The weather is getting cooler, and the autumn rain is pouring in.

In a small mansion near Liu Kuan's mansion, as soon as Xu Youfu, who was damp on his body, stepped into someone's room, he was busy tiptoeing: "Oh, is it here again, which one sent the paper this time?" ”

"Donglai Zuo clan." Gongsun Xun, who was lying on the floor laying out the paper, replied without raising his head. "This Zuojia's paper is tight and smooth, it is the best paper I have ever seen, if I have this paper, I am afraid it can be directly preserved as a book......

"How do I remember that Donglai was originally where Brother Xun's business was located?" Xu You frowned and asked. "Back then, Lingtang offered a bounty for paper, this Zuo should know, right?"

"How do you know?" Gongsun Xun sighed, but continued to lie on the ground and sort out the paper. "Brother Ziyuan doesn't know that this Uncle Zuo Ziyi is a well-known calligrapher in Qingzhou, specializing in eight points, and the papermaking workshop at home is also quite famous. Back then, my mother sent someone to his house to ask for paper, but they ignored him. And this Cai Langzhong didn't open his mouth to the Zuo family at all, but after the news spread, people were stunned to send their own paper and craftsmen from thousands of miles away. And has Brother Ziyuan heard about it? Wei Duan, who was Jingzhao Wei, actually wrote directly to the imperial court, saying that the stone scripture must be written in his family's ink, otherwise it will not be charming......"

"Oops......" Xu You twisted his beard and shook his head repeatedly. This kind of thing, this kind of thing is also ...... But Brother Xun, Wei Duan is okay, this Zuo Bo thing...... There's no need to worry about it at this time or that time. ”

Gongsun Xun nodded slightly, and said in his heart, I knew you would say this, as if his brother must have said something after knowing this, 'In the future, our brother will be rich and noble, and he must give this surnamed Zuo a good look'.

"Isn't Bergui here?" Xu You continued to look around pretendedly.

"Big brother has a wide range of friends." Gongsun Xun was still leaning over the ground. "Recently, I have been quite in agreement with Nayuan Highway, and I often go there to coil over there. Today it is said that there is also Cai Mao of the Cai clan of Xiangyang in Nanjun to worship as a lang, that Cai Mao is the wife and nephew of the general Zhang Wen, and the Cai clan is a giant clan in Xiangyang, so Yuan Highway attaches great importance to it, so it is convenient to set up a banquet in the mansion today, and my eldest brother set off to ...... at noon."

"I see." Xu You said with a little emotion. "Now the stone scripture is a major event in the world, a total of forty-eight stone tablets have been distributed, a few days ago but the first piece was erected, there are thousands of cars to copy, from Taixue all the way to Kaiyang Gate...... Your brothers presided over the recording of "Mao's Poems" and "Han Poems" for their respective teachers, and it is only natural that they will become valued by scholars and nobles. ”

"Who's to say it isn't?"

"But ......"

"What do you have to say?"

"But why didn't Brother Xun go to the Yuan Highway Mansion? Didn't you say that Cai Mao was coming? ”

"What's in it for me?" Gongsun Xun couldn't help but blurt out.

"Well said!" Xu You clapped his hands violently. "According to me, it is the beginning of his fame that he is dazzled by these vanities...... He also didn't want to think about the use of this kind of superficial feasting. Then Cai Mao is a giant clan in Nanjun, what is he doing? As for Yuan Highway, this person is the fourth and third dukes, and his future is unlimited, so he has to get acquainted. But it's enough to get acquainted with each other, if you really want to go one step further and be valued by others, can you just drink three or five more times together? At the very least, you have to be like Cai Mao and me, and have the name of Lang Guan on your body, right? Brother Xun, your brother is not as pragmatic as you! ”

Gongsun Xun was silent.

In other words, he didn't mean what he said just now, but he felt in his heart that Cai Mao and Yuan Shu would both rise in the south in the future, and they were all waste, which would not be of much use to them in the future. If it was really replaced by Yuan Shao's banquet to entertain Cao Cao, not to mention the rain, even if it was a knife, he would definitely have to go!

However, I don't know why, this time I heard Xu Yu say this, but I faintly felt that it made some sense.

"By the way, where are Brother Yue and Lu Ziheng, who is often on your side, why haven't you seen them?"

"Oh, yesterday I asked them to escort this papermaker of the Zuo family to the Xuan family." Gongsun Xun finally stood up this time. "I think I should have been blocked by this heavy rain today, and I can't come back for a while...... Brother Ziyuan came in the rain, can you see it? ”

"Brother Xun." Xu You saw that Gongsun Xun finally got up, and quickly took the other party's hand eagerly. "There is indeed a pragmatic thing looking for you, do you know the Buddha Family?"

