Noble First Daughter-in-law

Shang Ruyi took a few more deep breaths, still lowered her head, and asked softly, "Who is the person behind him?"

"..."

Although he was even more puzzled, Yu Wenye glanced at her, but didn't ask any further questions. He just raised his head and looked at those people again, and then said: "Doctor Tongyi, Guozi Siye, Captain Zhechong..."

Shang Ruyi hurriedly said, "Is there a girl?"

"woman?"

Yu Wenye looked carefully again, and said in a low voice: "There is no woman. The family members of these few should not be canonized, so they didn't bring their wives."

No?

Shang Ruyi was taken aback, and hurriedly raised her head to look over there. Sure enough, apart from Dong Bizheng and Yu Dingxing, there were several other officials there, and the woman was not there.

And just now, the feeling that made me almost go out of my body is gone.

Could it be that the flashing figure was really just a mistake?
At this time, Shang Ruyi also calmed down completely. Although she was still sweating coldly, her complexion recovered a lot, and she even let out a long breath.Seeing her somewhat absent-minded, Yu Wenye's expression became more serious, and he said softly: "What's the matter? You seemed to be very uncomfortable just now."

"..."

Shang Ruyi shook his head and didn't answer the words, but only glanced at Yu Dingxing again, and said softly, "So he is Yu Dingxing."

"yes,"

Yu Wenye also looked at that person, with mixed emotions in his eyes: "So he is Yu Dingxing."

Shang Ruyi was taken aback when he heard this, and turned to look at him: "Have you never seen him?"

"I saw him for the first time."

"Then, how do you know it's him?"

"Last night, when I asked someone about him, I heard what he looked like—and it was true."

"—!"

As soon as he heard the word "last night", Shang Ruyi's heart sank again. As for who he was asking about, it was already self-explanatory.

At this time, Yu Wenyuan had also stood still, walked around, and saw that all the civil and military officials had arrived, nodded in satisfaction, and asked the people around him: "Why don't you go in? Isn't it about to start?"

When Dong Bizheng heard the words, they immediately stepped forward, as if they wanted to say something to him.

At this moment, a Lang Langfo sound came from ahead——

"Amitabha."

The voice was thick and heavy, like the morning bell in the silent forest, it was clearly heard by everyone, although it was not deafening, it shook people's minds.

Everyone raised their heads hastily, and saw a group of monks walking out from the mountain gate, all of them were monks in Haiqing and cassocks.

Walking in the center is Master Xinzheng, the abbot of Dayan Temple.

Seeing him, Shang Ruyi felt somewhat moved.

Speaking of which, she spent her childhood in Daxing City, and her parents brought her to Dayan Temple to worship Buddha when she was a child, so she is no stranger to the appearance of this Xinzheng Master.

However, when I saw him when I was a child, he was a sturdy middle-aged man with a beard, who smiled at everyone, and looked like a Maitreya Buddha; when I see him again now, he is already a rickety old man with his beard cut off. She is short, but her eyebrows are very long. The gray eyebrows are almost hanging down to the cheeks on both sides. Under the curved eyebrows, there is a pair of curved smiling eyes with almost no other expression.

In those smiling eyes, scheming and calculations were clearly written.

Compared with the quiet and ascetic monks I saw in Yanyue City before, this Xinzheng master is the abbot of the royal temple, so he is naturally rich and noble. The spirit of pure cultivation of the Buddhists is full of the officialdom of the ups and downs of the officialdom.

At this moment, he led all the monks out, and when he saw Yu Wenyuan, he immediately stepped forward with a smile and saluted: "I have seen the Prime Minister."

Yu Wenyuan only nodded, and said, "Master Xinzheng, why don't you let everyone in? Are you not doing the Water and Land Ceremony?"

Master Xinzheng hurriedly apologized with a smile: "How dare you? It's just that something happened."

"Accident?"

Yu Wenyuan frowned slightly: "What accident?"

The Xinzheng Master came to his side and said softly: "The Queen Mother has arrived."

"what?!"

When Yu Wenyuan heard this, he was shocked.

When Shang Ruyi heard this, her breathing suddenly sank.

But Yu Wenyuan still held his breath, thought about it for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Didn't the Queen Mother already say that if she doesn't come, neither will Her Majesty?"

Master Xinzheng smiled wryly and said: "It was originally arranged like this, so the monastery didn't make any preparations. Who knows, the Empress Dowager's sudden arrival this morning also made the poor monk almost mess up."

"Why did the Queen Mother suddenly change her mind?"

"This poor monk doesn't know."

"..."

Yu Wenyuan didn't speak any more, but after a long silence, he turned his head and glanced at the crowd behind him again.

Shang Ruyi was a little vague and didn't know if he saw Yu Wenye, but when Yu Wenyuan looked away and continued to talk to Master Xinzheng, she gently raised her head and looked at Yu Wenye beside her.

His gaze and expression remained calm.

Although he tried his best to suppress it, Shang Ruyi couldn't help it, and said softly, "Is it you?"

"..."

Yu Wenye looked down at her, but didn't speak.

And Yu Wenyuan in front of him was serious and solemn, and asked in a deep voice: "Where is the Queen Mother now?"

Master Xinzheng said: "The Empress Dowager is now in the hall."

