Li Ruhui listened to Zong Zhenlei's words, thought about it, and seemed to feel that what Zong Zhenlei said was flawed, and said: "However, although the Zixia fairy peony flower in the flower pond is marked as the Ming Dynasty, whether it was planted by Zen Master Miaofeng, haven't we found a written record yet?" ”

Zong Zhenlei thought for a while and said: "I think so, since there is no written record in this temple, we can still rely on the brick carving as a guess of the 'heart language' left by him, and similarly, we can also rely on the brick carving to infer that the Zixia fairy peony in the peony garden was planted by Miaofeng Zen Master or his descendants according to his design." ”

Li Ruhui smiled and said, "Okay, then you can play it." ”

The reason for this inference is that, judging from the brick carvings of the full courtyard, the brick carvings of plants are mainly composed of lotus, peony flowers, and honeysuckle grass, and among the three plants, although the lotus flower is not in kind in the temple, it can be taken to represent the pure land of Buddhism. So I think that if the peony flower and honeysuckle grass brick carving is deliberately left on the temple building by the monks, then the courtyard will inevitably be planted with peony flowers and honeysuckle grass, so that his design intention is not obtrusive, not only to achieve the allegorical effect, but also to make the scenery and decoration to achieve a perfect unity. ”

"This is the basis for Zen Master Miaofeng to plant peony flowers? Alas, I can't say you, I can only listen to your 'play'. ”

Zong Zhenlei smiled "hehe" and said: "I admit that I 'played', but this can be regarded as an explanation." ”

Zong Zhenlei said more and more interested, and said unfinished: "Speaking of brick carving, I didn't understand that Miaofeng Zen Master sculpted the word 'Xuanwen Pagoda' on the tower, in addition to being the name of the tower, whether it also represents other meanings; ”

Li Ruhui silently walked beside Zong Zhenlei, probably because the discussion just now caused her to think newly.

Zong Zhenlei didn't bother her when he saw that she didn't speak, but his thinking didn't stop.

He chatted with Mr. Hong and several experts at the buffet, and suddenly thought of his magical encounter with Li Ruhui, and thought of her saying at the buffet that she had recently heard her mother say that her grandfather's grandfather's house was from Linfen Yicheng, and joked, I wonder if there was a Li Caifeng at home!

From this, Zong Zhenlei thought of Li Ruhui's fate with him, as well as the story that happened around the Buddha relics: Empress Dowager Li and the Zhu family, both life and death and the wits and courage in the palace, and finally she joined hands with the Zhu Ming royal family to build the Buddha relics pagoda for the Buddha relics for the good fortune of the Ming Dynasty and the royal family; Professor Li claimed to be a descendant of the Empress Dowager Li, and for the sake of that Buddha relic, he cooperated with Hong Xitai, a descendant of Zhu Ming, to a game of life and death, while their parents had faced the death threat of the evil monk together; Li Ruhui and Zhu Ming, who are also descendants of Jinnan villagers with Empress Dowager Li, in order to uncover the secret of the Buddha relic, worked hard to complete the mission, and even almost were murdered, and finally the two teamed up to find a satisfactory answer; These things that happened around that Buddha relics were like a divine power in the underworld, tightly tying Zhu Li's fate.

I have seen the top of the brightly lit hotel, and I turned into it from the street and returned to the hotel a short distance.

Li Ruhui stood still, she looked at the starry sky, breaking the silence between the two: "I have been thinking about a problem all the way, but I have not thought it through; This is a topic we've talked about before. ”

Zong Zhenlei asked: "What topic?" ”

"Do you remember, I said that our research seems to be looking for something other than what is involved in this subject."

"I remember."

"That's what I want to say. I think that there is one thing that has been bothering me in the things we are exploring, how to put it, this thing seems to be connected to our inner world, but it is also related to the answer to the question we are looking for, so I call it the source of authenticity. ”

"And now?"

"I still have this feeling, but I can feel it vaguely, but I can't express the true source of this truth."

"Why do you say 'the source of authenticity'?"

"I think this 'true source' should be the driving force behind all these events, and it includes not only the people and things we studied in ancient times, but also the people and things we encounter now."

Zong Zhenlei pulled her and said, "This may be a big topic, think about it slowly, we've been wandering around long enough, let's go back." ”

Li Ruhui still stood still: "Then you have to help me think too!" ”

Zong Zhenlei said: "Want to stand here stupidly until dawn? Scare passers-by! ”

Li Ruhui laughed: "I don't rob the way!" Well, think as you go. ”

Zong Zhenlei said: "What you said about finding the source reminds me of a celebrity at a buffet, a person talked about his cognition of karma and karma, and the 'cause' he said is like the source of the power of the occurrence of things you said, which is the beginning of everything that happens; For example, like Professor Li and Kongyuan, the final result may come from the emotional 'cause' ...... between them."

