After the Suzaku Voyage, we followed the Chi Road and walked south for about five miles before arriving at Changganli, where the Changgan Temple is located. The Changganli of Jiankang City is divided into three areas, which are called the big long trunk, the small long trunk and the east long trunk, all of which are connected together, because there are big and talented people who have the name of big and small long trunk. Jiankang's Lifang is not as regular as the Lifang of Cao Wei Yecheng, Luoyang and later Sui and Tang Dynasties, so it is quite troublesome to find a way here.

In the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Jiankang City was not large, and the population was far less than now, so when planning the city construction, according to Wang Dun's opinion, the city streets were deliberately designed to be crooked and disorganized, so as to prevent others from being able to explore the geographical situation of Jiankang at a glance. This method of urban construction was of course positive and useful in the early days, but later there were more and more Shishu in Nandu, and at the same time, the political status of Jiankang as the capital of the Southern Dynasties also attracted more and more people, coupled with Jiankang's unique hilly geography, so it was impossible to learn Yecheng and Luoyang in urban construction planning. This chaotic layout of the city makes it difficult to manage. For example, when a fire occurs in a certain place, the public servants in Jiankang County and Danyang County who go to fight the fire have to make more detours, which invisibly aggravates the trouble.

Fortunately, there is now Mrs. Chen, a local, so I don't have to ask for directions along the way, and I can go straight to Changgan Temple in Dachanggan.

The history of Changgan Temple is very early, as early as the early years of Emperor Jin Yuan, there were not many people in Jiankang at that time, Changgan Temple still belongs to the small temple in the southern suburbs, more than 100 years later, it has developed into a famous large temple in Jiankang. On weekdays, there are many pilgrims in Changgan Temple, and thanks to today's good weather, there are more pilgrims who come to the door.

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Parking at the corner of the street, looking at the ox cart queue of more than 200 meters long on both sides of the road in front of him, Tuoba Shen was also a little dumbfounded, he didn't expect that the incense of this temple five miles away from Jiankang City was so good, and the scholars who came to worship the Buddha by car filled the alley.

It's good if there are a lot of people, the so-called hidden trees in the forest! The more people there are, the less conspicuous their group becomes.

Instructed Liu Teng to guard the ox cart outside, Tuoba Shen and Lu Guang, and Mrs. Chen got out of the car and walked forward along the right side of the road.

Tuoba Shen had just walked forward a dozen steps, and he noticed that the servants on the ox carts next to him, who were probably also in charge of guarding the carts, cast strange glances at them from time to time, and they didn't feel a little strange, stopped, subconsciously looked at the sleeves, brushed his forehead, muttered in his heart, thought about it, guessed which noble son he thought he was, hiding from his parents, and taking the slaves and maids out to play alone!

When the group arrived at the small square in front of the temple gate, they saw that there were a lot of people crowded here, some scholars wearing long clothes and belts or talking in groups of three or five, or arguing with people with books in their hands, and a few monks in black clothes interspersed to welcome guests.

Looking at the sun and the side of the wood, to make sure that the time was not yet in the middle of the hour, Tuoba Shen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Just about to go to the temple, he heard a few scolds from the road, Tuoba cautiously followed the sound to look over, but saw that it was a double ox around the four look cart, the scolding turned out to be the coachman scolding the ox, behind the ox cart there were dozens of hundreds of servants wearing silk embroidered clothes, all holding things in their hands.

It's high enough! The scene of worshipping a Buddha is so big, I don't know that I think Mrs. Hua is here!

When several monks in the square saw the big car, they hurriedly left the pilgrims, walked to the car with a happy face, and said with their hands folded: "Yesterday, I heard that Secretary Wang was going to come to worship the Buddha, but I didn't see the prayer post, and I thought I wouldn't come." ”

A young man wearing a long robe, a scarf on his head, and a silk silk cloth in his hand stepped out of the car with the support of two brocade slaves, and also stepped forward and folded his hands and said: "Although today is not the Buddha's birthday, it is also the day of the establishment of the Changgan Temple, and I heard that today's temple master personally interprets the scriptures, how can such a grand event be without my Wang Su" said and laughed.

Immediately afterwards, a noble lady with a high bun got out of the heavy yarn car, lifted her skirt slightly, and got out of the car with the help of the maid, and then three children, a boy and two girls, ran out of the car, two of whom were playing with red paper windmills in their hands.

This girl Tuoba Shen recognized it at a glance, it was the little girl who was riding with Xie Fanjing in Dongtian when she came back from Zhongshan a few days ago, needless to say, the lady who came out first was naturally the one she met that day, and was called her aunt by Xie Fanjing.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Tuoba Shen noticed that when this Mrs. Xie got out of the car just now, she seemed to look a little more at him.