Seeing that Yu Wenyuan was about to walk in, Master Xinzheng immediately said, "However, the Empress Dowager has sent someone to tell me that I don't see anyone for the time being, and I'm only listening to the Dharma in the hall."

"Oh?"

Yu Wenyuan frowned, then turned his head and glanced at the crowd behind him.

This time, Shang Ruyi clearly felt that his gaze fell on him, but it was only a quick glance, then he looked at Master Xinzheng again, and said in a deep voice, "Anyone, you don't see him?"

"Yes."

"..."

Yu Wenyuan pondered for a while, and finally said: "Forget it, then everything will go on as usual, and the Fa conference will start as originally planned."

"Yes."

After discussing everything, Master Xinzheng seemed to let go of a stone in his heart. Shang Ruyi clearly saw him turn sideways, and raised his hand to respectfully invite Yu Wenyuan and other civil and military officials to enter Dayan Temple. His crooked eyebrows smiled , twitching and twitching, even the light flickered in those smiling eyes.

When Shang Ruyi followed Yu Wenye through the mountain gate, she also walked by his side.

The Xinzheng Master suddenly came forward and said softly: "Second Young Master, Young Madam."

Hearing this, Yu Wenye stopped in his tracks, Shang Ruyi also stood still, and the two of them bowed their hands to him, and the Xinzheng Master also saluted them with a smile, and then said: "I heard that the second son and the young lady This time when I returned to the city, I brought my apprentice Congzhen back, and I came here to express my thanks to you two."

"...!"

When Shang Ruyi heard this, she was a little surprised and said, "We just arrived last night, Shan--Zongzhen also stayed outside the city, the abbot already knew about it?"

Master Xinzheng smiled and said, "Young madam is humble."

"Oh?"

"Don't say that the two of you went back to the city last night, since the two of you passed through Tongguan, there are countless eyes watching you in Daxing City."

"...!"

Shang Ruyi's heart skipped a beat.

The Xinzheng Master had already raised his hand with a smile and said, "You two, please enter the mountain gate."

Yu Wenye didn't say anything, he lifted his foot and walked in. Shang Ruyi also followed him, and walked in silently.

Walking along this road, I saw prayer flags hanging on both sides of the road, hunting in the wind, not only the sound of flags fluttering in the wind, but also mixed with the sound of chanting scriptures from nowhere in the temple. It makes people feel noisy, but deep down, some places are soothed and even quieted down.

After a while, they passed through a door, and in front of them was the Daxiong Palace.

Shang Ruyi immediately felt that Yu Wenye looked up at the hall in front of him, and his breathing seemed to be a little short.

However, now doesn't seem to be the time for him to be in the past.

What's more, before going to the Daxiong Palace, you have to pass through a square that is so wide that you can hardly see the edge. At this moment, three sides of the square are surrounded by prayer flags, and a futon is placed on the ground every three steps. Covering the entire square, it is designed for monks and laymen who come to attend the Fa Conference to listen to scriptures.

Roughly speaking, at least a thousand people can be accommodated here.

Shang Ruyi said softly, "Are there so many?"

Upon hearing her words, the Xinzheng Master turned around and said with a smile, "Young Madam, this is only part of it."

"what?"

"The Bi Temple has such places for listening to scriptures in Tianwang Hall, Jialan Hall, Arhat Hall, etc., but even this is not enough to accommodate people from all over the place to attend the Dharma conference."

Shang Ruyi sighed lightly.

When they heard Chu Zhengfei in Tongguan say that countless monks from various states and counties came here to participate in the Dharma conference, they thought that there should be a lot of people, but they didn't expect that there were so many!
At this time, Yu Wenye also turned his gaze back from the Daxiong Palace.

He looked around, then turned to Master Xinzheng, and asked, "Where's my brother?"

Shang Ruyi immediately looked up at him.

The Master Xinzheng was startled, and immediately said with a smile: "Young Master, the Dharma meeting in the inner altar."

"Inner altar ceremony? What do you mean?"

"The second young master doesn't know that this water and land puja is divided into inner and outer altars. The outer altar pujas are these places where monks from all over the world are welcome to preach scriptures and listen to meditation, and they also pray for the dead to eliminate karma. Accumulate immeasurable merits and be reborn in the Western Pure Land. The son, the young lady, and all the civil and military officials are all participating in the outer altar dharma meeting."

The word "dead" made Shang Ruyi's heart move slightly.

Of course she understood that the "dead person" mentioned by Master Xinzheng was none other than Chu Yang.

This is also the main purpose of this Dharma conference.

However, it was the first time she heard that the puja was divided into the inner altar and the outer altar. Since the outer altar puja was for Chu Yang to recite sutras, what was the inner altar puja for?
Sure enough, Yu Wenye also asked the same question.

Master Xinzheng glanced at them and said with a smile: "The inner altar Dharma meeting is held in the Lecture Pavilion, which was set up by the eldest son himself, for the purpose of liberation."

"Liberation merit?"

Although Yu Wenye doesn't believe in gods and Buddhas, he doesn't seem to be ignorant of Buddhism. He frowned when he heard these four words, and said: "The merit of liberation is not to take refuge? Does he want to -"

"Do not,"

Master Xinzheng smiled and said: "Since then, he has completely left Buddhism."