"Xiuzhen, you said, we are out of the Infernal Hell, but what should we do if we are still trapped in the Infernal Hell.

"Maybe they don't think that hell is under their feet, because they have never seen the Pure Land and the world, so they live contentedly, being cows and horses.

"But we are the only ones who are not self-sufficient and come here...... No, I don't want it, you can eat it......

"You say, are we both crazy in the eyes of the world?"

Late at night, claustrophobic dungeon.

Ouyang Rong paused, waved his hand, and politely refused Xiu's sincere delivery of mung bean cake.

Xiuzhen was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and twisted a piece of pastry, chewing beautifully, and didn't know what Ouyang Rong said, so he understood a few words.

Or is it just noisy?

Ouyang Rong chuckled.

He turned his head silently.

The dungeon is wide and has echoes.

Four faded frescoes remain on the four walls.

On the ground in the center of the underground palace, there is a half-meter-high girdle and a lotus seat.

At this moment, Ouyang Rong was sitting cross-legged on the lotus seat.

He was dressed in a wide gray monk's robe.

The monks of Donglin Temple are dressed up like Xiuzhen, but their heads are not shaved.

On the stone rosette behind him, there was an empty bag containing a thin soap suit and felt hat.

This is the outfit that Ouyang Rong wore when he came, and he just changed into a monk's robe.

Xiuzhen sat on the ground next to the stone rosette, holding a pastry in his hand, and eating it with relish.

A beam of gray moonlight shone obliquely from the wellhead above, and happened to fall on Ouyang Rong on the lotus seat.

This is the only light in the dark dungeon.

Ouyang Rong's face was silent, and his shoulders were slackened.

He sat cross-legged like a lotus, propped his hands behind him, and looked up at the only exit ten meters above.

"What is the origin of this inexplicable merit pagoda in my mind.

"After I go back, will it be easier for me to accumulate merit...... I guess it works, maybe it's easier.

"If you share the treasured things for free, you can harvest a bunch of 'good people's lives are safe', and the merit will come, and the family will do nothing, and the merit will rise slowly......

"It's just simple mode.

"Very good, I have thought about the way to go back and develop, but why don't you go for a long time?"

Ouyang Rong looked at the sky and muttered, as if he was talking to himself, and as if he was talking to Xiuzhen.

"Xiuzhen, do you say that this wave of my return and ascension to the Pure Land is like your Taishi Uncle Ancestor, or is it flying with people and clothes and bodies? If you don't go back, you go back naked.

"Forget it, when Master Zhenma ascended here, you weren't born yet, and it was in vain to ask.

"But you have to prepare with both hands, in case it is the flesh and clothes fly back together, the original dress of the soap suit and felt hat is not very suitable, the atmosphere of the times is too strong, out of place.

"It's better to change into this monk's robe, whether it's to return to the Donglin Temple on that day or where...... I hope it's not a sewer, or a white room and a white bed......"

Under a beam of cold and white moonlight, the handsome young man who changed into a monk's robe and was ready to read something.

He slumped his shoulders and sat cross-legged on a rosette.

The body did not move.

After this grind, the moonlight falling from the wellhead became fainter and fainter.

Outside the dungeon, the sky was almost dawn.

However, the days are long and the nights are short, and the summer nights are very short.

Ouyang Rong nodded thoughtfully, and found a new excuse.

On the ground next to the rosette, Xiuzhen didn't know when to get up, put away the remaining pastries, and lowered his head to seriously scratch the lice on his body.

At a certain moment, Xiuzhen suddenly turned his head and said to the people who had not returned:

"Hey, why hasn't the donor left yet?"

Ouyang Rong: ......

The air in front of the lotus pedestal suddenly fell silent for a while.

Ouyang Rong turned his head silently.

One last glance at Xiuzhen.

He nodded.

Leaning over, he reached out and groped, and his fingertips touched the line of inscriptions under the rosette, where the moonlight could not shine.

The ground inscription is covered with dust, and there are only four words:

Return.

Xiuzhen was stunned for a moment, paused, and continued to care:

"Donor, go away, there is the Infernal Hell above, where you are sitting is too close, come to the little monk."

Saying that, Xiuzhen was going to pull Ouyang Rong away from the lotus pedestal in the center of the underground palace.

It turns out that this is what it really means to let him "go".

Ouyang Rong smiled.

But he shook his head, and his hand was not withdrawn, clinging to the stone carvings on the ground.

In the depths of the lacquer-like eyes of the young man sitting on the rosette, a strong purple light gushed out, penetrating the clear pupils, and the halo faintly diverged.

This scene, in the dim moonlight of the dark underground palace, was like two immortal crape myrtle stars.

In a certain merit tower, the blessing bell shook greatly, and purple qi and money poured out.

"It's still 10,000 merits...... I have already saved enough, and there are still 19,000 and 120 merits left, which is more than enough. He whispered.

"Donor, you, your eyes ......"

