Xie Lingjiang dressed in red, walked the path, and passed through a plum blossom forest.

She pushed open a small door and walked into a quiet, empty courtyard.

This road is the forest path behind Mei Yingzhai, where Bao'er lives.

Xie Ling Jiang Qiao's face was in a trance, and she forgot what Lixian, Wei Mei, Libao'er and others had said to her or told her before she left in Su Mansion.

In the field of vision, the swing under the grape trellis in the yard seems to be swaying back and forth, wondering, why are the white clouds in the sky and the light and shadow of the grape trellis on the ground also shaking?

Xie Lingjiang's eyes were in a trance, he lowered his head, and used the key that had been warmed in the palm of his hand, and tried twice before aiming at the keyhole.

"Click".

The door opened.

The sunlight that followed Xie Lingjiang into the house illuminated the dust in the air in the house in front of her.

There was a faint smell of old clothes in the air.

Dressed in red, he lowered his hands to his side and entered the house alone.

Thousands of particles of dust in the sunlight seemed to be squeezed by the visitors who walked into the house, flying around, impatiently and impatiently.

Xie Lingjiang walked to the Eight Immortals table in front of him.

A white hand stretched out from under the red sleeves.

The right palm with the fingers bent slowly caress over the table, familiar or unfamiliar:

Official seals, ribbons.

Two seven-grade water green official uniforms.

Jade target white sandalwood skirt knife.

A wax-sealed letter with a fire lacquer seal.

There is also a pot of Gentleman's Orchid, with a water scoop placed on the clamshell.

Xie Lingjiang's fingers hung in the air, and he slowly stroked the things that these senior brothers "left" for her.

The sunlight that shone obliquely outside the house only climbed up to Xie Lingjiang's slender waist in red, which could illuminate the relics on the table of the Eight Immortals.

She bowed her head.

Stood in the sun for a while.

The palm of the hand falls last.

I picked up the envelope first.

Xie Lingjiang silently tore open the fire paint seal that was sticking to the seal, took out a folded piece of letterhead, and spread out the four corners.

She looked down, leaned in to the sunlight, and looked.

The familiar and elegant font comes into view.

But he was telling about something that Xie Lingjiang felt extremely strange at this moment.

Probably because she was motionless at the table.

The dust drifting in the sunlight of the room gradually fell, and the air was like a freshly fired porcelain statue that was gradually solidifying.

At some point, Xie Lingjiang put down the letter.

Turning his head to look at the slowly swaying Junzi Lan on the table, he was stunned.

After a few moments, pick up the letter paper in your hand again.

Keep your head down and read silently.

This time, I don't know how long it has been.

The sun is slowly setting in the west.

The sunlight outside the door slowly faded from her waist to the knees of her long straight legs.

Xie Lingjiang suddenly folded the letter in half, quickly put it in his arms, and turned around and went out without looking back.

She came to an empty swing in the courtyard and sat down with her head down.

In the silent courtyard, there are red clothes slowly swinging.

The swing is under the grape trellis.

The plump grapes between the vines on the grape trellis had already been picked by a certain senior brother and sent to Yilanxuan.

Only one swing remains.

Xie Lingjiang has actually always wanted to play on the swing.

It's just that I can't pull down my face every time, and the dough is too thin.

She remembers that when she was a child, her family lived in an elegant and quiet courtyard in the mountains, not the deep and luxurious ancestral house of Wuyi Lane in Jinling.

Although you are a child of the Xie family of Chen County, my father has always disliked the hustle and bustle, and after refusing the invitation of the new dynasty, he lived in seclusion in the mountains for a long time.

Xie Lingjiang clearly remembers that in the mountain yard where he grew up studying when he was a child, there was also a grape trellis, and there was a swing left by his predecessors under the shelf.

It was one of the few pleasures she had when she was immersed in hard reading as a child.

By the way, there are also lovely grapes on the grape trellis, Xie Lingjiang loves to eat them very much, and every year he tiptoes and looks forward to the season when the grapes are ripe.

