XXXVII: Bodhi proves sincerity in the next life

Don't ask me why this chapter is named this one, I just don't think about the name, just take it casually.

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Since Huo Qu's illness and leaving Chang'an, Zhaoyang Hall has become very quiet. Although the emperor's rewards continued to come down, the grace of Princess Yuening made the palace people dare not slack off. But Liu Chu himself didn't care, he only often held the eldest princess of Guantao from outside the palace, it is said that the former queen brought a pipa into the Tangyi Marquis Mansion before leaving, sitting in front of the palace, a pair of ink-dyed smart eyes looking into the distance, as if only looking at it like this can realize all wishes. Or sit alone in your room, reciting a sutra that no one has ever heard.

When the eldest princess of Guantao entered the palace, she saw Liu Chu like this. Since Empress Gillian was deposed and deposed from the Changmen Palace, she has never seen her daughter again. After six years, when Chen Yansheng stumbled into the Tangyi Marquis's Mansion, she looked at her daughter with the same face, and suddenly had a feeling that time had passed. Yes, time flies. Even Gillian, who threw herself into her arms and shouted her mother innocently, is now the mother of two children. And she, after all, is old.

Gillian is the best and best girl in the world, even in countless days and nights when she is angry that she is innocent and does not know how to grow, she still thinks so, Gillian is brutal, but very kind, simple, but very filial. Sometimes, she wonders, what would happen if Gillian could be half as smart as herself? She is the daughter of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the sister of Emperor Jing, the aunt of the present, the emperor and noble, her daughter, her eyes began to be fierce and syruping, how could she lose to a lowly singer?

As if he had a feeling, Liu Chu turned around, saw that it was her, and smiled, "Grandma." ”

"Chu'er," the eldest princess of the pavilion Tao smiled, even if there was a lot of anger at Liu Chu's escape, it was also dissipated in this call, she took Liu Chu's hand lovingly, and asked softly, "What are you looking at?" ”

Liu Chu put down the book in his hand and said, "It's a Buddhist scripture." She explained, "My master and mother said that my body is weak, and I need to read some Buddhist scriptures to cultivate my mind. ”

The eldest princess of the Pavilion Tao felt a great pain in her heart, "Chu'er," she asked hesitantly, "You have a jade pendant around your neck, right?" ”

"Hmm." Liu Chu nodded and took out the jade pendant from his neck, "This is what my mother has hung on my neck since I was born, saying that it can eliminate disasters and solve problems for me." ”

Concubine Liu rubbed this piece of jade pendant with green and crystal light, and her heart was infinitely remorseful. It is this jade pendant, when she passed by the streets of Chang'an City and bumped into her daughter, Gillian was born prematurely, and now her first child is in pain.

Fate is a wonderful thing. At that time, she was thinking about her daughter in the palace car, but she didn't know that outside the frame, Gillian was close by her side, and the birth was imminent.

"Chu'er," Liu Yan hugged her petite body, "If you have any wishes in the future, grandma will do her best to help you realize them." ”

Because, this is what I owe you.

Liu Chu couldn't see her grandmother's thoughts clearly, she leaned obediently on Liu Yan's arms, "Okay." If my grandmother has any wishes, she will definitely help them as soon as possible. ”

Liu Yan smiled and responded, "Okay." The bottom of her heart was ironed very warm by Liu Chu's childish words, "Chu'er, I want to go to the Xuanshu Palace to see your father, you ......" She looked at Liu Chu with a smile on the corner of her mouth, disgusted, "Why are you so wrong with your father?" ”

"Because he made my mother sad." Liu Chu said categorically, "My mother is the best, my father doesn't want her, my father must be blind." ”

The eldest princess of the pavilion was a little unable to laugh and cry, "Actually," she said carefully, "the events of the year ......"

"My mother said," Liu Chu jumped up and said crisply, "A man who makes a woman who loves him so much sad is definitely not a good man." ”

Liu Yan was stunned, did Gillian think like this back then? She paced a few steps, "Chu'er, even if what your mother said is right, have you ever thought about whether your mother has been happy all these years?" ”

Liu Chu was stunned, "My mother is naturally happy." She reluctantly said, "Every time I look at my brother and me, my mother's eyes are so gentle." ”

"But what about every mention of your father?"

This time, she was silent, and she clearly remembered that occasionally when her mother looked in the direction of Chang'an, there was a touch of gloom and sentimentality in her eyes.

"Chu'er, 'Autumn Wind Sadness Painting Fan', what does painting fan mean?"

"The newly made Qi Su is as clean as frost and snow. Tailor a fan, reunion like a bright moon. In and out of the sleeves of the king, shaking the breeze. I am often afraid that the autumn festival is coming, and the cool is hot. In the abandonment of donations, in the kindness. ”

Liu Chu said sullenly, because she had also asked her mother, she remembered these poems very clearly.

"What about 'Wings'?"

"On the seventh day of the seventh month, in the Hall of Eternal Life, in the middle of the night, no one whispered. In heaven I wish to be a winged bird, and on earth I wish to be a branch. The days are long and sometimes endless, and this hatred lasts forever. ”

"I think back then, your mother loved your father very much." The eldest princess of the pavilion Tao hugged Liu Chu and fell into memory:

"At that time, Gillian pounced on me and said, 'Mother, Biao'er is very good.' ”

Today, many years later, Gillian recalls that at the beginning, can she still say the same thing, "Mother, Che'er is very good"?

