Hope to see you in Beijing
Gui Yao blinked, and seeing that Ren Beixi was in deep thought, she did not force him, but just wandered around. This was the back mountain of Yunchuan Temple, and there was a Bodhi tree not far away.
She unfolded the Bodhi seed in her palm, held it in front of her eyes, and saw that there were inconspicuous scratches on the black fruit, or perhaps holes caused by insects.
Somehow, she was reminded of the stone carvings on the Buddhist bell. She suddenly remembered the cave where Ren Zhong's tomb was. There were also stone carvings inside and outside the cave. Perhaps it was his hobby. Sometimes she would always forget that Ren Zhong's legs could not walk. This was the most insignificant label on him.
"There is no Bodhi tree, nor is there a mirror stand. Originally, there is nothing, so where does dust gather?"
The system in her mind recited this Buddhist verse lightly. Gui Yao put down her raised hand and put the Bodhi seed back into her bag. The words left by the little monk were in her mind.
"Can I tell others that I can read minds?" Gui Yao asked softly.
"If it's Ren Beixi, then yes."
"Besides, don't you already have the answer in your heart?"
Gui Yao squatted under the tree, picked up a small wooden stick and poked the soil to play with it. She asked casually, "You seem to be much smarter than the previous system. The previous system only answered me about the mission, but you seem to know these people in this world."
The system ignored her.
Gui Yao felt that she guessed right.
She stood up and just as she was about to take two steps back, she leaned against the strong body behind her. She thought for a moment, turned around to face Ren Beixi, and just as she was about to raise her chin, the man pinched her face viciously.
Gui Yao frowned and placed the small wooden stick against Ren Beixi's left chest with her right hand.
The man's expression was equally serious, his dark eyes fixed on a spot just a millimeter away from his heart. He carefully took away Gui Yao's small wooden stick, then held her wrist and placed her palm against the center of his heart.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
She seldom saw Ren Beixi hesitate like this. Perhaps because of this, Gui Yao also wanted to take back her words. She knew that he would not change his mind easily once he made up his mind, and the modern way of socializing did not suit him.
Perhaps because she had been with him for so long, she began to do as she pleased unconsciously.
But now she was determined to uncover Jiuchong's secret. The side quest was titled "Turtle's Longevity," and the poem simply expressed disdain for immortality and a perspective on life. Jiuchong's age was clearly problematic.
His period of waxing and waning is not only determined by heaven, but also by the end of the life span of a tortoise.
Who is he?
Ren Beixi lowered his eyes and saw Gui Yao's eyes, then he shook his head. "Although I haven't promised not to tell others about Jiuzhong's identity, his identity is indeed special. But if you can guess it, I will allow you to nod."
"Jiu Chong is the Imperial Master in the capital!"
Ren Beixi: “…”
The man sighed and nodded slightly.
His voice was clearly filled with helplessness and a hint of affection: "How come Yaoyao is so smart?"
Gui Yao leaned over and smiled, "There's nothing I can do. He told me too much, and I have my own secret weapon! Let's go back. I'll tell you what he told me on the way."
The weather today is really sunny.
The moon quietly climbed up the cliff. Guiyao sat on a small stool with a bowl in her hand. The vegetarian food in Yunchuan Temple was delicious. She remembered that when she went to worship Buddha in the past, she only went in the morning and returned at noon, and could not hear the temple bells at night.
You can't eat such delicious vegetarian food.
Ren Beixi was a little quiet today.
Gui Yao saw him giving instructions to his subordinates from afar, so she went to the dining hall to wash the bowls, put them back, and then went to ask for some small food for the turtles.
She sat down beside the small pond with a lamp in her hand, and saw Abbot Jingwei there. Abbot Jingwei smiled at her and seemed not surprised by her arrival.
Guiyao blinked.
"You seem to have known me for a long time."
Jing Wei stood by the pool: "Of course I recognize you."
Gui Yao quietly put the lamp aside and listened to her talk. When the imperial physician of the Gui family left the capital to retire, only his son and daughter-in-law were with him. His daughter and son-in-law were still running a medicine shop and a clinic in the capital. In the year of the epidemic, the pregnant daughter returned to Xianyu City at all costs just to bring back the scarce medicine in the prescription. It was because of this that she suffered sequelae from the epidemic and died of dystocia during childbirth.
The daughter she gave birth to after all her efforts was named Guiyao.
In the same year, Imperial Physician Gui lost several of his own children, including his grandson and son-in-law who were infected during the epidemic.
This is the story of the Gui family.
That year, Ren Zhong, the eldest son of the Ren family, was infected with an epidemic and was in critical condition. It was rumored that the Chinese military advisor from Beijing who had accompanied General Ren back to Xianyu City had changed Ren Zhong's fate and required the daughter of the Gui family, who was born on the beginning of autumn in the year of Guisi, to marry Ren Zhong before she turned twenty before the fate could be confirmed. Otherwise, the epidemic would sweep across Xianyu City again.
Li Yuqing never believed in Buddhism, let alone fate, and the same goes for her children.
Ren Zhong is right, and so is Ren Beixi.
"Gui Yao, you are the beginning and the continuation of these stories. How could I not recognize you?" Jing Wei's eyes showed some understanding. "These things were originally told to you by Jiu Chong."
The distant bells rang softly, and most of the candles in the temple went out.
The turtle was still lying on the big rock.
