Chapter 577: Swelling

After night fell, the sound of wooden fish began to be heard in the abbot's room of Qingshou Temple. The sound of wooden fish continued until late at night, and finally stopped.

Monk Qingyuan came in and helped Daoyan to tidy up the inkstone, brush, wooden fish and other items on the table. After a while, someone came out with hot water, and Qingyuan went out to bring it back; he helped Daoyan sit down on a chair and placed a wooden basin at Daoyan's feet.

While busying himself, Qingyuan said, "Since the Hongxi period, you have hardly attended court, but have become even more overworked. You are old, you must take care of yourself."

Daoyan glanced at the book Dao Yu Lu placed under the cabinet, sighed slightly, and a layer of worry covered his triangular eyes. But he did not answer.

Qingyuan held the old monk's legs with both hands and slowly put them into the hot water in the wooden basin. Qingyuan said, "Yao Fang's lover Wang secretly hid poison on h