Lord Prime Minister

Three miles away from the capital, the Puhua Temple on Puyao Mountain has closed its doors and no visitors since sunrise today. Any ordinary women who come to offer incense are persuaded to return when they arrive at the foot of the mountain. The guards went down into the mountain and stepped on the [-] stone steps to the gate of the temple. The abbot led a group of monks and disciples who had been waiting here for a long time.

The first phoenix sedan chair stopped, and a luxuriously dressed woman stepped down. She wore a gold silk phoenix crown on her head and a palace dress of flowing colors and dark flowers with golden auspicious clouds. Eunuch, walked up to the abbot, clasped his hands together.

"I have seen the abbot."

The nine ring scars on the head of the octogenarian abbot are very obvious, his long white beard hangs down to his chest, his thin body is precarious, and he is leaning on a cane thicker than his arm, staggering to salute.

"I see the empress."

The queen smiled slightly, and motioned to the little eunuch beside her to help him up, and said: "The Buddhism is pure, and the holy monks don't need to be polite."

The old abbot stood up with a smile, the wrinkles on his face stretched long, he was almost a hundred years old but his eyes and ears were clear. "The Buddhist hall is ready, can the Empress offer incense now?"

At this time, several soft sedan chairs at the back also came down one after another, all of them were luxuriously dressed and exquisitely made up, and they all came over and stood behind the queen.

The queen smiled, turned sideways and said, "The abbot will bring a few younger sisters and the princess to offer incense first. Is master in the temple? I want to ask for a lottery."

The abbot nodded understandingly, handed over a young novice and led the queen, and led several noble concubines to the main hall.

Wenmei followed behind several noble concubines, she seemed a bit lonely without her mother concubine by her side, she was always quiet, and quietly she was at the back.

Then I went to the lobby to worship the Bodhisattva, and after offering incense, it disappeared without anyone noticing.

Wenmei avoided people and walked quickly to the back mountain of the temple. Fortunately, in order to let the empress feel at ease to burn incense, there were a few young monks in the temple and no one was there.Close the door of the back mountain gently, and walk along the path for a while.

The scene in front of me turned around, and a green water pool appeared. There was a broad-leaved tree beside the pool, with lush branches and leaves hanging down to the water surface. The leaves swayed in the breeze, causing circles of ripples on the water surface.

Standing next to the broad-leaved tree was a man with his back to Wenmei. He was dressed in gray and straight. There was no folded scarf on his head, but was more casually tied up with a piece of cloth.

Wenmei looked up at him, seeing that he didn't notice her arrival, covered her mouth with a smile, and walked over with a light footstep.

Walking behind the man, the man smiled triumphantly before he noticed him, stretched out his hand to cover the man's eyes, only stretched out halfway and wanted to retract it, but was grabbed by the man in front of him.

"I knew you were coming a long time ago, so I deliberately teased you." Long Lei turned around with a smile, his childishness had faded from his face, his thick eyebrows fell into his temples, and his eyes were like stars.

Knowing that the other party gave way to her on purpose, Wen Mei blushed a little, wanted to pull her hand back but found that the other party was pulling her tightly, her face turned even redder.

The fingers tightened slightly, rubbing against the opponent's rough palm due to holding the sword all the year round, even the pale fingers were slightly red.

Long Xiu was used to being careless, and it was as if his hands were scalded at this time. The temperature from the touching palms made him a little hot, but he still held on.

He wanted to look away from the other person, but he couldn't move his eyes away from her blushing face, so he just stared blankly and forgot to respond.

If it was before, with Wenmei's shy temperament, she would definitely take her hand back, but since Kong Lei entered the barracks, this is the first time the two have met.

After finally seeing each other, they really didn't want to let go, so Long Lei pulled, and Wenmei just kept on.

"The empress is here to apply for a visa, and I will have to go back in a while."

Although Kong Lei was a little bit reluctant, he had no choice but to compromise, but he held Wenmei by the hand and refused to let go. "I met this time, I don't know when we will meet next time."

Wenmei couldn't help being a little sad, she lowered her head and didn't speak.The two of them were originally at odds, and it will be even more difficult for them to meet after the brother's ban is lifted in a few days.

Seeing her bowing her head and not speaking, Long Lei felt that what he said was really hurting the scenery, so he laughed and joked. "I hid here early in the morning, and a young monk came over, and he almost didn't notice. You can go out and light a lamp for me later, you can't come here and go back empty-handed, right?"

Wen Mei nodded, still a little sullen.

