The catastrophe was resolved, and the people of the Yijian Gate who survived the disaster, waited for those annoying chivalrous heroes to leave, with a sad mood, after burying the relatives who were martyred for the guardian of the master's door, cleaning and cleaning, cooking and healing. After all the trivial matters were taken care of, they sat down together, sent off the dead with drinks, and expressed gratitude with good words.

Before the time has passed, lunch has been used, Bai Yutian and Wushan Daoren, accompanied by Zhou Huaitong and several other brothers, toured the Yijian Gate inside and out, seeing the wind and wind, seeing the clouds and clouds, seeing the cranes and cranes, seeing the apes crying, seeing the iron Buddha sad, seeing the stone man want to cry. The love of people is revealed back and forth, and the scenery is excellent.

Seeing a courtyard with the three big characters of "Yijian Pavilion" written on it, Bai Yutian stopped and asked Zhou Huaitong, "Uncle Shi, what is this courtyard for?" ”

Zhou Huaitong replied: "This is the place where Master Zu retreated back then, and it is also the place where he entertained back then. ”

Bai Yutian asked, "Can you go in?" ”

Zhou Huaitong looked at a few juniors beside him, and saw that several people were smiling kindly, and there was no objection, so he stepped forward to open the courtyard door and walked in.

Bai Yutian saw that several other uncles followed, so he also walked in with the people of Wushan Dao.

Entering the courtyard, I saw a small stone mountain located next to the lotus pond, facing a two-story pavilion, and there were a few pine trees standing around the pavilion.

The stone mountain is simple and small, very eye-catching, Bai Yutian approached, walked around half a circle, saw a flat cut of the stone wall, engraved with some words, because of the age, a little blurred, carefully read, gently read out: "Who is older in the silver beard crane?" Ask the wine to the moon and enjoy each other. There are joys hidden in the bitterness of the heart, and the flowers in the sword gate are full of trees. "Drop off" dust child".

Zhou Huaitong walked over, and Bai Yutian asked, "Uncle Shi, what is this 'abandoned dust'?"

Zhou Huaitong replied: "In his later years, Master Zu called himself 'abandoning the dust'. ”

Bai Yutian smiled: "This nickname is good, there is no dust in my heart, and I am content." ”

Zhou Huaitong smiled: "It seems to be good now." However, for the ancestor back then, I'm afraid it may not be. ”

After reading Shibi's poems in one bite, Master Zu's state of mind was obviously very leisurely and contented at that time, why didn't he see it? Bai Yutian was very puzzled, read and read the four lines of poetry on the stone wall, and asked softly, "Uncle Shi, why is it not possible?" ”

Zhou Huaitong replied: "When Master Zu was seventy years old, looking back on his past life, he had merits and demerits, and finally in order to seek forgiveness for himself, he came to offset his merits and demerits, and named him 'Abandon the Dust'. ”

Bai Yutian muttered to himself: "Merit and demerit are offset? ”

Zhou Huaidao: "When I entered this courtyard for the first time, our senior brother was in the same mood as you are now, puzzled, disapproving, how could I ask why." ”

Bai Yutian smiled and said, "What did the ancestor say? ”

A junior brother beside Zhou Huaitong replied: "The master said: 'Master Zu said that his life is ashamed of his lover, his master, and his brother, and it is really difficult to forgive. The only thing that can comfort the heart is to create a sword gate, and pass on the skills taught to him by the master, without burying the wisdom and sweat of the ancestors. ’”

Ashamed of his lover, it's easy to understand, but the sea of love is overflowing, half-hearted, just seeing one and loving one. Ashamed of the master, Bai Yutian had also heard the master say that the two brothers did not give in to each other in order to compete for the position of the head of the family, and they quarreled with each other, so that the pure yang gate was divided into two. As for being ashamed of my brother, I don't know. So he asked: "Uncle Shi, what are you ashamed of your brother?" ”

Zhou Huaitong said: "I don't know this very well. However, I heard from the master that Tang died in Huangchao, and the disaster was based on Guilin, Pang Xun's rebellion. ”

Tang died in the Yellow Nest, and Bai Yutian ran to the White Deer Cave Academy when he had nothing to do before, and he heard about it or two. I remember hearing that the Huangchao Uprising, from the fifth year of Tang Xizong Qianfu (878) to the fourth year of Tang Xizong Zhonghe (884), the rebel army moved to half of the Tang Dynasty. Due to the long-term mobile warfare, there was no stable rear, and the rebel army was finally suppressed by the imperial court due to the lack of economic security and mass base, but it shook the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty existed in name only.

