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Nanshan Buddhist Temple is located in the southernmost part of Ningzhou, and it is the most famous pilgrimage site in Dayin.The Mahayana Buddhist cultivator Wuji, who has a high moral character and a profound relationship with the Buddha, practiced meditation here for decades, and finally realized a trace of the true meaning of Buddhism, and his virtues are boundless.

Nanshan has the most majestic temples, the oldest scriptures, the most solemn Buddha statues, the most virtuous monks, and the most pious worshipers.

Yan Zhefei knelt on the futon and bowed three times, took the Buddhist incense from Master Wanggui, and respectfully inserted it into the incense burner.

At that time, it was the time of the Nanshan Buddhist Association held every three years, and masters who had attained the Tao from all over Kyushu came here to gather here to study Zen and discuss Buddhism, and held a wide-ranging Dharma assembly.

At such a rare and good time, the inner temple in Nanshan was rarely quiet and empty, and the endless stream of worshipers in the past could not be found. Going to the wicker in front of her, Yan Zhefei smiled and said: "When the Queen Mother of the Dynasty is going to come to worship the Buddha, the inner temple of Nanshan has already been under martial law. If it wasn't for Xi Chao's secret help, it would have been a waste of time for me to come in."

Wanggui shook his head: "The Buddhist temple has received Yi's decree, the queen mother does not want to be extravagant, and ordered that there is no need for martial law and everything should be kept simple, but in the end, Nanshan still has to be careful, and the inner temple was already under martial law, and only received guests in the outer temple."

A faint smile appeared on Yan Zhefei's lips: "It's best to be cautious, so as not to easily implicate Nanshan Buddhist Temple."

Wanggui knew what she meant, that the blood in the Buddhist land was disrespectful to the Buddha, he couldn't help but look sideways at Yan Zhefei, with dissuasion and hesitation in his eyes, he hesitated to speak.

Yan Zhefei met his gaze, with cold eyes, and said beyond doubt: "Don't persuade me, she must die, you know, this is the blood debt owed by the Yanxi Zhong family to the Erfei Medicine Sect."

Before Wang Gui could respond, she suddenly pursed her lips and smiled again: "After staying in Buddhism for a long time, Xi Chao has been tainted with compassion and Buddha nature in his bones, and he is no longer attached to the past."

Wang Gui clasped his palms together and recited a Buddha's mantra: "Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha immediately. Your obsession is too deep, and you will be trapped by it for the rest of your life."

Yan Zhefei shook her head: "I can't let it go, and I can't look back, Buddha won't let me go."

She folded off a willow branch by her hand, and handed it to Wanggui with a smile: "Let's just say goodbye, you have never known or seen Yan Zhefei. You don't know what she is going to do, and it has nothing to do with you. Master Wanggui is just the abbot of Yi'an Temple who came here to discuss Buddhism."

She stared into her forgetful eyes, paused and said: "Brother, let's help Yan Lan one last time. Qinghe will go to Yi'an Temple in the future. Don't mention Qianyong Realm Lord to her. Her mother and concubine died many years ago. Nothing will change."

Yan Zhefei, the owner of Qianyong Realm, cannot know the abbot of Yi'an Temple, otherwise he will be involved in many things. She hasn't called him "Senior Brother" for a long time, and she has been silent for a long time, and finally reached out to take the willow branch.

Yan Zhefei smiled at him, turned around and walked towards the meditation room of the Buddhist temple.

Wanggui turned his head to stare at her back, but couldn't help but shouted with red eyes: "Yan Lan—"

Yan Zhefei waved her hand without looking back.

When Liu Yu parted, Wanggui suddenly felt uncontrollable grief. He suddenly realized that this might be the last time he saw his once bright and self-willed junior sister who was cared for by the whole school.

……

Meng Chiyi was holding a carrier pigeon in his hand, and was sitting in the Zen room reading a letter. When he saw Yan Zhefei coming in, he stood up, handed her a cup of tea, and said in a warm voice: "Ming Yu said, Empress Dowager Zhong will arrive at Nanshan tomorrow. The empress dowager's guard of honor is not displayed, the car is light and simple, there are only the emperor's guards and the imperial city's imperial guards in plain clothes, and there are many distinguished guests in the outer temple and the city below the mountain to worship the Buddha and listen to the Dharma assembly, so their business is not very eye-catching."

