Kuzhu took the bag from the burden and put it on his shoulder, and said to Xiao Qingyan: "The matter of the poor monk promising Lord Xiao is over, and it is time to say goodbye." ”

"Master, where are you going?"

The withered bamboo looked at the barren mounds one after another with pity, looked at the vast world, and sighed softly: "Poor monk...... I don't know. ”

Xiao Qingyan asked again: "Isn't the master translating Buddhist scriptures in Bodhi Temple?" ”

"The Dharma is in the world, and it is not separated from the world. Leaving the world to find Bodhi is just like asking for a rabbit's horns. There is no Bodhi in the Bodhi Temple, and the poor monks should enter the world to preach Bodhi. The withered bamboo walked alone towards the front.

"Just say that you have to go to practice to seek the truth." Xiao Qingyan muttered.

The thin body of the withered bamboo paused slightly, looked back at her, and smiled: "The poor monks will chant sutras every day, begging the Buddha to bless Lord Xiao." ”

Seeing the old monk walk away, the cry of the Ji family brothers was heard in his ears, Xiao Qingyan said to himself: "All living beings are suffering, and the only way is to cross by themselves." It is better to seek from the Buddha than to seek from yourself. ”

Xiao Qingyan asked Nie Yao to stay behind to protect the six clan sisters and others.

Before she left Luo Jing, she had to meet someone again.

Royal Palace, Yonghuatai.

When Xiao Qingyan arrived quickly, Qian Feng had already been waiting here for a long time, and there was a gap in the side door of the palace behind him, which was only enough for one person to pass through, and the guards inside the door were looking around.

"The head of the house, it's already done." Qian Feng tied the horse.

The two followed the guards into Yonghuatai together.

The palace garden is deep, the green bricks on the ground have long been cracked, and the once gorgeous palace buildings are also overgrown with weeds.

The guard leading the way pointed to a palace and said, "It's inside." ”

There was a piercing "squeak" sound at the door of the temple, long spider silk hung down on the door, and choking dust rushed to the face.

Xiao Qingyan raised his sleeves and waved the dust.

The white-haired old woman sat alone in the hall, her hair was scattered, and she was no longer the Empress Dowager Yang who sat in the Ming Hall and controlled life and death.

She raised her head slowly, and an old and withered face met Xiao Qingyan's eyes, but she was not an ordinary old woman after all, and there was still a sharp and gloomy light in her deep sunken eye sockets.

In the past, I only knew that my grandfather hated the Empress Dowager Yang to the core, and the Empress Dowager Yang also wanted to get rid of the Xiao family and hurry up, and countless clansmen and disciples of the Xiao family died in the hands of the Empress Dowager Yang, but this was the first time Xiao Qingyan saw the Empress Dowager Yang with his own eyes.

"You ......" Empress Dowager Yang didn't speak for a long time, and her voice was a little hoarse.

Qian Feng closed the door of the palace, blocking the dazzling light.

Empress Dowager Yang also saw the face of the young man in white clearly, her phoenix eyes were sparkling, and she was absolutely innocent, as if she was born with a unique gift, and she had taken away the creation of heaven and earth, which made people can't help but yearn for it and be crazy jealous.

Empress Dowager Yang smiled wistfully: "You are Xiao Pei's grandson!" You are like him when you were younger, more like him than your father. ”

"Thank you for the Queen Mother still thinking about my grandfather." Xiao Qingyan's tone was cold, "The Queen Mother is wise, she should know the purpose of my coming." ”

Empress Dowager Yang sneered: "Are you here to avenge your grandfather?" ”

Xiao Qingyan's face did not change: "The court fight, either you die or I die, it has nothing to do with right or wrong, only interests, grandfather just lost, if he didn't despise women back then, the chess game is missing, it is you who dies, there is only winning or losing between you and him, there is no grudge." ”

Empress Dowager Yang strangely pulled the corners of her mouth up: "This is what he said?" ”

Xiao Qingyan didn't answer, she studied with her grandfather for twelve years, and this is the idea that her grandfather instilled in her more than once.

There is no right or wrong in political struggle, let alone emotion, only winning or losing.

Empress Dowager Yang grinned on chapped lips, and her scattered white hair swayed in front of her eyes.

"There are no grudges...... There is no grudge, he really doesn't have it, he doesn't have any of it, but how does he know that I don't? ”

Empress Dowager Yang smiled, her voice leisurely.

"Xiao family, have you ever been tempted by someone? Haunted by dreams, thinking about it day and night, seeing blooming flowers will think of him, seeing the moonlight next to the pillow will also think of him, feel that he is not bad anywhere, want to hold his hand, listen to him, as long as he smiles, willing to give him everything he has. ”

Xiao Qingyan said indifferently: "No." ”

She has been moved by a person, and she also regards that person as the white moonlight in her heart, and feels that the other party is not good, but she never thought of giving everything she has to the other party.

Xiao Qingyan couldn't understand this kind of thinking.

Empress Dowager Yang smiled faintly: "Do you know how dazzling your grandfather was when he was young?" Although he has married and had children, there are still countless famous daughters who are obsessed with him, and I am also a woman......"

Empress Dowager Yang's eyes were fascinated, as if she was reminiscing about the past.

No matter how ruthless a person is, it is inevitable that there will be a gentle past.

Empress Dowager Yang showed a bitter smile, as if laughing at herself: "I know, he has never looked at me squarely, or rather, he has never treated me as a woman, I am just his ally, no, he is so arrogant, in his eyes I am not worthy of being his ally at all, just a valuable chess piece he manipulates." ”

Xiao Qingyan sketched in his mind the appearance of his grandfather when he was young, handsome and incomparable, indulging in the mountains and rivers arbitrarily, watching everyone surrender at his feet, the spring breeze was proud, and his spirit was graceful.

To women, he was like a poison, deadly, and attractive.

Empress Dowager Yang's gaze suddenly turned to Xiao Qingyan's face: "If I also have a flawless face, maybe he will still look at me." ”

Empress Dowager Yang touched her face and laughed at herself: "I know, I'm not a beauty, he doesn't look down on me......"

Xiao Qingyan didn't want to follow Empress Dowager Yang to indulge in illusory imagination, in her opinion, Empress Dowager Yang didn't love her grandfather at all.

Empress Dowager Yang was as arrogant as her grandfather, and they believed that the noblest status, the supreme power, and the most beautiful things in the world should belong to them.

No matter how much I admire people, no matter how beautiful things are, I can't easily give them up, and if they hinder my position of power, they must be ruthlessly destroyed.

"I'm not interested in your business, I just want to ask, who was the mastermind of the destruction of Fufeng City back then?"

Empress Dowager Yang was stunned for a moment, a little surprised, and seemed to smile: "What?" Do you want to avenge your father? ”

"The revenge of killing my father is not shared." Not for herself, for A-Niang.

Empress Dowager Yang laughed and mocked: "Didn't you just say that the court battle has nothing to do with right or wrong, and there is no grudge?" ”

There is indeed no right or wrong in political struggle, but if the means used for the sake of struggle are cruel and countless innocent lives are killed, even if they win, they deserve to die.

Xiao Qingyan didn't want to reason with her, it was pointless to play the piano to the cow.

"Who is the mastermind?"