Chapter Twenty-Four: Suddenly
After bidding farewell from the Heavenly Master's Mansion on Longhu Mountain, the third prince, Bal Tsoda, decided to turn north and not go south because he saw all kinds of collusion and collusion between Buddhism and Taoism, as well as the treacherous situation in Kyoto mentioned in the letter he received last night. Therefore, it was announced to the outside world that the repair of the Yellow River was imminent and urgent, and he ordered people to put away the heavy guard of honor, hurry up, and do not follow the official road, and go straight to the direction of Zhongshu Province from Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi Province.
Wuxu had never ridden a horse before, and he was very unaccustomed to it for the first few days, holding the reins in his hand, like a man in the water grasping a life-saving straw, and he was so jolted that he couldn't do it. Fortunately, Mo En is good at riding horses, although his soul is gone, but his physical instinct still exists, Wu Xuan adjusted his posture, and with a little heart, he sat firmly on the saddle like everyone else, with his legs between the horse's belly, and walked through the forest and water.
Along the way, the Third Prince and the Gesang brothers knocked on him from time to time, asking for details about the night of Baltubarzan's death, the intentions of Pasipa and the identity of Wuxu himself. Wuxu only deduced that in Lu Dongbin's cave mansion that night, Baltu Balzan and the two of them used forbidden evil arts, causing the cave to rebound and attack, and as a result, they died, and even affected themselves and Xuanjizi were also implicated, and he was trapped in the cave for several months. As for Pasippa's intentions and his own identity, Wuxu just looked around and said something else, and later simply pretended to be deaf and dumb and didn't say a word.
The three princes saw Wuxu's unfathomable look, but they didn't care, and on the subsequent journey, they no longer mentioned these topics, but from time to time ordered people to send good wine and meat, and sometimes they also picked out a few rare treasures from the tributes of officials along the way and sent them to Wuxu's tent. Wuxu did not shirk it, and smiled one by one, as in the Sumeru precepts, and occasionally turned out the "Mandala Sutra of the Joy of All Beings" originally collected by Moen in the precepts, and randomly sent a few chapters of the scriptures of the Joy Zen method to the three princes Balzoda. For a while, the two got along well. On the contrary, it was the two of them, Gesang Hu and Gesang Li, who were estimated to be shouldering the teacher's life, and seized the opportunity to go to Wuxu, talking about the friendship of the same sect in the narrative for a while, and saying that they hoped that the senior brother would teach the Fa Realm wonderful law. Seeing that these two "dumb-headed" lamas were so ignorant of the world, Wuxu took the frame of the Dharma realm and the seniors in the teachings, and admonished them from time to time in the name of "enlightening" the Dharma.
In the afternoon of this day, everyone had come to the junction of Jiangxi Province and Henan Province. The three princes issued an order, abandoned the winding official road, set up camp by a river, and waited for tomorrow to dawn, directly along the river, through the canyon in front, and then entered the boundary of Henan Province. Wuxu seems to have been accustomed to this kind of life, the day is a galloping horse, a horse Pingchuan, see the scenery of rivers and mountains, sunset is to choose the water to live, around the blazing bonfire, and the Yuan Dynasty princes, Taoist priests, lamas and soldiers and other ancients, wine barbecue, talk. Since Wuxu accidentally discovered that perhaps because of the lama's teaching of the mandala dharma realm, drinking wine and eating meat did not have much impact on his Buddhist practice, so he put down the tense and gloomy old face of Moen before, and at night, he laughed with everyone, and did not refuse to drink and meat. The third prince Baltsoda and the others only regarded this as the true temperament revealed by the predecessors who had taken away Moenshe, and after restoring their mandala realm, the soldiers only regarded Master Moen's cultivation as successful, and his temperament also changed, so everyone was slightly surprised and accepted it calmly. Wuxu, but he sees this as a strange journey beyond time and space, touring the mountains and rivers, wine and food, and some customs of the Yuan Dynasty.
