Chapter 153: Rejuvenating Pill (3)
Lan Ruo rubbed the corners of his forehead, waved his hand tiredly, and said, "That's it, then do what you say first, and come to the palace tomorrow morning." β
Qiao'er helped Lan Ruo to the couch, carefully covered the thin jacket, Lan Ruo turned over and fell asleep inside.
He Xi took Ruyi back to his yard, the whole courtyard was not lit, Xu is ugly child was afraid of arousing suspicion, the two of them tiptoed back to the house from the side door of the courtyard, Ruyi was alert to the surroundings first, and then stepped forward and knocked on the door gently.
The room immediately remembered the ugly child's somewhat vigilant voice: "Who?" β
"Ugly, it's usβ" Ruyi whispered.
The ugly child counted the hours, and the two of them should come back, but they didn't see the figure for a long time, and now she heard Ruyi's voice, which was like a heavenly sound, she was relieved and opened the door from the inside.
The ugly child lit the candle and asked, "How is the little master doing?" β
He Xi took off the cloak and handed it to Ruyi's hand, the ugly man had sharp eyes, and saw that the cloak was torn an inch-long opening, so he hurriedly said: "Why is this cloak broken?" What have you encountered, little lord? β
He Xi sighed, and also glanced at the cloak that had been torn in the process of falling, and felt a sense of turmoil in her heart, she reached out and touched the old "Gusu Guozhi" in her sleeve, only to feel that doubts were like dark clouds, hanging over her head.
What is the identity of the man in black, and what did he take from the scripture building? Is it the second half of the book in your hand?
Everything seemed to be a dense net, covering her tightly in it, breathless, Ruyi gently tugged on the ugly girl's clothes in the back, and the ugly child also noticed that He Xi was upset, and knew that there must be something wrong, Ruyi stepped forward and said: "The little master is frightened tonight, since Master Miaohui said that he will tell the little master tomorrow, then the little master will rest first." β
Seeing that Ruyi and Chou'er were worried, He Xi raised a gentle smile and said, "I know, you go down first." β
She turned her head to look in the direction of the back mountain, her courtyard was already leaning against the back mountain, and now those monks were searching the mountain, and He Xi could also see it clearly.
She got up and closed the window, and then she lay down with her clothes. The thoughts in my mind are disturbed, and I fall asleep in this confusion.
When I woke up the next morning, it was already bright outside, and last night's events did not cause the slightest fluctuation, Chou'er and Ruyi served He Xi to dress and wash, and when changing clothes, Chou'er saw the bruise marks on He Xi's neck.
Chou'er glanced at Ruyi, Ruyi sighed, and asked, "Chou'er, what kind of high-necked clothes did we brought, which could cover up one or two." β
Chou'er thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "There are only a few clothes we brought, and besides, it's still summer, where are there high-necked palace clothes-"
He Xi looked in the mirror, and took out a box of honey-colored rouge from the makeup, tapped his fingers, and carefully applied it to it, the redness and swelling pain made He Xi gasp.
The bruise was very dark, and although it was covered with rouge, it only covered a small part, and she commanded, "Bring me a veil." β
The ugly child answered, retreated, and after a while, he took a veil, pressed it on the sideburns with hairpins, and applied it to He Xi's face, and the long veil hung down on his chest, just covering the scars on his neck.
"You follow me to Abbot Huijue, I still have a lot of things to figure out-" He Xi turned around and wanted to leave, as if he remembered something, took another thing from his makeup, poured out some powder and put it in the palm of his hand, and smeared it lightly on his face.
After packing up, I went out.
But I didn't want to go out of the yard, and I saw a few people in front of me, with long skirts and dignified appearances, it was Lan Ruo.
She walked in the direction of He Xi with light steps, and in the morning she had learned from Qiao'er's mouth that someone had stolen the books in the scripture collection building last night, and even injured the abbot of Huijue.
After thinking about it, He Xi had also come closer, leaned down softly, and bowed: "The concubine sees the queen's mother, presumably the queen's mother came today, not because she simply wanted to visit the concubine." β
Lan Ruo looked stunned, as if she didn't expect that He Xi would make a preemptive strike, a slight crack appeared in her indifferent expression, and she coughed lightly: "Xi Cairen has been running to the library recently, I don't know what Xi Cairen has done?" β
He Xi's eyebrows and eyes were crooked, but the smile seemed to be blocked by frost under her eyes, and she said softly: "The concubine has been allergic to the pollen of the Bodhi tree since she was a child, but the concubine originally thought that now that the flowering period of Bodhi has passed, there is nothing to do, but she doesn't want the temperature in this mountain to be much lower than the bottom of the mountain, and the Bodhi flower blooms late, so she is defenseless this time." β
Lan Ruo looked at the lush Bodhi tree on the side suspiciously, and sure enough, he saw the stamens hidden in the leaves, the filaments were thin and soft, and if he didn't look carefully, he could hardly see clearly.
