Li Kou walked slowly all the way, secretly calculating the distance from Weizhou.

If you can't walk with tea, you can't stop in front of you.

This way, he only hurried in front of him, and walked all the way to the northwest along the Jing River, and he didn't see anyone on the road talking to him anymore, so he only opened a hundred feet, and seemed to have no intention of listening to Li Kou and Zhu Wen.

He stopped this time to rest on the side of the road.

Li Kou wrapped his military coat tightly, the wind was blowing in the open space in the mountains and fields, and he closed his mouth and adjusted his breathing all the time.

Here is a small hill on the side of a wheat field on the side of the roadside, with wild grass on the hill and the marks left by unknown passers-by.

Li Kou loves cleanliness, and only sees that there are drowning marks on the mound, so he does not go up to sit.

Wukong's face was kind, he took two big breaths, and said with a smile: "Go forward for a while, and you'll be there." ”

Li Kou pretended to complain: "I knew this was the case, why don't you find a carriage and a horse?" ”

Zhu Wen persuaded: "It costs a lot of money today, and it will take a few miles to walk for a while." ”

Wukong also said: "Although 200,000 yuan is a lot, you must live a fine life." ”

Li Kou feigned anger and said: "For such a long journey, if your old monk is disobedient and refuses to give flying money, and wants more than 100,000 yuan for me to carry back, how can I do anything?" ”

Wukong just smiled: "Don't worry. ”

He seemed to be full of confidence again, and when he saw Zhu Wen looking at him suspiciously, he hurriedly said: "That old monk is a philistine mind, how could he be greedy for small profits and forget about big gains?" It will not detain you and others, it is recorded in and out of Weizhou. ”

He looked at Li Kou for a while before he said: "There are not many rich businessmen in Weizhou, one day there is one more rich man with hundreds of thousands, and the whole city will come to see, that old monk is just a greedy for money, and he doesn't dare to do much, just let him see the glass cup, how can you have less money?" ”

Li Kou said: "That's hard to say. ”

After resting for a while, he hurried again, and gradually there were more empty words.

He first asked Li Kou how his family background was, and then asked Zhu Wen why he was not with his clan.

Li Kou didn't care, but Zhu Wen chatted a few words.

At this time, Li Kou knew that Zhu Wenwen was not from Guanxi, his family was originally in Dingyuan, Haozhou, Huainan West Road, and his ancestors sat on the salt supervisor, and the family came to Qinfeng Road, one of which stayed in Yongxing Army Huazhou, that is, the Huaxian area of Shaanxi, and the other went all the way to Qinzhou, that is, near Tianshui, Gansu in the future, which was still when Zhu Wen was still a teenager.

Zhu Wen sighed: "The rules of the dynasty, Dingyuan Zhujiazhuang is almost full of migration, originally scheduled to go to Qinzhou in all, to go to relatives, did not think that someone fell ill on the way, some people were born with two hearts, in Huazhou, had to part ways on both sides, my family is small, only a few people, at that time I only want to go to relatives, the other is a big family, there are many people and a lot of wealth, that one stayed in Huazhou, the Sprinkle family has a brother, at that time also in Huazhou, this time the Fan soldiers invaded, the Sprinkle family was going to take the family to Huazhou to join him, etc., I don't know what my brother is like now. ”

Li Kouqi said: "How to sit on the salt supervisor? ”

Zhu Wendao: "The salt and iron of the national dynasty is the monopoly of the imperial court, but there are usually sold to the people, and the yamen only needs to collect the quota on a quarterly basis. ”

Li Kou was surprised, he didn't know the economy of ancient times.

But he knows that the word salt and iron franchise has also appeared many times in costume TV dramas.

But listening to Zhu Wen say this, could it be that the salt and iron of the Song Dynasty could also be mined by merchants?

Remembering this in his heart, Li Kou didn't ask any more questions, walked for a while, and saw from a distance on the side of the roadside, in the high mountainside, the gray mountain showed a rather conspicuous color, and it seemed that someone lived in the mountain.

Wukong pointed there with a smile and said, "That place is the Iron Whip Temple." ”

Li Kou couldn't see anything wrong from a distance, he was just curious, so he asked if he was not afraid of the western thief?

Wukong's face seemed to be unhappy, and he only said, "Even in times of war, you shouldn't be embarrassed by the little monks."

