The sky was white.

The bell tower hidden in the bamboo forest, and the little novice yawned and went upstairs to ring the bell.

Living in this ancient temple on the mountain, with the morning bell and dusk drum in my ears, my daily life is like chanting the scriptures, and my perception of the passage of time seems to have slowed down.

It seemed to be the same hour as that day again, but once born and twice ripe, this time Ouyang Rong climbed out of the well and climbed over the fence, and walked away with his back as if nothing happened.

After discovering the secret blessing worth 10,000 merits, he stayed below for a long time, not chatting with the unknown master, but carefully and from beginning to end to inspect the dungeon several times.

He wanted to see if he could manually find or trigger this hidden blessing.

Because what if it was not the same "homecoming" he was expecting, but something else strange and lucky, it was not impossible, he had to rule it out.

But what made Ouyang Rong not know whether to be happy or disappointed...... He found nothing and returned in vain.

Ouyang Rong returned to Sanhui Courtyard, but he made a special detour - mainly avoiding his aunt's courtyard - not to mention, since the Zhen family came to live, the atmosphere of being a thief was full of him.

But this circumambulation happened to bump into the master of good guidance who was about to go to chant and fast.

The old monk was puzzled: "Why is Mingtang walking on tiptoe early in the morning?" ”

"It's ...... A popular morning exercise method at White Deer Cave Academy. ”

"It's the old man who is short of knowledge."

As soon as the two passed by, Ouyang Rong seemed to think of something, and looked back curiously:

"By the way, I haven't asked you what sect Donglin Temple is cultivating? Zen or Vinaya? ”

"Neither, Zen Buddhism is in the west, and Vinaya Buddhism is in the north." Master Shandao shook his head, "The small temple is in the south, and the cultivation is orthodox in the Lotus Sect, but the Ming Hall can also call us the Pure Land Sect." ”

"Pure Land Sect...... Ouyang Rong raised his eyes and asked, "Do you say that there really is a Pure Land in this world?" ”

Master Shandao nodded immediately. "Absolutely. Isn't that old man's uncle an example? ”

"If so, where is this Pure Land?"

Master Shandao pointed to Ouyang Rong's heart, "The Pure Land is here, the Pure Land in Mingtang's heart has always been in Mingtang's own heart, why do you want to ask the old monk as an outsider." ”

Ouyang Rong nodded, "It's me who is in the picture." ”

Master Shandao glanced at him, "There is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not, in fact, the day before yesterday, I found that Mingtang had been depressed and had obstacles in his heart. ”

Ouyang Rong looked directly at the old monk and asked humbly: "How to get rid of obstacles?" ”

Master Shandao didn't answer, lowered his eyes and straightened out the monk's clothes, straightened out his clothes, and before leaving, he only raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Sanhui Temple, turned around and left slowly.

Ouyang Rong stood in place for a while, then turned his head and returned to Sanhui Courtyard.

As he walked in the door, he stopped abruptly and looked up at the plaque hanging on the lintel.

On the book "Three Wisdom".

"What is Sanhui? Smelling, thinking, and cultivating, all three are also ...... Hearing must be heard, thinking must be considered, and cultivation must be truthful. ”

Ouyang Rong's voice went from low to high, like understanding from shallow to deep, and he raised his head and said loudly: "Ouyang Lianghan, let me ask you again, how to break the barrier?" ”

Self-answer: "Lie down and smell it, sit and think about it, get up and... Go! ”

Confucian smiled, threw up his sleeves, and entered the room.

……

"Leave the temple today."

At the dining table, the new weak crown county commander of Longcheng put down the dishes and chopsticks one by one.

"Nope." Zhen lowered his head and sipped the porridge, but his eyelids did not rise.

"Auntie, my nephew is informing you, not discussing; The nephew has already asked Yan Zhutou to inform them, and the host is there, and the nephew also asked, and the master said that the nephew's body has recovered seven or eight and can go down the mountain. ”

"Chop first, then play?"

"It's long overdue."

"The water under the mountain has receded seven or eight, why are you going down?"

"It is the most critical time to start disaster relief after retreating seven or eight, my nephew is the Longcheng Order, and he can't hide in the mountains after being injured, and throw it to his subordinates."

