In the early morning of the next day, Liu Xunyi, Tang Cong and Banliangjin left the Tianshui Inn, braved the cold wind and frost, and plunged into the endless Tanggula Mountain.

Over the mountains and mountains, through the stream, the two of them encountered avalanches twice, lost their way several times, and almost froze to death in the wilderness in the midst of thousands of peaks and mountains.

In the vast snow-capped mountains, the two of them went around for three days and three nights, gradually exhausted, running out of food and water, and when they were dying, they fortunately met a team of monks who went to the city of Luo to make a pilgrimage to rescue them, and they escaped by luck.

Due to the language barrier, Liu Xunyi and the others deliberately pretended to be mute, mixed in with this team, and followed them out of Tanggula Mountain, which was complicated.

These monks were extremely pious, and as soon as they stepped out of the mountain pass and stepped into the flat ground, they began to kowtow slowly in three steps, and they kowtowed respectfully, requiring five bodies to throw themselves on the ground, which was extremely time-consuming.

Liu Xunyi was worried that it would be difficult for him to arrive at Luoqi City on time if he traveled like this, so he secretly discussed with Tang Cong and decided to take the first step.

At the time of parting, the oldest monk in the team gave Liu Xunyi a few bags of dry food and two lakes of clear water, although the language was incomprehensible, but after a few days of contact, Liu Xunyi could vaguely detect this person or the leader of this team from the attitude of other monks. Others call it "Dorjee", which should be the name of the old monk.

With gratitude, hurriedly parting, after going through many difficulties and dangers along the way, Liu Xunyi and Tang Cong finally rushed to the city of Luo on the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month.

Although the city of Luo is the imperial city of Tibet in the past, compared with the towns of the Central Plains, it is still very simple, and can even be described as simple.

Most of the buildings here are earthen stone ramparts, which are extremely rough, and they are better than Huodu and Bancheng. There is neither the grandeur of the northern towns nor the exquisiteness of the Jiangnan water towns.

Nowadays, the Great Song Dynasty is worried about internal and external troubles, and it has long been impossible to talk about Heqing Haiyan, and the sky is flat, but at least most of the people still have food and clothing, and they can barely make ends meet.

On the other hand, since the fall of Tibet, since the fall of its kingdom, the whole Tibetan land has become elbows and armpits, disasters have caused Xiao Wall, the heroes have been divided, disputes are endless, people's livelihood has withered, and all industries have been destroyed.

Even if you walk in the imperial city of the past, you can still see skinny and hungry everywhere.

In the cold winter of Layue, the snow fell, and many poor Tibetan people huddled in groups of broken bricks and broken walls, and the family hugged each other, shivering from the cold.

The old man who is angry, the baby who is waiting to be fed, the man who walks in a good way, the woman who is panicked...... This situation and this scene are sad and unbearable.

Walking through the streets and alleys, all the way to the west of the city, Liu Xunyi and Tang Cong almost saw what hell on earth was, and what was heaven on earth?

In the city of Luo, there are not only poor streets and alleys that leak on all sides, but also mansions and pavilions with magnificent walls and high walls. There are not only miserable people who are hungry and clothed, but also rich and noble families with big bellies and red faces.

This city has almost stretched the gap between the rich and the poor to the extreme. The same street may be full of mourning and devastation on the east side, but on the west side, it is singing and dancing, warblers and swallows.

On the streets, you can see "little pitiful" people in ragged clothes and begging for food everywhere with broken bowls. Similarly, you can see cotton robes and velvet everywhere, carrying Tibetan knives everywhere to show off the "big man".

It is also strange to say that the gap between the rich and the poor in the city is so huge, but Liu Xunyi and Tang Cong have never seen any hungry people making trouble along the way.

There is a clear distinction between respect and inferiority here, each in its own way, whether it is rich or poor, it seems that they are extremely well-behaved, and never cross the thunder pond by half a step.

"In the past, I only heard that 'Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road', but today I saw it with my own eyes. Tang Cong looked at the sorrow on the street, and couldn't help but sigh in his mouth.

The scale of the city was extremely small, and it only took half an hour to walk, and the two of them successfully found the octagonal pharmacy in the west of the city.

Like most of the "shops" in the city, the Octagonal Pharmacy is a small, dilapidated mud house.

The two wooden doors were in a bad state, even if they were closed, a huge crack the thickness of an arm could still be revealed in the middle, the iron edge of the door corner was rusty, and a mottled and faded wooden plaque hung on the lintel, on which two lines of text could be vaguely seen. A line of Tibetan and a line of vague Chinese characters are probably in the shape of "丿用計甫".

Stepping into the pharmacy, the land was potholed and there were no bricks.

About seven feet away from the door, there is an old ledger, behind which is a broken medicine cabinet standing against the wall, most of the drawers can no longer be completely closed, and some even have no drawers, just a wooden plank, barely storing medicinal herbs.

On the left is a tea table and two broken stools. On the right side is a statue of a fierce deity, with a bowl of water and a broken bowl full of earth and rice grains on the altar, which serves as an incense burner.

The pharmacy is extremely simple, and the furnishings are nothing more.

When Liu Xunyi and Tang Cong pushed the door in, the pharmacy was empty, and there was no one in sight.

Before the two of them became suspicious, there was a faint snoring sound behind the account.

"Ahem!"

Liu Xunyi didn't dare to speak rashly, but coughed lightly twice, as if to remind the person who was hiding behind the account desk and falling asleep.

After a while, there was a sound of "gurgling" from the account desk, and his tone was quite impatient, as if he was reproaching Liu Xunyi for disturbing people's dreams.

