Harem Changwu Biography

Chapter 133 Why did the longevity lamp suddenly go out
After I couldn't figure it out, I turned my head and chased Master Hongyuan, wanting to ask him to understand.

But he didn't want to see Master Hongyuan after turning around, Master Hongyuan disappeared in the blink of an eye.

When I saw this, I was very anxious. When I saw that Master Hongyuan was no longer in sight, I immediately turned around and walked towards the cliff. After passing through the thick white fog and not seeing Master Hongyuan, I returned to Fahua Temple.

It’s just that Master Hongyuan seems to have made up his mind not to let me find it. After that, I let me search the entire Fahua Temple, but I still couldn’t find him. I asked the monks in the temple and no one knew where he went. place.

So I anxiously searched all the way, and finally found the Hall of Eternal Life unknowingly.

At that time, the ten thousand longevity lamps in the Hall of Eternal Life were constantly burning for years and months, and the smell of incense in the hall was so strong that even standing outside the Hall of Eternal Life, one could smell it from afar.

I passed by the entrance of the Hall of Eternal Life and turned my head to look inside the Hall of Eternal Life. After seeing that there was no figure of Master Hongyuan inside, I planned to leave and look for it elsewhere.

But I didn't want to, just as I turned around to leave, I saw Mingqi in the hall at a glance.

Today, there are many people who come to the Hall of Eternal Life to light lamps and pray for blessings. At a glance, there are about ten people.Among them, there are men and women, young and old, with different clothes and identities, but at the same time, they all stand devoutly in front of their respective longevity lamps and pray for blessings.

Among the dozen or so people, Ming Wan, who changed into ordinary clothes, was not the most conspicuous. He looked particularly low-key in his black clothes, especially when he restrained his aura as an emperor.

But even so, I still saw him in the crowd at a glance.

At that time, he was standing in front of a long life lamp, looking at the long life lamp in front of him, his gaze was no different from that of other people in the hall of longevity, they all looked at the long life lamp in front of him devoutly, with a smile in their eyes. praying.

And not far behind Mingqi, Qi He and Fang Hao are following.

And like Mingqi, the two look at the longevity lamp in front of them with the same devout eyes.

I stood outside the Hall of Eternal Life, looked at Mingqi inside the Hall of Eternal Life, and followed his gaze towards the Eternal Life Lantern he was watching.

Even if it is too far away, I can still know that the word 'Changwu' must be written on the amulet in front of the longevity lamp.

I knew that it was the amulet written by Ming Qi himself and the longevity lamp he lit himself.

After seeing the Changsheng Lantern, I turned my gaze back to Mingqi, and found that since staring at the Changsheng Lantern, besides being pious, Mingqi has gradually shrouded in a deep sense of sadness.

Looking at Mingqi's gradually sad appearance, I also felt a little sad in my heart, and then I even forgot to find Master Hongyuan, and unconsciously stepped into the Hall of Eternal Life.

I want to go to Mingqi, but I can't bear to disturb Mingqi's pious appearance.

In addition, I remembered what Qihe said before, telling me not to leave the side room casually, so when I saw that I was only five or six steps away from Mingqi, I immediately turned around and hid behind a pillar on the side.

The scent of incense in the longevity lamp was strong. I hid behind the pillar and looked at Mingqi who hadn’t taken his eyes off the longevity lamp for nearly half an hour. My brows were wrinkled in worry, and I was hesitating whether to find an excuse to persuade me to leave. While playing chess, I suddenly heard an exclamation: "Why is this light off?"

It was a clear female voice, because the voice was high-pitched and too loud in the silent Hall of Eternal Life, so when the voice sounded, everyone in the Hall of Eternal Life except Mingqi all looked in the direction of the sound. go.

So do I.

I saw that the person who spoke was a woman around seventeen or eighteen, judging from her clothes and hair accessories, she should be an unmarried girl.

Next to that woman were several women of the same age and similar dress, while in front of them was a wife in her fifties who looked like a wealthy family.

So it can be seen that this woman should have accompanied the elders in the family to light longevity lanterns and pray for other elders in her family.

Thinking of this, I looked in front of Madam Noble Qi again.

I thought the longevity lamp that the young woman mentioned was referring to their home, but when I looked forward, I saw that the longevity lamp in front of the lady was burning well, and it was not as the young woman said just now. off like that.

"I'm not talking about our family, but that lamp."

And when I was surprised, I heard this young woman say again, and after her words fell behind, I saw her raise her hand, not far from her parents' lighting.

It was also at this time that I discovered that, far away from the three lamps of the young woman's parent's life lamp, a longevity lamp that was supposed to be on turned off when no one noticed. The blue smoke after the lights go out.

"Master, why is the light off?"

The other people in the Hall of Eternal Life looked in the direction of the young woman's fingers just like me, and after seeing the extinguished longevity lamp like me, I heard one of them ask.

"That's right, master, how come the longevity lamp in the Hall of Eternal Life will be extinguished?" After the man had finished speaking, someone asked again.

"The longevity lamp is off? Is it still useful to pray?"

"Whose longevity lamp is this? How did it go out?"

"Isn't the longevity lamp entrusted to the master of Fahua Temple? How could it go out for no reason? The lamp oil and wick in the lamp are not missing?"

"That's right, there was no wind just now? Why did it suddenly go out?"

After those two people, people spoke one after another, and while they asked, they also looked at Master Facheng who was in the Hall of Eternal Life at this time, waiting for Master Facheng to answer.

Although I didn't ask any questions, I looked at Master Facheng like the others.

