Four Nights Red House

There is such a place, in the colorful clouds that is independent from the smoke and mist of the Tang Palace in the prosperous age, where you only hear the sound of Sanskrit like the tide and the sound of wooden fish. It seems that everything in the flourishing chapter is not disturbed by it.

It is like a wise man born in this world, content with indifference and willing to dance alone in the world of mortals.In this day and night surrounded by auspicious clouds accompanied by smoke, dust and mist, believers will be able to escape from suffering and find happiness, and gradually become enlightened.

This place is called Ganye Temple...

The phoenix-tailed thin sleeves decorated with lace on the golden gown waved in the air, and held a withered leaf in her hand. This graceful young girl who was blooming in a good year and just about to bloom knew that it was autumn.

The girl's surname is "Li" and her first name is "Lingyue".This rather auspicious name is taken from "Lingyue Jiachen", which means an auspicious day.

She was born in such a prosperous and prosperous age where a hundred flowers bloom and all people return to their hearts, and she also grew up in such a splendid "chaos" age where red makeup is in power and charming and enchanting.She is the most honorable first-born princess and the only princess in this graceful and prosperous empire, Princess Taiping.

The word "Taiping" is her princess's title, and it is also the Taoist name she brought with her when she was young in Ganye Temple.

It was when she was very young, a concubine of the former Emperor Taizong who was a forerunner (female Taoist priest) went there; there is a saying in Taoism that if a member of the family must have a junior who enters the Tao, then he can be a relative who died. Bring blessings and let them have a better life in the underworld.Therefore, her father, in order to show his filial piety, gave up her who had always been the apple of his eye, and built a temple of peace in the palace.

At that time, Taiping didn't think too much, and all the things in the world were complicated, but they were simple and clear to her; because in her clear eyes, they were just some green grass and pink flowers. And, the blue sky... For her, there is no very deep memory.

I just remember that Gaozong Lizhi was still there at that time, and his mother, Empress Wu, and his father, the emperor, were called "two saints".

I also forgot when a Tubo prince asked Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi to marry Princess Taiping as his wife.

For this only daughter, Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu have always loved and loved her dearly!And how can she be willing to go to Tibet to marry far away?Empress Wu conceived a plan. Since Taiping had entered Taoism at a young age, she simply took the opportunity to settle her in the Ganye Temple, saying that she was going to pray for the ancestors, learn the Tao and practice Buddhism.In fact, it was just to avoid the marriage proposal of the Tubo prince.

Seeing that the princess had left the imperial palace and entered the Ganye Temple, the prince had no choice but to give up.

On the contrary, since Taiping was resettled, he has never had the opportunity to return to the imperial palace. In other words, Empress Wu also wanted to let this happy and active daughter experience Zen Buddhism here.Such an arrangement has been such a few years...

Taiping knew in his heart that his father and mother cherished him, the only surviving youngest daughter who was only obtained in his later years.Whether at home or as a monk, what they always hope is that this precious daughter can live a peaceful life!

The life in Ganye Temple is not boring. It goes around all year round, and the fun is constantly changing. It is even richer and more interesting than Tang Palace. Taiping is also happy with this "high mountain and emperor far away" The idle clouds and wild cranes, the unrestrained leisurely life.

Not only that, she also has two playmates here, one is the son of her elder brother Li Dan, Saburo Li Longji; the other is an orphan who was adopted in the temple when he was young, named Lai Junchen.

Taiping had four elder brothers. The eldest brother Li Hong died of illness, the second brother Li Xian was convicted of treason and died on the road to exile. The queen mother was abolished as the king of Luling and demoted to Fangzhou. The fourth brother Li Dan is now the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but he was actually imprisoned by the Empress Dowager Wu in the deep palace to evade power.

This Li Longji is the third son of Li Dan. Long before Li Dan was imprisoned and emptied of power, this quiet and wise prince foresaw the situation he would be in in the future, so he had to do it early. As soon as the preparations were made, Li Longji was under the guise of his father and asked Empress Wu to place him in Ganye Temple in the name of "self-cultivation and study of Buddhism".Li Dan did this, in fact, to keep his son, who had always been valued by him, away from the vortex of political power in the deep palace, so as not to cause trouble.After that, Saburo also stayed in this Ganye Temple for several years!

Although Taiping and Longji talked about their seniority as aunt and nephew, in reality, she was only two years older than him.

When she was young, she liked to live in this Ganye Temple intermittently for a while to escape the summer heat every year. At that time, she had a lot of fun with Lai Junchen and Li Longji who had entered the temple before her; Living in the temple often, we get along day and night, and the friendship is very deep.

In this way, if the relationship between these three people is said to be childhood sweethearts and three little guesses, there is nothing wrong with it!The friendship between each other that has been accumulated since childhood and gradually strengthened from the little things is really deep.