"That's what you did. You started killing people at a young age. This is beyond my reach. In ancient times, Qin Wuyang killed people on the street when he was thirteen years old. You were much better than him." Di Qing laughed.
"Don't compare me to that courageous gangster. He killed just for the pleasure of the moment. I killed to save others. There is a clear distinction between the two."
Yun Zheng played with the fan in his hand and argued while looking at the crowds on both sides of the street.
"You have the courage to fight, and you also have the wisdom to fight, which makes me admire you very much. If I didn't accompany you when I returned to Beijing this time, my life would have been extremely miserable. Thank you in advance. I will be very courageous if you have someone to accompany you.
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You and I are both people who are used to fighting in the military. As long as there is a companion who can fight back to back, we will dare to fight even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire. If there is only one person fighting with the enemy, I never care about the enemy on the opposite side. I just
Worrying about being shot in the back is chilling to think about."
Yun Zheng said to Di Qing seriously: "Then don't die, don't leave me to fight alone. You are the only one among the generals who can be my true teammate. If one day you are no longer around, the emperor asked me to take a group of pigs to the battlefield."
, that would be too miserable.”
Di Qing laughed heartily, stretched out his long arms and fished out a jar of wine from the crowded vendors on the street. The vendors were not surprised and followed the cart with a smile. Yun Zheng flicked his finger, and a small silver ingot flew away.
Once out, the hawker caught it with quick hands and eyes. Soon, the voice of thanking the guest officer for the reward could be heard from all over the street.
Not bad, it looked like it was really the old Mi Liqiong, but it was later called Zhuangyuanhong. I don’t know which family’s rule it was. Di Qing patted the mud seal on it, took a sip and handed it to Yun Zheng.
Zheng reached in and fished out two lychees. He drank this kind of wine a lot when he was in Guangnan. It seemed that merchants from Sichuan had penetrated into Tokyo. This kind of wine should not have been drunk in Tokyo before. He
When I was in Guangnan, I liked to eat lychees soaked in wine.
Following Washizi, we quickly arrived at Daxiangguo Temple. This temple is very powerful. The most central location in Tokyo is not the Imperial Palace, but Xiangguo Temple. Of course, Tokyo City has been transformed into a grotesque appearance after renovations by successive emperors.
, Chang'an City has long ceased to look like a boxy city. If you look down from the sky, Tokyo City has almost turned into an ellipse.
If you want to get some peace and quiet in the bustle of Tokyo, Xiangguo Temple is undoubtedly the best place to go. It is not a good idea to enter the temple with a wine jar. The red walls and blue tiles here, the majestic palaces, and the frosty bells are far away. It is one of the "Eight Scenes of Bianjing"
"Xiangguoshuangzhong", "Zi Shengfengfeng", plus the statue of Manjusri Bodhisattva painted by Wu Daozi himself, just "Wu Dai generates wind" made this large-scale royal temple famous far and wide.
There were many servants and generals at the entrance of the temple. I don’t know whose family it belongs to. The Xiangguo Temple in Nuoda seemed to only entertain this family today. The other pilgrims only lit incense in the huge iron incense burner at the front entrance and left.
"The people of the Yang family are offering incense, and they are probably the female relatives. Judging from the etiquette of the carriage, it should be the old lady of the Yang family, who is Yang Wudi's wife. Losing family members means longevity. She is eighty years old this year. We might as well
Just go home, don't bother me, just give your ancestors some face."
As soon as Di Qing turned around after speaking, he saw Yun Zheng pointing to the Grand Prime Minister's Temple with great interest and said to him: "You said there is Mrs. She inside? My wife met this old lady when she attended a party in the capital. I
Her reputation is like thunder."
"Like thunder? How can I say this? She is just a woman. Although she is the daughter of the famous general Zhe Deke. The wife of Yang Wudi and the mother of the famous general Yang Yanzhao, she shouldn't be moved by someone like you, right?" Di Qing
Looking at Yun Zheng's excited and red face, he asked, "In the Song Dynasty, it was not easy to meet other people's family members, even if this old lady was already over eighty years old."
Of course, Yun Zheng couldn't say that he grew up listening to this old lady's storytelling. Now that he has met the real person, why not go and see him?
"Yang Wenguang served with you in the southern expedition. He was appointed as a defense official in Xingzhou, knew Jingzhou, was the deputy general manager of Dingzhou Road, and moved to Yuhou of the Infantry Department. This is regarded as being reused by the imperial court. Naturally, it is due to your recommendation.
Is it okay for us to go visit the old lady?"
Di Qing looked at Yun Zheng and said slowly: "Your request is really unreasonable! Forget it, just take a look at it from a distance. Let's climb in from the backyard of Xiangguo Temple. I haven't done this since I was twelve years old.
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"Can't we just visit in an open and honest manner?"
"Everyone in the world knows that the two of us are being grounded. I don't want others to see us."
After depositing the ox cart, Di Qing and Yun Zheng arrived at the backyard of Daxiangguo Temple. Di Qing looked at the bright bluestone that had been rubbed by someone and said with emotion: "Do you know, this place was like this forty years ago?"
