The snow on Mount Sumeru has begun to melt. It was still completely white some time ago, but now many sunny sides of the mountain have exposed the soil that had been covered in snow and dust for a whole winter.
The tender green grass buds sway gently in the wind, heralding the arrival of spring and the beginning of recovery of all things.
The people guarding outside the Mustard Seed Cave were Feng Yuyan and Yuan Shaoqin. When they saw Yun Qiyou and Ye Xiaochuan coming out of the cave, they said hello to Ye Xiaochuan.
The one who spoke was Feng Yuyan, saying: "Brother Ye, what are you doing?"
Ye Xiaochuan looked bitter, looked at Yun Qiyou's back in front of him, and shrugged at Feng Yuyan.
Feng Yuyan showed an expression of deep sympathy but helplessness.
He didn't want to get involved in the emotional entanglement between Ye Xiaochuan and Yun Qiyou.
One is his good brother through life and death.
One is the daughter of his good brother who has also gone through life and death.
As someone who once had a passionate and crazy love, he felt that he could just stay on the sidelines and be an innocent spectator.
After all, he was once tortured by love to the point of death, otherwise he would have followed the evil god to the heaven to enjoy happiness and would not stay in the human world.
Yuan Shaoqin had been standing in the corner without saying a word.
Watching the two of them go away, he just sighed softly.
Today is a good day, the spring breeze is warm and the sun is shining brightly.
Yun Qiyou walked in front, followed by Ye Xiaochuan.
After walking for about a stick of incense, Ye Xiaochuan finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Said: "Senior Sister Yun, don't you have something to say to me?"
Yun Qiyou said calmly: "Let's go to a place first."
Wanfo Peak is located on the northeast side of Guanzizai Peak.
In terms of height, Ten Thousand Buddhas Peak is not as tall as Guanzi Peak.
However, the popularity of Ten Thousand Buddhas Peak in the world is much higher than that of Guanzi Peak.
Because this is the main altar of Kasyapa Temple, the leader of human Buddhism.
There are some differences between Buddhism and Taoism. They are both sects of Qing cultivators, but Taoism keeps its doors tightly closed and almost does not allow ordinary pilgrims and believers to go up the mountain to worship.
Buddhism is different. Except for some Buddhist monasteries located in deep mountains and old forests, most temples in the world are open to mortals.
This makes many people confused. Buddhism emphasizes the purity of the six roots and the emptiness of the four elements. However, Buddhist disciples open the door to the world of mortals and deal with mortals all day long.
Perhaps it is for this reason that Buddhism is far more numerous than Taoism in terms of number of believers and Taoist temples in the human world.
But in terms of cultivation, the strength of Buddhism is weaker than that of Taoism.
Ye Xiaochuan once visited Kasyapa Temple when he went to northern Xinjiang many years ago.
It was that time that he learned that the Buddha's verse about a bowl of water and forty-eight thousand insects was closely related to the curse of seven generations of enemies.
The largest number of pilgrims in Kasyapa Temple are on the 15th day of every lunar month. Today is the 13th day of the first lunar month, so there are not many pilgrims.
On the road up Qianshan, only scattered pilgrims can be seen.
Most of them are village women near Mount Sumeru, and there are also some pilgrims and young men dressed as scholars.
Nowadays, the elderly women and scholars in China have the most leisure time. The young men have joined the army and gone to the battlefield. The older men have been incorporated into the ranks of civilians and are responsible for carrying war supplies.
Young women and children are stationed in military stations in various places, preparing for the loss of combat effectiveness of the regular army in the world.
Most of the elderly women still have their feet bound and cannot carry them on their shoulders or lift them with their hands. Now is the first lunar month, which is the most leisurely time of the year for them.
As for scholars... everything is inferior but reading is high. In this era when the literacy rate is less than 10%, the status of scholars is very high.
Reflecting the prosperity of a civilization, scholars are the most important manifestation.
The imperial court stipulates that all scholars with scholarly status are a protected group and do not need to perform military or corvee service in the catastrophe. The main task of these scholars is to pass on the splendid culture of the world for hundreds of thousands of years.
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Scholars like Yang Sanlang who gave up writing and joined the army were only a minority after all. Most of the scholars were engaged in the study of classics.
Of course, after the imperial court issued preferential treatment for scholars ten years ago, many high-ranking officials, wealthy businessmen, and others, in order to prevent their sons from going to the battlefield and dying, relied on connections and used connections to give their sons the status of a scholar.
Most of those scholars who spend their days walking around the streets, traveling around, and spoiling girls from good families are actually dandy disciples who are ignorant and incompetent.
Playboys have now become a major cancer in Middle-earth.
According to court records, last year alone, there were more than 300,000 incidents of women from good families being raped by dandies across China.
This is only recorded by the imperial court.
Under the constraints of traditional moral ethics, many women are bullied and choose to swallow their anger for fear of a bad reputation.
Last year, there were definitely not less than 500,000 incidents of good girls being raped by dandy disciples.
This is only one year.
In the past ten years, all the young and strong men in Middle-earth have been serving in the army. It is unimaginable how many women have been brutally murdered by these disciples of wealthy families in the past ten years.
The imperial court also knows that if it is not restrained, the people of China will definitely become resentful.
At the beginning of last month, the imperial court enacted a series of laws targeting scholars who stayed behind.
Once discovered, we will investigate closely.
After beheading hundreds of dandy disciples, these scum finally learned to restrain themselves.
He no longer dared to flirt with good girls in the city, so they simply went out to enjoy the mountains and rivers together, which was quite relaxing.
Therefore, for most of the day, you can see groups of young people wearing scholar's clothes wandering around the Ten Thousand Buddhas Peak of Mount Xumi.
Yun Qiyou and Ye Xiaochuan were also going up the mountain.
Behind him were four or five rich men and a dozen servants following them.
Those kids from rich families couldn't help but start talking when they saw Yun Qiyou's beauty.
However, this is Mount Sumeru, so they don't dare to act recklessly here. They can only live up to their verbal addiction.
Just as he said each sentence, Yun Qiyou suddenly stopped. His cold eyes made the four dudes' necks go cold, and they did not dare to say any more.
The group continued to go up the mountain. After a while, Ye Xiaochuan and Yun Qiyou heard the scholars behind them discussing something.
Dandy A said: "My father said that King Ning, King Huai, and some important officials from the imperial court have secretly formed a fleet that will arrive at Haijin Port in the next two days. I heard that this fleet has more than a hundred five-ships.
For Yadajian, a personal ticket costs one hundred thousand taels of silver. Treasures are charged according to their weight. A pound of property costs ten taels.
My father bought six ferry tickets, ten boxes of gold jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, and spent millions of taels on them."
Dandy Yi said: "Brother Li, your family's little possessions are nothing. My father bought twelve shipping tickets and thirty boxes of treasures and goods.
It cost several million taels.
No, I received a letter from home early this morning, asking me to return to the capital as soon as possible and go to Yizhou with the fleet to avoid this catastrophe."
Dandy C said: "My family spends a lot, but compared with life, this little money is nothing.
Only ordinary people died in the catastrophe. We are born aristocrats, and our lives are much nobler than those of the untouchables. When all those untouchables are dead and the catastrophe is over, and we come back, we will still be high-ranking nobles."
