As soon as he entered the large garden in the center, Song Ruo rushed out from a door: "Finally I caught you!"
Xiao Rong: "...Are you itching for trouble again? I am your superior!"
Song Suo curled his lips, "I know, I know. There's no one else here. I came to you for something serious. The collection of essays will be opened in two days. I was thinking, should I let the Buddhist disciples start a debate at the same time?"
Xiao Rong looked at him and said, "The summer retreat has not yet ended, and the monks cannot go out. If a Buddhist goes out, he will be criticized by the Buddhist community."
Song Suo sighed, "Monks have so many things to do."
Xiao Rong: “…”
He couldn't help but speak for Mi Jing: "The Buddhist disciple is just adhering to the rules of their Buddhism. He doesn't eat meat or drink alcohol, so naturally he won't go out during the summer retreat."
Song Shuo almost rolled his eyes. "If I remember correctly, in ancient times, monks had to stay in the Buddhist caves during the summer retreat. Everything had to be done on a small cliff. The cliff had to be the kind where no grass or trees grew. Only in this way could no other creatures enter the cave. This was the real summer retreat. Now it's just a show in name only. Staying in the Buddhist temple and not going out is considered summer retreat? Staying in the palace and not moving around easily is considered adhering to the rules? Since you've broken the precepts, just break them all. Why insist on breaking half and keeping the other half? Isn't that hypocritical?"
Xiao Rong was silent for a long time. Song Shuo felt that he had nothing to say. When he was about to shake his head and be proud, he heard Xiao Rong whisper to him: "The summer retreat is indeed a show. People can't stop killing no matter what. All the food that can sustain life is just another kind of life. But this doesn't mean that all Buddhists are as hypocritical as you said. They try their best to make the maximum possible out of the impossible. Although their kindness can't take care of the whole world, if they can take care of one or two people, it is still meaningful after all. What's more, people always deceive themselves in their lives. If the water is too clear, there will be no fish. If everyone lives incomparably transparent, how do you think people like Buddha can remain consistent with the people of the world?"
Song Shuo: “…………”
He couldn't help but stand up straight, looking at Xiao Rong with a rather weak look in his eyes: "I was just saying it casually, why are you taking it so seriously?"
Xiao Rong looked at him speechlessly: "Did you say that casually? You blurted it out. I know you don't like Buddhism and Taoism, but since the people from Buddhism and Taoism didn't come to accuse you, you shouldn't accuse them either. After all, they didn't do anything harmful, so it's none of my business, and it's none of your business."
Song Suo was not convinced. After all, he was a person who loved to criticize others and point out how stupid they were. He felt that there were few people in this world who were worthy of talking to him. If this sentence was translated again, it meant that he looked down on the vast majority of people in this world.
Song Suo was so polite to Chen, but when he met the Buddhist disciple for the first time, he directly moved his rosary beads. Although the Buddhist disciple did not care about him, Xiao Rong still kept it in mind.
If he behaved honestly, Xiao Rong would not mention this matter again, but Song Shuo could only be honest for a few days at most. As a chatterbox with such strong personality traits, his attitude would be known to the Buddhists sooner or later.
It is so difficult to be a Buddhist... You have such a good reputation outside, but you are not welcome in this palace.
Xiao Rong didn't understand the principle behind this. Qu Yunmie was inexplicably unreasonable, and Gao Xunzhi didn't make close friends with Buddhists because he believed in Taoism. Yu Shaoxie was someone who could defect to Qu Yunmie when his reputation was at its worst, so he certainly wouldn't believe in Buddhism which insisted on not killing. Song Suo was even more outrageous, he was actually an atheist in the feudal era.
Even Qu Yunmie couldn't be so avant-garde. Although Qu Yunmie was not interested in Buddhism, he was a little superstitious, which would be exposed from time to time in his life.
So, sometimes it’s not that Xiao Rong always protects the Buddhist disciples, but if he doesn’t protect them, the Buddhist disciples will be too lonely. …
Shaking his head, Xiao Rong continued to walk forward. Song Shuo seemed to ignore him, but he was actually watching his movements out of the corner of his eye. When he saw that he had just left, Song Shuo could no longer pretend: "Where are you going?"
Xiao Rong glanced at him and said, "Go to the king's study and find the official document I left there the day before yesterday."
Song Shuo immediately came to his side and stood next to him: "I'll go with you."
Xiao Rong: “…”
Get out of the way, you're crowding me.
After a while, the two men arrived at Qu Yunmie's study. Qu Yunmie was not there. His injuries were almost healed and he went back to the military camp. When Xiao Rong reported to Qu Yunmie what he was going to do two days ago, he left the written documents with him. Anyway, he had already read it, so it was okay for him to take it away.
This was a place Xiao Rong often came to, but this was Song Shuo's first time here. As soon as he came in, he looked around. But Qu Yunmie was not the kind of person who would put things back immediately after using them, so a piece of paper spread out on the table immediately caught his eyes.
This is the letter written by Yuan Baifu. No one knows where the first two pages went, and the last page is lying crookedly on the table.
Song Shuo's reading speed was much faster than Xiao Rong's. He finished reading the whole thing in one glance, and then sneered on the spot: "Who is this? What's your grudge against him?"
Xiao Rong turned around and saw Song Suo had already picked up the letter on the table. He shouted angrily, "Song Suo! You will be punished with a military stick if you read the king's letter privately!"
Song Suo: "Okay, okay, then you can let them beat me to death later. Take a look at this first."
Xiao Rong: “…”
There was still some anger on his face, but he still looked in the direction of Song Shuo's hand, "This is a letter written by General Yuan to the king. I have read it a long time ago. You should be glad that this is not a military newspaper."
Song Suo shrugged: "It's not a military newspaper, but it says more than the military newspaper. Don't you realize that this person is trying to sow discord between you and the king?"
Xiao Rong was stunned. He didn't understand what Song Suo meant.
Seeing him like this, Song Shuo wanted to be proud again, but thinking of Xiao Rong's previous achievements, Song Shuo was silent and suppressed this physiological impulse: "This is a master. He provoked you, but even you can't tell where he is provoking you. With the king's head-"
He coughed lightly and changed the topic: "If you were to persuade the king not to quarrel with me, what would you say?"
Xiao Rong thought along the lines of what Song Suo said, and he would tell Qu Yunmie not to act impulsively and to give in to Song Suo in everything. After all, he looked like a short-lived ghost, so why bother with him? ...
However, he somewhat understood what Song Suo meant. Even if it was Gao Xunzhi instead of him, he would still try to persuade him instead of adding that the breakdown of a relationship often takes more than an instant, because they all knew that Qu Yunmie was a person who easily offended others, and there was almost no subordinate he had not offended. If he said that, Qu Yunmie would probably feel that things had come to this point and there was no room for salvation.
Although they didn't think about it so carefully, they subconsciously avoided it and just tried their best to persuade him not to do it again.
Song Ruo observed Xiao Rong's expression. He smiled and said, "Do you understand now?"
Xiao Rong took the letter from Song Suo and put it back on the table. Then he said to Song Suo as usual, "Let's go. I found the document."
Song Shuo: “…………”
No, how come you are so calm?
Also, I discovered such an important thing, and you don’t even praise me!
The author has something to say:
Why is it that my debt repayment speed cannot keep up with the speed of feeding... These past few days I have been working as hard as an old ox, but when I open my eyes, how come I still owe so much? ! I tell you, I will pay it back until the day the main text is finished, and then I will not pay it back no matter how much I owe! (Zhensheng)
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