"What to throw to the subordinate officials, there is not much responsibility for Tan Lang in the big water under the mountain, you have just taken office, and it is a once-in-a-few years Yun Mengze rising water, the flood that occurred during the coma, this force majeure, no one will hold Tan Lang responsible."

"If you don't have responsibility, can you sit back and sleep peacefully?"

Zhen put down the bowl, took the handkerchief from his semi-thin hand, wiped his mouth, and began to follow slowly:

"Okay, then you go down the mountain, don't worry about your aunt, just leave it to fend for yourself in this ancient temple in the deep mountains, don't just leave the house, the child who has been raised for twenty years is not as reliable as the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha."

Speaking of this, she was able to bring a little crying in her tsundere's resolute tone, and the woman tilted her head to "quietly" wipe her tears.

Ouyang Rong's face remained unchanged, and his aunt beat him as ungrateful and unfilial, but he didn't wait for a long time for the dull sound of wooden fish, it seems that the Buddha can't stand it.

He continued to propose: "Auntie doesn't want to stay here, so why don't you send someone to send Auntie back to Nanlong?" ”

"Don't!" Zhen immediately cut it down.

“……”

She glared, "Tan Lang is an official now, and his wings are stiff, so he doesn't want to take his aunt to enjoy happiness together, right?" ”

Ouyang Rong said solemnly: "The Great Zhou Decree stipulates that the local county order must be thousands of miles away from home to serve, and it is not allowed to bring relatives and villagers to work together for profit. ”

"Heh, Aunt Da Zhou Ling hasn't read it, but don't try to fool your aunt as a parent's request."

Zhen seemed to be smiling, "This kind of relative is talking about a man's relative who can show his face, and he has no objection to carrying relatives like his mother, and even encourages it. ”

Ouyang Rong coughed with his fists covered, "It's okay, it's okay." But I heard from Rokuro that the county government was flooded, so I'll wait to go down the mountain, settle down first, and then pick up my aunt ......"

Zhen didn't care about this, and interrupted someone who wanted to change the topic with a smile, "And ah, does the Great Zhou Decree still stipulate that the county order must bring his wife and daughter to take office together, if there is really none, he must also bring a concubine, and during his tenure in the local area, the supervisor cannot marry the daughter of the local supervisee, otherwise he will be convicted...... This one, the county lord should be more familiar than the village girl, right? ”

Ouyang Rong had a straight face, he was surprised, why did the Zhen family be so confused about some things, and smart about some things to death. Nephew nemesis, right?

"Then our dutiful Ouyang County Order, shouldn't you consider marriage?"

"......" Auntie, this map of Yan Country is really a bit long, and she only drew her dagger now. Ouyang Rong felt.

But this time, since he decided to go down the mountain and take up his post and do a good job, he no longer avoided it.

"It's impossible for a nephew to marry a girl with five surnames."

Ouyang Rong looked at Zhen squarely.

"Why not? Tan Lang is a righteous gentleman who is famous all over the world when he is weak,"

"Simple, lintel." Ouyang Rong raised his palm and made a slight gesture between his foreheads.

"What's wrong with the lintel, our Nanlong Ouyang clan ......"

Ouyang Rong nodded and told the truth: "Our Nanlong Ouyang clan does not have any lintel, in the eyes of the five surnames and seven wangs." Our Ouyang family, the last time there was a character, it was in the Han Dynasty. ”

"......" Zhen.

"Even the imperial examination that my nephew took was ...... for the five surnames and seven wangs Well, the aunt should know that the nephew was given the official Lintai orthography by the empress at the apricot garden banquet, that is, the former secretary of the provincial school Shulang, who must be born in the clear stream, and is the clear stream in the clear stream.

"But do you know that every year in the Great Zhou Imperial Examination, the world's poor families, and the north and south take scholars, only thirty or forty people can be selected, and among these people, only Zhuang Yuanlang and a few people can be selected by the harsh officials and elected to this official."

After a pause, Ouyang Rong spit out lightly: "And such an official position, the children of the scholar clan who are born with five surnames and seven wangs can directly hold it, and the elders can recommend it, without the imperial examination." ”

Zhen wanted to speak and stopped.

