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Chapter 224 Someone Returns Quietly, Someone Returns Slowly

"Xiuzhen, you said, we have escaped from the endless hell, but what should the people who are still trapped in the endless hell do.

"Maybe they don't feel that there is a hell under their feet, because they have never seen the pure land, so they live contentedly, like cows and horses.

"But the two of us are the only ones who are not self-sufficient, so we came here... No, I don't want it, you can eat it...

"Tell me, are we both crazy in the eyes of the world?"

Late at night, in a claustrophobic underground palace.

Ouyang Rong paused, waved his hand, and declined Xiuzheng's offer of mung bean cake.

Xiuzhen was taken aback, lowered her head and twitched a piece of pastry, chewing happily, not knowing what Ouyang Rong said, but understood a few words.

Or just feel the noise?
Ouyang Rong smiled lightly.

He turned his head silently.

The underground palace is wide, and there are echoes.

Four faded murals remain on the four walls.

On the ground in the center of the underground palace, there is a half-meter-high rosette with a waist and an upturned position.

At this moment, Ouyang Rong is sitting cross-legged on a rosette with a corseted waist.

A loose gray monk's robe.

Dressed like a monk from Donglin Temple like Xiuzhen, but with an unshaved bald head.

On the stone rosette behind him, there is an empty bag containing a thin soap suit and felt hat.

This was Ouyang Rong's attire when he came here, and he changed into a monk's attire just now.

Xiuzhen sat on the ground next to the stone rosette, holding a pastry in her hand, eating with relish.

A beam of gray moonlight slanted down from the mouth of the well above, and it happened to fall on Ouyang Rong who was on the rosette.

This is the only light in the dark underground palace.

Ouyang Rong's face was silent and his shoulders were slack.

He sat cross-legged like a lotus, with his hands behind his back, looking up at the only exit ten meters above.

"What is the origin of this inexplicable merit tower in my mind.

"After going back, can it be convenient to accumulate merit...it should be possible, maybe it will be easier.

"Share those treasured things for free, and you can reap a bunch of 'good people have a safe life', and the merits will come here. If you don't do anything at home, the merits will gradually increase...

"Simple mode.

"Very well, I have already thought about the way to go back and develop, but why hasn't you left for so long?"

Ouyang Rong looked at the sky and muttered, it seemed to be talking to himself, but it also seemed to be speaking to Xiuzhen.

"Xiuzhen, do you think that when I returned home and ascended to the Pure Land this time, did I fly like a soul like your Grand Master Uncle, or did I fly with a human body and clothes? I don't mean to go back naked.

"Forget it, when Grandmaster Zhong Ma ascended here, you were not born yet, so it is useless to ask.

"However, you have to be prepared. If you fly back with your body and clothes, the original soap suit and felt hat will not be suitable. The atmosphere of the times is too strong and out of place.

"It's better to change into this monk's robe, whether it's the Donglin Temple or somewhere... I hope it's not a sewer, or a white room or a white hospital bed..."

Under a beam of deserted white moonlight, the handsome young man who was ready to put on his monk's clothes muttered aloud.

His shoulders were slack, and he sat cross-legged on a rosette.

The body did not move for a long time.

After this dawdling, the moonlight falling from the mouth of the well became weaker and weaker.

Outside the underground palace, it was almost dawn.

But the days are long and the nights are short, and summer nights are indeed very short.

Ouyang Rong nodded thoughtfully, and found a new excuse.

On the ground next to the rosette, Xiuzhen didn't know when she got up, put away the remaining pastries, lowered her head, and was seriously scratching the lice on her body.

At a certain moment, Xiuzhen suddenly turned her head, and said to Humanity who had not returned for a long time:

"Hey, why isn't the benefactor leaving?"

Ouyang Rong: ...

The air in front of the lotus pedestal was suddenly quiet for a while.

Ouyang Rong turned his head silently.

One last look at Xiuzhen.

He nodded.

Leaning and bending over, he reached out and groped, and his fingertips touched the line of lettering under the rosette, where the moonlight could not shine.

The inscription on the ground is covered with dust, and there are only four characters:
Come back.

Xiuzhen was taken aback for a moment, paused, and continued to care:
"Almsgiver, go away, there is an endless hell above, the place where you are sitting is too close, come quickly to this little monk."

With that said, Xiuzhen was about to pull Ouyang Rong away from the lotus pedestal in the center of the underground palace.

It turned out that this was the real meaning of letting him "go".

Ouyang Rong smiled.

But he shook his head, and kept his hands close to the stone carvings on the ground.

From the depths of the lacquer-like pupils of the young man sitting cross-legged on the rosette, a strong purple light gushed out, piercing through the clear pupils, and the halo faintly diffused.

This scene, under the dim moonlight of the dark underground palace, is like two immortal crape myrtle stars.

In a certain merit pagoda, the blessing bell shook violently, and the purple energy gushed out without money.

