Chapter 55: It is inevitable for the pearl to secretly surrender
Yunchu and Ding Da, who came out of the Yamen of the Duwei Mansion, looked at each other.
What happened was completely beyond Yunchu's expectation. He thought he had a plan in hand, but the result was completely unacceptable to Cheng Chumo.
"Isn't it because he didn't want to pay a thousand taels of gold that he refused to agree?" Yunchu had doubts about his IQ for the first time.
Ding Dayou scratched his thick hair, thought for a moment and said, "Probably not. Cheng Chumo is not a despicable person."
Yun Chu also grabbed his hair and said, "Then there is only one reason. Cheng Chumo will not be staying at Yumen Pass for a long time."
Ding Dayou said thoughtfully: "That's right, their family has controlled Yumen Pass for too long.
Emperor Taizong allowed his family to control Yumen Pass because he trusted Lu Guogong, but our current Majesty may not think so."
Yunchu sighed and said: "They are still short-sighted. They don't even want a hardcore crop, and I don't know what they want."
Ding Dayou stopped and looked at Yun Chu: "Just now, Cheng Chumo had murderous intentions towards you. Do you believe it?"
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "Isn't that true?"
Ding Dayou smiled and said: "If I hadn't been here today, and if you hadn't mentioned Master Xuanzang, you might not have been able to leave the Yamen of the Duwei Mansion today."
Yun Chu recalled what happened just now, and Cheng Chumo's expression looked very strange for a while.
"Do you still want to hand over your two thousand taels of gold to Cheng Chumo?"
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Obviously we are not from the same place. It is not bad to be strangers from now on. Rich people will not dare to try new things if they have been rich for a long time."
Yun Chu carried Naha on his back and went to the military camp with Ding Dayou, talking and laughing.
They left, but Cheng Chumo was still uneasy. After pondering on the soft couch for a long time, he began to write quickly. Soon, he wrote a letter and gave it to his servant, ordering him to set off immediately and deliver this letter.
The letter was handed into my father's hands.
Cheng Chumo waited at home for a whole day, but did not wait for Yunchu to send gold. Instead, he heard the news that Shangzhou Zhechong Mansion had abandoned camp and returned.
As a result, Cheng Chumo's worry became even more intense. He didn't know what Yun Chu wanted to do when he came over.
Could it be that he is a pawn sent by some people to test him?
As a descendant of a noble family, Cheng Chumo knew far more things than Captain Ding Dayou knew.
The worries are much deeper than those of a simple military officer like Ding Dayou. As long as Ding Dayou does not betray the emperor, he can basically live in peace for the rest of his life.
Their family is not good, it is too big and has many demands.
The current emperor has begun to be indifferent to the veterans of the Zhenguan period.
Longyou Road was the richest and most extensive road in the Tang Dynasty.
Only when people come to Ganzhou can they know the wealth of Longyou Road.
This prosperous city, which could be ranked high even in the entire Tang Dynasty, gave Yun Chu a great comfort.
The most rare thing about Ganzhou is the abundant marsh grass, flocks of birds, swamps everywhere, thousands of springs converging, and meandering water systems. It is a heaven-given blessed land.
Yunchu rode a camel by the Blackwater and saw the dilapidated ruins of the Blackwater Kingdom.
The shepherds drove their sheep out of the dilapidated ancient city, bringing with them countless peace and comfort.
When Yun Chu passed through the collapsed city gate, he saw the ruins and broken walls and scattered Chinese bricks, together with the rolling hills all around, as if he had passed through a tunnel of history.
In the darkness, one could vaguely hear the clatter of swords and swords, the cries of sellers in the shops, the steady sound of strings in the tea house, and the panicked shouts of people fleeing the ancient city.
It was as if I were standing high in history, and I could clearly see the long years of Yuezhi herding, the Han-Hungarian war, the tea-horse trade, the military garrison, and the destruction of the ancient city; I could see the prosperity, tragedy, stability and fragility of the ancient city.
Coming to this ancient city, Yunchu couldn't help but think of the heartbreaking song "The Last of the Mohicans". In front of the ruins, history was just a handful of sand slipping through his fingers.
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Obviously Ganzhou not far away is more prosperous than here, but Yun Chu seems to like it here more.
If you like Ganzhou, you will naturally mention the Tang Dynasty Jiaofang song "Ganzhou". The eight-tone Ganzhou that was intercepted and restructured from the "Ganzhou" song is even more famous all over the world. It was later used as a cipai, because the whole word has two parts.
The film has eight rhymes in total, hence the name eight tones.
If Heishui City makes people think about the ancient times, then Ganzhou City satisfied all of Yunchu's imaginations about Han cities.
A city without bell towers and drum towers is not a perfect city, and Ganzhou is not lacking either.
When Yun Chu entered the city, it was the time when the evening drums were beating. When the evening drums were beating, people returning to the city would speed up their pace unconsciously. Even the birds on the Qilian Mountains seemed to know that it was getting late, and they all turned to the city.
Forest.
Yun Chu likes this city, but he doesn't like the inns in this city. In other words, Yun Chu is not satisfied with all the inns he has stayed in so far.
Although this is a city with no shortage of water, the inns here are still unacceptably dirty.
He thought the rooms in the brothel would be cleaner. After seeing it, Yun Chu decided to hold Naha and work in the tent. No matter how the prostitutes in the brothel kept guests, he would not look back.
He didn't think about doing anything with the prostitutes, he just wanted to use the prostitutes' other skills.
