Chapter 259, I have no regrets in this life
If it were someone else, even if he fell into mud and water, such a great impact would have been broken. However, Mei Yingxing was washed with various magic medicines by his father since childhood, and he also used internal strength to help him strengthen the furnace and cauldron. His muscles and bones are far stronger than ordinary children. Even so, his whole body was sore and Venus was scattered in front of him. He couldn't get up for a long time, and he lay there and raised his head and wanted to cry.
However, as soon as he wrinkled his nose, he swallowed the screams again, because he saw the feet in front of him, and then looked up and found that his father was standing in front of him.
"Okay, did you hurt after falling?" Mei Zhenyi asked.
Mei Yingxing didn't answer, pouted his lips and nodded with aggrieved look on his face. Mei Zhenyi asked again, "Do you know why you fell and hurt?" Before his son answered, he asked himself, "Because you don't have the ability to jump off such a high tower. But you have already formed the habit of jumping on the tower. The ancients said, 'A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall'. Do you understand what's the reason now? Don't take risks without reason."
Mei Yingxing raised her neck and said, "I used to be someone to catch me."
Mei Zhenyi: "You are taking risks. Someone is helping you, which is a blessing, but you don't know how to respect yourself. Before you jump out of the tower, you forgot to see if there are people around you. With your cultivation level, you can't deduce supernatural powers at all. How can you do this?"
Mei Yingxing blinked and said aggrievedly: "Did Daddy do it on purpose? You are here, but you didn't catch me."
Mei Zhenyi: "That's right, I want to teach you a lesson. Do you feel fear and regret when you fall from the tower?"
Mei Yingxing: "Yes, but I didn't have time to think too much, just thinking about how to not fall to death. Now I'm afraid, it's so scary!"
Mei Zhenyi reached out to pick up his son, regardless of the mud and water on his body, stretched out his fingers and kept spotting the body, while saying warmly: "If you are scared, remember that you can't be so reckless in the future, then this fall will not be in vain. You are panicked and not confused, and you react very well. If you fall from such a high place with your cultivation level, you will die if you act in a dire way. This kind of experience is also very important."
Mei Zhenyi was always under the tower, just to see how his son would go down the tower. Seeing Mei Yingxing popping out, his heart was hanging on the ground. Fortunately, this kid tried to save himself in the face of danger. Seeing that his son was not in danger, he didn't reach out to pick him up. When Mei Yingxing fell into the lake and climbed up, he spoke out for education.
The pain in his body disappeared immediately after being held in his father's arms, but he was still sore and weak. The boy gradually recovered and asked with his eyes wide open, "Dad had known that I would jump off the tower, right?"
Mei Zhenyi smiled bitterly: "Yes, I have known it for a long time, but I am still a little disappointed. After you have learned the method of stabilizing the body and spirit, you have only obtained the magic tricks and have not yet grasped the essence of the spirit, and have not yet been able to break the true mystery. Otherwise, you will walk down one by one, and at the least, you will stand on the tower and shout to see if anyone responds... In the future, when you act in the world, people around you will not be like disciples of the nameless villa. You must pay attention to the inspection."
Mei Yingxing suddenly showed joy and pulled his father's clothes and said, "When doing things in the world, do we want to go to the world?"
Mei Zhenyi: "Don't laugh, go to Chang'an to see your grandfather, and I will send him all his life."
Mei Zhenyi and her son Ying Xing left Kunlun Fairyland. Only Mei Yi was with her side, and came to Chang'an City. Xing'er grew up in the wilderness since she was a child. She had never seen such a prosperous scene? She opened her mouth and forgot to close it. She was curious when she saw everything. After entering the city, she found that her father had removed his Taoist clothes and changed into casual clothes. She asked curiously: "Dad, why do you dress like this?"
Mei Zhenyi replied: "I have practiced the incarnation of Chunyang for my father, but I have not officially become a monk. When I go to see your grandfather, I should dress like this and buy you a new set of clothes." While also telling him various etiquettes of seeing elders in the world.
Mei Xiaolang is eighty-six years old this year. This old minister of the five dynasties has been in good health. His hair and beards turned completely white more than ten years ago, and his roots are like silver threads. That day, he was sitting on the couch in the backyard watching several great-grandchildren play, and suddenly frowned and said to his subordinates: "Go to the door to welcome my son."
"The second young master is in the study room. The third young master just went to Luoyang yesterday. Who are the old masters going to welcome?" The servant was muttering in his heart while answering. Could this prince be so confused?
Mei Xiaolang: "Go quickly, it's Zhenyi!"
Mei Zhenyi entered the house and came to the backyard of the Nanlu Duke Mansion. When she saw her father leaning over and kneeling down, "I am unfilial to the other. Kowtow to my father." When Mei Yingxing saw her father's big gift, she also knelt down and kowtowed, "Grandson Yingxing, kowtow to my grandfather."
Mei Xiaolang leaned over and pulled Mei Yingxing up and hugged it on his knees: "Is this my eldest grandson Xing'er? Zhang Guo told me the good news a few years ago. I finally saw her today. Let grandpa take a good look."
