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The abbot's meditation room in the Great Awakening Temple.

The presiding abbot closed his eyes, held a rosary in one hand, and knocked on the wooden fish with the other, and the spiritual platform was as clear as a mirror, as if it had settled down. Except for the sound of the wooden fish and the gently shaking of the wrist, it seems to have been fugued, insulated from the world.

Outside the meditation room, the four deacons of Dajue Temple waited for the abbot to come out of meditation, and they all quietly discussed the matter of King Anjun's hurried arrival today.

"Reasoning, we are already outsiders, how can we be mixed with these mundane things? The presiding abbot answered today, and did not consult with everyone. One of the deacons disagreed.

The other three nodded approvingly.

After a while, the sound of wooden fish in the meditation room stopped.

A small novice waiting outside the door brought a copper basin in, and asked the abbot to clean his hands before helping the abbot out.

The deacons waiting outside stood up together and bowed with their hands together.

The abbot returned the salute and said to them, "Sit down." So saying, he sat down at the top.

The four deacons bowed down and sat down and asked the abbot, "Presiding, will we discuss today's business again?" ”

The presiding abbot raised his eyes, his eyes were like electricity, and the deacon's heart trembled, and he hurriedly lowered his head and lowered his eyes.

"What are you talking about? What's there to discuss? Could it be that if it weren't for me, I wouldn't be able to be the master in this Dajue Temple? The voice of the presiding abbot became more and more majestic.

The deacons below looked at each other, mustered up their courage, and said to the presiding abbot: "Presiding, we are outsiders······

Before he finished speaking, the abbot raised his hand to stop their words, and asked, "What kind of temple is our Dajue Temple?" ”

Several of the deacons were speechless for a while, and they were all a little dumbfounded.

"Why don't you speak? Do you know you're thinking wrong? ——As the royal temple of Daqi, Dajue Temple is supported by the royal family of Daqi and serves the royal family. Outside, outside, why bother to stick to whether it is outside or inside? As long as what we ask for is not contrary to human morality, we are duty-bound! The words of the presiding abbot were loud and clear.

Several of the deacons muttered and shut up, not daring to refute.

Outside the house, the little novice had already brought in a few people in gray robes, and said to the abbot, "Presiding, where are they going to live today?" ”

The presiding abbot does not raise his head to the tunnel; "Let's stay in the meditation room at the back. Tomorrow, I will go to the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion with the monks in the temple to do things. ”

The four deacons also quickly got up and went down to take care of the things they should bring for tomorrow's ceremony.

At this time, in the Cining Courtyard of the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, the inner room of the upper room of the main house was still lit.

Liu Menghan sat on the kang with a wooden face, supported his head with one hand, rested his elbow on the table, and listened to his henchman whispering about the whole story of searching the mansion during the day.

"Auntie, we did search everywhere. Don't hide it from Aunt Tai, there are a few mouse holes in Zhonglan Courtyard, and we all explore clearly, but we don't see such a big living person as Aunt Fen. In addition, the courtyard where the second master lived in the past, as well as the courtyard where the third girl, Chu Zhongyu, lived, also went to search. - There really is no one. The woman whispered.

Liu Menghan's face, which used to be as smooth as a shelled egg, now has a trace of wrinkles, and there is even a trace of half-star white hair on his sideburns.

"How is that possible? She's obviously in this mansion? How can it not be searched? - Have you been to the outer court? Liu Menghan's brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and he asked the woman.

The woman hurriedly said, "I've searched it too." It was Hou Ye's outer study, which was also watched by Hou Ye himself, so let's go in and have a look. The curtains in the house were wide open, and at a glance, it was bright and transparent, and there was no place for people to hide. ”

Liu Menghan sighed. This Pei Shufen is really a little weird.

"Forget it. If Hou Ye really wants to protect her, even under your nose, you can't see it. Liu Menghan waved her hand in a panic, let the woman retreat, and sat alone in front of the lamp, thinking about her thoughts.

