atypical prostitute

Chapter 224
Daming Temple is named after it was built in the next year of Emperor Xiaowu of Song Dynasty. It is located in the middle peak of Shugang in the northern suburb of Yangzhou.

Although when Lici climbed the mountain to visit the Buddha, the nine-story Qiling Pagoda had not yet been built, and the ancient Jianzhen eastward journey had not yet happened, and there were no signs of construction in quiet places such as Pingshan Hall and West Garden. There is an unnamed clear water next to the temple, and Daming Temple is still Daming Temple, with intertwined ancient vines, plump plantains, thousands of bamboo poles, and green shade.

Because of getting the news early, Fang entered the mountain gate, and Li Ci was introduced into the Hall of Heavenly Kings. The abbot personally delivered incense, respectfully visited Maitreya Future Buddha, and worshiped fragrant flowers to Dharma Protector Wei Tuo. The four heavenly kings also received offerings respectively, and after a Sanskrit singing, they moved to the courtyard corridor and went to the Daxiong Hall.

After leaving the Temple of Heavenly Kings, the field of vision suddenly widened, with towering ancient trees and lingering cigarettes.Juniper is planted in the east, boxwood is in the west, and two treasure tripods stand in the middle.The Daxiong Palace in the center is three rooms wide, with front and rear corridors, triple eaves and hollow flower ridges.There is a precious mirror embedded in the high part of the ridge, with the four characters "Guotai Minan" in Yang and the four characters "Feng Tiao Yu Shun" in Yin.

Under the guidance of the host, Li Ci stepped into the Mahavira Hall. In the middle is the golden body of Shakyamuni Buddha, with solemn dharma appearance, solemn sutra banners, and complete dharma utensils. Amitabha Buddha, with statues of eighteen arhats on both sides, and murals of Feitian Jiyue, are really dazzling and beautiful.

And for today's visit to the chief manager's wife, the monks began to burn incense and sprinkle water early in the morning, and put a new cassock on the Buddha statue, and put fresh lotus leaves and lotus bones taken from Xibo Lake before dawn in the clean bottle, which became more and more golden. , Smart and unparalleled.

Burning incense and lighting the ever-burning lamps, it was already noon when the ceremony was over.Li Ci excused his chest tightness and irritability, and after eating the Suzhai, he asked all the elders to step down, leaving only a few beautiful novice monks to walk around the west side of the Daxiong Hall.

On the west side is where the Pingshan Hall will be located hundreds of years later. Naturally, the scenery is winding and unusual.During the slow walk, you can see that the old trees are sparse, and the new ones are green. The dense parts have become a screen, meandering into the distance, but the sparse parts are slim, tall and far-sighted.Overlooking from the railing, the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River are green and emerald, flying in the eyebrows. The scenery here is really good.

No wonder the Pingshan Hall built by the Ouyang Guild is indeed "holding the distant mountains, swallowing the Yangtze River, the peaks in the southwest, and the forests and valleys are especially beautiful; sending the sunset, welcoming the plain moon, when the spring and summer turn, the grass and trees meet the sky", it is a pity that the drunkard's official career is unfortunate. , I have ambitions but I can only express my love for the mountains and rivers.

Because it was a matter of more than a hundred years later, Li Ci couldn't express it. Instead, he led the way to the novice monk. Seeing that the manager's wife was quite nostalgic for the past, he said: "There is a small spring in front of me. The water quality is clear, which can be called excellent."

Li Ci was delighted, she knew that this unnamed spring would probably be the fifth spring in the world for later generations, so she walked into the small lake pavilion on the unnamed spring like a stream, and while drinking tea, listening to the gurgling water flowing through the Linglong Stone of Taihu Lake was quite elegant.

Just when it was quiet, a plain blue shirt flashed among the rocks in Taihu Lake, and it was Chu Qing who came.

So he repelled the little novice, leaving only the center of the mansion to serve him, and ordered the maid to add a brocade mat to him, and said loudly: "Since you are here, why bother to shrink back.".

Chu Qing didn't pretend, he walked out of his hiding place, saying that Taoism and Buddhism have always been dirty, so he saw the head manager's wife entered Daming Temple, but he didn't want to go inside to worship, he just wandered outside the temple, drinking tea and watching the scenery, waiting quietly Mrs. Contact.

