The morning light pours down the cloud gaps, and the flat road gradually increases the uneven terrain, and from a distance, the Gobi and the grassland are connected.

In the early morning, Lu Liangsheng stood in place with the reins in his hand, looked down at the map unfolded in his hand, looked around again, and walked forward.

The old donkey shook the brass bell and followed slowly behind, skimming his head from time to time, shaking his mane and ears to shake away the mermaid's curiously outstretched hand, and snorting and snorting, as if to warn her not to touch it.

The bookshelf on the side of the donkey's buttocks was placed, and in the shaky way, the toad Taoist hung two small short legs, pulled the rope around his waist, poked his head out, looked at the scholar in front of him who occasionally buried his head in the map, and muttered: "I also said that I got lost for the teacher." ”

Immediately, the voice turned on and shouted, "Liangsheng, do you know the way?"

"It's coming. ”

Front, Lu Liangsheng responded, put away the map and folded it into his arms, frowned slightly, the road ahead was low and the grass was low, the distant mountains and forests were sparse, and it was still no different from before, after going all the way east from Constantine, he entered the territory of Sassanid Persia, learned the local Persian dialect, and asked about the road to the east, as long as he kept going east, crossed the Pamir Plateau, he could enter the Western Regions, and then he could enter the northwest of the Great Sui after passing the Yumen Pass.

But...... According to the footage, a few days have passed, and I have not seen the so-called plateau at all, on the contrary, it seems that the lower the terrain is? The climate has also become warm and humid.

Arriving at noon? There was a rain, and Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey to a dense forest in front of him to hide from the rain and rest? In the leaden blue rain? The little mermaid happily threw herself into the puddle, fluttering with her tail.

Rain curtain falling? Water splashes on the plantain leaves, flowing down the sloping tips? The four scholars reached out and took a sip of the rain falling from the tip of the leaf? Quickly untied his robe and threw it aside, and simply poured water on his body and scrubbed it.

Rushing..... The sound of the rain in the banana forest gradually became smaller, and this heavy rain came and went quickly, Wang Feng, Ma Liu, Zhang Qi, and Zhao Fu spread their palms? Watching the rain fall slowly, little by little? Anxiously ran out of the forest shirtless and looked up at the sky.

"Oh my God...... How can you run out of water at a critical juncture?!"

"What's the matter with God, I'm sure this cloudy dragon is stealing and cheating!"

"Well, make do with it, hurry up and put on your robe? I saved the barbarians, and I saw my body. ”

"Makes sense? It's a shame to say it, you have to put it on quickly. ”

Between the babbling words? Lu Liangsheng, who was sitting in the banana forest, also felt that the weather was strange, but the rain stopped? Pretty much resting? Should we move on? While speaking to the toad who was slowly grinding half a piece of bread, he put the book on the shelf.

"Master, it's almost time to rest, it's time for us to leave. ”

"Uh-huh. ”

The toad Taoist held the hard cake, glanced at a field chicken under the wet plantain tree, jumped over, looked at the half of the cake in his hand, took a bite, and spit out the cake residue.

Alas, there are still little Taoist priests here.

Jumping off the stone, walking to the bookshelf with frog flippers, a blue light suddenly lit up, shining from inside, and the toad Taoist reflexively jumped backwards.

Lu Liangsheng was calling the little mermaid who was playing in the water outside, and when he turned around, he saw the master standing there with one foot standing on his own feet and his hands raised.

"Master, what kind of exercises are you practicing?"

As he spoke, Yu Guang also saw the faint light emitted by the bookshelf, Lu Liangsheng was familiar with this divine power, opened the small door on the other side of the bookshelf, and took out a female statue inside and stood in the palm of his hand.

"Hmph. The toad glanced at it, put down his hands and feet, and took it back behind him, too lazy to pay attention to it, turned around and walked to the small door, and skillfully tied the rope, "It turned out to be a barbarian god." ”

"Isis?"

