horse Temple died. ”

"How did you die?"

"Said it was hanged. No, I'm just about to go over. Xiao Shengzi glanced at the things in Xing Ruyi's hand: "Brother Chang is not here today, he is going to do something else." If you're okay, girl, you might as well follow me to see the excitement. ”

"Watching the excitement? I think you want me to help you find out if there is anything strange about the death of this pure altar master. ”

"If you see through it, you can do me a favor."

"If you want me to help you, just say that you want me to help you, what are you doing with Brother Chang? I don't know him well. ”

"Who is the Ruyi girl familiar with?" Xiao Shengzi came to the front: "My eldest brother Chang often mentions you Ruyi girl." Alas, if only you didn't have Yin Gongzi by your side, then you would be able to be with my eldest brother Chang. Ruyi girl, don't look at my eldest brother Chang usually doesn't talk much, but he is very good and does things very carefully, if he is married, he will definitely be a very good husband. ”

"It's a pity that I have a fox." Xing Ruyi raised his eyes and smiled at the fox who had just returned.

"Young Master Yin, I'm joking, don't be angry. Between Miss Ruyi and my eldest brother, there is nothing. You also heard it just now, it was Yin Gongzi who opened and closed her mouth, because of this, my eldest brother Chang is very sad, these days, I don't beat this Ruyi Rouge shop door. ”

"Xiao Shengzi." Xing Ruyi stretched out his hand and knocked on the table: "Do you know what it means to be darker and darker, and what it means to be okay and you are about to say something?" ”

Xiao Shengzi quickly covered his mouth.

Xing Ruyi came out from behind the counter and walked to the fox: "There was a murder in the White Horse Temple, and a monk named Jingtan hanged himself. Brother Chang is not here, and Xiao Shengzi wants me to help him take a look. ”

"Do you want to go?" The fox asked.

"I want you to come with me." Xing Ruyi hugged the fox's arm: "Today, this shop is very deserted, and it is estimated that there will be no customers in the afternoon." You haven't been out with me for a long time, so you accompanied me to the White Horse Temple to relax. ”

"Okay."

The fox nodded in response, and Xing Ruyi's smile became brighter and brighter.

Xiao Shengzi didn't want to be between the two, so he stayed and rode over by himself first. Xing Ruyi rode in a carriage with the fox and pretended to be a guest who went to the temple to worship incense.

The Jingtan monk hanged himself from the jujube tree in the small courtyard, and now his body has been returned to the monk's room, leaving only a thumb-thick hemp rope to hang in a circle and hang from the branch. When the wind blows, the hemp rope moves with the wind, giving people a sense of fear.

"Doesn't this monk pay attention to the emptiness of the four majors? This pure altar master, why did he take this road in a good manner. ”

"Alas!" The abbot sighed: "He died because he couldn't cross the love barrier in the pure altar." ”

"Affection? Isn't this master of the altar a monk? ”

"Yes, the Pure Altar is a monk, and it has been with me since I was a child." The abbot looked at the rope hanging on the jujube tree: "This jujube tree was planted in the year when I brought the Jingtan back to the temple." It was the first day of frost, and I was practicing at the bottom of the mountain, and on the way back, I saw a baby who had been placed on the side of the road. The baby was neatly dressed, and there was a red rope around its neck, and a jade butterfly was tied to the red string. The butterfly is delicate and lovely, and the workmanship is meticulous, and it looks like a woman's thing. The baby was also wrapped in a small quilt, which was vermilion, with no patterns on it and no writing on it. That baby is the altar of purification. ”

"The master of the pure altar is an abandoned baby?"

"That's right, the pure altar is an abandoned baby that the old man picked up from the roadside down the mountain. At that time, the net altar was probably just like that, and it was not long after it was born, and it was the time when it was necessary for the mother. The monastery was full of monks, and no one could raise such a young child, so I entrusted someone to foster him in a hunter's house in the mountains. The Orion's lady had just given birth, and when she saw that the altar was pitiful, she fed him with her.

After the altar reached the age of one, I took him back to the monastery and gave him the Dharma name of the altar. The comprehension of the pure altar is very high, and the essence of the Dharma can be comprehended only once, and it is recognized as the next abbot candidate in our monastery. It's a pity that he mistook the word 'love'. ”

"Master Jingtan, he has someone he likes?"

"Yes, he told me that he was in love with a woman, and that woman liked him. I told him that although he had served the Buddha since he was a child, the Buddha would not force any followers to remain. The Buddha can be in the temple or in the heart. As long as he wants, he can take off this robe at any time and return to the world. ”

"The abbot master has said so, why does the master of the pure altar still have to go on the road of hanging."

