Section 4: A Thousand Golden Monuments

"The five lakes are their own home, and the four seas are wandering. The sky is a round cover, and the land is like a chessboard. The world competes for honor and disgrace, and there is no difference between them. There is no image and no name, and everything is my name. The scholar took the cup and sang a song.

Mo Junyan saw that he was talking, quite a river and lake atmosphere, and there was no lack of black and white mystery in his words, so he unconsciously asked: "I don't know what Brother Tai is called?"

The scholar put down his handbags and asked with a strange expression: "If I ask your name and surname, will you tell me?"

Mo Junyan was stunned for a moment, suddenly thought of his special identity, and hesitated slightly, but changed his mind and said: "This person is straightforward, he is definitely not a person in Jinyi Weizhong, if I hide it, I will definitely hurt this encounter friendship." There is no concealment at the moment: "Mo Junyan in the Lower Kunlun Mountain." ”

The scholar laughed and said, "Brother Mo is really a sincere gentleman, admire and admire." Xiaosheng Xu forgiveness, the breeze comes, and the smell is straightforward. Hehe, Xiaosheng once gathered in Laizhou and met Brother Mo. ”

Mo Junyan said "ah" and said: "The person who saved me that day was you, Brother Xu? Thank you! Thank you!" Xu Liang smiled: "It's just a little trick, why worry about it." Yu Mengyi said: "Ha, it turns out that you have really met, no wonder you chatted so happily!"

"Haha!" Xu Liang said: "Girl, don't be weird, Xiaosheng has seen Brother Mo, but Brother Mo has not seen Xiaosheng, but they have not seen each other." It was also an emergency that day, and it was too late to say hello to Brother Mo and Miss Luo. ”

Yu Meng asked, "Then what strange things happened to attract you?"

Xu Liang said in a lost voice: "Hey, that's not it, the girl has wronged Xiaosheng." Xiaosheng was in such a hurry, he was tracking down a theft accident. Yu Meng heard that it must not be simple, and listened to him at the moment: "The two must know that there is a Hongfu Temple in Chang'an, which is famous for Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty, and contains the relics and Buddhist beads that Xuanzang brought back from the Western Regions. But just a month ago, a group of thieves suddenly came to Hongfu Temple, they did not steal Buddhist scriptures, did not steal Buddha statues, and did not steal relics, Buddha beads, but only stole a stone tablet stored in the temple, it is really strange. ”

"Thieves who steal the stele? Haha, they're so boring. Yu Meng couldn't help laughing.

The inscription is the preface of the Tang Taizong for the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, which is a holy relic for the children of Buddhism, and is a waste for secular people. The disciples of Buddhism will not steal, and if they do, they will never steal the inscription. And that stele is a thousand catties, how can ordinary thieves easily steal it? Since they can steal it, they must be extraordinary people in the rivers and lakes. Think about it, what are these thieves with strong martial arts going to do with stealing such a useless stone tablet?"

When Xu Liang said this, he glanced at Yu Meng and Mo Junyan respectively. Mo Junyan understood, thought for a moment, and said: "The one who stole this tablet must be a person in the martial arts, and the martial artist is the most important martial arts cheat, could it be that in this "Tang Sanzang Holy Sect Preface Tablet", there is a hidden martial arts of Buddhism in the Western Regions?" Yu Meng said: "The inscription was written by Li Shimin, and I don't think it will be the martial arts of the Western Regions." Could it be that the problem lies with the stele itself?"

Xu Liang smiled and said, "You two are half right. He saw that both of them showed eager expressions, and deliberately posed as a storyteller: "Don't be in a hurry, and listen to Xu slowly." "Provoked Yu Dream to beat him tightly.