Xiuzhen, who originally wanted to pull people out of the sea of suffering, took a step back in fright.

His withered face showed a look of sudden realization, and he jumped to his feet.

Xiuzhen's right hand pointed to Ouyang Rong with purple eyes for a while, and pointed behind him, that is, the mural of "Prince Sata sacrificed his life to feed the tiger" on the east wall of the underground palace, and danced with his hands:

"Look at the donor, it's exactly the same, it's exactly the same."

Ouyang Rong turned a deaf ear, suddenly looked back, looked in the direction of Longcheng County from afar, sat upright, and said in a curious tone:

"I view the Longcheng County Chronicles record, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Tao Yuanming, said that his family was poor, in order to make wine money, went to Longcheng as an order, recklessly did nothing, drank and released deer, but it was difficult to resist the officials to govern the dark, people were tired, and the heart was a form of service, only 81 days of county orders, hanging the seal and leaving, resigning and retreating.

"After the dynasty Di Gong, degraded Longcheng, for the official one term, for the benefit of one party, four years of term, the case is like a god, for the people to ask for life, and to build water conservancy, supervise the construction of sluices, almost cure the butterfly stream flood, during the term of office, outstanding performance of the world, glorious to take office, the day of leaving the county, Longcheng empty lane, folding willows ten miles and ten miles, the people are difficult to give up.

"Let's ask, a hundred years later, how will the Longcheng County Chronicles write about me Ouyang Lianghan?"

Bowing his head and pondering for a moment, looking back, Ouyang Rong touched the blessing with his hand, smiled and nodded:

"My heart is bright, what can I say?"

After a sigh, the dim underground palace and the purple light flickered.

Return to silence.

Outside the wellhead of the underground palace, there is a light gradually brightening.

……

Xie Lingjiang smelled the smell of gardenias.

Light fragrance, fragrant around the nose, but not greasy.

It's the same as the breath emanating from the elder brother when he asked her for a night walk after bathing.

It's just that every time in the past, Xie Lingjiang turned his head in the dark night, "attracted" by the roadside scenery, and Qiong's nose shrugged slightly.

On the streets of Penglangdu Wharf, Xie Lingjiang, who stopped and turned her head, had a slightly hot cheek, she hurriedly drove away her thoughts, and continued to move forward without squinting.

"Is it the summer solstice, no wonder the flowers are blooming...... Well, the book says that the flowers bloom on the Mo, and you can slowly return...... Hmph, he has never been in a hurry, and never sent a letter urging me to return early, which is very reassuring that I am outside? ”

Xie Lingjiang muttered. When she returned from the dust, she was not in a hurry after approaching Luming Street.

She reached out and touched a certain Dan box in her arms, which she had worked so hard to get.

Carrying this thing, she returned from Longhu Mountain all the way, and she was extra cautious, so she slowed down her trip a little, but she still sensed Yan Liulang's broken jade information, so she accelerated her pace and returned two days earlier, but she was also a lot tired.

Arriving at Luming Street and seeing familiar things, Xie Lingjiang smiled lightly and turned his head to look at the gardenia trees planted on the side of the road.

Summer has arrived, and the gardenia trees on both sides of the streets of Longcheng are in full bloom.

Presumably, the elder brother will smell the fragrance of flowers every day, right?

Xie Lingjiang's eyes were bent into crescents, and his steps were much brisker.

Passing by the Longcheng County Ya, she did not enter immediately, but quickly passed by and rushed towards the direction of the officials' house.

This is a matter of official business, and it is the most urgent matter at present.

The elder brother doesn't like the kind of woman whose mother-in-law and mother love men and women all day long.

For the independent case he sent to her for the first time, Xie Lingjiang was very serious!

"Wait, wait until I'm done with the case, and then I'll ask you for a gift......"

After a stick of incense.

Arriving at the official house, Xie Lingjiang immediately glanced around the house, and saw that the furnishings in the house and the people who guarded it were all there, as if there was no major problem, and he let out a long sigh.

"What's going on? Why did you suddenly break the jade and summon me back? ”

Some worries fell in her heart, and she immediately asked Yan Liulang.

The latter got up in surprise: "Master Xie, are you back?" ”

Xie Lingjiang nodded, walked immediately, looked at the unconscious Jade Fairy, and frowned slightly:

"Have you eaten the two detoxification pills, why haven't you woken up yet? What's the matter with urging me to come back? ”

"I've eaten it for her, but I'm awake, but I'm awake, but then I ......"

"What happened?"

Yan Liulang's face was ashamed, and he told all the accidents that happened that day.

Xie Ling Jiang Xiu's eyebrows furrowed even tighter, without saying a word, he rolled up his sleeves and took the pulse for a moment.

She exhaled slightly.

"How's Miss Xie?"

Xie Lingjiang glanced at Yan Liulang and groaned:

"It was the aura that suddenly went against the grain, causing the meridians to be congested and blocked, but fortunately it didn't hurt the vital heart veins......