It's just that later, my mother, who was stricter than my father, felt that swinging all day long was not doing her job properly and affecting her studies, which was not done by the lady Xie of Zhilan Yushu.

So the swing was removed, and the vines on the wooden frame were cut down, so that she could study and not be distracted.

Of course, crying was crying, but later Xie Lingjiang did live up to expectations, and at a young age, he was promoted to a Confucian female gentleman, and now he has not yet reached his twenties, and he has gone one step further and promoted to the seventh grade.

It's just that the vines and swings that were cut down in my memory have become one of the few regrets in Xie Lingjiang's childhood.

But when she grew up, it was clear that her mother had passed away, and her father was not strict with her, and he understood and respected her only daughter very much.

But after growing up and free, she never went to swing again.

As for grapes, they are indeed still the most favorite fruits to eat, but at the end of the year, I am busy studying and cultivating, but I also eat less. At most, someone asked her what she liked to eat, and she casually mentioned it.

These things were occasionally mentioned by Xie Lingjiang when chatting with the senior brother.

At that time, the senior brother didn't say anything, and quickly skipped the topic, Xie Lingjiang only said that he was not interested.

And during the day during that time, they were also busy fighting wits with the Liu family, and she didn't even care.

It's just that a few days ago, Xie Lingjiang returned from Gesoap Mountain, and suddenly found that under the grape trellis in his yard, there was an empty swing, swaying in the wind, which made Xie Lingjiang's mind swing with him at that time.

But at that time, Xie Lingjiang still couldn't pull down to play, but pouted and asked the senior brother on the swing, whether he was naïve, and refused his smiling invitation with a pretty face.

The main thing is that I can't let go of the reserve of the Xie noblewoman.

What are you kidding, she has grown so big and swinged, she is a Confucian female gentleman, dignified and cautious.

Moreover, the swing is quite large after all, and the senior brother of a certain upright gentleman has a history of not being honest in his eyes, and he still remembers it in the small book, Xie Lingjiang is of course not too embarrassed to sit on it and shake it......

On the swing under the grape trellis, a red dress gradually stopped, and took out the folding letter from his arms.

Look down.

With a tap of your toes, the swing continues to swing again.

But in the next second, the woman swinging suddenly received the letter, opened her mouth to the empty courtyard in front of her, and called her name:

"Resign and go into hiding? Ouyang Lianghan, you are so bold, you don't wait for me to come back to discuss, Ouyang Lianghan, you ...... Are you underwhelmed? ”

In an instant, a red dress flew out of the swing and rushed into the house.

She grabbed the skirt knife, pinned it to her slender waist, and strode out.

Xie Lingjiang didn't look at the official seals, official uniforms and other items on the table that implied that she helped resign, as well as the orchid scoop and other items that implied her to water the flowers.

She clutched the jade handle of the knife in her skirt and walked out of Merlot Park without saying a word.

Xie Lingjiang took the lead in going to the official mansion and interrogated the officials such as Diao Xiancheng and Yan Liulang who Ouyang Rong had contacted before leaving, and summarized the information and clues.

She wants to know where the senior brother who resigned and went into hiding!

Is it to come back to Nanlong's hometown honestly, or is it just a trick to avoid her search.

Xie Ling Jiang Zhu's lips tightened into a line.

She ran around the county, and after an afternoon of inquiry, the answers she could get were surprisingly consistent:

The elder brother took leave and returned to his hometown.

Everyone Xie Lingjiang came into contact with didn't know about Ouyang Rong's decision to resign, and she didn't reveal much about it.

At this moment, the sky was dark, Xie Ling Jiang walked out of the gate of the county government with a knife, and muttered in his mouth:

"Did you really go back to Nanlong? Don't think I'm afraid to look for ......."

After contemplating her eyebrows and thinking for a moment, she suddenly raised her head, and suddenly turned around and returned to Merlot Garden.

