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Chapter 53 Buddha's Footprints
Just after leaving the prison mountain, the story of the old monkey pricking blood and writing Buddhist scriptures has spread throughout the convoy. Ding Dayou, who originally ignored the old monkey, specially invited him to drink at night after hearing about it. old monkey.

The old monkey has a wide range of knowledge, and he can tell the local customs and customs vividly, interestingly and fascinatingly wherever he goes.

"Going north from here for more than forty miles, there is Erjialan across a river from Mount A, with the same name, Zhaohuli, and the east and west are in harmony. The decoration of the Buddha statues is almost artificial.

The monks are clean, sincere and diligent.In the Hall of Holi in Dongzhao there are jade stones, more than two feet wide, yellow and white in color, and shaped like sea clams.

There are footprints of the Buddha's feet on it. It is eight inches long and six inches wide.Or there is a fasting day, and the candles are bright. "

Ding Dayou, who was drinking, stopped his glass. He didn't quite understand the old monkey's words, and seemed to have heard something serious, so he turned his gaze to Yunchu.

Yunchu put down the leg of lamb in his hand, wiped his hands with a handkerchief, and frowned to clean up Naha, whose face was covered with oil. Then he said to Ding Dayou: "Mr. In Yuli, there are two temples. These two temples are on both sides of the river. The temple on the east side has a huge white and yellowish jade stone, which is more than two feet wide and narrow, shaped like a sea clam.

There is also a footprint left by the Buddha on the jade, which is one foot and eight inches long and six inches wide. Every time the Buddha's birthday comes, it will shine brightly.

It is a rare treasure! "

Ding Dayou immediately turned his head and asked the old monkey: "Is there such a thing?"

The old monkey nodded and said: "This thing is my treasure in the Western Regions, as long as this thing stays in the Western Regions, the prosperity of Buddhism in the Western Regions is just around the corner.

I heard that the Lord of the Tang Dynasty built the Da Ci'en Temple to pray for his mother, but unfortunately there is no such a piece of jade. No matter how well the Da Ci'en Temple is built, it is not enough for the Lord to recite the voice of his mother and reach the sky. "

Ding Dayou turned his head to look at Yun Chu and said, "Is it true that the land of the king is the land of the king, and the land of the land is the king's minister?"

Yun Chu frowned and said, "Your Majesty will be very happy if he hears Du Wei speak like this."

Ding Dayou poured the last glass of wine into his mouth and sighed: "The best, most beautiful, and most glorious will belong to my emperor."

Yun Chu nodded and said: "This statement is true. As His Majesty's subjects, we will naturally do our best for His Majesty."

Ding Dayou said with a smile: "You go, or I go, or send a brigade commander?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "The Zhechong Mansion is His Majesty's eagle dog, so you can't do such shady activities. Dirty work naturally requires dirty people to do it."

"Dirty people?"

"That's right, don't we have bad people who specialize in dirty work in our team? They all call themselves bad people. If they don't do this job, who will?"

Ding Dayou said: "Actually, there is no need to cover up like this. Our Majesty is the most selfish. As long as we are wholeheartedly for Datang and do some scandalous things in this wilderness, His Majesty will naturally help us cover it up." "

"Then you can't let His Majesty help his courtiers cover up by getting angry every time? Good man, who can stand getting angry eight times a day?"

"Well, then let the bad people take them there." After speaking, he looked at the old monkey and said, "It's the temple in the east, right?"

The old monkey nodded and said, "It's in the Jialan Hall in the middle, and there is a white jade lotus seat at the bottom. That thing is not bad, so be sure to bring it back together."

Ding Dayou said with a smile: "I just like barbarians like you. If all barbarians in the world are like you, how can there be so many Jingguan people in this world?"

Yun Chu thought it was right, and the old monkey also had no shame on his face, with a relaxed expression.

When Ding Dayou was busy arranging the robbery, Yunchu smiled and said to the old monkey: "You really killed the 76 monks in the Horseshoe Temple in Ganzhou?"

The old monkey shook his head and said, "They are all disciples of Buddhism, so they won't be so heartless."

"Then the one who killed the monks of Horseshoe Temple was Qinglang?"

"No, Qinglang has had a hard time hiding in Tibet all these years in order to avoid the Huihe Khan's pursuit. Besides, he is not qualified to enter Yumen Pass, let alone Ganzhou."

"Since you didn't do it, why are you torturing those bad people?" "I just want to make those people move. Didn't they say that I killed the monks at the Horseshoe Temple? Now, they want to kill Zhaofu too." The monk from Lida Temple, maybe we can see some clues from it."

Yun Chu looked at the old monkey and said, "Those monks are too innocent."

The old monkey laughed and said, "You know, the Buddha said that the age of the Dharma is coming, it is a dark age, in that era, the Buddha will not save the monks who are in danger, but will let them enter Nirvana this morning , Waiting for the dawn of Dharma to flourish in samsara.”

