Three days later, we were already in Xuzhouzhi, Huaibei Province, outside Pengcheng City, which is also the capital of Huaibei Province in the usual sense.

Compared with the Jidong town guards who sat in Jeju, Qizhou and half of Hunzhou that I passed by before, the local garrison and population size of Xuzhou are much larger.

Because, today's Xuzhou is also the head of the four towns of Huaibei, the seat and station of the Qingxu Jiedu envoy, and the land of Yi, Hai, Si, Mongolia, Hao, and Yun, almost occupying most of the hinterland of Huaibei Province, as well as the outlet of Haizhou, as the benefit of trade, fishing and trade.

Therefore, although Qingxu Town, as a peripheral force that was deferential, was inevitably involved in the Luodu Revolution and sided with the opposition, the final result from the court was not outdated, and the symbolic reprimand, seizure of the title, and the fine were more symbolic than the actual punishment.

It seems that the most severe result is just that the contemporary Jiedu made Du Guishen resign, and then recommended his son to stay behind the Jiedu. This is just because the contemporary festival has made the family united enough that it has not given too many opportunities for the regent from the center.

After all, in troubled times, strength is the most fundamental backing, and such rules of survival are best explained in a fluttering edict issued in the name of the Son of Heaven.

But for me, hearing the somewhat familiar name of Qingxu Town, I recalled with some embarrassment those people who were killed by me in the underground pipes after killing each other.

Because there are enough territory on three sides to control the power of the city as a buffer, even if there was a big war with Songzhou just a few years ago, Pengcheng, as the capital, has not lost much of its popularity.

The height of the city wall and the extent of the castle in the field of vision alone are measured in miles, and it is initially estimated that it can accommodate two or three hundred thousand households.

If you can ignore and ignore the starving people who gather in the outskirts of the city, or the new nameless corpses that have been gnawed and scattered in mass graves.

But the hardest winter has finally passed, and the demand for short-term domestic servants and tenants has gradually recovered with the arrival of spring, so the faces of those who survive no longer look so desperate and discouraged.

So as soon as someone passed by, they flocked to peddle themselves, and then they were whipped and beaten with sticks and dispersed again.

At least here, we have the trust of our identity, the guarantee of the business, and the corresponding money in our private pockets, enough to get what we want in the short term in the city.

So I bought the old jujube horse and an old caravan that I rode all the way in the caravan, and renamed it Red Tiger III, after all, because its predecessor was handed over to Su Jingxian for another humane destruction, it is estimated that he is now lying on a butcher's meat stall.

As long as the Huai River is crossed, even if it is completely out of the sphere of influence that the powerful minister can control, the princes and feudal towns of Huainan, although they nominally obey the orders of Luodu and are influenced by the powerful ministers, are much more autonomous.

However, it seems that due to the impact of the change in Luodu and the recent tensions between Xuzhou and Huainan, the rest of the journey does not look easy.

I can rest here for a few more days, redo some preparation and planning, wait for new news and changes, and take care of other things.

Because of that famous post, the caravan that came with me introduced me to a perennial relational household, which is said to be a local time-honored brand that doubles as a guest house - Sheng Chang Lou.

It is said to be a building, in fact, it is a multi-directional management of the building complex, there are guest houses and canteens, there are stables and warehouses, there are warehouses and carriages, and next to it is a small market and a street full of shops, it can be said that it is very convenient from clothing, food, housing and transportation.

Now is not the peak season for business travel, so there are familiar customers under the introduction, as long as you spend a little more money, you can get two parallel rooms in the left corner of the top floor from the four-story wooden building on the west edge, where the view is convenient, not far downstairs is the market, although the environment is noisy, but the doors and windows are thick enough, and the sound insulation effect of closing is still good.

The doors and windows are inlaid with translucent variegated glass, and the interior is mainly made of hardwood, and the beds, hanging tents, and bedding look relatively clean and tidy, without mildew and other peculiar smells.

All the floors are connected by an external corridor, so the relative privacy of the interior is relatively good, except for the invited attendants, no one deliberately passes by, and there is no problem staying in the room for many days......