Gongsun Xun's face was stunned, and then the corners of his mouth twitched, as if he remembered something: "Don't hide it from Brother Ziyuan, I still know a lot about the Shi family, there is a Shi family temple in Zhuo County, but I haven't been to it......"

"Let's not talk about the Zhuojun Temple." Xu You quickly interrupted the other party. "Have you ever heard of the White Horse Temple at the West Gate of Luoyang?"

At this moment, the bored Gongsun Xun immediately became interested.

White Horse Temple is the first Buddhist temple in China.

It is said that when Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty was sleeping in the South Palace, he suddenly dreamed that a god with a height of six feet and a golden light on his head flew from the west and surrounded the palace, so the next day a doctor gave him a dream interpretation and told him that there was a Buddha Gate in the West, and their god was the same as you dreamed of this thing.

You must know that the superstition of the Later Han Dynasty was unprecedented, and a snake crawling out of the palace had to follow the instructions of the Book of Changes, and go out of the city to meet the five qis; If there is a brightly colored sunset, it may be necessary to change the national policy that has just been agreed today; As for solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, and comets, then the Three Princes must be removed to have peace of mind.

So, in order to feel at ease, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty immediately sent people to the west to learn the scriptures!

Speaking of this, I have to sigh the strength of the Han Dynasty back then, it was the era when Dou Gu, Geng Bing, and Ban Chao were active, although the Western Regions was not a smooth road, but it was far from being a life of nine deaths, so a few officials led a team to Afghanistan to get back two monks and a bunch of Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues, and placed them in Honglu Temple.

The Han Dynasty attached great importance to the classics, and heard that there were Buddhist scriptures, so they built a temple for these two monks on the side of the official road three miles away from the west gate of Luoyang, so that they could translate Buddhist scriptures in it. Because when they came back before, they used white horses to carry Buddhist scriptures, and after they returned, the two monks have been living in Honglu Temple, so this temple was named White Horse Temple.

Since then, Buddhism has taken root in China. Calculate the time, by the time of Gongsun Xun, it has been about a hundred years.

It is not easy to travel in heavy rain, because the umbrella is extremely bulky in these years, not only can it not be put away, but it can basically only be fixed to the car. As soon as the car starts, the wind and rain are blowing, not to mention the taste.

However, fortunately, Gongsun Xun and Xu You are both 'pragmatic' people, so both of them put on their robes again without grace. Then taking advantage of the heavy rain, the street pedestrians were scarce, and the car quickly removed the city gate, and then galloped all the way along the official road outside Luoyang City to the century-old famous temple, the ancestral court of the Middle Earth Buddha Gate, and the door of the White Horse Temple in Luoyang.

The White Horse Temple is quite large-scale, but it is still too far from the imaginary depth and atmosphere, and the most disappointing thing for Gongsun Xun is that there are no bald heads in the temple's old lady's story!

That's right, there are no bald heads in the temple these days! Even the Ancestral Court of the Middle-earth Buddha Sect didn't see a bald head!

In fact, the person who came out to entertain Gongsun Xun and Xu Yu was a scholar wearing a scarf and a servant holding a heavy wooden umbrella behind him, he claimed to be Jingzhao Zhu Rui, because his family background was relatively high, and the Hu monks in the White Horse Temple were more difficult to communicate with, so he was recommended by the nearby believers to be responsible for communicating with the court, scholars, and people.

"Zhu Jushi, I don't know if the Hu monks in the temple are ...... Uh...... "As soon as we met, Gongsun Xun really couldn't hold back his curiosity, but he didn't know how to describe the bald head as a creature.

"Yes, yes." This Zhu Rui said with a smile while leading the way, as if this kind of problem is not uncommon and strange. "I know what Gongsun Shaojun means, the four Hu Dade who are currently in the temple are all official monks who shave their hair and practice."

"Then why don't you see Han monks?" Gongsun Xun continued to inquire curiously.

"Hey," Xu Yu couldn't help but interrupt. "Brother Xun is rude, the parents of the body and skin, my generation of Han people, how can they serve the Buddha like the Hu people?"

Gongsun Xun suddenly realized that he was really confused.

"In fact, what the two of them said is to the point of my release." Zhu Rui was not angry, he shook his head and smiled bitterly while leading the two of them into a charcoal fire. "It has been more than 100 years since my Shi family was introduced to Middle-earth, and it has prospered for a while and suffered from destruction, but when it comes to the real cause of the difficulty of great prosperity, this is it...... Let's take our time. ”

didn't see the bald head, Gongsun Xun lost interest instantly, and could only blink his eyes and sit on the futon next to the stove.

