Chapter 16: Longquan Ancient Temple solves doubts
Over there, Jiang Ming turned around and said, Daheng, the small characters on your token are estimated to be Sanskrit, and you have to find an old monk to read it. Zhang Shan said what token, can you show me? Jiang Ming shook the token in his hand, and Zhang Shan hurriedly ran over to get it.
It turns out that Jiang Ming isn't playing games? He walked to the sofa area and sat down, took a sip of tea from his cup, and said why is it so cold? I said that I didn't make any more tea after I talked just now. Then he began to boil water, saying that one side of the token is a seal, which should be the meaning of the unicorn order, and the back is Sanskrit.
This seal script was popular around the Qin Dynasty, and Buddhism was introduced in the Han Dynasty, which was hundreds of years late. So it is estimated that this token was made in the Western Han Dynasty, because the Western Han Dynasty was preceded by the Qin Dynasty, and the Western Han Dynasty was followed by the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Eastern Han Dynasty rarely used the seal book, the use of the official book, the official book has Qin Li, Han Li, generally believed to be developed from the seal book.
I said the Western Han Dynasty, is it Liu Bang's world? Wouldn't it be over if you directly told me that this token was made in the Western Han Dynasty? I didn't understand a lot of what you said. Jiang Ming pointed at me and said that he was uneducated, it was terrible, and then he started making tea.
Jiang Ming continued, although Buddhism began to spread in Middle-earth in the Han Dynasty, and it is also divided into Tibetan Buddhism and Han Buddhism, but the large-scale spread of Buddhism was from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period, so it is not certain whether it is really the token of the Western Han Dynasty, it is all speculation.
I said don't talk about it, it hurts. Jiang Ming picked up a cup of tea and said, Knowing a little history is good for your cultivation. Do you know what it means that iron tools in China appeared more than 1,000 years ago, and iron tools eventually replaced bronze tools during the Eastern Han Dynasty? I don't know.
Jiang Ming said, if the token is from the Western Han Dynasty, there is no concentrated mining of iron ore at that time, so I suspect that your token is made of meteoric iron. Why? Because for the time, meteorite iron on the surface was easier to obtain than iron ore mining. He poured the tea into his mouth in one gulp, then rinsed his mouth a few times and raised his head a few times before swallowing it.
Zhang Shan, who was next to her, covered her nose and sighed, and sat away in disgust. I said Jiang Ming, you rinse your mouth with tea, spit it out and drink another cup, okay? Jiang Ming snorted haha, saying that you don't understand this, of course you have to keep your lips and teeth fragrant when drinking tea.
Zhang Shan pointed to the iron plate and said, "Why hasn't it rusted for two thousand years?" What's going on? Jiang Ming put his leg on the table, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, saying that meteorite iron is rich in alloying elements, mainly nickel, so it will not rust, so this token must be made of meteorite iron. Then light the cigarette.
I said, where did you get your cigarettes? Or Chinese cigarettes? Jiang Ming said that I took it next to the cash register, there are so many ones, do you want to put a few bags in your pocket? Don't smoke my cigarettes all the time. I said did you ask Zhang Shan? Jiang Ming snorted again, saying that Zhang Shan cares? Then he looked at Zhang Shan. Zhang Shan said it's okay, take it if you like, I signed it when I took inventory, and all of it was counted into my account.
Jiang Ming applauded a few times, pointed at me with a cigarette, and said that Zhang Shan is not as stingy as you, and I have only known her for a few days, so I take care of her like this? Zhang Shan's face turned red when she was next to her. Divert the topic and say that you are looking for an old monk? I often go to Longquan Ancient Temple to offer incense, I'll take you there.
"In Mengcheng County?" Jiang Ming asked.
"No, in Feidong County, Hefei City, there is a Longquan Ancient Temple, which is very famous." Zhang Shan replied.
"Now Mengcheng County is still under control, we can't go, right?" I'm a little worried.
"It's okay, my SWAT friend said today, both security guards are unconscious, and they haven't been harmed, and they have already woken up." Zhang Shan said.
"So how do we get out? Flying out again? I said.
"No, just take my car, my friend is at the G36 entrance, and he will let me go when he sees my car." Zhang Shan said with confidence.
"Then let's leave early tomorrow morning." I hastened to say. Jiang Ming shrugged indifferently.
Jiang Ming said that he checked the monitoring of going out of the city, that is, several intersections out of the city were checking the car, if Zhang Shan's friend was there, it should be fine, but he couldn't go tomorrow. I asked why? He said that he had eaten ginseng and yellow essence and had not yet digested it, so he was spinning in his lower abdomen, and he had to refine the qi he gave birth to before he could use it for his own use.
