Jinyi Night Walk

The army set off from Hami, all the way to the yellow sand...the sun was scorching, and it was very hard work.But the road always comes to an end, and now clumps of trees, green weeds, occasional lakes, and small villages gradually appear in front of us, and we are getting closer and closer to Dunhuang.

As they were walking, a group of cavalry suddenly came galloping in the distance, wearing their Daming attire. Even so, the commander of the guards sent by King Hami did not dare to neglect, and immediately led a group of soldiers to meet them on horseback, and met twice After talking for a while, the commander of the guards turned around and brought one of the riders towards Xia Xun's car.

It was a light car with a cover on the top and no curtains on all sides. It was a little cool in this hot summer. Xia Xun, Xilin, Rangna, and the little girl Tang Sai'er were in the car.

The guard leader led the people to the front of the car, and said loudly: "Guo Gong, the commander of the Handong Guard envoy Suonan, the commander Tong Zhita, the commander of the Shazhou Guard envoy Kun Ji, and the commander of the guard Mai Jia are on the way. Ten miles away, welcome the Duke, and welcome the Duke to enter the city."

"Dunhuang, we won't go in. My country's lord is like an arrow. You go back, ask Suonan and Kunji to prepare drinking water and food immediately, and arrange a team of soldiers to escort my country to Jiayuguan.

Commander Song, you have worked so hard all the way, you can rest in Dunhuang for a few days, then return to Hami, and thank King Zhongshun on my behalf! "

"Obey!" The two knights were instructed to steer their horses away.

Liu Yujue reined in his horse and said, "Duke, the officers and men are a little tired after trekking all the way. I think Sai'er and the two wives Ru are also very tired. Anyway, the news has already been sent back. Why should the Duke be in a hurry? If you rest in Dunhuang There is no delay for two days." Lou Xun shook his head and said, "These soldiers who survived by chance are from Xiliang who have been away from home for so long, and they are concerned about their relatives in their hometown. The court and family can get the news of my life and death as soon as possible. Knowing that many of them don’t know life and death at home, it’s good to be there one day earlier!”

"Yes!" Liu Yujue stopped persuading after hearing the words. Xia Xun raised his eyes and looked into the distance. It was tens of miles away from Shazhou City, and the outline of Dunhuang City could not be seen yet, but it was already close to Dunhuang Oasis. Meadows appeared here and there, and occasionally some small villages could be seen.

Xia Xun leaned back, wrapped her arms around Xilin and Rangna's slender waists and asked softly, "Are you short?" Yan leaned towards Xia Xun, and said softly, "Master, we also want to go home soon!"

Tang Sai'er threw herself on Xia Xun from behind and wrapped his arms around his neck, saying, "Godfather, I miss my mother!"

Xia Xun nodded silently, looked up, Bai Yunyouyou, and suddenly missed his relatives: Ming'er, Zi Qi, Xie Xie, Su Ying, Yi Xiaodi, those four precious girls and his son Yang Huaiyuan... …

There are only Xuelian and Miaoyi mother and daughter in the Winner Meditation Hall.

The wooden fish rolled away "dangdangdang", and a scroll of scriptures was also thrown to the ground.

Xue Lian was in a clean suit, sitting cross-legged on the futon.

Compared to back then, her cheeks were a little thinner. The strong woman who originally held the management power of the Sun Family Medicine Hall, after ten years of infecting the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha, her aura has been replaced by softness, and she has a faint sense of being out of the world.

Perhaps it was because of ten years of calmness and ten years of vegetarian practice, except for her slightly thinner cheeks and pointed chin, her whole person looked exactly the same as ten years ago, she still looked like a person in her thirties.

The scriptures were thrown to the ground, and the wooden fish was also broken by Miao Yi. Xue Lian still sat cross-legged, eyes closed, seemingly indifferent to everything in front of her.

Miao Yi's chest rose and fell sharply, and she said in a trembling voice: "How many times have I said it, mother! That person is dead, he died a long time ago! Did you listen? If we say we are wrong, ten Years of repentance, isn't it enough? Why can't you let go?"

Xuelian still has her eyes closed. Ever since she built this meditation hall and became a lay Buddhist, Xuelian has lived here alone, isolated from the world. Whenever her daughter comes to visit her in the meditation hall, she will close her eyes, just like at this moment.

Miao Yi said: "Mother, do you really believe in Buddhism? Do you live in this meditation hall to convert to the Buddha, or to escape from others, from me? You think I don't know. You are afraid of seeing me because you have seen me. Me, you will think of the unbearable things back then, but ten years in prison, isn’t it enough? If you can’t let go, how can you ask your daughter to let go?” Xue Lian’s body trembled, she still didn’t speak, but her eyes Trembling violently.

Miao Yi's tears were streaming down: "Mother, I am your sin, why are you not my sin? We have to forgive ourselves and each other, so that we can truly let go! Mother has recited the Buddha for ten years, Still can't figure it out, can't let it go? If mother can't accept the reality facing her daughter for a while, maybe it's better to separate for a while."

Miao Yi turned around gently, and said in a low voice: "The Duke didn't go into the city, he took a rest outside the city, and then went east, mother understands what he means? Chieftain Shenglong is really good to you, mother In this life, I finally have a person who treats you sincerely. Mother made a mistake twice. When the true fate comes, do you want to give up? This is all my daughter said, mother, think about it carefully!"

