"What does it mean to live with me for the rest of your life without knowing why? It's as if Lin Xian'er has some unusual relationship with me." After hearing what Dou Xiantong said, Li Xian felt aggrieved, but now the situation forced him to
, I had something to ask for, so I naturally didn’t dare to say these words, so I had to endure my grievances and agreed to the other party’s request.
Without further ado, that night, Dou Xiantong disguised himself as an ordinary guard and Lin Xianer as a young eunuch. Seeing Dou Xiantong's miraculous disguise skills, Li Xian immediately took action.
I was so impressed that I felt completely relieved and had absolute confidence in this trip to Shaolin.
After the disguise ended, the two sisters followed Li Xian through the secret passage and quietly entered Li Xian's palace. They sneaked into Li Xian's side under Lin Cheng's nose.
Early the next morning, Li Xian took the edict from the Holy Mountain and led a large group of people to the Shaolin Temple.
In the first month of this year, Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu had once again visited the Eastern Capital, so at this time Li Xian was living in Luoyang with the Holy Master. Even for a normal tour, it was only two days' journey to Shaolin Temple, not to mention Li Xian's brigade.
The men and horses were all strong knights, and they arrived at the Shaolin Temple on the same day, that is, on the fourth day of February, before dark.
Shaolin abbot Master Zhishan, who had received the news in advance, was naturally waiting for Li Xian outside the mountain gate. The two parties first exchanged simple polite greetings, and then were personally led by Master Zhishan to the abbot's room.
Li Xian first read out the edict of the Holy Emperor, then greeted Master Xuanzang in a business-like manner, expressed a few words of friendship between master and disciple, and was then led to a courtyard near the guest room to rest.
As the military commander of this team, Lin Cheng came here under the secret order of Empress Wu, so he stayed with Li Xian every step of the way. Even when Li Xian went to the toilet, he had to accompany him in, nominally for Li Xian's safety.
, but everyone understands the meaning.
However, Li Xian did not reject the other party's "good intention", but just smiled and said to the other party that it was hard work, and then got into his bedroom.
As for the place where Li Xian rested, Lin Cheng, even if he was very brave, did not dare to break in at will, so he had to wait outside the courtyard gate. However, he had already arranged his confidants around the courtyard, and he was confident that even if Li Xian
Even with wings, it is difficult to fly out of his surveillance.
However, Lin Cheng still did not dare to take it lightly. Regardless of his fatigue, he refused to rest and stayed outside the gate of Li Xian's courtyard all night. If an uninformed person saw it, he would really think that this person was very loyal to Li Xian.
At nightfall, Lin Cheng was on duty in front of Li Xian's door. Suddenly, he saw the door opened. The young eunuch who had been following Li Xian walked out gently, smiled politely at him, and then prepared to leave.
"What's the important thing when you go out at night?" Lin Cheng didn't want to let such a young eunuch go, so he asked quickly.
Then he saw the young eunuch pointing to a worn-out piece of clothing in his hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "The king's robe was torn when he went up the mountain. The Za family borrowed some needles and thread from the great monk to mend it for the king."
Lin Cheng took the clothes, seemingly casually, but in fact he touched them carefully and found that there were no clothes inside. Then he handed the clothes back to the young eunuch, then nodded and said: "It's windy at night, go and come back quickly."
"No." The young eunuch took the clothes, saluted Lin Cheng, and then ran away quickly.
Lin Cheng looked at the young eunuch who was running away. He felt that the figure looked familiar and had some doubts in his heart. He looked in from outside Li Xian's room door and saw that Li Xian was sitting on the desk reading. Then his doubts disappeared and he continued to retreat to the courtyard gate.
On duty everywhere.
In fact, how did Lin Cheng know? The one who is reading in Li Xian's bedroom now is actually not Li Xian, but the young eunuch who was disguised. The one who walked out from under his nose before is the real Li Xian.
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But it was said that Li Xian escaped from the courtyard and came to Xuanzang's door in a hurry.
At this time, because Xuanzang was seriously ill, all his disciples were guarding the hall. In addition, Li Xian could not control his breath, so he was blocked as soon as he approached.
"Stop. Who are you? You are wandering around quietly late at night, do you know where this is?" Outside Xuanzang Gate, the two Shaolin monks on duty saw Li Xian, dressed as a young eunuch, suddenly barging in.
They all shouted.
Li Xian smiled faintly when he saw this, took out a jade talisman from his sleeve, and waved it towards the two monks. The expressions of the two monks suddenly changed, and they stepped aside respectfully, not daring to stop them.
When Li Xian saw that the monk recognized the jade talisman given by his master Zhikong, he thought it would save him a lot of effort, so he carefully put away the jade talisman and rushed to the room. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a young novice monk
He suddenly ran out and was about to bump into him.
Li Xian smiled faintly and somehow managed to avoid the little novice monk by twisting his body, and even broke into the room through the gap.
"Haha, I haven't seen you for a while. How did you look like this?" That little novice monk was naturally Li Xian's second junior brother Wu Neng.
"Oh, it wasn't originally like this, but wasn't it forced? Surrounded by a pack of wolves, it had to happen." Li Xian spread his hands and said helplessly.
