160 chapters, Whispering in the Peony Garden, Ask Xiaoqing outside Luoyang City

So there were many rumors in Luoyang City. Some people said that Bai Mudan disappeared because she encountered the robbery of wealth and sex, some people said that Bai Mudan ran away with her lover with treasure, and some people swear that they saw Bai Mudan leaving in a carriage outside Luoyang City, and there was a handsome noble man on the carriage.

The result of Mei Xiaolang's orders to investigate secretly was unreliable. Bai Mudan disappeared inexplicably. He immediately sent someone to Wuzhou to send a message to his son. Although he didn't understand what was going on, he felt it was necessary to tell Mei Zhenyi. It was the early spring of the first year of Zaichu in the Tang Dynasty (689 AD).

Before Mei Xiaolang's oral message was delivered to Wuzhou, fairy boy Qingfeng had already gone to Luoyang. He entered Qingjing Garden without any alarm. However, he met Mr. Sui who had arrived first. After Qingfeng returned to Jingting Mountain, he told Zhongli Quan and Zhiyan who were waiting in the bamboo forest that Bai Mudan was hiding in the backyard of the Southern Lu Gong Mansion, but the situation was not very good, and he and Mr. Sui had no other choice.

At the banquet of the courtesan, Qingfeng and Mr. Sui were also there, and they each recited poems and said a prophecy. Mr. Sui said: "This fate cannot be eliminated, but it is a pity that a dream is too hurrying." Qingfeng said: "After enlightenment, everything becomes a illusion, and it has been hard for hundreds of years in the world." It implies that Bai Mudan cannot practice in heaven, but his tone is different.

Although Bai Mudan knew that the two people in front of him were unusual, he was very calm after being shocked and told Mei Zhenyi a story that a fortune teller on the streets of Luoyang said that he would die if he cut off a person. Mei Zhenyi also figured it out afterwards that the person who spoke was different, and it was inevitable that he had different perspectives. In the eyes of the Golden Immortal, isn’t the world a dream in a hurry? Even if a person like Bai Mudan had not achieved success in his practice, wouldn’t it be hard for hundreds of years? Are he still alive and not yet cultivated?

This is how sentient beings in the world live. The tone of these two people, especially Mr. Sui's tone, made "people" feel uncomfortable. But the two did not have a chance. The breeze left behind Zi Shizhi, and Mr. Sui left behind a jade bone fan. Zi Shizhi can survive and a jade bone fan can cover her body. In the future, Bai Mudan may be helpful, which can be regarded as a method of following the circumstances.

When Bai Mudan was really in trouble, Qingfeng and Mr. Sui went to take a look. After returning, Qingfeng said that the situation was not very good, but they had no choice. Could it be that the Qingjing Garden that Mei Zhenyi carefully prepared was still not allowed to be Bai Mudan? Even Jinxian said so. It seems that things are really difficult to deal with.

Zhiyan told Mei Zhenyi about the passing of the matter and finally said, "Qingfeng is gone, because he also interfered at the beginning. Master knows that you will definitely go, I will accompany you to Luoyang."

Mei Zhenyi was not surprised to hear Zhiyan say she wanted to go to Luoyang with her. She held her hand and stood up and said, "We will set out tomorrow and report back to Master first."

Zhiyan: "Master and Ti Liuzhu are on the top of the mountain. Let's go."

At the top of Chengshu Peak, Zhong Liquan waved his banana fan and said, "You go to Luoyang, I will be there in Wuzhou."

Ti Liuzui also said, "Don't worry, you have me in Wuzhou and you will take care of everything. Actually, I also want to go to Luoyang to see the legendary Bai Mudan."

"You are indispensable for anything!" Zhong Liquan fanned the pick and swept the side, and then said to the two of them: "It won't take you much time to go there. If you have anything, go back to Wuzhou to discuss."

Mei Zhenyi and Zhiyan walked down the mountain. Zhongli Quan sighed in the direction they left, then slipped around and asked, "Why does the Supreme Immortal sigh?"

Zhongli Quan: "My disciple has the best qualifications and understanding, but he is not as quiet and inactive as a person who cultivates immortals. When he goes, he will inevitably have to do things that cannot be done. Whether it is, this is the geographical law of his experience in the sea of ​​suffering, and everyone has their own law of fate."

