Before Song Yun's envoy, Henan Yin Li Daoyuan had made a special visit and told Song Yun to go west to Shanshan to carefully investigate the relics of the ancient country of Loulan and explore the ruins of the ancient city of Yixun. Li Daoyuan was not only a strict official, but also a prodigy who knew geography.

"The old country with 800 years of history!"

Speaking of Loulan, his eyes sparkled:

"The division is here, the rippling blue waves of the sea of pu are already deserted by people!"

As for the reasons for the demise of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, he expressed his great conceit:

"Lack of water! Desertification! There are big mountains in the north and south of the Western Regions, one is called Kunlun, the other is called Baishan, and there are big rivers in the mountains. Its river has two sources, one out of the green ridge, one out of Khotan, its river along the Bailongdui north and south branch. The North River flows into the Weigan River in the south of Shaya, turns to the northeast in Luntai, enters the Pu Sea along the northern edge of the desert, and enters the Pu Sea along the southern edge of the desert. This water is also called Pu calamus and prison orchid. Later, the middle reaches of the Beihe River were diverted, resulting in a shortage of water in Loulan. In the Han Dynasty, Dunhuang General Soler once summoned 4,000 soldiers from Shanshan, Yanqi and Qiuzi to Loulan, and cut off the riverside day and night to divert water into Loulan. However, the North River and the South River are all time flows, the wet period is sluggish, the dry period is broken, and the water contains sand, although the people are trying their best to dredge the river, they have no support for the people, and they have to be abandoned, and the whole country moves south. This matter is verified by Hanban Sima's "Hanshu Geography" and "Hanshu Western Regions Biography". Yu thought that Loulan was nomadic as a business, not farming, the Han army tuncheng, the army was thousands of people, the fields were tilted, felling and burning grass, but also depleted the water, desertification was very much, and this was also the deceased of Loulan country. ”

"Ban Sima is the person I have served in my life. It tasted the defeat of the Central Protector Army in the North Shan Yu, climbed Yanran Mountain, and wrote "Yanran Mountain Inscription", which was tested in the Western Regions for the letter also. Unlike the great wilderness of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "The Biography of Mu Tianzi", "Yu Gong" and "Zhou Li Zhifang" only have outlines and are difficult to reference. Sima Shu, Loulan country is close to Bailongdui, lack of water grass, less field, jade, more reeds, tamarix, tung, white grass, its desertification is not easy to rest, its old capital is both sand and sea swallow, Shanshan should be the new site of the country...... "Li Daoyuan is full of interest, gushing, not only to Shanshan Loulan's past and present life to tell the head is the Tao, to the Xibang countries of the geography and human feelings also seem to know well, as if several times back and forth to it. In fact, this adult is just traveling to the countries of Xibang at the end of the pen.

"Yi Xunyun has the meaning of Zen, Shanshan is a good person, Loulan was the first to receive Buddha, it can be seen that it is Shanshan...... Although I have written about the affairs of the Western Regions, and have not traveled to the Western Regions, I have been tested from ancient books, and I have seen and heard from the end, and I have not studied in detail, but I have to talk about what I have heard and seen, and I regret that I have violated the ambition! The saint does not expect to cultivate the ancients, and the lawlessness is often allowed, and the things of the world are prepared because they are prepared.

The division traveled west this time, and it was determined that I would understand the countries, mountains, and waterways of the Western Regions in detail, and if I could draw a map of the countries, it would be good, and it would be beneficial to the country and learning......" Song Yunbai read the manuscript of this friend's "Commentary on the Book of Water" and was very convinced of his opinion. "Notes on the Book of Water" is a commentary on the "Book of Water" by Sangqin of the Western Han Dynasty, which takes rivers as the key link, describes in detail the geographical changes of rivers, lakes and water systems in the world, outlines the rise and fall of mountains, land, cities, villages and water conservancy, as well as the relics, stories, legends and folk songs in various places, and corroborates them with pictures and inscriptions. In addition to detailing the geography of northern and southern China, Li Daoyuan's "Notes on the Book of Water" also covers a wide range of regions, from the dam water of Goguryeo in the northeast, to Funan in the south, to the Tianzhu Xintou River in the southwest, to the rest and the West Sea in the west, and to the quicksand in Mobei in the north.