"By the way, there's also Liu'ashan! He usually walked closest to his senior brother, and happened to take leave. ”

Xie Lingjiang rushed back to Merlot Park and found Ah Qing's family who stayed in the house.

"What? Are you saying that your brother is also out for something, and it is the same day as the senior brother who took leave to return to Nanlong's hometown? ”

"Well, is Sister Xie looking for the master? The slave family thinks that the elder brother may have gone back with the master. Ah Qing raised a pair of big aura eyes and whispered a guess.

Xie Lingjiang didn't answer immediately, glanced at the water spirit girl, and smiled reluctantly.

Just turned her head, she walked out of the gate of A-Qing's house, still frowning slightly:

"Senior brother, let me help hand over the official seal and official uniform...... resigned for him, saying that he wanted to go into hiding, but what did he do when he took Ah Shan out of Longcheng County? Ah Shan has a family and a betrothed girl, so it is difficult to return to the countryside with him, this doesn't make sense......"

While contemplating his eyebrows, Xie Lingjiang's footsteps habitually and unconsciously turned towards the Meilin courtyard.

At this time, night falls.

Silently walked outside the wall of Meilin's small courtyard, Xie Lingjiang turned around, and prepared to rush to Peng Langdu overnight to take a boat, but in the next second, she suddenly turned her head.

There was a slight watering movement in the precincts.

"Senior brother is back?!"

Xie Lingjiang ran into the hospital, but what caught her eye was a slender figure in purple clothes, and her face was full of disappointment.

"What are you doing here?" Xie Lingjiang stiffened his little face and asked with a glance.

Inside the house, Li Bao'er was sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals, supporting his chin with one hand and leaning with a water scoop in the other.

A trickle of water falls from the scoop and soaks into the soil of the orchid pot.

"Obviously, watering the flowers." Li'er nodded.

Xie Lingjiang wanted to speak and stopped.

Li Bao'er looked down at Junzilan, and at the same time her pink lips lightly opened:

"Don't worry, except for watering the flowers, he didn't touch anything, and the sister of the Xie family doesn't need to worry too much."

Xie Lingjiang, who had been busy all afternoon and had found nothing, his shoulders were slightly loose, and he silently walked to the swing and sat down, dangling his feet in the air, and kicking back lightly.

Turning his head from Bao'er, he looked at the tired and lonely man girl in the yard, and her pretty face was curious:

"Doesn't Sister Xie never play on swings?"

Xie Lingjiang didn't answer, lowered his head and grabbed the rope, and shook his calves.

After a pause in his words, his eyes quickly glanced at the stunning scenery rippling like water waves somewhere, nodded and said:

"No wonder Sister Xie didn't play swings before, the scenery over there is really good, which can make other women ashamed."

Xie Lingjiang didn't have a smile on his cheeks, and his joke was a little cold.

Li Bao'er, who was dressed in a purple robe, chuckled lightly, but didn't care.

She turned her head and glanced at the official seals, official uniforms, ribbons and other items on the table, nodded and asked:

"Ouyang Lianghan is resigning?"

"Can you stop talking for now, I'll be quiet."

Bow your head slightly and place the flower pots.

She stood up, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, went out and left, muttering softly:

"Did you really resign? It seems that he should have gone there, well, it's a bit unexpected, does Confucianism still believe this, it seems that Ouyang Lianghan has dabbled in the three teachings of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and he is deeply hidden. ”

Xie Lingjiang pricked up his ears and raised his head suddenly: "What did you say!" ”

Li'er shook her head: "It's nothing, the sister of the Xie family continues to swing, and the slave family leaves first." ”

"You...... Don't go, say it again from my sister, do you know where the senior brother has gone? He didn't go back to Nanlong's hometown? Did you go somewhere else? ”

Xie Lingjiang grabbed Li'er's sleeve and asked a series of questions in a hurry.

Li Bao'er didn't answer immediately, tilted his head slightly to look at her, and asked:

"Why does Sister Xie want to find him so much, he should have left a letter to say it, it's just a personal choice, why is Sister Xie so reluctant?"

"I ......"

