He would sit in front of the statue for an hour every night, and sometimes he would sit all night. It's not a prayer, nor a worship to God, it's just letting yourself be quiet and get the complete peace that you can't get anywhere else.

One night in autumn, there were insects chirping outside, but his heart found great peace in front of the statue. He felt that it was a peace he had never experienced before, as if he was wrapped in a warm and soft thing. This is approximate. The great joy of Buddhist "Jhana". Then the dream came again. He was lying on a bed, with a beautiful young woman above him looking at him. Her love and joy were mixed with a little worry and sadness.

"This dream has come again." There was a hint of alarm in his heart. Since he moved to Chang'an and moved into this house, he rarely had this dream, but he often did so when he was a child.

He opened his eyes slightly and looked at the statue, and suddenly his body froze. Doctor Su on the statue turned into the beautiful young woman, looking at him above him, just like the scene in his dream; and he knew clearly that he Just sitting here, he suddenly turned into a baby, lying on a bed. He wanted to wake up, but it was like he was trapped in a nightmare and couldn't move. He felt that his alert self was pushed aside and watched all this as a bystander.

The scene in the room has completely changed. There is no statue of the god, and there is no longer him sitting in front of the statue. There is a bed, surrounded by wardrobes, boxes, and a dressing table with combs and bronze mirrors.

The young woman suddenly spoke: "Little girl, is he here?"

There was one more person in the dream. This was something that had never happened before. A girl about sixteen years old with a bun came in, bent down and said : "Mother, the master hasn't come yet."

The young woman said: "Xiaoya, bring in the quilts that are hanging outside."

The maid went out, and the dream dispersed like clouds. When he woke up, he was covered in sweat. Khan, still unable to move.

He didn’t know how long he sat like this. Wu Niu (Yuan Tiangang’s wife) came in to see him twice. At first, she didn’t dare to disturb him. Later, she came in to let him eat. When she found that he was still like this, she asked in horror: "Master, what are you doing?" What's wrong with you? You haven't slept all night. It's time to eat. "Invite Aunt Dong." He said this with all his strength.

Wu Niu was startled, wondering what happened to him. I had no choice but to put on my clothes and shoes and run to invite Mr. Dong. Dong Laoya was eating with her son. When she saw her running over in a panic, she was so frightened that she dropped her chopsticks to the ground.

"Aunt Dong, go quickly, the young master asked me to treat you." Wu Niu said breathlessly. "What's wrong, young master?" In an instant, Dong Laoya's soul almost emerged from the top of her head.

"I don't know what's going on. I just asked you to go quickly."

Dong Laoya was even more anxious than she was. She didn't even bother to put on her shoes, and started running with only socks on her feet. When he came to the middle hall, he found that Yuan Tiangang was fine, but he was suffering from dementia.

"Master, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?" She looked at him without blinking.

"Xiaoya, has he come yet?"

"Mistress, the master has not come yet."

"Xiaoya, take in the quilts that are hanging outside."

His lips parted, and he spat out these three words in an unexpected way. His words, accent and tone all resemble the person in his dream.

Dong Laoya felt as if she had been struck by lightning and could not move. Then she knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the statue: "Mother, you have appeared. Mistress has appeared."

Scenes of her living with her mistress. I have been dreaming about it for thousands of times, but now it suddenly came out from Yuan Tiangang's mouth, what else could it be if the mistress hadn't appeared?

That dream disappeared, but Yuan Tiangang seemed to be in a bigger dream. He still couldn't wake up and couldn't move.

"Aunt Dong, you are the little girl, and I am the young master, right?" He did not move, but opened his lips and spoke out.

"Master, do you know everything?" Dong Laoya was sweating profusely, and his mind was roaring, as if thousands of troops were passing through his mind.

"Divine Doctor Su is my mother, and I am the son of Divine Doctor Su, right?" He shouted desperately.

"Master, my mistress told you in her dream, right?" Dong Laoya knelt down in front of him and said fearfully.

