My enemies became my companions

Chapter 156 Let’s Discuss

After the aftertaste wore off, Yin Tingxue took a breath, curled up in the quilt, and looked at Chen Yi quietly.

Looking at his relaxed expression, Yin Tingxue was still a little shaken.

Did she... drag it over?

Yin Tingxue was worried. What could she do if Chen Yi turned against her later? Even if she kept begging, it would not end well in the end.

Maybe she would realize how big her belly had become without realizing it... Yin Tingxue was horrified at the thought.

If she had a child, she didn't know how to face such a family, a family formed by two enemies.

Yin Tingxue more or less figured out that he wanted to be liked and also wanted a child. He was the type who wanted everything. Of the two options, he probably wanted both, but she wanted neither.

So, in the end, she could only come up with this method, to give in a little more, to endure a little more injustice. As for what the final outcome would be, Yin Tingxue didn't dare to think about it.

At this moment, Chen Yi turned over, as if he was about to get up.

"Are you going to cook?"

Yin Tingxue asked.

"Yes, I'll buy some flour and make some dumpling wrappers and take you back to Yintai Temple."

Chen Yi touched her face and said.

Yin Tingxue was used to his frivolousness and responded with a soft "hmm".

Just when Chen Yi was about to stand up, Yin Tingxue stopped him, perhaps because she saw that he was in a good mood.

"Let's... discuss something."

Yin Tingxue spoke softly and looked at him like a little deer.

Chen Yi leaned down, got close to her, and asked in a softer voice this time:
"What to discuss?"

"To please you, I have to count. That will be convenient for you, right?"

Yin Tingxue tried to speak lightly to hide her true thoughts.

Having clear rules is always better than unwritten laws. Otherwise, if Chen Yi gets a whim and unreasonably wants to force her to have a baby, or misinterprets the original intention and makes trouble, she won't even have the basis to argue.

Chen Yi looked at the little fox with interest.
"What do you want?"

"Draw the word 'positive' to count. If I can please you ten times, I won't have a child for a year..."

Noticing that his expression had turned playful, Yin Tingxue immediately changed the subject:
"Twenty times. Twenty times."

"Thirty times."

Chen Yi directly gave a number, and the daughter of King Xiang agreed, nodded, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief.

He immediately added,
"If you make me unhappy once, I'll take ten times off."

Yin Tingxue looked a little sad when she heard this, but she still agreed with difficulty.
"Okay, but don't be unreasonable..."

"Of course not. Where do you want to put the correct character?"

Chen Yi asked with a joking smile.

Yin Tingxue caught his gaze, looking shy and confused:
“Why… are you looking at my legs?”

Even though they have been together for a long time, she sometimes still doesn't quite understand what Chen Yi says.

"Forget it, I won't tease you anymore. I'll hang a piece of paper on the wall and you can draw on it."

Chen Yi looked at the wall of the bedroom.

Yin Tingxue nodded repeatedly, looked at Chen Yi's reaction, breathed a sigh of relief, and chuckled as if she had survived a disaster.

"yawn."

She sneezed.

"Caught a cold?"

Chen Yi moved closer.

"I don't know, maybe."

Yin Tingxue thought that she had been sitting on the doorstep thinking about this matter for a long time today, and might have caught a cold without realizing it.

She suddenly thought of something and said:
"It's just a small matter. We can still go back to Yintai Temple."

Chen Yi touched her head, pondered for a moment and said softly:

"Okay, put on more clothes when the time comes. I'll make you some soup later."

Yin Tingxue said "hmm", and then she lay back on the bed, hugging the quilt and curling her legs. Thinking of going back to Yintai Temple tomorrow, her lips curled up, and her eyes felt a little sour. Is this a happy ending after suffering? She couldn't help asking herself. It would be better if she didn't ask. If she asked, she almost cried again. No matter what, she could finally go back to Yintai Temple.

Seeing her like this, Chen Yi felt a little nervous and turned away, unable to help laughing.

When we were at Yintai Temple, I stopped bullying her and treated her better.

After changing his clothes and stepping out of the door, Chen Yi stretched his waist, looked towards the guest room, and after confirming through the paper window that Zhou Yitong was still there, he started to leave the yard and go to buy some fine flour.

Before long, a wisp of smoke began to rise from the kitchen.

The dishes were served on the table. It was already dark, so the lights were turned on and Chen Yi knocked on the door of the guest room.