She had deeper doubts in her heart, and said coldly: "Since she has an illness, and there is a doctor with her, why don't you let the doctor diagnose it?" β
He Xi said kindly: "Recently, the concubine heard that Miss Xiao Nai was sick, and the imperial doctors were busy before and after, and they were all in Miss Xiao Nai's hospital. Besides, the concubine heard that there were many ancient books in this library, and there might be a cure for it, so she ran a little harder. β
Lan Ruo frowned tightly, she glanced at Qiao'er, Qiao'er understood, stepped forward and said coldly: "Cairen, now that you have lost something in the library building, and you happen to be involved, then you can't blame the concubine for overstepping." β
As he spoke, he stepped forward and dropped the veil on He Xi's face, and the hairpin that was pressed with the veil was torn off and fell to the ground.
He Xi immediately measured his face, as if he was very concerned about his face being seen, and the ugly man hurriedly stepped forward and said urgently: "Little master-"
When she saw He Xi's cheeks, she was also stunned, the originally fair and smooth cheeks were now densely covered with a lot of red spots, and the cheeks were also slightly red and swollen, which really looked like allergies.
He Xi was sideways at this time, her hair was scattered again, and she couldn't see the scars on her neck clearly, she was stunned, and Qiao'er couldn't help but wonder. She held the veil in her hand, stunned in place, at a loss.
He Xi still turned sideways and asked, "Now the queen believes it?" β
Lan Ruo coughed embarrassedly and said, "In that case, Xi Cai people also need to know how to avoid suspicionβ"
After that, he left with Qiao'er.
When everyone left, the ugly child said distressedly: "Little master, why are you doing this? β
He Xi didn't care, let Ruyi help him fix his hair bun, put the veil on his face, patted the ugly child's hand as if soothingly, and walked quickly towards Huijue's meditation room without saying a word.
At the door, the guard was still Miaoxin, and when he saw He Xi coming, Miaoxin said: "The noble man is here, and the master has already instructed that if the noble man comes, take the noble person in." β
He Xi nodded, and followed Miaoxin in, this was the first time she entered Huijue's meditation room, except for the basic tables and chairs, there was no other decoration in the meditation room, and it was as simple as Huijue's people.
Hui Jue was sitting on the futon meditating at this time, his face was much better than yesterday, his left hand kept turning the Buddha beads in his hand, and there were words in his mouth.
At that time, the Tibetan Bodhisattva Mahasattva, knelt down and clasped his palms together, and the white Buddha said: World-honored, I hope that World-honored will not be worried. In the future life, if there are good men and good women, in the Dharma, with a single thought, I will be able to do a thousand things, and I will be liberated as a human being, and I will quickly be liberated in life and death. What's more, when you hear all kinds of good deeds and think about your practice, you will naturally never retreat from the supreme path.
Every word seems to be full of reluctance to reluctantly relieve, it is the "Dizang Sutra", she folded her hands together, and reverently followed the silent recitation in her heart.
As the voice gradually deepened, the speed of the rotation of the Buddha beads in Huijue's hand gradually stopped, and finally, Huijue put his hands together and pronounced a Buddha name, and then slowly opened his eyes.
"Donor, but there are also people who want to be tempered?" Hui Jue looked up at the portrait in front of him, holding a lotus flower in his left hand, with a wishful treasure on the flower, and a jewel in his right hand, sitting on the lotus King Jizo Bodhisattva, his voice was a little distant.
"As a human being, there will be many identities and many people who can't let go, right?" He Xi said softly.
"Amitabha, stoic and unmoving, like the earth, deep and contemplative, like a secret vault." Huijue said silently.
The two were silent for each other, and finally Hui Jue got up with the help of Miaoxin, glanced at He Xi, and said: "Lao Gao knows that the donor has a lot of things he wants to know, and the donor is destined for Lao Gao, and Lao Gao is willing to solve his doubts for the donor." β
He looked at Miaoxin with a faint smile and asked, "What about your senior brother?" β
Miaoxin said obediently: "Senior brother said that the Tibetan Scripture Building cannot be guarded by no one, let the disciple guard the master here, and he went back to the Tibetan Scripture Building." β
Hui Jue sighed and said, "That's it, providence, donor go with me." β
When He Xi appeared at the door of the secret room again, she had mixed feelings in her heart, she looked sideways at Hui Jue, and said, "If I hadn't accidentally touched the mechanism that day, wouldn't that person have been-"
"Donor!" Hui Jue interrupted He Xi's words loudly, Xu knew his gaffe, he turned his head, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "The donor didn't mean to, maybe it was already destined in the dark, and the old man kept her for too longββ"
He Xi didn't understand who Huijue was referring to, and followed Huijue into the secret room for some unknown reasons, and when she saw a corner, she understood why she didn't know what was in this secret room, and this corner was in the blind spot of her vision.
But when she saw the ice coffin, something seemed to slowly open in her heart.