msmithbooks Chapter 84 Discussion
Chapter 84 Discussion
Xinxin Inn is located in the bustling area of Xuanle City. The temple they are going to is far away in the outskirts of Beijing, and they have to pass through most of the imperial city.
The carriage swayed slowly, and the city was still noisy. Ji Xiaoguang didn't ask what he was going to do, but leaned on his chin drowsily, and was suddenly awakened by a scream.
"What's going on outside?" He picked up the curtain and looked out.
However, there were so many people that the view was completely blocked, Ji Xiaoguang saw nothing: "There are many more people here than in front, what happened?"
Shen Lianting didn't move, looked back at him and asked Ji Xiaoguang to sit down.
Ji Xiaoguang sat back obediently, raised his face and asked him, "What's the matter?"
Shen Lianting didn't answer, and raised his voice to ask Fei Nu who was driving outside: "What time is it?"
Fei Nu's voice came from outside immediately: "It's just past noon, Your Highness."
At this time, there was another burst of noise outside, Ji Xiaoguang was curious to take a look, but Shen Lianting held his shoulder and refused to let him go: "Sit down, don't look."
Fang Ge, who was asleep, also woke up, his eyes turned blood red for no reason, and the dog purred lowly, showing a state of anxiety.
"What's the matter? Are you hungry?" It was useless for Ji Xiaoguang to feed Fang Ge beef jerky. Suddenly he smelled the erratic smell of blood, and it was blown in from outside.
After passing the noisy place, Shen Lianting calmly said: "The Gu family has been raided."
"Ah?" Ji Xiaoguang digested for a while before he was convinced of what Shen Lianting said: "This is too fast..."
It's not just a matter of work efficiency, the whole house has been copied, and the Gu family will no longer be able to survive. Don't think about it, it must be because of Gu Xiaocheng.
"All adult men will be beheaded, and some female relatives will not be enslaved. The place I just passed by is Caishikou where the beheadings took place."
Ji Xiaoguang couldn't help covering his mouth, and Shen Lianting said indifferently: "Three dynasties, the blood of these men is so much that it can be melted into the canal."
"What is the crime?" Countless lives were lost like this, Ji Xiaoguang, as a modern person, couldn't accept it for a while.
With deep eyes, Shen Lianting slowly uttered two words: "Conspiracy."
"But he..." Ji Xiaoguang instinctively wanted to refute, without mentioning anything else, to be honest, this is not the case at all.
"It's just a scapegoat. The winner is the king and the loser. Gu Xiaocheng's death is not wronged."
Shen Lianting spoke harshly, but he was the one who was framed for treason in his previous life, and now the cycle of karma, someone has to taste it for him.
Ji Xiaoguang thinks about it too, but Gu Xiaocheng has always been fond of the family, and the Gu family was convicted because of him, implicating hundreds of lives, which is more painful than killing him.
But everyone is dead, the only thing Ji Xiaoguang can do is to pray that Gu Xiaocheng will not come to him at night.
It was already afternoon when the two arrived at the temple, the weather was cool and the temperature dropped.
Ji Xiaoguang was carried out of the carriage by Shen Lianting, and his feet landed on the road paved with stone slabs, and he saw a simple and simple temple in the distance.
The bodhi trees outside the temple are extremely huge, making the temple appear smaller, but there are many pilgrims, and the distant bells ring, which has a special artistic conception.
Shen Lianting stopped to look at it for a while, then took Ji Xiaoguang's hand: "Let's go."
Ji Xiaoguang put on the veil and went in with him.The terrain here is remote, but there is an endless stream of pilgrims coming and going. He saw the towering ancient tree in the garden at a glance.
Numerous cloth strips and wooden signs hang from the branches, like a blooming red flower tree.
Ji Xiaoguang's eyes lit up, and he asked, "What kind of immortal is this offering? There are so many people."
Shen Lianting asked back: "Look, who is the most crowded here?"
Ji Xiaoguang observed for a while after hearing the words: "Husband and wife, and young men and women."
Shen Lianting led him to continue walking: "That's right, this temple is exclusively for Bodhisattva empresses who seek children and marriage."
Then with a smile in his tone: "And it's very effective."
It is impossible for Shen Lianting to bring him here to ask for a son, it can only be for marriage...
