Xianyue lowered her eyes and said, "My son, I never said that I was not wrong."
Ling Ruo shook her head and said: "What Ai Jia is talking about is not this time, but the time when you and the queen met the emperor for the first time." Seeing Xianyue's silence, she continued: "The queen saved the emperor once and planted good karma;
And although you have begged the emperor once, you planted bad seeds earlier; Concubine Xian, ask yourself, if you were the emperor, which person would you prefer."
Xianyue was silent for a long time and whispered: "I can't help myself."
"The Ai family knows, but you were really wrong at the time. It is inevitable that the emperor will have a grudge against this."
Hearing this, Xianyue raised her head, met Ling Ruo's eyes and said, "In other words, no matter what I do in the future, I can't eliminate the grudge in the emperor's heart, right?"
"Nothing is difficult in the world, it just depends on whether you have the heart or not. The Ai family also came from concubines, and they know that in the harem, if you don't know how to use methods, you are just like fish on the table, and you can be slaughtered by others; but methods do not mean you have to harm others.
Just like this time, if you had not put the Queen in danger, then everything that follows would be
, it may not happen. You think that the method you use is to harm others, but in the cycle of cause and effect, it is very likely that the person you end up harming will become yourself, and the gain outweighs the loss. Your aunt is the best example. Have a trace of compassion in your heart and treat others
It's good for yourself, Concubine Xian, you are so smart, you won't understand what Ai Jia means."
"I understand, Erchen..." As soon as Xianyue said a few words, she felt a violent shaking. Unprepared, she was thrown to the ground. Except for Ling Ruo who was sitting, everyone else
Everyone was shaken around, and tables and chairs fell over one after another.
Zhichun wanted to help Xianyue, but she also fell down. She panicked: "What's going on?"
"It's an earthquake." Ling Ruo had experienced it once before, so she was the first to react, and then said: "Go to an open space immediately, don't stay in the house."
As soon as she finished speaking, Yang Hai and Shui Xiu stumbled out holding her, followed closely by Xianyue and others. When they got outside, they saw many monks standing there, all with lingering expressions on their faces.
panic, but the ground is still shaking, like riding on a bumpy boat.
The abbot, who was over sixty years old, came to Ling Ruo with the support of a young novice and said nervously: "Amitabha, is the Queen Mother injured?"
"The Ai family is fine." As Ling Ruo spoke, thin cracks began to appear on the ground, and various levels of damage were also seen in the main halls of the houses, which was shocking.
Fortunately, the earthquake did not last long. After about a stick of incense, the dizzying shaking gradually stopped, with only occasional slight vibrations.
"Amitabha." The abbot let out a long breath while shaking his silver beard. Fortunately, the earthquake was not too strong and did not hurt the Queen Mother and Concubine Xian. Otherwise, if the emperor blamed it, the entire Qingliang Temple would suffer.
Just when everyone relaxed, a strong earthquake suddenly appeared again, and the thin cracks on the ground suddenly widened, and before anyone could react, they had already spread to Xianyue's feet.
Qi Kuan was the first to notice it and said with great excitement: "Master, be careful!"
However, he was still a step too late. Before Xianyue could react, his feet were completely empty and he fell into the crack. If he fell like this, Xianyue would definitely die. Fortunately, A Luo reacted very quickly and pulled Xianyue away.
She held Xianyue's hand, but with her own strength, she couldn't hold it. Instead, she was dragged and slid into the crack. But she refused to let go no matter what she said. She gritted her teeth and said: "Master, hold on to this slave, don't let go.
Never!"
Fortunately, they were not alone here. Qi Kuan hurriedly stepped forward to help pull her up. He also pulled several young novice monks over, and everyone worked together to pull Xianyue up from the crack.
When she returned to the ground, Xianyue was trembling all over and her face was as pale as paper. Just now...she almost died and was buried in the unfathomable darkness.
As soon as he saw Xianyue being pulled up, A Luo ignored the heartbreaking pain coming from his arm and said nervously: "Master, how are you?"
Xianyue slowly exhaled, shook her head and said: "I'm fine, just now... Fortunately, you held me back, so I could save my life."
While they were talking, the earthquake stopped again, but this time, no one dared to be careless. They were all paying attention to the movements around nervously, for fear that something like what happened just now would happen again.
This went on for nearly an hour, and no more earthquakes occurred. Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief and got busy. The abbot sent a few monks to explore the way down the mountain to see if Ling Ruo and others could be sent down first.
After all, no one knows whether an earthquake will happen again. Once it happens again, the danger on the mountain will undoubtedly be greater.
When it was getting dark, the monks came back. After listening to what they said, the abbot's face turned ugly. Ling Ruo said, "Abbott, you can't go down the mountain?"
The abbot bowed and said: "To return to the Queen Mother, the earthquake just now has broken the mountain road. For a while, I am afraid it will be impossible to go up and down the mountain."
Xianyue came over holding Qi Kuan's hand and said, "May I ask the abbot, how long will it take to continue the mountain road?"
The abbot said in a serious tone: "If we rely solely on the people in the temple to continue the mountain road, it will take at least more than a month, but the food on the mountain can only last for twenty days at most."
Xianyue was silent for a moment and said: "That's enough. The government knows about the Queen Mother's repairs in the temple. Now that there is an earthquake here, the government will definitely send people here to inspect. When the mountain road collapses, they will definitely send people to step up the repairs.
.So, as long as there are no more strong earthquakes, the mountain road should be able to be reconnected soon."
Hearing her words, the abbot felt slightly at ease, and immediately arranged for a group of people to repair it. During this process, Ling Ruo kept looking at the gloomy sky in a trance, not knowing what he was thinking.
After a long time, she withdrew her gaze and saw Xianyue who was still standing next to her, and said, "Do you really think you can continue the mountain road in twenty days?"
Xianyue nodded and said, "Yes, as long as there are no more earthquakes and the monks in the temple and the government work together to build the mountain road, twenty days will be enough."
Ling Ruo sighed and said: "You think too simply. After an earthquake, the weather is often affected. Look, the weather has begun to change today."
A Luo said from the side: "I remember this. When I was nine years old, I heard someone say that after the earthquake in Tongzhou, there were heavy rains, and the weather was extremely cold, just like the twelfth lunar month in winter, which was extremely scary."
When she said this, Xianyue also remembered this matter and frowned deeply: "Is the Queen worried that this place will become like the original Tongzhou?"