Yan Zhefei nodded: "Let's do it after the Dharma meeting is held in two days, and try to keep Nanshan Buddhist Temple as less involved as possible."

Meng Chiyi nodded and said: "One more thing, Dingkang Zhou's boat at the entrance of Huaize Waterway exploded, Ye Xinghui and Chu Heng took Fang Xiuran as a hostage, Su Lang led troops to surround the manor, and the guards were in Fang's house The Lishan disciples in the manor were rescued. It is said that a caravan smuggling Western arms in Cangwu City was robbed on Yunchang Road, and its whereabouts are unknown. It seems that people from Yishan Academy did it. I had to go back to Cangwu City overnight."

Yan Zhefei chuckled softly: "First, Cangwu City captured Lishan's disciples and the young master of Lishan, and now Lishan has captured Fang Xiuran as a hostage in turn. Liang Zi really has grown up. Dao Yunchang, have the courage? Only Yishan Academy is the only one who has tampered with the caravan in Cangwu City. Now if the academy intervenes to trip King Jing, it would be great for us. By the way, Dingkang’s ship sank, so Huaize City’s Is there something wrong with the manor?"

Meng Chiyi shook his head and said: "No, Su Lang came too timely, Fang Hongzhen didn't have time to react and play tricks, the gunpowder buried under the manor must have been dug out."

The smile in Yan Zhefei's eyes was even bigger: "There are hundreds of catties of gunpowder here, that is the ironclad evidence, I wish they would jump over the wall and rebel in a hurry. Didn't King Jing always make up his mind and want an excuse of 'righteousness'? Then I will light this last fire for him in a few days."

……

When the Empress Dowager came to Nanshan in a light car, the abbot of the Buddhist temple led all the monks in the temple to the outer gate of Nanshan to greet her. The entire Nanshan was under martial law on this day, and the Buddhist temple was shrouded in solemnity.

Empress Dowager Zhong got down from the carriage, and seeing the battle, she couldn't help shaking her head, clasped her hands together and said, "I said earlier that there is no need to do this. I only wanted to listen to Zen in front of the Buddha, but now it is the fault of the Ai family for disturbing the Buddhist practice." .”

When she was young, she was in charge of the country and the country, holding the power of the emperor. Now that she is old and has experienced the pain of bereavement, she has changed from the previous dignified and serious, and she has become softer. Just concentrate on worshiping Buddha.

The abbot went forward to meet him, and chanted the Buddha's name, but he didn't even dare to say it, and said: "The Queen Mother is here, so we should be cautious in everything."

Empress Dowager Zhong heard the words: "It's just one day, everything will be as usual tomorrow, there is no need to be so strict. The Buddhist meeting is a grand event in Nanshan, if it is delayed because of one person in the mourning family."

The abbot said yes, and welcomed the Queen Mother and her party to the meditation room of the inner temple, and lifted the martial law at the gate of the mountain, but still ordered everyone in the mountain to only receive guests in the outer temple.

There were several Buddhist Dharma conferences in Nanshan, and the Zen fragrance was wafting in the air. The Empress Dowager had been here for three days to worship the Buddha. On the evening of the third day, there was a wind in the mountain, and another distinguished guest holding a jade tablet from the palace came outside the mountain gate.

The inner temple is as heavily guarded as yesterday, the queen mother is happy and quiet, and there are not many people staying in the temple where she lives, only a few court ladies who are used to ordering around to serve, and a few guards and imperial troops are left on duty here. One day, the empress dowager, a famous guard on duty, met several times. She heard that her hometown was Gyeongju. She thought about her hometown Yanxi City, Gyeongju, so she had some concerns about the emperor's guard. , called Mingyu.

As usual, the Empress Dowager returned to the meditation room from the inner temple in the evening after listening to the lectures on Buddhism by the masters in the Buddhist temple. When she passed by the guards on duty, her eyelids suddenly twitched a few times.

She suppressed the strangeness in her heart, the maid pushed open the door of the Zen room, bowed and stood by the side, the queen mother settled her mind, and walked in.

