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"That's it!" Miao Peilan chuckled, "We heard that the generals who came back said that you took out the holy decree to let them retreat, and they had to come back, so angry that Sister Xiao almost killed him, but fortunately, he said the direction you are going, saying that it is Gangren Buche Mandala, so we chased after us, originally Sister Xiao was also coming, but the queen was seriously ill, and she had to go back to take care of it, so she didn't come." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Zuo Shaoyang was taken aback: "Empress Eldest Sun is seriously ill? ”

"Yes, the day you left, the queen's illness suddenly worsened, and Sister Xiao originally wanted to persuade you to stay and treat the queen, but I didn't expect you to be kidnapped."

"No wonder the emperor will use 800 miles to urgently mobilize an army to intercept and rescue me, it turned out to be to treat the queen. Hey hey"

"We searched all the way, but when we arrived in Bowo, there was no news of you, so we hurried to some cities in Tuboluo, and we did not hear from you."

Zuo Shaoyang said with a smile: "We turned around halfway and went north and went to Domi. ”

"No wonder, we've asked all the big and small inns, and we haven't heard from you, so I'm in a hurry."

Zuo Shaoyang said curiously: "You two Tibetans? ”

"No, when we entered the Western Regions, we hired a merchant who knew the Western Regions dialect to come with us. He inquired for us. We couldn't hear from you, so we decided to wait in Logos. The merchant couldn't wait, so he took the money and went back. Anyway, there are also Han merchants. We waited at the city gate every day, and went from inn to inn at night, but after waiting for more than a month, there was still no news from you. ”

Bai Zhihan remembered the bitterness of that time, cried and laughed: "Yes, those innkeepers all know us, and when they see us coming, they shake their heads and say no." Hee-hee"

Zuo Shaoyang kissed his second daughter distressedly: "We were delayed on the road, and then we took a detour to Yangtong and didn't enter Tubo, so I blamed me for not being good and making you suffer." ”

The second daughter snuggled up to him, very satisfied, Miao Peilan said: "We have been waiting for you not to come, and after discussion, we decided to go directly to Gangren Buche Mandala, where will you go anyway." We paid a Han merchant who knew the Western Regions to be our guide, and took us to the Gangren Buche mandala, where we could inquire and say that there was no Dharma King coming, and that the original Dharma King had been gone for many years, and an elder and four Dharma protectors went to find it, and they had not yet returned. We would have liked to wait at the mandala. But it was so rudimentary, the only inn was dilapidated and broken, and none of the locals knew Chinese, so there was no way to communicate. The guide suggested to us that it would be better to go to Qionglong Yincheng, the capital of Xiangxiong Kingdom, and wait, that is the only way for you to get to Gangren Buche, where there are some Han merchants, it is better to wait there than here. We agreed, and when we came here, he helped us find an inn opened by the Han people, and then left, we waited here, and sure enough, we waited for you! Giggles"

Speaking of the back, Miao Peilan smiled happily.

Zuo Shaoyang wiped away the tears from her cheeks for her: "How long have you been waiting here?" ”

"It's been almost a month! We heard that there was a Dharma king from Zhangxiong who was strong and still a Han Chinese, so we guessed that it was you. Miao Peilan smiled proudly, "But we don't know how to find you, so we stayed outside the palace, and today we saw your convoy coming out, Sister Bai said that we stopped you outside the city, so it's better." So he went out of the city and came here to wait. ”

At this time, a strong wind blew over, blowing them all a little unsteady on their feet, Zuo Shaoyang said: "Let's get in the car, it's warm in the car." ”

Pulling the second daughter to the side of the car, Da Longxin and others surrounded him. Zuo Shaoyang introduced the two sides, and Da Longxin and others learned that they were the two concubines of the king, so they hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

The second daughter He had received such a big gift, and she was also an old man like Da Long Xin, so she hurriedly hid behind Zuo Shaoyang, Zuo Shaoyang laughed, and asked Da Long Xin and the others to get up. Get on your horse and move on.

Along the way, the second daughter and Zuo Shaoyang whispered endlessly, and the lovesickness was endless.

That night, Zuo Shaoyang wrote a letter home, telling his family that Bai Zhihan and Miao Peilan had joined him, and that they were all right in the Western Regions, so that they could rest assured, and ordered to write a letter to Xiao Yunfei in the capital, with roughly the same content. Then he called the head dart and asked him to send two dart masters to send the letter to the Tang border and hand it over to the Tang Army Station.

