Xuanbei also looked at him, becoming more and more happy, and after a while he softly replied: "Me too."

"Master has not practiced for many years, is he still the same as the younger generation?" Li Ye looked at him and asked.

Xuanbei looked at him and said: "People in the world only remember to practice Buddhism to the so-called highest state. Little do they know that Buddhism is not high or low. It is only the ups and downs of one's own state of mind."

When Li Ye heard this, he couldn't help but ask: "Why did you say that?"

Xuanbei looked at the Bodhisattva on the Buddhist altar and said with a smile: "There is dust on the Bodhisattva's body, so what? Is he no longer a Bodhisattva?"

Li Ye thought Xuan Bei was talking about him, so he replied apologetically: "The junior state can only see dust, and I haven't reached that state yet."

Xuan Bei looked at him, shook his head, and said with a smile: "You can tell what you see, which proves that you see the world with your eyes and see the world with your heart. It's not like some people who clearly see it, but pretend to be profound and say:

I didn't see it."

Li Ye smiled and replied: "I really didn't think about it that much."

"Sometimes, it's a good thing to think simpler." Xuan Bei looked at Li Ye and smiled.

Li Ye was stunned, raised his head and looked at him and said with a smile, "I agree with this."

"The young gentleman has profound merit and his understanding of Buddhism has long surpassed that of the old monk. It is really enviable." Xuan Bei said with a smile while making tea.

"The seniors have such great love, but the juniors cannot deserve it. It is really a wonderful thing to have seniors point out the way of Buddhism."

Xuan Bei shook his head and said calmly: "There is a sequence of hearing the Tao, but there is no set time to enter the Tao. It's not like you don't understand this truth, so why are you still making fun of me?"

Li Ye clasped his hands and saluted, and said seriously: "In the eyes of the juniors, the seniors have practiced Buddhism for more than ten million people? But the juniors have just started, so they are really ashamed and unworthy."

"You and I both practice Buddhism, so why do we need to distinguish between high and low?" Xuan Bei smiled slightly and continued: "If you say that the world doesn't understand, that would make sense, but you are a different person from them."

Li Ye didn't know how to answer, so he had to stay silent.

Looking at the silent Li Ye, the old monk asked: "What happened here, where will the young gentleman go?"

"Go to the Imperial City first, and then return to Prajna Temple to continue practicing." Li Ye thought for a while and told Xuan Bei truthfully about his plan.

Xuanbei nodded and said with a smile: "It is really enviable that you can return to the mountain to continue practicing!"

"Master, you can also go back to the temple to practice. Senior brother Minghui is very easy to talk to." Li Ye couldn't help but laugh when he thought of Minghui making tea and discussing Zen with him.

"What did you call him? Senior brother?" Xuan Bei was shocked. He looked at Li Ye and said, "In this case, wouldn't I really have to call you senior uncle?"

Li Ye was stunned. He didn't want to accidentally tell the truth. He looked at him and said with a smile: "Well, we have our own business, you are no longer in Prajna Temple."

Xuan Bei looked at him seriously and said, "Even I have to call Minghui my senior uncle. Since you call him senior brother, you are naturally my senior uncle as well."

When Li Ye heard this, he was startled, then shook his head and replied with a bitter smile: "If we say goodbye today, we may go thousands of miles away, and we don't know what year or month we will meet again. Why should Master be so persistent?"

The imperial city is ahead, or soon, he will lead the southern Xinjiang army to break through the palace gate. When the imperial city is over, he will either return to Fengyun City or go to Fangcun Mountain, hoping for a chance for the two of them to meet again.

It’s so vague, how can we talk about so many rules and regulations?

He originally wanted to have lunch in the temple before leaving, but seeing Xuan Bei's troubled look, Li Ye couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "I still have some secular affairs in the city, so I won't disturb the master's practice."

Xuan Bei didn't want to leave him alone. He stood up and clasped his hands together and said, "If you have time, come over and have tea."

Li Ye also clasped his hands and replied to him: "If I have time, I will come back to ask the master for advice."