For Tibetan, Liu Xunyi and Tang Cong were confused and didn't understand it at all. After hesitating for a moment, Liu Xunyi stepped forward slowly, gently knocked on the account table with his hand, and coughed lightly twice.

With a burst of muttering full of grievances, a person slowly turned up in the account, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and looked at Liu Xunyi with a displeased face.

Around thirty, more than seven feet, although he was sloppy and unkempt, it was difficult to hide his rather handsome facial features and a very strong figure.

Judging by his appearance, it seems that he is not a Tibetan person, but more like a Han person.

Facing Liu Xunyi and Tang Cong, who were staring at each other, the man said something "gurgling" again, but Liu Xunyi didn't react to this, just frowned slightly, as if he was hesitating in his heart.

......Seeing this, Tang Cong tugged at Liu Xunyi's sleeve and muttered in a low voice, "Door master, you just ask, if he understands, he is the person we are looking for." If he doesn't understand, he doesn't know what you're saying. ”

Liu Xunyi nodded thoughtfully, looked the man up and down again, and muttered, "Dare to ask Your Excellency......"

"Are you Han?"

Before Liu Xunyi could speak, the man's expression changed, and he quickly asked in Chinese.

Hearing this, Liu and Tang couldn't help but be stunned, and then nodded in unison.

"Dare to ask Your Excellency is the shopkeeper of the Octagonal Pharmacy, Boren?"

"It's down there. ”

Boren nodded impatiently. At this moment, the displeasure on his face had disappeared, replaced by a strong color of joy, and said, "I don't know if the two of you are ......."

"In Xia Liu Xunyi, he is Tang Cong. Liu Xunyi introduced, "It's Ding Sanye of the Jade Dragon Palace of the Tianshan Mountains, let us visit Your Excellency." ”

"Yes. Bo Ren's face was ecstatic and said excitedly, "Five years ago, when Ding Sanye left, he instructed that one day he would definitely send people to Luo Some Cities again. ”

Tang Cong was puzzled: "Why are you so happy?"

"Ding Sanye instructed that after waiting for someone to help him complete the big things, I could leave Tubo and return to the Central Plains. "I've been waiting here for five years, and I'm already homesick. How can you not be happy that you have finally arrived today?"

"Five years, you, a Han Chinese, are willing to stay in a foreign land for five years?" Liu Xunyi said in surprise, "If we don't come, won't you have to wait another five or ten years?"

"Ding Sanye treats me like a mountain, and promises me a lot of money, how can I bear his trust?" Bo Ren Zhengse said, "What's more, if I leave without permission, once this matter is known by Ding Sanye, my fate will be ......."

"Enwei is used together, Ding Sanye's manipulation technique is really powerful. Liu Xunyi said clearly, "But since we are here, your hard life should also be over." ”

"Exactly!" Bo Ren couldn't help but nod desperately, "If it wasn't for Ding Sanye who bought this pharmacy, I'm afraid I would have been frozen to death and starved to death like those hungry people outside." ”

"You've been alone for five years?"

"There was a master in the pharmacy before, and he was a jack of all trades in the city. "Unfortunately, last winter, I was unlucky and contracted a cold, and I died soon after." Since then, I've been the only one left in the pharmacy. ”

After that, Boren's dark and bright eyes flickered, and he said tentatively: "Ding Sanye asked you to come, but to ...... 'Buddha Lotus Seed'?"

Hearing this, Liu Xunyi looked stunned and said bluntly: "Exactly." I am new to the city, and I know very little about the rules of the city, and I hope that you will teach me a lot. ”

"You're welcome!" Boren waved his hand and smiled, "If I don't help you do this, I won't want to return to the Central Plains unharmed." Now, you and I are grasshoppers on the same rope, and we should advance and retreat together, and we will take care of each other. If you don't give up, the two can be called by their names, and the province will be outside. ”

"That's very good. Liu Xunyi was disrespectful and arched his hand, "Brother Ren, on the way here, I heard that every year on the first day of the first lunar month, the Potala Palace will hold a pilgrimage ceremony. At that time, believers from all over Tibet can enter the palace and pay homage to the living Buddha. I just don't know...... Is this true or false?"

"It does. Boren nodded.

Liu Xunyi and Tang Cong glanced at each other, and their faces were full of joy. But without waiting for them to speak again, Boren changed his words and said with a wry smile: "It is not false to hold a pilgrimage on the first day of the first lunar month every year, and it is not false for the Potala Palace to welcome guests from all directions, but not everyone can enter the palace. ”

"What do you mean?" Liu Xunyi said in astonishment, "What do you mean 'not anyone can enter the palace......'?

"Ordinary people, even when they go to the city of Latah, can only worship and kowtow outside the Potala Palace. Boren interrupted, "The place where those monks settled was not the Potala Palace, but the Jokhang Temple. ”

"This ......" Liu Xunyi was completely confused, and said blankly, "The 'Buddha Lotus Seed' we are looking for is in the Potala Palace or the Jokhang Temple?"

"In the final analysis, the Potala Palace is the royal palace, and the Jokhang Temple is the temple. "In other words, those who can enter the Potala Palace on the first day of the first lunar month are all nobles or great lamas from various Tibetan tribes, that is, our eminent monks from the Central Plains. Ordinary monks and believers are not qualified to enter the palace, so they can only go to the Jokhang Temple to worship the Buddha. The Jokhang Temple is easy to enter, but the Potala Palace is heavily guarded. On the first day of the first lunar month, the palace gathered the most powerful people from the Tibetan tribes. It's almost impossible for you to get by. As for the 'Buddha Lotus Seed' you are looking for, it is hidden in the secret room of the Potala Palace, it is...... Forbidden land within a forbidden place. ”

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