Zhang Shan said, you just said to fly out, you can still fly? I pointed at Jiang Ming, he can fly. Jiang Ming grinned and said, I often take Da Hengfei to take him to pretend to be B, do you want to give it a try? Then he looked at Zhang Shan, and his eyebrows were shaking up and down. Zhang Shan smiled and said that she believed you? Still don't believe you?
The reason why we fled to Mengcheng in Bozhou was because we could fly, so we were remembered. However, Jiang Ming was injured before, and he couldn't fly far, so he smashed into your supermarket, and now that he has eaten your ginseng and yellow essence, it is estimated that he can fly high and far. I said.
Zhang Shan opened her mouth wide, looking incredulous. Thumbs up, Birdman!
The next day, Zhang Shan went to her hotel to get busy, and we came out the back door, ready to visit this Mengcheng County. It's been more than a week, and I haven't taken a serious look at this small city in the Central Plains. It's a relatively remote street, there are no shops, and when I see a bus stop, I look up to see where the bus goes.
Jiang Ming said that it doesn't matter where it goes, just get on the train, and we will chat on the platform and wait for the train. The bus came, it looked old, and after getting on the bus, I sat in the back, which was past the rush hour, and there was no one on the bus.
Looking at the sparse flow of people outside the window, you can feel the slow life of this city. This land of the Central Plains is different from our small cities in Guangdong and western Guangdong, our county is a hilly area, except for the middle basin surrounded by mountains.
The Central Plains is different, there are few mountains, and it is a gray patch in the distance, and the field of vision is very broad. In winter, there is little greenery, just bare trees and occasional nests dotted with large birds' nests.
Although geographically speaking, Anhui belongs to the south, next to Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai, but for Cantonese people, the place where snow will fall is in the north. It's not snowing yet, though. I don't know if it's the short-sightedness of Cantonese people or the role of regional psychology, many people think that Guangdong is the north.
Maybe this has something to do with the fact that the Pearl River Delta speaks Cantonese dialect, they think that those who can't speak vernacular are outsiders, and outsiders who speak Mandarin are all northerners. This is an interesting fallacy.
In our eyes, Mengcheng is a small northern city, and we all look at this city with a novel eye. A lot of living habits here, and we are really different from the west of Guangdong, at the end of 06, see the shape of those houses and the tiles pasted, give us the feeling that it is ten years behind the west of Guangdong.
There may be a Foshan ceramic bar in Guangdong, and the western part of Guangdong is very close to geography, so there are more tiled houses and more trendy. The style of those tiles in the residential houses in Mongolia is still our products and styles from ten years ago. But for those high-rise commercial houses in Mengcheng, they can still keep up with the rhythm of the times.
Seeing the people of Mengcheng wearing thick winter clothes, we also felt cold. Jiang Ming said go buy a few clothes, I nodded in agreement, and then followed him out of the car and walked around the clothing street. Seeing Jiang Ming deliberately flirting with this beautiful little girl selling clothes in Cantonese Mandarin, I felt the joy of life for ordinary people.
Although we walked a few places, none of them were serious about the breath of life there, but kept running for our lives. After escaping, Jiang Ming grew up, mastered a lot of skills, and gained the confidence to fight with the people who pursued us.
Although I have not made much progress, I have also honed my mentality, and if I can understand those two Sanskrit sentences, I may be able to go further on the path of cultivation.
I bought a few sets of good clothes, and looked at the reluctant eyes of the little girl who sold clothes, I said, why didn't you ask for her phone? Walking out for a long time, Jiang Ming put a cigarette in his mouth before saying, what is the use of asking for a phone, he is not in danger, so don't harm others.
Yes, the life of a wife and children on the hot kang is actually the pursuit of our men. There is a beautiful wife with a group of children around her knees, and we men are willing to be mediocre and do nothing. If you have a hot meal, a hot bath, and a warm nest, why pursue those ethereal and illusory fame and fortune?
But people in the rivers and lakes, involuntarily, some people pursue fame and wealth, and the pursuit of fame and fortune is the common nature of people. Therefore, there are rivers and lakes in this world, and with fighting and killing, we will be chased and beaten like two lost dogs.
Jiang Ming said let's go to the ATM to withdraw some money, there is not enough cash in the wallet. Now we don't have more than 50,000 in our accounts, and we can't run away without money. There was a row of ATMs on a commercial street, Jiang Ming's postal card, and it happened that a girl in a woolen dress came to this ATM.
He followed behind and watched as someone slipped the card in, and the girl looked back and said don't peek. Looking back to do it, the result showed a mistake, Jiang Ming was there laughing, and the girl turned her head and glared at him. Jiang Ming said I didn't see you enter the password, I just wanted to see how you used the supermarket discount card to withdraw the money. The ATM spit out the card, and the girl was there eating and laughing with the green discount card.
After withdrawing the money, we looked for a place to eat. After eating, I took the bus back to the supermarket, and I saw the girl in the creamy yellow woolen dress on the bus again. We used to sit in the last row, with the girl in the middle, and she looked back at us.
