After being full of wine and food, Li Yi and the others continued to visit Nanshi at the request of Qi Ning, which made everyone as men admire Qi Ning's good endurance.

Then the group walked through the crowded streets again, lingering among the shops, until the sun set and the drums sounded, Qi Ning reluctantly left Nanshi and returned to the inn.

After walking around this day, everyone else was exhausted, even a strong man like Yu Zhenlei felt that his calves were faintly sore.

And the most unlucky is Qi Chao, his neck is full of all kinds of objects, and he also carries things in both hands, even under his armpits.

And Li Yi, although they didn't take much, everyone didn't go home empty-handed.

After returning to the inn, Qi Chaoyi threw the things he was just holding in his hands and under his armpits to the ground, and then shivered and took off the things hanging around his neck.

Then he lay down on the floor of the inn and never thought about it again.

"Even if I am killed tomorrow, I won't go to Nanshi!"

Qi Chao gasped and said angrily.

"It's also about half of the South City today, why don't we go to the West Market tomorrow, I heard that there are a lot of things from the West Regions over there, and it's worth going to see it."

Qi Ning squatted on the ground and admired the things he had bought one by one.

"Spare me! Besides, our purse is almost empty, and we have no money! ”

Hearing that Qi Ning said that he still wanted to go to Xishi tomorrow, Qi Chao, who was originally lying on the ground, immediately sat up and shouted.

"Out of money? I don't think I bought much! ”

Qi Ning looked at what he bought and said embarrassedly.

"Why don't we go out of the city tomorrow to go to the outside of Luozhou Prefecture to see, I heard that the original Luozhou Prefecture is the ancestral land of the Central Plains Buddhism and is also called the Buddha City, there are a large number of grottoes outside the city, although a lot has been destroyed, but there are still a lot of intact, we can go and have a good look."

Seeing Qi Chao's tragic appearance, Li Yi was also a little unbearable, so he proposed.

"It's a good idea, and it's good for us to go and see the ruins of Buddhism."

Qi Chao heard that Li Yi was doing it for him, so he immediately beat the snake and agreed with the stick.

"What's so good about that, the Buddhists planned the "Tianlin Change" and almost killed the Holy Emperor, and then the Holy Wu Emperor destroyed the Buddha in the world, and now we go to hang the relics of the Buddhist family I'm afraid it's not appropriate. ”

Qi Ning actually has no interest in visiting the major grottoes.

"Hmph, the imperial court's treatment of my uncle and their soldiers guarding the border fortress has already made people feel chilling, and now we just go to visit the Buddhist ruins and pay some fines at most."

The Qi Dynasty was already very disappointed in the Dayu court, and he lacked the awe he had in the past.

And others did not care about the so-called imperial court ban.

So in the morning, Li Yi got a carriage and a few horses from Yang Ping, and took everyone to the grottoes of Twenty Miles in addition to Luozhou.

Speaking of the terrain of Luozhou, it is also quite strange, the whole Luozhou is like a flat chessboard, except for the side of Luozhou State City, twenty miles outside the city of Luozhou, there is a stone mountain that spreads for several miles.

In addition, the stone of this stone mountain is limestone, and the land is relatively soft, which is more suitable for carving.

When Li Yi and the others came to the front of this stone mountain, they found that the grotto was already overgrown with weeds, and even the road to the grotto was overgrown with artemisia grass.

However, due to the stone slabs in the middle of the road, the road is barely passable.

After the horses and carriages were settled, the group began to walk up the overgrown mountain path.

In a short time, they had already reached the first level of the grotto, and soon followed the original stone steps to the largest Buddha statue in the grotto.

When he walked in front of this seated Buddha statue, Li Yi really felt the grandeur and height of this Buddha statue.

However, when he looked up, he found that the position of the head of the largest Buddha statue was now empty, and the swastika in the middle of the Buddha's chest had been chiseled off.

At the same time, the hands and feet of the Buddha were also artificially destroyed.

Looking at the blue-gray Buddha statue, Li Yi couldn't help but sigh that the world has changed and the world is impermanent.

The Buddha statue that was once worshiped by everyone and received the incense of the people will eventually end up like this.

Several other people also expressed their regret for the Buddha statue, after all, the craftsmen must have put a lot of thought into the construction of this Buddha statue in the first place, and they must have spent a lot of money.