Although Xing'er is naughty, she is smart and good at looking at her eyes. She is no longer naughty in such occasions. She is very well-behaved, and Mei Xiaolang likes her more and more. At this time, Mei Zhenyi's second brother Mei Zhenting also heard the news and rushed to the backyard to pay homage to her brother, and led her own pair of grandchildren to pay homage to her grandfather and uncle.
Although Mei Yingxing is young, she is also the eldest grandson of the Southern Lu Gong. Mei Zhenting's grandson is twelve years old and nine years old. She also came to greet Mei Yingxing timidly. Mei Yingxing stood up from her grandfather's arms and made gestures and replied with a polite manner. She was as decent as a little adult. Mei Zhenyi didn't need to teach her this deliberately. This kid was mostly in the unknown villa.
After meeting, Duke Nanlu sent someone to retreat, and Xing'er was taken away by his second uncle. There were only Mei Xiaolang and his son in the backyard. Mei Zhenyi half-kneeled in front of his father's knees. Mei Xiaolang stroked his head and said, "I had a premonition that you would come back to see me off. As soon as you and Xing'er arrived at the door, I felt it."
Mei Zhenyi was speechless, and his father's ground hands were still very strong, but his fingertips were trembling slightly. Internal martial arts also have the effect of health preservation and prolonging life and strengthening muscles and bones, but they cannot achieve immortality. Moreover, those who practice martial arts dissipate their skills before their death have signs of entanglement in the earth. He put his face on his father's knees and said, "I have been practicing immortality and have not been by your side for many years to be filial. Please forgive me."
Mei Xiaolang smiled very kindly: "You are not an unfilial son. If you were not you, it would be difficult for a father to enjoy your life. Thinking of the arrow I shot in front of the two armies back then, I really didn't expect that our father and son would be as harmonious as today. I have no regrets in my life and have long been happy with my fate."
Mei Zhenyi and her son lived in Chang'an, and accompanied her father to study and talk every day. Ying Xing also stood by. A month later, the Duke of Southern Lu passed away suddenly and left peacefully.
The day before the death of Duke Nanlu, Mei Zhenyu, a third son who was far away in Luoyang, also received a letter from his brother's home. Mei Zhenyi, as the eldest son, Mei Yingxing, was the eldest grandson of the eldest son, and led the descendants of the family to mourn the elderly. The so-called eldest grandson does not refer to the oldest grandson, but to the eldest son of the eldest son.
Mei Xiaolang enjoyed the blessing of wealth and honor for a lifetime, and left peacefully. This was a joyful mourning. The ministers in the court kept mourning, and Mei Zhenyi was greeted one by one in mourning clothes. She sent an order to give me a thank you. The palace sent a pension and gave me a favor and buried with Qianling.
Qianling Mausoleum is a burial cemetery between Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Wuze Tiandi. In ancient times, the scope of imperial tombs was very large. Not only the burial of emperors, but also important royal relatives and meritorious officials. This is a great honor behind him. For example, Huo Qubing, a general of the Han Dynasty, was buried next to the Maoling of Emperor Wu of Han.
The titles in the Tang Dynasty were hereditary. Mei Zhenyi should have been succeeded by Nanlu Duke. He submitted a letter to him, and Nanlu Duke had a last word to ask his second son, who was the grandson of Pei Yan, to succeed to Mei Zhenting. Emperor Li Longji followed him. Mei Zhenting attacked the Duke of Nanlu and gave Mei Zhenyi silver and green Guanglu Dafu. Mei Zhenyi led his predecessor Sun Simiao, but he still refused to accept it.
Li Longji did not insist anymore and issued an order to grant Mei Zhenyi the title of "Three Mountains, Hongdao, Zhengyi Zhenren", and gave him 100 taels of gold, and summoned him in the palace.
Goodbye to Li Longji, this monarch has passed middle age. His waist and abdomen have obviously become fat, his face has become much rounder, and his eyes are slightly swollen, but his eyes are still very clear and not turbid. Compared with the last time he met more than 20 years ago, Mei Zhenyi has no change in her description. She has three black beards, and she is still in her twenties, handsome and elegant.
Li Longji was very moved. During the conversation, he asked, "I worship Taoist ancestors and have received many monks in the palace, but I have not obtained the way to live forever. Mei Zhenren is a master of the immortal family. Can you teach me?"
Mei Zhenyi replied: "The blessing of peace for all sentient beings in the world. Even if the emperor practices for a lifetime, it will be more ungrateful."
Li Longji: "I ascended the throne for eighteen years, and I came to the dynasty for all the people from all over the world to come to the court, which was an unprecedented prosperous era in the Tang Dynasty. Is this merit worth not enough to live forever?"
Mei Zhenyi: "The emperor's career is the emperor's career, and the way of immortality is the way of immortality. Everything you do in your life is fate. The emperor has already enjoyed great blessings in the world. If you cherish and be careful, don't lose it yourself. Your Majesty will understand sooner or later."
