After the fall of the Southern Dynasty, she came to Chang'an with tens of thousands of royal families, as well as subordinates and generals.

Soon, she went directly to the Great Mercy Grace Temple to practice, and officially became a lay disciple of Master Zhixian.

Master Zhixian's common surname was also Xiao before he became a monk, and he was actually a close member of the Southern Dynasty royal family.

It is said that he had a deep friendship with several generations of emperors of the Southern Dynasties.

When Chen Jingnong heard that he was asked to find his biological mother Shen Wuhua, he was still very excited.

After all, recognizing one's ancestors and returning to one's ancestors is the basic filial piety of a man, no matter ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, no matter how far apart there are thousands of mountains and rivers.

Chen Jingnong's biological mother was Shen Wuhua, the concubine of the Southern Dynasty, but his biological father was not the emperor Xiao Cong of the Southern Dynasty, but Chen Maha.

More than 20 years ago, a well-known Jiangnan hero on the rivers and lakes.

In other words, when Shen Wuhua married into the palace, she was actually pregnant.

This secret, except for a few people in the Xiao royal family and Chen Jingnong's master Yao Qishan, basically no one in the rivers and lakes knows about it.

The grievances and grievances in this are very complicated, and no one can tell the truth, so everyone simply doesn't mention it.

Even Chen Jingnong himself doesn't know what his life experience is.

He only knew that he grew up in the palace of the Southern Dynasty since he was a child, and he was Xiao Yuru's playmate since he was a child, and he often saw Xiao Yuanbo in the palace.

But he was never treated well by Emperor Xiao Cong himself.

I have never seen my biological father, Chen Maha.

Now, he really wants to learn some information about his biological father Chen Maha from his biological mother Shen Wuhua.

Is he alive in the world, and where is he?

This time, he and Yao Siniang, on the orders of the head of the Jiangzuo League, came to Beijing to handle some affairs.

He only heard Xiao Yuru say the day before yesterday that there is a dilapidated Zen temple in the big bamboo forest on the north cliff of Tiger Peak in Taiyi Mountain, which is the place where Shen Wuhua currently lives in seclusion and cultivates Buddhism.

Because she followed Master Zhixian, it also belonged to penance.

Therefore, he and Yao Siniang hurried over.

Pushing open the half-hidden door of the bamboo weaving courtyard, Chen Jingnong shouted into the courtyard: "Is there anyone inside?" ”

For a long time, there was no sound in the temple.

Could it be that the mother is out?

Chen Jingnong was suspicious, but his footsteps did not stop, but continued to walk forward.

The courtyard was overgrown with weeds and shrubs, more than a foot high.

When I entered the meditation room, I found that it was neat and tidy, and it was obvious that someone was cleaning it up regularly.

As soon as you enter the meditation room, facing the top of the gate, there is a Buddha statue with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and there is an incense burner on the lower Buddha shrine, and the incense is burning vigorously.

Under the Buddha shrine, on a straw mat futon, there is a gray-clothed nun with a thin figure, charitable eyebrows, and a hungry yellow face.

She looked to be in her sixties, and her actual age was forty-five or sixteen, and her gray plain robe was worn and patched.

I saw her eyes slightly closed, holding Buddhist beads in her hands, engrossed, silently reciting Buddhist scriptures.

The whole body and mind were immersed in the sea of Buddha, and no sound outside her body could wake her up.

Chen Jingnong, who approached, basically judged that the monk nun in front of him was undoubtedly her biological mother Chen Wuhua.

A former concubine of the Southern Dynasty, how noble it was.

Now it is in such a remote and wild place, and it is embarrassing to spend the rest of his life in seclusion.

Chen Jingnong's understanding and perception of Buddhism is still shallow, and he cannot understand his mother's spiritual world.

It's just that I'm quite sad about the miserable life in front of my mother.

Chen Jingnong didn't speak, but knelt silently beside his mother, put his hands together to the Buddha, closed his eyes and prayed quietly.

He silently prayed to the Buddha in his heart, praying that his mother was in good health and that the Bodhisattva would bless him!

Seeing this, Yao Siniang also knelt silently beside her husband, clasped her hands together and prayed.

The two spent a long time in a quiet environment.

After Shen Wuhua finished chanting, he slowly opened his eyes, "Amitabha, the donor is polite." ”

She just greeted faintly, not even glancing at the people next to her.

Her voice seemed very pure and peaceful, and she was not shocked.

"Mother, I'm Jing Nong, and she's your daughter-in-law." Chen Jingnong turned around, turned to Shen Wuhua and knelt down, straight to the point, straight to the point.

"Mother is on top, and my daughter-in-law kowtowed to you."

Yao Siniang saw her mother-in-law Shen Wuhua for the first time, and kowtowed three times in succession.

"Amitabha, poor nuns have taken refuge in Buddhism for more than 20 years, and they have already jumped out of the Three Realms and are not in the Five Elements, and they no longer care about the rights and wrongs of the world."

Shen Wuhua was slightly stunned when she heard this, and glanced at Chen Jingnong and Yao Siniang with her eyes, but she was still unmoved, but said lightly.

In the fourth year after Chen Jingnong was born, his mother Shen Wuhua entered the empty gate and fasted and recited Buddha in the royal temple.

After he was four years old, he practiced martial arts and learned literature, all of which were undertaken by his master Yao Qishan and his sister Ding.

Master Yao Qishan is the same disciple of his biological father Chen Maha.

Strictly speaking, the relationship between Chen Jingnong and his biological mother Shen Wuhua is far less deep than that between him and his master and wife.

But blood is thicker than water.

The current situation of his biological parents, he is still often worried about it.

He naturally understands that he can not impress Shen Wuhua in a few words, he must have real evidence.

"Mother, please see, this is a token left by the father to the child, and the master only gave it to the child when I left Yizhou, you should know it."

Chen Jingnong took out an object from his arms, held it in his hand, and moved it to Shen Wuhua.

She recognized at a glance that this was an ancestral jade pendant that she wore with Chen Maha when he made a private lifelong agreement.

Shen Wuhua's heart trembled, and his heart, which was originally as calm as water, rippled a little, and his cold and indifferent eyes had a glimmer of light.

"You... Then you're really Jing'er, you can't recognize your mother when you grow up..."

Only then did Shen Wuhua raise his eyes and look at the young man in front of him who was holding a jade pendant and full of tears, who was Chen Maha twenty-seven years ago.

"Jing'er... Is your biological father still alive... Tell me about it..."

At this time, Shen Wuhua was also in tears.

The reason why she has been converted to Buddhism for many years has not been shaved, and she is only a reclusive Buddhist pure person, just like Master Zhixian said, she still has a mundane thing in her heart.

"Mother is above, first bow down to Jing Nong, the son of unfilial piety."

Chen Jingnong couldn't answer his mother's inquiry for a while, he didn't expect Shen Wuhua to know about his biological father.

He put the jade pendant away, knelt down on his knees in front of Shen Wuhua, and kowtowed respectfully three times.

Yao Siniang also followed her husband to bow and kowtow.

"Get up, child, my good daughter-in-law, today's mother is too poor, and there is no meeting gift, you won't blame me."

Shen Wuhua stretched out his hand to help Yao Siniang, and said in a deep voice.

"That's okay, my mother can recognize me as a daughter-in-law, it's too late to be happy."

Yao Siniang burst into tears as she spoke.

"Come on, Jing'er Siniang, come here, let's have a good talk as a family."

Shen Wuhua got up and walked to a side room on the edge of the main hall of the Zen Temple.