"It's still 120 merits... I've saved enough, and there are [-] merits left, which is more than enough." He nodded and said softly.

"Donor, you, your eyes..."

Xiuzhen, who originally wanted to pull people out of the sea of ​​suffering, took a step back in shock.

A look of sudden realization appeared on his haggard face, and he jumped up.

Xiuzhen pointed her right hand at Ouyang Rong with purple eyes for a while, and pointed behind her, which is the mural of "Prince Satyu sacrificed himself to feed a tiger" on the east wall of the underground palace, and danced and said:

"Look, benefactor, they are exactly the same, exactly the same."

Ouyang Rong ignored it, turned his head suddenly, looked in the direction of Longcheng County from the air, sat upright, and said in a curious tone:

"I read the records of Longcheng County Chronicles. Tao Yuanming in the Eastern Jin Dynasty said that his family was poor, and he went to Longcheng as an order to earn money for drinking. After only serving as county magistrate for 81 days, he left with his seal and resigned to live in seclusion.

"Later, there was Duke Di of this dynasty who was relegated to Longcheng. He served as an official for one term and benefited one party. He served for four years. It shows that Zhuo Ran has the talent of managing the world, and he resigned with honor. On the day when he left the county, the alleys in Longcheng were empty, and the willows were folded for ten miles and ten miles, and the people were reluctant to leave.

"Let's ask, after a hundred years, how will Longcheng County Chronicles write about me, Ouyang Lianghan?"

He bowed his head and pondered for a moment, then turned around, Ouyang Rong touched the blessing with his hand, smiled and nodded:
"My heart is bright, what can I say?"

After a deep sigh, the underground palace was dark, and the purple light suddenly went out.

Return to silence.

Outside the well mouth of the underground palace, the sky gradually brightened.

……

Xie Lingjiang smelled the scent of gardenias.

Light fragrance, fragrant around the nose, but not greasy.

It's the same as the breath that the elder brother gave off when he went for a night walk with her after taking a bath.

It's just that every time in the past, Xie Lingjiang turned his head away in the dark night, "attracted" by the roadside scenery, and Qiong's nose shrugged slightly.

On the streets of Peng Langdu Wharf where people come and go, Xie Lingjiang's cheeks were slightly hot when she stopped and turned her head.

"Is it the summer solstice? No wonder the flowers are blooming... Well, the book says that when the flowers bloom on Moshang, you can return home slowly... Hmph, he is never in a hurry, and he never sends a letter urging me to return early. Don't worry I'm outside?"

Xie Lingjiang murmured.After returning from a long journey, she was not in a hurry when she approached Luming Street.

She reached out and touched a certain pill box in her bosom, which she had obtained so hard.

Carrying this thing, she returned from Longhu Mountain with extra care, so she slowed down her journey a bit. It was because of Yan Liulang's broken jade message that she speeded up her pace and returned two days earlier, but she was also quite tired.

Entering Luming Street, seeing familiar things, Xie Lingjiang smiled slightly, and turned to look at the gardenia trees planted by the roadside.

Summer has come, and the gardenia trees on both sides of the entire Longcheng streets are in full bloom.

Presumably the senior brother will smell the fragrance of flowers every day when he is on duty, right?
Xie Lingjiang's eyes were bent into crescent moons, and his steps were much lighter.

Passing by the Longcheng county government office, she didn't enter right away, but passed by quickly, and rushed towards the official's house.

This is a matter of official business, and it is the most important thing at present.

Senior brother doesn't like the kind of woman whose mother-in-law and mother-in-law love each other all day long.

Xie Lingjiang was very serious about the independent case he dispatched to her for the first time!

"Wait, I'll ask you for a gift after I finish the case..."

After a stick of incense.

Arriving at the official's house, Xie Lingjiang immediately scanned the room, and saw that the decorations and the guards were all there, and he let out a long breath as he seemed to be fine.

"What's the situation? Why did you suddenly break the jade and call me back?"

Some of the worries in her heart fell, and she immediately asked Yan Liulang.

The latter got up in surprise: "Master Xie, are you back?"

Xie Lingjiang nodded, walked immediately, looked at the unconscious Fairy Yucheng, and frowned slightly:

"Have you taken the two detoxification pills? Why haven't you woken up yet? Why are you urging me to come back?"

"I've already eaten it for her, but I woke up when I woke up, but later..."

"Then what?"

Yan Liulang felt ashamed on his face, and told all the accidents that happened that day.

Xie Ling Jiang Xiu frowned even more, without saying a word, rolled up his sleeves, and felt his pulse for a moment.

She let out a slight breath.

"How is Miss Xie?"

Xie Lingjiang glanced at Yan Liulang, and pondered:

"It was the spiritual energy that suddenly went berserk and went retrograde, causing the meridians to be congested and blocked. Fortunately, it didn't hurt the main heart...

"This girl's aura has been damaged, but it's not a problem to wake up, but I still need to consume a Rejuvenation Pill. It just so happened that the elders of Gezao Mountain gave me a few Rejuvenation Pills before parting."