Pei Shufen learned from Chu Huajin that Liu Menghan was going to invite monks and Taoist priests to the mansion to do things, and he was angry and funny, and he couldn't wait to show up and scare those indiscriminate liars. Or Chu Hua told her that the abbot of Dajue Temple, who will come tomorrow, really has some ability, so let her not be careless. In the end, I hid back, and if I couldn't get out, I wouldn't come out.

Pei Shufen hid in the dark and observed those Taoist priests for a while today, and found that they were obviously drunkards who did not mean to drink, and he was also a little disdainful of them.

The monk who will come tomorrow is stronger than the Taoist priest?

However, speaking of Dajue Temple, Pei Shufen suddenly remembered something from a long time ago.

She still remembers that that year, the winter solstice before her and the fortnight, was also when she married to the Marquis of Ningyuan Mansion for two years, and when she had not yet had a round house with Marquis of Ningyuan, Mrs. Marquis of Ningyuan took her to Dajue Temple to offer incense.

At that time, the Tongfang maid Tongye left by her sister Pei Shufan was still by her side, and she followed her to Dajue Temple to offer incense.

In Dajue Temple, they heard from the little monk in the temple that her sister Pei Shufan's everlasting lamp was still lit two years after her death. They hadn't refueled the lamp for more than two years, but the lamp had not been extinguished.

She was not happy to hear this, so she suggested that Kiritha do something. Tong Ye found a vacancy and stepped forward, pushed Pei Shufan's everlasting lamp, collided with another everlasting lamp, and turned over

Later, her sister Pei Shufan's light slowly went out.

Pei Shufen remembered in a trance that the originally dim and unknown everlasting lamp next to her sister-in-law slowly brightened.

It's just that more than ten years later, her eyes at that time have been staring at her sister-in-law Pei Shufan's everlasting lamp, and she didn't pay attention to whose lamp was next to her. But now that she thinks about it, there seems to be some kind of mystery in it, which makes Pei Shufen feel like a lightning bolt, cutting through the clouds and mist, and slowly pushing away the obstacles that were previously in front of her eyes.

Whose is the everlasting lamp next to it?

Pei Shufen was in the Langjing Cave Heaven, frowning and thinking about it, but she still couldn't think of it.

It would be nice if Kiripa was still by his side.

Pei Shufen has a hint of regret. This girl went out to Tonglu's house, and then disappeared with Tonglu's house.

Thinking of this, Pei Shufen was a little restless. What can she do hiding in this Langjing Cave Heaven? It's better to go out for a walk.

Pei Shufen sat in front of the dresser, pulled over the mirror she brought in from the outside, put on an old woman's makeup, and planned to pretend to be an old woman, and take a look inside the Dajue Temple when the senior monks of Dajue Temple came to Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion.

The diamond flower glasses in this Langjing Cave Heaven can't be used at all, and nothing can be illuminated.

Pei Shufen glanced at the rhombic mirror while panning her head, and found that the mirror began to appear ice cracks like the mirrors on the ancient paintings in the hall on the first floor

Pei Shufen pursed his lips. This mirror can't be used in the first place, and a few more ice cracks will look better.

The next morning, Pei Shufen was sure that the monks and monks of Dajue Temple had entered the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion, so he secretly appeared on a secluded path outside the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion.

This path has always been inaccessible, Pei Shufen wore a smoke-gray gown, a gray turban wrapped around her head, bowed her waist, and walked towards the intersection with a cane.

Walking out of the alley, Pei Shufen took two copper coins and came out, hired a donkey cart, and asked people to drag her to Dajue Temple.

The person who drove the car saw that she was an old woman with a long bell, and kindly reminded her: "Old woman, that Dajue Temple is a royal temple that can go to the incense and pray for blessings, either a knighted noble, or a high-ranking official, or a titled inner family." Ordinary people with no rank, people like you and me, are not allowed to enter. - You still don't want to spend copper plates in vain. As he spoke, he wanted to return the two copper plates to Pei Shufen.