Ti Liuzhuan said curiously: "Why can't I understand? Mr. Mei wants to save Bai Mudan. He had an arrangement several years ago, which was a long-term plan and good intentions. If this is also called a matter of force and incompetence, then what should I say about the Zishizhi and Jade Bone Fan left by Mr. Sui and Qingfeng?"

Zhongli Quan used his fan to draw a circle towards the empty valley at the foot of the mountain: "Look at the mountains withering and flourishing every year, and then look at the cycle of life and death in this world. I have the golden elixir path. Can I make those who are not destined to become immortals?... Mr. Sui and Qingfeng are just going with the fate, and it will not and cannot forcefully reverse life and death, but what my disciple wants to do is to do all means to save Bai Mudan. Even he himself does not know whether it is useful."

He asked puzzledly: "It's not wrong for Mr. Mei to save Bai Mudan?"

"Who said he was wrong? No one can say he was wrong!" Zhongli Quan's expression was a little excited. He asked again and said, "Do you know what is the easiest thing that gods hate to mortals?"

Lifting around: "I don't know."

Zhongli Quan: "Mei Zhenyi will definitely try every means to save Bai Mudan, even if it is not possible to succeed at all. I know the temper of my disciple too well. But Mr. Sui, Qingfeng and me, all know that Bai Mudan can't save him and will not force him to do it. If you tell Mei Zhenyi clearly, wouldn't it be annoying?"

Ti Liuzhuo was a little confused, but he didn't recall it for a long time, and finally said, "It's useless to tell Mr. Mei. I'm just a little strange. The white peony is just a famous prostitute in Luoyang. He has only met Mr. Mei. Is there really any charm that has fascinated Mr. Mei? It doesn't matter if you are fascinated by Mr. Mei. Why did Fairy Zhiyan follow him?"

Zhongli Quan made it amused: "What charm can charm my disciple? When he was so young, I turned stones into gold to test it, but it hurt him! As for Bai Mudan's origin, it is indeed a bit strange. I believe Zhenyi will explain it clearly to me after he comes back."

"Mr. Mei has harmed you? I have never heard of this. I will tell me about it." I slipped around and became more energetic.

Zhongli Quan and Ti Liuzhuan, the immortal ghost, stayed on Chengshu Peak. The next day, Mei Zhenyi and Zhiyan left Wuzhou and Feitian to Luoyang, and landed outside the city and entered the city and headed straight for the Nanlu Gong Mansion. The servants of Mei Mansion were shocked when they saw the eldest young master suddenly coming and brought a fairy-like woman with a graceful fairy face.

Before the Nanlu Gong came to court, Mei Gang knew Zhiyan and quickly welcomed the two to the inner hall. Without saying much gossip, Mei Zhenyi asked him to order all underground people to exit the backyard and come to the quiet garden with Zhiyan.

This is a garden in the courtyard, and it is naturally not too large. It is only three meters in radius. It has been desolate for several years. There is a wind-boosting tree in the southeast and northwest corners, and the ground is full of fallen leaves but not a weed.

Mei Zhenyi said, "This garden is full of peonies, and you can't see it with the cover of the magic array of immortals."

Zhiyan nodded: "I heard that Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva left a drop of pure dew, the magic circle set by Qingfeng Fairy Child, you planted the peony. The white peony is covered with the jade bone fan given by Mr. Sui. Except for those three, you can only see her. I will wait for you here."

Mei Zhenyi: "No need, I have a way to let you enter the magic circle together." A wrist guard flew out of Mei Zhen's sleeve and pressed it on Zhiyan's wrist, and the figures of the two disappeared from the spot.

In the eyes of outsiders, they both disappeared, but in fact they didn't go anywhere, but still stood there. At this time, the scene in the garden changed, surrounded by peony flowers, which grew very lushly because no one had pruned. The branches had already bloomed, and there were still many small buds on the flowers, but none of them had bloomed.

At first glance, the garden of peonies looks extremely lush. However, carefully sensed by spiritual consciousness, it is obviously insufficient to live. The white peony is wearing a long waist-length skirt, dragging the skirt to the ground, and putting a high bun. With a jade bone fan as a hairpin, she stands under a bush of flowers and trees with a purple stone yarn in her hand, with a strange redness on her fair face.

