"By the way, there's also Liu Ashan! He's usually closest to Senior Brother, and he happens to be on leave."

Xie Lingjiang hurried back to Meiluyuan and found Ah Qing's family who stayed in the house.

"What? You mean, your brother is out of town for something, and it's the same day as the elder brother's request for leave to return to his hometown in Nanlong?"

"Well, is Sister Xie looking for the master? The slave family thinks that brother may have gone back with the master." Ah Qing raised his big spiritual eyes and whispered his guess.

Xie Lingjiang did not answer immediately. He glanced at the water spirit girl and smiled reluctantly.

She just turned her head and walked out of Ah Qing's house, still frowning slightly:

"Elder brother asked me to help him hand over the official seal and official uniform... He resigned from office and said he wanted to go into seclusion, but why did he take Ah Shan out of Longcheng County? Ah Shan has a family and an engaged girl. Is it possible that he can go into seclusion in the countryside with him?

This doesn’t make sense…”

While frowning and thinking carefully, Xie Lingjiang's footsteps were habitual and he turned towards the Meilin courtyard unknowingly.

At this time, night falls.

Walking silently outside the wall of the Meilin courtyard, Xie Ling Jiang turned around and prepared to rush to Penglangdu to take the boat overnight, but the next second, she suddenly turned her head.

There was a slight sound of watering in the courtyard.

"Eldest brother is back?!"

Xie Ling Jiang Ben was admitted to the hospital, but what caught her eyes was a graceful figure in purple clothes, and she was immediately filled with disappointment.

"What are you doing here, sister Li?" Xie Lingjiang asked sternly with a straight face.

Inside the house, Li Guo'er was sitting in front of the Eight Immortals table, holding his chin in one hand and holding a water ladle tilted in the other.

A trickle of water fell from the water ladle and soaked into the soil of the orchid basin.

"Obviously, watering the flowers." Li Bao'er nodded.

Xie Lingjiang stopped talking.

Li Guo'er lowered his head to look at Clivia, and at the same time lightly opened his pink lips:

"Don't worry, he didn't touch anything except watering the flowers. Sister Xie doesn't need to worry too much."

Xie Lingjiang, who had been busy all afternoon but had achieved nothing, felt his shoulders sag slightly. He silently walked to the swing and sat down, dangling his feet in the air and kicking back lightly.

Li Guo'er turned around and looked at the tired and lonely man dressed in male clothes in the yard, with a curious face:

"Don't Sister Xie never play on the swing?"

Xie Lingjiang didn't answer, lowered his head to grab the rope and swayed his calves.

Li Bao'er paused for a moment before speaking, then quickly glanced at the stunning scenery rippling like water somewhere, and nodded:

"No wonder Sister Xie didn't play on the swing before. The scenery there is truly unique and can make other women ashamed."

There was no smile on Xie Lingjiang's face, and Li Bao'er's joke seemed a bit cold.

Li Guo'er, who was wearing a purple Taoist robe, chuckled lightly and didn't care.

She turned her head and glanced at the official seals, official uniforms, ribbons and other items on the table, nodded and asked:

"Is Ouyang Lianghan resigning?"

"Can you please stop talking for now, I'll be quiet."

Li Bao'er nodded slightly and placed the flower pots.

She stood up and slimmed down, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, and went out, whispering softly:

"Really resigned? It seems that he must have gone there. Well, it is a bit unexpected. Do Confucian scholars still believe this? It seems that Ouyang Lianghan has dabbled in Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and he keeps it hidden."

Xie Lingjiang pricked up his ears and raised his head suddenly: "What did you say!"

Li Guo'er shook his head: "It's nothing. Sister Xie will continue to play, and the slave family will leave first."

"You... don't leave. Sister Li, let me tell you again. Do you know where the senior brother has gone? He didn't go back to his hometown in Nanlong? Did he go somewhere else?"

Xie Lingjiang grabbed Li Guo'er's sleeve and asked a series of anxious questions.

Li Guo'er didn't answer immediately, tilted his head slightly, looked at her, and asked:

"Why does Sister Xie want to find him so much? He should have left a message to say so. It's just a personal choice. Why is Sister Xie so reluctant to let go?"