The head of the dart hurriedly agreed, called two proper dart masters, and returned early the next morning to deliver the letter.

They continued to the Gangren Buche mandala. From the capital of Zhangxiong to Gangren Buche, there is still a month's journey. When they arrived at Gangren Buche, it was already approaching the Tibetan New Year.

When he came to Gangren Buche Mandala, Zuo Shaoyang was dumbfounded.

What is this called a city, that is, some dwellings around a high altar. The altar was the size of a football field, and it had flattened the head of a small hill and built it with stones on all sides. In the center of the altar, a towering flagpole is erected, which is covered with colorful prayer flags.

Half of the dwellings scattered around the altar are adobe bungalows with yards, and the remaining half are shabby black tents made of cow hair.

It's the middle of winter, and many homeless people are huddled in rags and crannies in the corners of adobe houses, shivering in the snow. Some have frozen to death in the snow. The corpse was mostly covered in snow, and no one carried it away.

Behind the mandala is the majestic Gangren Buche Peak, a majestic mountain that is shrouded in ice and snow. It was as if a bodhisattva from the divine realm was looking down from the clouds at the mandala below.

The injuries of Qijia and the others had all healed, and before they arrived at the mandala, Daronsin had already sent Qijia and Pajia back to report.

When they appeared at the foot of the mandala, they were greeted only by more than thirty lamas shivering in the cold wind. There are old and young, one by one, they are frozen into ice sculptures, but their faces are filled with irrepressible joy, kneeling on the side of the road, greeting their Dharma King.

Zuo Shaoyang reined in his horse, looked at all this in front of him, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: Is this his own territory? Is it this group of hungry and cold people that you want to rule?

The altar master of the mandala was sent by King Zhangxiong, and his dress was still very decent, and he was particularly stammering to Zuo Shaoyang.

After Zuo Shaoyang asked the lamas who were kneeling on the ground to get up, he didn't care about being polite to the altar master and asked, "Where is my temple?" ”

Because he looked around and did not find a temple.

The altar master said blankly; "Temple?"

Da Long Xin hurriedly said to Zuo Shaoyang: "Dharma King, our sect is different from Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, we don't have a temple, and our cultivation is in a cave. ”

Cave?

Zuo Shaoyang was even more dumbfounded, he didn't know that Bon did not have temples at first, and only after Tibetan Buddhism began to spread in the Western Regions, with the construction of Tibetan Buddhist temples, Bon temples began to be built. Before that, they were all cultivating in caves or in their own homes.

Zuo Shaoyang, accompanied by Dalongxin and the altar master, came to their Gyer monastery, which was a cave, next to the sacred mountain of Gangren Buche. The cave was not large, it was dark and cold, and the floor was covered with dirty, torn mattresses, very thin. In the middle of the cave, there are several statues of gods.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "I brought so many people, how can I live in this cave?" ”

Daronxin said: "Set up a tent." ”

They did come in tents all the way. But when he arrived at the mandala, he also set up a tent, which made Zuo Shaoyang unacceptable, and seeing the wind wrapping snowflakes into the tents all over the mandala, how can this live?

However, at the moment, housing is not the most important, Zuo Shaoyang is worried, what to do with those homeless people sleeping on the streets? Looking up at the sky, the clouds were thick, and the chaotic snowflakes seemed to fall from the depths of the dark clouds. Clearly, a blizzard has just begun.

Saving lives is the most important thing!

Fortunately, Zuo Shaoyang had already prepared and bought back a large amount of grain, tents and sheepskin jackets from Xiangxiong Qionglong Silver City.

Zuo Shaoyang said to the altar master: "Gather the people in need of relief in the whole city, and I will distribute to them things to protect against the wind and cold!" ”

The altar owner was a little stunned: "Your ......, the king, do you want to distribute it to the people of the whole city?" ”

"As long as it is a poor person who cannot withstand the wind and cold, it will be distributed."

But there were more than 5,000 people in the city! There are at least 4,000 poor people. ”

"It's almost enough, this time I bought a lot of things back from Qionglong, and I'm worried that the people of Layue won't be able to survive the winter."

"But these are your personal possessions, and you can give them symbolically to some of the poorest."

