She didn't have high expectations for the Empress Dowager's summons to Song Yuchuo, but she still kept her etiquette and patiently waited for the response. That afternoon, Song Yuchuo was sitting in the study room reading, when suddenly a sound broke the silence. Song Yuchuo looked up and saw

A woman in white clothes was walking around the room, walking over with light and steady steps. When she was bored, she picked up a pink camellia and played with it. She stood there for a moment and the door reopened. Xiao Susu had already changed into a bright red tea that could only be used by the minister.

Wearing palace attire, the faintly colored hair on the temples was highlighted by the bright colors, and she respectfully conveyed the message: "The Queen Mother invites Sumei to come in and have a seat."

It was difficult for Song Yuchuo to conceal his surprise. Could it be that his fame had spread to Zhaoyang Palace? Even the queen who had not come out looked at Song Yuchuo with interest. She saw a stack of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" placed on Song Yuchuo's desk.

, "Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes" and other novels, he asked: "What are you doing?" Song Yuchuo said: "Song Yuchuo is sending you a book!" Song Yuchuo suppressed his doubts and bowed back and said: "Auntie, please lead the way.

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Biru wanted to follow Song Yuchuo in, but Xiao Susu stood in front of her and said, "The Queen Mother just summoned Su Meiren." Biru just turned her eyes and asked Song Yuchuo for help. "Then you go find her.

." Song Yuchuo pulled Biru and walked out. Xiao Susu grabbed Song Yuchuo and said, "Biru, Song Yuchuo doesn't agree with your opinion." "Why? Song Yuchuo thought about it. Although the Queen Mother has an unpredictable temper, she may not be powerful.

He had to be able to swallow Song Yuchuo, and there was nothing wrong with eating it alone, so he told Biru to be obedient and stay.

When you step into the palace, you can't help but look around Zhaoyang Palace. This is a typical northern courtyard-style building, shaded by green trees, it looks particularly elegant and simple. The courtyard is full of seedlings, and Zhaoyang Palace should be full of glory.

The whole courtyard was melted with gold, but the branches blocked it vertically and horizontally, and the sun was shattered.

Several albizia julibrissin trees hugging each other are leading the way, with lush branches and graceful leaves. The rusty iron rope swing is hidden in the gloom, drooping listlessly. "This is a magical and beautiful land..." the tour guide said Song Yuchuo

We came to this mysterious place - Badong Town, Jianshi County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. It is surrounded by mountains and shrouded in clouds and mist. In the bushes below, golden nanmu and red-leaf privet grow in an orderly manner, paved with cobblestones.

The path was covered with fallen leaves, as if they hadn't been swept for several days.

Those supposedly bright azaleas were half-open and hidden under the leaves, quietly burning with a coquettish and eerie color. The wisterias grew so wildly under the flower stands that they even entangled the corridor pillars. In a trance, Song Yuchuo seemed to have returned to

In the inner pharmacy covered with vines, there was only a little less bustling and noisy. It was quiet in front of the main hall, and no one in the palace was seen. In a trance, it seemed that the sound of falling leaves could be heard. Song Yuchuo stood in front of the wooden chair

, looking at the dusk and mist outside the window, I couldn't help but feel a little sad. It was early winter, and the weather was freezing. And the inner palace, located to the west in the north of the Forbidden City, looked particularly quiet and peaceful. Even though there were grass and trees on the ground, it was more beautiful than the inner palace.

The place is lush and deep, and Zhaoyang Palace also gives people an unexpectedly cold feeling. This is probably the place where the harem sees the earliest sunlight, and I don't know why it is so cold and quiet.

Xiao Susu didn't even look back at her self-pitying steps. Her light steps were like ghosts, which reminded people of the queen's almost reclusive life, and unconsciously added a bit of mystery.

Xiao Susu led Song Yuchuo to a side hall, pushed the door in and asked Song Yuchuo to come and see it in person. Song Yuchuo uneasily opened the one-foot-high door threshold, and the dense sandalwood scent immediately wrapped around his body in a vague way.

