Sitting on the ox cart on the way back, Tuoba Shen suddenly felt a lot calmer along the way.

"Your Highness, do you want to go back to the museum?" Liu Teng looked at the looming sun walking through the clouds and asked.

"What time is it?"

"It's past noon. The little slave took a few naps in the car. ”

Tuoba Shen smiled and said, "Don't go back yet, let's go to Suzaku Hang City to have a look." ”

Yesterday, I also promised Mrs. Chen to buy some books for Xiao Chen Qingzhi, and it is estimated that it is not yet time for the market to disperse.

"Madame, do you know where there are books and brochures for sale in the city?"

Mrs. Chen combed her windswept hair with both hands, thought for a while, and said, "Concubine Ping is mostly in Xiao Mansion, but she doesn't know much about Yu Bazaar. However, I have heard several times that some scattered classics have been found in Dahang City and presented to the imperial court. ”

"Could it be that what you find in the city is all fragments?"

"Not exactly. It's just that all the books and canons have been passed down from generation to generation, and they are all regarded as treasures. Not to mention the sale of classics, even relatives and friends come to borrow and copy them, and most of them are unwilling. Therefore, it is very difficult to find the complete book in the bazaar. ”

This is reasonable, those who can take books to the market to sell are either in the middle of the road and unable to survive, so they have to rely on selling books to survive, or they are dirty things that sell stolen goods. Some people with good faces, even if they sell books to make a living, they find acquaintances to sell them secretly, first, they can save some face, and second, they may be able to make more money.

This time, I had much better luck than in the morning, and the float was just in the time when the sailing was closed, so the float passed quickly.

After giving the city guard three five-baht coins at the entrance of the city as usual, Tuoba Shen and others entered the city, covered their heads and turned around for two quarters of an hour inside, and did not know if it was good luck, and found the five volumes of the fragments of the Lao Tzu Note by Wang Bi of the Jin Dynasty, the first twelve volumes of the Book of Rites by Wang Su of the Wei Dynasty and the fragment of the Lao Tzu Xianger Note of the Han Zhang Daoling.

After some haggling, the fragments were finally priced at a high price of 1,200 yuan, and in order to complete the transaction, a high tax of 360 yuan was to be paid to the city officials. Books are not ordinary goods, and the taxes paid are much higher than ordinary goods.

It's just that the seller also has a lot of blood, and the 1,200 yuan that has just arrived is 300 yuan less before it is hot.

Lu Guang followed Tuoba Shen with the burden of several large volumes of classics, and Tuoba Shen took a newly purchased volume of rites and read it. On his right back, Madame Chen also holds two volumes of Rites in her hand

The Book of Rites he learned in Pingcheng was annotated by Zheng Xuan, a university scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and this annotation was also an old classic commonly used by Hebei scholars.

Zheng Xuan took the path of interpreting the scriptures in ancient texts, and in the words of later generations, Zheng Xuan "believed in the ancients", and the absurd statements in the ancient books were not screened in his hands, and were directly used to annotate the scriptures. Wang Su's is different, Wang Su pays more attention to the meaning of scriptures in reality.

For example, in the birth of the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty, the three poems say that it is to step on the giant foot and abandon it. This is obviously an absurd statement, and Zheng Xuan still clings to the old things in order to comply with the politically correct sense of heaven and man in Sinology and the internal study of Wei Wei. And Wang Su's origin of abandonment is to say that his father is the emperor, not born by induction.

Although this is not his only innovative opinion, it is obviously a kind of progress in the context of the end of the Han Dynasty's classics.

Therefore, compared with Zheng Xuan, Tuoba Shen appreciated Wang Su's knowledge and progress more. Now that he has obtained Wang Su's rites, although it is a fragment, he also wants to feast his eyes first.

After watching and thinking for a while, Tuoba Shen's pace became slower and slower, his thoughts became more and more concentrated, and he almost bumped into someone twice.

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After two small accidents, Tuoba Shen also put away the scroll, handed it to Mrs. Chen, and continued to pick up treasures.

Suzaku City is worthy of being one of the best cities in Jiankang, not only all kinds of daily necessities, but also some wine from the Western Regions or Persian glassware, or good quality, light yellow or light green fully transparent goods, but Tuoba Shen's most wanted crystal ball glass ball and the like are not found.

With a lot of regrets, after walking out of the third Yishang's shop, Tuoba, who was about to go home, inadvertently looked at the opposite shop.