Wu Niu held on to the door frame of the nave and slowly collapsed on the ground. She couldn't understand what was going on. Was she still dreaming? It must be a dream, it must be that I haven't woken up from the dream yet.

"I'm asking you if that's true?" Yuan Tiangang shouted sharply. Over the years, he has treated Lao Ya Dong like a mother and has never yelled at her like this.

"Yes." Old Dong muttered.

"I was born in this house, right?"

"Yes, but you only lived in this house for a month. The mistress took you away."

"Nonsense, this is not true, This is not true, I am dreaming, I am still dreaming, I want to wake up, I want to wake up." He stood up suddenly and walked around the room, waving his fists, holding his head high, and his face became ferocious.

"Master, these are all true. The mistress has become an immortal, Medicine King Bodhisattva has taken you away, that's all I know, I don't know anything else." Dong Laoya screamed in a pleading voice. . She has now lost the ability to think and is only speaking based on instinct.

"Master, my master. No, this is not true. I am a descendant of the Yuan family. If I am the son of Divine Doctor Su, how can I become a descendant of the Yuan family?"

"Master, I don't know, I really don't know. ." Dong Laoya cried loudly and kowtowed to him.

"Who is he? Who is the master? Tell me." He also knelt down, put his head on Dong Laoya's head, and asked sternly.

"It's the emperor. The current emperor was the Duke of at that time." After saying this, Dong Laoya foamed at the mouth and fainted.

"Aunt Dong." Wu Niu rushed over, rubbing her back and pinching her, "Master, wake up, you can't do this to Aunt Dong! You will scare her to death."

heard The word "Emperor" buzzed in his mind, and many things seemed to come together, but they were blurry. He felt that he was not dreaming now, but that the world he was in had collapsed and collapsed into pieces. Everything around me, including houses, things, and people, no longer has any sense of reality, it is broken and confused.

He knelt there in a daze, sweat dripping from his cheeks onto the mat. Wu Niu woke up Dong Laoya, hugged his head again, and cried loudly: "Master, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? Don't scare me, please."

She was shocked by the conversation just now I heard it, but I couldn’t understand what it meant. What she is worried about now is Yuan Tiangang's condition.

"They are all fake, these are all fake, and you are all fake too." Yuan Tiangang shouted. "Master, Master, I'm not fake, I'm not." Wu Niu held his head hard and shook it.

Dong Laoya woke up, and she hoped that she would not wake up. What she was most worried about finally happened. She didn't know whether it was a disaster or a blessing, but she didn't know what to do. Hope suddenly emerged in her heart: "It was the mistress who showed up to tell the young master. She must have made arrangements, just like when the young master came, the mistress also showed up to me." Thinking of this, she kowtowed to the statue a few more times.

Yuan Tiangang gradually woke up. He realized and understood what all this was about. However, everything around him was still blurry and broken. "No, I want to go to Luoyang . I want to find the master." He stood up and Go outside.

"Master, wait for me." Wu Niu hurriedly packed a simple bag, a few clothes and money.

The two of them first took a car to the post station, and then hired a post car to go to Luoyang. Along the way, we just changed trains at the inns. We didn't rest. We ate some dry food bought on the way when we were hungry, and drank water when we were thirsty. It took two days and one night to arrive at Luoyang, 800 miles away, and just before the gate of the square was closed, we entered the square where Sun Simiao lived.

Sun Simiao also felt something in the past two days. He was frightened. He felt that something had happened to Yuan Tiangang, and only Yuan Tiangang could make him feel this way. He is already planning to go to Chang'an early tomorrow morning to see Yuan Tiangang's situation. Hearing the sound of the carriage in front of the door, his heart suddenly sank, and he seemed to understand something.

He came out in a hurry. Before he could get down the steps, Yuan Tiangang walked in, followed by Wu Niu who was exhausted.The two of them looked at each other and understood.

"Master." Yuan Tiangang took a few steps forward and knelt down at the foot of the steps.

In an instant, Sun Simiao seemed to have aged a hundred years. He held his hands on the corridor pillar and stared blankly, unable to react.

Then he quickly walked down the steps and held Yuan Tiangang in his arms, "Good boy, do you know?"

