Chapter 31: Pious Vows
Night. Xuanji Palace ended the day of incense again, and the moon was on the top, and the voices of people were gradually quiet. On Qianxia Mountain, the twilight is heavy, every household is closed to rest, and the smoke curls up.
The brilliance of the Emei thorn is compelling, even if it is not lit, it can illuminate the light in the room. This is the object that Nie Xingji gave her four years ago, and it was also her favorite thing, and she almost never left her.
At that time, she was just a girl raised by her uncle and aunt in the dart director, and she followed the dart board at the age of ten, drank with the bandits at the age of twelve, and dared to fight in the ring at the age of fifteen.
Such a carefree life has become unrecognizable from the moment he met Nie Xingji.
Qingcheng slowly stretched out his hands and took the Emei thorn out of the brocade box. The tentacles are warm, but there is a chill around, and the delicate and sharp feeling is no different from what she remembers. But the joy in my memory is gone, how much I loved this pair of Emei thorns in the past, and how heartache I can bear now.
Time is ruthless, grinding her a passionate and fresh heart, and now, it has long been turned into ashes.
How long has it been since you used the Emei thorn? She was about to forget. After learning that she was the illegitimate daughter of King Yan, the first thing she did when she entered Beijing was to dispose of these Emei thorns and send the money in exchange to her uncle and aunt to thank them for their nurturing grace.
Unexpectedly, after three and a half years, these Emei thorns were sent back to her through Ming Chenyuan. But the person who gave her the Emei thorn at the beginning has long since drifted away from her.
Even if he promised King Yan to remarry, Qingcheng didn't want to leave this thing anymore. Keeping it is undoubtedly a betrayal of Chu Li. Although, she has betrayed.
Thinking like this, she didn't know what to do with this pair of Emei thorns. Throw away? Return? It seems that no matter what she does, she will leave an entanglement handle for Nie Xingji in the future.
Although she didn't know what King Yan was thinking, she wanted to follow her heart right now. Obviously, she is about to become Nie Xingji's sister-in-law, and they should reduce unnecessary entanglements with each other.
And the words of revenge that he had said to him at the post station may be fulfilled in the near future.
Qingcheng thought about it for a long time, picked up the brocade box containing Emei thorns, and walked towards the main hall of Xuanji Palace.
The ever-bright lamp illuminates the depths of the hall, and the three statues of the Yuan Shi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, and Daode Tianzun are solemn and solemn, symbolizing the evolution process of all things in heaven and earth from the beginning of chaos to the Taiji Liangyi, the way of heaven and the way of inaction, and the nature of the Tao.
But after all, she is still unenlightened, and she can't understand the mystery of all things at all, and she can't let the world develop naturally. So, in the name of entering the Tao, he can only hide here to escape from the world, thinking about comfort alone, trying to grasp the slim past, and the people who are worth keeping in the past.
This obsession lingered, and she couldn't really focus on the Tao. Knowing that his body strength is meager and he can't ask for it, he still can't see through it, and he can't let go of it, and he finally cocoons himself.
Now, we are about to step into the red dust of sin again.
Qingcheng faced the statue of Sanqing and slowly opened the brocade box in front of him. Under the dense candle flame, two ghostly lights, one red and one green, suddenly appeared, swaying out of a moving light and shadow, cold and compelling. Qingluan and the fire phoenix crossed their necks on the sea of clouds, their wings blooming, which made her lonely and wandering, and she fell into this cold and warm world alone.
Knowing that it was very late, she still insisted on burning three incense sticks, bowed to the ground and made a vow: "Disciple Xuanzhen, I am fortunate to enter the Tao, but I am bound by things outside my body and have never explored the world. Today, I will temporarily send the Emei thorn under the seat, and I hope to be able to truly solve the worldly things and cultivate the Tao with a pure heart. If his wish is fulfilled one day, he will come to repay his vows to the three Heavenly Venerables and make offerings for the rest of his life. ”
Qingcheng's voice was calm and low, and he had long since lost the resistance and panic in the Yanwang Palace during the day, and he could be regarded as truly accepting the fact of remarriage. If she had made a wish, she would put three sticks of incense into the incense burner under the seat of the statue, and placed the brocade box containing the Emei thorn behind the incense burner.
She knew that this was the main hall of Xuanji Palace, and with the background of the Yan royal family, even if there were tens of millions of pilgrims every day, no one dared to touch the offerings under the seat of the statue of Sanqing.
What if someone really stole it...... Then she didn't have to bother to deal with it anymore, and it was not a good thing to be scattered all over the world.