Mei Zhenyi and Zhiyan suddenly appeared. Bai Mudan looked up and bowed and bowed, "Mr. Mei, you are finally here. Who is this girl?"

Mei Zhenyi: "She is my authentic partner Zhiyan."

Bai Mudan looked at Zhiyan with a weak smile. However, she said to Mei Zhenyi: "Mr. Mei has this fairy couple, why should she be merciless here?"

Zhiyan took the initiative to speak, "Bai Mudan, you may have misunderstood. He is a descendant of a doctor and always has the intention to save the world. Since he is destined to see you in trouble, he came to treat you specially. Your situation doesn't seem very good. You and I practice differently, so it's hard for me to help you. But there may be a way to clean your clothes."

Mei Zhenyi: "Let me take your pulse."

Bai Mudan smiled bitterly and said, "I am a flower spirit. Can you cut the veins of plants and trees?"

Mei Zhenyi: "Zhang Guo, the butler of Jingwu Villa, is also the essence of black plum, and I can also cut his pulse. The technique of saving my body taught by Sun Zhenren can cut the pulse of spiritual beings in the world."

Bai Mudan still shook her head: "I have no pulse."

Zhiyan looked at Mei Zhenyi with a questioning gaze. Mei Zhenyi waved her hand, and the wrist guard on Zhiyan's wrist just now flew out, and then pressed it on Bai Mudan's left forearm. Then his face darkened and he blurted out: "Bai Mudan, how could you be so weak?"

Bai Mudan pointed to the flowers around her: "I am the peony flower god in Luoyang. The place where the peony in the city is rooted is where my vitality is. Now only these three zhang squares are left, how can I not weaken? Being praised by everyone and enjoying emotions and nature is my spiritual power. Now I am trapped in the courtyard and can no longer practice."

Mei Zhenyi sighed, "Then why do you do this? Haven't all the flowers bloomed in the West Garden?"

Bai Mudan: "Do you know how those flowers bloom? It's not that the flower god serves the life, but that there is a flower but no god."

The Empress Wu issued an order to make all flowers bloom, so that they can use great magic power to transfer the earth's energy, and at the same time they also received the help of the Human Emperor Seal. The flowers without gods will of course bloom independently. However, there is a peony flower god in Luoyang, and most of the original bodies are not disturbed by this outside the earth's energy in the Xiyuan. Theoretically, white peony can also make all the peony flowers in the Xiyuan bloom, so that they can please the Empress Wu, but she didn't do that.

She finally said, "Although I am in the wind and dust, the flower god has the dignity of the flower god. If I do that, it will not be my practice."

Zhiyan nodded: "I can understand this. If it were me, I would have chosen the same choice as you... Zhenyi, is there any way for you to help Miss Bai?"

Mei Zhenyi frowned and thought for a long time: "It is not a solution to continue like this. You should leave here."

Bai Mudan: "You know I can't live without it. Now only this small garden can allow me to live in the end of my life... Mr. Mei, thank you for the last place you have built for me. Under the roots of these peonies and trees, there are gold, silver, pearls and jade I have accumulated over the years. I heard that Mr. Mei built a Taoist garden in his hometown, and the parallel merchants gathered funds. Just take this money away, which is enough, which is a little thankful to the little girl."

Mei Zhenyi shouted softly: "Bai Mudan, are you crazy? If you want me to pull up these flower trees to dig up treasures, do you still have your life? I came to save people, not to seek wealth. There are so many pearls and jades in the world that can't change your life!"

Bai Mudan lowered her head, her shoulders trembled slightly, and her expression was a little like crying: "Today I finally understand that you are sincerely helping me and asking for nothing, but I don't understand why you are like this? Is it just because of the story of Xiaoqing? I have already told you that I am not Xiaoqing."

Mei Zhenyi interrupted her: "Stop talking about these things. You are already seriously injured and it is difficult to recover. Even if you move the flowers in the garden all over the mountains, it is too late. Moreover, these flowers will wither when they leave the garden. Unless you escape from the flowers."

Bai Mudan: "Get out of the flowers? This is impossible. I am just these peony flowers. The needle stone decoction in the world is useless to me. No matter how high your medical skills are, you cannot cure me. The fairy boy's Qingfeng came and said that my situation is now, even the magical method of the spiritual roots of heaven and earth is of no use."

