Chapter 412: Hiding Mount Sumeru in a Mustard Seed
In Anren Hall, everyone couldn't help but be dazed when they heard Zhizang's words.
They had just seen Li Daoxuan's methods and just thought they were powerful but couldn't tell what made them powerful. Now, after Zhizang's reminder, they knew the tricks behind them.
Just by stretching out your hand and swiping it casually, a distance can be added out of thin air. This kind of magical power is really incredible!
If it was used in siege warfare, wouldn't Master Li's drawing mean that the Tibetan soldiers would never be able to climb the city wall?
Li Daoxuan said modestly: "How can I be compared with the Queen Mother of the West? Little monk, thank you for your praise."
The Queen Mother of the West is the Holy Mother of Yaochi, a female immortal who commands the three realms and ten directions. She has a very noble status. Li Daoxuan's current level of Taoism is still far from that of this supreme goddess.
However, this also indirectly confirms the power of the supernatural power of moving stars and changing constellations, which made Zhizang think of the great goddess Queen Mother of the West.
At this time Zhizang looked at the maid in green again, and was about to say something, but his pupils froze and he showed surprise.
The bronze holy tripod of his Tantric Buddhism lineage suddenly shrank rapidly in the maid's hand. In the blink of an eye, it went from more than ten feet high to four or five inches, like a small bronze wine jar.
The amount of fine wine inside also became less and less, and it seemed that it could be finished in one gulp.
But Zhizang knew that the wine in the cauldron was enough for dozens of people to drink happily.
Hide Mount Sumeru in a mustard seed!
Zhizang suddenly remembered this great magical power. He looked at the maid in green in disbelief, unable to believe that she had such a great magical power!
Could it be that this maid is also a Yang God?
As the saying goes, the layman sees the excitement while the expert sees the details. In the eyes of others, the lady in green turning the giant tripod into a wine glass was just very magical, like a magic trick performed on the street, but Zhizang knew very well that this was definitely not an illusion!
This maid in green must be a very important person!
Zhizang frowned. He absolutely did not believe that a Yangshen with great supernatural powers would become a maid for others. One must know that women in the Yangshen realm are all gifted by heaven and have unparalleled beauty. Even the king of a country has to treat them like guests of honor.
How could I become someone's slave?
However, the next moment, the maid in green bent down, raised the shrunken bronze tripod with both hands, and handed it to Li Daoxuan. Although her voice was indifferent, she did indeed pose as a maid.
"Sir, please drink."
Zhizang's guess was immediately shaken. Could it be that this maid in green was not the Yang God?
Li Daoxuan felt quite "flattered" and also a little touched.
He understood that the queen made this gesture to save face for herself. If even a maid could withstand the methods of the Tibetan master, then the people of Tibet would undoubtedly be more wary of him.
He took the wine glass, took a sip, and tasted the lingering aroma of the wine with a slight sweetness. It wasn't very strong, but the aftertaste was long.
Li Daoxuan's eyes lit up. He tapped the wine glass lightly, and the amber-colored grape wine flew out and landed in the wine glasses of everyone at the table. Not too much, just enough to fill them up.
"It is better to share happiness with others than to enjoy it alone. My lords, how about we drink a glass of this fine Tibetan wine together?"
Li Shimin laughed heartily, raised the wine glass in his hand, and said, "Taichong is right. My dear ministers, come, let us drink this wine together to toast the alliance between our two countries!"
Everyone drank the wine in their glasses together and praised the taste of this fine wine.
The tense atmosphere just now eased a lot.
Li Daoxuan handed the wine glass in his hand to the Qingyi Niangniang and said with a smile: "Qingni, you come and have a taste too."
Lady Qingyi looked at him with a hint of helplessness in her eyes, but in front of so many people, she had to give Li Daoxuan some face. She bowed again and said, "Thank you, young master."
She took the wine glass and suddenly remembered that Li Daoxuan had just drunk from this glass.
After pondering for a moment, she put the wine vessel transformed from the holy tripod to her lips and took a sip.