The hook held the layers of gauze curtain, and then the last three layers were lowered. The breeze gently swayed the curtain, and fell into the darkness and brightness through the hollow window lattice with the double happiness pattern, illuminating the sky pattern above and the woman's face behind the curtain.

The shadow was vaguely visible, and smoke was coming from the stove in Cuojinbo Mountain next to it. Song Yuchuo seemed to have fallen into an illusion, walking on smooth black bricks with silk shoes, and it was more like there was no sound.

After bypassing the curtain, the Queen Mother did not realize that Song Yuchuo was coming. She knelt down and worshiped on the brocade cushion of the Buddhist niche. With only the crimson back in her eyes, Song Yuchuo kowtowed in awe and made a kneeling ceremony: "Concubine Su, please give me your regards."

Queen Mother Jin An!"

Song Yuchuo pressed his forehead against the cool black tile floor and did not dare to raise his head. However, the Queen seemed to be absent-minded and did not immediately tell Song Yuchuo to stand up. Song Yuchuo heard the sound of the rosary beads playing in his ears at regular intervals and became more and more nervous.

She got up, and after a long time she came back to her senses, looked at Song Yuchuo, and said in a calm tone like chanting: "Get up quickly!"

The Queen Mother pointed with her slender hand, a silk cushion embroidered with Panzhi Lotus Twin Palaces, and greeted Song Yuchuo to take a seat. Even though the room was dim and dull, the agarwood beads made the Queen Mother's skin more white and rosy, with porcelain pixels and cold light, and so did Her Majesty's.

She has jade-colored wrists, but the Queen Mother's pale skin seems to have been cold since she hasn't seen the sun for several days.

She knelt down on the brocade cushion and dared to peek at the appearance of this mysterious queen. She had narrow eyebrows, a high forehead, a few red beauty moles between her eyebrows that looked like blood thorns, a haggard face, and three pairs of gold inlays.

She wears a turquoise butterfly-shaped hairpin in a low bun with a tortoiseshell flower top, a crimson pipa skirt and a purple-tang dark-patterned double butterfly cloud skirt, and a five-year-old longevity ring and tassels on her waist.

However, at this time, the dim and white face of Queen Liu made Song Yuchuo feel infinitely sad. At this time, her eyes also stayed on Song Yuchuo for a moment, as if she wanted to say something to Song Yuchuo, but in the end she could not.

To put it bluntly, Song Yuchuo just wanted to find a name of his own on her face. Mrs. Liu's appearance was elegant and elegant, which was different from Mrs. Mingzhen's gorgeous and noble aura, but there was a hint of weirdness, like melancholy lilac in the dark.

"Can Sumei people remember what the twelve great wishes of Medicine Master Tathagata are? "What is your name?" "Are you a Sumei person?" "Oh, you are also a Sumei person!" the queen asked with a smile. Song Yuchuo

He raised his head and saw the queen looking at Song Yuchuo with a smile. When Song Yuchuo was upset, the queen's words were floating like smoke. Her eyes did not fall on Song Yuchuo, but just stared at the majestic Sakyamuni carved from red sandalwood.

Nifo, the Buddha's eyes were lowered, the corners of his lips were slightly raised, with a look of infinite compassion, as if he had forgiven the sins of the world.

The Queen Mother must have known the Buddhist scriptures by heart, and she asked this question without having to read it. The volume "The Sutra of Merits and Virtues of the Original Vows of the Medicine Master Tathagata" copied by Song Yuchuo was translated by Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty. It tells the story of the Medicine Buddha's visit under the music tree in Guangyan City.

Tell Manjushri the story of the twelve great wishes of Medicine Master Tathagata.

Song Yuchuo briefly recalled it and said eloquently: "The first great wish is that in the next life when the Buddha reaches Bodhi, I hope that I will be bright, pure and blazing, illuminating the immeasurable and endless heaven and earth, and be the appearance of the thirty-two great men...".