"This woman's aura cultivation is damaged, but waking up is not a problem, but she still needs to consume a Rejuvenation Pill, and it just so happened that the elders of Ge Soap Mountain gave me a few Rejuvenation Pills before parting."

Yan Liulang and the others looked at each other, their eyes happy.

Xie Lingjiang reached into his arms and was about to take out something, but his hand was halfway out, paused, and glanced sideways at Yan Liulang and the others.

Seeing this, the latter immediately went out to avoid it.

Hearing the sound of the door closing again, Xie Lingjiang continued to take things in his arms.

Important things are usually kept in her arms, including the rejuvenation pill that heals and saves lives in times of crisis.

Xie Lingjiang put a slender jade hand into his arms, first took out a faintly fragrant pill box, then took out the medicine bottle containing the rejuvenation pill, and then quickly put the pill box away.

This golden pill is too important, and it is indispensable to guard against people.

After a while, Xie Lingjiang took out a rejuvenation pill, sat on the edge of the bed, and fed the jade fairy with closed eyes.

Immediately, after checking the pulse, Xie Lingjiang sent some more aura.

The Jade Maiden's eyes moved, and she calmed down again.

Xie Lingjiang sneered: "Dare to pretend when you wake up?" ”

After speaking, he continued to poke and completely seal the jade acupuncture points.

"Okay, now that I'm awake, now I'm going to settle an account with you, isn't it fun to pretend to be my senior brother that day? Come, let's talk about it......"

Xie Lingjiang squinted his eyes and lifted the futon.

The jade fairy hurriedly opened her eyes, her complexion was still a little weak, and she stammered and begged for mercy:

"Wait...... Wait! I was wrong, I regret not being at the beginning, spare my life, I ...... I also hate the Liu family very much now, and I can't wait for the Liu family to die! And...... And I have something important to expose! About the Yanagi family! As long as you promise not to kill me, I'll tell you all! ”

Xie Lingjiang paused slightly, tilted his head and squinted: "Let's hear it." ”

The jade fairy hesitated, shrank back, and asked timidly:

"Really don't kill me?"

Xie Lingjiang nodded: "You say, if it is really satisfactory, I promise that I will not kill you." ”

The jade fairy didn't think much about the extra word "I", probably thinking that this girl was not as deep as before, simple and immature...... She let out a long sigh of relief:

"It's a big conspiracy planned by the Liu family...... Wait, what day is it? ”

The Jade Maiden spoke slowly......

After half a stick of incense.

In front of the bed, Xie Lingjiang, who was frowning and listening, changed his face suddenly, rushed out of the door, and the breath that erupted made the trees in the courtyard rattle, and the people waiting outside the door only heard an urgent sentence she dropped in the sudden wind:

"Big things are wrong! The Liu family is so ambitious, they have to inform the senior brother immediately, Yan Liulang, you are here to watch the prisoners! ”

Liulang's face was anxious, and he was stunned again: "Looking for Mingfu?" Ming Fu took leave to go back to his hometown, and he hasn't come back yet......"

"Leave? Homecoming? Xie Lingjiang's figure turned back and asked.

Yan Liulang immediately said everything, and by the way, he also told Miaozhen and the others about the dangerous experience of coming that day.

Xie Ling Jiang stomped his feet anxiously, and his willow eyebrows were upside down: "Why didn't Liulang say it earlier!" ”

Yan Liulang and the others were silent.

"Senior brother is gone, how to stop the Liu family! That Xinding sword is almost ready......" Xie Ling Jiang hurriedly circled left and right, stopping and turning his head at a moment, "Wait, how is it from my uncle's side?" If the sword is forged here, will there be a conspiracy involving the uncle's family? ”

Xie Lingjiang quickly told Yan Liulang a few words, turned around and rushed out, she rushed to the Su Mansion on Luming Street, rushed into the door, and looked for the others.

The maid told the people, and the family quickly gathered.

"Are you alright?"

"I didn't ...... It's okay, why is the virtuous niece in such a hurry? Curious asks.

Seeing that everyone was fine, Xie Lingjiang breathed a sigh of relief, pursed his lips, and prepared to organize the wording.

At this time, Su Bao'er was dressed in a purple robe, wearing a jade lotus crown, and holding a scroll of Xuan Jing slowly, as if she had just burned incense and chanted the scriptures, and rushed to hear the sound.

Coming to Xie Lingjiang, she stretched out a right palm.

On the open white palm, a key is lying quietly.

Su Bao'er's tone was light:

"He left it, let the Xie family sister come back, go to his house, and say that there is something left for you."

Xie Ling Jiang Jiao's body stiffened slightly, and she froze in place, and she suddenly slowed down and stood still in place.

"Stay...... Give me? Stay? ”

This noble daughter of the Xie family chewed the words in a daze, and after a while, she slowly raised her hand and took the key.

Xie Jinjiang lowered his head and turned around, and everyone couldn't see her expression for a while.

Only a bare hand clutched the cold key.

(End of chapter)