Chapter 269: Yao Family Epilogue
"Just like Daoxuan said, I don't have much time. Since dad asked you to be Yao Nianchun, you will be Yao Nianchun from now on." Yao Nianchun and Yao Erlang looked at each other, and at this moment, the two brothers were speechless.

Yao Erlang nodded to Yao Nianchun and answered solemnly: "Don't worry, brother. Auntie is my mother and Jinyu is my biological sister. I will protect them even if I die."

"I'm relieved." Yao Nianchun nodded and said with relief.

He looked at the incense on the table. Most of it had burned out, with only the end of one stick left, supporting the final fireworks.

"It's time for me to go." Yao Nianchun said calmly, "Mother, sister, Erlang, I am already satisfied to see you again. You must continue to walk well on the road of the human world from now on."

"Big brother!"

"Nianchun!"

"elder brother!"

The people in the room were in grief, supporting each other and looking at Yao Nianchun.

Yao Nianchun looked at Li Daoxuan and nodded at him: "I should go now. Please take the trouble to see me off."

"You can still stay for a while. You really don't plan to stay a little longer?" Li Daoxuan asked doubtfully.

"No, staying any longer will only cause trouble to everyone. I am already dead, and I shouldn't be alive in this world for long." Yao Nianchun said with a smile, "Didn't you say that the evil ghosts in the world are all obsessed. If I stay any longer, I'm afraid I won't want to go on the road. It's better to go back early so as not to disturb the living anymore."

"Well, since you have made up your mind, I won't force you." Li Daoxuan sighed and didn't try to persuade Yao Nianchun any more.

He looked at everyone in the room. Both Mrs. Yao and Yao Erlang had a look of reluctance on their faces.

Li Daoxuan flicked his sleeves and started walking around Yao Nianchun.

"The Supreme Saint Yuanshi, the Jade Emperor is a high spirit. The Jade Text announces his destiny, saving the dead and the living. The Golden Scroll of Wonderful Commandments saves the netherworld. The White Tablet of Precious Scriptures, the Nine True Mysterious Scriptures. It removes sins and guilt, and settles grievances. The Savior of Suffering removes the crimes and punishments. The life-observing boy writes the name of the deceased. The guardian spirit leads him to the Court of Blessings. He transcends the five sufferings and rides on the cloud chariot. He attains the Way through the wheel of enlightenment and ascends to the Pure Land."

"The great and virtuous master, whose merits and deeds are complete, descends to lead us, and the master treasure carries us. With compassion, he sprinkles the water of Dharma to wash away our obsessions. We will forever cross the Three Pure Lands and leave the Five Turbidities."

The chanting of incantations turned into the sound of Tao.

Li Daoxuan flicked the sleeves of his robe and swung the peach wood sword in his hand.

All I felt was a warm breeze blowing, soothing everyone's sorrow.

Golden light scattered all over Yao Nianchun's body and gradually turned into fluorescent light.

In the end, his entire body became transparent and gradually disappeared from the world.

"Take care, my beloved." Yao Nianchun gave Mrs. Yao a brilliant smile, which eventually vanished into thin air.

At this moment, the dignified Mrs. Yao could no longer bear the pain of losing her son, and fainted while holding her chest.

"not good!"

"Someone come quickly!"

Upon hearing this, the maids and servants who entered the room were in chaos for a moment. After finally calming down, several maids helped Madam Yao back to her room.

Everyone dispersed, leaving only Li Daoxuan standing quietly in the hall.

He looked at the incense on the table and reached out to extinguish it.

"I hope you will be born into a good family in your next life."

Just after taking a few steps, he saw a flash of golden light under his eyelids, and then he saw a ray of golden light entering his Niwan, and the golden light of merit increased by another three inches.

I took out the storage bag and used up ten inches of golden merit, and now I have recovered some blood.

The door was closed and the candles in the room were extinguished.

After waiting for everything to quiet down, a figure could be seen standing in front of the desk in the darkness, bowing to it. The next day, Yao Erlang came.

He held a fan in his hand, with a relaxed look on his face. He walked into the room and looked at Li Daoxuan. He sat at the table and said with a smile: "Mother is in good health, but she was a little too sad yesterday."

"But wake up?" Li Daoxuan asked while writing something.

"I'm awake, but I still miss my brother a little bit." Yao Erlang sighed.

"What about you?" Li Daoxuan asked again.

"Me?" Yao Erlang spread out his folding fan and fanned himself, asking in confusion, "Of course I can't bear to leave my elder brother either."

"That's not what I meant. I want to ask if you are still called Yao Nianchun?"

"." Yao Erlang sighed when he heard this, "Well, I'll still call you by this name."

"What about your name? Are you going to live with your eldest brother's name for the rest of your life?" Li Daoxuan asked again. His question was so sharp that even Yao Erlang was stunned for a long time. The expression on his face changed, but he was relieved in the end.

"For me, it doesn't matter who I'm called. What matters is that I know how to live. My eldest brother is dead, and I want his name to be remembered in history."

"In that case, let's do it." Li Daoxuan stopped writing, picked up the yellow talisman on the table, looked at it, and then sat opposite Yao Erlang and handed it to him, "This is a talisman. It's a gift for you before I leave."

Yao Erlang took the yellow talisman and looked at it in his hand. Then he looked at Li Daoxuan and asked, "Are you leaving?"

"Well, there's still things to do."

"I am planning to invite you to go to Nanjing to talk to my husband about the situation abroad."

"What's there to say? You'll see if you go out. It's no different abroad, they've just developed a few more years than us. If we all work together, we can make even the foreign guns and cannons that the foreigners use. I heard that Lord Li Hongzhang has been promoting some kind of Westernization policy recently? It's said to be the Westernization Movement. Perhaps this is an opportunity for the Qing Dynasty to catch up with the foreigners." Li Daoxuan said half-truthfully, and briefly told Yao Erlang what little history he had learned. After all, so many years have passed, and he had long since returned what he had learned to his teacher. It was not easy enough to remember some famous people and events in the late Qing Dynasty.

"You also know about this? I didn't expect that Brother Daoxuan, at such a young age, although a Taoist priest, could care more about national affairs than those literati." Yao Erlang sighed. The more he looked at Li Daoxuan, the more he felt that they shared the same ideals.

Although this boy was young, he had a sharp eye and could always tell the truth in one sentence, which shocked him.

If he was not a Taoist disciple, Yao Erlang would introduce Li Daoxuan to his uncle no matter what.

"I care about everything, family affairs, national affairs, and world affairs." Li Daoxuan sighed, "If the world is not peaceful, how can I talk about peace?"

"That's true." Yao Erlang nodded. He looked at the spring scenery outside and said after a moment of silence, "I'm going to go take a look at the foreigners."

"Have you decided yet?"

"Yes, I have made up my mind." Yao Erlang said firmly, "Whether for public or private reasons, I must go and see why our Qing Dynasty, with its vast territory and abundant resources, was defeated by the foreigners' cannons."

"Then let's go out and take a look, but be careful about hygiene." Li Daoxuan nodded in response. He had no idea about going abroad, and naturally he didn't know that going abroad these days was a big deal.

This departure may last for several years.

"health?"

"Don't you know? In fact, there are many diseases abroad." Li Daoxuan told Yao Nianchun about the situation in European and American countries that he knew.

Although Western technology has advanced rapidly these days, pollution has also come with it.

There are all kinds of patients, and if you don’t pay attention to hygiene on a daily basis, you might die in a foreign land.

Yao Nianchun listened carefully to Li Daoxuan's words and wrote them down.

By the time he left, it was already noon.

(End of this chapter)