Retracting his gaze, Tuoba Shen looked at the man who had just called himself "Wang Su", and his heart was quite shaken. If the guess is correct, this Wang Su should be Wang Su who defected to this dynasty because his father Wang Huan was killed, and married his fifth aunt, Princess Pengcheng. Although he is not as good as Wang Su with the same name and surname in the Cao Wei period, he did not contribute to the dynasty in Wenzhi and was also the auxiliary minister of Yuan Ke in history, but because he had not been in this dynasty for a long time, he climbed to the position of Shang Shuling, suffered from many diseases, and was rushed to Shouyang by King Xianyang and King Rencheng and others who took advantage of the opportunity attached to Shouyang to guard Shouyang.

In this way, this beauty S is the Xie family who later crossed the river thousands of miles to find a husband and wrote poems with his fifth aunt

I don't know which of these two little girls is Wang Puxian, who was accepted into the harem by Yuan Ke in history.

Tuoba Shen looked at the two little girls and thought wildly.

I'm the dividing line

Wang Su is just one of the children of officials who came to Changgan Temple today, and after him, dozens of children of big families came. In order to avoid being recognized, Tuoba and Mrs. Chen wandered out for a while, and then bought some offerings such as rice, grain, sesame oil, etc., and gave them to the monks who guarded the door before entering the monastery.

After coming in, Tuoba Shen didn't rush to find those dark rooms. After all, you have to be dedicated to acting! Burning incense on the road and worshipping the Buddha in the temple, he plans to worship a few Buddhas first.

"Madam, what kind of Buddha is enshrined in this Changgan Temple?" Tuoba asked, thinking about the green apple in his hand.

This apple was also bought by him for two dollars outside for props.

Mrs. Chen knew that Tuoba Shen was asking about the main Buddha, so she said: "At the beginning, Changgan Temple worshiped Shakya, and later molded the golden body of the four bodhisattvas. ”

When several people rushed to the Buddha Hall, they suddenly saw a few monks and three or five pilgrims standing outside the hall gate, as if they were arguing about something. After entering, I realized that it was these pilgrims who wanted to go in to worship the Buddha, but they were stopped outside by a few monks, saying that there were female guests offering incense, and asked them to wait a little longer, but a few pilgrims said that they were in a hurry to listen to the temple master's Dharma, and they wanted to go to the pillar incense to ask for good luck before going to listen to the Buddha. The two sides became entangled as a result.

Tuoba Shen stood on the side, watching the seven monks and laymen arguing, and after waiting for less than a quarter of an hour, the pilgrims finally couldn't bear to run away. Leaving Tuoba Shen and the three of them to face a few monks guarding the door.

After a while, I saw five or six female guests coming out of the hall, and after a closer look, one of them was Mrs. Xie who had just met, and the one who was with Mrs. Wang was Xie Fanjing.

This aunt and nephew relationship is too close, it's inseparable! But it's no wonder that the age gap between them is almost a few years apart.

Since he is an acquaintance, he naturally can't treat it as if he didn't see it, otherwise it won't be rude for him to spread it and make people laugh.

"It turned out to be Concubine Liu, Mrs. Wang in person, Jiangbei Tuoba Shen has seen it" Tuoba Shen stepped forward and saluted.

Mrs. Wang and Xie Fanjing were also a little surprised, and were stunned for a moment, especially when they saw Mrs. Chen dressed as an ordinary woman, it made the two even more strange, because she was obviously dressed in Southern Dynasty clothes.

In the end, it was Mrs. Wang who was older, pulled Xie Fanjing, went down the steps, and saluted: "It's His Royal Highness, the envoy of the Northern Dynasty, and the concubine Wang Xie is polite."

In the end, it is an elder, seeing that Xie Fanjing's temperament is a little cold, he answered on her behalf!

After exchanging a few polite words, Mrs. Wang took her niece away.

Tuoba Shen watched them turn through the corridor before entering the Shakya Hall, and asked Lu Guang to wait at the door. Anyway, he doesn't have to worship the Buddha, just right to stay at the door.

Tuoba Shen washed his hands under the service of Mrs. Chen, and then Mrs. Chen took the incense, Tuoba Shen took the incense, bowed a few times, closed his eyes, and was in his heart for the Cao nobles who were in Pingcheng, after Feng Qing prayed, got up and put on the incense, and bowed a few more times.

"Madam, why don't you stay here and worship the Buddha first? Don't take my mind for granted. I looked around with Liu Qing. At three o'clock, my wife came to the lecture hall to look for me. ”

Mrs. Chen listened to Tuoba Shen's words, knowing that it was inconvenient for him to let herself know, so she didn't think much about it, nodded and said, "The concubine knows."

Tuoba Shen didn't have any suspicions about Mrs. Chen, but he just didn't want to make trouble.