We are here to make up for the mental and physical wear and tear on the journey, we can't take care of washing, all kinds of sleepy, and sleep until the next evening, only to be hungry and pull the bell crotch downstairs, so that people can bring local specialties of dinner, beef offal sour soup and oil lees burritos, and a stack of indescribable jar dishes.

After recuperating enough, I squatted with my head in my arms and spent two days visiting several cities, leading the red tiger to buy a lot of things.

Including in a few bookstores, I picked up a lot of miscellaneous old books, and then handed them over to my head to squat to read, hoping that this would help her recover some memories or something.

Then the time of the night, after closing the door, trained her to use a hand crossbow and a simple self-defense technique, mainly relying on the petite and harmless size and appearance to deceive, and to ask what the key anti-wolf technique was.

After all, a girl of this age has no advantage in endurance and explosiveness based on physical fitness, and can only work skills and strategies. Of course, it is said that the earliest template came from a certain female man on the forum who claimed to have torn JJ's pinched balls to show off.

This is also her request on her own initiative, the reason is that she doesn't want to be a burden to me, and after seeing such a tragic thing for such a time, at least give him a chance to save himself or avoid dragging me down.

I could only touch her head and comfort her, you are thinking too much, and then the next day I started teaching her some self-defense skills.

Although I know that she works hard and is also very studious. I didn't expect her to feel better with the crossbow than me, although she had actually practiced secretly before I found out. Able to target geckos and maintain a normal hit rate.

Looking at her serious and slow appearance, I sometimes have the illusion that we are not in this chaotic ancient time, but in the alienation scene of Uncle Renault and Natalie Portman's classic old movie, "A Killer Is Not Too Cold".

On the third day, when I walked into the room with a leather bag in my hand, I saw my head squatting with my white legs curled up, leaning on the corner of the bed and reading a book.

With light breathing, under the mottling of the early sun, there are some little girls of this age, who should have a delicate and cute taste.

I couldn't help but reach out and touch my pointed pink chin, and then she trembled, her eyelids trembled, and she slowly recovered her cute appearance when she saw me.

"I haven't remembered anything yet......"

I touched her head, crouched and shook my head, as if trying to get something out of my head.

"Then continue to follow me ......"

"Hmmm......"

At this moment, I seemed to hear some cheerful tones, but seeing that she was still the same old look, I thought it was just my personal delusion.

"Let's go, it's time for us to go out......"

"Where to ......"

"Go to the temple to see the monk......"

We are going to Chenguoji Temple, which is said to be from the Lingnan Imperial Court, another backup liaison base.

In fact, I sat down in a random tea house outside, and after a little inquiry, I knew that this place was there, and there was no other, because Chenguo Temple was so famous in the local area, so famous that everyone knew Cheng Dù.

Because this is the largest and most famous jungle treasure temple in the area, and there is no one.

To be honest, this is obviously very different from the remote temples that I imagined that there were not many unpopular households, and were more suitable as a cover for identity and an underground stronghold.

Therefore, I still spent an extra day to inquire about the situation and the storage of other monasteries, so as not to make a mistake.

Different from the traditional Mahayana temples of the Dharma Phase, Tiantai, Three Treatises, Huayan, Pure Land, Southern and Northern Zen streams, this large temple is a relatively rare tantric temple in the local area of the national dynasty.

It is said that it originated from one of the three great scholars of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the national teacher in the Taixing period, the Dharma lineage of the Venerable Master of the Void, and the Padmasambhava who went to the Western Regions, known as the Tang Dynasty Tantra blossoming and stemming, one of the two fundamental principles of the East and the West.

In the original time and space, it was like a flash in the pan, and the three great scholars of Kaiyuan who quickly declined are not to mention the lineage, and the specific birth process of this Ximi that appeared out of thin air is also quite dramatic. It can be traced back to the Taixing period when Liang Gongxi Pingding snowy Kunlun and Qingtang Dadu Hufu were born.