"time to eat."

After saying this, Chen Yi went straight back to the hall without waiting.

At this moment, Yin Tingxue was already ready at the dining table, wrapped in thick clothes.

Not long after Chen Yi sat down, the one-armed woman appeared out of nowhere and crossed the threshold and sat down.

As soon as she appeared, there seemed to be more silence at the table.

"We are going to Yintai Temple tomorrow. Are you going?"

Chen Yi asked softly.

"Anything is OK."

When Zhou Yitang said this, Chen Yi understood that this meant she was going.

He thought for a while, remembered what happened not long ago, and asked:
"Master, do you know...Bhaisajyaguru Bodhisattva?"

After these four words were spoken, Yin Tingxue's eyes froze for a moment.

She recalled that the stone Bodhisattva sister enshrined in Yintai Temple was Medicine King Bodhisattva, who was often paired with Bhaisajyaguru Bodhisattva. In Buddhism, they were a pair of attendants of the Buddha. The two Bodhisattva statues beside the Buddha’s lotus seat were them.

"Of course I know. During the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism in the past, Medicine Buddha and Penglai Daozi led their people to debate on scriptures and dharma..."

At Chen Yi's request, Zhou Yitang slowly narrated the story of this dispute between Buddhism and Taoism.

A draw, in the history of disputes between Buddhism and Taoism, which often result in Buddhism winning and Taoism losing, can be said to stand out from the crowd. However, no one can accept the result of the confluence of Buddhism and Taoism.

It is for this reason that the Taoist monk Penglai was trapped on Penglai Island, while Bhaisajyaguru Bodhisattva traveled far away to Mount Lingshan in his Dharma body and roamed the world in various incarnations. Among them, Zen Master Zhihui, who traveled to the Western Regions to preach, was considered to be one of the incarnations of Bhaisajyaguru Bodhisattva.

However, the incarnation is Bhaisajyaguru Bodhisattva, but the Bodhisattva is not an incarnation.

Buddhas appear in various forms according to sentient beings, whether human, celestial, dragon, or ghost. All of these are the same as the worldly forms, not the forms of Buddhas. Although the incarnations of immortals and Buddhas are living beings, they have no souls and are more like dead things. When the incarnations die, they will not reincarnate, but enter Nirvana.

After listening to Zhou Yitang's story, Chen Yi lowered his eyes and thought.

The dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, Medicine Buddha, Demon Cult... a lot of information about Yin Tingxue intertwined in his mind, but he still couldn't come up with an answer. Finally, Chen Yi shook his head and looked at the little fox who was eating silently and said:
"I need you to learn some magic."

Yin Tingxue's hand paused for a moment and she looked at him with some surprise.

She originally thought that he would not let her practice in order to trap her.

"Don't think you can escape just because you learn it."

Chen Yi smiled sarcastically.

"I don't want to escape anymore, and I won't escape in the future."

She spoke softly, her heart leaping with excitement. In fact, ever since Yu Zhen Yuanjun gave her this method, she had always wanted to learn it, but she had not done so because she was concerned about Chen Yi.

“Nice mental method.”

Yin Tingxue took the initiative to hand the "Qingyuan Sutra" to Chen Yi.

Chen Yi didn't even need to flip through it to know that this mental method was a superb skill.

“But don’t learn it.”

Chen Yi said so.

After hearing this, Yin Tingxue felt a little unwilling, but still said "hmm".

It’s not that Chen Yi doesn’t want Yin Tingxue to learn the best mental skills of the sect, but this mental skills was given by Yu Zhen Yuanjun, so he has to be more careful.

He glanced at Yin Tingxue, thought for a while and said:
"I'll go talk to Master and ask her to teach you Yin Jianshan's mental method."

Yin Tingxue's ears twitched when she heard this. She was delighted at first, but then suddenly felt lonely. In this way, wouldn't she become Chen Yi's junior sister? Even though she was already his concubine, she still didn't want to have any more contact with him. This seemed like a small escape.

But she could never escape.

Chen Yi patted Yin Tingxue and told her to go to bed.

She quickly crawled to the side of the bed, then turned around and saw Chen Yi blowing out the candle.

"Let you rest tonight." Chen Yi said.

Yin Tingxue responded, then crawled into the quilt, opened the quilt for him, and waited for him to come in.

Chen Yi lay down and held Yin Tingxue in his arms with one hand. She stiffened for a moment as usual, and then slowly recovered as usual.