"You actually perfected the flying over the wall technique. You're one step ahead of me. You really deserve to be so highly praised by the master." Na Wu Neng looked at Li Xian with a smile on his face, winked at him, and stretched out his hand.
A thumbs up.
"Haha, you are not ambiguous. You were one level slower than me before, but now you are almost catching up with me. Without worldly distractions, your practice speed is fast. As the saying goes, diligence can make up for weakness." Li Xian looked at Wu Neng and sighed softly.
road.
"This guy is hurting others when he comes up. How can hard work make up for clumsiness? Does that mean I'm clumsy?" Wu Neng gesticulated with his hands and hummed softly: "If it weren't for Master Xuanzang's sake, today would be a terrible day.
I must teach you a lesson."
"Haha, let's fight. Who is afraid of you?" Li Xian waved his fist provocatively, looking eager to try.
Of course, although the two of them seemed to be on the verge of breaking out, they both knew the seriousness of the matter, so they just talked about it, and then gently pointed to the inner room and motioned for him to go in to meet Xuanzang.
Li Xian walked into the inner room, only to find that there were only two of them, his master and his apprentice. He couldn't help but be slightly startled, but then he knew the intention of his master Xuanzang. Tonight would probably be the last time that their master and apprentice would meet, so this time the master and his apprentice must be together.
The things to be discussed must be discussed clearly, otherwise there will be no close cooperation between Li Xian and Buddhism in the future.
"My disciple Wukong, you are here." Although Xuanzang was seriously ill, he was still full of energy. Seeing Li Xian come in, he tried his best to squeeze out a smile on his face and greeted Li Xian, but this time Xuanzang did not call directly.
Li Xian's common name was his dharma title instead, and it was obvious that he was officially regarded as his disciple.
"The master has been seriously ill for a long time, but the disciple knows nothing about it. I am really ashamed to be a disciple." Although Li Xian saw Xuanzang before dark and said something to him, he could not really express it unscrupulously until now. With my own emotions, looking at the skinny Xuanzang, I suddenly felt sad and kowtowed with tears.
But seeing that Xuanzang was still full of energy, he said with a smile: "Idiot, I, a Buddhist disciple, are used to seeing the impermanence of life and death, and the futility of all dharmas. This skin is just thrown away. What is there to be sad about?"
Although Li Xian understood that the master was reminding him not to be emotional in the future and to be calm when encountering problems, he still said: "This disciple has a heavy career and a shallow practice, and it is difficult to let go of worldly emotions. Therefore, the appearance made the master laugh. "
But Xuanzang smiled faintly, and then said: "How can you say such things as a joke? In fact, my teacher does have a lot to say to you today, but I don't know how you can escape from surveillance. Seeing that you escaped successfully today, I I am very relieved that you are smarter than I expected. However, my master is seriously ill now and it is difficult to cure. The day after tomorrow, I will bid farewell to all living beings and go to the Paradise of Paradise. However, there are some things that I cannot rest assured. I hereby exempt you from any instructions."
"What is the master's instruction? Just say that as long as the disciple can do it, he will do his best to reduce the killing as much as possible and stabilize the Tang Dynasty. But if some foreigners are to be punished for our thousand-year inheritance of China, the disciple dare not You are soft-handed." Li Xian naturally knew that Xuanzang was trying to persuade him to reduce killings in the future, but he also knew that he had something to do and something not to do, and he also knew that he could not deceive his master, so he did not hesitate and expressed his attitude directly.
"Sure enough, you are my good disciple. You guessed my master's intention from the first moment. However, you only know one of them but not the other. My master's advice to you to reduce killings is also for my China's consideration. You must know that not only war will cause It will lead to tragedy, and long-term peace will also cause a country to become corrupted and degenerate. Therefore, we should retain some strong countries so that China can inspire and reflect on itself at any time. Otherwise, once there is no opponent, China will have no intention of making progress, which is not a blessing, but a disaster."
"My master's words show his far-sightedness. In fact, why don't my disciples think this way? However, those who are not of my race must have different minds. Some races do not believe in the right way and specialize in killing and killing people, which has brought disasters to China for thousands of years. Even I, the Buddhist sect, do not want to preach to them, so my disciples think that we should use force to conquer them, and then move to our Chinese people, integrate and assimilate their remnants, and then use Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism to teach them, so that they can survive for a long time. The battles in the world and the four seas will be like the battle between the seven heroes of the Warring States Period. Even the battles are the fuel of our country, which will be passed down from generation to generation. In this way, won’t our country survive for thousands of years and not be invaded by evil laws and heretics?”
"Alas, the young monk has long known that you are full of murderous aura and will definitely bring a catastrophe to the world in the future. The young monk wanted to eliminate disasters for the world, but found that the murderous star has appeared. This is the will of God and cannot be done by human beings. Perhaps what you said a few years ago is correct. If evil is not eliminated, good people will suffer disaster. However, as long as the power is still there and the desire is still there, fighting is inevitable. I don’t know that my disciples have killed many times and created so many killings. , how long can the world be stabilized?" Xuanzang persuaded him many times. Seeing that Li Xian still persisted but was helpless, he knew that the matter still could not be stopped. However, he had to help Li Xian, because only this person could minimize the killing. Karma to prevent the world from falling into greater chaos.