"Is this true?" Yuan Tiangang looked at the master longingly, hoping that the master would give him a No answer.

"Injustice." Sun Simiao just let out a long sigh.

Mrs. Sun also came out when she heard the commotion outside. She was stunned when she saw the scene, and she understood what was going on. This is what the two of them have been most worried about over the years, but they also know that Yuan Tiangang will find out sooner or later.

But even after all this happened, they still felt helpless.

"Master's wife." Wu Niu came over and knelt down in front of Mrs. Sun.

"Get up, get up." Mrs. Sun pulled Wu Niu up, but looked at Yuan Tiangang, and asked softly: "How did he know?"

"I don't know. The young master sat in front of the statue all night, and I fell asleep. I don't know. What happened? He was like this after waking up. "

"A Rui gave him a dream?" Mrs. Sun thought, this must be the case. She had given Yuan Ji and his wife a dream and asked them to go to Zhongnan Mountain . My child, I was just a young girl practicing in a nunnery at that time.

"Come in, I'll tell you everything." Sun Simiao pulled Yuan Tiangang into his study, looked back at his wife, and told her not to worry and to take good care of Wu Niu.

The two of them talked in the bedroom all night, and there were sounds of crying and choking from time to time. They stayed awake all night. Mrs. Sun and Wu Niu, who listened carefully to the movement in the study, could not tell which ones were from Yuan Tiangang and which ones were from Sun Simiao. of.

"Master, will the young master be okay?" Wu Niu asked quietly.

"It's okay, this child can survive. It's just that it's hard to put this on anyone's shoulders." Mrs. Sun sighed

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"Is what they said true?" Wu Niu put together what she heard at this time.

"It's true." Another sigh.

"The young master is still a prince?" Wu Niu still couldn't believe it.

"There is something rare about the Emperor." Mrs. Sun snorted disdainfully, "Don't let anyone know about this. No one in the Yuan family can tell it. You just need to know, otherwise he will be killed."

"I understand."

In the morning, Sun Simiao and Yuan Tiangang came out of the study. Yuan Tiangang's eyes were red and swollen, and Sun Simiao's eyes were also red. Yuan Tiangang is in better spirits, but still a little dazed. Mrs. Sun was really afraid that he would be stimulated to become a fool or a madman. Sun Simiao used his eyes to tell her not to worry.

After dinner, Sun Simiao took out a box of silver needles, asked Yuan Tiangang to lie on the bed, and gave him massage and acupuncture. Yuan Tiangang finally fell asleep. Sun Simiao said to Mrs. Sun and Wu Niu: "You should hurry up and get some sleep. We will set off in the afternoon and have a long way to go."

After lunch, Sun Simiao, his wife, Yuan Tiangang and Wu Niu took two cars. We set out on the road, and after more than ten days of trekking, we arrived at Shennong Peak. The couple returns here every year to stay for a few days, offering incense and offering sacrifices to their ancestors. During these days in the mountains, Sun Simiao often walked into the cave where Su Rui's coffin was parked alone and stayed there for several hours before coming out.

As soon as the car stopped, Sun Simiao led the dumb and speechless Yuan Tiangang into the cave. A quarter of an hour later, he walked out and closed the cave door. It is not only the place where Su Rui's coffin was parked, but also an important area of ​​Shennongmen. Non-members of Shennongmen are not allowed to enter. So even Mrs. Sun has never entered, and Wu Niu certainly can't enter either.

"Can this child survive?" Mrs. Sun said to Sun Simiao.

"He can survive it, but it will take some time to fully adjust." Sun Simiao sighed. "But what's going on?" Wu Niu still couldn't understand how such a thing could happen.

"An injustice, an injustice." Sun Simiao said with a bitter smile.

Back in Shennong Hall, Sun Simiao spent an hour recounting what happened that year.Wu Niu finally understood it completely, but she still had that dreamy feeling and her head was slightly dizzy.