Ji Xiaoguang's cheeks flew red, and he went in with Shen Lianting with his head down.
The two first worshiped the Buddha and entered the incense, and Ji Xiaoguang secretly asked for a wooden sign to pray for blessings. As a science student, he couldn't think of any good words, so he wrote everything he could think of except "early birth to a precious son" and "shoubi Nanshan" .
"What did you write?" With a strong chest close to him, Ji Xiaoguang hid away like a calf, holding the wooden sign tightly in his arms: "This is not allowed to be seen!"
Shen Lianting smiled inexplicably, trying to tease him: "Why not?"
Ji Xiaoguang thought that he also wanted to save face, and said nonsense: "It won't work if you read it."
After finishing speaking, before Shen Lianting could react, he rolled up his sleeves and threw it on the tree with his hands. The wooden sign drove the red brocade cloth at the tail to flutter, shining brightly in the sun, and finally landed in the sea of red.
Shen Lianting didn't care, instead he said that Ji Xiaoguang was well-raised by him, and praised Ji Xiaoguang for his strength, for throwing the wooden sign so high.
Ji Xiaoguang blushed, pouted and said, "You really didn't see it?"
Shen Lianting smiled: "I don't see it clearly." As he spoke, he walked over and groped for his hand, trying to take away the small brush that wrote the wooden sign.
Shen Lianting's eyes go from good to bad, and they can't be cured. Ji Xiaoguang feels uncomfortable, so he won't let him help with some things.
I took the small writing brush and returned it, but the little monk just now was nowhere to be found.
Ji Xiaoguang looked left and right, and an old monk came from nowhere, wearing a cassock, he looked like a Tang monk, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, clasped his hands together and said:
"Little benefactor, give it to the old monk."
Ji Xiaoguang was stunned for a moment, seeing this respectable old man, he hurriedly handed over the writing brush. No matter how you look at it, this is the host, why did he come out to do odd jobs?
The host took the brush but did not walk away, holding a nanmu Buddhist bead, and folded his hands behind Ji Xiaoguang.
He turned his head, and Shen Lianting came steadily, and returned the salute to the host very politely, looking very familiar.
Ji Xiaoguang is like a child waiting for his parents and friends to greet him. Through their conversation, he knows that Shen Lianting has donated incense money for many years in this temple.
What Shen Lianting and the host were talking about was nothing more than temple matters, and he had nothing to do to pass the time looking at the scenery. After a closer look, he discovered that on the cypress plaque, it was written in block letters, Lin Yu Temple.
In the original novel, the temple where Shen Lianting was hunted down was taken in and finally burned down.
Ji Xiaoguang's heart trembled. He remembered very clearly that in order to reflect the disaster brought by Shen Lianting in the novel, no less than a hundred monks and pilgrims were burned to death in Lin Yu Temple.
Although he and Shen Lianting didn't tell the truth, he already knew that Shen Lianting was reborn, and it was reasonable for Shen Lianting to donate incense money to Lin Yu Temple for so many years.
I also don't know what Shen Lianting feels in his heart every time he sees the harmony of Lin Yu Temple.
Ji Xiaoguang thought about it, and his thoughts returned to Shen Lianting and the host. He happened to hear Shen Lianting ask about his eyes.
Ji Xiaoguang pricked up his ears, thinking that Shen Lianting's eyes can be saved?
The old host had a pleasant face, he spoke modestly and cautiously, and nodded slightly: "Xuangu Forest, Xuangu Gate."
"Only the suzerain of the Xuangu Gate can heal the eyes of the benefactor."
Generally speaking, the eyes must be cured, but only by going to the Xuangu Forest and looking for its suzerain can it be cured.
Xuangu Forest is no stranger to Ji Xiaoguang, it has been passing through the population, but it seems extremely mysterious.
On the way back, Ji Xiaoguang asked Shen Lianting: "Are we going to Xuangu Forest?"
Shen Lianting narrowed his eyes, and said for a moment: "Do you want to go? The road was not smooth before, if you don't want to go, then I..."
"I'll go!" Ji Xiaoguang hugged his arm and said, "I'll go wherever you go!"
Shen Lianting stroked Ji Xiaoguang's hair and kissed the corner of his eyes.