"Probably because he couldn't figure it out. Jingtan was born in Buddhism, and he has served the Buddha for so many years, how easy it is for him to take off his robe and turn his back on Buddhism. But if you don't take off this robe, you will be ashamed of that woman. Therefore, the heart hesitates, and it gives birth to both demonic obstacles and pain. Although Buddhism is a pure place, it is also in the red dust. Buddhist disciples are not ordinary people. The Buddha crosses everyone, but there are also people who can't cross. Amitabha, everything is his own choice. ”

Xiao Shengzi also folded his hands and said goodbye to the host master.

"Ruyi girl, there is nothing wrong with the death of this altar master, right?"

"No, this monastery is full of Buddha energy, nothing else sneaky. The master of the pure altar should be as the host master said, it is difficult to overcome the situation and commit suicide. On this hemp rope and this jujube tree, only the breath of the master of the pure altar himself remained. ”

"It's good that you're not murdered."

"This is the pure land of Buddhism, the master of the pure altar, and he is just a monk, who would murder a monk for no reason."

"If Master Jingtan was just a monk, it is true that no one would murder him. But what if he's not? Or was he not? ”

"What do you mean?"

"I've heard it too." Xiao Shengzi touched his head, "Miss Ruyi, do you know the former crown prince Li Hong?" ”

"Yes."

"The former prince Li Hong is a good person. In the winter of the third year of Xianheng, due to the famine caused by the summer drought, many people in Guanzhong starved to death. When the former crown prince Li Hong was on his inspection, he saw that the soldiers' grain was mixed with elm bark and grass seeds, and he felt pity for it, and immediately ordered his granary to be opened, and all the grain in the granary was taken out and distributed to the officers and soldiers and the victims. Not only that, but he also wrote to the emperor, asking for the restricted land to be distributed to the hungry people to cultivate in order to tide over the difficulties. But it is such a former prince who loves the people like a son in the second year of the last century, when he followed the emperor and queen to Luoyang, he died in the Qiyun Hall of the Hebi Palace, and it is said that he was only twenty-three years old when he died. ”

"I've heard about this, but what does the former prince Li Hong have to do with this pure altar master who hanged himself?"

"There are rumors among the people that before the death of the former prince Li Hong, he had demoted a concubine beside him and expelled him from the palace. It is rumored that the concubine who was kicked out of the palace was actually pregnant, and the former crown prince Li Hong learned that he was about to encounter an accident, so he had to do so in order to protect the concubine and protect his child. Rumors also say that the Jingtan master who hanged himself was actually the child born to the concubine of the former prince Li Hong. Of course, this is a rumor, whether it is true or not, and no one knows. ”

"Even if this pure altar master is the widow of the former prince Li Hong, it has nothing to do with today's hanging, right? He is a monk, even if he is from a royal family, he is just a monk at the moment. No, not just monks. If the master of the pure altar takes off this monk's robe and returns to the world, then he is not the monk in the White Horse Temple, but the orthodox descendants of the Li family who are left behind in the people. Right now, the Li family and the Wu family are fighting openly and secretly, and there are slogans everywhere against Wu Zhou and Li Tang, and Master Jingtan is very likely to be regarded as a pawn against Wu and Tang Dynasty, or even the needle that poked into the eyes of the Empress Wu. Xiao Shengzi knows this folk rumor, but how can the people of the martial arts not know. Although this pure altar master committed suicide, behind this seemingly suicide, I am afraid that there are other things hidden. ”

"Not really." Xiao Shengzi pursed his lips: "Not only the master of the pure altar, but also the Miss Su Xiaoyu of the Su family." ”

"What is the relationship between this Miss Su of the Su family, Su Xiaoyu, and the master of the Pure Altar?" As soon as Xing Ruyi blurted out, he immediately covered his mouth with his hand: "Jade butterfly, the abbot master just said that when he picked up the Pure Altar Master, there was a jade butterfly hanging around the neck of the Pure Altar Master. I remember that when Zhou Xiaoyu went to my shop to buy something, she was also wearing a jade butterfly around her neck, and she bought not ordinary rouge gouache, but Bodhi seeds. This Bodhi is the favorite thing in Buddhism, and I also got some of it by mistake and made it into a bracelet. Therefore, the woman that the master of the net altar likes is Zhou Xiaoyu, and the one that Zhou Xiaoyu likes is the master of the net altar. ”

"That's right!" Xiao Shengzi slapped his face: "Brother Chang is exactly the same as what you said about Miss Ruyi." Brother Chang suspected that the death of the Pure Altar Master and Zhou Xiaoyu's death were not as simple as we saw on the surface, so he went to investigate secretly. ”

"If it really involves the royal family, it's better not to check it or not to check it. Even if this is found out, it can only be a headless public case, and maybe, more lives will be involved. Xing Ruyi shook his head: "I just think they are pitiful, this Pure Altar Master and Zhou Xiaoyu are afraid that they will die, and they don't know that their lives are still involved in these things." ”