Tuoba Shen walked in and looked at the goods carefully.

The shop sells porcelain, not glassware. It's just that what makes Tuoba Shen feel new is that none of these porcelains are daily necessities, all of them are all kinds of handicrafts, such as cats, tigers, green dragons and white tigers and other four rui beasts and architectural models, and all kinds of Buddha, Bodhisattva, Arhat, Taoist porcelain statues are also available.

"Shopkeeper, how much is this porcelain inkstone worth?" Tuoba Shen asked, tapping his fingers on a colored rockery.

This porcelain is different from the common celadon on the market, but white porcelain, which looks very smooth on the outside, without a little wrinkle to the touch, and the glaze reflectivity is quite good. This kind of fine porcelain is also quite rare in this era.

With a crisp echo, several small fish in the inkstone scattered from the rockery, and the churning water droplets almost splashed out of the inkstone.

The shopkeeper who was polishing the porcelain was awakened by an "ah", saw a distinguished customer in the store, came over to look at the rockery inkstone pointed by Tuoba Shen, bowed down and said: "Xiao Langjun, this porcelain inkstone was customized by Xifu Dalangjun three days ago, and the villain can't be the master." ”

"Xifu Da Lang-kun? Is it the Langjun of the Yuzhang family? Tuoba Shen wondered

Mrs. Chen shook her head lightly and said: "Although His Royal Highness King Yuzhang is the assassin of Yangzhou, he has stayed in the palace all the year round and is not on official business, so His Majesty sent His Royal Highness King Jingling to Zhenxizhou. "Note

Tuoba Shen nodded, not without regret, and asked, "The shopkeeper may make another district?" ”

"This is a custom-made thing by Xifu Dalangjun, if you know that there are the same objects in Beijing, where can the villain stay here," the shopkeeper said with a bitter face.

Tuoba Shen wondered, "What, can you still burn a single piece here?" ”

He thought he was mass-produced!

"Yes, the villain still has some craftsmanship, and he is quite famous in the city, and many officials and gentry in Beijing often come to the villain's shop to customize porcelain."

"That's good," Tuoba Shen continued, "but there is pen and paper?" ”

"Yes, yes," the shopkeeper turned and laid a fine sheet of paper on the desk. Tuoba Shen walked to the desk, pondered for a moment, and slowly drew a model diagram on the paper.

Mrs. Chen stood on the right side, staring curiously at the notes on the paper, and not long after she started writing, she saw Tuoba Shen draw a lotus platform first, and guessed that it should be a sitting Buddha.

After two or three quarters of an hour, Tuoba Shen put away his pen. At this time, a sheet had been placed on the desk, and a diagram of the four perspectives of the two Bodhisattvas was drawn on the paper, and the requirements for size and coloring were written.

Mrs. Chen picked up a frontal portrait with both hands, looked at it carefully, and said suspiciously, "Your Highness." It's "

"NSN Bodhisattva"

"NSN Bodhisattva" Mrs. Chen looked at the image again and said, "The image painted by His Highness is different. Everyone in the world is a male body of NSN Bodhisattva, why is His Royal Highness painted as a female body? And"

It's still an NSN Bodhisattva holding a toddler.

For a time, Mrs. Chen felt that her vision and thoughts had been greatly impacted.

"The Buddha is invisible, and the male and female bodies are all based on imagination. It's just that the world prefers sons over women, and even women are few exceptions. Since the Buddha preached the world, he was inevitably swayed by the world's customs. Therefore, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are mostly taken as male bodies, but this is not the original intention of the World-Honored One. ”

"And the people of the world seek to worship the NSN Bodhisattva, which is nothing more than to save suffering and ask for children. I am going to present this Bodhisattva to the King of Luling as a farewell gift, so it is mainly in the image of a woman carrying a young son. ”

Zhang Shufei and Xiao Ziqing were very good to him, they didn't send anything last time, so they had to show their hearts when they said goodbye. However, it is too vulgar to give money and treasures, and the famous calligraphy, painting and calligraphy are not brought with me. It's better to give Xiao Ziqing and his wife a statue of Guanyin, and if you give it to Concubine Zhang Shufei, use a statue of Yangliu Guanyin. This is neither cheesy nor extravagant, and it can be appropriate for one's identity as an outsider. After all, the Buddha belongs to all living beings, not to any family.