Pei Shufen was stunned for a moment and pushed the copper plate back, and said, "Thank you little brother for reminding me." Even if you send me over, even if you can't go in, I'll kowtow to the mountain gate outside, it's good. - Little brother, you don't know, the Bodhisattva outside does not have the Bodhisattva of Dajue Temple. "Nagging, pretending to be like a broken old woman.

The chauffeur no longer shirked, smiled and helped her into the donkey cart, and said, "Then you sit down, and I will send you over." He drove Pei Shufen to the mountain gate outside the Dajue Temple.

Pei Shufen got out of the car, gave the five copper plates that drove the car, and said, "You go to the bottom of the mountain and wait, and when I finish kowtowing, you can send me back." ”

Pei Shufen didn't know if she could freely enter and exit her Langjing Cave near this Dajue Temple, so she had to take precautions and not let the car go. The people who go to Dajue Temple are either rich or expensive, and they all have their own carriages, and ordinary people who drive the cars will not come here. Pei Shufen didn't want to walk back on two legs.

The charioteer answered, and drove the donkey cart down the hill.

Pei Shufen bowed his waist and came to the mountain gate of Dajue Temple, looked around, and there seemed to be no one, so he was about to go inside.

Before she could take a step into the mountain gate, a monk suddenly came out, stood in front of her, put her hands together and said, "Female benefactor, please stay." This is the royal temple of Daqi, may I ask what grade of this benefactor is the title? ”

Pei Shufen said calmly: "I am the people of Daqi, and this is my Daqi royal temple, why can't I let the people of Daqi go in to pay respects?" ”

The monk smiled and said, "Even if it is the people of Daqi, they are divided into three, six, nine and so on. What kind of donor is it? ”

Pei Shufen opened his mouth, wanting to reason with this monk, but from the corner of his eye, he saw a few people who looked like officials staggering over, and his heart was terrified, and he didn't dare to speak loudly anymore, so he nodded and said with a smile: "Little master, don't blame, it's the old woman who trespasses." As he spoke, he bent his waist and staggered out of the mountain gate and walked down the mountain.

I only heard the conversation between the officials and the monk from behind: "Master of the precepts, have you ever seen a suspicious person?" ”

The monk said, "No." It was an old woman who went down just now, and she was not the right age. ”

Then I heard the voice of the official: "Your abbot said that you should keep an eye on the mountain gate today, so that no fugitives will escape to your temple and bring trouble to the Dajue Temple." But we waited for half a day, and we didn't see a single person......"

Pei Shufen's back stiffened, so he bent his waist harder, slightly quickened his pace, and walked down the mountain.

When I came to the bottom of the mountain, the driver was still waiting there.

Pei Shufen gave him a few copper plates and asked him to take her back to the place where she had been in the car.

When the driver sent Pei Shufen to the mouth of the alley outside the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion, it was just noon.

Pei Shufen thanked the driver and turned around and walked into the alley.

When she arrived near the backyard of Marquis Ning Yuan, Pei Shufen looked around, and when she saw that no one was following her, she flashed into her own Langjing Cave.

Pei Shufen stayed in Langjin Cave Heaven for a while before cautiously appearing in the compartment in the study of Ningyuan Hou Chuhuajin's outer courtyard.

As soon as she came out, she heard what seemed to be a murmuring sound at the gate outside.

Pei Shufen's heart moved, and he hurriedly looked out from the gap in the door curtain of the compartment, and saw two people wearing gray monk's robes, who were looking around in Chu Huajin's outer study, still searching, and knocking on the walls and walls, as if looking for the appearance of the secret room.

Pei Shufen was taken aback. She knew that Chu Huajin had hidden a lot of confidential things under a loose floor tile under Luohan's bed in the study cubicle.

Seeing that those people can't be searched outside, they should be searched in the compartment inside.

Pei Shufen was in a hurry, so he got under the Luohan bed, took out a small box from the loose floor tiles, and took it to the Langjing Cave.

Chu Huajin accompanied the senior monk and abbot of Dajue Temple in the backyard to recite scriptures and practices, and at the end, he accompanied the abbot around the outer courtyard and recited it, especially in his outer courtyard study, where he stayed longer.