Li Longji still stopped asking, and Mei Zhenyi had no choice but to answer: "The art of health preservation and prolonging life has not been lacking in publicity since ancient times. If Your Majesty has any questions, he can order someone to summon Zhang Guo in the future. He will practice in Guanzhong very close to Chang'an. I can only advise Your Majesty not to be extravagant, and to be clear in the spirit platform, and not be fascinated by the things of flattery."
When Mei Zhenyi returned from the palace, she thought about it over and over again, but she did something she had not planned to do. She asked her second brother Zhenting to inquire about the two of them in private. She immediately sent someone to send a letter to inform her if there was any news. The man he was looking for was a man and a woman. The man was named An Lushan, and the woman's surname was Yang. The nickname was Yuhuan.
In addition to this, Mei Zhenyi has been mourning for her father in the mansion, and has not been out for three months. Xing'er also wore a mourning clothes and knelt at night with her father. As the eldest grandson, he naturally had to behave properly in such occasions and set an example for so many younger generations. Xing'er once asked his father quietly: "How could grandpa die? Aren't you an immortal?"
Mei Zhenyi replied, "You still don't understand what sentient beings mean, what does heavenly age mean, what should you ask for in your lifetime? You have never experienced the separation of life and death in the human world. It is not easy to be transcendent in a lifetime. You must also experience the cycle of reincarnation in the sea of suffering and wait for the sentient beings."
As soon as Mei Yingxing left Kunlun Fairyland, he saw many relatives of the Mei family. Everyone liked him very much, but he did not have the great powers and wild interests to play with him. Then he witnessed the separation of life and death in the world. He often frowned and thought, and had many unsolved doubts.
Three months later, a guest came to pay tribute to Mei Xiaolang. The housekeeper was very excited and ran to the back hall to report that the person who came was very noble and was the national teacher Shan Wuwei. Mei Zhenyi sighed inwardly: "Finally come!"
He wore a mourning uniform to greet the door. Shan Wuwei first went to Mei Xiaolang's spirit to worship, and didn't know what to recite silently, and then went to the small hall to talk to Mei Zhenyi alone.
"Men Mei has become an immortal path, and the world has become a worldly affinity. The old monk is here to return the key to fate of the holy objects in the kingdom of heaven." Shan Wuwei spoke very directly and returned the golden spear left by Mei Danzo to Mei Zhenyi.
Mei Zhenyi put away the key of fate and said lightly: "Thank you, the national master, for keeping this item for ten years. I wonder if the immortals in the heavenly kingdom have ever troubled you?"
Shan Wuwei smiled slightly: "This is Chang'an City. Everyone thinks of the waves, and no one can easily cause storms. Some people are anxious. The Gabriel Archangel has come down to Chang'an and summoned Luo Zhang in Daqin Temple yesterday." Qin Temple is the center of the Nestorians in the Tang Dynasty and the foundation temple of the establishment of religion. Luo Zhang was once summoned by the Archangel and made great contributions to the missionary cause in the Jiangnan area. Now he has returned to Chang'an to become an important figure in the Daqin Temple, and his status is equivalent to that of the modern archbishop.
The two were talking, and the servant came to inform him again: There was a woman with a foreign race who was jealous outside the door and called Mei Zhenyi's name to see him. The barbarians didn't know the etiquette. If the master didn't know this person, would he be directly driven away?
Mei Zhenyi waved her hand and said, "No need to slam her, nor do you need to invite her in. Since she called me out of the door, I and the national teacher went outside the door to talk to her. I don't have to pay attention to it."
He said that the person who came was a distinguished guest, but he didn't invite anyone to come in. He said that he was not a distinguished guest, and Mei Zhenyi was going out to see him in person. The servant left in confusion. Mei Zhenyi said to Shan Wuwei: "That girl Gabriel came with you. Is the old master interested in following me to Daqin Temple to incense for Alahe?"
Shan Wuwei smiled and shook his head and said, "She did not follow me, but followed the key to fate. As the holy objects of the country have been handed over to Master Mei, there is nothing I can do. Master Mei would like to go to Daqin Temple to incense, please give yourself the help, I will not accompany me."
Mei Zhenyi stood up and said, "Then I will see you off, please give me a visitor, the old master!" Although he thanked Shan Wuwei, he had no good feelings for what he did, and he was just respectful to him as an elder and a senior in practicing.
Mei Zhenyi personally sent Shan Wuwei outside the gate, and Gabriel stood in front of the gate as if no one was present. During the Kaiyuan period, Chang'an was the most prosperous city in the world, and all kinds of people could be seen in the city, but Gabriel was also conspicuous. She was tall and slender, with golden curly hair and hairpin, and a lake blue long skirt swayed the ground, which looked like a modern evening dress. This kind of outfit was found in the Tang Dynasty, but it was rare for a woman to stand alone in front of the gate.
Shan Wuwei nodded slightly to Gabriel and said hello, pointing at Mei Zhenyi and signaling: "I have returned the holy objects of heaven to Master Mei." Then, Jingxian's roaring monk's roar and left with great pride.
Chapter completed!