Therefore, Wuxu, who was riding on the horse, saw the front team slowly stop, and knew that the day was coming, jumped from the horse's back to the ground, couldn't help yawning, stretched his waist, and then said to the sergeant who came to lead the horse with a smile, "Lakshen, today my star chasing horse has run more than 80 kilometers, you need to find a place where the water is beautiful and the grass is fat, so that it can eat and drink well and rest." The sergeant, dressed in sheepskin armor, stepped forward quickly, took the reins, gently stroked the mane of this horse called a star-chasing horse, and said in a * voice, "Master, don't worry, I Lakshen didn't choose the most beautiful water and the fattest grass that time. Wuxu laughed, raised his hand and patted Lakshin's shoulder, and said, "Mongolian men are all horse lovers. You Lakshin is a man among Mongolian men, and he is a man who loves horses. I'll give you a drink later. Rakshen suddenly smiled, put his right hand on his left chest, bowed deeply to Wuxu, and when he looked up, he saw that Wuxu had drifted away.
Not far away, a palace maid wrapped in a robe, holding a pot of pickled yak, stood there, and saw Lakshen holding a horse humming a song, sneering, "Lakshen, I didn't expect Master Huiming to treat you so politely and invite you to drink. What a blessing. Lakshen seemed to be more familiar with this palace maid, turned around and led the horse around, "Isn't it, Immortal Heaven favors, Master Huiming is a master outside the world, and after cultivating to the * realm, he is also merciful to us inferior rough people." After saying that, he stared at her again, and the palace maid was tall and ruddy, and the open collar of her robe revealed a small piece of fat lamb's breast, and she smiled, "Sendun Geme, if you don't take the time to come over tonight while you are drinking, the master may teach you supreme joy*." The palace maid who was called Sendun Geme heard Rakshen's teasing words, glared at him fiercely, and frowned angrily, "A dog's mouth can't spit out ivory." Lakshin, you're a white-eyed wolf who steals lambs and grows his tail. After saying that, he blushed and turned to leave. Rakshen laughed, and without replying to his mouth, he led his horse, hummed a little tune, flicked his whip in the air, and walked towards the woods by the river.
But he said that Wuxu dismounted, and after talking to Lakshen, he walked to the river, broke a willow branch casually, and hung into the slightly turbulent water, and was so startled that he was about to jump out of the water, and a carp turned over and dived away in a hurry, leaving only water flowers. Wuxu didn't care, dragging the wicker hanging in the river, plucking at will, while walking and stopping along the bank, sometimes overlooking the towering mountains opposite, sometimes playing with wild flowers and plants. From time to time, sergeants and palace maids touched themselves, bowed and saluted, and Wuxu was without a fight, waving his hand, smiling, bowing his head, and silently reciting in his heart: "Hello travelers, you are happy." What kind of meat, tea, and wine to drink tonight?"
Suddenly, there was a commotion from the camping place, and if you listened closely, there seemed to be a shout, a whip, and the screams of the Han people. Wuxu stopped a palace maid who had just walked from the camp to the river, "What happened? Do you know?" This palace maid was Sendun Gemei, seeing Wuxu asking urgently, she hurriedly put down the meat basin in her hand, and replied on the ground, "The slave maid Sendun Gemei is a member of Lakshen's clan, and she usually serves Boyan Niangniang in the palace, and this time she is on the order of Niangniang to serve His Royal Highness the Third Prince." When the washed cured meat was brought into the camp, it seemed that he saw a Nan man being captured and tied to a wooden post, and Guru Gesang Hu seemed to be angry there. Wuxu closed his eyes, turned sideways, did not look at the palace maid prostrate on the ground, held back the nagging in front of her, and when he heard that Younanren was caught by Gesang and taken to the camp, he opened his eyes and said to Sendun Geme, "You get up quickly." You don't have to be formal. Sendun Geme did enough etiquette, and when he heard Wuxu say this, he stopped being hypocritical, stood up, pondered that Wuxu seemed to care about this matter, and replied, "When the slave and maid passed by, it seemed that I heard Master Gesang scolding the Nananren who didn't know what to do. The exact reason is unknown. After hearing this, Wuxu dodged and flew to the camp.
In a moment, I saw an old man of about fifty tied to a wooden stake at the entrance of the simple camp that had been set up, dressed thinly, skinny as wood, and covered in blood. The old man, with his hair disheveled and his eyes scattered, seemed to faint at any moment, and he struggled to himself, letting out a low wail, "The guru calms his anger, and the guru spares his life." ”
As the so-called meteor horse leaps over the mountains and rivers, the donkey friend Yuan reflects the bonfire.
The long journey is drunk and drunk, and the low wailing who has heard.