Because, in this time and space, the original plateau was geographically advantageous, spanning the northern part of Yunnan to the Western Regions, and even possessed a corner of the Eastern Tianzhu, and the Tubo of Xuanhe for a while had not even had time before it reached its heyday.

Under the personal conquest of the Liang Gong army, which was the predecessor of the traverser, in the battle of its large-scale invasion of Hexi and even Guannai with the strength of the whole country, the Longwu system, which was fully mobilized, was surrounded by all sides to chase and intercept the defeat and loss, and all the way to recover the original Hexi Longyou, which was completely destroyed.

Then in the Chiling Interception Battle, almost the vast majority of the Tibetan expeditionary soldiers were left in the lowlands forever, and the battle on the West Sea completely defeated the Tubo rule from Qinghai to the Western Regions, and the aura was sluggish.

The last battle of Xingsuchuan completely wiped out the last Dalun of Tubo, when the world's famous general Ma Dingde, tried to save the last effort of the national fortunes, including the center of Tubo politics - the Hongshan Palace is located in Luoqichuan (Lhasa Plain), the root place of Wuru 61 Dongdai, almost all gone.

In the end, only a few remnants were left to guard the last descendants of the Tibetan royal family and fled back to the Yalong ancestral land deep in the plateau, so that they could survive for a while.

Therefore, in normal time and space, Guru Padmasambhava, who was supposed to go to Tibet to preach the Dharma, also became one of the trophies carried by the Tang army, and with the enlightenment and support of Liang Gong, he came to Chang'an to propagate the Dharma and spread the sect, and established a tantric faction as a latecomer to fight against the Venerable Master.

Later, the Duke of Liang went west to conquer the extreme region, and Padmasambhava also accompanied him all the way, so that the Buddhism that had been revived from the brutal suppression and rule of foreign religions returned to the Western Regions and the land of Tianzhu, and followed the army to restore the ancestral court of the birthplace of Buddhism such as Makhari, and became the patriarch of the Western Tantric lineage, and presided over the Nalanda Monastery, and promoted the revival of Theravada and the Mahayana lineage to be unified.

In the hometown of Tubo, which collapsed suddenly, there is now only a behemoth called the Qingtang Duhufu, as well as many small feudal lords established by Xiqiang, Dangxiang, Tuyuhun, Subi, and Zhangxiong.

And their most famous products are the swords that combine Tianzhu technicians and highland mines, raised in the mountains and deep valleys, majestic and strong plateau horses, and yaks that can lie on ice and drink snow; and the wind, frost, rain and snow on the plateau, and the bitter cold and barrenness of the hard-working, indomitable warriors - Qingtang Yicong.

They are often hired to serve in all kinds of armies, and become the first choice for jumping and selecting fronts.

Having said that, in the building complex of the main temple of Chenguoji Temple, there is a three-story tower-shaped martial arts hall, which uses various epic wall paintings and Bunsen stories to describe these exaggerated and beautified processes.

It is said to be the handwriting of Liang Chengcheng, the tenth grandson of Liang Gong and the Qingshan Duke who was the governor of Jianghuai at the time.

Among them, the temple has the eight-fold tin pagoda, Tongliang Temple, gold and jade wall carving, the great agarwood Bodhisattva, the boy hall, the relics hall and many other historical sites and scenic spots, almost all of which were left during the period of the Liang regency.

In particular, the relics hall can be traced back to the Qianyuan period, when the Nanhai Governor's Mansion under the leadership of Duke Liang was first established, and the righteous teachers were raised to denounce justice for the Tang people who died overseas.

On the island of Sumatra, the first power in the South China Sea - Sri Buddha died, slaughtered all the nobles of the clan, occupied its land and sold its people, and by the way, Borobudur, the first Buddhist holy land in the South China Sea with a history of thousands of years, originated from South Tianzhu, and obtained hundreds of relics of Buddha Shakya.