When Lu Liangsheng closed the small door of the cubicle for his master, an intermittent voice came from the small statue standing in his palm, "Cultivator of the East, Isis is going to say goodbye to you, you have left the limit of my divine power...... Hope to see you again in the future......"

After this journey, Lu Liangsheng actually probably understood why the gods like Isis would decline, firstly, they all relied on faith to exist, and secondly, the change of dynasty, the change of faith, the emergence of a new country, there will inevitably be new sects, gradually outlawing the original faith, and the old gods of the past gradually disappeared with the disappearance of the last believers.

In short, it is forgotten, in fact, if there is no temple and no faith, after the generation passes, in addition to the ancestral gods that we pass by mouth, those gods in the temple will gradually decline.

"Hopefully, one day, I'll be able to reach the West and talk to you. ”

Lu Liangsheng smiled at the statue and nodded, the faint light on it flickered twice, and there was no more movement, and then, he found a piece of silk cloth to wrap it and put it on the bottom of the bookshelf.

Well, it's a specialty.

After packing up the bookshelf, Lu Liangsheng whistled and called the old donkey, and after placing it, he called four scholars to walk out of this forest, at this time the sky was clear, the previous clouds were gone, and under the bright sunshine, he continued to go east along the barren grassland in the east, gradually, there were dirt roads, and on both sides of the road outside the mountains and forests, there were more acres of dry land, and there were still many farmers in the countryside who were busy with their children.

Walking through the country road, a barren village sits at the foot of the hill, and the smoke rises from the smoke.

Moo~~

A stout bull flicked its tail and dragged its family to graze grass on the side of the road, and the farmers who passed by folded their hands and saluted them respectfully, while the people working in the fields were mostly pulling the plough and turning over the soil, which puzzled Lu Liangsheng.

"It's not unusual to have oxen that pull their own plows instead of oxen. ”

The toad, who had been sitting on the bookshelf for a long time, lay on top of the old donkey's head, and glanced at it with slanted eyes: "Hmph, it may be fattened, and when you eat meat and work the cattle for a long time, the meat will be too old and difficult to chew." ”

Speaking of eating, the toad smacked his lips, stared at the cows over there, and swallowed his saliva.

"Liangsheng, it seems that the teacher has not eaten beef for a long time, why don't you go to this country and see if there is beef in the city? Buy some food on the road, the best is the pickled kind, enter the flavor, cook it casually, put it on the secret ingredients specially made for the teacher, just thinking about it is a little greedy." ”

The long tongue couldn't help but stretch out and lick it, and the little mermaid sitting on the back of the donkey followed suit, and the laughter and applause of 'tsk?!' had Lu Liangsheng's tricks on her, and to outsiders, she was just a beautiful girl sitting on the back of a donkey.

Ahead, Lu Liangsheng turned his head and responded with a smile.

"Okay, Master wants to eat, and I'll see if there's a county seat nearby. ”

The sun sinks in the west, the glow shines across the distant mountains, the red mountain forests, between the mountains, there are a lot of villages on the road, but the city is not seen, but there are more than three or four zhang high stupas on the side of the road, the sharp point is round, sometimes one, sometimes several into a forest, almost every stupa has traces of worship under it.

"It seems that Buddhism here is even more prosperous than in the Central Plains. ”

The sky was dark, and Lu Liangsheng and the others who walked all the way did not find the city, and after a dense forest in front, there were faint buildings with lights on there, and when they got closer, it was a Buddhist temple with red walls and black tiles, and there was a sound of wooden fish knocking.

"Master, it seems that your beef will not be eaten tonight. ”

The four scholars who followed all the way, who were already exhausted, urged to squeeze over, pushed open the door of the temple, the dim oil lamp was placed on the tribute table, and the firelight swayed a few times with the light wind that opened the door.

On the table, a little mouse climbed onto the table with its tail in tow, stole the sesame oil, heard the door moving, squeaked, jumped down quickly, and slipped under the table.

In the flickering oil lamp, in front of the clay Buddha statue, an old monk turned his back to the temple door, knelt on the futon, knocked on the wooden fish, and recited the scriptures softly.