Li Ruhui interrupted her and said: "Although their end was so tragic, I think they may still be in love at the beginning, and they don't necessarily know the later development at the beginning." ”

Zong Zhenlei said: "At first, the relationship between the two of them may have started from love, but later, it is difficult to say that no one between them wants to use the love of the two to achieve other goals, such a love cannot be true love, so the result is bound to be unsatisfactory." ”

Li Ruhui shook her head, sighed and said, "I don't want to talk about them." He lowered his head and walked a few steps and said, "Speaking of love, I think of another thing. When I photographed the peony of Yongzuo Temple for the first time, I saw the graceful Zixia Fairy, and somehow I thought of the Empress Dowager Li; Later, as the research progressed, I felt more and more strongly that people only noticed that this Empress Dowager Li was in a high position, covered with luxury and power, but who would have thought about her true colors as a woman? So I'm wondering, will there be other hidden needs in her heart? Including that kind of pure emotion? ”

She paused for a moment, saw that Zong Zhenlei didn't speak, turned her head and said to him: "You interpret Empress Dowager Li with the peony garden, which reminds me of reading what Tang Xianzu wrote in the "Peony Pavilion Inscription": 'I don't know what to do, and I go deep. The living can die, and the dead can live. These few sentences really seem to express her feelings and expectations! ”

Zong Zhenlei heard Li Ruhui say Tang Xianzu's words, and when Li Ruhui talked about the emotional needs of Empress Dowager Li, he suddenly felt that his thoughts were touched, so he said to her: "Can you recite the complete inscription?" I want to hear it. ”

Li Ruhui lowered her eyes and whispered the "Peony Pavilion Inscription": "Women in the world are affectionate, and they would rather be like Du Liniang!" Dreaming of his person is illness, illness is healing, to the hand-painted description of the world and then death. After three years of death, he was able to regain his ability to seek the life of his dream. If she is like a beautiful girl, she can be said to have a lover's ear. I don't know what to do, and I go deep. The living can die, and the dead can live. Those who are born and cannot be resurrected, and those who die and cannot be resurrected are not lovely. The love in the dream, why not be true, how can there be few people in the dream in the world? It will be because of the recommendation of the pillow to become a parent, and those who are to be hung up with a crown are secret, and they are all the remains of the body.

It is rumored that Du Tai guards the affairs of the people, as if the Jin and Wu guards Li Zhongwen and the Guangzhou guards the affairs of Feng Xiao's children. Give it a little more and play it. As for Du Shou's acceptance of Liu Sheng, it is also like the admission of King Suiyang of the Han Dynasty.

Husband, the things of the world are not beyond the reach of the world. Since he is not a person, he is always reasonable. There must be no place for reason, and there must be evil in the place of knowing it! ”

Zong Zhenlei listened and thought about it, and couldn't help but feel a thousand ends; He waited for Li Ruhui to finish reciting, and said: "Speaking of 'love', I thought of Empress Dowager Li's 'love' from the 'love' of the Peony Pavilion, everything that Empress Dowager Li did for her husband is enough to show that she is a loving person." Although she doesn't read much, her wisdom is not low; When she lost her husband's backer and became a widow with orphans in the court, she was miraculously able to maintain a balance with all forces in the palace, not only maintaining the Ming Dynasty, but also ensuring the interests of her family, this woman is a strange woman! ”

Seeing that Li Ruhui lowered her head and thought about it, but did not answer, he said: "However, a strange woman does not mean that she has no emotion, whenever she stands alone in her father's peony pavilion, standing inscribed by her own handwriting." When Qingya meditates silently, or when she is lonely and looks up at the starry sky in the hope of the gods' help, the only thing that can accompany her is to cut off the constant feelings and the cold of the high position; however, when she wants to make up for the lost emotion, her supreme position makes her inevitably use her power to evolve her desire into a kind of forcible to satisfy her own desires; in the long run, selfish desires are regarded as greed, and real emotional needs are naturally ignored by people; in the end, perhaps only a few of her close ministers and superiors will understand her loneliness and lonelinessThe need for 'love' is just like what the first assistant Zhang Juzheng and the senior monk Miaofeng want to help her resolve. ”

Li Ruhui pondered and said: "If Empress Dowager Li's 'affection' is linked to her behavior towards the Buddha's relics, you say, as a person who recites the Buddha, in order to satisfy her emotions, is her behavior 'all evil' or 'all good'?" ”

While talking, the two came to the hotel parking lot, Zong Zhenlei pressed the remote control of the car key, and his car flashed a few lights a hundred meters away.

He took Li Ruhui and walked towards the car: "I can't say this, but I know that if it is only to satisfy selfish desires, it will definitely be against Buddhism if it is only to satisfy selfish desires and forcibly occupy the private property of 'me' because of my own needs. ”

Zong Zhenlei drove the car out of the parking lot.

He felt that Li Ruhui's question had aroused a lot of thoughts in his heart, which had been slowly accumulated since he participated in the research of Yongzuo Temple, and it seemed that it had reached the time of "not vomiting and not being happy"; He felt that he should find a quiet place to sort out and tell people what he thought, and Li Ruhui in front of him was the best person to talk to.

Thinking of this, Zong Zhenlei changed the topic and said: "It's more than four o'clock in the morning, you must not be able to enter the girls' dormitory now, or go to the place where there are hemp leaves and old tofu?" ”

Li Ruhui leaned on the co-pilot's seat, curled up like a kitten, tilted her head to look at Zong Zhenlei and said, "I drank too much tea today, I don't sleep at all, I just want to get tired of being by your side." ”

Zong Zhenlei felt like he was being teased by cat hair, and he really wanted to find a place to stop the car and see how Li Ruhui wanted to "get tired" of him.

He glanced at the electronic watch on the car, thought of the coming dawn, and suddenly, he thought of a quiet place.

Zong Zhenlei then drove on Changfeng Avenue and drove east along the street.

The topography of the city is two mountains and one river, so the entire urban plot is long and narrow from north to south, and short from east to west; At this time, there were very few vehicles on the street, and Zong Zhenlei's car went straight east along Changfeng Street, and soon entered the boundary of Dongshan.

Outside the car window, there was a scene of mountains and forests before dawn that were rapidly falling backwards, and Li Ruhui, who was squinting and leaning on the saddle, sat up straight: "Hey, where are you going?" ”