Chapter 230: Just Have Pity on Me (Overhaul)
The lights in Master Yideng's bamboo courtyard were still on and the gate was not closed, as if they had expected someone to come.

Wei Qingye entered the hospital and pushed the door without any hesitation.

"Mr. Wei, the tea is ready, would you like to have a taste?" Monk Yideng raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation to him.

"Old monk, you calculated that I would visit you tonight." Wei Qingye lifted his clothes and knelt on one side.

Monk Yideng smiled without saying a word and drank his tea silently.

Wei Qingye knew the monk's character. If he didn't want to say something, he would not reveal a single word even if he was beaten to death. If he was willing to say something, he would reveal it.

"Do you still remember the comments left by the monk?" Monk Yideng raised the teapot and poured another cup of hot tea.

Wei Qingye recalled that when his mother held him in her arms and first met the monk in front of him, he casually glanced at him and left a comment: "A lone phoenix without wings cannot fly into the sky. It takes the blooming of the phoenix tree to attract the phoenix back to its nest, only then can this fate be broken."

Monk Yideng saw that he was lost in thought, so he took out two brocade boxes and pushed them over to him, "This is a gift from me, the monk, to you two as the emperor and empress."

Wei Qingye opened the brocade box and found two strings of Buddhist beads made of 108 bodhi seeds. Each bodhi bead was carefully engraved with Sanskrit. "Is this the treasure of Huguo Temple?!"

Monk Yideng shook his head and said, "No, no, Huguo Temple doesn't have any treasures. These two strings of Buddhist beads have been worshipped in front of the Buddha because they have not met the right person.

Now, it can be considered a complete success and a happy event."

Wei Qingye accepted the two strings of Buddhist beads and wanted to ask about Shen Zhiyu's nightmare. Monk Yideng's eyes, which were insightful, showed understanding, and then he shook his head and said, "Donor Wei, please go back. The secret cannot be revealed."

Monk Yideng stood in front of the door, watching the tall figure gradually disappear into the darkness. He sighed and said, "Wu Chen, gather all the disciples in the temple to the main hall at 9:00 tomorrow to give lectures and answer questions."

Wu Chen didn't understand why the master sighed, so he put his hands together and replied, "Yes, Master."

At four quarters past seven in the morning, Wei Qingye and Shen Zhiyu left the mountain temple and boarded a carriage back to Jingzhou City.

At the Si hour, all the disciples in the temple filled the main hall and listened attentively to Master Yideng's lectures.

Half an hour later, the young monks thanked Monk Yi Deng one after another before heading towards the dining room.

Wu Chen looked at their backs as they left and scratched the back of his head in confusion, "Master, why do you have to..."

He looked back and saw the old figure sitting on the cushion, slightly hunched, with narrowed eyes and a smile on his lips, looking exactly the same as the Buddha statue behind him.

Wu Chen looked at the person who was teaching just now in disbelief, "How could it be..."

He slammed his knees hard on the ground, then Wu Chen crawled to Yideng's side, kowtowed three times, and then turned around and rang the bell.

The distant sound of bells echoed in the temple. All the monks in the temple didn't know what was going on, but they quickly came to the main hall.

The abbot looked at the motionless figure sitting on the futon in the hall, his face saddened, "Wu Chen, when did your master pass away?"

Wu Chen knelt on the ground and cried until his nose turned red. "To answer the abbot, Master left after the class was over."

All the monks in the Huguo Temple sat cross-legged on the spot and began to recite scriptures.

The golden sunlight filtered through the thin clouds and fell into the hall. Everyone looked at the golden light falling on Master Yideng, as if he had really ascended to heaven as described in the books.

The carriage was driving on the road. The moment Shen Zhiyu opened the window, she saw a strange phenomenon in the sky, "Changying, look~~"

Wei Qingye looked in the direction she pointed, "That seems to be the direction of Huguo Temple?"

Shen Zhiyu wanted to lean over to take a closer look, but Wei Qingye closed the window on the grounds that it was cold.

The warm hand warmer was stuffed into the scallion-white fingers, "Zhizhi, don't catch a cold again, just think of it as having pity on me.