But now everything you paid at the beginning has gone down the drain.

In his opinion, the money and manpower spent on building such a big Buddha must be astronomical, but in the end, it was a tyrannical thing to completely destroy such a magnificent Buddha statue because of the emperor's ban.

Thinking that their wolf dwelling court is the center of the entire grassland faith, the largest wolf king god statue on the wolf house mountain is less than one-tenth of this big Buddha, and the wolf king god statue is dwarfed by this comparison.

"There are flocks of woodbirds in the western mountains, and half of the wall is accompanied by residual clouds. If you want to find monks and nuns on Zen theory, it is difficult to find a shadow in the empty stone niche. ”

Li Yi couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion when he stood in front of this stone statue, he thought of the Buddhism that could compete with Taoism at the beginning, and he couldn't help but chant a poem.

"I never thought that my junior brother would also recite poetry, it seems that my brother usually underestimates you."

Jing Zizheng couldn't help but nod his head frequently when he heard Li Yi's poems, he didn't expect that the junior brother who usually seemed to be strong in martial arts would also have such a talent in reciting poetry, and it seemed that he could indeed be called a martial artist.

Qi Ning on the side was even more surprised, he didn't expect Li Yi to be able to recite poetry.

In her opinion, Li Yi should be a full martial artist, but she has seen Li Yi riding a war horse and rampaging through the Weide army.

I didn't expect that he could still recite a poem casually today.

As for the others, they didn't have any ideas at all, among them, Qi Chao and An Su were not interested in poetry in the first place, while Hai Yin and Yu Zhenlei didn't understand Dayu's poetry at all.

"Senior brother praised it, I also saw this ruined Buddha statue and thought of the prosperous Buddhist family at the beginning, thinking that they would fall into such a situation, I can't help but feel a little sad that the rabbit is dead and the fox is sad, do you think my Guigumen will have such a day?"

Li Yi was not carried away by Jing Zizheng and Qi Ning's praise.

"You can rest assured of this, it is said that the tree is a big wind, and my Guigu Gate is a small sect, and the disciples are scarce, which means that we have few chances to get into trouble, so my Guigu Gate will not have any big difficulties, which is also one of the reasons why the master accepted fewer disciples in the first place."

Keiko said as she patted him on the shoulder.

"The most important thing is that we have few people and it is easy to run, if we really get into trouble one day, we can take the soft and run, and then drill into the deep mountains and old forests for them to find."

Then Jing Zizheng made up for it.

His words stunned the people around him, they didn't expect the usually elegant Jingzizheng to say such a ridiculous thing.

"Senior brother, I'm afraid what you said is not Master's original words, right?"

Li Yi felt a very familiar feeling when he heard this.

"Hahaha! That's right, that's Master's exact words! ”

Keiko laughed.

The original sad mood of everyone when they saw the ruined grotto was completely dispelled by Jing Zizheng's laughter.

So the people continued to walk along the mountain wall, and they stopped in front of the grottoes one by one to look at them, although most of these stone statues were broken and their heads were knocked off, but just looking at the remaining torsos, they could feel the majesty and magnificence of these acquaintances.

"The statues in the grottoes on this floor have basically been smashed, but I heard that there are still some small grottoes on it that survived, so why don't we go up and take a look."

The first layer of Jingzizheng's grottoes was basically damaged stone statues, so he proposed to go up to the other layers of the grottoes to have a look.

This Luozhou grotto is divided into seven layers, and the reason why there are seven layers is because the number seven is the most auspicious number in Buddhism.

And the reason why Buddhism believes that seven is the most auspicious number is because the Buddha was born and landed on the ground to walk, and he walked a total of seven steps, and step by step to give birth to lotus, and then he pointed to the sky and pointed to the sky and said: Heaven and earth, only I respect, the three worlds are suffering, I should be at peace.

Therefore, the disciples of Buddhism in later generations believed that the number seven was the most auspicious number in Buddhism, so when the Buddhists built the Futu Pagoda, the highest was built to seven floors.

In this way, there was what was later called: saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter.

So they climbed up the stairs on the stone wall to the top of the grotto.

Although these stone stairs may seem steep, it is not as difficult to walk on them as you believe, and they can still easily climb up even if there are no guardrails on either side of the stairs.

Li Yi guessed that this was probably because the monks at that time could pray and chant prayers in order to ensure that they could fold their hands during the pilgrimage.