The personal nurse who had served for many years followed in, closed the door of the Zen room, waited on the Empress Dowager to undress and wash her hands, chatted and walked to the inner room, just around the screen, the two of them lost their voices at the same time, and were stunned on the spot— —

Standing quietly behind the screen was a woman dressed in golden steps, jade armbands, black silk bun, and a begonia-colored palace dress, dignified and gentle, looking at them with a smile.

The Empress Dowager once held the universe in her hands, and had the power to control Dayin Kyushu. She has seen all kinds of worlds in her life. Even so, seeing the deceased standing in front of her alive, she still couldn't restrain her trembling.

The nurse next to her came back to her senses and stared wide-eyed in horror. She opened her mouth but before she could make a sound, she was hit on the neck by the woman's raised hand and passed out.

At the same time, all the maids standing outside collapsed to the ground in a breath, and the few imperial guards who were on duty outside the door were sealed by the energy coming from the air, and stood straight in place. , I can't even make a sound.

The Empress Dowager's heart was beating violently, her back was soaked in cold sweat, and the uncontrollable fear and cold in her heart almost engulfed her whole body. This kind of technique is definitely not something that ordinary warriors can do, let alone a weak concubine. This matter is absolutely impossible to be an old friend.Just as she was about to force herself to deal with it calmly, she heard the woman say softly——

"Don't sister empress recognize me? Or did she treat my daughter badly and dare not recognize me now?"

The imperial concubine of Huiyuan, Yan Lan.

The queen mother suddenly turned pale.

The posthumous title given to Concubine Yan by Emperor Cheng was "Yuan". She really hated and envied this word very much.Yuan characters are so precious that even her successor empress can't be attached to her, but a concubine who doesn't even have a prince has surpassed her and got such a posthumous title.

She asked herself that she had never murdered Huiyuan imperial concubine Yan's life. The only thing she was guilty of was that she hated the word "Yuan". The eldest princess chose a poor and bad marriage.

But even so, she has never done anything to pay with her life. The Queen Mother is not stupid, the maids all over the floor and the undisguised murderous intent in the other party's eyes all show the intention of the person in front of her.

At this moment, she suddenly wasn't afraid anymore, looked straight into Concubine Yan Gui's eyes, and asked in a calm voice, "Why?"

Yan Zhefei pinched her little finger, and asked softly, "Is the queen sister asking why I am not dead, or why I am standing here trying to kill you?"

She didn't wait for the queen mother to answer, she laughed again, asked herself and answered: "The guards on duty just changed their shift, there is still plenty of time, two hours is enough, why don't we talk about them one by one."

"Let me tell you why I killed you first." Her voice was gentle, as if it was just gossip between sisters: "Because my surname is Guihai."

The Queen Mother seemed to have heard something extremely frightening, her eyes widened suddenly, her body trembled, and she looked at Yan Zhefei in disbelief: "Gui Hai...you are Er..."

She opened and closed her lips several times, but she couldn't utter a complete sentence.

"Er Fei Medicine Sect", Yan Zhe Fei smiled like a flower, and took the words that the Queen Mother couldn't say: "Do you know why now? Back then, Emperor Lie hesitated to establish a reserve, and he hesitated between several sons. You Yanxi The Zhong family, the Zhou family of Dingkang, and the Fang family of Cangwu colluded with Emperor Cheng, and had crooked thoughts, and humbly went to Erfei to ask for life-prolonging medicine for Emperor Lie, but they added more flavors against the conscience of being sons and ministers, killing two birds with one stone, borrowing three The prince's hand secretly sneaked into the tonic that the imperial hospital sent to the emperor every day. You were afraid that you would be found out at the end, so you didn't dare to release more. Only the emperor could not speak, and he was ill in bed for half a month and couldn't wake up. Based on this, it is said that the Erfei Medicine Sect intends to commit regicide, and the entire Medicine Sect is required to help the sixth prince, Cheng Emperor Lingcheng, seize the heir for your use, otherwise the Medicine Sect will be beaten as the third prince and committed a rebellious party. conviction."

The smile on Yan Zhefei's face disappeared, and her voice gradually choked up: "Scheming step by step, Er Fei Medicine Sect was forced to help you by poisoning or designing so many opposing ministers and even princes, and was forced to use up all of its power. Almost all dark lines, which I can bear."