Yuan Tiangang stayed in the cave for three days and three nights before coming out. Due to the use of special antiseptic techniques, Su Rui's face remained the same as before his death and as in his dream. He cried, screamed, and caressed the crystal coffin. Sometimes he returned to the dreamland, and sometimes he didn't know whether he was comatose or asleep. The dream he had had since childhood turned into reality, but he wondered if this reality was still in a dream, a bigger dream. Is life really just a big dream? If so, it's time for him to wake up. But he couldn't wake up.

Sometimes he really wanted to open the coffin, lie in it himself, lie next to his mother, and never come out again. But every time he thinks like this, his heart aches like a knife when he thinks of the upbringing, love and instruction given to him by his grandfather and parents.

When he walked out of the cave, Sun Simiao and the other three looked at him intently. He walked to his master and his wife, knelt down and kowtowed. Mrs. Sun pulled him up, touched his face and said with pity: "Good boy, you have suffered. You don't know that your master has suffered the same as you these years."

"Master, my disciple knows." He looked again Looking at the master, he said resolutely: "Master, I have figured it out. I am still a descendant of the Yuan family and will always be so."

Sun Simiao nodded and said: "That's right. This must be A Rui's intention in heaven."

He He walked up to the master again and said softly: "Master, I am also your son."

Sun Simiao's face suddenly became distorted. He looked up to the sky, trying hard to suppress himself from crying, but tears welled up from his eyes. He clasped his hands, shook his head slightly, and his lips were trembling and speechless, as if the pain he had suffered in the past twenty years suddenly came to his heart again.

Mrs. Sun also shed tears. She had never seen her husband so gloomy. Only she knew that her husband had been suffering from self-blame every day in the past twenty years. He could not forgive himself for failing to save his junior sister. After giving the child away, he would sometimes think that it was his junior sister's wish, and sometimes blame himself for giving the child away to someone else, adding another layer of self-blame. In the past twenty years, he has been worried about Yuan Tiangang's safety all the time, fearing that he would make a mistake. Even though he had his own son, his heart was still entirely focused on Yuan Tiangang.

Only then did Yuan Tiangang realize why his destiny could not be calculated. It turned out that he was born with an incurable disease. If his biological mother was not a miracle doctor, he might have died after birth. Later, the master took a risk and used the innate Gang Qi to simulate the mother's pregnancy. He cured his incurable disease and also instilled in him the Innate Gang Qi. In this sense, he is really the master's son.

Only then did he understand why he had never been afraid of cold or heat since he was a child, rarely slept, had a photographic memory, and never got sick. It was all because of the innate Qi in his body. Only then did he understand why a heavenly being like his master would take the initiative to accept him as his disciple and pass on all his knowledge to him.

He was born to his mother, and in a sense, he was reborn through Sun Simiao. But he still believed that he was a descendant of the Yuan family, and nothing would change whether he was his biological son or not.

They stayed at Shennong Peak for a month, and Sun Simiao and Yuan Tiangang became closer. At this time, the two really began to resemble father and son rather than master and apprentice. The two often walked and talked all over the mountains and fields, covering everything from celestial bodies to grass and insects.

Sun Simiao told him not to feel hatred or think about revenge. If he wanted to take revenge, he would have done it twenty years ago. There was no need to wait until today to leave it to him. All this is determined by heaven and earth.

Yuan Tiangang nodded in agreement. He tells people fortunes every day, and he understands numerology and fixed numbers most thoroughly. He no longer feels cheated or deceived, and he has no hatred. He no longer thinks about his biological father and has pushed him out of his heart forever. He has no hatred for that vicious woman. That woman is no longer relevant in his heart. As long as she doesn't provoke him, he won't think of her at all, let alone seek revenge from her.

A month later, he returned to Chang'an. Yuan Tiangang and his wife kept the big secret locked in their hearts forever.

Well, the story ends here. Thanks friends for watching.Friends are welcome to watch other legendary stories of Qiankun Yuqian; friends are welcome to follow and leave messages.

Notes: 1. The pictures come from the Internet and will be deleted immediately if there is any infringement. 2. The theme of the story comes from "The Biography of Yuan Tiangang" by Mr. Yang Minggang.