It was already evening when we arrived at Huguo Temple. The abbot and abbot heard that King Chu was coming and came out to greet him personally.
"Your Highness, I missed you very much after we said goodbye three years ago. How are you, Your Highness?"
The abbot is a kind-hearted old monk with no pretensions at all, especially the gentle smile on his face, which can make people relieve themselves of all the worries of the world in an instant.
"Abbott, I'm thinking that everything is well with Xiao Wang." After clasping his hands in greeting, he pulled Yuan Qingling to him and introduced him, "Abbott, this is Xiao Wang's wife, Yuan Qingling."
Yuan Qingling clasped his hands together and said, "I have met Master Abbot."
The abbot looked at Yuan Qingling with a smile, his eyes were focused, and he even looked at her, and said: "Hello, Princess!"
The abbot invited the two of them into the meditation room, while Ah Si and Xu Yi were waiting outside.
After entering the Zen room, the abbot ordered the novice monk to serve tea, and then asked: "Your Highness and the princess are here to visit His Highness Prince Ji? His Highness Prince Ji is having evening classes, so I'm afraid he won't be able to come to see you."
The emperor had decreed that King Ji was not allowed to meet anyone from the outside world at Huguo Temple, so the abbot was tactful and knew how to protect King Ji's face.
Yu Wenhao said bluntly, "No, abbot, don't get me wrong, Xiao Wang is not here to visit him, he has something to do with the abbot."
The abbot smiled and said, "Your Highness, please speak out if you have anything to say."
Yu Wenhao took Yuan Qingling's hand, looked at the abbot and said: "Abbott, the little king suspects that the princess is haunted by evil spirits. Please ask the abbot, the Buddha's eyes are like torches, to take a good look at the princess for the little king."
The abbot was startled and turned to look at Yuan Qingling.
After looking at her for ten seconds, she slowly moved away and said with a smile: "Although the princess is uneasy, she is not haunted by evil spirits. The prince is suspicious."
"No?" Yu Wenhao breathed a sigh of relief, but when he remembered the medicine box, he said to Yuan Qingling: "Take out the medicine box and show it to the abbot."
Yuan Qingling was startled for a moment. He had never said that he wanted the abbot to see the medicine box.
How can you show this to others casually? Can you trust this abbot? He is not so reckless.
"Take it!" Yu Wenhao looked back at her.
Yuan Qingling stared at him, "I didn't bring it."
"No? You carry it in your sleeve pocket. How could you not bring it with you?" Yu Wenhao said, holding her hand over and rummaging through her sleeve pocket.
Yuan Qingling clapped his hand, "I'll take it myself, you let it go."
Yu Wenhao let go and watched her take out the medicine box and put it on the table. The medicine box was the size of a matchbox. Yu Wenhao watched intently, waiting for the medicine box to become bigger.
The medicine box didn't move at all, showing no signs of changing in response to the wind.
Yu Wenhao was stunned for a moment, "Huh? Why hasn't it grown bigger?"
He looked at Yuan Qingling. Yuan Qingling was also confused. Although she hoped in her heart that the medicine box would not become bigger, she knew that the medicine box was not under her control. She could not decide whether the medicine box would become bigger.
The abbot smiled and said, "This box is quite exquisite."
Yu Wenhao said: "No, master, this box originally became larger and smaller. It can hold a lot of things in it."
"Yeah, but it hasn't changed now." The abbot looked at Yu Wenhao with loving eyes, so loving that he looked like he was looking at a fool.
Yu Wenhao looked at Yuan Qingling, and Yuan Qingling spread her hands.
"How could this happen?" Yu Wenhao felt even more strange.
He looked at Yuan Qingling and then at the abbot, feeling helpless that he could not express the strange emotions in his heart.
The abbot smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I would like to have a few words with the princess alone."
Yu Wenhao hesitated for a moment, "Can't I hear this?"
"Yes." The abbot smiled, "Your Majesty, please wait outside for a moment, or go to the next room to have a cup of tea."
Yu Wenhao felt that even the abbot was acting weird today.
He walked out slowly, turning back three times with each step. Yuan Qingling couldn't help but laugh, but the abbot was still very serious and loving.
The door of the wing was closed, and the abbot smiled and said: "Your Majesty, please come next door for tea."
Yu Wenhao originally put his ear to the door directly after going out, but after hearing what the abbot said, he had no choice but to leave angrily.
Yuan Qingling poured tea for the abbot. Facing this highly respected master, she did not dare to show any slightness. She looked respectful and waited for his teachings.
The abbot looked at Yuan Qingling and said gently: "Princess, please put this box away first."
Yuan Qing made a sound and put the medicine box back into her sleeve pocket.
The abbot smiled slightly and said: "The princess's brow seems to be slightly sad. What's the reason? Can you tell me?"
Yuan Qing smiled and said: "Master Abbot, there is nothing bothering me."
The abbot clasped his hands together and said, "The princess is from a different world, and I am from a different world. I can't talk about anything."
Yuan Qingling was so shocked that she almost dropped the cup in her hand and looked at the abbot suddenly.
The abbot sits cross-legged, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, like a Buddha statue. His eyes are as clear as clear water, hiding no dirt.
The abbot smiled and said: "Princess, there is no need to be surprised. If your heart is calm, everything will be clear to you."
Yuan Qingling held the cup and suppressed the surging emotions, "I really don't know what you are talking about, great monk."
The abbot laughed and asked, "What does the princess believe in?"
Yuan Qingling blurted out, "Science, I don't believe in theology, so I don't believe it when you tell me about souls and the like."
The abbot said meaningfully: "How does the princess know that the science you believe in and the Buddhism I believe in are not going to lead to the same destination by different paths in the end?"
"How is this possible?" Yuan Qingling was shocked, but a cold current suddenly surged in her heart. She remembered an idea she had when she was studying brain development. When the brain is developed to the extreme, it can control many things and has amazing power.
Although retrieving objects from space, transferring time and space, etc. are theoretical, if this theory can be confirmed, wouldn't it mean that talking to God would lead to the same goal through different paths?
"Princess, do you think it's impossible? Princess, close your eyes and listen carefully. What can you hear?" the abbot said.
Yuan Qingling closed her eyes and tried to calm her mind. The first sounds she heard were many and noisy, including wind, falling leaves, dogs barking in the distance, birds chirping, insects chirping, conversations, and chanting.
Slowly, these sounds seemed to disappear, and she began to hear the sound of her own heartbeat, the sound of blood flowing in her blood vessels, and even the sound of cells breaking and growing.
She slowly opened her eyes and looked at the abbot.
"What did the princess hear?" the abbot asked.
"Heard a lot, a lot."
The abbot smiled and said, "This is the voice of all sentient beings."
"Don't tell me that I have a predestined relationship with the Buddha. It's not because of this that I hear these voices."
"Whether the princess has a predestined relationship with the Buddha, I am not lying, but in the princess' opinion, why can you hear sounds that others cannot hear? You can talk to beasts, see through all things in the world, see through life and death, and see through time and space. What is the reason?
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Yuan Qingling was really shocked. She opened her mouth for a while before murmuring: "Master monk, what exactly do you want to say? What do you know?"
"Princess, take out your medicine box," the abbot said.
Yuan Qingling took out the medicine box, placed it on the table, and looked at the abbot.