When the abbot of Dajue Temple and his monks finally finished the ritual, Chu Huajin accompanied the abbot with a table of vegetarian food, and then ordered someone to send five hundred taels of silver to the deacon of Dajue Temple to bring back.

Liu Menghan waited in his Cining Courtyard and didn't dare to go out to meet people.

Hearing that the monks of Dajue Temple had left, Liu Menghan hurriedly called someone over to ask carefully to see if there was any progress. But I heard someone report that the abbot didn't speak, but just chanted the scriptures, that is, he stayed in the Hou Ye's outer study for a longer time.

When Liu Menghan heard this, his heart moved. - Could it be the Hou Ye's outer study, there is a secret room?

Liu Menghan remembered that when the old Marquis Ning Yuan was alive in the past, there was also a secret room in the courtyard of their mansion in the southwest. Could it be that there is also a secret room in the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion?

If it is a secret room, people are hiding in the secret room, and people outside can't find it. - unless you know where this secret room is.

Thinking of this, Liu Menghan felt at a loss. If Hou Ye was protecting Pei Shufen, even if she found out the secret room, it would be in vain for Hou Ye to annoy her first. - She knew that Chu Huajin was already a little impatient with her now. And her subordinates are now also half-hearted, always wanting to run to Chu Huajin's side.

Fortunately, she has no other plans now, she only wants to let Chu Hua go and block Emperor Hongxuan, otherwise she doesn't know how uncomfortable it is to watch her subordinates betray the lord one after another.

Liu Menghan sat in his room and sneered, then called his henchman over and asked her to come back in exchange for five hundred taels of silver.

She didn't believe it, with the silver of white flowers, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to buy those maids and wives in Zhonglan Courtyard!

Chu Hua sent the abbot of Dajue Temple back, and first went back to his outer study. As soon as he entered the room, he saw Pei Shufen sitting there, so he coughed and asked her, "Didn't the abbot of Dajue Temple see you just now?" ”

Pei Shufen shook his head with a smile and said to Chu Hua: "Where do these people know about my benefits?" - Master Hou doesn't have to worry about me. It's just that Master Hou doesn't think it's strange, are those monks who come here missing two people when they are doing things outside? ”

Chu Hua was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he couldn't remember how many monks had come. As soon as he closed his eyes, the crows were in ashes, and he shook his head with a smile and said, "I don't care if he has two less or two more, just leave anyway." ”

Pei Shufen sneered, pointed to the study and asked Chu Huajin: "Master Hou doesn't take a closer look, is there anything missing in this room?" Or maybe something else? ”

Chu Hua looked at Pei Shufen suspiciously, looked around again, shook his head and said, "A lot of things are good, how can there be more things?" ”

Pei Shufen smiled and said: "Master Hou is a person who does big things, how can he be so careless?" - If it weren't for me today, Hou Ye would have been put in something, and he wouldn't be able to wash it by jumping into the Qingjiang River at that time. ”

This kind of framing thing, Chu Hua did not do less, and Pei Shufen did not do less.

As soon as Pei Shufen said this, Chu Huajin immediately understood. It's just that for a while, I can't connect the monks of Dajue Temple with those spies, and I said a little dumbfounded: "All the monks who came here today are high-ranking monks, won't they......"

Pei Shufen sighed, got up and took out the small box from his sleeve pocket, put it in front of Chu Huajin and said, "Master Hou, if it weren't for me today, it would have been taken away by those two fake monks." - Hou Ye forgot what I told Hou Ye before? ”

Pei Shufen reminded Chu Huajin before, saying that there seemed to be someone else's spy in the house.

Chu Hua thought of Ti Cai, pursed his lips, took the small box from Pei Shufen's hand, squinted his eyes, and said, "How do I know, whether someone searched me or you searched me?" "It's still a picture of not trusting Pei Shufen.

Pei Shufen was so angry that she fell backwards, took a sip of Chu Huajin, and flashed back to her Langjin Cave to get angry.

At this time, He Ningxin was also in the blessed land of Sumeru, looking at the rhombic glasses on the dresser on the third floor of her in a daze.

