Chapter Twenty-Eight: Interesting Reading
Zhou Ang kept a smile on his face and walked into the main hall.
From the moment he walked into the courtyard, Lu Duan, the former prime minister, kept looking at him with a smile on his face.
Walking into the main hall and putting a hug of books in his arms on the bookcase at the door of the main hall, Zhou Ang smiled and bowed and saluted, singing a fat promise, "Zhou Ang has seen Mr."
This salute was quite heavy, but Lu Duan did not avoid it, but sat calmly and accepted Zhou Ang's salute.
He smiled and asked, "How many times have you read it?"
Zhou Ang said frankly: "Three times." A rough reading, a intensive reading, a fun reading. ”
"Oh, what do you mean by fun reading?"
"For example, when I read the section of Emperor Wu's horse stepping on the temple, I can't help but think: Before the emperors of the Han Dynasty, they paid more respect to the temple, and they thought that this temple should be very powerful, so Mingzu, Taizu, Emperor Wen and other emperors entered the temple, all dressed in white, out, and overjoyed, why did Emperor Wu become so arrogant for a while?"
"Could it be that when he arrived at Emperor Wu, not only did he step on the temple, but he also brought a helper who hugged him from front to back? Otherwise, who would write down the so-called 'left arrows' and 'dare not speak'?"
"Thinking about it, I thought that there were only two possible ......"
"First, this should be made up by the people who wrote history, just flattery, and second, it was bragged by Emperor Wu himself after he went down the mountain. Combined with the life of Emperor Wu, although his ability is great, he can't help but be overjoyed! Therefore, in his later life, he thought that it should be Emperor Wu himself who boasted that it was more likely to be greater. ”
Lu Duan laughed when he heard this.
"It's interesting!"
After laughing, he paused for a moment and said, "Listening to Zhou Sheng's words, I can't help but think of some interesting things more than forty years ago, when I was old and young. Young people, exalting words, dung princes, this is a matter of course!"
After a pause, he smiled, leaned forward, smiled, and whispered: "I also think Emperor Wu is bragging!"
Zhou Ang couldn't help but laugh along.
In the laughter of the old man and the young man, the old servant of the courtyard came in with a kettle, his face was blank, and he interrupted abruptly: "Does the old man add water?"
Lu Duan had no displeasure on his face, waved his hand, but raised his voice again, and said, "Go and make a pot of good tea for Zhou Sheng!"
"Huh?" the old servant tilted his ears, suspicious.
Lu Duan roared, full of anger, "Make a pot of good tea!"
"No!"
The old servant staggered away.
Lu Duan had a smile on his face and said, "Good! I heard that Zhou Sheng was so interested in reading, and I knew that he was a real reader." Read it three times, but do you have any doubts?"
"Yes. A lot. ”
"One by one!"
"What the hell is a temple?"
"I don't know. ”
After a pause, Lu Duan put away his smile and said with a straight face: "Is the temple a temple?a sect?or something else?
Speaking of this, he sighed and said, "In the world today, there is one of the things I am most curious about, which is exactly what Fang Zhou Sheng asked. The records of the temple are very early, initially scattered in the pre-Qin notes, the book of Zhiwei, to the "Book of Qin", still a few common, before and after, about 2,000 years old. ”
"Until Emperor Wu's horse stepped on the temple, the temple suddenly disappeared without a trace. There is a lot of speculation in history. There are doubts that Emperor Wu really destroyed the temple, and there are also doubts that the temple has disappeared and is hidden in the extreme of heaven and earth, and some people speculate that Emperor Wu himself was born in the temple, and later although the temple disappeared, the inheritance of the temple was transferred to the Liu family of the Han Dynasty. Until today. ”
"More than 2,000 years old, the history books of the past dynasties have mentioned the temple no less than hundreds of times, but as long as it is mentioned, there must only be the word 'temple'. Is there anyone in the temple? What kind of people? Is the temple called for generations, or is there really such a place? How powerful is it that they have never been cut off for two thousand years, and they have always been at risk for the safety of the world? But why did Emperor Wu disappear and never heard of it?"
"No solution!
It happened that the old servant came in with a tea tray tremblingly, put it down and left, took two steps, thought it was wrong, turned around and poured tea for the two of them, Lu Duan looked at his trembling hands, waited for him to pour the tea, and walked away after giving the salute, and then asked again: "Zhou Sheng still has any doubts, and come!"
Zhou Ang thought for a while and asked: "The nine emperors contained in the Book of Han, Fan 204 years, careful calculation, Emperor Liu was extremely long-lived, Emperor Wu held the throne for 38 years, only ranked second, why did Emperor Wen, Emperor Hui, and Emperor Zhao have short lives?"
When Lu Duan heard this, he immediately said: "These three emperors don't practice. ”
Zhou Ang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he asked, "Cultivation can prolong life?"
Lu Duan shook his head, "No, no! Cultivation can only strengthen the body." ”
That is to say, although the cultivator is much more powerful than ordinary people, he still has not jumped out of the shackles of a hundred years of life - this is consistent with Uncle Zheng Huan's original statement.
Zhou Ang was a little disappointed, but he didn't feel disappointed.
Immortality has the benefits of longevity, but life is 100 years old, and when you know that it has an end, you can realize the preciousness of every inch of time.
After thinking about it, he asked again: "Is there a person in the world who lives 600 years old?