Xie Ling Jiang Qiao's face turned red, she stammered, and quickly nodded decisively:

"It's not that I'm reluctant, I just want to...... I want to beat him up! At a young age, he resigned and went into hiding, and he didn't say goodbye, he was too unfriendly, is he worthy of his family and teacher, yes, I want to teach him a lesson for Aunt Zhen and my father! ”

"Oh, really?" Squinted from the wrapper.

"Don't sell it, say it quickly!"

Li Bao'er pulled out her sleeve from her hand and said bluntly: "I should have gone to Donglin Temple, a place called Pure Land Palace." ”

"How do you know?"

Libao'er silently took out a book from his sleeve:

"I found it by chance, and this Buddhist scripture recorded the deeds of Master Zhenma of Donglin Temple who became a Buddha in the flesh and ascended to the Lotus Pure Land.

"The relevant pages were specially folded by him, and there were some bookmarks and annotations or something, well, worthy of a serious reader, he took a beautiful note when he read a Buddhist scripture."

Her three thousand green silk was raised by a jade lotus crown that exceeded the regulations, and her head was lightly tapped, expressing her approval of Ouyang Rong's seriousness.

"The same is true of several other related Buddhist scriptures, I think he should have read them often during this time, and he was very concerned about this matter, and he searched all the documents that were loaded."

"Donglin Temple? Master of the Heart? Soaring...... Pure Land? ”

Xie Lingjiang muttered, he didn't even care about breaking into his senior brother's room and rummaging through his bookshelf, or ignored it for the time being.

She immediately took the lone book, lowered her head and flipped through it, and after a while, she stomped her feet angrily, spun in place, and said urgently:

"How could Senior Brother believe this thing and not tell me! Tell me earlier.

"Do you still believe in Buddhism, wait, no wonder I met him in Donglin Temple, and there were a lot of Buddhist scriptures in the study, and I began to pay attention to these at that time, and I often run to Donglin Temple on weekdays......

"But the matter of becoming a Buddha in the flesh and ascending to the Pure Land is not reliable at all, and it is probably a misunderstanding, which my father also mentioned when he talked to me at the beginning.

"This master is not an ordinary person, it is likely that he was a Qi practitioner of the Lotus Sect of Donglin Temple back then, and his cultivation was extraordinary, so that the so-called miracles of the body were not bad after death, and the speculation of ascending to the Pure Land or something is not reliable.

"There is no Pure Land Fairyland in this world, only those crooked magicians believe in Fairyland and Immortality!

"Father also analyzed that the current Donglin Temple's inheritance of Qi Practitioner Dao is severe, and the last few hosts have no Qi Practice, maybe it is related to the disappearance and death of Master Zhenma's group of Qi practitioners! A fault line has emerged.

"The funny thing is that this matter has also been misunderstood by the monks of Donglin Temple today as the ancestor became a Buddha in the flesh and ascended to the Pure Land, and it was widely publicized!"

Xie Ling Jiang Yinya almost crushed, someone really underwhelmed:

"How could Senior Brother believe this easily? How can he, a mortal who has not yet practiced qi, soar, wait, it's been two days, where is he now? Still staying at Donglin Temple? ”

After saying that, she dropped her wrapping, rushed out of the courtyard in red, and left Merlot Garden.

Xie Lingjiang went out of the city overnight, went up the mountain with stars, and hurried to Donglin Temple before dawn.

In front of the ancient temple, she didn't have time to change her anger, so she refused to greet the monk and went straight to the Beitian Sanatorium.

At the gate of the Beitian Nursing Home, there were monks yawning and sweeping the floor in the morning, and when they saw the red-dressed girl rushing by the wind beside them, their faces were stunned, and the fallen leaves swept up were scattered again......

Above her, a light broke through the gray dawn sky, and the dawn shone brightly.

There's still a chapter in the early morning, don't get stuck here, good brother, don't wait, you shouldn't be able to survive Xiaorong, I'll see it tomorrow...... or2

(End of chapter)