When we got to the supermarket, the girl got out of the car in front of us and saw a big dragon fruit on the roadside tricycle, so she picked it up there. Dragon fruit is a fruit in our south, and I have a base near my home, so I have long been tired of eating it. Jiang Ming and I walked over to the girl and walked to the back door, and before I had taken a few steps, I heard a very strange sound.
That is, I have good hearing in my ears and noticed that this voice is coming from behind me. Looking back, the bag of clothes Jiang Ming was holding in his hand had a long woolen thread hanging from it, and it was terrible to look along the wool. I grabbed Jiang Ming and didn't let him go, what did Jiang Ming say? Do you want to practice? You can't beat me.
I pointed to his shopping bag, and he looked down at the girl picking up dragon fruit with the yarn. The girl felt cold on her buttocks, and when she looked back, it turned out that Jiang Ming's shopping bag just hung on the thread of someone's dress, and half of their skirt was removed. The girl was in a hurry, grabbed the hem of her skirt and scolded the hooligan.
Jiang Ming hurriedly ran over, and the girl smashed dragon fruit on his head, and the red juice flowed down his forehead. I watched them laugh from afar, turned around and entered the supermarket through the back door. Don't look at this inappropriate picture for children.
Jiang Ming came back, went to the toilet to wash his hair, and I saw that he was missing a piece of clothing in his shopping bag. I said that tonight, let's go to Longquan Ancient Temple, and understand Sanskrit as soon as possible, I want to go home. The Chinese New Year is still a month away, and we haven't been home for more than half a year.
Zhang Shan's driver is a person who does not smile informally, and looking at that physique, he should also be a practitioner. This Bentley is also very comfortable to sit on, leather sofa, automatic air conditioning, and the sound insulation effect is very good. We sat in the back row, Jiang Ming took drinks in the Xiaoice box, Zhang Shan sat in the co-pilot, turned around and said, Daheng, why don't you drink drinks? I said no.
Did she say she wanted to play music? Jiang Ming's interest came, and he said let's let me enjoy the shocking music of more than three million luxury cars. As the music sounded, this really had the feeling of a live music, and a song by Liu Ruoying's "Later" also made me drunk. When the line is sung: Some people, once missed, are not there. Zhang Shan glanced back at me, her eyes red.
After leaving the city, seeing that there were police officers checking the car in front of him, Zhang Shan asked the driver to lower the four window panes. Jiang Ming told me that the glass window could only be lowered halfway down because it was bulletproof glass. A policeman surrounded him with several SWAT officers, and one of them greeted Zhang Shan.
Zhang Shan said, Brother Lang, you are on duty today. Then the rest of the cops and SWAT turned around and left. Brother Lang chatted with Zhang Shan for a few words, glanced at us in the back seat, and let him go.
On the G36 national highway, after walking for an hour, I changed to the G3 national highway, and got off the highway when I arrived in Hefei. It's a good road, it's two hours away. Longquan Ancient Temple is located on the mountainside of Longquan, above Longquan. The temple is named because of the spring, and the mountain is won because of the temple. Ancient pines and ginkgo biloba abound on the mountain for more than 100 years, full of greenery, and the sweet spring that flows out of the temple together, making people wash their hearts and change their faces, and devote themselves to the Buddha.
Entering the Longquan Ancient Temple, this ancient temple with a history of 1,700 years is extremely prosperous. Zhang Shan took out a pile of brand-new Red Bulls, removed the white cable ties, and put them all into the merit box. Look at this thickness, must there be 50,000 yuan? Zhang Shan said that she donates merit every Spring Festival, and now it should be in advance.
A little novice led us into the backyard, where we sat down in a quiet room and began to make tea. Zhang Shan said that the ancient temple of Longquan was named after the dragon spring, and the spring water in the middle of the mountain maintains a water temperature of 18 degrees all year round, which is rich in various trace elements. The Longjing tea brewed in Longquan is fragrant and intoxicating.
Jiang Ming and I picked up the teacups one after another, regardless of the hot mouth, and drank it, it was really sweet and fragrant, and it was different. The little novice bowed and withdrew, saying that he would go and ask the abbot. Zhang Shan introduced us to this ancient temple, saying that the ancient temple is not big, there are not many places for play, and every time she comes, she comes here to drink tea for a day to calm her mind.
I thought to myself, you are a girl's family, what is so peaceful, this age is the time to play. After a while, the abbot came, a fat old man in his fifties, smiling. We all stood up and bowed.
The abbot was not the kind of serious person, so he waved his hand and let us sit, and the little novice poured tea and then withdrew. Zhang Shan explained the intention, the abbot looked at me with a smile, I quickly took out the rubbing book of the token, and the abbot took it and smiled.