She almost cried blood, and her tone was full of desolate hatred: "But until Ling Cheng ascended to the Ninth Five-Year Plan, you still didn't think it was enough. In order to help him secure the throne and suppress other princes and princes who disobeyed him, the three of you They also joined forces to attack my father and snatched the three 'Shunhui' of the Er Fei Medicine Sect from him. But you want to use this medicine to make bones to enter the Mahayana, but you dare not take it, so you use others to test the medicine... ..."

Yan Zhefei almost hated it when she said this, her chest heaved violently, pointed at Queen Mother Zhong and said sharply: "The four words of mourning are tailor-made for the three of you! Are you afraid that the Erfei Medicine Sect will not hand it over to you?" "Shunhui", there will be a Mahayana realm threatening your status in the future, so you simply bring up the old story directly, and just got the three medicines, and beat Erfei as a rebellious party committed by the third prince and regicide. Zong Manmen. Even so, you are still unwilling to let go of my father, imprisoning him for three years until he died, and using all means to force him to hand over the prescription of 'Su Hui'..."

Yan Zhefei burst into tears, unable to speak any more, pinched Empress Dowager Zhong's neck fiercely, and threw her whole body onto the screen with a grim face: "Have I not told you yet, I have something that you must have heard The old name - Yan Zhefei."

Empress Dowager Zhong held Yan Zhefei's hand tightly, her eyes widened and she tried her best to breathe, but the moment she heard the name, she forgot to struggle. Of course she had heard of the sixth Mahayana realm master in Kyushu, Qianyong realm master.

Yan Zhefei opened her hands easily, and watched the empress dowager, who had been honored all her life, slowly slide against the screen, fell to the ground, panted heavily, and coughed violently in embarrassment. At this moment, boundless joy finally surged in her heart, The corner of his mouth raised and he continued: "You may not know it yet, your son, respect Wang Lingyi, and treat me as a guest of honor. I and your old acquaintance of the Zhong family of Yanxi——Cangwu Wuzun Fang Hongzhen, together helped your son plot rebellion. Woolen cloth."

The Queen Mother stopped coughing instantly, trembled, and looked up at Yan Zhefei in horror.

Yan Zhefei didn't care about her gaze at all, bent down, and said with a soft smile: "Fang Hongzhen is a real gangster. As for me, your eldest son, King Qi, of course rebelled, and I was also responsible for it. Why didn't you pay the blood debt back then?" Thinking that there will be today, your Yanxi Zhong family is now barbarian and the three clans are lingering, you deserve it."

Empress Dowager Zhong's eyes were bloodshot and red, and her throat was neighing like a trapped animal. She wished to eat her flesh and tear Yan Zhefei alive, but she couldn't stand up from the ground after struggling several times, and her nails dug out on the floor. Several deep nicks, leaving behind a spot of bright red blood spilling from the fingers.

Seeing this, Yan Zhefei couldn't help laughing out loud, appreciating the embarrassment of Zhong's daughter, and added another knife full of malice: "Actually, your son's little tricks can't be hidden from Ling Ye, you know why he doesn't move to respect the king?" , it is because you are still alive and your aunt is alive, so it is not easy for him to directly kill King Jing, who is also a aunt, not to mention that Emperor Cheng has specifically ordered this matter."

"Your son Goulian Dingkang Zhou family, Lianyan Jiang family, and even the Beidi Thirteen Departments have cooperated with Westerners, and Fang Hongzhen is behind him. Everything is ready. Do you know why he dare not rebel, because you are his biological mother. you are still alive."

"Although your son is stupid, he still has something to offer. He is really filial to you. With you in Ling Ye's hands, he is afraid that Ling Ye will use you as a bargaining chip. He will not be ruthless, he dare not."

"You said that if you are alive, an older brother cannot deal with a younger brother, and a younger brother cannot resist an older brother, so it is better for you to die."

Yan Zhefei lowered her eyes and looked coldly at the embarrassing Empress Dowager Zhong. The empress dowager's chest rose and fell several times, and she could barely make out a sentence: "What are you talking about in Beidi Xiyang..." As soon as she said the words, she suddenly realized, incredulously Gritting his teeth, he said, "Are you crazy...you have conspired with foreigners to make trouble? All the dead and injured are Dayin's people!"

