Chapter 12 Chang'an
"Little thief, what's wrong with you?" Zhuge Yuxi walked to Zou Yang's side at some point and asked with concern
"It's okay, it's okay, it's just that I sighed for a while when I saw the world-famous Chang'an City. Let's go, let's go into the city and see what kind of scene this eight rivers surround Chang'an. Zou Yang took Zhuge Yuxi's little hand and was about to enter Chang'an City
"Hmph, you are a pervert, every time you do this, I will ignore you if you do this again" Zhuge Yuxi struggled to retract his hand, but he didn't expect that he didn't break free, and was held by Zou Yang
Zhuge Yuxi blushed shyly, slowly lowered his head, and glanced at the black-clothed people next to him. The man in black was originally looking at a young couple flirting with great interest, but suddenly saw Zhuge Yuxi turn around, and instantly stood straight one by one, looking ahead, expressionless and expressionless, showing professional ethics.
Zou Yang held Zhuge Yuxi's soft and boneless white and tender little hand, and his palms were dark and refreshing, looking at this flower-like beauty, that satisfaction, that beauty, indescribable, indescribable.
Following the flow of people, Zou Yang and others were about to enter the Yuxiang Gate of Chang'an City.
"Stop, do you understand the rules?" the soldier at the gate scolded
"Hmm, what rules?" Zou Yang asked strangely
"What rules? If you don't understand, let the people behind go first, you go back, wait, when you think clearly, come back. The soldier guarding the gate waved his hand impatiently to send Zou Yang away
"Nima, you don't tell me, how can I know any rules?" Zou Yang was about to ask clearly, but was pulled back by the ghost slave
"This little brother, our son-in-law is going out for the first time, and he doesn't know how to understand people's feelings, this is a little meaning, and the little brother should not be too strange. The ghost slave happily stuffed a dime of broken silver into the hands of the guards at the door, as the saying goes, this is the truth that little ghosts are difficult to deal with.
"Well, since it's the first time you go out, forget it this time, you go back and teach your master more, if you don't understand the rules, you'll suffer a big loss, go in!" The soldier guarding the gate stuffed the broken silver into his chest with his backhand, and Zou Yang's heart itched when he looked at it with a lesson on his face.
Passing through the Yuxiang Gate, the first to enter is an urn city, and after the urn city, you can hear the lively and extraordinary cries of selling.
The wide green boulder pavement, the clean and tidy, towering restaurants, the jugglers, the hawkers along the streets, and the dark-skinned doves selling dried furs, the bald and burly Great Khan, the tightly wrapped camel caravans, the people coming and going, and the uniformly patrolling soldiers, are very lively, showing the color of the empire.
"Hey, little thief, look at this, isn't it beautiful?" Zhuge Yuxi grabbed a beautifully carved wooden hairpin and drew it on his head, looking at Zou Yang in surprise
"Beautiful, my family Yuxi is beautiful with everything. Zou Yang admired vigorously, as if this wooden hairpin on Zhuge Yuxi's head could race over a fairy, although Zhuge Yuxi had changed into the appearance of a little woodcutter, but Zou Yang could understand, after all, this kind of demon is not easy to tolerate, and it must be a big trouble to walk on the road. Zou Yang led Zhuge Yuxi to look at it while walking, all kinds of clay figures, sugar sculptures, rouge, satin and puppets, and tightly caught the eyes of this couple. Zhuge Yuxi and Zou Yang both entered Chang'an City for the first time. The half-hour journey was taken three times as long by Zou Yang and Zhuge Yuxi to cross Vermilion Bird Street.
"Little boy, come on, our girl here is a must in the capital, you are satisfied. You are so handsome and dashing, and you have insulted your peerless demeanor with such a maid. Zou Yang followed Zhuge Yuxi and was about to go to Daxiong Tower, but was blocked by an old bustard in Yihong Mansion, this old bustard is about thirty years old, with heavy makeup, bare chest and breasts, a spray of gouache on the human head, between the laughter and flattering eyes, the waves are turbulent, and the rhythm of breaking through the ground.
"Amitabha, I was planning to go to the Western Regions, passing by your place, I should spend the night, and I will leave when I am done. Sister, you see which girl is free now, I just know some nine shallow and one deep, the old man's cart, Nezha's rough kung fu in the sea, just enough to learn from each other. Zou Yang stared straight at the bustard's turbulent waves
"Giggles, Childe is really funny, I didn't expect Childe to be a person who is also a person at the door of the flower bush and jade, the girls here in the slave family are all delicate and delicate, and they are good at understanding people's "clothes", and they are very good at kung fu, and they will forget to return to the jade gate, holding King Kong and soft. It's wonderful!" The old bustard deliberately pressed the words of his clothes very hard, and the surprise of meeting his bosom friend, the waves were about to press on Zou Yang's arm
"Shhh
Zou Yang was about to continue to talk to the bustard in detail, when he felt a heart-piercing pain in the inner side of his big arm, and almost shouted.
