The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1320 The Foreign Monk

"Three people became tigers. After hearing this, I also wanted to remind His Majesty. His Majesty was deceived by some people. The prince was really out of luck. He was originally filial and worried about His Majesty's health. What a pitiful end to end up with a ruined reputation." Xuan Shijing said.

"It's rare that you care so much about the prince's affairs." His Majesty Li Er said.

"Your Majesty's crown prince, Zhan Shi, was appointed by His Majesty." Xuan Shijing said with a smile, "I am now considered an official of the Eastern Palace. If His Royal Highness does not act properly, I am also responsible."

"In the final analysis, what do you think of that alchemist?" His Majesty Li Er asked.

"Your Majesty wants my minister to say?" Xuan Shijing asked, "When I was outside the palace just now, Your Majesty said that if I want to see Your Majesty because of that alchemist."

"If you want to say it, just say it, where is there so much nonsense." His Majesty Li Er said displeased.

"Your Majesty can trust the ability of Taoist priest Li Chunfeng?" Xuan Shijing asked.

"I believe it, otherwise I would not entrust him with an official position." His Majesty Li Er said.

"Li Daochang and other people feel that the matter of longevity is illusory and unreliable. Why do you insist on it? Although the tortoise lives, there is still a time. There are many people in the world who are trying to gain fame, let alone a foreign alchemist who doesn't know the basics. Daoist Sun Simiao Known as Sun Immortal among the people, Sun Daochang himself said that if you want to live a long life, you should eat moderately and pay attention to ordinary maintenance, rather than relying on the pills of those alchemists." Xuan Shijing knelt on the spot: "Let us If your Majesty doesn’t believe the people of the Tang Dynasty who know the basics, why would you believe in a foreign alchemist? Are foreign monks good at reciting scriptures?”

Xuan Shijing finally spoke out what was in his heart.

"Presumptuous!" His Majesty Li Er was furious when he heard this.

Xuan Shijing leaned on the ground: "I don't dare to be presumptuous, I just speak out what is in my heart. I think these words are good for your majesty, but maybe your majesty doesn't think so. Since you have spoken out, it's good for your majesty to be happy." Whether you are unhappy, whether you don't care about it, or want to punish the minister for speaking improperly, the minister admits it all, the minister has fulfilled his duty, and he has not failed the honor bestowed on him by His Majesty. Heart."

"I'm really curious about who you learned from such a loyal minister." His Majesty Li Er laughed angrily: "People who are close to you are not so temperamental. You have a clear conscience. If I punish you , I have really become a fool.”

"Your Majesty is wise." Xuan Shijing leaned over and said.

"Wise? No, no, no, I'm not wise. Although what you said is reasonable, I accept your advice, but I'm also very angry in my heart. If you don't continue to live a leisurely life in your village, you don't care about the government. , but here, I raise an alchemist in the palace, you came quickly, I don't know what to say about you." His Majesty Li Er said.

"I know that maybe your majesty will not believe or listen to what you say, but if your majesty can understand what you said, I will be very satisfied." Xuan Shijing said: "This alchemist's theory of alchemy , I can only say that the benevolent see benevolence, and the wise see wisdom."

"If I believe it, is it unkind and unwise?" His Majesty Li Er asked back: "It's a clumsy strategy."

"Your Majesty, can I meet the alchemist?" Xuan Shijing asked.

Seeing Xuan Shijing kneeling below, His Majesty Li Er will also think of Li Chunfeng's alchemy with Xuan Shijing's blood back then. Second Your Majesty, the impression is quite deep.

Xuan Shijing also participated in that time, together with Li Chunfeng, but His Majesty Li Er didn't know the details and thought Xuan Shijing didn't know, so seeing Xuan Shijing now, thinking of that incident, he still felt very sorry.

But now, it was also the matter of pills, right in front of him, His Majesty Li Er didn't want to reject Xuan Shijing, he just met the alchemist, it was no big deal.

His Majesty Li Er stood up and said to Xuan Shijing, "You follow me."

Xuan Shijing got up from the cushion, followed His Majesty Li Er, and left the Ganlu Hall.

The alchemist was arranged by His Majesty Li Er in the West Inner Garden, and all the materials needed for alchemy were provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and a special alchemy room was set up in the West Inner Garden.

After all, he is a foreign alchemist, and it is not easy to be placed in the Taishi Bureau. The Taishi Bureau is an official in the official system, and this alchemist is at most a private guest of His Majesty Li Er. He is not qualified to enter the Taishi Bureau.

Xuan Shijing followed His Majesty Li Er and Deyi into the alchemy room in Xi Neiyuan, and met the alchemist brought back by Wang Xuance.

He said he was an alchemist, but he was actually an old monk with a big white beard and even his eyebrows.

"That's it." His Majesty Li Er said.

Xuan Shijing stepped forward and looked at the monk carefully. He is old, maybe it is true, but it is impossible to live two hundred years old. Tianzhu, even if the Tang Dynasty is so prosperous now and the living conditions are so good, Long-lived people are no more than eight or ninety years old, and they can be called human beings. Old people who live over a hundred years old are auspicious omens for the entire Tang Dynasty, but Xuan Shijing's 90-year consciousness cannot be found in the two hundred Sui Dynasty.

"Is this the master who claims to have lived for 200 years?" Xuan Shijing looked at the monk and asked.

The monk clasped his hands together: "Exactly."

"I originally thought that alchemists were talking about Taoists, but I didn't expect monks to be included in it." Xuan Shijing smiled: "I have a question, how can the master prove that he has lived for 200 years?"

"In the past 200 years, the old monk is aware of all the big and small things that happened."

"Oh, that's how it is." Xuan Shijing looked suddenly enlightened: "I also know the big and small things that happened between Yao and Shun and down to the former Sui Dynasty. Is the Duke's age older than the master's?"

"If my lord says so forcefully, I can't refute it." The monk bowed his head and said.

If it is irrefutable, then it is irrelevant, and there is no way to refute Xuan Shijing's question.

"In this way, Master cannot prove that he has lived for 200 years." Xuan Shijing laughed.

"I know the age of the old monk, I know it well, it doesn't matter whether others believe it or not."

This is cheating, this monk's appearance of not taking oil and salt is really infuriating, Xuan Shijing still looks calm on the surface, but he sighs in his heart, it's a pity, he doesn't believe it, But His Majesty believed it.

Now I want His Majesty not to believe him, what can I do?

"The master said that there is a method of longevity. When you were in Tianzhu, did the master offer this method of longevity to your monarch?" Xuan Shijing asked.

"Never." The monk said: "The law of longevity can only be given to a virtuous king, so that the world can be benefited and the world will be safe for thousands of years."

(End of this chapter)