"I……"

Xie Ling Jiang Qiao's face turned red, she stuttered, nodded quickly and said decisively:

"It's not that I can't bear to part with him, I just want to...want to beat him! He resigned and went into seclusion at such a young age and left without saying goodbye. It's so disrespectful of friendship. Is he worthy of his family and teachers? Yes, I want to teach Aunt Zhen and my father a lesson.

Get rid of him!"

"Oh, really?" Li Baoer narrowed his eyes.

"Stop being so pretentious and tell me!"

Li Guo'er took out the sleeve from her hand and said bluntly: "I should have gone to Donglin Temple, a place called Pure Land Palace."

"how do you know?"

Li Guo'er silently took out a book from his sleeve:

"I accidentally discovered this Buddhist scripture while looking through his bookshelf. It records the story of Master Zhongma of Donglin Temple becoming a Buddha in the physical body and ascending to the Lotus Pure Land.

"The relevant pages were specially folded by him, and there were some bookmarks and notes. Well, he is worthy of a serious scholar. He takes beautiful notes on every Buddhist scripture."

Her three thousand black hair was crowned by a jade lotus crown that transcended regulations. She nodded lightly and expressed her approval of Ouyang Rong's level of seriousness.

"The same is true for several other related Buddhist scriptures. I think he should have read it frequently during this period. He was very concerned about this matter and searched all the recorded documents."

"Donglin Temple? Master Zhongma? Ascension to...the Pure Land?"

Xie Lingjiang murmured, not even paying attention to the fact that Li Guo'er broke into his senior brother's room to look through his bookshelf, or in other words, he ignored it for now.

She immediately took the original copy, lowered her head and flipped through it. After a moment, she stamped her feet angrily, spinning around in circles, and said urgently:

"How could Senior Brother believe this stuff and not tell me? You should have told me earlier.

"Do you still believe in Buddhism? Wait, no wonder when I first met him at Donglin Temple, there were a lot of Buddhist scriptures in the study room. Did you start paying attention to them then? You often go to Donglin Temple on weekdays...

"But the matter of becoming a Buddha in the physical body and ascending to the Pure Land is not reliable at all. It is probably a misunderstanding. My father also mentioned it when we first chatted with me.

"Master Zhongma is not an ordinary person. He was probably a Qi practitioner from the Lotus Sect of Donglin Temple back then. His cultivation was extraordinary. It was only through this that he could have the so-called miracles of immortality after death, and speculations about ascending to the Pure Land and so on are not reliable.

"There is no pure fairyland in this world. Only those evil magicians who believe in fairyland and immortality are crazy!

"My father has also analyzed that the current line of qi practitioners inherited from Donglin Temple has been cut off, and the recent directors have no qi training skills. Maybe it is related to the disappearance and death of Master Zhongma's group of qi practitioners! It appeared!

Fault.

"What's ridiculous is that this matter is still misunderstood by the monks of Donglin Temple today as the founder's physical body becoming a Buddha and ascending to the Pure Land, and they are publicizing it!"

Xie Ling almost bit Jiang Yinya into pieces, someone really deserves a beating:

"How could Senior Brother believe this so easily? How could he ascend as a mortal who has not yet practiced Qi? Wait, two days have passed. Where is he now? Is he still staying at Donglin Temple?"

After saying that, she left Li Bao'er, rushed out the door dressed in red, and left Meiluyuan.

Xie Lingjiang left the city overnight, climbed up the mountain under the stars, and hurried to Donglin Temple before dawn.

In front of the ancient temple, she was so angry that she refused to greet the Zhike monk and went straight to the Beitian Almshouse.

At the entrance of the Beitian Almshouse, a monk was yawning and sweeping the floor in the morning. When he saw the girl in red dress rushing past him like the wind, his face was stunned, and the fallen leaves he had swept up were scattered all over the floor again...

Above her head, in the dark gray dawn sky, there was a ray of light breaking through the dawn, shining brightly.
Chapter completed!