Chapter 59: Just a Night Walk
"Alas......"
Old Yanxian sighed for a long time, raised his glass to drink, but put it down again, and said to him: "Although I have borrowed a share of heaven from heaven to benefit one party, I am an outlier after all, and I am jealous of the heavenly palace, and taking the official warehouse to open grain also makes the court in this world dislike......"
The voice is inevitably a little sad.
"Pity my clan is originally a family swallow, and since ancient times, I have been getting along with people and being close to people, how can I do things that are not conducive to humanity like other shape-shifting demons?"
Song You said in his heart, sure enough.
But he didn't show it, he was still respectful, and only asked: "Yan Xian saved a place of wind and rain back then, and he has already benefited all living beings, why do you want to take the risk and go to the official warehouse in another place to get food?" Yan Xian must know that if the reigning Son of Heaven at that time had such a character as today, I am afraid that he would not make Yan Xian feel better no matter what. β
"How could I not know?"
Yan Xian sighed again: "But I have made an appointment with Tiansuan Daoist friends in advance, and I will do my best not to let anyone starve to death here." I am not a human being, I am already jealous of others, if I am no longer faithless and unrighteous, I will not be able to gain a foothold in this world for 900 years. β
"Yan Xian is righteous."
Song You said sincerely.
This kind of conduct, whether it is a human being a demon or a ghost, is already worthy of respect.
"Now that my life is coming to an end, when this Dao body withers, I will borrow incense to become a Yin God, but I have the intention to benefit the people, but the Heavenly Palace Court does not allow it, and I am afraid that I will not be able to survive for long after death......" When Yan Xian looked at Song You again, he no longer concealed it, "Back then, Tiansuan Daoist told me that his disciple, well, couldn't help me, but decades later, his disciple and grandson came again, but it may be my fate." β
"Yan Xian is serious?"
"The old man has not told a lie for hundreds of years."
ββ¦β¦β
Song You couldn't help but be shocked.
He knows that there is a numerological calculation in this world, and he also knows that the master is about to reach the peak in this area, but he also remembers where he came from, can this be calculated by the master and the ancestor?
Is it really heavenly?
After thinking about it a little more, I relaxed a little.
Maybe not.
Maybe the Heavenly Calculation Master didn't count him, but he just counted it later, and he couldn't leave, and not being able to find the answer itself is also an answer, so it can be seen that the latecomer must be extraordinary, so leave this sentence. However, he didn't say anything full, leaving only the word maybe.
Maybe the Heavenly Calculation Master didn't count anything, but he just calculated that his disciple was a reckless man, and the disciple couldn't do it, so naturally he could only ask Yan Xian to ask for help and then the disciple grandson, and he didn't limit who it was.
Even the disciples and grandchildren do not only refer to the disciples of the disciples, but also the generations after them, all of them are regarded as disciples and grandchildren, year after year, all decades later.
These three speculations are also reasonable.
At this time, I only heard Lao Yanxian say to him again: "There is really no other way, so I have to ask for help from Taoist friends, if Taoist friends have a way to help me go further, I will try my best to repay each other, and I will never give up." β
"How to go further?"
Song You retracted his thoughts, looked at Yan Xian, and then asked with a smile: "Is Yan Xian talking about the prosperity of incense, or is it the imperial court?" β
Yan Xian didn't know where he heard this-
This fellow Taoist does have a way.
So he hurriedly stood up with his cane again, bowed and saluted, "Please also ask Taoist friends for guidance." β
Where did Song You dare to take it, and hurriedly avoided it.
Then he sighed in his heart.
How many people are waiting in this world? What is the charm of immortality? can make the literati search for half a life, let the kitten also read it in his mouth, and make the nine-hundred-year-old Yan Xian persistent here and salute him.
However, since the master and ancestor were willing to help him, Song You was naturally willing.
Or rather, not to help him.