Yan Liulang and the others looked at each other with joy in their eyes.

Xie Lingjiang stretched his hand into his bosom, ready to take out something, but when he stretched his hand halfway, he stopped, and glanced sideways at Yan Liulang and the others.

Seeing this, the latter immediately went out to avoid it.

Hearing the sound of the door closing again, Xie Lingjiang continued to fetch things from his bosom.

She usually kept the important things in her bosom, including the Rejuvenation Pill, which heals and saves lives in times of crisis.

Xie Lingjiang put a slender jade hand into his bosom, first took out a pill box that exuded a strange fragrance, then took out the medicine bottle containing the spring pill, and quickly put the pill box away.

This golden elixir is too important to be guarded against others.

After a while, Xie Lingjiang took out a Rejuvenation Pill, sat on the side of the bed, and fed it to the fairy jade girl with closed eyes.

Immediately after feeling the pulse, Xie Lingjiang sent some spirit energy.

Fairy Yucheng moved her eyes, then calmed down again.

Xie Lingjiang sneered: "How dare you pretend to be awake?"

After finishing speaking, he poked continuously to completely seal Yucheng's acupoint.

"Okay, now that I'm awake, I'm going to settle an account with you now. Was it fun to pretend to be my elder brother that day? Come on, let's have a good talk..."

Xie Lingjiang narrowed his eyes and lifted the quilt.

Fairy Yucheng hurriedly opened her eyes, her complexion was still a little weak, she stammered and begged for mercy:
"Wait...Wait! I was wrong, I regret it, please spare my life, I...I hate the Liu family so much now, I wish the Liu family would die! And...and I have something important to expose! About From the Liu family! As long as you promise not to kill me, I will tell you everything!"

Xie Lingjiang paused slightly, tilted his head and narrowed his eyes: "Let's listen."

Fairy Yucheng hesitated, shrank back, and asked timidly:

"You really don't want to kill me?"

Xie Lingjiang nodded: "Tell me, if it's really satisfactory, I promise I won't kill you."

Fairy Yucheng didn't think much about the extra word "I", maybe because she thought that this girl was just as naive and naive as before... She breathed a sigh of relief:
"It's a big conspiracy planned by the Liu family... Wait, what date is it today?"

Fairy Yucheng slowly opened her mouth...

After half a stick of incense.

In front of the bed, Xie Lingjiang, who was frowning and listening, suddenly changed his face, and rushed out the door. The burst of breath made the trees in the courtyard rattling, and the people waiting outside the door only heard her urgent words in the sudden wind:

"The big thing is wrong! The Liu family is so ambitious, you have to inform the senior brother immediately, Yan Liulang, you stay here to watch the prisoner!"

Liu Lang's face became anxious, and then he was taken aback: "Looking for Mingfu? Mingfu asked for leave and went back to his hometown, but he hasn't come back yet..."

"Ask for leave? Go home?" Xie Lingjiang turned around and asked.

Yan Liulang immediately told them all, and by the way, he also told the dangerous experience of Miaozhen and others coming that day.

Xie Lingjiang stomped his feet anxiously, his willow eyebrows stood on end: "Why didn't Liu Lang say it earlier!"

Yan Liulang and others were silent.

"Brother is gone, how can we stop the Liu family! That Xinding sword is almost ready..." Xie Lingjiang spun around anxiously, stopped at a certain moment and turned his head, "Wait, what happened to Uncle Li? Forging swords here, will there be any conspiracy involving Uncle Li's family?"

Xie Lingjiang quickly told Yan Liulang a few words, turned around and rushed out, she rushed to Su Mansion on Luming Street, rushed in the door, looking for Li Xian and others.

Li Xian's family gathered quickly after being informed by the servant girls.

"Are you all right?"

"No...it's okay, why is niece Xian in such a hurry?" Li Xian asked curiously.

Seeing that everyone was safe, Xie Lingjiang heaved a sigh of relief, pursed his lips, and prepared to organize his words.

At this time, Su Gu'er was wearing a purple Taoist robe, wearing a jade-green lotus crown, and holding a scroll of profound scriptures, walking slowly, as if he was just burning incense and chanting scriptures, and rushed to him after hearing the sound.

When she came to Xie Lingjiang, she stretched out her right palm.

On the open white palm, there is a key lying quietly.

Su Guer's tone is light:
"He left it, let Xie's sister come back to his room and say that there is something for you."

Xie Ling Jiang Jiao's body froze slightly, and she paused on the spot. She who had rushed over anxiously suddenly slowed down and stood still on the spot.

"Leave it to me? Keep it?"

This noble daughter of the Xie family chewed on the words with red lips and bright teeth. After a while, she slowly raised her hand and took the key.

Xie Jinjiang lowered her head and turned around, and everyone couldn't see her expression for a while.

There was only one bare hand holding the cold key tightly.

(End of this chapter)