"But..." Ji Xiaoguang thought for a while, "Will that suzerain help you cure your eyes?"
In his impression, this mysterious sect has always been: I am powerful, but I don't cause trouble, I just want to be quiet, so don't bother me!This style.
Shen Lianting said: "So taking this opportunity, I will return the books that my mother has brought for many years. In short, there will be a solution for everything."
Ji Xiaoguang thinks about it too, he should return these ancient books to their original owners... Damn!In Xu Ziying's book!He jumped up with a "bass", almost hitting his head.
Shen Lianting asked him what was wrong, and he stammered and said that he forgot to ask shopkeeper Xu to get that book back.
Shen Lianting said: "Then go ask for it tomorrow, if he doesn't give it, I will find a way."
Ji Xiaoguang nodded again and again, he had to take this book back, he didn't believe the "method" that Shen Lianting said, it definitely wouldn't be a good way...
"Book?" Xu Ziying settled accounts, but he seemed to have something on his mind, Ji Xiaoguang saw that he had miscalculated.
Ji Xiaoguang said good words: "Master Xu, you must have read all the secret recipes in that book, please return the book to me, that book is... a very important thing, yes, it was given to me by Shen Lianting."
Xu Ziying took the time to look at him: "What? It's a token of love? It's really different."
Ji Xiaoguang scratched his face, and said embarrassedly: "Well... you can also say that."
With a sound of "snap!", Xu Ziying brought the book and threw it on the counter: "Take it, take it, don't hinder me from settling accounts."
It was not easy to get something back from this hairy beauty shopkeeper, Ji Xiaoguang cheerfully took the book away, saw Xu Ziying's ugly face, and asked a few more questions.
"What's the matter, shopkeeper, is this... a quarrel with Lord Hou?"
Xu Ziying scolded angrily with a black face: "Dare to lie to me, I want to divorce him! I won't leave him a penny!"
The couple quarreled at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed, and Ji Xiaoguang couldn't get along well, so he echoed a few words to let Xu Ziying relieve his anger, and it passed.
Then he talked about leaving tomorrow, and resolutely refused Xu Ziying's request to "purchase" souvenirs in Xuangu Forest, and then he returned to the guest room.
As night fell, Ji Xiaoguang had just stepped into the room when he saw Shen Lianting rummaging through the Qiankun bag.
"what happened?"
Although Shen Lianting gave him the Qiankun bag, Ji Xiaoguang never took it as his own, Shen Lianting looked at it whenever he wanted.
"The journey is long, and there are many books, all of which are put into the Qiankun bag."
Shen Lianting gently put the Qiankun bag on the bedside. He was wearing only a jacket, tall and tall, and sat on the bed, his raised eyebrows and eyes were meaningful.
Ji Xiaoguang always felt weird, he took out the book: "I'm coming back."
"Put it on the table, come here." Shen Lianting hooked his hands at him, and every word was bitten very lightly by him.
I have to say that Ji Xiaoguang was so handsome, he sat down obediently, and the two of them rubbed their ears together for a while.
The warm breath sprayed on Ji Xiaoguang's cheeks, he was immersed in it, and suddenly heard Shen Lianting's hoarse voice: "I found something in the Qiankun bag, did you put it?"
Ji Xiaoguang was in a daze, and hummed twice: "What? Um... yes, right..."
He became sober for half a minute after speaking, and opened his eyes: "What is it?"
Shen Lianting conjured a box out of nowhere, pinched it with two fingers, and shook it: "Did you buy it?"
Ji Xiaoguang took a closer look, and was instantly sober that he could no longer be sober. What Shen Lianting was holding was the ointment he bought from Xu Ziying!After he put it in the universe bag, he forgot all about it!
He raised his leg and wanted to run, but before he could move his leg, Shen Lianting dragged him back.
Shen Lianting first planted a few strawberries, then stuffed the ointment into the hands of Ji Xiaoguang who had turned red into a tomato, and bewitched.
"Let's discuss how to use this thing, shall we? Huh?"
In this way, Ji Xiaoguang learned from a profound lesson what it means to be ashamed and thrown under the covers...
[The author has something to say]: (****ω＼*) A new map will be opened soon, it won’t be too long, and it won’t procrastinate? (?????)?