As I said beforeβ
Decades ago, Yan Xian used the plan of the master in the view to become a god, why didn't the master use his ability to benefit the people?
From Yan Xian's point of view, this thing is not perfect, after all, it still dislikes the court, and he has not been sealed, but from the perspective of the ancestor, it may be different, and the purpose of the two is not the same.
"I grew up in the Taoist temple since I was a child, I traveled down the mountain at the end of last summer, I just arrived in Xuzhou this year, I haven't been to Yujing, I have never seen the prince of heaven, and I don't know the prime minister. Song You paused, "But if Yan Xian wants the incense to be prosperous, he has some ideas. β
"Dare to ask Daoyou, how can the incense prosper?"
"For the benefit of the people." Song You said to Yan Xian, "If Yan Xian benefits the people of Anqing, the people of Anqing will be worshipped, and if it benefits all the people of the world, it will be worshiped by all the people of the world." β
"What Daoyou said is reasonable, but I am limited to one place, and the gods of the Heavenly Palace are in charge of everything, where is my turn to benefit all the people?"
This is said in a vague way.
In fact, if you really want to benefit the people's livelihood in the world, no matter how big or small your ability is, where can't you find a way?
Sanhua Niangniang can ensure that the grain and rice of several villages are not damaged.
It's just that as Yan Xian said, there is a heavenly palace in this world, and everyone knows that the people can absorb incense, but where is there no palace temple and local temple? Everyone is doing the way to benefit the people, but where are you going to do what you are already doing?
Song You shook his head:
"If the thought is true, it is a method that no other god has yet done. As long as Yan Xian does it, he will benefit the whole world. The heavenly palace can't stop it, and the court can't stop it, and the merit is immeasurable. β
With a sentence of immeasurable merit, Lao Yanxian almost got up from his seat.
Excited and apprehensive.
His eyes flickered a few times, then he sat down again, and said cautiously, "If it is a matter of immeasurable merit, where will it be my turn?" β
It seems that he is not able to do it himself, but in fact, he is afraid that other gods will rob him of his merits.
Although Yan Xian is more than 900 years old, but Yanzi himself has meager strength, is not good at fighting, and this world is humane, the gods of the Heavenly Palace absorb the incense of all people, even if the gods are not as old as him, but the magic is vast, just like the gods of the Thunder Department and the famous Jin Lingguan, if he really wants to find it, how can he compete?
I only heard Song You say:
"I heard that the gods and spirits are mostly virtuous, if Yan Xian really benefits all the people, he should be respected by them, if anyone pretends to receive Yan Xian's merits, such a character, can he still be a god?"
said and smiled, and waved his hand:
"It's better to burn it clean!"
Old Yanxian's heart was suddenly shocked.
This is a real reason, and everyone can say it.
can be said from the mouth of the heirs of Fulongguan, how can it be the same as ordinary people casually speaking?
Shinto comes from humanity, and God is the god of humanity, and after all, it depends on humanity. Even if mortals are short, gods are long, humanity is weak, and gods are prosperous, but this world is still a mortal world, and Lao Yanxian has long understood who is the real darling of this world.
And Fulongguan is the pinnacle of humane monks.
"Mr. ......"
Lao Yanxian hurriedly asked the young man next to him to step back, and then respectfully said to Song You: "Please give me advice......
"Here ......"
"Sir, even though he said, he heard about this mountain every other day."
"Yan Xian's good means ......"
"That's all, let the gentleman laugh."
"Then let's talk casually."
"Casual talk?"
"Take a walk in the mountains and have a casual chat."
"Good!"
Lao Yanxian didn't say much, stood up with a cane, and asked him to go for a walk in the back mountain.
The evening breeze is cool, and the stone steps are gentle.
Two voices alternated in the night sky.
"Swallows are migratory birds?"
"I don't know what a migratory bird is?"
"Fly south in winter and return to Dayan in summer, and you will be a migratory bird."
"That's it."
