I don’t know what General Jiang Wei thought when he heard Xiao Han’s prayer meeting, but if Ren Qing and Liu Hongji heard this, Xiao Han would definitely not get any good results.
In August of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the hot weather in Sichuan gradually becomes cooler.
On this day, outside Yizhou Mansion, a green oil carriage, escorted by several retinues, slowly passed by on the road. Several pedestrians around saw the carriage and hurriedly looked away, not even daring to look at it.
Have a look.
"Mom, how long do we have to walk to get to the Buddhist temple?" On the carriage, a cute little girl was holding on to the window, looking at the scenery on the roadside, and asked dissatisfiedly.
This girl is very young, she looks only seven or eight years old, but she is already very beautiful, especially her big eyes, which are like the waves in an autumn mirror. They are bright with a little depth, and she is extremely intelligent at first glance.
man of.
"It's quick, it's quick!"
Behind the girl, the noble lady sitting in the carriage smiled and lovingly scratched the girl's nose: "The time for another stick of incense is coming soon. Don't be naughty this time, Buddha will blame you!"
"Buddha will not blame..." The girl blinked, put down the curtain and looked at the woman, saying unconvinced: "Only those thieves and monks will blame!"
"What kind of thief monk? They are monks and they want to be called masters." When the wife heard her daughter's words, she frowned slightly and said softly.
"Hmph..." The girl pouted her mouth, snorted, and said angrily: "The book says that a monk should have six pure roots and have no desires or desires. But last time, the thief monk had to force him to pay the debt because he couldn't collect it.
That man sold the child, and if I hadn't taken action, that poor man's child would have suffered."
"So, you hit someone's head with a stone and made it bleed?" The woman looked at the girl helplessly. She didn't know whether to be happy or worried about her quirky daughter.
"He...he deserves it!"
When the woman said something embarrassing, the little girl's eyes averted for a moment, but remembering the fat monk rolling on the floor in pain, she couldn't help but puff up her chest and said: "I told him not to make things difficult for others, but he didn't listen! So!
I just took action."
"Hey, you..." the woman sighed, shook her head and said to the girl: "Lending money in Buddhist temples is a rule that has been passed down for a long time. Even the court acquiesced, so it is not wrong for people to collect debts.
Just like if your brother borrowed money from you and refused to repay it, wouldn't you also go to his study and make a mess of his things?"
"They are not my brothers! They are not borrowing my money, they are robbing me!"
Unexpectedly, the woman just made a casual analogy, and the little girl's expression changed drastically! A pair of small hands clutched her skirt tightly, and she gritted her teeth and said: "They are all bad people! My only relatives are my mother, sister, and father!"
No one else is!”
"Okay, okay, no, no!" The woman didn't expect the little girl to have such a big reaction. She was stunned for a moment and could only coax her.
In the past, she knew that her daughter could not get along with her other half-brothers, but she did not expect that her daughter would be so stubborn and even said that she did not recognize Yuan Qing and Yuan Shuang as her brothers.
It seems that I will have to pay attention to this in the future. If my husband hears these words, I am afraid he will get angry again.
The carriage swayed and the bells jingled. The mother and daughter in the carriage gradually lost interest in talking because they had their own thoughts. The road became quiet for a while.
Finally, at the foot of a mountain, the carriage stopped, and a tall and round guard in front stepped forward to salute: "Madam, we've arrived."
"Oh?" The woman in the carriage was stunned for a moment, woke up from her thoughts, opened the carriage curtain and walked out.
In front of her, there was a long stone path leading to the mountain. On both sides of the stone path, there were tall and tall bamboos, which loomed over the stone path, making it look particularly deep and refined.
"Buddhism is pure. You and Zhang Hu can just follow us up the mountain. The others will wait here."
After giving the guard a soft command, the woman led the little girl who jumped out of the carriage, walked up the stone steps, and gradually disappeared into the depths of the bamboo forest.
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"Hahaha, I, Hu Hansan! I'm finally out!"
When the woman and the little girl were going up the mountain, on the back mountain, a group of men with unshaven beards and shabby clothes looked like beggars, laughing and rushing out of the dense forest. They looked at the temple hidden among the pines and cypresses in the distance and couldn't help laughing.
Laughing like crazy.
Needless to say, the men in this business are naturally Xiao Han and others.
On the same day, we set off from Jianmen Pass again. Xiao Han and others passed through Mianyang and Baima Pass. After passing through Deyang, they accidentally lost their way and never returned to the Jinniu Road!
The sky is a lesson, who knew that the Golden Ox Road actually had a fork in the road? It was also because of the rain that day that Ren Qing did not recognize the road clearly and led a group of people to another road.
As a result, it was not until after walking for a few days that Ren Qing, who felt something was wrong as he walked, realized that they had gone the wrong way. When they wanted to go back, they discovered that the way back was broken by loose rocks that rolled down the mountain due to heavy rain.
The boulders were blocking the way, and in desperation, they had no choice but to move forward.
Fortunately, this place is not far from the center of Sichuan. Fortunately, Xiao Han has experienced getting lost before and carries a compass with him to keep the direction correct.
It's just that my legs are suffering.
Originally, the Taurus Path was not easy to walk, let alone what they were walking on was not the Taurus Path!
Xiao Han had to go through many obstacles along the way, which was even more difficult than the eighty-one difficulties that Monk Tang encountered when he was trying to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Fortunately, he got to see the "Da Leiyin Temple" today. Otherwise, if the monkey hadn't gone crazy, Xiao Han would have gone crazy first!
"Brothers, rush!"
Laughing and rushing towards the temple, Xiao Han and the others knew that as long as there was a temple, there would be people there!
Because the monks of this era would never be like the quiet Taoist priests who built temples in deep mountains and old forests and lived a miserable life of drinking one cup at a time.
Those fat monks who wanted to make offerings, want incense, and want to collect money for fragrant oils, how could they do it without people? So the temples at this time were all built near densely populated towns.
And near this precipitous Jinniu Road, the only place that is densely populated is the end of it, the Sichuan Massif!
"Calculate the distance, it's time to reach the middle of Shu!" Just as Xiao Han and others rushed towards the temple, Ren Qing did not move. He just stood there, quietly looking at the temple in the distance.
A rare smile appeared on his tired face.
He is most responsible for taking the wrong path this time.
So along the way, he who was not very talkative became even more taciturn. It was only now that he saw the crowds that a huge stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. Fortunately, except for the loss of a few horses, there was no loss of personnel. This is also unfortunate.