"Lunxu is in the northwest, and the third becomes Kunlun Hill...... The river flows out of Kunshan, and there are 13,000 miles in the subterranean land, and Yu leads to it...... Yu Kao Qunshu, Xianyan River out of Kunlun, heavy source latent hair, fell into Puchang, out of the sea. That's it. Rocks accumulate and are Chinese rivers...... Therefore, "Luo Shu" said: The river comes from Kunlun, out of the heavy wilderness ......" "Water Jing Note" begins with Kunlun in the Western Regions, taking Kunlun Mountain as the source of China's ten thousand waters, and along the Kunlun water veins, one by one to study the world's geography, humanities, and historical sites. From beginning to end, the book quotes, refers to, and transcribes various documents and strange books of predecessors, such as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Erya", "Theory of Things", "Shu Zhengji", "Including Maps", "River Maps", "Huainanzi", "The Biography of Mu Tianzi", "The Biography of Funan", "The Chronicle of the Bamboo Book", "The Records of the Western Regions", "The Biography of Fa Xian", "Foreign Affairs", "The Records of the Ten Continents", "The Diagram of the Opening of the Mountains of Dunjia", "The Divine Strange Sutra", and other predecessors. Song Yun's journey to the west and the countries he passed through are all described in the "Water Classic Note". When today's geography is the first person, only Li Shanchang. Hearing Song Yun ask when the draft of "Notes on the Water Classic" would be completed, Li Daoyuan's expression was obviously stunned.

"With the ancient country of the dead, note the riverside broken also, the atmosphere changes at any time, in ancient times, all have been small, and then the migration of the species, the rise and fall of the city, the change of the river, the name of the alternation, the situation is still complicated, the number is different, the road is blocked and long, the scriptures are long, the water and land routes are different, the path is different, if the root tooth is wrong, the wrong way is dead...... "In fact, the first draft of the "Water Scripture Note" has been completed, the original "Water Scripture" 15,000 words, "Water Scripture Note" is a huge work of more than 300,000 words, word by word, sentence to the bone. Li Daoyuan is still constantly correcting fallacies and does not want to pass them on lightly.

"Looking at the grandeur of the hundred rivers, Mo Shangmei is in the Yellow River; The steepness of Kunlun is high, and the saga of the stones is out...... On the day the teacher leaves Beijing, I am afraid that the good man will not be able to send it away...... The Tianzhu of the teacher's line must be the country of the Pure Land! ”

When parting, Li Daoyuan's face was gloomy, and his words revealed sadness.

Due to the rebellion of Xiao Baokun, the assassin of Yongzhou, Li Daoyuan was appointed as the ambassador of Guanyou and will soon take up his post in Yongzhou. Although this matter was decreed, there was a last resort. Li Daoyuan was not a lay person who believed in Buddhism, and initially intersected with Song Yun, who was born in Dunhuang, because of his research on the terrain of the Western Regions. Under the conversation, the two were very speculative and got along very casually. But this casualness seems to be limited to interactions with Song Yun, and this stern adult has no good popularity in the court. Whether it is to superiors, colleagues, subordinates and relatives, he will not show favoritism. It is said that this appointment was made only because he offended the two princes by acting impartially. Song Yun couldn't help but be gloomy, but he could only hold his hand and persuade him:

"Good elder, you are the one who is in the arms of the bright moon, don't you hear that different paths go to the same place? If my pure land is in Tianzhu, your pure land, be your heart! ”

Traveling to Shanshan Kingdom, Song Yun devoted himself to listening to the past of the ancient country. After Tuyuhun destroyed Shanshan, the original Shanshan royal family either fled to Yiwu or took refuge in Gaochang, changing the suzerain and residents, and the remnants were scattered all over the place. hearing

