Prime Minister

Chapter 436
The mountain stream resounded, making a sound like thunder.

Listening to Su Shi's words, Zhang Yue smiled. Su Shi's praise and love for everyone came from the heart.

Because he has enough knowledge and experience, he can see the advantages of everyone in his eyes, just as he said, everyone he sees is a good person.

So Su Shi has many friends and is very popular.

However, with Su Shi as a friend, it is difficult for ordinary people to get into his heart. He is really over-the-top, but on the contrary, some "barrel spirits" are easy to offend people, but if you make friends, they will treat you sincerely.

After the title of the book on the wall, Zhang Yue and others continued to descend the mountain, searching and climbing, walking among the endless mountains, majestic clouds and mists rising, and a dragon at the bottom of the valley was breathing thinly.

Halfway through the group, there was a heavy rain in the mountains. They found a mountain pavilion to shelter from the rain, and they hurriedly changed their clothes and made tea for them.

After the rain break, the journey was already delayed, everyone continued to walk along the mountain, and at night they found a Taoist temple to spend the night.

There is only one Taoist priest in the Taoist temple. The Taoist priest said that he is a monk who has been bigu for many years, and he only eats pine needles on weekdays.Nearby is the land of Zhongnan Mountain in the Qinling Mountains. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been a place where hermits have been haunted, and there are many hidden gods.

It is not surprising that everyone heard that the Taoist leader will be bigu.

Hearing that everyone was hungry, the Taoist priest cooked a pot of rice for everyone with pine needles, boziren, Huang Jing, etc.

The pine needles, cypress kernels, and sealwort can be called immortal food, especially this sealwort, after steaming the fresh shoots, it is extra sweet in the mouth.

Everyone took a sip, and they couldn't help but praise that "eating Huangjing rice today, I will be full and forget about the hunger the day before." The Taoist told them that eating Huangjing every day can make "whitening and blackening, and teeth fall and regenerate".

Not only sealwort is delicious, but also the pine needles are fresh and tender, the outer skin is removed, and only the tender heart is eaten.

Everyone had never tasted delicacies from mountains and seas, but they were hungry after a day of walking on the mountain road, and they ate such light and delicious fairy food, so they ate it with relish.

After Su Shi ate a large bowl of Huang Jing rice, he talked with the Taoist priest about the way of health preservation and bigu with great interest, and at the same time inquired about the news of the gods.

The dew in the mountains was severe and the night was cold, and everyone didn't sleep well that night. Zhang Yue heard that Zhang Dun and Su Shi got up in the middle of the night and were talking, and they couldn't help but put on their clothes. It happened that a round of moon was above Cangshan Mountain, and suddenly the empty mountain and deep valley were filled with clear light.

Zhang Yue went back to the Taoist temple to rest. At the fourth watch, everyone got up without sleepiness and left some money for the sleeping Taoist. They left the Taoist temple to climb the mountain to watch the sunrise.

Everyone climbed to the top to see the beauty of the sunrise on Nanshan Mountain, and they couldn't help being amazed for a moment. They had made an appointment to watch the sunrise and write poems, but they couldn't help but be at a loss for words about such a breathtaking beauty.

Even Su Shi said, "although begonias are beautiful, they don't recite poems".

One of the examiners suddenly said: "I'm just running around all day, but it's not very interesting. I really hope that one day I will let go of my errands, look at the beauty of the mountains, rivers and countryside, and stop asking about official careers."

From ancient times to the present, the feelings of avoiding the world of the scholar-bureaucrats, when Confucius was depressed, he also had the broken thoughts of "If the way is not good, I will float on the sea in a boat".A few people present discussed that 'if you live in a high temple, you will worry about your people; if you live far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about your ruler'.

Su Shi said: "If you are an official, you will follow Confucianism and Law, and if you live in seclusion, you will think about Buddhism and Taoism. It is the same through the ages."

Everyone agreed with Su Shi's words.

An examiner asked: "Where does Zizhan think is the best place to return to his old age?"

Su Shi said: "I listened to Jiang Yingshu (Jiang Zhiqi) at the Qionglin Banquet. Shan Junci (Shan Xi) once said that Yang Xian had good scenery and good tea. Some orange trees, choose one at the foot of a mountain to build a house for the rest of your life.”

Everyone laughed when they heard the words, but they didn't care.

