Yes, the moon outside the tent is sparse and the breeze is slow, and tomorrow must be a good sunny day.

It's a pity that Zhao Ye can't see the sunny sky now, and he even can't wait to be able to learn archery skills from a generation of archers Hou Yi and shoot down the radiant fireball in the sky.

Although the matter in the capital is incredible, Zhao Ye understands that what adults need is the most authentic news, not the content extracted by himself and others after making their own opinions or arbitrarily speculating, he only needs to inquire and sort out the news, and then report it to the adults.

The three of them simply left the affairs of the capital completely behind, and only brought a little dry food and went west.

Although it has been almost two months since Tang Qianqian escorted Tang Zhou out of Luoyang, it is fortunate that Tang Qianqian and his party are really eye-catching.

The enchanting bearded girl, the fragrant black robe, the tattered carriage and the ink-black coffin make people feel the picture suddenly, how can the inns and hotels along the way easily forget?

Out of Luoyang, Zhao Ye, Zhang Yan, Li Kuan three people will non-stop through Hongnong, Jingzhao, through Fufeng, Hanyang, Vietnam, go to Jincheng, and finally across Wuwei from Zhangye to Jiuquan Dunhuang, passing through more than ten counties of Si and Liang Erzhou, staying overnight in barren mountains and mountains, traveling to the Gobi Mountains and Mountains during the day, eating and drinking dew in the wind and dust. Along the way, the majestic Bai Mayi changed from an elite to three ragged beggars.

After entering Liangzhou, the scenery along the way is very different from Sizhou and other places. As far as the eye can see, there is a monotonous yellow everywhere, and the hills, poplars, merchants, inns, arrow walls, and the quaint border city are covered with a thick layer of yellow sand.

The boundless Gobi is rough and bold, majestic and magnificent, and in addition to the occasional business travel, there is only the scorching sun and yellow sand in the vast world. The yellow sand is rolling, as if huge waves are pouring from the sky. The sun was furious, like furnaces erupting from the ground.

"Phew!" Zhao Ye spat out the sand in his mouth, poured out the sand in his boots, and asked, "How long have we been walking?" ”

"Leaving Luoyang, we have been working fast, it should have been twenty-four or five days now, the women I saw along the way, except for the snarky proprietress in the tavern is the dusty maid, they all said that the beauty outside the country, Lao Tzu has not seen a single one! Grandma's, I'm afraid that even a sow will be beautiful when I return to the capital in the future! ”

Hearing Zhang Yan's words, Zhao Ye and Li Kuan pointed at Zhang Yan and laughed.

Zhang Yan's face was already gray and black, and only a circle of white teeth remained. Seeing the two laughing, Zhang Yan didn't care, wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued: "According to the proprietress in Jiuquan, Tang Qianqian and her party only arrived in Dunhuang three days earlier than us.

The journey from Luoyang to Dunhuang is more than 4,000 miles, and they have walked for more than two months. ”

Zhao Ye nodded, looked at the sunset gradually setting in the west and the vultures hovering in the air and said, "En! Wear a leather jacket in the morning, wear yarn in the afternoon, and eat watermelon around the stove, this is really true. In particular, this desert is like an oven during the day, and it is freezing to death at night.

Two brothers, it seems that we still have to work harder to get out of this damn desert and rush to Yumen Pass as soon as possible, otherwise we will become the belly of that dog's belly! ”

"Chief, a vulture can only be a vulture day, if it's a dog's day, it's a mongrel!" Zhang Yan raised his finger and pointed to the vulture hovering above his head, and the three of them laughed loudly, but they secretly accelerated their pace and gradually disappeared into the vast desert Gobi.

……

Yumen Pass, which was placed in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, is the gateway fortress of Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang of the four counties of Hexi to all parts of the Western Regions.

In the seventeenth year of Yongping, the Han Dynasty re-established the Western Regions to protect it, and Geng Gongguan was the captain of Wuji. In the eighteenth year of Yongping, the Northern Xiongnu got off the Cheshi country, and the Cheshi rebelled against the Han and conspired with Geng Gong. The Han army ran out of food, boiled armor and crossbows to eat its tendons, refused to surrender, and defended Jinpu City.

When Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty succeeded to the throne, Emperor Zhang directly staged an oriental version of the rescue soldier Ryan, and launched an emergency rescue plan, so that the three counties of Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang and Shanshan State had a total of 7,000 troops to aid the border pass, and only 26 of the hundreds of soldiers in the original city remained. When he arrived at the Jade Gate, there were thirteen survivors!

Historical name: Su Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, Geng Gong of the Eastern Han Dynasty, thirteen soldiers returned to Yumen!

Yumen Pass, although it has been broken, is full of yellow sand, yellow walls, yellow trees and yellow people, and there is no half of the color of the south of the Yangtze River, and even from a distance, it is just a small earthen city in the vast desert.

However, this is the territory of the Han Dynasty, and this is the iron-blooded city forged by the loyal soul of the Han Dynasty.

Erniu and Gou Yu stood under the city wall holding Changge in their hands, although they were born in this barren place, they had no outstanding military achievements, and they were still only a small city defender for ten years in the army.

But all this can't stop their yearning and love for the thirteen soldiers, they advocate the blood and iron bones of the thirteen soldiers, and also advocate the fierce pride of the thirteen soldiers, and everything in their lives is as strict as the thirteen soldiers.

Now, like falcons, they stared into the distance, as well as at the crowd that was getting closer and closer from the desert.

"Stop, who are you waiting for, what business are you doing in Yumen Pass, report your name quickly!" Erniu and Dog Yu Changge waved and pointed at the comer, shouting.

There are only three people coming, not to mention the crowd, even a small team is not counted. But the three were suspicious, all twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with shaggy hair curled up on their heads, ragged and dusty.

Hearing the angry shouts of the two, the man in the middle paused, took out a road from his arms and handed it over, bending over with a flattering face: "My lord, my three brothers are from Luoyang business travelers, and they go to do business outside the customs. ”

"Just the three of you?" A soldier defending the city smiled with Zhan Ge in his arms, and looked at the three of them with bad intentions, "Three strong men who were in the old age, can't they be Hu people's spies?" ”

The man hurriedly took out a string of copper coins from his bosom and stuffed them into the soldier's hand, bowing continuously: "My lord, don't say that. When crossing Mingsha Mountain, due to the desert storm, several truckloads of celadon, silk, caravan guards and other companions were buried under the Mingsha Gobi, and only three of us brothers escaped.

Please also make it convenient for my lords, the three of my brothers are all servants of the Luoyang royal family, and the storm of Ru Mao drinking blood and sand sea along the way has become like this. To tell you the truth, my brothers and I was frightened by the desert of the dog's day.

We plan to rest for a few days at Yumen Pass to see if there are any other business trips back to Beijing, and then return to Luoyang with them. ”

Well, I still know how to know how to honor Lao Tzu, and it really deserves to be the Central Plains, unlike those local dead eight, and three poles can't cheat a fart!

The soldier guarding the city checked the copper coin in his hand and nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly felt that the copper coin in his hand was light, and the copper coin had been snatched by Erniu and thrown to the man.

"This is not a wartime, where did so many Hu people and spies come from? It's all you dead who don't distinguish between good and low, what else can you do except squeeze the people and be greedy for money, and the face of the captain of Wuji back then has been lost by you! ”

"You!" The defenders of the city were so angry that they kicked their noses and eyes.

The dog knocked off the fingers of the soldiers defending the city, and shouted, "What are you? The day before yesterday, Hu Niang entered the customs, and people just escorted her brother's coffin back to her hometown, so she was molested and blackmailed by you and others to maliciously make things difficult. The coffin is still parked in the temple in the city, why don't you dare to check it again? You are also born poor, don't you feel ashamed when you embezzle your brother and sister's money? ”

The soldiers defending the city looked dumbfounded, but the three of them looked down at each other and smiled.

There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!

……

The willow tops on the moon, people about after dusk.

There are no willow trees in Yumen Pass, only poplars, poplar trees of different shapes.