Yan Zhefei shrugged indifferently and smiled: "Do the people of Dayin have anything to do with me? When Ling Cheng and the three of you slaughtered all the disciples of my Medicine Sect, why didn't you think that they were also the people of Dayin? Now you What face does the Yanxi Zhong family have to talk about the people of Dayin with me here? What's more, it is your son's business to hook up with foreigners, and it is your son's son who is the daughter of the Zhong family. "

When she mentioned this, she couldn't help but contemptuously said: "What do you think the son will fight with others? They are also the sons of the first son, one is the son of the Gu family after the Yuan Dynasty, and the other is the son of the Zhong family after the successor. They are all from the royal family and families with surnames." Blood, why is there such a big difference. In the hundred years since the founding of Dayin, there has never been a prince who took the right to trade with Westerners, and your son is also the only one."

She didn't wait for the Empress Dowager Zhong to react, and then suddenly got into trouble, leaned over and pinched the Empress Dowager's neck fiercely, but her lips were replaced with the usual gentle smile of the imperial concubine Hui Yuan, and there was no trace of killing intent on her face. Be gentle and kind: "You should be on your way, Empress Dowager, if you don't die, your useless son will never make up his mind to rebel."

Slowly exerting force on her fingers, Empress Dowager Zhong's eyes widened, and she struggled violently while grabbing Yan Zhefei's hand.

Even though her hands were scratched by nails, Yan Zhefei still didn't change her smile, instead she whispered softly: "Don't worry, your useless son won't be able to achieve great things. With the current emperor here, Dayin is still Dayin, and he won't fall into the hands of foreigners." On. I only blame your son for his lack of human heart. If he insists on colluding with the Zhou family and the Fang family, then they will die together. I think you know best that the only thing that can completely destroy a family with a big surname is treason, so I I have to help them out and reassure your son."

Yan Zhefei suddenly seemed to remember something, stopped her movements, let go of her fingers before Queen Mother Zhong lost consciousness, and injected a burst of true energy into her neck and shoulders, restoring her clarity for a while, and carried her The collar of the collar said softly: "I seem to have forgotten to tell you why I am not dead. It is because you are not dead yet. How could I die?"

"That's because..." Her tone was gentle, as if explaining a lucky thing like the Queen Mother Zhong: "I also killed Chengdi Lingcheng, who you admired for the rest of your life. Didn't he die of heart palpitations? It is actually poison, just use the poison made from the medicine that you added to Emperor Lie when you plotted the Er Fei Medicine Sect, I have used the masterpiece of 14 years, and the imperial doctor can't diagnose it."

"Didn't you say that Erfei Medicine Sect killed the king? Then I will show you." Yan Zhefei finished speaking.

The queen mother was stunned for a moment, then suddenly screamed and collapsed.

Yan Zhefei once again grabbed Empress Dowager Zhong's neck violently, using two points of Mahayana inner strength in her hands, smiling, and her voice was gentle: "I know what you want to say, that Ling Cheng loved me the most when he was alive? Did you never forget me? Then when you go underground, don't forget to tell him that I, Gui Haiyanlan, can't afford his love, and I never want any of it."

"I just feel sick."

Yan Zhefei let go of her hand, and the breathless Empress Dowager Zhong fell limply.

She looked down at the people on the ground. For the first time in 30 years, she felt such joy. The boulder pressing on her heart was slowly moved away inch by inch. The bloody hatred she had carried for decades could finally let those people die at this moment. repay.

The setting sun on the horizon outside the window has already completely submerged into the place where the sky and the earth connect, and there is only a gleam of bleak afterglow remaining in the corner of the sky, but Yan Zhefei feels that it is clearly the most beautiful and brightest light she has ever seen.

She wanted to welcome and embrace the light that belonged to her, but the corners of her raised lips froze the moment she opened the door——

Princess Qinghe stood outside the door with lowered eyes.

Ming Yu's back turned to Yan Zhefei and raised the corners of his mouth.

The author says:

Sorry for writing too slowly woo woo woo woo.

Emperor Lie is the father of Emperor Cheng, the grandfather of His Majesty now.

Yan Zhefei wanted to kill the Queen Mother and the reasons for it were also mentioned in the previous Chapter 57.

She didn't notice that the princess came outside the door because she was too happy and focused when killing the queen mother. After planning for so many years, this was the last step.