Miao Yi walked out gently, and walked out of the Zen hall, where Sheng Long, the chieftain at the foot of Tanggula Mountain, was standing there respectfully, holding a box in his hand.Those were the treasures, jewelry and spices he bought specially for the snow lotus on his trip to the Western Regions.

Miao Yi nodded slightly to him, and Sheng Long immediately tiptoed into the meditation hall like Feng Lun's voice, like a devout believer who was going to worship the real body of the Bodhisattva.

The handover of Xia Xun's escort team was over. He just chatted with the officials and gentry who were waiting outside the city, until the officers and soldiers of Hami and Dunhuang were handed over. The officers and soldiers of Hami entered the city to rest, and the commander of the Shazhou Guard, Kun Ji, personally led [-] elite soldiers , Escorted Xia Xun and his party to continue on the road.

Passing by the bank of Dunhuang, already a few miles away from the city, Xia Xun looked back on the sandy slope of a well, but saw a city of mountains, half of the city towers, reed streams, lakes everywhere, and a clear and clear sky Above, the pure white clouds, let the free wind move it and change, as beautiful as a paradise.

Xia Xun said silently: "Ten years ago, you left the sad place of Qingzhou and exiled yourself to the end of the world. Today, I took the initiative to leave, Dunhuang City, and I will not go in. I think what you need most now is tranquility. The arrival of you did not disturb your peaceful life, the past is over, I hope that both of you, mother and daughter, can let go of the burden in your heart and find your own happiness!"

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In a spacious courtyard, on a stone platform and a bench, a middle-aged man with a mustache is sitting on the bench, drinking tea slowly.This middle-aged man with a mustache is obviously the Master Shao Wangxin Shao who Tuoba Mingde tried his best to curry favor with.

Of course he is not the real Zhenyi Qianhu Shao Wangxin, this Xibei product is exactly Wan Songling, a master of Qianmen who lived in Fengyang area back then.

At that time, Xia Xun moved his family from Qingzhou to Jinling. Wan Songling saw that he had a lot of money, so he wanted to attack him in Fengyang. Because of the shortage of manpower, he found someone who used thousands of tricks to defraud people locally. The colleague Xie Yuli helped, but Xie Yuli knew that this Yang Xu was her husband's betrothed since she was a child, and she promised to help Wan Songling on the surface, but secretly put him together.

Wan Songling suffered a lot in Fengyang Prison. After escaping, he gnashed his teeth and chased after him to Jinling, hoping to avenge his revenge.As a result, the away game, the information was not effective, and he was beaten to death by Xie Yuli and her master Mrs. Xizhu. In the end, all the money he collected fell into the hands of Xie Yuli, and he fled Jinling alone, clean and tidy, thinking that he had killed the official. , Provoking a murder case.

Wan Songling was afraid of being wanted by the government on the way to escape, so he came up with an ingenious way. He carved a carrot stamp, forged an official letter according to the format of the government office envelope, stuffed waste paper inside, and stuck chicken feathers on the outside. He got a set of yellow-faced bundles in bamboo tubes and carried them on his back, and he transformed into a messenger of the government.

The people at the post station received so many messengers from south to north every day, how could they be so vigilant.

In addition, they are only in charge of receiving and sending official documents, and they are not the yamen that issue or receive official documents. They will believe the official documents at a glance, so the liar Wan Songling "swaggers" as a public official. Go west all the way, through Henan, through Shaanxi, until Gansu, eating, drinking and lodging all the way in the post station set up by the government.

For more than ten years, Wan Songling has taken root here, and has taken in several apprentices, becoming a very important figure in the local underworld.

Not long ago, Tuoba Mingde went around asking people about the relationship between the Zhenyi Thousand Households, and he caught his eye. Wan Songling transformed into Zhenyi Qianhu Master Shao again.In order to win the trust of Tuoba Mingde, he even entered the Yamen of Suzhou Wei once in front of Tuoba Mingde, and then was sent out by the officials in the yamen with great enthusiasm. Tuoba Mingde believed in his identity No doubt.

In fact, the land of Gansu implements the same system as the original one in Liaodong, that is, the military and government are integrated, there is no local government, and the guards are used to manage all local administrative and judicial matters, so as long as you have something to do at the yamen, you can can get in.This Wan Songling entered Suzhou Wei just for some trivial matter, but he stuffed a thick red envelope into the official who was handling the matter.

At first, Wan Songling just wanted to cheat Tuoba Mingde for a sum of money, but then he found out that this Hu businessman was very rich, and...very stupid. If such a stupid rich man didn't take a lot of money from him, wouldn't he? Do you want thunder and bangs?Wan Songling became greedy, so he wanted not only to make a profit from him, but also to defraud him of the huge sum of money he used to buy the goods. This required setting up a bigger game.

Therefore, his plan...has been drawn up, he has sent people to recruit some capable apprentices, and he is going to join hands with the apprentices to make a big show and cheat the Hu merchants out of their huge sums of money.It's been ten years, and the battle of Jingnan has passed in the middle. Presumably his case back then is no longer noticed. He will go back to his hometown as soon as the huge sum of money is obtained.

Fallen leaves return to their roots, even though he is a thief, a thief also has a hometown! .