It turned out that Zhuge Yuxi had already been angry, angry, and tortured Zou Yang.
"Ah, hehe, this, that, Yu Xi, don't be angry, you know that I just came down the mountain and don't understand the world, and I don't know what this woman said, so I just want to find out, stop being angry, stop being angry. Zou Yang's face was not red, his heart was not beating, and he explained seriously.
"Hmph, you still don't understand the world, I see that you were born to be a pervert, even I know what kind of place this is, can you not understand?" Zhuge Yuxi said as he said with a red face and willow eyebrows
"This female benefactor, the Buddha said, color is emptiness, emptiness is color, emptiness ** emptiness. As the saying goes, there is no self, no one is like no being, pink skeletons are white flesh and bones. What do you say is understanding people's "clothes", kung fu is good, you enter the jade gate and forget to return, holding King Kong and soft. It's wonderful, Xiaodao doesn't understand it very much, Xiaodao is dedicated to the Buddha, just to explore the philosophy of heaven and man, and has never had other ideas, I'm really sorry, don't bother. Farewell" Zou Yang immediately put away his laughter, and arched his hand solemnly
"Little boy, little boy, hey! It's a pity that my Mei Niang rarely met such a funny and confidant little brother, and he missed it so much, it's a pity!" The old bustard looked at Zou Yang and Zhuge Yuxi's backs who were leaving in a hurry, and stomped his feet and complained
The rolling red dust is the imperial capital, and the city of the people is a city for a long time.
Along the way, Zhuge Yuxi didn't say a word to Zou Yang with a cold face, and Zou Yang, who was harmful, said all the good things and felt annoyed in his heart, regretting not saying a few words to the old bustard at the beginning. It seems that no matter the past or present life, the jealous nature of girls has always been unabated.
"Yu Xi Yu Xi, let me tell you something, when I was a child in a private school, one day I was studying, and I wanted my classmates to be ugly, so I pasted a piece of paper behind him, and a pig was drawn on the paper. There was a very fat girl at the back table, and the fat girl laughed violently when she saw it, and the more she laughed, the louder she laughed, and her classmates asked her why she was laughing. Zou Yang sold Guan Zi and preached to Zhuge Yuxi seriously
Zhuge Yuxi was puzzled, but he didn't want to spare Zou Yang so easily, so he didn't say a word and walked straight forward.
The fat girl laughed and pointed to her classmate and said, "There's a pig ...... behind you." Zou Yang saw that Zhuge Yuxi was silent, and he was not in a hurry. After a pause, he continued
"Poof, you're a bad person, you know how to bully me. Let you be bad, let you be bad, let you go to that kind of place!" A burst of pink fists smashed on Zou Yang's chest, and Zhuge Yuxi's tense pretty face finally changed.
Zou Yang knew that Zhuge Yuxi was not so angry anymore, so he struck while the iron was hot and told some interesting stories and anecdotes from his previous life, which made Zhuge Yuxi giggle.
"Yu Xi, where are we going now? This capital is too big! My legs are all hairy!" Zou Yang said complainingly.
"Little thief, then let's go to Lingyuan Temple to see how about it? By the way, where to rest, the scenery there is also a must, and there are peonies famous all over the world, you must not miss it for the first time!" Zhuge Yuxi introduced Zou Yang excitedly.
I'm not interested, Zou Yang is not a vassal and elegant person. Scholars chanting poems, appreciating flowers and teasing birds, and walking horses and dogs are simply boring for Zou Yang. But in the face of Zhuge Yuxi, Zou Yang still didn't want to ruin her interest.