"Money is something outside the body, if you don't bring it to life and don't take it away from death, what's the use of keeping it? It's better to give it to those who need it most. - Gather them quickly! ”

Although the altar owner was the chief executive, and it was not theocratic at that time, many things still had to be under the orders of the king. What's more, it is a great good thing to accumulate virtue and do good deeds such as giving relief to the victims. The altar owner sighed and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to go to all parts of the city with more than 30 lamas to inform the king that he wanted to relieve the people. Let them all go to the altar and receive it.

The people who got the news flocked to it, and soon surrounded the mandala in a dark way. These people were much more orderly in front of the King than the hungry people in Hezhou at the beginning, and although they saw the mountains of grain, wool blankets, and tents piled up on the altar, and a dozen cauldrons of steaming beef and mutton boiling in them, and their eyes radiated a crazy light, none of them rushed up to grab it. Just as Zuo Shaoyang ascended the altar, after the altar owner introduced his status as the new king, all the people under the altar hula knelt down.

Zuo Shaoyang was very moved, this is a great trust in himself, or a great trust in the authority of his own Dharma King, he walked to the front of the stage and said in the loudest voice possible: "As your Dharma King, I see you suffering, and my heart aches as much as my own relatives, so I want to help you survive the wind and snow, I bought back a lot of food from Qionglong Silver City, as well as sheepskin jackets and tents to keep out the cold. It is now distributed to everyone. One by one, they lined up to pick it up. Whoever has received it, go down from this side. A small bag of grain per person, a sheepskin jacket, a large bowl of meat, and a tent for each family. There is no home, five people in a tent. When the snow stops, I will pay for the construction of houses, for the homeless and the tent-dwelling people. As long as we are united, we can get through this difficult time! ”

Although his Tibetan language was still very lame, he was able to express it clearly, and the people who fell to their knees cheered and kowtowed in unison. I consciously made a long line. One by one, they came up to receive the relief supplies.

Zuo Shaoyang looked at them with a lot of emotion in his heart.

After all the people received their things, Zuo Shaoyang visited the tents again, and found that he was frostbitten and seriously ill, and immediately ordered them to be carried to the cave and waited for his treatment.

A bonfire had been lit in the cave. Of course, there is no forest here, only cow dung, and there is a bonfire of cow dung. It makes the whole cave very warm.

This cave is quite big, and a small room is separated in the middle corner for Zuo Shaoyang, Bai Zhihan, and Miao Peilan to live in, plus a large room for the ten delicate Meiji to live. The rest of the space is all arranged for the wounded and sick to live.

There were hundreds of frostbitten and seriously ill people who were carried to the cave, and Zuo Shaoyang treated them one by one according to the principle of first heavy and then light, first urgent and then slow. Several of them had an acute abdomen that required surgery, and they were immediately prepared to have surgery overnight.

Fortunately, now there are two daughters to help, these two people are familiar with the road, and they have been Zuo Shaoyang's assistant for a long time and have rich experience.

They didn't close their eyes for a day and a night, and they were busy until the next morning.

The altar master and the others were stunned when they witnessed Zuo Shaoyang's laparotomy. Soon it spread, and Zuo Shaoyang's spell was superb. So much so that the next morning, when Zuo Shaoyang came out of the cave, the snow outside the cave was full of people kneeling. They are all here to thank His Holiness for his kindness.

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly asked them to get up, it is winter, and there is no way to repair the house in the cold, so it can only be repaired after the beginning of spring, but fortunately, there are enough tents bought this time, and the people living on the streets have a place to live.

Although the urgent need was solved, he felt helpless in front of him, and that was how to improve and enhance the lives of these 5,000 people.

Yesterday he walked through the entire mandala household, and found that the vast majority of the people were poor, with few cattle and sheep at home, and the largest number of people did not exceed a hundred, usually only twenty or thirty, and a considerable number of them did not even have a single sheep, and they earned some food by selling coolies to help people graze and help people carry work on the sacred mountain.

The right elder of the sect is called Tachi. It's an old man, staying in the mandala, and this time he didn't go to Datang. This old man doesn't talk much, but he was almost in charge of the disaster relief yesterday, and he is very authoritative in the local area.

The dart masters took the money and set off for home. After sending off the dart master, Zuo Shaoyang decided to hold a sectarian meeting to discuss several major events. The two elders and the four Dharma protectors both attended, and the meeting was held in the cave where Zuo Shaoyang lived.

Everyone sat around the cow dung fire, and after listening to Zuo Shaoyang's broken Tibetan words about their worries, everyone was silent and no one spoke. Because, everyone sees this problem, but there is no way.

(To be continued)