Chapter 281: Who is the spiritual seat of the Buddha Hall?

The weather in July was already hot, and even the refugees who did not cover their shirts on the official road were dragging their heads and dragging their steps forward. They march without purpose, and they go wherever they are rich and can get a mouthful of food. Some people go to the north and some people go to the south, some people say that Jiangnan is good, Jiangnan is not only beautiful and peaceful, there is no war, there is a paradise in the hearts of refugees. Some people say that Hexi is good, and Li Yuan, who is nicknamed the old woman, rectified the people's livelihood and governance after arriving in Taiyuan, and the people's life is much better than that of other places. There are also people who say that Hebei Dou Jiande is also very good under the rule, although he is a thief, but he is a hundred times stronger than the government to the people, everyone has a field, and the taxes collected are also low. What's more, it is said that Saibei is good, herding sheep and horses, at least not worrying about eating and drinking.

Of course, there is naturally a voice in this, saying that Dongping County is good.

There are righteous thieves in Dongping, and the water is beautiful and the fields are fertile. No rent, no payment, no road, no closing at night......

I don't know when this folk song began to circulate, it spread all over the north and south of the Yellow River in just a few months, and even the people of Qi County who had difficulties in life began to plan whether to go to Dongping County to try their luck, and they all said that the people of Yanyunzhai not only gave food seeds, but also the soldiers would help build houses and arrange life.

The things in the legend are generally two extremes, either terrifying and ugly to the extreme, or beautiful and happy to the extreme, but whether it is beautiful or ugly, it gives people the same reverie.

It is said that Jiangnan is good, Hexi is good, and Dongping is good, so even if the refugees are tired and tired to get out of the blood blister, they must go to the beauty that they longed for in their hearts. In fact, not long ago in people's memory, even if the Great Sui was not beautiful everywhere, it could be said that people's hearts were stable.

A convoy of more than a dozen carts slowly marched south from the official road, in front of the convoy were seventy or eighty samurai riding horses and swords, all of them were fierce and vicious, and they were not good at first glance, although the dozen carriages did not look very eye-catching, but the flags on the body made passers-by frequently look sideways, and because the words on the flag guessed the origin of the convoy and could not help but be a little surprised. The speed of the cart was not fast, and the driver who drove the car was not fierce or shouted, but the refugees who were holding each other in twos and threes on the road still avoided each other.

Tang Guogong Li

With these four words alone, ordinary people should stay away.

At the back of the convoy, there was a group of about 200 strong men armed with spears and stiff bows on their backs, following in a neat line.

It seemed that the formation was very large, the guards in fresh clothes and angry horses, the heavily armored infantry, and the dozen or so carts, formed a stark contrast to the people supporting them on the official road. The Tang Gong Li family has been very low-key over the years, especially the Tang Gong Li Yuan has been suspected by the Emperor of the Great Cause by not being reused over the years, and the Li family is even more cautious. In March, Li Yuan was reused, and Emperor Daye named him as a guard in Taiyuan, and the Li family finally had some eyebrows.

But even so, Li Yuan still did not allow the Li family's publicity.

Now these dozen big cars and hundreds of guards on the official road can no longer be said to be low-key, the reason is very simple, even if Li Yuan is careful, he can't ignore the safety of his most beloved daughter. If you want to count how many anti-thieves and bandits there are on the way back to Jiangdu from Taiyuan, Hexi, Li Yuan sent these hundreds of soldiers to protect his daughter Li Huining's aunt Chai Shao, even if it is not very high-profile. From Taiyuan all the way south to Jiangdu, half of the area along the way is no longer under the jurisdiction of the government, even if it is the half of the place under the jurisdiction of the government, I am afraid that the official army is far less than the bandits.

Li Yuan and his wife love their daughter Li Huining very much, and Li Huining was unwilling to marry Chai Shao but had to compromise himself for the sake of family interests, Li Yuan felt that he owed something to his daughter, so his love for him was not reduced because he was married, but he was more caring. Some time ago, Li Yuan's wife, Dou Shi, missed her daughter because she was unwell, so Li Yuan sent someone to Jiangdu to accompany Emperor Yang Guang to visit the Jiangdu and invite his wife to Huaiyuan Town. But before the husband and wife arrived in Huaiyuan, Li Yuan had already been transferred to Taiyuan by order.