The two sides sat down, and then finally got down to business.

However, when it comes to business, it is also extremely simple.

In other words, the Shimen believers of the White Horse Temple also noticed the stone scripture on the Taixue side, and even noticed the grand occasion of the thousand cars blocking the traffic after the first stone scripture was completed, so they couldn't help but imitate it.

That's right, Shimen now also has classics, when the White Horse Temple was first established, the two monks translated the famous "Forty-two Chapters of the Sutra", the full text of this scripture is less than 3,000 words, it is the rumored Buddha quotations, its status is just like the "Tao Te Ching" to Taoism, "Analects" to Confucianism.

In this case, it is a matter of course to engrave the inscription.

It's just that since the monument is to be engraved, it naturally needs to be transcribed and rubbed. Just like the Confucian stone scripture over there, Cai Yong needs to write it down on silk with the most standard official script...... Of course, he now claims to write on paper...... After writing, a translucent silk silk is used to trace the Yin text, and then this Yin text is used as a rubbing, and the traces are printed on the stone tablet using the hammering technique, and finally the craftsmen can carve it.

"Since there is Cai Langzhong in Luozhong, then this matter of copying the "Forty-two Chapters Sutra" naturally does not think about others." Xu You twisted his beard and said. "And I've always been anxious for justice and righteousness, so I can't help but want to help everyone in this White Horse Temple. I just don't know why, that Cai Langzhong ...... Brother Xun, Brother Xun? ”

Gongsun Xun, who was peeking somewhere behind the fire, suddenly came back to his senses: "Oh, Brother Ziyuan, don't you want to say that Cai Langzhong is unwilling to help?" ”

"Yes, yes."

"Not really, right?" Gongsun Xun couldn't help frowning. "He's still a good talker...... Isn't this what you told me, Brother Ziyuan? Luozhong's sacrificial texts have never seen him refuse, the 3,000-word "Forty-two Chapters" is just that, the White Horse Temple is an official temple, why is this? ”

"It's not a day or two that the doctor dislikes us and releases the door." Zhu Rui shook his head helplessly.

"Something to do with shaving?" Gongsun Xun asked casually.

"No, shaving is the main reason why it is difficult for my sect to prosper, but it is not because of the disagreement with the scholars...... After all, even those of us who believe in the Buddha have never had the idea of destroying our hair and skin. The real cause lies in more than ten years, when it happened to be the first disaster of the party, it is also our bad luck, just when the disaster of the party, it is not a coincidence, the first emperor happened to be interested in the door, often summoned the monks in the temple, asked about immortality. Because of this, many scholars and doctors regarded us as eunuchs and the like, and disdained us......"

Zhu Rui spoke eloquently here, with sincere feelings, but Xu You and Gongsun Xun over there were a little fluctuating.

Xu You was actually quite embarrassed, he was not embarrassed to say at all, that Cai Bojiao was not willing to write it at all because the "Forty-two Chapters Sutra" was a Buddhist classic, and even Cai Bojiao didn't know that there was such a thing! In fact, it's just that I'm being turned away. If you refuse, you have to say that you are a gluttonous villain, and you want to break off your friendship with yourself...... How unreasonable!

On the other side, Gongsun Xun stared at something behind the stove, and the more he looked, the more he couldn't take his eyes off, let alone listen to people's stories.

"Now I have heard that Cai Langzhong will enter the Eastern View to cultivate history after recording the stone scriptures, and if it is delayed for a long time, I am afraid that the opportunity will be even more difficult to find. Listening to what Ziyuan said, Gongsun Shaojun participated in supervising the Shijing, and he and Cai Gong have been quite kind recently......"

"I see, Brother Ziyuan and Zhu Jushi want me to be this Chinese?" Gongsun Xun turned his head suddenly.

"Exactly." Zhu Rui stood up and bowed.

"It's easy." Gongsun Xun is also simple. "Tomorrow, he will go to Taixue to continue to transcribe the "Legend of the Spring and Autumn Ram", and I will definitely help you ask for this matter at that time...... I just don't know how Zhu Jushi thanked me? ”

When Xu You heard a word of thanks, he immediately became vigilant, why did he want to find Gongsun Xun to be a middleman? Don't you think that with the other party's family background, you will definitely not insert a lump sum to share his 'labor expenses'?

Why do you suddenly learn to ask for a thank you gift? I was really damaged by Luozhong's atmosphere!

