Chapter 12 One Tael of Silver
This time, it's definitely not a hallucination, it's not lewdness, it's not a psychological effect!
He was sure that something wonderful had happened.
For a moment, he suddenly became a little excited.
With a pop of the pungent oil lamp, he took a deep breath, closed his eyes, straightened his mind, and forced his mind to settle down again, and after a long time, he reopened his eyes and looked at the half-written Diamond Sutra in front of him.
The black rumbling was so hard that I couldn't see anything clearly.
Unwilling, but not discouraged, he closed his eyes again to make himself quieter, and it took a long time before he opened them again—still unable to see clearly.
After a while, he came to his senses, lit the oil lamp again, and found that the ink was not enough, so he re-studied the ink, and then took a deep breath, found the word that had just been broken, and recited it silently and copied it again.
The attitude is cautious, and the face is solemn.
However, the miraculous state he was looking forward to just now never came.
When he had finally finished writing the large piece of paper, he went back and checked it again to make sure that there were no typos, and blew it carefully, putting it away, and his body did not feel very tired, but his eyes had already made the oil lamp a little sour.
Zhou Ang was uncontrollably disappointed in his heart.
Obviously, the state just now is not what I want, it will come.
But there is still one last piece of paper left, and there are only a few hundred words left, and of course it must be copied.
After thinking about it, Zhou Ang shook his head helplessly, listened attentively, there was no movement in the courtyard of the room, and his mother and sister had already slept.
So he took the sixth piece of paper, flattened it, pressed the paperweight, and began to copy it earnestly.
He was sure that the wonderful feeling would come when he was serious about doing tai chi, and he was also sure that when he was serious about copying the scriptures, that feeling would come too.
It's just that the feeling comes very slowly, and it's completely up to you.
So he decided to wait until tomorrow dawn, and then through Tai Chi and copying scriptures, to conduct all kinds of experiments, to find a way to get that state out as soon as possible - he knew that there must be some kind of law in this, but he had not yet mastered it.
Once mastered, that state will come easier and easier.
It's just that tonight isn't the right time to continue trying. First, it was already late, and it was expensive and eye-smoking to light an oil lamp to copy, and second, I had to get up early tomorrow to continue looking for someone.
So he gathered his mind and recited and copied it carefully—there were still a few hundred words left, but without the blessing of the state just now, he naturally had to be as serious as he was at the beginning.
If you make a mistake, you will waste a whole piece of paper.
Strange to say, he didn't think about this matter in his heart, and forced himself to devote all his mind to copying the scriptures, but that strange feeling suddenly came again at a certain moment!
That is, the work of two pages of scriptures and more than 100 words, unconsciously, Zhou Ang felt that his hand speed was faster, and the speed of reading, reciting, copying, and licking ink was unconsciously faster.
In that state, Zhou Ang immediately noticed: that feeling is back!
So he copied the entire book with great speed.
The moment he put down the pen, he subconsciously rubbed his eyes - despite the blessing of that state, the oil lamp still smelled smoky and hurt his eyes.
But it's all a small thing.
Zhou Ang looked at his achievements with a happy face, and he sighed that the fifty yuan had been received like this, and he couldn't help but be amazed at the state he was in just now.
At this time, he naturally understood: a calm mind and no distractions are the key to entering that state.
Perhaps, exercise and reading can calm people's minds?
He wasn't sure.
He just knew that he seemed to suddenly push open a door.
Although he didn't know what was behind the door, and he didn't know why there was such a door, such a mysterious and mysterious experience made him want to continue to explore.
However, he was a man of self-control, and he really did not want the oil lamp to continue to smoke his eyes, so after admiring his work again, he carefully put away the whole manuscript of the Diamond Sutra in order, washed it out, and put the rest of the paper together, and then turned over to bed, blew out the oil lamp, and decided to continue exploring these mysteries tomorrow.
However, that night, he actually lost sleep.
When he got up the next morning, his eyes were red, and the whole person seemed very unenergetic, until he washed up, stood in the yard with the first ray of sunlight and punched several times seriously, allowing the thousands of pores on Zhou's body to open, and the cool breeze drilled into his body, he felt a lot more energetic.
What he had to do this morning was still to find someone.
It's just that today he decided to give up Sogo Fang and Guangshou Fang for the time being.
He first went to a famous local temple called Tianying Temple, which was located next to the square.
Lingzhou is a big city, inside and outside the city, the temple Taoist temple is a lot, the big is like Baoguo Temple, occupies most of the ground of the square, it is said that there are hundreds of monks in the temple, the daily pilgrims are like clouds, the small is like Tianying Temple, the main hall, the Zen room is added together, there are only three courtyards, the monks who practice here, but a dozen people.
Zhou Ang had no intention of worshipping the Buddha, neither burning incense nor making wishes, so he just regarded himself as a sightseer, entered the temple gate, politely walked around, chatted with the monk of the guest for a few words, and inquired sideways, and deliberately showed a lack of interest, and said goodbye. The monks there also seemed to be uninteresting and not enthusiastic.
I went to the second one, which is a Taoist temple called Qingyun Temple.
The scale here is not large, but when the Taoist saw Zhou Ang entering the door, he seemed quite enthusiastic, and he was very good at observing words and feelings, and found that Zhou Ang led the topic to the strange force, and immediately sold the secret talisman.
Suppressing evil spirits, exorcising demons, protecting the house, gathering blessings...... His family's talismans are extremely useful and powerful.
Zhou Ang looked very interested and asked what the price was.
The Taoist priest groaned slightly, he should have observed Zhou Ang's clothes and complexion, and then said that talisman making must be powerful and consume mana, so it ...... One tael of silver and one charm.
In the Datang national system, copper coins are the basic monetary unit, one is called one wen, and one thousand wen is consistent. Gold and silver are precious metals, in fact, they were not originally in the currency system, but with the establishment of the country for a long time and the development of commerce, only copper coins were used as currency, which was too heavy and difficult to carry, so silver began to enter the monetary system.
Until a few decades ago, even the imperial court recognized silver as the official currency, and marked a tael of silver to be exchanged for money. But in fact, silver is a precious metal after all, it is a scarce thing, and the probability of ordinary people using silver is too low.
But they love silver not only because it is easy to carry and trade, but also because they like to collect.
All wealthy families have a number of silver ingots hidden in their homes, which is the foundation of luxury. The richest big merchants even like to make their own molds and cast their own silver ingots to collect.
Silver was originally lacking, so that the market became more and more expensive and cheap, one or two silver can be exchanged for a thousand Wen, implemented for a few years, even the government can not bear it, can only let the price of money fall by itself, until it has fallen to a tael of silver to about 1,200 Wen, only to basically stabilize, until now, according to the memory in Zhou Ang's mind, one or two silver on the market, about 1,250 copper coins can be easily exchanged.
Zhou Ang obviously didn't have that much money.
He has never seen what silver looks like until now!
So in the face of the person's expectant eyes, he couldn't help but smile dumbly, shook his head, waved his hand, looked very disappointed, and said: "You can buy one for one or two silver, how can it be true!"
After saying that, he left with a frustrated face.