After saying that, he opened the curtain and walked out of the Buddhist hall.

At a glance, snowflakes were floating in the sky again, and the wind and snow that had stopped for less than two days began to flutter all over the sky again.

...

Not in a hurry to return to the city lord's mansion, Li Ye came to the door of Youjian Inn.

Looking at the Huamanlou with its closed door opposite, I couldn't help but feel a little sad.

I remember back then, I drank two glasses of wine with Hua Tianxia and Nalan Yu, and I was so drunk for a whole day and night that I later met the emperor in the garden of an inn...

Just when he was feeling distressed, Nalan Yu's voice sounded from behind. "What are you doing standing outside the door? The sky is full of wind and snow."

Li Ye turned to look at him and said with a faint smile: "I remember that time when my eldest brother got me drunk and made me drunk for a whole day and night."

Upon hearing this, Nalanyu laughed and said, "I'll ask Hua Tianxia later to see if she still has it. Let's come here again and have a drink."

Li Ye stretched out his hand to flick the snow off his body and followed Nalan Yu to the store. As he walked, he said, "Getting drunk once is enough!"

Li Ye thought to himself that the Buddha said that seeing means possessing, not to mention that he had already been drunk once, and if he came again, he would lose some of the artistic conception.

Naturally, Nalan Yu didn't understand what he was thinking, so he pulled him inside. The two of them came to the big room where Li Ye stayed for the first time.

"I was making tea here, and I heard from the waiter that someone was standing outside the store. I just wanted to see that this idiot was standing in the snow and refused to come in..." Nalanyu told Li

Night chattered while pouring him tea.

Li Ye pointed to the stone pavilion outside the window and said, "That's where I made tea and chatted with the emperor."

Nalanyu followed his gaze and couldn't help but murmured: "Time flies so fast, six years have passed in the blink of an eye."

Li Ye looked at him and smiled and said, "Six years is not bad. I finally made my eldest brother wait for Sister Hua."

Nalan Yu chuckled twice and replied nonchalantly: "That's right, I'm willing to wait another six years."

"Really? I'll talk to Sister Hua later." Li Ye picked up the cup and sighed softly.

...

The two of them drank three courses of tea and had lunch in the inn. It was not until half past time that they left the inn and walked towards the city lord's mansion.

Walking on the road, Nalanyu looked at him and asked, "Have you met the old monk in Qingliang Temple?"

Nodding, Li Ye replied calmly: "It can be regarded as fulfilling a wish and repaying some favors."

Nalan Yu smiled and said, "I guess he didn't expect you to come to fulfill your wish, right?"

"Who knows? He didn't tell me, and I didn't ask." Li Ye thought of Xuan Bei's excited expression, feeling strangely sentimental.

He clearly saw the direction of practice, but he had no chance to practice. Even the husband had never seen the legendary resurrecting grass, let alone the beast soul that is rare to find.

Nalan Yu didn't expect Li Ye to reply to him like this, so he quickly asked: "Are you okay?"

Li Ye looked at him and smiled: "How could something happen? I'm not doing well."

"Brother, come with me to the south gate for a walk to see how the city wall is being built." Li Ye thought about the city gate that was shot down by Wang Tianhua's heavy slave camp, and wondered how the construction would start in this windy and snowy day.

"I went to see it in the morning. The craftsmen in the city braved the wind and snow to repair it. It is said that it will be completed in less than seven days." Nalan Yu looked at him and smiled.

The two of them arrived at the south city gate and saw that the place was already bustling with activity.

The craftsmen burned several blazing fires under the city wall to keep warm, while re-polishing the broken white stone and breaking down the bluestone transported from outside the city.

Ma Feihu, who was in charge of supervising the work, saw the two people approaching and quickly came up to say hello.

"How do you plan to repair it?" Li Ye asked, pointing to the empty city gate.

"Master Hui, the craftsmen plan to use bluestone as the base and pile the restored white jade on top." Ma Feihu replied, waving his hands.