I saw that there were some tiny ice cracks on the smooth and smooth mirror surface before, which looked exactly the same as the new ice cracks on the rhombic mirror in the ancient painting in the hall on the next floor.

He Ningxin walked over slowly and looked cautiously into the mirror. In the mirror, it was not as before, and the scene of the opposite sky was clearly revealed to her, but like water waves, it rippled for a while before the opposite scene appeared.

Following the scale on the side of the rhombic mirror, He Ningxin saw Pei Shufen worried over there, angry, talking to herself, fiddling with a small box, and took out the jade seal and a booklet wrapped in an oilcloth bag from the small box.

It's just a pity that the image of the mirror is a little blurry, and even the sound coming from there is not as clear and audible as it used to be in the ear.

He Ningxin tried her best to get close to the mirror of the rhombic mirror in front of her, only to see that what Pei Shufen was holding in her hand seemed to be a roster.

Pei Shufen saw that the booklet was wrapped in an oilcloth over there, thinking that it was just waterproof, but she didn't think much about it, but just opened the booklet with the oilcloth in her hand and looked at it.

The booklet contained a person's name, place of origin, and the intertwined interests, family ties, and mishandles of these people.

"Strange Dao and this jade seal are put together. It looks even more effective than this fake jade seal. Pei Shufen looked at this roster, had an idea, picked up the pen, and copied a copy by himself.

Pei Shufen had just finished copying in Langjin Cave, and the same roster appeared in the Sumeru Blessed Land on He Ningxin's side.

He Ningxin was overjoyed, and quickly picked it up to look at it, but put it down with great disappointment.

It turned out that this copy of the roster was as vague as the scene on the other side that now appeared in the mirror. The scene is blurry, and you can distinguish one from the other. And the handwriting on this roster is not only blurry, but Pei Shufen writes bad words and other words, He Ningxin can't even guess who is written in this booklet!

I saw that Pei Shufen finished copying the roster, then wrapped the original roster in an oilcloth, put it in a small box like the jade seal, and left Langjing Dongtian with his sleeves.

He Ningxin stared at the vague and chaotic roster written like a ghostly symbol in Sumeru, and for the first time, she couldn't wait to go to the other side in person and take a closer look.

It's just a pity that she has tried many times, but she can't enter the Langjing Cave Heaven on the opposite side through the white mist, let alone enter the Langjing Cave Heaven on the opposite side through the diamond mirror as she did when she started coming.

Over time, this mirrored world seems to be slowly changing.

The more He Ningxin thought about it, the more frightened she became.

Seeing the roster and jade seal, He Ningxin fully understood, Liu Menghan had already told Chu Huajin about the "lofty ambitions" of the old Ning Yuanhou.

What Liu Menghan is thinking, He Ningxin is clear.

Zuo is just that Emperor Hongxuan destroyed her son and daughter, she just wanted to instigate Chu Hua to follow the path of the old Ning Yuanhou, which made Emperor Hongxuan anxious, and even shook the Jiangshan Sheji that he valued the most.

Thinking of this, He Ningxin still admired Liu Menghan a little. At least, Liu Menghan not only knows where Emperor Hongxuan's weakness is, but also has the ability to touch his weakness.

And what the old Ning Yuanhou left behind, except for the jade seal, is the roster. There are also 50,000 military households of the Chu family in the southwest, who are now waiting in the southwest to prevent the Qiang people from going down the mountain to plunder.

At this juncture, Emperor Hongxuan would definitely not "voluntarily" hand over to the military households. After all, the Marquis of Ningyuan's Mansion has been operating in the southwest for so many years, and Emperor Hongxuan is far away from the mountain, and he can't cover everything for a while, so that all the soldiers are only loyal to the royal family.

Coming out of the blessed land of Sumeru, He Ningxin took a few deep breaths and calmed down, so as not to let her emotions affect her relationship with her family. It was only in the dead of night that she quietly asked Jian Feiyang, how was the silver prepared in the Holy Heavens? When are you going to send someone out to buy food?

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