As for the cause of the disaster in Guilin and the Pang Xun Rebellion, no one has ever heard of it.

Bai Yutian thought to himself: "Master Zu is ashamed of his brother, is this brother of his? I really wanted to find out, so I asked.

Zhou Huaitong said: "Master Zu likes to make friends all his life, and he has a good friend named Xin Yan, who is generous, renewing his promises, and specializing in helping people. In his fifties, he does not seek to make progress, and has the ambition to help the times. ”

Bai Yutian said: "With such friends, life is a great joy." ”

Zhou Huaitong said gloomily: "But this friend is too good, and Master Zu is ashamed of himself, so he secretly feels sad." ”

Bai Yutian asked, "Why?" Is there a place where Master Zu can't live with him? ”

Zhou Huaidao: "I can't say this well, Master Zu didn't feel sorry for others before, and then he felt ashamed of friendship." ”

I didn't feel sorry for others before, why did I feel ashamed of friendship later? The more Bai Yutian thought about it, the more confused he became, so he asked, "Senior Uncle, what is it that makes Master Zu so embarrassed and inconsistent?" ”

Zhou Huaitong said to the junior brother beside him: "Senior Brother Yun, you read more, you can tell him." ”

The surname Yun is called Yun Xiang, and among Qiao Song's disciples, Bai Bai Yu is the eldest, Zhou Huaitong is the second, Yun Xiang is the third, and there are the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth in the back.

Yun Xiang said: "In the fourth year of Tang Xiantong (863), Tang Yizong sent troops to recruit Nanzhao, and ordered to recruit 2,000 troops in Xuzhou and Sizhou to go to Yongzhou, of which 800 people were assigned to guard Guilin, and it was agreed that they would be transferred back to their original places after the expiration of three years.

The 800 soldiers were mainly from Xuzhou and were known for their bravery, so the Tang court sent Xu Si to observe Cui Yanzeng to go to the town to lead. Cui Yan's strict management of the soldiers caused the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, and the soldiers were even more dissatisfied with the ruthlessness and brutality of his trusted Du Zhiya Yin Hu, the instructor Du Zhang, and the soldiers and horses Xu Xingjian. In order to be able to return to their hometown to reunite with their wives and children, the soldiers endured again and again. But at the end of the three-year period, Cui Yan forced them to stay for various reasons.

After another three years, the garrison repeatedly begged Cui Yanzeng to fulfill his original agreement and let them go home, but Cui Yanzeng asked them to stay for another year on the grounds that the military expenditure was insufficient. It was supposed to be three years on the border, but now six years have passed, and one year will be left. Cui Yanzeng's character was extremely poor, he repeatedly broke his promise, the soldiers suffered from military service, the crowd was angry, and the public recommended the popular grain judge Pang Xun as the master, killed the officers who monitored them, robbed the warehouse, mutinied and returned to the north, passing through Guilin, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and arrived in Xuzhou. ”

Bai Yutian said: "This soldier is homesick and returns to the north without restraint, he is not really rebelling against the imperial court, and the imperial court can solve it with a pacification edict, how can it involve the friendship between Master Zu and his friend Xin Yan?" ”

Yun Xiang said: "But these 800 soldiers from Guilin to Xuzhou, all the way to loot not to mention, the prefectures and counties they passed through either directly released, or blocked powerless, Pang Xun gradually had the heart of wealth and danger, openly erected the banner of rebellion, along the way hungry people, bandits kept grouping, and when they arrived in Xuzhou, there were 200,000 people. ”

Bai Yutian said: "Then this matter is always close to Master Zu?" ”