"In order to quickly capture the imperial city, we destroyed the White Jade City after all." Li Ye replied calmly, feeling unimpressed.

Nalanyu looked at the two of them and said, "That's good. We can set up a commemorative stone here in the future to tell future generations the damage caused by the war to White Jade City."

As if aware of Li Ye's unhappiness, Nalan Yu turned his head, looked at Ma Feihu and said with a smile, "General Ma is supervising the work here. Come to the city lord's mansion in the evening and let's have a drink."

Then she looked at him and pulled Li Ye back.

Since Li Ye was not in a high mood, he had no choice but to leave here quickly, keep out of sight, talk about the future later, and solve the major issues in the imperial city first.

Li Ye knew that he could not help by staying here. After all, the repairs had to be left to professional craftsmen.

The two of them turned around and walked towards the city lord's mansion.

Li Ye remained silent along the way, staring blankly at the snowflakes on the ground.

Nalan Yu knew that he could not remain silent at this time, so he quickly said jokingly: "Compared to the fact that Bai Jade City was captured only after both sides suffered numerous casualties, the result in front of us is already very good."

After hearing this, Li Ye was startled, turned to look at him and said, "Brother is right. Compared with the lives of the soldiers on both sides, this white jade city gate is nothing!"

Human life is more important than the sky, Li Ye silently murmured in his heart. Whether the emperor is here or has ascended and left the five realms, in Li Ye's view, it is naturally the best thing to avoid hurting human life.

Nalan Yu looked at him with a half-smile and said, "Now that you have figured this out, there is no need to worry about it anymore, right?"

Li Ye looked up at the snowflakes dancing in the sky and replied calmly: "It's one thing to understand it, but it's another thing to really let it go."

Nalan Yu looked at Li Ye who had a determined look on his face, and for a moment he couldn't find the words to say anything to him. It wasn't until he reached the gate of the city lord's mansion that he looked at him and said, "It turns out that the Imperial Master is also a duplicitous guy."

"I just looked at the beautiful Bai Jade City, because we actually put a patch on it."

Li Ye looked at Nalan Yu and laughed, thinking about what he said to Master Xuanbei, and said, "How can everything in life go as planned? I want to capture the White Jade City, but also want to save fewer lives!"

Nalanyu perked up after hearing this, thinking that his brother was really a weirdo. One moment he was struggling with the white jade city gate, and now he was thinking about the lives of the 80,000-strong army.

As the two of them walked inside, Nalan Yu said: "Now that you have figured it out, you can practice sword practice in these free days. I haven't seen you use the sword for a year."

Li Ye also remembered that he had not practiced sword practice for a long time since last winter. The most recent time was when he was fighting Yeluqi in the ring.

It's just that at that time, the two of them were competing with brute force. Did they ever really compete in swordsmanship?

"My swordsmanship is just for practice. It has neither strength nor speed. What's so interesting about it?" Li Ye shook his head, and the two of them walked into the living room of the city lord's mansion.

The eldest prince had been worried about Li Ye, and when he saw the two people walking in, he breathed a sigh of relief, looked at him and said, "Master, have you been here all day?"

Li Ye looked at the men and women filling the living room and asked in surprise: "Do you have anything to do with me?"

Xia Yunlan turned back to look at the group of people in the room, and replied to Li Ye: "I told them not to worry about you, but they didn't want to believe it."

Shaking his head, Li Ye looked at everyone and replied: "I'm not a three-year-old child. What kind of trouble can I cause in this white jade city?"

Mu Mu looked at him and smiled and said: "The generalissimo is afraid that something will happen to you, so he has ordered the city gate to be closed. You are only allowed to go out but not enter."

Li Ye looked at the prince, patted his head, and said with a smile: "There were too many things yesterday, and I forgot about this important thing. Fortunately, the eldest prince is wise."

The eldest prince looked at him and smiled: "This move was taught to me by the Imperial Master in Nanyun City."

Tang Qiuyu looked at everyone and said with a smile: "White Jade City is the base camp now, so naturally we have to watch it more closely."
Chapter completed!