"Hongfu Temple lost this stone tablet, but it was also anxious. Not to mention whether there is really a profound martial arts in it, after all, it is a gift from the imperial court of the previous dynasty and a sacred product of Buddhism, how can it be desecrated by this? Then Xiaoguang Zen Master, the presiding officer of Hongfu Temple, and my teacher are close friends, so he sent a book to ask my master for help, and my master knew that I was here, so he asked me to investigate the matter. Xu forged.

"I was also surprised at the time, and later learned that the original lost stele was a thousand gold stele made by the monk Huairen of Shamen Huairen of Hongfu Temple in the Tang Dynasty. This Wang Youjun is no one else, but the Jin Dynasty's book saint Wang Xizhi, his book is unparalleled in the world, Tang Taizong is very admired. Extended to our dynasty, it is also to respect him. I think that Wang Youjun is a person from the Jin Dynasty, and the "Tang Sanzang Holy Order" is Taizong's edict, how can this Wang Xizhi get the Tang Dynasty and write this preface for the Tang Taizong?"

Xu Liang continued: "But the emperor has spoken, and he wants to use Wang Xizhi's calligraphy to engrave the stele, how dare the ministers not obey his death? This Hongfu Temple Shamen Huairen is also a brilliant and intelligent person, he himself is a calligrapher who has studied Wang Ti all his life, he collected Wang Xizhi's fonts scattered all over the place, which lasted for decades, and almost collected all the characters written by Wang Youjun during his lifetime. But the problem came, there were a few words that could not be found, and I had to ask the imperial court to post a notice, saying that whoever offered a word urgently needed in the inscription would be rewarded with a thousand gold. What's more, there are some words in the inscription that Wang Xizhi has never written, since he has never written, naturally there is no way to collect them, which is really rare. ”

But the monk Huairen was indeed smart, and if he didn't have the words, he started from the radical of Wang Xi's words, and even made up this holy order for him alive. It took 25 years to carve this stele, which perfectly reproduces the charm of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, and has also won the reputation of "Thousand Gold Tablets". After Xu Liang finished speaking, he took two broad beans and bit them creakingly.

After hearing this, Mo Junyan was still puzzled, and asked: "In that case, the content of this inscription is not unusual, even if this 'Thousand Gold Tablet' itself is only of extremely high calligraphy value, why does it provoke martial arts people to compete to steal?"

"Woo ......" Xu Liang swallowed the food in his mouth, drank another glass of Chinese wine, and then smiled: "Brother Mo doesn't know, in fact, I don't know, I asked Senior Brother later, and he told me." ”

Yu Meng saw his lazy appearance, and unconsciously laughed and scolded: "Say it quickly, mother-in-law, mother-in-law, mother-in-law, it's really anxious!"

Xu Liang wiped the greasy on his mouth and said with a smile: "Actually, it's not a mysterious thing. Hongfu Temple originally aimed at promoting Buddhism, and the martial arts of the monks in the temple have always been low. But the monk Huairen has profound internal skills, far beyond his peers, and in the Tang Dynasty, no one knows the origin of his martial arts. Later generations of hosts learned from Huairen's handwriting that his extraordinary skills were actually obtained from this 'golden tablet'. Wang Xizhi was the nephew of Wang Dao, the prime minister of the Jin Dynasty, who was a calligrapher and a Taoist disciple. After he resigned, he cultivated in Huatang, just like the great Confucian king Yangming of my dynasty, and practiced a kind of qi cultivation skill, called 'the qi of the dragon'. As the saying goes: 'One law, ten thousand laws', the dragon qi is completed, and it will naturally flow into the calligraphy. ”

Yu Meng said: "I see. I just don't know how this news spread to the rivers and lakes? It actually attracted thieves and thieves to plot what kind of dragon magic tricks. ”

Xu Liang said: "Miss Yu Meng is right, I can't guess this." I think that the reason why Monk Huairen refused to confide in his martial arts when he was alive is probably because this 'dragon qi' is the qi of Taoism, not the inner strength of Buddhism, so he has never left a way to practice the method, but only made a handwritten explanation of cause and effect. The handwritten books of the previous generation of senior monks can only be consulted by the presiding abbot, and the possibility of leaking them out is very small. If it weren't for the fact that my mentor was the best friend of the host, I am afraid that I would not know the reason for this. ”

"However, Brother Xu has traced it to this point, and he must have found something. If Brother Xu believes in the two of us, we should help you. Mo Junyan's brain turned very fast, Hongfu Temple is in Chang'an, and since Xu Liang has tracked down Kaifeng Mansion, he must have discovered something.