Song Yuchuo didn't know much about Buddhist scriptures, so he just wanted to occasionally hear the voice of the presiding lecturer every time he went to the temple. That's what it meant. Medicine master was originally used as a metaphor to treat the greed of living beings,? He was also a crazy doctor, so Medicine Master Tathagata Each of the twelve great vows he made was to fulfill the wishes of all sentient beings, relieve all living beings and cure all diseases. Later, Song Yuchuo discovered that Medicine Master Bodhisattva also had a great wish, that is, to universally deliver all living beings and save all living beings. Suddenly, he discovered that there are so many sufferings in the world, and the Buddha did not Maybe I had everything covered, so I made those big wishes. When I got home, I actually recited the entire Buddhist scripture in one breath.

Sitting next to the Queen Mother, I felt a little uneasy, but fortunately, I still recited without any mistakes. The Queen Mother's face was dark and unclear, and the room returned to silence. She didn't know where to put her hands, and she climbed to her waist uneasily to play with the bamboo handle of her fan.

"Su Mei has a good memory indeed, and I should be my successor, Mr. Su." The Queen Mother turned to look at Song Yuchuo one last time, her eyes flaring like luminous lights, "Which of the Tathagata Su's twelve great wishes does Su Mei wish to fulfill?

He clenched the handle with his fingers and subconsciously blurted out: "The second greatest wish is that in the next life of Bodhi, my body will be like glass, clear inside and outside, pure and flawless, bright and aboveboard!" "Pure and flawless?" "Yes! Yes!" "!" "Then what are you going to do?" "Ah! Song Yuchuo is going to see the Bodhisattva." "Where is the Bodhisattva?" "In hell. In fact, Song Yuchuo didn't know those wishes very clearly, but he just liked this sentence The words have a long meaning.

The Queen Mother paused as she fiddled with the rosary beads, her eyes lightly glanced at the birthmark on her neck, turned to face the Buddha, and sighed faintly: "It's pitiful that Song Yuchuo's human body also has the wisdom light of glazed glass. And it is blocked by worries and cannot be seen inside or outside. "Mingche".

The words spoken by the Empress Dowager were like Buddhist edicts. Song Yuchuo meditated on his second big wish, but found that he was shallow before and only loved the gorgeous words that stayed on the surface. When Song Yuchuo was savoring the deep meaning, The Queen Mother stood up, lit three sticks of incense, bent down and kowtowed three times, respectfully put on the Xuande stove, and stared down at the palace: "Look high at the nine-layered palace; it is difficult to protect the body of glass; I love and hate; and Crazy and angry; entangled and hateful; worries are like three thousand blue hairs; life and death; they all fall into the three words "cannot ask for"; I only hope that you can remember what you said to me today; I also hope that I can be a good person. Keep the Buddhist scriptures you gave me!" At this time, Song Yuchuo couldn't help but be impressed by her piety and persistence! "This is not a whim, nor is it an attempt to use Buddhist scriptures to calm the mind, but to let Song Yuchuo understand that everything in the world has its own purpose. The meaning of existence. The queen concealed the silence and serenity she had just shown. The solemn expression she showed when she said these words was exactly the majestic appearance of the mother of a country. She did not ask for explanations but her majesty was right in front of her eyes, and her heart was surging.

Is this the reason why the queen is willing to summon Song Yuchuo? Is it because Song Yuchuo's heart is led by her? It's because Song Yuchuo's heart is like an injured hand, struggling in pain... "Queen, why don't you go back?" "Song Yuchuo shouted anxiously. Song Yuchuo didn't bother to think carefully, and knocked three times to thank the Queen Mother for her guidance. The Queen Mother returned to her expression of silence in the ancient well water, and the tired look on her brows came to light again. Song Yuchuo almost had to think that the majestic woman he saw just now was just Song Yuchuo. In a momentary misunderstanding, she asked Song Yuchuo to retire, but Song Yuchuo followed the order safely.

When Song Yuchuo opened the curtain, he seemed to hear such a long sigh behind him. Who was crying? Is it Song Yuchuo's father? Is he praying for his daughter? Is it his mother? Is she praying for herself?

Praying? Could it be that she was praying for Song Yuchuo? She turned her head in surprise. In front of the Buddha was the queen's back that had not changed for thousands of years. She was shaking her head and comforting Song Yuchuo. It was probably because she had been affected by the sandalwood for a long time and had hallucinations.

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Chapter completed!