Lu Duan was silent for a long time when he heard this, and said, "I don't know. ”
Zhou Ang was surprised.
Lu Duan thought for a while and said: "Zhou Sheng knows that I have been the prime minister for a few years, but even if I am the prime minister, I can know the things that only two or three people in the world can know, but I have never heard of a person in the world who lives for 600 years, let alone a thousand years old!"
"Ran......" he groaned, and was silent for a long time, and then said: "The world is so big, there are no wonders, the law is so profound, no one can fathom it, and the Tao is so vast that who can know it?"
"Therefore, if you ask me that there are 600 years old in the world, and there are 1,000 years old, you can only tell you, I don't know. I haven't seen it, I haven't heard of it. ”
Zhou Ang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and thought to himself: Even Lu Duan, the former prime minister, has never seen or heard of such a long-lived true immortal in this world, it seems that the story he made up a few days ago has been stabilized!
If you don't believe me, go ask Huang Shigong!
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Who is Cheng Yuan, and is the spell very powerful?
What kind of book is "Chronicles of Mountains and Seas"?
Did the institution of Taizhu Temple originate in the Later Qin Emperor Gong, that is, during the reign of Han Mingzu?
In the 204 years of history recorded in the Book of Han, among the nine real emperors before and after, except for Emperor Wen, Emperor Hui and Emperor Zhao, the remaining six were all practitioners?
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Discuss history on history.
Zhou Ang knew very well the proportions of his questions.
So the old man and the young talked happily.
Zhou Ang read ten volumes, accumulated questions, and questions derived from the questions, one by one, Lu Duan either answered immediately, or pointed to the first few books on a certain shelf and a certain layer on the shelf, ordered Zhou Ang to take them on the spot, and told him to take them back and read them himself.
Or, he simply said that he didn't know either.
A pot of tea was filled with water three times, and by the end it had lost its color.
Seeing that it was already noon, in addition to the books specially mentioned by Lu Duan, Zhou Ang hugged the eleventh to twentieth volumes of the "Book of Han" and walked over the wall contentedly.
When he left, he didn't see the big black cat again.
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It only took four days for Guo Yuan to get the horse that Zhou Ang wanted to buy.
On this morning, Zhou Ang was studying at home, and Lu Chunsheng came in to pay his respects, saying that someone from the yamen was looking for him. Zhou Ang went out to take a look, and when he saw Guo Yuan standing outside the door with a horse, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
The best Hexi stallion, tall, mainly yellow-brown, on the back and rump, with patches of jujube red hair, looking at the horse's teeth, is a five-year-old adult horse, in the prime of life, there should be many years of peak in the future.
It costs forty taels of silver.
And it comes with a complete set of saddle sheaths, horse chews, etc.
If you buy it alone, this set of things alone is worth a lot of money. In particular, although this set of saddle sheath is not brand new, it is known to be superior at a glance at the materials.
The only problem with it is that the inside of the horse's left ear is permed with a special symbol.
This kind of symbol has been seen by Zhou Ang on the waist plate he distributed, on the ears of the horses in the yamen, and even on the seals used for ordinary official documents in the yamen.
In other words, although I don't know where it came from, this horse is definitely undoubtedly an "old horse" or "injured horse" that has been "eliminated" by official cultivators.
It may even have died in official documents.
Zhou Ang didn't understand Soma, and after a cursory look, he was very satisfied, so he handed the reins to Lu Chunsheng, who came out.
When handing over, Zhou Ang noticed that although the horse was a stallion in the prime of life, and it had not been castrated, but its temperament did not seem to be irritable, and it looked very tame.
Seeing Zhou Ang's satisfied face, Guo Yuan smiled and said: "Don't hide it from Clerk Zhou, this horse has already been 'killed in battle'! Originally, for the sake of the official, you don't want this kind of lowly position." 'Hurting the horse' is more suitable, the origin is innocent, and it will not cause trouble in the future. But when he went to see the horse, he fell in love with the tameness of the horse at a glance. In the humble position, since the official bought this horse, it must not be his daily ride. If it is used to pull the car, it must be the female dependents of the house, and the horse is too dry. Therefore, I cut the price fiercely, and I decided on this horse!"
Speaking of this, he added: "However, if the officials don't like it, it's okay, I'll take it back and choose another horse for the officials." ”
Zhou Ang laughed when he heard this, thinking that this Guo Yuan was really a good person, and even such subtleties were so thoughtful, it was really no wonder that his black market business could be so prosperous in the world of a group of cultivators.
At this time, he turned his head to look at Lu Chunsheng, and saw that his eyes had already lit up, and he circled around the horse, and he looked very gentle when he patted and stroked his hands, and Zhou Ang didn't ask him, so he said directly: "No need, it's this horse! The price of forty taels of silver is my confession! The money will go to you tomorrow!"
thought it was logical, but who knew that Guo Yuan, who was extremely shrewd in Zhou Ang's opinion, was stunned when he heard about "tomorrow" and said, "That's not possible!"
After a pause, seeing Zhou Ang coming over with some surprise, he quickly bent down again, smiled and said, "Don't hide it from Clerk Zhou, we pay attention to money in this business, and we don't owe it on credit!"
Zhou Ang was stunned for a moment and laughed.
After the two shifts, ask for a few monthly passes!
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