Li Kou smiled: "If I am a thief, I will not spare you monks." ”

Wu Kongqi said: "Why? ”

Li Kou said: "It is the Taoist who goes down the mountain in the troubled times, but it is common for monks to go down the mountain in the prosperous times, only you are in a small mountain temple, the old monk has the style of selling 100,000 yuan, but if it is a search, I am afraid that a million dollars can be taken out, but it is not suitable for the thief Kou to make a windfall?" ”

Wukong was displeased at the time, and said, "What did the donor say?" ”

Li Kou didn't argue with him, pointed to a path and said: "It's inevitable that it will be difficult to go to the toilet when you go, you wait for me for a while, and then come with a hand." ”

As he spoke, he grabbed the artemisia grass on the side of the road and went to the path.

Wukong shouted anxiously behind him: "Don't break that glass cup!" ”

Li Kou said: "How can it be broken if it is an object of 100,000 yuan?!" ”

This response is naturally not whispered.

Li Kou didn't have a smile in his eyes, he stayed in the shelter for a while, took some biscuits and mineral water, ate some of it reluctantly, and then when he was about to get up and go down the mountain, he suddenly remembered for a moment, looked left and right, and picked up two fist-sized stones from the side.

He went down the mountain road, and Na Wukong was talking to Zhu Wen.

Wukong complained: "This young man has to be vigilant, the little monk is just a goods, is he going to die as a sprinkler?" ”

Zhu Wen only said quietly: "He is a young man, you also know, I don't know how many hardships I have suffered all the way, can I doubt it?" Just wait for the glass cup to be sold, and you will hand over the big money to him, so naturally you will not be suspicious. ”

Seeing Li Kou coming down, he rolled up his monk's robe and strode along the road to the mountain.

Zhu Wen looked at Li Kou and wanted to ask for clues.

Li Kou pointed to the path and shook his head.

There is nothing on the path, only snow, at this time it is spring, the snow has melted a lot in a few days, and left ice edges on the side of the road, there are shoe prints on it, it seems that it is also a monk in the mountains.

Li Kou asked Zhu Wen to go in front, and he followed behind.

Where did Zhu Wen know that Li Kou didn't trust him very much, and it was only right to walk behind and take care of himself.

When I arrived at the mountainside, the mountain road was winding, it was clear that there was only less than three hundred zhang of the mountain, the road was full of three or five miles, the road was also repaired, and strive to be steep, only along the mountain road up, there was no possibility of jumping on the zigzag road, on the steep cliff, the root system was very shallow Artemisia grass was not enough to provide a person with a strong place.

Li Kou was on guard, and walked up the mountain road gently and lightly, but after he took a few steps, he had to stop to catch his breath.

When I came up to the mountain, I saw the true face of the mountain temple.

The mountain temple is sheltered from the wind on the mountainside, there is a forest on one side, one side is a cliff, look at the color of the mountain temple, it is quite new, I am afraid that it will not be renovated for a long time, there is no mountain gate, there is no stone steps, from the side of the mountain temple is full of wheat grass, and there is a neat pile of firewood outside the courtyard, the flat straight to the gate of the mountain temple, the gate is very tall, there is enough to be high, it is not much higher than the courtyard wall, the courtyard wall is quite steep, and the wall of earth ramming is covered with thorns.

The mountain temple is not completely dependent on the mountain, and there is a distance between the temple and the mountain wall.

There were also a few caves dug out of the mountain wall, and there was no door, only to see that there were piles of wheat straw and firewood.

The temple was quiet and no one answered, there was a gentle smell of incense, and it was blown by the mountain wind and rolled from the side of the cliff.

Li Kou took a breath quietly, and the smell of the incense was not abnormal.

His gaze was fixed on an object on a large tree outside the temple.

It was a black, dark and faint whip of wrought iron and bamboo with a diameter of about his wrist, and a red cloth was tied to the tail of the whip, tied with a thick rope, and hung on a large tree as if to be seen from afar.

That steel whip weighs more than thirty pounds!

Maybe it's even heavier!

Li Kou didn't look at it anymore, he patted the glass on his chest, and strode towards the mountain temple.

He said in his heart: "It turned out to be such an Iron Whip Temple—I don't know what it came from?" ”

At this time, Zhu Wen's face changed.

He grabbed Li Kou and didn't let him go to the mountain temple.

How?

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"Out of Pingliang Mansion, go to the northwest twenty miles, there are people in the previous dynasty to repair the temple, called Weizhou Iron Whip Temple, located under the Longyin Temple. Longyin Temple, when it is said to be the rebellion of Tang Anshi, Prince Heng out of Ma Wei, Xinyou to Pingliang County, stay in the temple at night, and then called the emperor in Lingwu, the temple was renamed Longyin Temple, it is true. As for the Iron Whip Temple, the people of the time falsely rumored that it was the former Dynasty Fierce General Hu Yanzan over, leaving the iron whip, because there is a temple, this false rumor also. ”

——"National Letters, Geographical Chronicles, Pingliang Mansion Chronicles"