Chapter 492: It's better to pray to God than to yourself
Jiang Yao was still in the Western Regions at this time, and they arrived in Tianzhu Kingdom. Tianzhu is the origin of Buddhism, where the people's respect for Buddhism has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow.
Tianzhu is the hometown of singing and dancing, and Jinping is a prosperous state and county in Tianzhu country. Men are wrapped in turbans, women wear saris with silver ornaments on their nostrils.
They handle goods along the way, moving goods from one area to another to sell, earning intermediate handling fees.
Xuanyi liked colorful saris very much, so he went to the silk village and bought a set of saris to wear. Boys don't like to try out interracial outfits.
Women on the streets put ceramics, clay pots and other objects on their heads. This skill impressed Xuanyi and the others, not to mention how they kept their balance, just the weight of the ceramics and the contents made everyone admire.
The eating habits of the Tianzhu Kingdom were different from those of the Tang Dynasty, and they did not use chopsticks. Jiang Yao and others ordered food at the inn, "What are the special meals?" Stone asked the clerk.
Clerk: "The guest officer wants special meals, including pilaf, butter curry chicken, spinach cheese, samosa, flying cakes..."
The clerk recommended the dishes in his shop. Xuanyi: "If you don't understand, then you can give us the first ten things." The other next meal is tasting. ”
The first dish was served by the clerk, pilaf spread on the table with plantain leaves, long grain rice, curry sauce, chicken nuggets, and salad.
A few people looked at the pasty ingredients, Xuanyi: "Where's the spoon?" ”
Stone: "Pilaf is to eat with your hands." ”
Holding it in his hand, Xuanyi stretched out his hand, retracted it, stretched it out, and tentatively sent the pilaf to his mouth. Stirring the meal with chopsticks and hands and eating it in your mouth, it feels different and weird.
They have also eaten the meat by hand, and they directly grabbed the lamb bones with their hands and ate them very much. Pilaf is unique. Several people ate funny and made fun of each other's eating appearances.
Xuanyi: "Are you eating or eating hands?" ”
The stone sends the meal into the mouth, and it is customary to instigate the fingers. Xuanyi said, the stone was embarrassed, he was grabbing the rice ball, and he was just about to instigate his fingers, look at Xuanyi, and put it down.
Spinach cheese is served, this time with a spoon. "This dish looks like a dish, at least with a spoon." Xuanyi said.
Stone: "One side of the water and soil raises the other side." Tianzhu people are also hospitable, inviting relatives and friends in their own homes, sitting around a table, and eating with their hands, which is also a way to exchange feelings. ”
Samosa is a deep-fried snack with potatoes, green beans, onions, paprika, fennel and salt inside.
"This is delicious, I like it, another plate." Xuanyi put this plate in front of her, and she still stayed away from the pilaf.
The people of Tianzhu rarely drink alcohol, and they are not good at shouting at restaurants to drink five or six, so let's follow the customs. Drink coconut water and black tea.
The group came out full of food and drink, and Xuanyi was very satisfied, "This is called traveling, enjoying the food, seeing the beauties, and seeing the beautiful scenery." ”
Jiang Yao: "Who cried in the first two days." ”
Jiang Yao laughed at her, and the phoenix eyes looked like they were affectionate. "Don't show your charm intentionally or unintentionally, and when the time comes, you won't admit it, slap your ass and leave. Provoke a lot of romantic debts. ”
Xuanyi bluntly exposed Jiang Yao's daily behavior, and the guards covered their mouths and noses and laughed. Jiang Yao: "Ten talented women go out to a long distance, more and more like the sand dunes in the desert, regardless of shape. ”
Ox carts are jammed on the road, and the people in the city have an invisible worship of the cow, and the cow roams the streets casually, and people want to make way for the cow. The streets are filled with the smell of cow dung.
Xuanyi: "The more places you go, the more you love your country, in fact, there is no Chang'an anywhere." Tall, neat and orderly, BMW fragrant cars, handsome guys and beautiful women, that kind of prosperity and luxury is incomparable to any other place. ”
Xuanyi patronized and expressed her emotion, her feet were soft, and after her feet touched the soft touch, she remained still.
Jiang Yao and Dongshuang were on one side, hugging her and laughing. Several guards followed, covering their mouths and noses and snickering. Shi opened his mouth, and was about to remind Xuanyi, but Jiang Yao shook his head to stop him.
Xuanyi retracted his feet and threw a hot lump, the edge of the sari swept over the lump. "Huh." Xuanyi jumped to his feet in disgust and stretched out his feet to step on Jiang Yao's shoes.
"It's all you, causing me to step on cow luck." Xuanyi did not relent, chasing Jiang Yao all the way, Jiang Yao stopped and stopped.
Let's go down, this one is really stepping on. The guards stopped snickering, leaning back and laughing at her.
Dongshuang looked at Xuanyi a little anxiously, "Miss Xuanyi, the original intention of the son is to make your trip to Tianzhu still fresh in your memory." Besides, cow luck is also luck, and not everyone can hit it. ”
Jiang Yao stood a little farther away, "Xuanyi, go buy a sari, a full set." The joke was a little too big, and Xuanyi was a little teary-eyed.
"Oops, I've got cow luck too." Jiang Yao used his ingenuity and stepped on the cow dung.
"You don't need to pretend to deceive children, I'm not a child." Xuanyi stomped his feet hard and scratched on the ground. She doesn't want a sari, and it's really hard to guard against it when she walks on the road.
Jiang Yao: "There is a temple fair over there, do you want to see it?" ”
Jiang Yao walked up to Xuanyi, "It is said that there is a song and dance performance. ”
Xuanyi is not a person who cares, but she is just joking and letting her win the lottery. It's just a matter of a pair of shoes and a set of clothes.
"Yes, yes, as I wished. Jiang Yao, Tianzhu singing and dancing, I want to see the style of the country of origin the most. As I wished, great. Xuanyi and Jiang Yao smiled and complained.
There is a Buddhist temple in the center of the city, the gatehouse is very ordinary, the mountain gate is wide open, but the crowd of worshippers is quiet and orderly. Outside the mountain gate, there are ox carts of different sizes to find a vacant place to settle in.
From the moment the believers enter the mountain gate, they bow down in three steps and bow down in five steps. Xuanyi and the others were dumbfounded. And in this way, what kind of piety makes people worship in this way.
There are also monasteries and believers in the Tang Dynasty, and some over-believers will cut off their fingers and arms to show their sincerity in worshiping the Buddha.
If something is too much to operate, it will go to the extreme, not the extreme. Xuanyi and his party stood out in the crowd of people who were prostrate on the ground. Neither do they bow down.
Coming in with their backs straight, they came to visit, not worship. The monks in the monastery do not force it, and they are also tolerant of their alternative behavior, and let it go.
Xuanyi: "Whoever you ask for is better, it's better to ask for yourself than to ask for anyone." Just do it yourself. ”
Xuanyi looked left and right before and after, and came to a conclusion. Jiang Yao glanced at her, and it seemed that there were no people here who could understand the Tang language. Otherwise, Xuanyi is easy to be blamed by believers.
A monk stopped, and when he passed by Xuanyi, Xuanyi was making conclusions, and when she saw the scene in front of her, she refuted the ignorance and blind obedience of the believers.
Jin Chuan is far away from the river wave by wave