Eighth, relics
"Uncle, you drove away the guests like this, how can the little one explain to them?" The shopkeeper looked at the two fierce and vicious high-rollers with a pleading face.
The two men came to stay in the middle of the night, but by this time the tavern was empty, and who knew that the two of them actually started to kick out the guests in the best room. Xiao Er had the intention to dissuade him, but when he saw the long sword with cold light in the hands of the two of them, he couldn't help but tremble and his legs were weak, so he could only whisper to each other.
"I don't care how you explain it, the master will give you double the house money, hurry up and get some food for the master, and don't make noise here." A man in a strong suit said and took out a silver ingot and threw it to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper took the silver, smiled bitterly and made a promise, not daring to say more, and retreated in fear.
Seeing Xiao Er retreating, another man said: "Senior brother, we must be chasing in the wrong direction, we have been chasing for a day, unless he has wings, or he should catch up." ”
"No matter, stay here for one night first, and then take a look in the direction of Fengxiang tomorrow." The man, who was called Senior Brother, lovingly wiped the long sword in his hand and said lightly; "If I can catch up with that Di Feng, I will use his blood to sacrifice this sword of victory over evil given to me by my master."
The other man looked enviously at the victory evil in his senior brother's hand and nodded approvingly.
These two people are the Kunlun disciples who have been chasing Di Feng, and the two chased them all the way east from Taibai Mountain, chasing them out for a hundred miles, but they didn't even see a single figure; The mountains and forests are dense, and the food is gone, and the two realize that they may be chasing in the wrong direction; So the two turned around and rushed in the direction of Taibai County. It was already midnight when they arrived in Taibai County, so the two of them found this tavern to stay and have something to eat.
They didn't know that Di Feng, who they were looking for at this time, was sleeping next door.
The next day, early in the morning, the first rays of sunlight shined through the window, shining on the little face of the ugly, the fine hairs were shining with a faint gold under the sunlight, the ugly child slept very sweetly, pouted like a sulking child, I don't know what she dreamed of, and muttered "bad guy...... from time to time
After the rain, the fresh air with the fishy smell of earth was sent into the room by the wind, Di Feng stretched his waist and took a deep breath greedily, but the future generations could not smell such a pure smell, and a beautiful day began again.
Taibai County is very small, a bluestone main street leads directly to the county government, several curved paths on both sides, like the branches of big trees in the low tile room staggered, the loess road surface is soaked in rainwater, it seems muddy and difficult to walk, Di Feng took the ugly hand with the meat in his hand, looked at the roadside vendors, slowly slowed down, the taste of the cooking cake is not very good, not as good as the meat bun in later generations, but the victory is full of wheat fragrance.
"Did you hear that? Qiyang Ashoka Pagoda, there is a Buddha treasure in the world"
"I heard about it, but it's amazing, the saints all said that it was auspicious, and they also sent Beijing officials to inspect it, and I heard that a temple will be built."
"You people who don't know, what do you know, that is the Buddha to Qizhou Thorn Shi Zhang Liang to give a dream, let him go to the wasteland in the south of Qiyang to dig the ground to get treasure, the Thorn Shi went to dig the foundation, digging to a zhang deep, digging out two ancient monuments, it says that there is a stone room under the base, there is a Buddha real body relics in it, that is the Buddha's real body relics, the relics seen in everyone's eyes, the color and shape are different, some people see white, like white jade reflected inside and outside; Some people see green, red, or pentacolor; There are also people who see images of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, holy monks, etc.; There was a blind man who had been blind for many years, who came to pay homage to the Buddha's relics with a blind cane, because he couldn't see, he desperately opened his eyes, and suddenly his eyes regained his sight! These Buddha treasures are said to appear only during the reign of the Holy Lord. ”
The chatter of the pedestrians on the side of the road aroused Di Feng's attention, Qiyang, Fufeng Famen Temple, and the relics of the three key divisions in Di Feng's mind, he sent the last bite of cooking cake to his mouth, and then said vaguely to Chou'er: "Go...... Let's go play with the wind. ”
Chou'er naturally heard the conversation between the three of them, and was curious about the true body relics of Shakyamuni Buddha, and listened to Di Feng's suggestion, and was busy trying to reply, but the cooking cake choked in her mouth, so that she could only "woo...... Woo ......" little head frequency.
"Senior brother, you see that young Taoist seems to be the person we are looking for."
"It looks a bit like, why is there still one? Let's go, let's go over and have a look."
The two disciples of Kunlun looked at Di Feng's back and followed.
The dilapidated earthen city gate of Taibai County shows the vicissitudes of time, the green bricks on the wall have fallen off, revealing the center of the loess wall inside, and the soldiers at the door are drowsy with long lances illuminated by the warm morning light. At this moment, an old beggar came out of the city tremblingly, the old beggar had straw on his head, and his clothes were full of patches, and the patches were stacked on top of each other but there were many extra pockets. A stench penetrated the soldier's nose from afar, and a soldier covered his nose and scolded in disgust: "Where did you come from, old bastard, do you want to smoke your grandfather to death, get out of here, be careful to annoy your grandfather and cut off your dog's head." As he spoke, he thought that the old beggar was walking slowly, so he stepped forward in two steps, raised his leg and kicked the old beggar.