The other two examiners thought that Zhang Yue, Su Shi, and Zhang Dun had become officials when they were young, and now they have a lot of fame and fame, and they just talked about the matter of returning to seclusion.

But Su Shi really settled in Yangxian later.

In the eighth year of Xining, when Zhang Dun was frustrated in the political arena, he wrote a poem to Su Shi, Jun Fangyang admired the new house, and I also repaired the old house from the Wu family. ... In the future, the boat will make an appointment to come and go, and they will share poetry and wine with woodcutters and fishers.

After Zhang Dun and Su Shi made an appointment to retire, we traveled together in a small boat, poetry, wine, woodcutters, woodcutters and fishers.

Here is a sigh, the two are really good friends, so good that they are sent to Hainan Island...

Everyone talked and laughed, and after they got off the mountain, everyone was full of poetry.

Anyone who has a poetic flavor will ask his attendants to bend down and write directly on his back, and finally put the written poems into the poem bag.

Like Su Shi, Zhang Dun is very prolific, and within two or three days there is a thick stack of paper in his poem bag.

The crowd went to the North Temple again by crossing the Black River. Zhang Yue couldn't help but tell Su Shi that when he went to study in Wuxi when he was young, his eldest brother told him that he was not allowed to take the wild crossing.

Su Shi laughed out loud, and Zhang Dun heard it faintly, but said nothing.

When the boat was moored, it was on the beach and rocks, and everyone immediately took up pens and left books on the rocks on the wall.Zhang Yue's books and Su Shi's books are all famous in the world. Zhang Dun is proud of Mo Zen, and later generations are also praised.

It is the beauty of scholar-bureaucrats to write books on the cliff.

The person accompanying him happened to be a local official, and later he ordered a craftsman to engrave all the writings of the people here. This cliff carving made this place a scenic spot, attracting countless scholars from later generations to come to worship.

After they crossed the black water, they searched for the way and saw the outline of the temple in the distance.

The officials from Zhouzhi County greeted them here. They waited overnight at Zhongxing Temple. They thought they would arrive yesterday, but they were nowhere to be seen.Now when they saw Zhang Yue and his party, they immediately stepped forward to serve, serving tea soup and hot wine.

So the yamen servants gave them to everyone, and put on horses again, so that the group of people had their mounts and went to Zhongxing Temple instead.

That night, everyone visited Zhongxing Temple.

There are many scenery in the temple. For example, there is a cave in the temple, which is said to be the place where jade and flute are used to attract phoenixes.The stone spring is the dawn mirror, and the mountain moon is the curtain hook.At the end of the year, the fir and maple are exhausted, and people return to fog and rain.Seeing off should be humble, who will succeed Chu Chen. '

There is another hole in the valley to the east, which is said to be Ma Rong's reading place.

Everyone stayed in Zhongxing Temple that night, and the monk's room where they stayed was hidden by tall pines and cypresses.

Not far from the monk's house is a small stream that circles the temple. In the night, the lights of the monk's house shine on the stream, and there is the gurgling sound of the stream. Many monks are carrying wooden barrels to fetch water by the stream. On the other side of the stream is A vast pear grove.

Under the autumn colors, the pear trees along the stream are all dyed red!
The next day everyone set foot on their way home.

Everyone drank all night in Lianshi yesterday, and they still haven't woken up yet.

On the way, I suddenly heard a tiger howling!
Everyone couldn't help being shocked, Zhang Dun, Su Shi, and Zhang Yue all rode their horses forward for a few steps to look at the sound of the tiger, and they saw that there was really a tiger coiled on the road dozens of steps away from them.

At this moment, the three horses were frightened and did not dare to move forward.

Su Shi was shocked and said: "The horse is still like this, what's the reason?"

After speaking, Su Shi hurriedly turned his horse's head and retreated hastily.Zhang Yue was also dumbfounded. Except in the zoo, he had never seen a second live tiger.

Zhang Dun smiled when he heard the words, and rode his horse forward alone and said, "Duzhi, Zizhan doesn't need to come near, I have my own reason."

As soon as Zhang Dun drove his horse close, he took the bronze sand gong used by the yamen servants to clear the way and smashed it on the stone, but when he saw the tiger, he immediately ran away.

Zhang Dun rode his horse back and smiled at the crowd, "You will definitely not be as good as me!"

After Zhang Dunfang finished speaking, he suddenly roared again.

Tigers go and come back!
(End of this chapter)