It's a certain reluctance to say goodbye that's causing the problem.

The closer he gets to the end, the more he subconsciously looks for the "last excuse".

Because sometimes people just need such an excuse to let their minds rest temporarily.

Even if the excuse is clumsy and shoddy.

It is also in this kind of back and forth that you can penetrate your true heart and grow suddenly at some point in the future...

So Ouyang Rong withdrew his hand at that time, temporarily took off his gray monk clothes, put on his soap clothes and felt hat again, climbed out of the underground palace, and went to the Zaozhaiyuan in a familiar way, preparing to have one last taste of the unique pickled radish.

It's just that Ouyang Rong didn't expect to meet Xiufa on the way, and he was dragged by a young novice monk to the Sutra Copying Hall next door early in the morning to investigate the incident of abnormal noises from the Buddha statue.

So Ouyang Rong wandered around the Sutra Copying Hall again, his chest pressed against his back due to hunger, and his hair was chattering, so he let him go and returned to the lobby of the Zazaiyuan to eat.

Then he was caught by the junior sister who appeared out of nowhere.

Thinking about it now, he must have just left the Pure Land Palace with his front foot, and his junior sister arrived with his back foot, and they just missed him.

However, he was dragged to the Sutra Copying Hall and was delayed for a while. When he returned to the Zaozhaiyuan to eat, he happened to be met by the junior sister who had left the Pure Land Palace.

Ouyang Rong couldn't laugh or cry.

He lowered his head and glanced at the Night Pearl before putting it back into his sleeve.

In fact, he deliberately dropped this pearl on the lotus pedestal and did not drop it carelessly.

And this is not a luminous pearl, but a relic burned by eminent monks.

Ouyang Rong felt that this was the return of the property to its original owner, so he took it back to the underground palace and placed it there.

Therefore, when he was preparing for the funeral at the foot of the mountain, he did not leave this bead with Ye Weilai, Xie Lingjiang, or Su Guoer.

Ouyang Rong raised his head again and said seriously:

"The monk in the underground palace is not a left-behind monk, but a crazy monk named I don't know...his name is Xiuzhen, and he is Xiu-haired's senior brother.

"Next door to the underground palace is the Beitian Almshouse for the sick and lunatic. Xiuzhen could not stay above ground for a moment. She liked to run into the dark underground palace, saying that it was a pure land and so on. She told everyone who came close to her.

"Master Shandao and Xiufa couldn't do anything to him, so they just let it go.

"So, Junior Sister, don't take Xiu Zhen's words seriously."

Xie Lingjiang raised her eyebrows and glanced at Ouyang Rong. After a moment, she nodded and said:

"No wonder. This monk also said that you are in the murals of the underground palace..."

Ouyang Rong nodded, "He really praised me."

Xie Lingjiang looked Ouyang Rong in the eyes:

"However, Senior Brother explained so much, but he still didn't say why he suddenly resigned and went into seclusion and left without saying goodbye."

Ouyang Rong stood up, and Xie Lingjiang also stood up.

Ouyang Rong lowered his eyes and patted the offal roots on his clothes:

"Can't it be that I am tired, worship Taoism and think about seclusion, imitate Tao Yuanming in the past, resign from office, and return to the countryside?"

Xie Lingjiang shook his head: "Senior Brother's behavior style has nothing to do with the Taoist concept of 'loneliness and inaction'. Are you not such a person?"

Ouyang Rong asked: "What kind of person am I in the eyes of junior sister?"

"Be sincere and unite knowledge and action."

“Unity of knowing and doing?”

Ouyang Rong shook his head and laughed at himself:

"I can't bear to say this. If I really united my knowledge and action, I wouldn't know that I had to leave, but still hesitate and use various excuses to delay my action."

Xie Lingjiang looked serious:

"Doesn't this further prove that senior brother's knowledge and action are unified? Because even if senior brother has a hundred reasons in his heart for wanting to leave, as long as there is one reason to stay, senior brother will find it difficult to let go. This is the pure heart.

, there is no room for any guilt.”

Ouyang Rong smiled and asked:

"Then tell me, why should I stay?"

Xie Lingjiang picked up the skirt knife and handed it out.

A skirt knife was placed horizontally between Ouyang Rong and Xie Lingjiang.

Xie Lingjiang raised his hand and motioned for Ouyang Rong to take the knife again, and his words sounded quite good:

"Elder brother, now thousands of people in Longcheng County need you! They need you to stand up!"

Ouyang Rong laughed and shook his head: "Little junior sister, don't make trouble."

"I am not kidding!"

Xie Lingjiang took a deep breath and said seriously:

"You were so angry that I almost forgot about it. I came to find you in a hurry because I learned something important from the mouth of the Yuxi female fairy. I am extremely urgent!"

Ouyang Rong was startled. Seeing the look on his junior sister's face, she didn't seem to be looking for an excuse to leave him alone, so he couldn't help but ask:

"What's the urgent need?"

After a pause, he looked a little surprised and said:

"Wait a minute, the Jade Princess Fairy is awake? Could it be that she confessed to the Liu family? That's okay. There are all the witnesses and physical evidence. Junior sister, you can just take Liu Lang to seize the house and ransack it. There is no need for me to come."

Xie Lingjiang immediately shook his head and suddenly said:

"Elder brother, there is bad news and worse news. Which one do you want to hear first?"

"ah?"

Ouyang Rong was stunned.
Chapter completed!