"Okay, what's the difference with this Lingyuan Temple? Could it be that the general altar of Buddhism is not successful?" Zou Yang wondered
"Lingyuan Temple, the world's first Buddhist temple. It is also the largest temple in Chang'an, with three hundred and twenty-one Buddha bone relics, and it is worshiped as a national temple. When the king of Ming first set the world, encountered a great drought once in a hundred years, and was at a loss, an old minister suggested to go to Lingyuan Temple to pray for rain. King Ming originally did not believe in ghosts and gods, but he couldn't find a solution for a while, so he should go to Lingyuan Temple to pray for rain in response to the old minister, after three worships, the result was really effective, the heavy rain poured, covering the entire Ming Dynasty, it fell for three hours, and the drought was suddenly alleviated. This is not counting, after the heavy rain pours, the whole Lingyuan Temple instantly outside the temple is full of peonies for a moment, the Ming King was shocked, and he issued a holy decree to seal the Lingyuan Temple as a national temple, reward 100 acres of fertile land, and overhaul the temple. Every year, there will be this generation of Ming kings to worship and pray for blessings to ensure the prosperity and health of the Ming Dynasty. The more Zhuge Yuxi spoke, the more excited he became, and a sense of pride arose. It is no wonder that in this feudal and superstitious ancient period, the understanding of science was very superficial, and the unexplainable things could only be replaced by gods.
"It's so amazing, it must be extraordinary, let's go see it now?" Zou Yang was also curious for a while, anything strange would provoke people to find out, and Zou Yang was no exception.
Zou Yang and Zhuge Yuxi rented a carriage and drove quickly on the bluestone street, and after about half an hour, they saw a magnificent* temple standing on the ground.
Imperial wall vermilion, red bricks and blue tiles, dozens of hundred-year-old trees surround it, the eaves are upturned upwards and outwards, glazed tile decorations, the main ridge, vertical ridge, eaves corner of the roof of the building are placed with a variety of glazed tile decorations, such as the big kiss at the intersection of the ridge and the vertical ridge, because it has the tendency of opening its teeth and dancing claws to swallow the positive ridge, so it is also called "swallowing the spine beast".
Called the owl's tail, the owl is a whale in the sea, the Buddhist scriptures say that it is the seat of the rain god, can extinguish the fire, so the fish shape is made to win with disgust. A group of interesting small beasts is often arranged on the corner of the eaves, led by an immortal riding a phoenix, followed by a dragon and phoenix, a lion, a heavenly horse, a seahorse, a cunning, a fish, a slack pig, a bullfight, and a walk.
These small beasts are either symbolic of auspiciousness and stability, capable of extinguishing fires and eliminating disasters, or the embodiment of justice and fairness, which can cut off evil.
These small beasts, which are exquisitely shaped and have different expressions, are highly ornamental, and "make the actual parts, which are extremely uninteresting and clumsy, a beautiful crown of the whole building".
The pilgrims who come and go are like weaving, and the good men and women are as many as the carp crossing the river, and the incense is flourishing, and the excitement is extraordinary. Outside the temple, five steps and a stall and ten steps stand, neatly and uniformly measure the word and solve the fortune telling, rouge gouache spices, incense candles and seasonal melons and fruits are not lively.
"This Lingyuan Temple is so lively, it really deserves to be the first national temple" Zou Yang saw that the Lingyuan Temple covering such a large area, the architecture was magical, and the trees and temples were skillfully combined and integrated.
"Of course, let's go, thief, let's go in now, there will be more people at noon. Zhuge Yuxi pulled Zou Yang's clothes and walked to the temple, showing the girl's liveliness and youthful beauty.
The environment of Lingyuan Temple is unique, and the peony blooms in early spring, which is really a great wonder. Fang Yi entered the garden,
There is a strong fragrance wafting by, and thousands of peonies are blooming in front of you, layer upon layer, dazzling.
Overwhelmed. Peony is the king of flowers, the flowers are bright, colorful and blooming, red, yellow,
White, pink, squeezed together, sometimes colorful, like a fairy soaring clouds, sometimes shy, like a fair lady.
The golden crown is black and jade, the silver and red are skillful, the competition is gorgeous, and the demeanor is all right. It was charming for a while, and even Zou Yang, who didn't like flowers and birds very much, was dazzled and amazed.
"Brother Liu Yuan, can you look at the peony of Lingyuan Temple and be the number one flower king in the world?" A young scholar dressed in white, with a scarf tied in his hair, a white face and a folding fan, slowly swayed to another man wearing simple clothes, wearing a golden hairpin, and sword eyebrows.
"What does Brother Wen Zheng think?" The man in simple clothes, wearing a golden hairpin on his head, and starry eyes with sword eyebrows asked rhetorically.
"Brother Liu Yuan, one million households in Chang'an, who doesn't like peonies, and enshrines peonies as the national flower, which everyone loves and supports. The man in white shook his head and held his chest high, and his pride was overflowing.
"A cluster of national flowers, ten households are endowed with people, every family is customary, and everyone is obsessed with enlightenment. The man in simple clothes lamented, an indescribable sadness floating on his face.