Returning to the country dedicated to the center, it is the edict to give the world's famous mountains and temples from the forest, the relics hall is set up all over the place, and later there is Liang Gong to conquer the outside of the mountains, set up (onion) Lingnan to recruit the camp, through the five sides of Tianzhu, then get the Buddha bone relics, the Buddha's parietal bones and other blue treasures, enshrined in the two capitals in the country, then there are thirteen fundamental jungle said, this Chenguo Temple, is one of them.

In the past, the three outlines of Chenguo Temple: Theravada, the temple master, and Du Weina, also held the position of a monk official, and was second only to the two Beijing monks and monks of the left and right streets, the east capital, and the merit of repairing, one of the twenty-six great monks.

The temple is not too far from where we live, that is, the distance of several city squares, but before entering the city, you have to pay according to the head, no more than no less than ten yuan per person.

However, in my opinion, this provision is not so much used to collect taxes as it is used as a threshold for entering the city, just to get stuck in those penniless homeless people, or suburban farmers and hawkers whose goods are not of high value, so as not to add some unstable factors to the appearance of the city.

Riding the red tiger and carrying the incense sticks and flowers, fruits, flowers and fruit offerings we bought, we easily found the courtyard wall of almost the entire street of the fighter plane and the huge mountain gate with several cornices.

As the main stream ascended the stairs, there was a bustling flow of pilgrims and people, whether it was a peddler or a pawn, or a dignitary, there was no shortage of them.

In fact, in this troubled era where many people are precarious, this kind of religious spiritual sustenance is easier to obtain the market and development space of the general public.

Especially in this kind of relatively bleak and bleak world on the outside, in a relatively comfortable city, the potential sense of crisis of the contrast between inside and outside is enough to make these temples always have no shortage of people to worship all day long.

Trees are hidden in the forest and hidden in the city, which is also a means and way of concealment.

But I'm a little blind, because this place is too big, with a continuous complex of buildings, groups of big bald heads, small bald heads, and old bald heads, as well as young bald heads, where can I find possible strongholds and contacts?

Fortunately, I squatted with my head in my arms, and had enough time to walk slowly, visit the temples and Buddhist halls and courtyards and landscapes inside, and then look for opportunities.

At least there is no one to stop us, obviously in this era, we have not learned the temple attractions of the commercialization of the emperor in later generations, you have to buy tickets after passing the door, and there are hidden consumption traps everywhere.

Even if you scurry into some ritual place, at most you will stare at you a few times. In addition, the eight-fold tin pagoda, Tongliang Courtyard, golden jade wall carving, big agarwood Bodhisattva, Tongzi Palace, and the scenic spot of the Relic Hall are all good places to relax.

For example, this tin pagoda, which has never been heard of in the original time and space, is also known as the silver pagoda or the big white pagoda, which is said to be the main body of the tower body with brick and stone as the bone, melted tin, and poured with lead and copper, and later was wrapped with a thick layer of silver foil, and there are believers who donated and inlaid colorless glazed and white crystal treasures as the top.

Therefore, every sunny day, looking at the tower from afar, the silver is like snow and bright like the brilliance, just like a standing demon treasure tree, towering and watching. And in the underground palace under the pedestal, there is also a seal of the original Sanskrit Baye Golden Sutra that is said to come from the old place of Tianzhu Diyuan and Bodh Gaya.

After donating a few large white incense money, he was treated as a Buddha on the top of the tower, and the monk who led the way retreated. I looked at the scenery of the city in the city like a chessboard, the square dwelling like a chess, and the scenery of Setsby, and suddenly sighed

"It's really a ...... of great rivers and mountains"

Then I suddenly felt it, holding my head and squatting behind my back and gently hugging me,

"What's wrong......

"It's just that Ah Xia will fly away and disappear ......"

She whispered softly to me

I smiled slightly, turned her to the front, facing outward, just standing at the top of the eightfold tin pagoda, and then spread my hands outward to make a flying bird pose, and then I hugged her and made a classic scene COS for a while, feeling each other's heartbeats and the sound of the wind whistling in the heights, alternately accompanied by the flow of blood.

"What did you hear......

"Asha's Heartbeat and Breathing"

"There is also the call of the times, and the call of the new world......"

"Will you follow in my footsteps......