Chai Shao and his wife then went to Taiyuan and lived in Li Yuan's house for more than a month before leaving.

Among the dozen or so big cars, the first one was Chai Shao, but Li Huining was not in the same car with him. Since meeting the woman on the way home, his wife Li Huining was extremely happy, not only did she have to marry the woman with a different surname, but also dragged her all the way south in the same car.

When he thought of this, Chai Shao was a little depressed, his wife didn't accompany him to accompany others, even if he was a woman, he felt very awkward, after all, from meeting the unknown woman to today, Li Huining had not been in the same car with him for more than ten days. Compared with the woman he met by chance, Chai Shao was annoyed to find that he looked like an outsider.

Chai Shao opened the curtain of the carriage and looked out, looking at the refugees on the official road, and he didn't know why his heart was suddenly full of anger. It was only because of Tang Gong's reputation that he couldn't help but kick. But the more he suppressed the annoyance in his heart, the stronger the annoyance became, and when he saw an old woman in front of him falling, he thought for a moment and poked his head out and shouted to the coachman: "Don't hurt the pedestrians, it is okay to walk slowly." ”

He said this very loudly, so the refugees on the side of the official road could hear it clearly. Especially in front of him, there was an old woman who might be hungry and couldn't walk, and Chai Shao also loudly ordered the guards next to him to take money and give it to the old woman and let her buy some food. This move immediately won the respect of the people on the side of the road, and everyone bent down to salute, all praising the Li family as a great good person.

Chai Shao smiled and nodded to the refugees, just as he was a little proud, suddenly the carriage stopped, and after the door opened, Li Huining got into the carriage with an unhappy face.

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The curtain of the carriage on the third carriage opened a gap, and a pair of beautiful eyes looked through the gap as the people outside saluted the carriage in front, this was a pair of clean and beautiful eyes, but when they saw that the guards of the Li family gave the old woman a large handful of meat, she frowned slightly for some reason, and a trace of disgust flashed in her eyes.

"Miss, you don't seem to like that Chai Shao?"

A pretty maid in a red dress asked softly.

Sitting by the car window and looking out was a woman with a white veil covering her mouth and nose, revealing only a pair of extremely moving eyes. At this time, the disgust in her eyes became a little stronger with the old woman's thousand thanks, and she slowly lowered the curtain and sighed.

"January, do you think he's a respectable person?"

Although the white veil obscured her face, it could be seen from the smooth forehead and beautiful eyes without a trace of wrinkles that this woman was not very old.

She called the red-robed maid January, the month of January, the head of the December Guard.

The one who asked the question was naturally the princess of the Turkic royal court, and the holy woman Ashina Duoduo on the entire grassland. It's just that I don't know why, she was actually in the Li family's carriage at this time. January heard Ashina Duoduo's question, tilted his head and thought about it and said: "We were caught up by the Golden Horde guards sent by the Khan some time ago, and it was that Chai Shao who led people to defeat the Golden Horde guards, and his wife also invited us to go all the way, it seems that these two couples do not look like bad people." ”

Ashina Duoduo slowly shook her head: "Sister Huining is naturally not a bad person, and she is more open-minded than a man. It's just that Chai Shao, who didn't look like anything at first, but now he feels disgusted when he looks at him. ”

"Why?"

January asked, puzzled.

Ashina Duoduo sighed, slowly leaned on the carriage and closed her eyes: "January, why did the old woman outside fall?" ”

"Because I'm hungry, I don't have the strength to go any further."

After January finished speaking, looking at Ashina Duoduo, she seemed to be a little puzzled why Miss asked this question, and what does this have to do with Miss's dissatisfaction with Chai Shao?

"Since I'm hungry......"