Gui Yao lowered her eyes slightly. "He... really is the Imperial Master. But, but these things, while seemingly haunting me, are actually a long time ago. I have no way to change them."
She raised her eyes to find an answer, but Jingwei just clasped his hands together and slowly walked away.
Meow.
"Congratulations to the host! The side quest, Turtle's Longevity, has reached 100% completion. It's worth noting that the main quest has resumed progress and will be officially released after the host completes Loose Ink Without a Trace."
Gui Yao heard the system prompt and squatted beside the small pond again, staring at the back of Abbot Jingwei.
Was it because Jiuchong and she had the same white hair that the abbot saved him? Now that she had been told so much about cause and effect by Jiuchong, was it also because she and Jiuchong had similarities?
The turtle cocked its tail and said, "What are you thinking about, girl?"
"homesick."
Guiyao said in a low voice.
The turtle didn't understand, so he just jumped back into the water and swam half a circle before poking his head out and saying, "I don't even know where my home is, but it feels really good here. As you people say, it's called freedom!"
But it wasn't this small pond that trapped her.
An image suddenly flashed through Guiyao's mind: a little girl squatting in the same spot, curiously reaching out to touch the turtle. The old man beside her smiled and asked, "Yaoyao really likes this big turtle. How about we get a big turtle when we go home? One that's over 300 years old?"
The little girl neither nodded nor shook her head. She quickly retracted her hand and threw herself back into the old man's arms.
Gui Yao had seen the old man's appearance in the scroll. It was clearly the appearance of Doctor Gui. Gui Yao suddenly opened her eyes, and the memories in her mind were dispelled like smoke, leaving only a trace of cloud in front of her eyes.
Guiyao waved goodbye to the turtle, and she really didn't know when they would see each other again.
When I returned to the small room where I stayed during the day, I found Ren Beixi leaning on the table beside the bed, obviously asleep.
The two dogs in the house were talking about it.
Dahuang: My owner doesn’t mind my snoring at all.
Momo: To be honest, you are a bit noisy when you are sleeping.
Dahuang: If you have the guts, lie down and sleep right now?
Momo: You are eating bean sprouts without getting stuck in the corners - it's crooked and disgusting.
Gui Yao sat on the edge of the bed and listened attentively for a while before she managed to clear some of the random thoughts in her head. She looked at the clean water in the eyebasin, picked up a handkerchief and washed her face. She couldn't help but think that the water in Xiaohe Village should have receded, but when would the dam of Tiger Bay be built?
She was about to close the window.
Only then did I discover there was a letter left under the window.
There were not many words on the letter, and she didn't recognize who left it at first. She only started reading when she saw the last signature "See you in Beijing". But there were only three lines of words, and the meaning was incomprehensible. They were all about flowers and plants and praising people's beauty. She couldn't understand it.
Perhaps she had stood in front of the window for too long. When she turned around, Ren Beixi had already woken up and was undressing with his right hand.
The man had broad shoulders, and his thin shirt slung down from his chest. The lines of his chest and abdominal muscles were only illuminated by the dim candlelight on the table. Gui Yao held the piece of letter paper in her hand, closed the curtain by the window, and then turned her eyes, walked closer to the candle in front of the bed, and added another half lamp from the side.
Gui Yao's cheeks were faintly pink, and the candlelight in her hand fell on Ren Beixi's sharp jawline, and then to his waist, which was already naked.
"Husband..."
The young lady sat down beside the bed, the words she spoke still a little unfamiliar, and her warm hand touched his shoulder.
She was also a little sleepy. She unbuttoned her outer robe with one hand and just fluttered her eyelashes as she looked at Ren Beixi's dark eyes. When he kissed her, she could only gently push him away with her fingertips. Her nails, which had not been trimmed for several days, scratched his chest, leaving a few white marks.
Guiyao snatched all the quilts.
At this moment, Ren Beixi remembered what she said during the day about not letting them lie down together. He just rubbed his Adam's apple with his fingertips, where she had pressed and bit it just now.
His voice was hoarse: "What did you take?"
The handwriting he saw was not unfamiliar. He had sent many letters back to the capital for Jiuchong over the years, and it was no secret that he could decipher Jiuchong's secret codes. However, he quickly figured out the meaning of Jiuchong's actions. He was testing whether he and Guiyao were now in a frank relationship.
Ren Beixi stroked the corner of Guiyao's clothes and stared at her eyebrows, which seemed to be frowning, as if as a punishment.
"The meaning of faith is to believe that it exists, and if you don't believe it, it doesn't exist."
Gui Yao blinked: "I understand, it's about the village chief and Huang Shiyu!"
Tell others that he and Guiyao are not close?
That wasn't true, and he couldn't do it.
The man's eyes also fell on the last invitation. He remembered the secret news in the capital that the secret guard had just reported, and the time to enter the capital indeed needed to be accelerated.
The night is deep and quiet, and mosquitoes cannot disturb the Buddhist music.
In front of the bell tower under the moon, Jiuchong silently watched the slightly old figure of Abbot Jingwei, and then saw the letter being taken away by a delicate hand in front of the window.
He felt the bruise on his right shoulder, his eyes filled with forbearance. He had just exchanged a few moves with Ren Beixi, and realized that his martial arts skills over the years had probably surpassed those of the An Dynasty. It was just that… he hadn't been able to protect the one in the capital this time.
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