The word "Loulan", the young people are at a loss, the old people are secretive, and no one wants to talk about the distant ancient country that has been lost in memory. I heard that when they first moved south, the Loulan people who could not give up their homeland drew a map of their homeland, which was preserved in the Loulan royal family. Song Yun had cautiously asked Zhimoga if there was really such a picture. At first, when he heard Song Yun inquiring about the ruins of Loulan, Zhi Mojia had an indifferent expression that had nothing to do with him. Hearing this question, Zhi Moga's expression changed greatly, his eyes widened, and he shouted at Song Yun a large series of nonsense that no one could understand, and he looked like a wolf. Shi Hui, a fellow Xianbei monk, went out of the place and studied under the Tianzhu monk Tanmara, who was proficient in Sanskrit and a variety of Hu dialects, and did not know what country and what nationality Zhimaga spoke. After that, the originally silent Zhimaga became even more moody. But Song Yun, Mana, and Shi Hui privately judged that the language that Zhi Mojia shouted that day might be the ancient language of Loulan, and whether Zhi Mojia was a descendant of the Loulan royal family or not, he must be inextricably linked to those past events. Judging from the attitude of Zhimoga's great obstruction, the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan should be somewhere in the Bailongdui Desert.

"Regardless of Huaxia Yidi, it is human nature that Zhimaga does not disturb the soul of Xian'an."

Although Shi Hui understood that Song Yun wanted to fulfill the wish of his old friend, he was not keen on exploring the Loulan ruins. Mana also says:

"Knowing the distance with the near, knowing the ten thousand with one, and knowing the light with the micro. With the dangerous state of the land of Bailongdui, and the shape of the people of Shanshan country, it is enough to conquer Yin Qidu in Henan, why bother to enter the dangerous road again? ”

Although Song Yun felt that Chimaga was a bit of a trick, he did not want to provoke this alien guide who was constantly blackmailing them along the way, and from time to time threatened to throw them in the middle of the road.

I had to let go of Li Daoyuan's entrustment to personally witness the ruins and topography of the old city. After returning to Luoyang, Song Yun learned the bad news that the farewell with his old friend was goodbye. He still has a return date for his long journey to the west, but Li Daoyuan's Yongzhou has not returned. In the first year of Zhengguang, he, his second brother and two sons were all killed by traitors in Chang'an City......

"First attack Khotan, and then send an envoy to Khotan to ask for help. Due to the obstruction of the way out, unable to save the urgency of the time, the envoy was instructed to edict: 'The worm is only used to plundering in the wild, and cannot attack the city, if the worm attacks it, the army will be in a hurry to get rid of the ......trouble'" Empress Dowager Hu was obviously not interested in the cause of the disappearance of the ancient kingdom outside the territory, and she focused on the ceremonial attitude of various countries towards the Wei envoys. When she heard that the etiquette of Khotan was simple and slow, and the lord of the country was disrespectful, the queen mother immediately turned gloomy and threw the white lotus in her hand to the ground. A pair of amber jumps out of their arms and collides with each other, making a clanging sound.

"Extraterritorial barbarians, external cultivators, internal truth, antiquity, antiquity, hateful and annoying!"

Yuan Wei Xianbei started with the border troubles of the Central Plains, and since entering the founding of the Central Plains, he has also suffered from border troubles. There are many strong clans in the northwest, creeping and high cars in Mobei, Tuguhun in Qinghai, and Dada in Western Xinjiang, all of them are fierce and uninhibited. In recent years, the border troubles of Wei have been particularly prosperous, and the countries of the Western Regions have been carved up by strong neighbors. The countries of the southern province, the only strong ones are Shanshan and Khotan. Since the Han Ban Sima pacified the Western Regions and established the Western Regions Protectorate, Khotan regarded itself as a vassal state of China. The same is true for the Wei State, which sent envoys to pay tribute, and it has never been cut off. However, in recent years, the barbarian state has prospered, and Tuyuhun, Gaoche, and Worm have attacked Khotan, and not long ago they were controlled by Bada again. The lord of Khotan was disobedient and did not regard Wei as the upper country. The queen mother was angry, and the deacons in the hall holding incense towels, embroidered handkerchiefs, and gargles all lowered their eyebrows, and Yu Jian did not dare to make a sound.