Ashina Duoduo opened her eyes, and her tone was a little disdainful: "Since Chai Shaoming knew that the old woman was hungry, why didn't he give her some food?" In this place where there are no people for dozens of miles, where do you ask the old woman to buy food? Moreover, there must be fierce and ruthless people among those refugees, he gave so much meat to the old woman, couldn't Chai Shao think that in the end, the old woman couldn't get a copper coin, and all of them would be snatched away by the ruthless people among the refugees. I can't say it, the old woman will be beaten again. Refugees may fight over the money, or they may die. ”

She glanced at January and sighed: "It seems that he has a good heart, but in fact, why doesn't he have some dirty thoughts in his heart?" It's just a matter of buying people's hearts, so why make things difficult for an old man who is already hungry and faint? ”

January was stunned, then looked for some food from the car, silently got up and went down, handed the food to the old woman and then watched from the side, until the old woman finished eating she slowly walked back, after thinking about it, January walked back, the old woman was still holding the meat to take out and throw away, suddenly, those refugees rushed up like crazy to rob, among them a few strong men were immediately furious, kicked and beat the refugees away.

Taking advantage of the chaos, January took out a piece of silver and stuffed it into the old woman's hand, and then caught up with the carriage and jumped up.

Sitting down next to Ashina Duoduo, January's face was still a little unsightly.

"If he sees it, I'm afraid he will ridicule you for your hypocrisy."

Ashina Duoduo leaned on the carriage and whispered.

January seemed to know who he was in Ashinaduoduo's mouth, so she asked directly, "Why?" Why does he see doing good deeds as hypocrisy? ”

Ashina Duoduo sighed lightly: "If you ask him, he will naturally tell you, if you really want to do good, why don't you take that old woman with you?" ”

January was stunned and speechless for a long time.

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"I really didn't think about it that much!"

Chai Shao spread his hands and explained: "Seeing that old woman is going to faint from hunger, my natural thought is to give her some money and let her buy some food, where can you be so careful as you women?" You deserve to be angry at this little thing? It's just a big deal, I'll send someone to bring her some food. ”

He was about to open the door of the carriage and give orders, but he saw the red-clothed maid in the third carriage behind him come down and bring some food to the old woman. When he saw the red-dressed maid, Chai Shao's eyes changed slightly, and the meaning was very complicated, a little annoyed, a little relieved, and a little greedy that was hidden by him.

"Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"

Li Huining looked at Chai Shao and asked.

"Jokes?"

Before Chai Shao closed the car door, he reluctantly took one last look at January's waist and buttocks, he sat back next to Li Huining and said with a smile: "How can they be as thoughtful as you, a few barbarian women?" She sent the maid to bring food to the old woman, but it was only out of kindness. Ning'er, you're thinking too much. ”

Li Huining opened her mouth, but after all, she still didn't say a word of reproach.

"Ning'er, why don't we go back to Chang'an directly, why do we have to travel thousands of miles to Jiangdu? Now it is the rainy season in Jiangdu, and I can't go out all day long, and it's boring to stay in the house. ”

Chai Shao saw that his wife's face was a little softened, and then diverted from the previous topic and asked.

Li Huining glanced at Chai Shao and said, "I like the rain in Jiangdu. ”

Chai Shao smiled: "You are always so sentimental, on the surface it seems that you are more open-minded than the average bearded eyebrow, but I know that you will be affected by a rain and a snow." Speaking of which, it seems like you like snow more than rain, why. ”

Li Huining remembered that when she was very young, her eldest brother Li Jiancheng pulled her to stand in front of the house, looking at the back of the baby in the snow, and her heart was sour.

"Nothing."

She lifted the curtain from the car window and looked out of the window.

"By the way, when we went to Taiyuan, there was a Buddhist hall in the house, and there was a spiritual seat, who was that? Mother always goes to the Buddha hall to worship, that person must be very important to our Li family, right? ”

Chai Shao asked.

Li Huining's face suddenly changed when she heard Chai Shao ask about it, she looked at Chai Shao fiercely and said, "Don't mention this matter again!" ”