When they came to the second floor, they found that the stone statues in this grotto were obviously much smaller, and after observing for a while, they found that most of the stone statues in this layer had been destroyed.

The few remaining undamaged statues may have been spared because of the obscured faces of the statues due to the wind and sun for many years, and the government at the time considered them to be no different from smashing.

Later, Li Yi and the others continued upward, and after observing several layers separately, they found that the higher they were, the smaller the stone statues, and the more the number of stone statues became.

When they reached the top floor, the stone walls in front of them were densely covered with stone niches of different sizes, and the Buddha statues in these stone niches were also of different sizes and postures.

The larger of these statues are life-size, while the smaller ones are only the size of an adult's palm, and these stone statues are either sitting or lying in the shape of kind eyebrows, but also angry eyes, which can be said to be in a thousand different forms.

Li Yi and others carefully visited these stone statues, which can be described as a feast for the eyes.

And Hai Yin, who followed behind Li Yi, was a strong admiration.

"You Dayu people are really too extravagant, and you have carved so many Buddha statues on a whole mountain, how much food and manpower will be wasted."

Hai Yin has always maintained his way of thinking as a tribal khan, and his first reaction when he sees something is how much money it costs to make this thing, how much food and how much people's power is wasted.

"There are not many Buddha statues on the entire mountain wall, a total of nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, and all of them are facing the city of Luozhou."

Jingzizheng explained to him with a smile, in fact, every time he saw Haiyin looking like he had never seen the world, Jingzizheng actually felt a sense of pride in his heart.

"Then why don't you carve one statue to make 10,000?"

Yu Zhenlei, who hadn't spoken much, finally asked.

And the brothers and sisters of An Su and the Qi family on the side also looked at Jing Zizheng with inquiring eyes.

"In fact, there were originally 10,000 statues, and the last one was originally enshrined in the Ming Hall in the middle of Luozhou Prefecture, and the 9,909 Buddha statues in this grotto are all facing that Buddha statue, but unfortunately because the imperial court ordered the destruction of the Buddha, the Ming Hall in the Luozhou Prefecture City was burned, and the stone statue was completely smashed into rubble."

"That's a shame."

An Su couldn't help but sigh.

"Senior brother, when the master told me about the destruction of the Buddha by the imperial court, Brother Liu Yu once told me that there was a Buddha statue that was smashed and the court used the broken stone statue as stone to pave the road, and some people took the broken Buddha statue back to carve the trough for feeding pigs and sheep in the city, and finally all the officials who walked on that road died strangely and violently, and the pigs and sheep in those people's homes also died, I don't know if the Buddha statue is this one?"

Li Yi suddenly thought of what Liu Yu had told him about it.

"That's right, the Buddha statue that this little brother is talking about is the Buddha statue in the Ming Hall of Luozhou Prefecture."

Suddenly, a voice came from above their heads.

This startled everyone present, Li Yi looked up and saw three heads showing on the top of the mountain, and it was one of them who spoke.

Facing the three people who suddenly appeared, Li Yi immediately became alert, he didn't expect that there would be people on the top of this inaccessible mountain.

"Don't get me wrong, we are not bad people, we are the medicine pickers in this Luozhou city."

The three of them obviously saw the guarded eyes of Li Yi and the others, so they immediately explained.

At the same time, the three of them showed the back basket and the medicine hoe in their hands to everyone.

When they saw that there were green herbs in the baskets of the three of them, everyone was relieved.

"I'm really sorry, we heard a few people talking just now, it just so happened that we were from the city of Luozhou, and my family used to carve the city trough with stone statues, but the two fat pigs raised by the family at that time all died overnight."

One of the three said.

"Who's to say it's not, my family was also a pig that died at that time."

The other said with regret.

"At that time, the people in the city said that it was because we offended the Buddha by doing this, that the Buddha sent a calamity and caused all our pigs to die violently."

The man in the middle looked like he was apprehensive.

"Senior brother, what the hell is going on?"

Li Yi didn't believe in any Buddha sending disasters, Tai Jizi once told him very firmly that there were no gods and ghosts in this world, and everything that seemed to be gods and ghosts was just something that everyone didn't understand.

Even if there are really gods and ghosts, they will not care about the so-called worship of human beings, and they will not be bored enough to bring disasters to human beings.