"If it is not of my race, its heart will be different, so why should the queen be angry."

Yuan Xu suddenly said aloud. The young son of heaven straightened his body, deliberately showing the majesty of the emperor.

"In the early dynasties, the nine kingdoms of Qiuzi, Shule, Wusun, Yueban, Qipantuo, Shanshan, Yanqi, Cheshi, and Sogdia sent tribute, and Gaozu did not want to repay the envoys with his 'humbly resignation when he asked, and arrogant and disobedient if he did not ask'. The Han Shu said: 'Khotan has 32,000 households, 83,000 populations, and 30,000 victorious soldiers', such a small country, I am a state town, why should the queen mother worry! ”

This time, his words did not attract his mother's disregard, and the Queen Mother nodded, her face gradually warming. Yuan Xu was obviously very interested, and asked:

"National teacher, can the king of Khotan be named 'Sheduro'? I have seen his name on the tribute post. Heard in Khotan, it is the place where Buddhism flourishes, and China's Shamen travels west to seek the Dharma, and the rest goes to this place. ”

"Your Majesty xià****!"

Song Yun smiled and nodded. It seems that the young son of heaven is not mediocre and ignorant, but because of the queen mother's vigor.

"There are two people who go to Khotan to seek the Dharma, one is that the country is rich and prosperous, the people are gentle and respectful to the Dharma, and the Hinayana is the canon. In the nectar, there is Cao Wei Zhu Shixing here to get "Radiant Prajna". After the monks, many monks learned Mahayana, thousands of monks, and entertained each other with Dharma music, which is really the land of Buddha; The Eastern Jin Dynasty branch leader, the Northern Liang Tan Wu Yu, and the Hexi Fuqu Jingsheng all gained the Tao here, and the monks of this side also became famous; First, the green ridge is the first risk, which is really difficult to overcome! This ridge is covered with snow in winter and summer, since then to the west, the side of the mountain road, the long saka thousands of miles, the cliff is ten thousand, the obstacle of the extreme sky, it is really in Si. Compared with it, Taihang and Mengmen are not dangerous, and Hangu Pass, Kunguan and Longshan are like flat land...... "After arriving in Khotan, Zhimoga, who originally said that he would lead them over the Green Ridge, suddenly changed his mind, saying that he had never walked through the Green Ridge and was not familiar with the road, so let them ask for another guide. Song Yun and the others had no choice but to settle the expenses and leave it at that. Zhimaga carried a bulging money bag and led two fat Shanshan official camels away. But he quickly looked back, and Song Yun thought that he seemed to remember to say goodbye to the day and night for most of the year, but the wolf still had ice crystals in his eyes, and there was still a mocking look on his face.

"Oh, Green Ridge!"

He shouted in Sogdian with a Ghochang accent, shrugging his shoulders lazily.

"Seekers of faith, go forward fearlessly, you will surely see the Buddha in the Green Mountains, because it is high enough, cold enough, and desperate enough!"

After saying that, Chimaga laughed uncontrollably. Two thin knife-like lips were hidden in the thick yellow whiskers, revealing a mouth full of white teeth as neat as dry sheep's bones.

"Oh, Chimaga!"

Shi Huizui, who has always been shrewd, is unforgiving, and also responds in Sogdian:

"Your heart must have been frozen on the green ridge, cold enough, lonely enough, desperate enough!"