Liu Chu remembered the story that her mother once told her and her brother on the pillow, the Liang Zhu who turned into a butterfly and wanted to be a double fei, and the beautiful mermaid girl who gave up her long life and jumped into the sea and turned into foam.

On that day, my mother was clearly in tears.

Mother, are you willing to be a mermaid like that?

At that time, my mother said, "Mo'er, Chu'er, remember to see those who love you in the days to come, don't let them down, and don't mistake them." ”

Liu Chu suddenly remembered a song that his mother often sang for a while, "In my lifetime, when we meet on a narrow road, we will not be spared, and the palms of my hands will suddenly grow entangled curves; Before being sensible, after qing, it can't be longer than a day, it can't be kept, it can't be counted, and it will be a year. ”

That person to his mother, maybe it is the shortcoming of that angel, who can't be spared to meet on a narrow road in his lifetime?

(Liu Chuzi, you really misunderstood your mother.) A goose cried in the distance. That's right, because of the inheritance relationship, a certain Yan has some feelings for Comrade Liu Che in her heart, but this feeling is not enough for her to give up her resentment towards him, let alone for her to give up her freedom. As for those stories and songs, they are purely the feelings of a little girl who belongs to Han Yansheng, right? )

"Grandma," Liu Chu said a little weakly, "you make me think about it again." ”

"Okay." Concubine Liu was also afraid that she would get sick again, and she was even more reluctant to disobey her at this time, so she got up and said, "Then grandma went first, you rest, you don't have to send it." ”

Liu Chu nodded, picked up the Buddhist scriptures, and continued to chant. She recited Chen Yansheng's "Medicine Master Liuli Guangru Lai Wish Merit Sutra" that she particularly likes in modern times, and when the eldest princess walked out of the Zhaoyang Palace, she was reciting,

"The second great vow: May when I attain Bodhi in the next life, my body be like glass, clear inside and out, pure and unblemished; The light is vast, the merit is towering, the body is good, and the flame net is more solemn than the sun and the moon; The sentient beings of the underworld are enlightened, and they do whatever they want. ”

The eldest princess couldn't help but turn around, only to feel that the girl who was sitting in the hall and chanting with her hands together faintly had a sense of solemnity and did not dare to be alarmed.

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Xuanmuro Hall

"Che'er, tell your aunt honestly, how is Jiaojiao now?"

The eldest princess of the pavilion Tao asked straight to the point, which made Liu Che stunned. He slowly raised his head, smiling rather than smiling, "Auntie should go and ask Gillian herself, right?" Since she left Chang'an by herself that day, how can she ask me now? ”

The eldest princess snorted coldly, "Che'er, let's talk openly and honestly, Jiaojiao escapes, will you let it go?" She frowned slightly, "I just care about my daughter, she has been gone for a few months, Jiaojiao has not suffered since she was a child, even if she was exiled a few years ago, there are nobles to help." Now that I'm almost alone, how can you reassure me? ”

After many years of world affairs, the eldest princess of Guantao can see the nature of her nephew sitting on the dragon chair, ruthless and decisive, and can no longer tolerate her to blackmail her to win the heir. Only now, if he wants to change his mind, he must try to capture him. Gillian and Liu Chu have done a good job of this, (whether they mean it or not), she doesn't plan to pull them back.

Liu Che smiled faintly, "This aunt is really reassuring." He got up, walked down the hall, and said, "Gillian, since she can live outside for one or six years, there is no shortage of skills for the second six years." She is now in Jiaodong. ”

"Jiaodong?" Liu Ji was surprised, "Liu Ji doesn't have any friendship with her?" ”

"It's okay to have a relationship with Sanzhu Qian." Liu Che said lightly, his fists clenched. The guards who followed Gillian at the beginning reported Gillian's unbelievable way of choosing a path, and he was wrong for a long time, Gillian, she wasn't such a casual personality before. What could have gone wrong, or could an ordeal really change a person so much?

The eldest princess of Guantao looked at Liu Che meaningfully, not knowing if her nephew noticed that he cared about Gillian more than before. It seems that some things that I thought were in my hands suddenly changed unexpectedly, and my nephew couldn't accept it.

She understood the principle of accepting it when she saw it, and said with a smile, "Since that's the case, then I'll go back first." Ah, that's right," she was about to move, but she seemed to suddenly remember, turned around and said, "When Gillian was pregnant with Mo'er and Chu'er, she was still the queen, no matter what, the emperor won't let anyone doubt the position of Chu'er and Chu'er, right?" ”

"This kind of joint should be determined by the courtiers' court," Liu Che naturally knew that the eldest princess of Guantao was talking about Liu Chu, and was actually alluding to Liu Mo who was far away in Jiaodong, but he couldn't see the slightest emotion on his face, and said with a smile, "Auntie, you don't have to worry about it." ”

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Everyone can rest assured, this chapter is not written to forgive Liu Che early, but to be able to stay in this palace as soon as possible, so that the story can be developed in the future.

There are a few more chapters to make the sound of geese back to Chang'an.