During that time, seeing how haggard you looked, I only wished I could take your place." When talking about that cold, Shen Zhiyu couldn't help but feel guilty, "Okay, I'll listen to Chang Ying."

Wei Qingye peeled two chestnuts for her and changed the subject, "I wonder if Sui Sui and Zhao Zhao will make trouble in Qingning Palace?"

Shen Zhiyu smiled and said, "It's good enough that those two little bastards didn't tear down Qingning Palace."

Thinking of Xueqiu who ran away from home at night, Shen Zhiyu couldn't help laughing, "Haven't you noticed that Xueqiu has been going to the Qianqing Palace more and more frequently recently?"

Wei Qingye could not have imagined that the cat, who was usually aloof and unsociable, could be so subdued by the two little balls, and gave off a sense of having seen through the world.

After returning to the palace, the two changed their clothes and then took a sedan chair to Qingning Palace.

The emperor looked at Sui Sui, who was sitting on the table, writing the Chinese characters "河清海安" (meaning "the river is clear and the sea is peaceful") with a brush in his hand. He asked cautiously, "Sui Sui, would you like to give me a hug?"

Sui Sui looked up at the emperor's eyes filled with expectation, and with her butt sticking out, she turned her head to look at Zhao Zhao who was standing beside her, "Zao Zao~ Hug me?!"

Zhao Zhao, who was chewing on a soft and sticky pastry, quietly looked up at the kind old man, nodded shyly, stretched out his two little hands, and shouted with his little mouth: "Hug~~"

"Okay, okay, hug them all, hug them all~"

The emperor held Sui Sui in one hand and Zhao Zhao in the other, and looked at the calligraphy on the table, feeling very satisfied.

"Whatever Sui Sui and Zhao Zhao want, Grandfather will get it for you."

Suisui opened her glass-like eyes wide, as if she didn't understand what the person said. She secretly glanced at Zhaozhao who was laughing so happily, and shyly covered her face with her little hands.

"This Sui Sui looks like the emperor, and his personality is a bit like... Zhi Zhi, but he is even more handsome than the emperor when he was a child."

The Empress Dowager couldn't help but comment.

As soon as Shen Zhiyu and Wei Qingye stepped into the palace, they saw the retired emperor holding two little kids, his face wrinkled with smile, looking worthless.

"Oh, Zhizhi and Changying are finally back." The Empress Dowager waved to them, and Shen Zhiyu obediently sat down next to the Empress Dowager.

The old man touched her slightly red cheek, and the cold touch made her frown. She turned to Wei Qingye and said dissatisfiedly: "It's freezing cold, why don't you do anything else but run to the Huguo Temple.

It doesn't matter if you get cold, but what if Zhizhi gets frozen?"

Wei Qingye had just held Zhao Zhao in his arms when he heard the Empress Dowager's scolding. He looked at Shen Zhiyu helplessly, as if to say: You see, I knew it would be like this.

Shen Zhiyu said coquettishly in the old lady's arms: "Grandmother, it was my idea to go to the Huguo Temple this time. Your Majesty just accompanied me~"

"Okay, okay~ This was all Zhizhi's idea. I, an old woman, will forgive him this time."

The Queen Mother held her in her arms and patted her back.

Zhao Zhao stretched out his arms and kept looking in the direction of Shen Zhiyu, "Liangqin, hug me~~"

Wei Qingye walked over with her in his arms, half-knelt on the ground and explained gently: "Mother is very tired today, can Father hold you?"

Zhao Zhao looked at the two of them, then nodded twice, "Okay~"

"Why is Zhao Zhao so well-behaved?" Shen Zhiyu pinched her cheeks, and the smile on her lips became more obvious.

Sui Sui, who was held in the arms of the retired emperor, looked at them with red eyes and aggrieved look.

Tangtang: Finally finished the revision┭┮﹏┭┮
You guys may need to watch it again. I'm sorry in advance~
My wrist has been sore these past two days, so I've been writing slowly. I'll update a chapter of 1,000 words later, and then I'll go to sleep~

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