Yun Chu was puzzled and said: "Could it be that killing the monk now is saving the monk?"

The old monkey said: "If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Naha who was dozing off with a smile on his face and said, "Do you want to play stick with me?"

Hearing that she was going to play with a stick, Naha suddenly felt relieved, stood up from behind Yunchu, and followed the old monkey away.

Yun Chu took the opportunity to check his hidden wealth and felt that it was safe, so he went to sleep immediately. He felt that as long as he fell asleep, many harmful things in this world would have nothing to do with him.

On the second day, Yunchu did not see any bad people in the team, and some jumping soldiers in the government soldiers also disappeared.

There are generally not too many jumping soldiers in the government soldiers, but each of them is a sharp soldier, not to mention whether they can walk or ride, they are mainly used to smash the enemy's formation and open the way for the follow-up army.

It's a pity that such a group of people become horse thieves.

However, Ding Dayou didn't seem to care, so Yunchu pretended not to know about it.

Anyway, an ultra-low-level official like Yunchu is not qualified to meet the emperor. After returning to Chang'an, a fifth-rank general like Ding Dayou might stand outside the Taiji Palace and take a long look at His Majesty the Emperor. It seems that this guy has already done it. It's ready to present that magical jade to His Majesty the Emperor.

It has been more than a year since Li Zhi became emperor. Yun Chu came to a conclusion after reviewing the documents for more than a year. There is a lot of love.

Even when it was time to liquidate some high-ranking generals, the military officers at Zhechong Mansion's level were never touched, and even rewards were issued to comfort their frightened hearts.

It is because of this that Ding Dayou, a group of mid-level generals, respects his emperor very much. Whenever there is something good, they will never forget their emperor.

The river that separates the two Zhaohuli Temples is called Dongchuan Water. Because the snow on the Tianshan Mountains has melted so fast this year, even though there hasn’t been a drop of rain in the Kucha area since summer, the water in the river is still abundant, almost Cut off cross-strait exchanges.

Fortunately, when Liang Jianfang came, he built a wooden bridge on the open land downstream of Dongchuan River, allowing Yunchu's camel caravan to cross the river smoothly.

Did Ding Da let the team camp on the edge of the Dongchuan water, but went on for twenty miles before camping in a place full of Populus euphratica.

Yunchu named this place Huyangli.

The Hu people who escaped from the two war-torn areas of Kucha and Khotan basically settled here temporarily.

As a result, a piece of Populus euphratica forest has created a brand new town.

The old monkey took Naha to pick and choose among the little girls. Sometimes he would look at the little girl's teeth, sometimes at the little girl's calves, and more often, he would use his pair of monkey paws to pick and choose. The hands were pinching the little girl's body.

These little girls are very young, with a straw rope tied around their necks, leaning on the roots of the old Populus euphratica docilely like lambs, waiting for someone to come and pick them away.

Old Monkey is a mature slave trader. When he was selecting slaves, many barbarians surrounded him and recommended their own children to him.

The old monkey was not in a hurry, and looked kindly at any child, until Yunchu saw that he had exchanged a little girl with a pile of naan bread, and he took Naha away.

Because, Naha always asked the old monkey if she could exchange two stacks of naan cakes. After getting the exact answer from the old monkey, the silly child laughed and told Yunchu that she was more valuable.

Yunchu felt that there was something wrong with the child's mind!

Whether it's the boy's market or the girl's market, Yunchu has no intention of visiting.

Therefore, here he exchanged a lot of paint and white cloth unique to the Western Regions with sand.

Pigments and white cloth are not listed on the Yumen Customs Tax List.

It's a pity that there are not many goods here, otherwise, I would like to exchange all the gold and goods that need to be taxed with those that do not need to be taxed.

Gold is undoubtedly the most dangerous, but as long as gold can be brought into Datang, this thing can be exchanged for more good things, even if the government of Datang banned gold and silver from being used as currency, but, its The value is unchanged, especially loved by nobles.

Ding Dayou is also doing what Yunchu did, but because he has a lot of gold, Yunchu's acquisition plan has been greatly affected.

During the day, the weather was hot, so Ding Dayou didn't order to set up tents, and everyone spread a sheepskin or wolfskin on the sand to sleep on the spot.

In order not to be affected by the ghost screams from the government barracks, Yunchu took Naha and tied a hammock on the Populus euphratica tree, and the siblings whispered in the hammock.

"Are they beating those women?"

"Well, that's right."

"Why did they beat those women?"

"Because those women took their naan."

"Do you get naan bread after being beaten?"

"Yes, you have to learn to be thrifty and store food in the future, so that you don't have to be beaten for food."

"I think there will be no food to eat in the future, we can still grab it!"

"That's very reasonable, my sister is really smart, but how did you play with the stick with the old monkey?"

"Being able to beat sheep away, the old monkey said, will be able to kill wolves in the future. I think I can kill a wolf soon."

"Well, play well with the stick. In the future, not only can you kill wolves, but you can also kill people."

(End of this chapter)