Yun Xiang said: "Pang Xun's rebels captured Xuzhou, in order to cut off the road of Jianghuai taxation in the imperial court, attacked Haozhou and Sizhou, and Sizhou assassin Shi Du held on. Although Xin Yan is a swordsman, he does not seek to advance, but he has the ambition to help the times and difficulties, and his ancestors have been officials for several generations, loyal to the imperial court, and specially went north from Guangling to Sizhou to help defend the city. ”

Only then did Bai Yutian hear the name and asked, "You mean, Old Swordsman Xin not only helped defend the city himself, but also invited Master Zu to help defend the city and serve the country?" ”

Yun Xiang said: "Old swordsman Xin sent a letter asking Master Zu to rush to Sizhou to help, but Master Zu was in trouble. ”

Bai Yutian asked: "Suppressing the rebellion and achieving great righteousness is beneficial to the country and the people, why is it difficult?" ”

Yun Xiang snorted and said, "You kid, what is righteous or unjust, it's easier said than done. From ancient times to the present, that peasant uprising was not caused by natural disasters and man-made disasters. The brutal exploitation of the ruling class, the frequent occurrence of natural disasters, and the suffering of the people with no way to survive were revealed. Master Zu was born as a suffering person, and asked him to kill people who lived more bitterly than himself for no reason, how could he bear it. ”

Bai Yutian said: "Since this is the case, Master Zu should have a clear conscience, how can he feel sorry for the word friendship?" ”

Yun Xiang said: "This Pang Xun rebellion was extinguished in a year, in addition to bringing pain to the Tang Dynasty, it also brought disaster to the people. Master Zu felt that if he put it out earlier, he would definitely be able to reduce the losses, and the disasters brought to the people of the world would be smaller, and he gradually felt that Xin Yan had done the right thing. ”

Bai Yutian said: "But the Tang Dynasty collapsed after forty years, and it cannot but be said that this riot has no meaning for its existence." ”

Zhou Huaitong answered: "Virtuous nephew, but your ancestor didn't wait for the day of the fall of the Tang Dynasty to pass away, since I didn't expect that the late Tang Dynasty was so decayed and unable to return to the sky." At that time, if you can reduce losses, you should reduce losses, after all, most of the taxes in the world come from the hands of the people, and they are all the people who are surviving. ”

Although Bai Yutian agreed with the statement of Zhou Huaitong and others, he thought in his heart: "The suffering of the people can be told to the government, and even if the government ignores it, it will only suffer one person." But the people of the world are in suffering, if the court is willing to listen, how can there be suffering in the world! The suffering of the masses, if it were not for the cruelty and unkindness of those in power and the excessive oppression of the rich, how could there be the suffering of the world. If there is no rebellion, how can the masses get rid of their difficulties, and when will this suffering come to an end? ”

Seeing Bai Yutian's eyes dazed, the people of Wushan Dao were at a loss, and said sideways: "The so-called righteousness is just to help the public relieve suffering. If we have to take the road of rebellion to get rid of suffering, it should be right to follow the will of God and the people. ”

Bai Yutian smiled faintly and said: "Fuyun is not a name for Juyi, and the word Lotte is not for creation." Holding the spirit bead in his hand, he often works hard to write, and his heart is open to the sky. "Walk towards the pavilion on the other side of the rocky mountain.

When I entered the pavilion, I saw a painting hanging on the wall, scribbling: "When the wild and old people visit, high rollers often look for each other." Facing the wall and climbing the stone ridge, the strength of the party dares to move forward. Under the sunset, the empty door, the bell is out of the forest. The mouth of the bottle is brewed at home, and the bird is returned with the clouds. 'Dust-free'".

Bai Yutian hurriedly glanced at the second floor, and in addition to seeing farther at the same height, he was attracted by a word. I walked over and looked at it carefully, and wrote it down:

"The world said that I flew the sword to take people's heads, and I was very embarrassed. There are three swords, one sword breaks ignorance and trouble, two swords break ignorance and anger, and three swords break ignorance and greed. Pure Yang real person. ”