Li Daoxuan was just about to ask her how it tasted, but he saw her brows slightly frowned, and the next moment she poured the wine in her hand directly to the west, as if there was some poison hidden in the wine.
Crash!
A wave of wine poured out of the small wine glass, but the strange thing was that the wine disappeared after it fell to the ground, and did not even wet the ground.
It was as if the wine and drinks had evaporated into thin air!
This scene made everyone's eyelids twitch.
Wang Bo, who was in charge of guarding Li Shimin's safety, was shocked. He stepped forward and shouted, "No, the wine must be poisonous!"
Li Shimin looked at the empty wine glass on the table and his mouth twitched.
The ministers at the table, as well as the Tibetan envoys, all had dark lines on their faces, because they had just drunk that glass of wine as well.
Everyone's eyes turned to Zhi Zang.
Because he was the one who provided the wine, and when everyone was drinking just now, he was the only one who did not drink the wine because he had to observe the precepts, but drank tea instead.
Zhizang himself was confused, but fortunately Li Daoxuan's voice rang out at this time.
"Don't panic, everyone. This wine is not poisonous. My maid poured the wine not to tease you, but for her own reasons. Your Majesty can send someone to the West Market to find out and you will know."
Li Daoxuan didn't understand what the Empress did at first, but when he used his supernatural power of hearing the wind, he heard some sounds and immediately his mind became clear and he understood.
Everyone was skeptical, so Li Shimin immediately sent people to inquire about the news in the West Market.
The Tibetan envoy leader Gongbu was very angry and felt that Li Daoxuan was instructing his maid to embarrass them.
"Master Li, I respect you as a great man, but you should also take care of your subordinates. Those wines are the best grape wines in our Tubo. They are gifts personally selected by the Zamp for the Tang Dynasty. No matter what the reason is, how can you allow a maid to waste them at will?"
His words were very impolite and harsh. As an envoy, if the master is humiliated, the minister will die. Although he is afraid of Li Daoxuan, he also has his own bottom line.
At this moment, his blood was boiling, and he simply risked his life, saying to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, just now Mu Chi was disrespectful to Your Majesty in the palace, and you punished him with eighty strokes of the cane, and we have nothing to say. But this maid wasted the fine wine that the Zanpu personally selected, which is also disrespectful to our Tubo Zanpu!"
After a pause, he said in a loud voice: "For the sake of the alliance between our two countries, I beg Your Majesty to punish her with eighty strokes of the cane as well!"
At this time, other Tibetan envoys also stood up.
"Your Majesty, please punish that maid!"
"Your Majesty, please give me justice for Tibet!"
"Shouldn't the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty treat everyone equally?"
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Li Shimin's eyes narrowed slightly, and a trace of unhappiness emerged in his heart, but he did not immediately explode. Instead, he looked at Li Daoxuan and asked, "What do you think, Taichong?"
Li Daoxuan looked at the lady in green who was silent and quiet as a lotus.
"I'm sorry to trouble you."
Lady in green whispered the message, a hint of apology showing in her usually calm eyes.
"Between you and me, why bother saying sorry?"
Li Daoxuan stood up, smiled at her, and then in front of everyone, he held her soft and smooth hand, which felt as warm as jade, snowy and soft.
The eyes of the lady in green moved , and she wanted to struggle, but then she changed her mind and thought, it would only be this time, and when this trip was over, Zi Yu would have cultivated into a lotus Dharma body, and by then, the worst that could happen was that she would never meet him again.
Moreover, she felt a little guilty because of her behavior just now, which had caused trouble for Li Daoxuan.
Besides, at the moment, I am not the Lady in Green, but just his maid. As a maid, if I show too much resistance, will it embarrass him?
Suddenly, she thought a lot and found many reasons for herself not to resist.
The art of transformation seemed to have put a mask on her. If she was still the Green-robed Lady at this moment, even if she valued Li Daoxuan very much, she would never allow him to treat her frivolously. But after her appearance changed, her mentality seemed to have changed a little.
So she remained calm, lowered her eyes, and for the first time allowed a man to hold her hand, neither taking the initiative nor resisting, like a stiff ice sculpture.
