Because on this day, the itinerary was also quite compact, so Wang Xuance and others politely refused King Dewa's invitation to the banquet again and returned to this post house to rest for a while. No, as soon as they arrived in Wang Xuance's house, Zhou Zeng and Chen Maocai lay down on his bed, while Xiao Liu accompanied Wang Xuance to sit down peacefully at the square table, grinding the tea leaves carefully, and preparing to boil a pot of fragrant tea to comfort the boredom of not drinking tea often these days.

Speaking of the style of drinking tea in this mud Borneo country, it has become increasingly prosperous with the Tangfan Ancient Road in recent years. In the final analysis, the fundamental reason is that outside the city of Minzhou, King Deva and Songtsen Gampo at that time also longed for it after enjoying the culture of drinking tea in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, after Princess Wencheng married Tubo, the Tang people's tea-drinking style spread to the Tubo country.

Because after Wang Xuance made his first mission to India, he completely opened up the ancient road from Tubo to Ni Bo Luo, and along this increasingly busy road that was also protected by the government, the silk, tea, and technology of the Tang Dynasty were continuously transmitted to this Ni Bo country. And many of the native products of Ni Bora were also brought to the Tang Dynasty with the pace of merchants. Therefore, it is much more convenient for the royal family of Ni Bora to purchase this tea set and tea, and King Deva also advocates it. So this trend of drinking tea flourished in this mud bhara.

watched Wang Xuance carefully grind the tea leaves, sift them, and boil the tea, all in one go. Xiaoliu was also fascinated......

But seeing that this week Zeng was lying flat on this bed like this, with two hands behind his head, and the right to use as a pillow, he put on a rather lazy posture. While his eyes turned to this, he pondered, and said: "Since ancient times, this water and fire are incompatible, you say, why does this fire dragon pool present this image of water and fire compatibility, and can still boil water?" ”

"I also thought about this all the way, I felt very curious, and I haven't understood what the reason is, but this is just like the Tao Te Ching, water is good for all things, it is the door to goodness, and the softest thing in the world is this water, I think he can also wrap this fire under special circumstances." Chen Maocai, while pillowing on the quilt, lazily flipped through a Sanskrit translation of the Tao Te Ching next to him and explained this to Zhou Zeng.

Speaking of this Sanskrit translation of the Tao Te Ching, we have to talk about this second mission to the Western Regions. Because the then King Kumora asked for this Sanskrit translation of the Tao Te Ching, Li Shimin specially ordered Master Xuanzang to take someone to translate it personally, this scripture, so through Wang Xuance's second envoy, passed to the five Indian countries, at that time this mud Bhara is also a must be passed on, and later after King Deva read through, although there are only 5,000 words, but feel the words are beady, so he printed a lot, all distributed to the ministers, so far, in this mud Bhara completely spread.

In fact, this Chen Maocai reads books like this, and he can't understand why, although he often follows Master Xuanzang and two envoys to five India, and more or less learns some Sanskrit, but he is still accidentally proficient, and he just reads through a rough idea, which is also idle, so he spends time and rests.

"Brother Chen is right, the world is big, there are no surprises. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes today, I really wouldn't have thought that there was such a place where water and fire could be compatible. Xiao Liu watched Wang Xuance carefully brew tea, and at the same time put his two hands on his chin, and involuntarily spoke.

Listening to their aimless discussion, Wang Xuance said casually while observing the heat: "Don't you feel that there is something strange in this white hair today? ”

Listen to this. Zhou Zeng sat up from the couch as soon as he turned around: "Big brother, I've already paid attention to him, this little second brother, although his hair is gray, but the crutch he is holding is hiding people's eyes, obviously he doesn't need it." ”

"Yes, in addition, there seems to be such a treacherous image in his eyes" Chen Maocai casually put down the Tao Te Ching in his hand and added.

"I feel that this person is too attentive when he sees people and talks about people, and he is too attentive, and he is too flattering to us, as if we don't know anything," Xiao Liu also thought about this and said.

At this time, Wang Xuance had already boiled the tea, and while pouring them the tea, he said: "The tea is ready."

Then he gently picked up this plain tea cup that belonged to him, and smacked it shallowly, and suddenly his tongue was full of relish, and the aftertaste was long: "After so many days, I finally drank a sip of tea, which is really good." ”

"Big brother, don't worry about drinking tea all the time, tell me, tell me what is the reason for this?" Zhou Zeng asked with curiosity.

"Yes, big brother, talk about it, talk about it quickly" Chen Maocai also said along with his words.

So, while tasting tea, Wang Xuance said: "Actually, this kind of pool, I have encountered it once before, I still remember it when I was a child, because it is in the depths of Taihang Mountain, it is also a pool of stagnant water, there are many dense bushes next to this pool, and the leaves also fall from time to time, entering this pool, it happens that there are a lot of gypsum stones next to this pool, and it keeps bubbling on it, which is no different from today's exquisiteness." I was thinking, what is this bubble? However, I was stupid at the time, so I took a torch and tried to see what it was, but as soon as the torch came close to the water, it became bigger and bigger, and it was on top of every bubble. At that time, he also explained the situation to the master, but the master did not understand what it was. But I also remember it since. ”

Looking at the three of them, I listened so intently. Wang Xuance continued: "I also thought about the connection just now, although this pool keeps spring water coming out, but you can see that there are a lot of gypsum stones around this pool. And the four big Bodhi trees around this are very pleasant, and the leaves keep falling. Through this commonality, I think it is not because of this coincidence that it has contributed to the burning of this torch for some reason. ”

Speaking of which, everyone also understands some of them, and feels that this should be inseparable from the magic of nature. In fact, through the understanding of modern people, the reason for the fire in the fire dragon pool is, on the one hand, because there is a steady stream of combustible substances, oxygen or natural gas leakage, and these leaked gases are constantly bubbling in the water. When the torch is placed on it, it naturally catches fire. Although it is easy to understand the principle of this fire dragon pool from the perspective of modern people, in the 1,300-year-old Tang Dynasty, they were only able to understand so much. After all, technology has developed step by step......