Ouyang Rong comforted softly: "Auntie, in the eyes of the five surnames and seven wangs, we are the cold door of the cold family. Even the Da Qianli clan, who has been the Son of Heaven for nearly a hundred years, is regarded by them as a sub-clan mixed with Yi blood. They are ashamed to marry their surnames, so they ...... Let's not think about it for a while. ”

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, Shiyan Gaohua was headed by five surnames, Cui Li Lu Wang Xie, a total of five surnames and seven wangs.

Among them, Boling Cui, Qinghe Cui, Longxi Li, Fanyang Lu, and Taiyuan Wang are the county surnames, which are the highest families in the north.

The Langya Wang family and the Chen Jun Xie family are overseas Chinese surnames and are Jiangzuo Shi clans...... That is, the highest gate of the Southern Shi clan. However, the second look in the south is at the end of the seventh look.

Because in the magnificent struggle between the north and the south before the great unification, it was the Sui Qian from the Northern Dynasty who finally won, pacified the Southern Chen, and realized another great unification of the north and the south, and the center of the current Great Zhou Empire is Luoyang and Chang'an in Guanzhong, and the north is the traditional hinterland of the Central Plains, so in this dynasty, the northern five hopes are stronger than the southern Wang Xie.

Among them, especially the Boling Cui clan is the most, and is promoted by the world as the crown of the scholars.

And as far as Ouyang Rong knows, these five surnames and seven wangs are not just as simple as family legends and generations of hairpins, I heard that these seven highest gate valves in the world, each family is more or less closely related to the three worldly sects of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, or Confucianism, or metaphysics, or Taoist heirlooms, and even more, it also involves a more secret inheritance of qi practitioners outside the world.

And those who can survive the chaotic struggle between the north and the south and the family, and whose family lineage continues to the Great Zhou Dynasty, are all thousand-year-old families with terrible heritage, and even the genealogy can be traced back to the pre-Qin, and the pre-Qin qi practitioners recorded in the ancient books are in the same era.

Ouyang Rong said again: "And when Gaozong was in power, in order to suppress the five surnames and seven wangs, he issued an edict prohibiting the marriage of the most descendant families, but now it looks like the marriage ban edict has not achieved any effect at all, but has raised the value of these seven wangmen in disguise, making them a glorious and isolated 'marriage ban family'...... In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that even you and your mother have heard of the dignity of the 'five surnamed women' in the countryside, and the people are sought after...... It's really conceivable. ”

In the words of Ouyang Rong's previous life, this "forbidden marriage family" is the existence at the top of the contempt chain in the blind date market of the Great Zhou Empire, and women, children, and children are all raising prices.

Zhen frowned, "It's really so difficult?" Isn't my Tanlang the first-class man in the world, this can't work? ”

The corners of Ouyang Rong's mouth twitched, and he got up to help the lower half clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

"Don't you even have a chance to be on the sidelines?" Zhen is still immortal.

"The end of the side branch, others are not stupid, they have already made a move, I heard that the marriage ban edict is the prime minister of Gaozong's humble family when he was rejected for marriage, so he suggested Gaozong's. There is no family background of the four products. ”

Zhen frowned, "How can it be so troublesome......"

Ouyang Rong took the half-handed hot towel, rubbed his face, seemed to think of something, and smiled: "The Beidi Shi clan is still married, the Jiangzuo Shi clan is still a figure, the Guan Zhong clan is still crowned, and the Beishi clan is still a noble relative." Which of your nephews do you think is on top? Well, there's no such thing as a 'handsome man'. ”

Zhen glared at him, then didn't speak.

Ouyang Rong also pretended to be as depressed as her, but in fact, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and finally let his aunt die.

"Jiangzuo Shi clan is still a figure...... Coincidentally, isn't my Tanlang the dragon and phoenix among people......" Zhen muttered.

Ouyang Rong smiled and didn't answer, sometimes it's not good to be disillusioned too quickly, let the aunt slowly recognize it...... He washed his hands and prepared to go out.

But she didn't expect that the woman in the skirt behind her suddenly asked, "Tan Lang, is your academy teacher's surname Xie?" ”

Ouyang Rong was stunned, "Yes, what's wrong?" Helpless: "Don't think nonsense." I'm out of the house. ”

He felt a little inexplicable, but he didn't care about Zhen and left Sanhui Academy.

Inside the house, Zhen held his chin with his hand, looking at the back of someone going out, and Danfeng's eyes were bent.

"Really, I have to give you a chance to grasp it."

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