The old beggar was kicked and fell to the ground and rolled out of the old distance like a gourd, lying on the ground humming and chirping for a while, and the soldier saw this and picked up the lance in his hand and wanted to whip again, but the lance did not fall but was firmly grasped by a hand in mid-air.
"You dare!"
Di Feng did not expect that in this Tang Dynasty, which is known for its freedom, tolerance and wealth, the people living at the bottom of the society are still like a mustard, and he believes that if he didn't do it himself, this old beggar would be beaten to death, and his body would be thrown to the barren slope outside the city to feed wild dogs. Whether it is in his previous life or in this life, Di Feng will not let this kind of thing that treats human life as child's play happen, when he didn't have the ability before, he still dared to roar when he saw injustice, not to mention that he has this ability now.
The beggars are all lowly people who have no household registration, even if they are killed, even if someone reports it, they will be reprimanded by the lord at most, the soldier did not expect that someone would take care of this kind of nosy, he raised his head and wanted to scold, but seeing Di Feng's face like jade, his aura was extraordinary, and he endured it stubbornly, this young man wearing a Taoist robe was mostly a child of a rich and noble family, and he didn't see that he still had a handsome rabbit Xianggong, there are many children of Liang in Qizhou Mansion who like to wear Taoist robes to look for flowers and willows, there is no need to offend them for a pariah.
Watching the soldier walk back to the city gate, Di Feng let go of the hand holding the hilt of the sword, if it weren't for the soldier's eyes, Di Feng would have been ready to let his blood splash on the spot. Leaned forward to help the old beggar, Di Feng thought for a while, "After he leaves, these soldiers may take revenge on this beggar," so he asked slowly: "The old man wants to go out of the city, right?" Would you like to come with us?"
Seeing the old beggar nodding and walking out of the city gate with Di Feng's support, Chou'er also wanted to learn from Di Feng to help the old beggar, but the smell on the old beggar was really bad, so he had to give up the idea, followed behind like a little tail, and kept thinking carefully, "This bad guy seems to be good, he looks so majestic and handsome just now, do you just let him go...... Well...... Okay, let him go! But why are you a little reluctant to leave?"
The old beggar seemed to have regained some courage when he came out of the city gate, and without the way he had just cowered, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the half of the cake in the ugly child's hand and asked for it; In the stunned expression of the ugly child, Di Feng snatched the cooking cake in her hand and handed it to the old beggar, and then took out a silver cake from his body and said: "We still have important matters, we can no longer accompany the old man, you can take this silver, find a good place to settle down, don't beg around"
The ugly child was angry, "This bad person, he actually grabbed things from other people's hands without asking, I regretted it, I can't let him go, yes, I can't be resolute" I thought resolutely, but Di Feng took his hand and walked quickly without objecting, but felt that it should be so.
Watching the two walk away, the old beggar stuffed the silver cake into his pocket, took a bite of the cooking cake, and muttered: "Half a cooking cake, one or two silver, this kindness is not good" said and glanced behind him intentionally or unintentionally, and then found a big locust tree on the side of the road and lay down.
The two Kunlun disciples didn't dare to follow too closely, this Di Feng was very slippery, and he was afraid that he would startle the snake if he followed too closely, "Senior brother, why don't you take down the two of you in the city, it's very troublesome to follow like this."
"What do you know, didn't Qin Da say that this kid has some means, once he fights in the city, won't it be troublesome to provoke the officers and soldiers? Senior brother, you have to grow your brain to live a long time when you walk the rivers and lakes, you haven't seen the little Taoist priest next to Di Feng, who looks like a weak little lady, walking and twisting, but you find that no, he doesn't walk slowly but the speed is not slower than ours, what does this mean? It shows that his skills are not below us. This is the eyesight of the old rivers and lakes, learn more, junior brother!"
The Kunlun disciple looked at his senior brother admiringly and said, "It's still a great senior brother, no wonder the master likes you" After speaking, he looked at the old beggar lying under the locust tree and asked, "Senior brother, should we pay attention to this old beggar?"
"Bastard, what do you care about a beggar?" But before the words fell, suddenly this Kunlun disciple found that his body was stiff and couldn't move, and secretly screamed that it was not good, this was a plot, and he hurriedly said: "Senior brother is not good, there are masters ambushing us"
"I can't move my brother"
After four hours, the two of them could slowly move their bodies, and turned their heads to look at the locust tree, where the figure of the old beggar was already gone, "I can restrain the two of us silently, the master and his old man can't do it, this person's cultivation is unfathomable."
"What are we going to do?"
"What else can we do, this person didn't take our lives, he has already saved his face, this is no longer something we can participate in, go, go back to report to the master, or ask him to make a decision."