Who knew that Zhimoga didn't care, but shrugged his shoulders with a hippie smile:

"Shi Hui, you, I don't hate it, Zhimaga, I have indeed walked through the green mountains-" He sat cross-legged on the hunchback, folded his hands, and suddenly spoke fluent Sanskrit, with an annoying disrespectful face on his face,

"There is no Buddha in the south, there is no Dharma in the south, there is no sangha in the south, dear great auspicious goddess bless - haha! Chimoga, I'm back alive! ”

"You, you-" He pointed at Song Yun with his sand-colored hair, and then pointed at Shi Hui and Mana, and said viciously:

"If you can retrieve Shutara alive, I'll take you to Loulan! Loulan! Loulan! Loulan in the sea of sand, Loulan in the mirage of death, Loulan in the auspicious goddess...... Ha ha! ”

"Zhimaga, you have a deep karma, troubles and ignorance, all day long, your heart, mouth, mind and mind are a great auspicious goddess, but you don't dare to go to Loulan, and you don't dare to go to Tianzhu, I advise you to recite Vinaya well, always have compassion, body, mouth, and mind do not create bad karma, do not commit Tujiluo, otherwise there will be no chance in this life, this life, and in the next life and the next life, there will be no chance to see your great auspicious goddess!"

Zhimoga suddenly changed color, his hand was on the scimitar at his waist, and a pair of wolf eyes almost spewed fire, looking like he was about to jump off the hunchback to find Shi Hui desperately. It was about to see the Khotanese envoy wearing a high hat hurriedly walking, remembering that he was in the post house of the Khotanese royal city, and Song Yun and his party were the king's guests, so they suppressed the violence.

"Shi Hui! He will go to Luoyang City to drink Liu's wine, but I am afraid that Luoyang will not see you! ”

Zhimaga tugged at the nose bolt of the camel under the seat, and the nose of the animal was torn off, and the blood kept dripping down, and it let out a wail.

"Chimaga, come now! With your great auspicious goddess, I will drink him with you! Chimoga, don't go—haha! ”

Although Shi Huiyu prevailed, Chimoga's evil words came true. The August day of Bomi Luo River is already a cold hell. The wind is like a knife and a sharp sword, cutting out the heart and abdomen, stabbing and slashing at them mercilessly. The wind blows the haze, the haze is mixed with the blizzard, dense turns, overwhelming, in an instant, the mountains and rivers, the way to and from, the vast is gone, there is no way forward, there is no way back. Stranded between heaven and earth, the team can only move forward cautiously, and if they are not careful, they will be swallowed up by the abyss of ignorance. People fall quietly with the snowflakes, and the exclamation is only for a moment, not waiting for you to reach out and touch, and a qiē has returned to nothing...... I couldn't even shed tears, and as soon as the painful tears squeezed out of my eyes, I immediately froze on my cheeks...... The bonfire was difficult to ignite, and the frozen dry food was hard to eat, like swallowing iron, and the stomach and intestines could not be warmed for half a day, and it was even colder to the point that the heart was cold. At night, people and animals were crowded together, still so cold that they couldn't sleep. It started with cold, then it was stiff and painful, from the fingers and toes to every pore on the body. In the end, there is only numbness. Fall asleep numbly, wake up numbly, walk numbly, numb to the point that the whole world seems to have no zài, only a vast road ahead...... The lives of five Shamen and four others came to rest on the narrow, icy mountain path, or fell into the cliff with no bones left. Mana is the oldest of them all...... Mana once said, because of the "Nirvana Sutra".

The saying "one expounds that a person can also become a Buddha, and one qiē all sentient beings have Buddha nature" is the same as what Mencius said

"Everyone can be Yao Shun" has the meaning of being fascinated, resolutely abandoning Confucianism and following the Buddha, hoping to seek the way in the wisdom of Bodhi Prajna. The benevolent are not worried, the wise are not confused, and the brave are not afraid. Taking life as a mirror, Mana can be called a true gentleman, a true Bodhisattva...... The Buddha truly summoned him, with an eternal smile on his face, his body and soul frozen forever in the snow cave in the middle of the mountain...... If the desert keeps flooding into memory because of some symbolism, then the green mountains, the snow-capped mountains, the ice roads, the top of death and death...... Song Yun just wanted to forget completely. There is no need to talk about the hardships and dangers experienced along the way. Being able to come back and forth alive is like a dream. He should know what the authorities sitting in the hall cooled by iced lotus flowers like to hear.

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