Mysterious Tang Dynasty

Chapter 454 Visiting the Temple
The accommodation arranged by Da Ci'en Temple for the Sui Palace and his party is actually not a place.

King Sui would bring his grandson and his step-grandson Zheng Wen to live in the small quiet courtyard prepared for pilgrims in the temple, so that they could listen to eminent monks explaining the Dharma; while Princess Dou would live next to Daci’en Temple with her daughter, daughter-in-law and granddaughters. In a courtyard above, there is a small gate that can communicate with the temple, so it is convenient to come and go.

The courtyard was not originally owned by the Da Ci'en Temple, but was specially bought by his wife after a son of an aristocratic family became a monk in the temple in the early years.She was reluctant to part with her husband and son-in-law, so she left the family business and moved to the courtyard, and went to the temple to worship the Buddha every day, saying that she was practicing Buddhism with her husband, but in fact she wanted to persuade him to return to vulgarity.However, her husband was still unmoved, and she died in depression in this courtyard.After her death, her husband-in-law donated the yard to the Daci'en Temple, but none of the abbots in the temple intended to formally bring it into the scope of the temple. female pilgrim.In this way, instead of staying overnight in the temple, they can go to the nearby temple to worship the Buddha every day, which is not against the rules of the temple.

Naturally, the environmental conditions of the Pilgrim Court could not be compared with that of the Sui Palace.But after Li Lijun entered the room assigned to him, he found that it was quite spacious inside, and it was cleaned quite cleanly. The basic furniture was complete, and there was a wintersweet plant growing in the backyard. , very moving.She was quite satisfied, so she settled down with Erhong and others.

Nanny Cui accompanied Shi Qing to fetch water and make tea, Erhong quickly rearranged the room, trying her best to make her little lady live comfortably tonight.Li Lijun smiled and said to her: "We won't sleep here at all tonight, why bother? After shopping in the market, we will take a seat and it will be dawn. But Nanny Cui and Shi Qing need a good rest Otherwise, I won’t have the energy to do things tomorrow.”

Erhong said: "As the little lady said before, there must be a complete set of plays. Now the princess, the princess of the three counties, the county head, the second lady, and Mrs. Zheng all live in the same courtyard with the little lady. I can come into the house now. If they see that the bedding on the bed has not been taken care of properly, even if they don’t feel suspicious, they will despise the slaves and others for not doing things wholeheartedly.”

Li Lijun had no choice but to stop talking, and found a futon next to him to meditate and refresh himself.Not long after, Li Huijun came to look for her.

Li Huijun was in high spirits and wanted to take Li Lijun to wander around the temple.Li Lijun didn't want to move: "It's almost time for lunch. If you go out at this time, aren't you afraid that you will be hungry for a while?"

Li Huijun said: "Just now on the way here, my aunt and I had a lot of refreshments. We are still full now. Where can we have a vegetarian meal? It's better to go out to digest food."

Li Lijun still looked lazy: "Where's my aunt? Why didn't you go find her?"

"She called Mrs. Zheng over to talk. Both of them's houses are being cleaned up, so I simply came to find you." Li Huijun paused, and whispered to Li Lijun, "Ms. Zheng seemed to be frightened just now. Then The old lady is her own grandmother, right? She looks like a mouse seeing a cat, her eyes are swollen, she must have cried secretly just now, she looks very pitiful."

Li Lijun didn't take it seriously: "Even if she was angry with her grandmother in the Zheng family before, she has moved out now, with the support of her grandmother, Princess Huo, and her mother has become the heir princess of our Sui Palace. The Pei family is also willing to protect her." Looking at their brothers and sisters, what is she afraid of? With so many of us present, how can she be bullied? I don't think it's interesting."

Li Huijun thinks about it too.If you say that you have a poor background, you and Li Lijun are both motherless people, and you still have your grandmother and father to protect you, and now you get along well with your stepmother. her father.Isn't she more pitiful than Zheng Yuchai?Anyway, Zheng Yuchai also has grandmother, mother and elder brother!But Zheng Yuchai's frightened appearance just now was like a helpless little pitiful, and his temper was too soft.With her appearance like this, she is afraid that anyone will bully her in the future. What if she meets a domineering and unreasonable husband's family? !
Li Huijun whispered to Li Lijun: "I also knew a few girls from the Zheng family. They were all well-educated, and there were also gentlemen among them, but none of them were as cowardly as Mrs. Zheng. Normally, I couldn't tell. Sometimes she would lose her temper in front of her aunt and Zheng Xiaolang, who would have thought that she would be so soft when she met her grandmother?"

Li Lijun was thoughtful: "It must be that she suffered from her grandmother when she was in Zheng's family before? Isn't the elderly in their family famously partial to the eldest son? It must be because they have gone too far. He will insist on returning home with his children, and the Zheng clan did not make any effort to stop them, this is because they know that Zheng Xiaolang and Zheng Niangzi's grandparents are wrong."

Li Huijun clasped his hands together and said: "Yes, it should be like this! It's just that the Zheng family didn't stop my aunt from taking their children away at that time, why did they go back on their word now? I heard that Mrs. Zheng said every word that my aunt is not Xian, entrusting the children to her correctional society will delay their future, and they want to take them away... Aren't the two elders of the Zheng family obsessed with their grandsons? Now they don't care about their grandchildren? See Mrs. Zheng's cursing She's so agile, she doesn't look like a loving grandmother, but rather like a wolf grandmother with malicious intentions!"

Li Lijun mentioned the allusion of Grandma Wolf to her when chatting, but she didn't expect that after more than two years, she still remembered it.

Li Lijun smiled, feeling a little strange in his heart.

Mrs. Zheng was able to find out that King Sui's family came to Daci'en Temple to pay respects to the Buddha.But Mrs. Zheng traveled from Xingyang to Chang'an specially, and traveled nearly a thousand miles, right?Is it so hard, just to go to the Da Ci'en Temple to block the grandchildren, and then find an excuse to take them away?What did she think of the Sui Palace?What do you think of Princess Huo and the Pei family? !Does she think she can do whatever she wants because she is the grandmother of Zheng's brothers and sisters?

Li Lijun and Li Huijun complained a few words together, but they didn't talk deeply.After all, this is a matter of the Zheng and Pei families. Unless Princess Huo speaks up, or Mrs. Zheng provokes the Sui Palace again, the two juniors should not always gossip about others, so as not to criticize Princess Pei. suspicion of the elders.

After a while, Concubine Dou sent her maid to inform them to go to the fasting meal, and Li Lijun and Li Huijun went to the main room hand in hand.

After the fast, everyone went back to their houses for a lunch break.Li Huijun invited his aunt Li Wanzhi to play in the temple, and also called Li Lijun and Zheng Yuchai.The four young ladies visited several places of interest in the temple, and under the leadership of the monks, they admired many inscriptions, listened to many allusions, saw the eminent monk's relics and shell-leaf scriptures, and the Buddha's footprint tablet in the temple. It was an eye opener.

Li Lijun recalled the Big Wild Goose Pagoda he had visited in the small world of the Republic of China in the novice period. Compared with the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in front of him, he just wanted to sigh the magic of the parallel world.

Turning around, she found that Zheng Yuchai looked distraught, and looked around repeatedly, as if she was on guard for something.

Is this because Mrs. Zheng will suddenly appear again?
Li Lijun secretly clicked his tongue, wondering what the hell Mrs. Zheng did to leave such a big psychological shadow on her granddaughter?

(End of this chapter)