"Zhenyi, what do you think this is?" Zhiyan asked, and took out a string of fruits like red coral from somewhere.

Mei Zhenyi glanced a few times and suddenly said in surprise: "The immortals don't leave fruit, where did you pick it?" The thing in Zhiyan's hand was one of the few spiritual medicines missing in the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pill. Although Mei Zhenyi had never seen it with her own eyes, Qingfeng had explained the nature of the body in detail. He recognized it at this moment.

Zhiyan: "You have searched everywhere but couldn't find it, but you didn't know that this spiritual medicine is around you. The place where it grows is not far from Jingwu Villa, in a mountainous area by the Jushui River."

Mei Zhenyi took the string of immortals without leaving any fruits. He rushed to Bai Mudan and said, "I have a way to treat you. I have been refining the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pills for the past few years. Now I only lack two spiritual medicines such as Boruo Rama Flower and Thousand-Ending Sand. Thousand-Ending Sand is in Longkong Mountain, Kunlun Fairyland. I heard that the Poruo Rama Flower God has also gone to Kunlun Fairyland. I will go to Kunlun Fairyland to look for it. If the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pills are refined, it may help you get out."

Bai Mudan: "Nine-turn Purple Golden Pill? How can it help me get out?"

Mei Zhenyi: "It is the spiritual medicine for practitioners to change furnaces and cauldrons. In that case, you may no longer rely on the vitality of these peony flowers and have a brand new furnace and cauldron to escape. Your situation is special, and I can't say it well as the consequences, but you can always give it a try."

Zhiyan also said from the side: "This is also a solution. Although the consequences are unpredictable, it is better than having no choice.... It will take some time to find the spiritual medicine to refine the spiritual pill. Bai Mudan, you can still accommodate yourself in this quiet little garden. Then wait here."

Bai Mudan stretched out her bare hands to cover her face. She couldn't see what her expression was, and said softly: "The world has been seen for hundreds of years. Whether it is life or death, I am waiting at this moment, and I cannot live without this small garden. But... I really don't have to do this for me."

Zhiyan: "For the sake of not for you, Zhenyi also needs to refine the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pill. If the elixir is more than enough, he will not be able to save you without this pill, so Miss Bai doesn't have to say no."

Mei Zhenyi took back the demon king button, looked at Zhiyan gratefully, and asked in a low voice: "When will I go to Kunlun Fairyland?"

Zhiyan: "I'll go with you. I'm not in a hurry to find someone to collect herbs in the past few days. Since you have arrived in Luoyang, you should still accompany your father for a few days. Then go back to Wuzhou to report to the master's settlement of everything at home. Then we go to Kunlun Fairyland to take the thousand-year-old bright sand and try to find the Pororama flower god. If you succeed, do your best."

Mei Zhenyi: "You are right, can we go to see my father together?"

Zhiyan shook his head: "You go first, I want to talk to Miss Bai alone here, you will pick me out tomorrow."

Bai Mudan put down her hand, raised her face and asked, "What do Fairy Zhiyan want to talk to me?"

Zhiyan: "I also want to listen to Xiaoqingdi's story, and there are all kinds of things at the courtesan banquet. I don't ask Mei Lang, but I just want to ask you... Zhenyi, go first, don't listen to my private conversation with Miss Bai."

Fairy Zhiyan had heard about Mei Zhenyi occupying the courtesan in Mudanfang, but she didn't know the details. Today, when Bai Mudan said the sentence "I have told you that I am not Xiaoqing long ago", Zhiyan also became interested and sent Mei Zhenyi away and wanted to talk to Bai Mudan alone. Although she was a fairy, she also had the intention of her daughter's family.

Zhiyan and Bai Mudan stayed all night, and Mei Zhenyi was not sure what they said. The next day, Mei Zhenyi went to the small garden to pick up Zhiyan and met Mei Xiaolang and everyone in her family. When the Duke of Nanlu saw his son bringing him back to visit him, he was of course so happy that he couldn't stop talking. He stayed in the mansion for two more days, Mei Zhenyi and Zhiyan returned to Wuzhou.
Chapter completed!