And in front of Xu You, Zhu Rui didn't know how to speak for a while, and he reluctantly said for a long time: "Speaking of thanks, the White Horse Temple has stood for a hundred years, and there are thousands of believers, and they also have little savings, whether it is Ziyuan and Cai Langzhong, or Gongsun Shaojun, they will all express it...... I just don't know how much Gongsun Shaojun wants? ”

"I don't want a penny." Gongsun Xun pointed his hand behind the stove. "As long as you thank me for this!"

Zhu Rui and Xu You looked behind the stove when they heard this, but they laughed together.

"This is what it is." I saw that Zhu Rui immediately got up and picked up the thing, and then saluted Gongsun Xun again: "I just said why Gongsun Shaojun stared at the stove without taking his eyes off...... It's just a raccoon cat that catches mice, although it's rare, but there is a lot of traffic between my temple and the Western Regions, so it's really nothing. Whether this matter is successful or not, Shaojun wants it, I will give you a nest! ”

Gongsun Xun was not polite, and hugged the cat directly: "It's not that I covet the cat in your temple, it's really a widow who lives in Liaoxi, and I'm afraid that she will be lonely." You don't know that my mother once said, 'I would like to give away a thousand gold, so that I can get a cat'...... Is there really a litter? ”

"I'll fetch it for Shaojun." Zhu Rui was already in his mind, so he naturally laughed easily, and went out directly and shouted to the servant to fetch the cat.

For a while, only Xu You and Gongsun Xun were left in the wing.

Leaning slightly, looking at Gongsun Xun stretching out his hand there to tease the lazy cat, Xu You's heart couldn't help but move slightly, and then suddenly twisted his thin beard with a smug face: "Brother Xun is very lonely these days? Or are you a person who can't stand loneliness at all? ”

"Brother Ziyuan, what do you mean?" Gongsun Xun gestured to a stop, but continued to brush the cat's hair.

"You and I are both pragmatic people, so why should we be like those people?" Xu You laughed when he heard this. "You are actually the same as your eldest brother Gongsun Bogui, you are extremely utilitarian, and you can't wait to get something all the time...... It's just that you are a hundred times smarter than that big brother, he is twice the result with half the effort, and you are twice the result with half the effort. And now, he feasts all day long, thinking that he is in power, but you know that your brother is in trouble again! ”

No wonder you thought you would be slaughtered by Cao Mengde! Gongsun Xun couldn't help but scold in his heart when he heard this, but he smiled undiminishedly: "Life is like sailing against the current, and it is natural to be in trouble......

"Why be so hypocritical?" Xu Yu shook his head again and again.

"That's it!" Gongsun Xun retracted his smile and said. "Brother Ziyuan, I won't hide it from you, these days, I am indeed a little disappointed. I didn't have two teachers to respect me before, and I didn't feel like a trapped beast at all, but now that I have been respected by my teachers and met many people, I don't know how to deal with myself. Let's take the characters you introduced to me, such as your fellow townsman Fengji, Yingchuan Xinping, Xiliang Han Sui...... Oh, and Chun Yuqiong, who I just met a few days ago, these characters are all top young talents in Beijing, and it's a pleasure to meet them. However, it is only possible to associate with them, the worst of these people, Han Sui, is now a third officer, I am afraid that he will be released as an official of the court in the blink of an eye, what can I do with them, an uncrowned scholar? ”

"That's just as well." Xu You sneered when he heard this. "There are only a few people who love money like me...... But Brother Xun, are you too utilitarian? You also know that you are just an uncrowned scholar, and even so, you have done a great job, and you can't let the whole world revolve around you, right? ”

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of messy footsteps outside the door, as if Zhu Rui had gone to fetch 'a litter of cats', and the two immediately kept silent.

In the evening, Gongsun Xun carried a large bag of cats in the rain and returned to his small mansion next to Liu Kuan's mansion, and before he could pour out a litter of cats, he saw Gongsun Chan can't wait to greet him: "Ah Xun, do you know the big deal?!" ”

Gongsun Xun disagreed: "But Luozhong is waterlogged? I already saw ...... when I came."

"Hey!" Gongsun Chan was speechless. "Don't you know, I learned in Yuan's mansion today that Yuan's original mother is seriously ill, I'm afraid she won't be able to survive this autumn rain, and she will go to see the king of Youdu in the middle of the day...... In other words, Sergeant Luo, the leader of Sergeant Luo, Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu are coming back soon! This is your brother's chance! ”

Gongsun Xun was not impatient or impatient, silent, but suddenly a cat meow came from behind:

"Meow ......"

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"Some people, who look decent on the surface, don't even have a cat behind them." - Aunt Gongsun.

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