Yan Xian nodded and said to him: "Most of my clan is like this, but after you have been created and transformed into a demon, you don't have to go to the south every year to spend the winter." β
"Yan Xian still remembers what happened before he became a demon?"
"This ...... It's been a long time......"
Yan Xian shook his head and paused again: "But I've been there many times since I became a demon. β
"I'm so envious."
"Not only have I been there after becoming a demon, but more than a hundred years ago, I felt that my body had begun to age, and I went there again. However, it was not winter, and it took me several years to fly far farther than ordinary swallows during the winter. Yan Xian said, "When I'm older, I want to see the road I flew before." β
"What are they?"
Song You's eyes were full of curiosity.
"Different swallows fly to different places. I first flew to spend the winter, just a few thousand miles away. However, I have been to many different places, especially after becoming a demon, sometimes deliberately changing directions to find different southern, and sometimes talking to swallows I met on the road to find those places in their mouths. β
Yan Xian didn't care what he asked, he just asked and answered, and at the same time secretly thought about his deep meaning, but no matter how he thought about it, it didn't seem to be a reason, it seemed that he was just going up the mountain to chat casually.
Just think less and continue:
"After flying thousands of miles, many times it is not flying near the sea, or many small islands, or even other land, the customs and customs are different from those of Dayan, and the place where the swallow that flies farthest stops is already on the other side of the sea. And on the other side of the sea there are swallows, coming from different norths and going to different souths, and it is difficult to say clearly for a while. β
"Yan Xian is the one who has seen the real heaven and earth!"
Song You couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and didn't hide his envy.
"It's both nature and helplessness."
"Is it the same after becoming a demon?"
"I love to chase the wind when I'm young."
During the conversation, the two of them had walked to a dense place in the mountains and forests.
The sound of the wind through the mountains and forests was all over the ears.
Song You asked as he walked, his tone was relaxed, as if he was chatting: "Yan Xian knows the population of this dynasty?" β
"Ten thousand and ninety million."
"What is the population of the previous dynasty?"
"In the early years of the previous dynasty, the war had just ended, and the imperial court was full of appearances, both young and old, with a population of 20 million, which had more than doubled after a hundred years, and 80 million in the last years."
"Yan Xian is really through the past and the present."
"It's just a long life."
"But why is Da Yan more than twice as much now as in the last years of the previous dynasty?"
"Because Dayan pays attention to people's livelihood and economy, the people are living well, and the population is naturally growing rapidly." Yan Xian said, "After the previous dynasty, decades of troubled times, the population of Dayan was only 40 million when it opened the dynasty, and it has grown to as many as 10,000 a hundred years ago. β
"I'm isolated here, Yan Xian and I have a casual chat, why can't I say it?"
"In fact, it has become a danger."
"A lot of people is a disaster."
"It's rare for a gentleman to have such an opinion at such a young age." Lao Yanxian naturally replied, "If the moon is full, it will be lost, and the same is true of things in the world, prosperity must decline." β
"Yan Xian knows, how did it solve it later?"
"At that time, what was the name of Prime Minister Dayan, not only issued good policies, returned the soil to the people, but also introduced excellent rice varieties from the east, and the yield per mu increased greatly, which passed that hurdle and created an unprecedented prosperity today." Yan Xian couldn't help but sigh again and again when he said this, "It's a pity that He Gong didn't end well, but fortunately, the people thanked him for his kindness and spontaneously built a temple to help him become a god after his death. β
"But now there are 10,000,000 and 90,000,000 people in Dayan, nearly twice as many as at that time.
"Sir, I want to say, the world is going to be in chaos?"
"If this continues, the contradictions will deepen, and the people will have no land to plant and no food to eat, and I am afraid that it will be chaotic. Unless there is another He Gong, a more powerful He Gong. Song You paused, "It's just that what I want to say is not this." β
"Oh?"
Old Yanxian looked at Song You suspiciously.