Yu Shuyue thought that he was only over three hundred years old at most, but she didn't expect that he was actually five hundred years old.
Can anyone really live for such a long time in this world?
"Why, little benefactor, don't you believe it? I know astronomy from above and geography from below, and everything in the world──"
"Wait a minute, this...is a little different from what I thought..."
Yu Shuyue looked at the rich-looking Master Huairang in front of her. His eyebrows and beard were both white, and he was kind-hearted.
At this time, he was holding his long beard with his hands while talking, with a profound look on his face.
If he doesn't speak, he really looks like an immortal. Isn't that right? Isn't he a monk?
He should be an eminent monk.
"What's different?"
Huairang looked at her curiously, wondering what she was talking to herself when she suddenly interrupted him.
"Have you really lived five hundred years?"
"Don't you believe it, little donor?"
"Does that unofficial history record that Emperor Xiao, the founding emperor of Da Qi, delivered the body of a dragon to you after his death three hundred years ago?"
Although Yu Shuyue believed it most likely in her heart, she still felt that this thing was incredible.
Besides, this Master Huairang looks energetic, but he doesn't look like someone who has lived for hundreds of years.
"Didn't the little donor already see it just now?"
Huairang knew that she was testing him. He touched his beard and smiled contentedly, as if everything was under his control.
"You...you actually know!"
Huairang just looked at her with a smile but said nothing.
"But whether it's the pattern on the top or the pattern elements in that stone room, they are all related to Taoism. How come you, a Buddhist and loyal to the Buddha, still use Taoist things?"
Yu Shuyue finally remembered what was strange.
Ever since she saw these Tai Chi and Bagua pictures, she always felt a little inconsistent.
This is the back hill of Huayan Temple, a place of Buddhism. How come there are elements of Taoism there?
"Haha, little donor, although Buddhism and Taoism are two different faiths, we will take the best of them and integrate them. This is not a strange thing. If you observe these patterns carefully, it is not difficult to find that there are also
My secret of Buddhism.”
Master Huairang looked calm. People in Buddhism always pay attention to the word fate. When he traveled around, he was lucky enough to have the opportunity of Taoism.
Now that you have it, there is no reason to use it.
After hearing this, Yu Shuyue raised her head again and looked at the pattern above her head. After his reminder, she did see something from Buddhism.
"It is recorded in unofficial history that Princess Shi'an of Jiang State had jumped off the city wall and died on the day of the fall of the country. Then how could her body..."
Thinking of the rosy peach-like face she saw in the stone room before, especially the face that looked exactly like her own, Yu Shuyue couldn't help but swallow her saliva and pointed to the inside of the cave.
"Haha, the Buddha said it cannot be said. The little donor will naturally know when the time comes." Huairang just smiled and shook his head and said incomprehensibly.
"Then why could I see those things just now, and how did I get in?"
"You can't say this if you don't know it, right?"
"No, everything set up here is to prevent people with bad intentions from disturbing the purity of Emperor Xiao and Princess Shi'an. As for you, little donor, this place belongs to you, and naturally these things cannot stop you."
He was originally answering Yu Shuyue's questions, but the confusion in Yu Shuyue's heart was indeed getting bigger and bigger.
But before she could ask any more questions, she looked at Master Huairang in front of her and smiled and shook his head. Then she saw Huairang's body gradually becoming transparent.
"Master Huairang, master, what are you—"
Before Yu Shuyue finished speaking, Huairang's figure had already disappeared from the spot, and only the lingering sound of his last words still lingered in the air.
"Little benefactor, I give you a gift. I hope the little benefactor likes it and we will meet again when we are destined."
"What gift? Do people like to be so mysterious because they live too long?"
The ground was empty, he didn't leave anything behind, and Yu Shuyue didn't even know if she had just hallucinated.
But whether it was what she saw in the stone chamber just now or the conversation she had with Master Huairang, they were all so real and did not seem like things she imagined.
Yu Shuyue glanced at the place where Huairang was standing with doubts in her heart, then at the cave, scratched her head and turned to leave.
No one knew when she went out except her personal maids Shaoyao and Ziyuan. She had been out for a long time and it was time to go back.
Moreover, today's harvest is really not small, and she needs time and space to sort it out.
Huayan Temple, in the Zen room where the abbot is located.
The host sat cross-legged on the futon and closed his eyes to meditate on the Buddha. Huairang's figure suddenly appeared in the Zen room.
"Hey, Xiao Benji, have you done what I asked you to do?"
"Amitabha, the things you told me have been completed. Are you back?"
Benji looked at this old man who had lived for hundreds of years and looked the same as himself, and called him in the tone of an adult teasing a child. If he hadn't been used to seeing him like this since he was a child, he might be disgusted.
Come on.
"Okay, you are indeed my capable Xiao Benji. I am very relieved to leave the matter to you. In this case, I will leave and come back to supervise your homework after a while."
After that, Huairang's figure disappeared into the Zen room as silently as when he came.
The hand I just raised stayed in the air for a while, and finally I sighed softly, then sat down again with my legs crossed and my eyes closed to meditate on the Buddha.
This old man has not been like this for a day or two, he has long been accustomed to it.
A few days ago, he sent a message back asking him to put the things he had told him on the agenda. Benji had already gone to the palace to deal with the matter a few days ago. I thought he would receive the news in the next two days.
Yu Shuyue didn't take Huairang's gift to heart. It was already evening when she returned home. She was just about to go back through the back door when she saw her brother and father waiting for her there with serious faces.
.
"Uh...why did daddy and brother come back so early today-"
"If my father hadn't returned home earlier and didn't know that Ah Yue had sneaked out of the house alone, it's not like dad didn't let you go out, so why did you sneak out alone? Why didn't you take your maid and bodyguard with you? Last time in Yan
Have you forgotten what happened in Akiyama?"
Father Yu rarely scolded her with a straight face, but when he saw her sneaking out alone, he felt very anxious and nervous.
"Dad, my daughter is wrong, please don't be angry."
Yu Shuyue saw him angry and hurried over to hold his arm and act coquettishly.
"Why are you still wearing a sword? What bad things have you done?"
Yu Shuyue rarely used a sword. She went out today without bringing anyone with her and she sneaked out with a sword. It seemed that she was not just going for fun.
"Oh, no. What bad things can I do if I go to the capital city under the emperor's heavy security? The key is that I don't have anything bad to do. It's not like Yan Qiushan was in danger last time. I feel safer carrying weapons wherever I go now."
"Okay, father, if A Yue can do anything bad, let's talk about it."
"Dad, brother, what's going on?"
Yu Shuyue raised her head and looked at them curiously, wondering what kind of riddle the two were playing.
"Just now the imperial edict came, and the emperor granted me a marriage."
Yu Shuyue thought that the emperor had granted her brother a marriage. After all, her brother had already reached the crown and had not yet started a family, nor was he married to a woman from any family.
But before the smile on her face could spread, she heard her father's next words.
"The Emperor has granted you a marriage to His Highness the Crown Prince." This chapter has been completed!