Chapter 30 The Trail of the Deer
The temple was supposed to be on the mountain, but this temple was on the shore of the lake. There should be a Buddha in the temple, but there is only wine here, because this is a tavern called the temple.
The owner of the tavern is a Taoist priest, and his wife is a nun who has been a monk for many years, and they have been running a tavern here for three years.
There was an old man rowing on the shore of the lake, who rowed from sunrise to sunset every day, from one side of the lake to the other side of the lake, and he paddled like this for three years. He paddled around and fished, and he had been delivering fish to the temple for three years since the day it opened.
The girl said, "Isn't this place strange?"
I said, "It's weird." ”
The girl said, "I don't know what the Yuan people think. ”
I said, "How do you know they're meta-people." ”
The girl said, "Five years ago, this was originally a tavern, but one night the tavern suddenly collapsed, and then the old man who rowed a boat came here on a white deer with many soldiers, and rebuilt the tavern that suddenly collapsed, and repaired the lake. ”
I suddenly understood that this place was the tavern destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu knife technique five years ago, that is, the place where Chang Yuchun died in battle, and two years later, that is, three years ago, the white-haired old man riding a deer returned here, repaired the tavern, changed the original landform, and built an artificial lake.
Why did he spend so much manpower and material resources to do this seemingly useless thing?
I asked the girl, "Do you know Mingjiao?"
The girl sneered and said, "You can't really come down from the mountain, Mingjiao was called five years ago, and now it's called Ming Dynasty." ”
I exclaimed: "Zhu Yuanzhang is the emperor?"
The girl said: "In the past five years, Mingjiao has been like crazy, fighting everywhere, and it took two years to annex the rebel armies in the south of the Yangtze River, so Zhu Daxia, the leader of Mingjiao, was called emperor, and then, he declared war on the Yuanren, and General Feng Sheng has now fought in Shandong and is fighting with Wang Baobao. ”
I asked, "Was Zhu Yuanzhang declaring war on the Yuan people three years ago?"
The girl flashed her eyes and said, "That's right." ”
I asked, "And how are the usual customers of this tavern?"
The girl said: "Strange to say, this tavern does not pick up customers, this is what the old man of rowing said, because if there are guests who come, they have to take a boat across the lake, but the old man of rowing said to the guests that outsiders are not accepted here." ”
I asked, "Then why does he paddle over and over every day?"
The girl pouted, "Everyone is curious." ”
When I saw her cute appearance, my heart moved. At sunset, the spring breeze stirred her hair.
At sunset, the old man's boat rowed from one side of the shore to the other side of the shore, and he carried a piece of fish ashore and walked into the temple.
Under the sunset, her shadow and I were dragged by the sunset for a long time.
There was a thin thread at the end of the shadow, and if it weren't for the boy bowing his head with sudden shyness, and for a long time with shyness, then I wouldn't have found it.
I walked over and pulled away the thread that covered it, which would not be easily discovered, and found that it was a long, long thread, the kind of thread that only those who had been on the battlefield would know what it was.
And I, not only have I experienced the battlefield, but I have also seen this kind of line in the Shenji Hall, and I also know what this kind of line is for, because I remember that Xu Da's Shenji Hall ignited this kind of line, and the line ignited the gunpowder in the shell, and the shell killed countless beggars on the banks of the Pingjiang River.
Therefore, I suddenly understood what the Yuan people were going to do when they built a temple, they were going to send the Ming Sect to the Western Heavens.