Knowing that she was sad, Long Lei dragged her to the edge of the pool. "You wait a moment."

After speaking, he rolled up his sleeves, stretched out his hands and groped in the water for a while, and walked into the water while groping, the pool water soaked his shoes and did not stop.

Wenmei looked at him suspiciously, and took a few steps forward. "What? Did something drop?" While speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and bent down, apparently wanting to help Long Lei find it together.

Long Lei quickly waved his hands, "Don't come down, I just want...to find this!"

Leaving the water with his fists in his hands, Long Lei smiled with satisfaction and walked towards the shore step by step.

Wenmei gave him a hand, and when he got ashore, he was curious about what Long Lei was looking for just now, so he secretly looked at his right hand with his eyes.

Long Lei patted the drenched clothes, noticed Wenmei's gaze, smiled and put his hand in front of her eyes.

"I'm looking for this."

With a wide palm spread out, Wen Mei stood on tiptoe slightly, her eyes were all attracted by that hand.

In the open palm, there is a stone?There is nothing special about it except that it is flat and round with a hole missing.

"Stone?" Wenmei asked curiously, tilting her head. "What's so special about this?"

"En." Long Lei smiled meaningfully, and put the steam-stained stone in Wenmei's palm. "The next time we meet again, I'll tell you about the difference in this stone."

Seeing that he spoke clearly, Wenmei reached out and touched the surface of the stone. After soaking in water for a long time, it was very smooth, and there was nothing special about it.

But if Kong Lei, a big rock, said it, then it has a special meaning, after all, they are all rocks.Wen Mei meditated in her heart and couldn't help laughing.

Long Lei also heaved a sigh of relief, the two of them stayed for less than half an hour before Wenmei left in a hurry.Long Lei waited for a few more hours, until the sun set on the western mountain, and he was sure that the Queen and his party had left, and then came out from the back mountain.

I met a few monks on the road, and seeing him, I was stunned for a moment, and asked Long Lei to put his hands together to salute, so he had no choice but to salute and leave.

After meeting a few people like this, no one stepped forward to ask, Long Lei kept snickering, and simply swaggered towards the gate of the temple.

Passing by a room suddenly heard voices inside.

"Uncle Yuan, what kind of lottery did the empress ask for? Why are you so happy?"

"Luck."

"Fortune, that's good? Uncle, Uncle, what kind of luck is it?"

"Don't talk too much, recite the scriptures carefully, we can guess what happened in the palace, all we can do is chant the scriptures and recite the Buddha's name, Amitabha."

Long Lei listened outside the door, but got no results, walked away bored, and came to the ever-burning lamp at the door.

After looking around, I saw my long light burning silently in the corner.The image of Wenmei lighting candles for him appeared in Long Lei's mind, and he brought three long-burning lamps from the management office in one breath, one with Wenmei's name written on it, and the other two with the names of his elder brothers Long Xiu and Mu Zihuai , respectively clicked and placed next to themselves.

After doing all this, he thought about it again, stretched out his hand and moved himself and Wenmei's long-burning lamp closer, smiled with satisfaction, and squeezed his brother and Mu Zihuai together again, separating them from the others.

Clapping his palms, Long Lei was in a good mood, and left with his hands behind his back.

Liao Yuan managed to get away from his junior and walked out of the yard, remembering that the long light in the front yard hadn't been turned on, so he walked slowly towards that side.

I took a new lamp and replaced the old one, and suddenly saw four more long-burning lamps on the stage, leaning against each other.One pair was better, the other was tightly packed, and the flame of one was on the side of the other.

If it goes on like this, the other one will be exhausted in a short time.

Liao Yuan frowned, but instead of separating them, she sighed and turned to leave.

Destiny is fixed and cannot be changed.

Here Wenmei followed the queen and several noble concubines back to the palace, holding that strange stone in her hand all the way, her heart felt like it was soaked in honey, sweet.

After entering the palace gate and separating from the concubines, she walked towards her own palace alone, Cuiping didn't know what she was busy with, so she didn't greet her.

Wenmei walked past the garden planted with flowers and plants, couldn't help speeding up her pace, and called out before opening the door of the main hall.

"Cuiping?"

There was no response, she pushed open the door, Wenmei raised her foot and stepped in, there was a person standing in the hall, dressed in white, with his back to her, just turned around at this time.

The smile on Wenmei's face froze, then slowly dissipated, and slowly lowered her head, the joy that was all over her body just now disappeared.

"Brother Huang, don't you have a few days to come out?"