After entering the city, Zhao Ye and the three of them found an inn to settle down, listened to the sound of the "bang bang" of the husband in the city, and saw the moon hanging high on the poplar branches, so they put on a night coat to cover their faces, evaded the city patrol soldiers, and went straight to the east of the city.

There is only one temple in the city, called the Buddha Temple, which is near the Liuye Lane in the east of the city, which is the place where the two high monks of Murten and Zhu Falan went to Luoyang in the east, because of the memory of the descendants, it was renamed "the Buddha Temple".

The temple is located in a circle of five or six hundred square meters, in addition to a large hall dedicated to the Dharma body Virujana Buddha (the Buddha of the Great Day), the Buddha of the body of the Buddha (the Buddha of Pure Man) and the Buddha of the body of Shakyamuni Buddha, there are more than ten monk's rooms and guest rooms.

Zhao Ye quietly gestured to the two, signaling the two to stay in the hall to answer, and he had hidden in the dark and quietly touched the backyard.

There was no evening class, the lights in the monk's room had long been turned off, and the lights were still on in a guest room, a guest room next to the abbot of the Buddhist temple, and five or six figures reflected on the window.

Don't dare to startle the snake, Zhao Ye naturally didn't dare to approach, who knows if Tang Qianqian is the illegitimate daughter of the presiding officer in the Buddhist temple? Otherwise, why could Tang Qianqian store Tang Zhou's body here, and the soldiers guarding the city would not dare to come and harass it!

Zhao Ye held his breath and hid under the rockery not far away, and just dived into the rockery, he heard a person in the guest room chanting the Buddha's name: "Amitabha, Tan Yue has left, and Rahu should be reborn." A thought of foolishness is like a god, and a thought of wisdom is like a life. His Highness acts in accordance with the Dharma, and when he is stable in the world, my religion will definitely be able to shine in Middle-earth. ”

Shining in Middle-earth? These bald donkeys also want to get their hands on me? Ahh

Zhao Ye looked at the shadow on the windowsill, although he couldn't see his face, he could see the shape of his mouth, and knew that the person on the right was talking, so he nodded secretly, and saw the person in the middle pondering for a moment, then turned to the person on the left and spoke, but his voice was extremely hoarse: "What does Jin Peng think Yan Da Yu said?" ”

The one called Jinpeng nodded, and his voice was very majestic: "Planting is like a cause, reaping is like a result, everything is idealistic." Since the beginning of the year, the war in China and Turkey has been chaotic, and the people of Li have lost their places, and the Taiping Road has tried to act against the sky, and has been defeated and retreated under the attack of Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun on the left and right of the Han Dynasty.

A few months ago, the Taiping Dao, which was as powerful as the sky, has now shrunk in a few places in Wancheng and Guangzong. The poor monk believes that the Taiping Road is just around the corner, and at this time, it is the opportunity for my sect to take advantage of the situation and rise to glory! ”

Causally? I really want to plot against me in the Central Plains and find a bunch of excuses, it's really hateful!

Zhao Ye took a sip of phlegm, and looked through the gap in the rockery, only to see that Na Yan Da had bowed to the person in the middle, and continued: "Luo Hu has left Yumen Pass yesterday and went straight to Liangyong, and the poor monk is willing to preach to Middle Earth with Jin Peng in accordance with His Royal Highness's decree. ”

The man in the middle nodded, and put his right hand on his chest: "Amitabha, the people of Middle Earth are suffering, and the Hinayana Buddhism only saves itself and not others, which is really a disadvantage of my Buddhism." Therefore, for the sake of teaching the Dharma to the masses, we should devote ourselves to seeking the Buddha's path and transforming sentient beings and spreading my Mahayana Dharma. ”

The voice was tactful and low, as if whispering, but it was extremely resolute. Could it be that this person is a woman? Or the so-called bhikshuni as Buddhism calls it!

Zhao Ye was startled, raised his head, but saw that Jin Peng and Yan Da were bound together, and then shouted violently, like spring thunder:

"Who dares to trespass on my Buddhist land?!"