Li Ci knew that what he said was half-truth, so he didn't care about it. He waved his sleeves and said gracefully: "You and I are like enemies but not friends. I will be satisfied if you come to the appointment today. The matter of Xiaozhushan... If there is any misunderstanding Please forgive me."

"Ma'am, you are serious. There is no life-and-death conflict between us. I am standing opposite Madam now, and I am only obeying my teacher's order. I am temporarily at the disposal of the Empress Dowager. I have no intention of selling myself to the emperor's family."

Chu Qing spoke lightly, but the corner of his eyes unconsciously fell on a touch of rouge on the rim of the white porcelain cup.

Li Ci noticed that his gaze was slightly shifted, but he said calmly: "There is a good spring here, which can be ranked among the top five in the world. The gentleman is so elegant, and he must have a lot of experience in the way of tea."

"However, I have dabbled a little... I have always been happy, and I am so beautiful and beautiful, it made my wife laugh."

Chu Qing spoke bluntly, and took out a gold-painted peony inlaid eight-treasure lacquer incense box from his sleeve, put it on the mat, and pushed it in front of Li Ci: "That day, I mistakenly thought that my wife was a mountain spirit and ghost, and I had a whim, and I couldn't bear such a beautiful thing, but in the day-to-day When it was released, the smoke dissipated, thinking that this object might be used for summoning souls, so I kept it wisely. Now that I know it was a misunderstanding, I ask Madam to take back the incense box, so as not to spread it and damage Madam's reputation."

"Return me?"

Li Ci muttered softly, opened the incense box, slid the creamy powder with her fingertips, and the elegant white lotus fragrance flowed out naturally.

The fragrance powder is much less.

But before she was curious, Chu Qing couldn't wait to say: "This incense powder has a special smell. I have always loved incense, and I poured out a little. I just wanted to know how to make this incense...It was not intentional..."

"Flavour powder is the same as pills. After it is made, the smell will slowly dissipate in the sealed box. It is not surprising that there is a little less. It is the husband who made a fuss."

Li Ci said casually, and ordered the servants behind him to bring up the red sandalwood tray they were holding in their hands, and opened the brocade, the precious light overflowed, and the white jade was moist, it was the jade pendant that Chu Qing had left that day.

Due to being held in Yun'er's hand and in her mouth for a long time, the jade pendant was also stained with a little white lotus fragrance.And because the silk sash on the jade pendant had long been worn out, when returning it this time, Li Ci deliberately picked out an ice silk sash, strung it with pearls, and formed a concentric network.

It's a pity that Chu Qing didn't know the joints, so he took the jade pendant casually, and saw that the jade pendant was more lustrous than before, and there was a faint fragrance coming out, the fragrance was like a jade jade, and he knew that this thing must be worn by a person who was destined to be immortal day and night , Immortal Qi infects and nourishes it into this appearance.It's just that he is trapped by the inner demon at the moment, the white jade is smooth and soft when touched by his fingertips, unknowingly, he has an evil thought, and even a faint evil thought surges up.

Seeing the roundness of the pearl again, Chu Qing couldn't help but think of the poems written by the concubine of Changsha Wang's concubine, Shangguan Nushi: "Huanjun's pearls are both weeping, and I hate to meet when I was not married."

Is it—

While his mind was surging, Chu Qing raised his head and asked cautiously: "This bead—"

"A Zhijun's heart is like the sun and the moon, and he gives back with pearls."

Li Ci replied softly, every character contained a gentle determination, Chu Qing immediately became embarrassed after hearing this.

"lady……"

"Just like what you said, people's words can be feared, and people's hearts can be punished. This time, you are ordered by the Empress Dowager to kill the emperor's qi. I don't know what the emperor's qi is, and I don't know who the emperor's qi should be. I'm worried that the Empress Dowager would rather kill by mistake than let her go in vain... My husband and I run Jiangnan, which has long been a serious concern of the Empress Dowager... Return the jade pendant early, and you can cut off the bad relationship, and when we meet again in the future, we don't have to tolerate each other anymore."

A few words, earnest words, really sad and euphemistic, full of singing, reading, acting and fighting.

After getting Jun Fengxi's letter, Li Ci already knew that this Chu Qing is a person who thinks he is indifferent and affectionate, but is actually the easiest to soften his heart. To deal with this kind of person, the most important thing is to attack the heart.