For example, the skill of combing the guests' hair, the skill of bathing the guests, the skill of trimming the guests' nails, and the skill of giving massages to the guests.
These are the crafts that an ambitious and self-sufficient person should enjoy.
It's a pity that the prostitutes in Ganzhou City know nothing about these serious crafts except sleeping with them.
It was really tiring to give Naha a bath.
She will cry when you wash her hair, she will howl when you rub her hair, and she will howl if the bath bean water accidentally falls into her eyes, and she will even bite Yunchu, and she will slap him on her bare bottom when she is angry.
Well, she cried even louder, and she cried like a slaughtered pig.
Along the way, I always wanted to buy her a mother-in-law who could help her wash herself. After all, this child is six years old, so I can't always give her a bath as my brother.
Unfortunately, no one was satisfied. Those women seemed to dislike bathing even more than Naha.
As for the hair, this child's hair is naturally curly. Poor Yun Chu wanted to give this child a suitable double bun, but it didn't work out no matter how hard he tried. After a few more attempts, this stinky girl would even curse.
As a result, Yunchu missed Old Monkey more and more. Old Monkey seemed to know how to do everything, including styling the little girl's hair. Although it was obviously not a Tang Dynasty hairstyle, it was absolutely beautiful. He dressed up this stinky girl so much that she really looked like one.
Princess.
There was no other way. Yun Chu could only get this girl a pony tail that was exactly the same as his, but his hair was long and straight, and it looked good when combed into a pony tail. Naha's hair was curly, and combing it into a pony tail would make it explode.
There is a big lump of hair like an explosion behind the small head, which is really ugly.
After finally coaxing the girl to sleep, who wanted to drink water, pee, and tell her brother a story, Yun Chu threw a piece of licorice into his mouth, chewed it slowly, and went outside the tent to blow on it for a while.
Evening breeze.
I always felt like someone was peeping in the dark, and when I looked carefully, I saw the old monkey squatting on the hitching post like a vulture.
"I heard Naha cry?"
"Maybe he has been traveling for many days and this child can't bear it any longer. It's okay to be a little petty."
"Yeah, that's good, that's good. I like that child too. As long as I see her, I won't be worried anymore."
"Since you like her so much, why don't you come over and comb her hair? She always thinks that the hair I comb for her doesn't look good."
The old monkey smacked his mouth twice and said, "Yunchu, do you really think this girl is your biological sister?"
Yun Chu whispered: "The last person who said she was not my biological sister was beaten by me not only to the point of breaking her bones and tendons, but also to knock out all the teeth in her mouth."
"Oh, since that's the case, the little girl should be your biological sister."
Yun Chu inserted the half-drawn Tang Dao back in, approached the old monkey and said, "Did you cause the Massacre at Matisi Temple?"
The old monkey shook his head and said: "It's not me."
After hearing the old monkey say three simple words, Yunchu actually believed it. He even felt that the old monkey might not bother to tell such lies.
"Over the years, not only Xuanzang went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, but also Western monks came to the Tang Dynasty to teach the Dharma.
However, the Buddhist teachings in Tianzhu are not recorded in special slips, but are transmitted orally from generation to generation. Therefore, they are messy and require supreme wisdom to distinguish the authenticity.
In fact, most of the scriptures that Xuanzang took back were copied by Xuanzang himself in Sanskrit. A lot of the Bayeux Sutra that Xuanzang took back from the Landa Temple was also lost due to the long journey.
Some monks were unwilling to lose to Xuanzang in the debate conference. When they heard that the Tang Dynasty was prosperous in the East, they traveled thousands of miles to the Tang Dynasty to teach scriptures and teach Dharma, which was called Guiyuan.
Therefore, the temples along this road became the residence of these Fan monks. Some temples were deeply influenced by Fan monks and had lost the profound meaning of the Tang Dynasty. Some people would inevitably have murderous intentions.
This is the case with the Dongxi Zhaoli Temple, and the same is true with the Matisi Temple.
Somebody knew somewhere that Laoyangpi from the Western Regions was related to Xuanzang, so he put the matter of Matisi Temple on my head.
This time I encouraged Ding Dayou to take away the Buddha's footprints and jade stones from the Dongxi Zhaoli Temple, and also sent people to destroy their granaries and take away their treasures, just to cut off their roots and take away the people who falsely accused me.
Dig it out in the dark."
"Did you find it?"
The old monkey shook his head and said: "This kind of controversy will definitely not happen overnight, it will take dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of years to resolve.
Yun Chu, you are too impatient."
Yun Chu also felt that what the old monkey said was very reasonable. Religious disputes have always been the cruelest battles, so he put aside his obsession and took his time to watch.
"Can you take the gold in my hand back to Chang'an? I always feel like there is a pair of eyes behind me staring at me."
"The people who are staring at you are from the Cheng family. You shouldn't just randomly offer big business to others at Yumen Pass, such that your family will be confiscated and exterminated at any time.
This caused people to misunderstand and think that you were a soldier sent by the enemy to cause harm to their family."
"Is this kind of thing that is beneficial to the world's financial exchanges also harmful to people?"
"The emperor does not like this kind of convenient exchange of property. Strong branches and weak branches are the foundation of the stability of the Tang Dynasty.
Once Chang'an's money can be easily circulated to the frontiers, it will make the emperor of the Tang Dynasty sleepless."
Yun Chu let out a long breath and said, "Could it be that I am a secret lover?"