The appearance is still the same forty years later. Everyone in Tokyo knows that the Xiangji Kitchen behind Xiangguo Temple can be climbed over to steal food. However, the monks of Xiangguo Temple have never thought of raising the height here. There will always be left in the steamer in the kitchen.
On the next drawer of steamed buns, even if a hungry thief takes the steamed buns, the monks in the temple will not chase him away.
It's strange to say that thieves enter the Daxiangguo Temple every night. Except for the one drawer of steamed buns that is always lost, nothing else is ever lost in the temple. Haha, those places with high-walled courtyards always lose
When it comes to theft, tell me, high walls and deep fortresses can only prevent gentlemen, but not thieves, but a tray of steamed buns in Xiangguo Temple can stop all thieves in the world!"
Yun Zheng said with admiration: "Master Xuanku is indeed a cunning old bald ass!"
"Presumptuous! How can you describe Master Xuanku like this?" Di Qing immediately turned his face.
"Don't worry, I have always respected people with compassion. No matter whether they do good deeds for other purposes, I also respect them very much. No matter what they do, they should do good deeds first. This is
It's worthy of respect. It's not me, old bald donkey, who said this. It was said by another famous fat bald donkey. When you see him later, go scold him instead of scolding me."
Di Qing said with a dark face: "You said this was said by Monk Wugou?"
"Yes, when he told me about the famous places in Tokyo, he specifically told me to stay away from Xuan Ku Bald Donkey, otherwise I would be fooled. How could I not take such an obvious warning to heart?"
Di Qing climbed up to the wall and looked down at Yun Zheng who was standing under the wall and said: "Why do I feel that the Wugou master you are talking about is not a good person? Zou Tong's statement that he asked the emperor to chop off your head should be true.
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Yun Zheng put his fan behind his collar and said as he climbed the wall, "It's absolutely true. Zou Tong didn't tell a single word of lies."
The two jumped off the low wall with a bang. Di Qing scratched his head and asked: "Since he is your friend, he shouldn't say such things. He is an enlightened monk. I don't know that saying such heart-wrenching words will make you angry."
Is the situation getting worse?"
Yun Zheng took the fan in his hand again and tapped his palms: "He will definitely not make things worse. He is trying to save me. I know that there will be no mistake."
Di Qing stopped walking and looked back at Yun Zheng. After a long while, he said, "You trust him so much?"
"I don't have many friends, only one or two. If they were willing to lie to me, I would have died eighty times ago. They trust me very much, so I don't even think about whether they will betray me, even if Monk Wugou asks me to
The emperor killed me, and I firmly believe that he said specific words in a specific environment, and he was helping me, not harming me."
Di Qing walked up to Yun Zheng, put his hands on his shoulders and said, "You can treat me as your friend from now on!"
Yun Zheng broke away from Di Qing's hand and laughed: "You already are, ever since you returned to the army in Zuining Mansion in Dali, otherwise you think I am full of food and will go to the censor to cause trouble?
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Di Qing also laughed loudly, took out the wine jar and took a big sip of wine. He handed it to Yun Zheng. Yun Zheng took it and took out a lychee from the middle and ate it. The two of them walked happily to the front yard of Daxiangguo Temple.
Go.
Di Qing's footsteps were brisk, and Yun Zheng had to trot to keep up. Compared with walking quickly against a big man who was over 1.9 meters tall, his walking was not an ordinary hardship.
Xiangguo Temple is very big, but there are very few people in it today. The monks are doing morning prayers, and the chanting and Sanskrit sounds in the temple are endless. Walking in this Buddha's country, plus having a good mood, the whole person feels like
Bathe in the Buddha's light and feel warm.
I don’t know why the four Vajra guards guarding the gate of Daxiangguo Temple are behind. The four Vajras leaned down and watched the two thieves walking past their feet. They could only stare angrily but did not punish them further. Such a level of spirit.
The attack put no pressure on a wretched person like Yun Zheng who dared to scrape gold paint off the Buddha statues. On the contrary, Di Qing even put his hands together and saluted each Buddha statue.
There are many locust trees in Xiangguo Temple. Now it is time to fall leaves. A breeze blows, and the leaves on the trees shake off. What falls is not just yellow leaves, but also countless green leaves mixed in, just like people.
Those who die are not necessarily old people, there are also many young people. Whether they die or not has nothing to do with age, but only with fate.
The monks are very kind, and they are not surprised when they see two thieves strutting out of the back hall, with idiot-like compassionate smiles on their faces, and salute with one palm. Di Qing has no awareness of thieves at all, and returns the salute respectfully.
, and later Di Qing told Yun Zheng that it was the Yang family that blocked the door to prevent others from entering, not Xiangguo Temple. Xiangguo Temple was a convenient door, and anyone could enter if they wanted to.
After hearing these words, Yun Zheng no longer had a good impression of those gorgeously dressed maids and female family members. Just when a maid was about to accuse Yun Zheng and Di Qing of being unreasonable, Yun Zheng pinched the maid's cheek with a smile.
She waved her fan and continued to follow Di Qing forward. Strangely enough, the humiliated maid did not hang herself or throw herself into a well. Instead, she loudly said from behind: "Don't dare go to the front yard, or you may have your legs broken by the general!" (Not finished!