"It's winter time."

Chen Yi said slowly,
"Winter is coming in two days. I promised to take you back before winter, but I didn't expect the time would be so tight."

Yin Tingxue was not dissatisfied, because she had to go back tomorrow. She thought of something and said softly:
"Are you going to finish making dumplings tomorrow before going over?"

"of course."

Yin Tingxue hesitated for a while and asked tentatively:

"Do you want to go over there and make dumplings?"

Chen Yi lowered his eyes and looked at her.

"I want to go back early..."

Yin Tingxue did not lie. She didn't want to try what would happen if she lied.

"It's not that I can't promise you."

Chen Yi said so. The dumpling skins had been rolled and the dumpling fillings were also ready. All that was left was to wrap them up. There would be no problem in going over there early to wrap the dumplings.

Yin Tingxue really didn't expect that he would agree so readily, and then she rubbed her little face against his arm affectionately.

Maybe because she promised to try to like him, Yin Tingxue talked about the palace in a low voice.

"After we return to the palace, I will take you around the palace and have a look around, and then we will go to Yintai Temple, where I will chant sutras."

"Reciting scriptures? Why are you reciting scriptures?"

"Pray for you, and for... our family."

Yin Tingxue was still a little uncomfortable with the three words "our home". Home...is this yard really her home?

"that's it?"

Chen Yi looked at her with a smile, realizing that her words were just a cover-up.

“…I wish to see my mother again in my dreams.”

Yin Tingxue spoke softly, looking up at him cautiously.

"Why only in a dream?"

The night was quiet. Yin Tingxue lowered her eyes and said:
"After a person dies, you can never see him again."

“…Doesn’t Buddhism teach about reincarnation?”

Reincarnation, of course Yin Tingxue believes in reincarnation, but so what? Once a person enters reincarnation, he will not remember the memories of his previous life. Is that person still the same person? It's just that flowers come and go and people are no longer the same.

Her mother was gone, gone forever, and she would never see her again.

Chen Yi hugged her, she twisted slightly, and did not answer him, but said:
"After I take you around the palace, we'll go to Yintai Temple. Please clean your shoes before entering. I'll introduce you to Sister Bodhisattva and Aunt Feng. They are both very nice. While you're there, can you..."

She didn't say anything else, seeming to hesitate.

"Don't worry, I'll give you some face then." Chen Yi said with a smile, "Now tell me about Sister Bodhisattva and Aunt Feng."

He remembered that Yin Tingxue mentioned her secret.

Yin Tingxue nodded and said:
"Well, Sister Bodhisattva is the stone Bodhisattva in the temple, and Aunt Feng is the maple tree in the temple. They live in harmony with each other, but sometimes they quarrel. Sister Bodhisattva is very gentle, but she never loses in a quarrel, while Aunt Feng is the complete opposite.

After my mother passed away, I would often go to Yintai Temple. Sister Bodhisattva would always comfort me, and Aunt Feng was just like before, asking me not to slack off in reciting sutras. It seemed like nothing had happened, but in fact, it was silently dropping leaves...

I have said these words to Hong Ling before, but she always laughed at me secretly. "

"Who is Hong Ling?"

It was the first time that Chen Yi heard this name.

"She was my personal maid before, but after my mother passed away, she was redeemed from the palace. She was actually driven out... I was treated as a saint, and my father was afraid of being exposed, so he didn't allow these servants to follow him day and night."

Yin Tingxue seemed to be lost in memories. It was the first time she talked about her childhood with Chen Yi.

"I have always liked Hong Ling. When I learned that she was leaving, I cried. She comforted me and told me not to cry. She also said that she had woven a little doll for me and placed it in a pottery jar in the corner. There was also the monthly salary she had saved for many years in the pottery jar. She said she would leave it all to me, her little master.

If I have the chance in the future, I will take the little doll to find her."

"What about...what about the clay pot?"

“I was afraid of being discovered by my father’s men, so I just opened the pottery jar and took a look. There was indeed silver and a doll inside.

I didn't take it out, I'm a saint, and according to the rules I can't touch these worldly things."

Chen Yi gently stroked her waist and back and listened to her talk patiently without feeling bored.

She was in a good mood tonight and talked a lot to Chen Yi, smiling from time to time. The look of anticipation on her face in his arms was really rare.

After being married for so long, she can finally go home...

(End of this chapter)