Xu Liang thanked him: "Brother Mo is polite. How can Xu believe that he can't believe the reason of the two of you? I can't hide it, Xiao Sheng is the informant who said that in this Kaifeng Mansion, he once saw two big men carrying stone tablets passing by, and they are vaguely the 'Thousand Golden Tablets' of Hongfu Temple. The 'Thousand Gold Monument' weighs more than a thousand catties, even if it is a famous martial arts master, most of them can't be carried by one person, and these two people can bear it, which is obviously not a mediocre hand. Therefore, Xiao Sheng didn't dare to startle the snake, and secondly, his martial arts skills were limited, and he didn't dare to act rashly, so he had to act as the sentry and watch from the wall, haha. ”

"So, do you know who stole the stele, and who are they?" Yu Meng was curious, and when he saw that he seemed to be about to pause again, he hurriedly asked. Xu Liang had to put down the chopsticks he picked up again, and replied: "There are about twenty of them in that group, and they call themselves 'Liang Yuanke', most of them are a gang, I haven't heard of it." ”

"'Liang Yuanke'...... Liang Yuanke ......?" Mo Junyan muttered and pondered, and chanted several times before saying, "This group of people, I'm afraid it's not simple." He knew that Liang Garden was a large-scale royal garden built by Liu Wu, the king of Liang Xiao in the Western Han Dynasty, and it was rumored that Liang Garden had caused a sensation in the world after it was completed, and it appeared many times in later poems, such as the poet immortal Li Bai's "Liang Yuan Yin", Cen Shen's "Liang Yuan is chaotic and flying crows at dusk, and the three or two are extremely depressed", Li Shangyin's "Hugh asks the old guests of Liang Garden, Maoling autumn rain is similar" and so on.

"It's not easy, and I still don't know who their head is. But fortunately, Xiao Sheng had already heard that this group of people was going to go to the old garden of the Liang family in Guide Mansion to get together. Xu Liang said: "Now that you know where they are going, everything will be much easier." ”

"Hmm. Mo Junyan bowed his head and said: "Guide Mansion is more than 100 miles away from Kaifeng, and it's not too early now, so it's time for us to go, right?" Xu Liang saw what he said solemnly, and said with a straight face: "Thank you two for your help." Xiaosheng has also passed a book from a pigeon to inform Hongfu Temple of the situation here. ”

"The sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes should draw their swords to help, don't be verbose, let's go!" Yu Meng said with a smile.

The three of them paid for wine and food, and went to Kaifeng City to buy three good horses, and then went in the direction of Liangyuan in Guide Mansion. The south is hilly and rugged, while the north is not, with flat terrain that can be driven straight in. Kaifeng is even more extreme in this, except for the Yellow River in the north, there is no danger to stop the blockage. The three of them were not in a hurry, and the horses ran for an hour and then walked slowly, and they also rested once at night. Even so, the journey of more than 200 miles will arrive the next day.

When the three of them arrived at the realm of Guide Mansion, they invested in an inn, Mo Junyan and Xu Liang asked for one, and Yu Meng lived in one. They asked Xiao Er, only to know that the former Liang Yuan had now been annihilated, and there were only two or three left. The three of them discussed a night out, and then each rested for the night. Just after the hour, Xu Liang and Mo Junyan called Yu Meng, and the three of them dressed up as black clothes for night walking, and started their light work and went towards the old site of Liang Yuan.