"Good poetry, good poetry, Brother Liu Yuan is talented, it is a great blessing that such an amazing work has been seen by our own eyes. For this masterpiece, I should float a big cup, and today I will invite you to a gathering of fellow students in the drunken immortal building, how about it?" The man in white folded the fan in the wind and silently read this poem, constantly patting the palm of his left hand, and said loudly to the surroundings with great joy
"Okay, good, good, Brother Wen Zheng is the east today, and we will rest as soon as we get drunk. The crowd chimed in
"Go, I won't go. The man in simple clothes responded
Zou Yang and Zhuge Yuxi happened to pass by, and when they heard the dialogue, Zhuge Yuxi nodded frequently, saying that the simple man was good at poetry and writing. Zou Yang, who was provoked, pouted.
"Looks ugly like an ape demon, and has short arms and is not good. The white-clothed young man who happened to see Zou Yang pursing his lips angrily sneered.
"Hmm, Nima, what's the situation, who did Lao Tzu recruit and provoke whom?" Zou Yang was not a fool, and instantly knew that this person laughed at his ugly appearance
"Useless is a scholar. Hearing Zou Yang being ridiculed, Zhuge Yuxi angrily shot back at the young man in white.
"Yo, laughing at a pair of tigers, ugly and ugly. The young man in white looked at Zhuge Yuxi and Zou Yangdao with contempt
"Brother Wen Zheng, why do you say this, this little brother and girl have no grievances with you, why bother to ridicule them. The man in simple clothes pulled the young man in white and said with a displeased expression
"Brother Liu Yuan, you and I are both from rich and noble families, and the peddlers and pawns are as cheap as dogs. You have repeatedly rebuked, why do you break up with us for the sake of irrelevant people?" said to the man in simple clothes with a warm face
"All beings are equal, how can we say that the poor and the rich are rich. If Brother Wen Zheng thinks that Liu is mediocre and boring, he doesn't have to deal with it. The man in simple clothes waved his sleeves and said indignantly
"Hmph, Liu Yuanqing, it's really hard for me to be a Jin someone. Look at how talented you are, don't overestimate yourself too much, in the eyes of someone in my Jin, the Liu family is something. What's the difference between pinching you to death and stepping on an ant? The young man in white opened the folding fan and shook it lightly to his chest and sneered
"You, hum!" The man in simple clothes was photographed by the young man in white, afraid of affecting the family, but he didn't want to bow his head and wait for the bully, so he snorted coldly.
"Go quickly. The man in simple clothes apologized to Zou Yang
"Hehe, Yuxi, let's go. Zou Yang nodded appreciatively to the man in simple clothes, and then pulled Zhuge Yuxi to leave.
"Where to go, did I say let you go?" the young man in white snorted coldly and scolded Zou Yang Zhuge Yuxi.
"Yo Yo, Yu Xi, don't be worried about the dog barking, Teng Zhijin, play horse monkey. Looking at Zhuge Yuxi's imminent anger, Zou Yang touched Zhuge Yuxi's head and comforted
"Hehe, yes, the dog bites us, can we still bite the dog in the opposite direction? The difference between humans and beasts is that people are rational, and well-dressed beasts are always beasts, aren't they?
"If you are a man, don't hide under a woman's skirt, it's disgusting, it's not a husband's doing. Jin Wenzheng pointed at Zou Yang with a blue face and scolded
"I don't need you to prove whether I'm a man or not, I don't think I'm necessarily a man, you're too confident in your gender. Zou Yang was not to be outdone
"Okay, good, cheap dog scholar worships Guanyin. Jin Wen said three good words in a row
"Bai Feng disturbs Jin Wenzheng. You still dare to show off this bit of ink, I really don't know where your confidence comes from. What's the matter? I'm out of the upper link, you can take a look at the next link. Zou Yang said lightly
"Well, I will show you today what the gap between the rich and the poor and the illiterate is. Jin Wenzheng straightened his waist and said with an arrogant face.
"The city is full of flowers and the capital is full of flowers, let's come to the next couplet. "Zou Yang's pair is exactly in reverse order, all of them mean one sentence, and the difficulty coefficient is not low.
"Ugh!"
Jin Wenzheng's old face turned red and he couldn't answer for a while, and the fox friends on the side scratched their ears and thought hard. Only Liu Yuanqing smiled faintly and smiled confidently.
"Yu Xi, let's go, some people, they boast of elegance but can't afford these two words, it's really sad. As the saying goes, a sharp mouth with thick skin and a hollow belly is the person who describes this kind of person, are you right?" Zou Yang looked at Jin Wenzheng's annoyed and angry face, and quipped Zhuge Yuxi