At this moment, everyone in the Hall of Eternal Life and I thought that it was not a trivial matter that the longevity lamp went out for no reason, so we all looked at Master Facheng with surprise.

But to everyone's surprise, when we looked at Master Facheng together, we couldn't see any anxiety on Master Facheng's face.

On the contrary, after seeing the extinguished longevity lamp, he clasped his hands together and said a word of "Amitabha Buddha" with his usual expression, and then walked towards the longevity lamp.

Master Facheng walked to the extinguished longevity lamp step by step, and then said the Buddha's words of "Amitabha Buddha" to the extinguished longevity lamp. put away.

"May I ask Master Facheng, why did the longevity lamp suddenly go out?"

After Master Facheng put away the longevity lamp and amulet, there was another voice of inquiry in the hall of longevity.

And the person who spoke was none other than the elder of the young woman's family who had just discovered that the eternal life lamp had gone out.

"If the longevity lamp goes out for no reason in the middle, will it damage the blessings we prayed for?" I saw the lady ask Master Facheng while looking at the longevity lamp at her house, with worry in her eyes and a feeling of concern for Fahua Temple. suspicion.

After the lady spoke, the other people in the Hall of Longevity also looked at Master Facheng together, their eyes showing concern for their own long life lamp.

"Amitabha," Master Facheng uttered the Buddha's words again when facing everyone's inquiries.

"Donor don't need to worry, the longevity lamp did not go out for no reason." After the Buddha said, Master Facheng said again.

"That's the one just now?" The lady breathed a sigh of relief after Master Facheng's words, but she still looked at Master Facheng puzzled and asked afterwards.

"That's right, Master Facheng, since the Longevity Lamp will not go out without reason, why did that one just go out properly?" After the lady, another person in the Longevity Hall asked.

Although the others did not open their mouths to ask, they still looked at Master Facheng and waited for Master Facheng's answer after the two spoke.

"Amitabha, death is like a lamp going out, and the Longevity Lamp is a lamp for the living to pray for blessings. When the lamp goes out, it means that the person he prayed for has passed away." Master Facheng replied under the eyes of everyone.

"That's the case, thank you Master for clarifying the confusion."

"So it is."

"It turned out to be like this. If I didn't see it with my own eyes today, I wouldn't know the saying that the longevity lamp in Fahua Temple goes out when someone dies."

But after Master Facheng had finished speaking, voices of sudden enlightenment rose one after another in the Hall of Longevity. Afterwards, those people dispersed one after another and returned to their respective longevity lamps again, praying devoutly.

But these people did not include me, Qi He and Fang Hao.

Almost as soon as Master Facheng finished speaking, the three of us immediately turned our heads to look at the longevity lamp in front of Mingqi.

I saw the Changsheng Dianli, which was filled with the smell of incense, and the longevity lamp that represented "Changwu" was still burning as usual, not to mention that there was no intention of going out at all, and the lights were not even weak.

"master!"

After Fang Hao saw the longevity lamp that was burning as usual, he called Mingqi in front of him and looked towards Mingqi.

I also watched Mingqi together, and my heart beat suddenly and violently.

Although Ming Qi hadn't gone to see the extinguished longevity lamp with others, Master Facheng's voice was not low, so he heard what Master Facheng said.

Therefore, after Venerable Facheng said, "The extinction of the lamp means the death of the person who prayed for it", he kept staring at the longevity lamp in front of him until I and the other three looked at him. Never moved away.

And it was completely different from the piousness at the beginning. At this moment, Mingqi, who was looking at the longevity lamp in front of him, was obviously surprised and shocked.

"Dare to ask Master Facheng, will the lamp be extinguished after death?"

And when Fang Hao was looking at Mingqi, and Mingqi was staring at the longevity lamp, I suddenly heard Qihe's voice.

Later, when I turned my head to look for Sheng Sheng, I saw that Qihe had walked to Master Facheng at some unknown time, and was asking Master Facheng.

"Amitabha, of course." Master Facheng replied after his words.

"It's so offensive to ask the mage again, since there are no exceptions, why is our lamp still on?" Qihe asked again, turning his eyes to the longevity lamp in front of Mingqi.

Master Facheng was one of the eight elders who came out of Huafa Temple to welcome me and Mingqi. He was also the one who brought us to the Hall of Eternal Life to light the longevity lamps to pray for blessings.

Therefore, he understood the identities of me and Mingqi at that time.

After that, he also knew about the fact that Empress Dowager Renxian Yongde had passed away four years ago.

In this way, when he followed Qihe's eyes and saw the longevity lamp that was still burning, he saw that the expression on his face hadn't changed half because of the light, but his gaze was still compassionate towards Qihe and he put his hands together After saying a word of Buddhism, he opened his mouth and said, "Amitabha, the Buddha said: Do not speak!"

After speaking, he turned around and left the Hall of Longevity, presumably to deal with the longevity lamps and amulets that had just been extinguished.

After Master Facheng left, Qihe returned to Mingqi again, and looked at Mingqi with Fang Wei, but he didn't speak, but kept frowning tightly.

"Lord," Fang Hao wanted to speak again after hearing what Cai Qihe and Master Facheng said, but Qihe stopped him as soon as he opened his mouth.

However, although Fang Hao didn't finish speaking, Mingqi moved his body after Fang Hao's voice stopped abruptly.

Afterwards, he looked back at Fang Hao and He, then looked up at the direction Master Facheng left, narrowed his eyes, and said coldly, "Go to Qingshan!"

(End of this chapter)