Sure enough, when Chu Qing heard the words, he was touched a little. He was holding the jade pendant, and the flawless round bead was just stuck in the joint, and he felt a faint heartache.

But in one word, it was such a gaffe!
Chu Qing thought angrily, he was ashamed of his inadvertent soft-heartedness.

He took a deep breath, suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and bowed to Li Ci: "Madam's words are very true, you and I have our own positions on matters of the emperor's temper, if we don't get rid of the relationship early, it will inevitably come true in the future. "

"Mr. thinks so, naturally it is the best."

Li Ci said with a smile on his face, poor Chu Qing although there was a smile on his mouth, but the hand hidden behind his back almost crushed the jade pendant and the pearl.

Devil!Why are you my demon!
The fingertips have already dug into the jade pendant.

Perhaps it was because of her good control of her facial expressions, or because of her hazy gauze, Li Ci, who was sitting across from her, didn't notice Chu Qing's strangeness. Said: "Mr. Chu, do you believe in destiny?"

what?
Without waiting for Chu Qing to answer, Li Ci went on talking on his own.

"I often think about what is destiny and what is spying on destiny. It is said that those who can spy on destiny have a tendency to try to prevent the future that is bound to happen, but if the future can be changed, it...may not be destiny. If it is leaked in advance , On the contrary, it contributed to the future, so the leak may also be part of the destiny. Therefore, I really want to know, if Yangzhou really has the emperor's spirit... Is it really possible for Master Tian to kill the emperor's spirit during this trip?"

"There is a destiny in the dark, and what you and I say and do at this moment are also under the control of destiny."

"Really? Our behavior, words, deeds, and even all our scheming may be controlled by God's will? Then, what are our hard calculations?"

With a light smile, the breeze blows, the soapy gauze flutters, a frown and a smile come into view, it really looks like a spring flower, but it is bright and beautiful without any deliberation, and the inadvertent chic makes all the flowers lose color.

Chu Qing's heart ached again.

"I think...God's will...should just be..."

He stammered, Fu Lici's question was too sharp, which made him feel embarrassed.

"God's will is God's will, we mayflies can't understand and can't understand."

It was Jun Fengxi who rescued Chu Qing from the maze of thinking.

I saw him with crow-colored long hair and high bunches, holding a flawless jade fan, and wearing light-colored clothes, he walked around the lush forest and cultivated bamboo, coming in style, with an outstanding demeanor, unparalleled in the world.It's a pity that the people present knew him very well, and they knew that there was a chilling coldness hidden behind this person's immortal demeanor, so they stood up to welcome him, but in their respect there was deep guard.

"Why is Master Uncle here?"

It was Chu Qing who gave the gift first, and Jun Fengxi glanced at him, pointing with a folding fan: "If I don't come again, your master will hunt for me desperately."

"This—" A trace of embarrassment slipped across Chu Qing's face, knowing that Jun Fengxi blamed him for not doing things well.

"Then... the matter of the emperor's temper—"

"I'm here to debate Buddhist scriptures at the invitation of the abbot of Daming Temple. I don't know anything about the rest, and I don't ask any questions."

Jun Fengxi spoke confidently, walked slowly in front of Li Ci, and said: "Madam Manager is a good way, a few words almost broke my nephew's heart."

In the words, there was a deep sense of protection, and Chu Qing's heart warmed when he heard it, but Li Ci knew that Jun Fengxi blamed himself for hesitating and procrastinating, so he said: "Seeing that Mr. Xiangxun, this...broken Dao heart, but where does it start?"

Jun Fengxi didn't know what she meant, she smiled, and said gracefully: "Chu Qing is not good at learning, let Madam laugh."

Li Ci politely said: "Mr. Jun is serious."

So the three of them sat separately, chatting, citing extensively, and having a good time, until the sun turned to the west, Jun Fengxi got up and said: "I see that the sky is dark, and I am afraid that there will be strong wind and rain, and the mountain road is slippery. Madam is precious. Should return early."

"Mr. Xie Jun is concerned, Li Ci will leave first."

Li Cirou said, got up, and walked away slowly with a group of servants.It's just that the bright clothes disappeared into the depths of emerald green, and Jun Fengxi glanced at Chu Qing meaningfully: "You regret it now, there is still time."

(End of this chapter)