490 The beginning of the journey to the west

ps: Today's chapter, I'm afraid it's a chapter this week, .⊙ said at the top,.. The deciduous hometown is rural, although it is not a big deal. There are so many people in China, and which one of the three generations did not come out of the countryside.

Pingxin owes his body, "Daozun walks slowly, Pingxin needs to guard the six reincarnations, and it is inconvenient to send it far away." ”

Xue Xi'e bowed slightly, "Well, it's okay." You still pay a little more attention to the things that people have told you before. Although we sisters can look down on the slightest movement in the heavens and the earth, we can't pay attention to it all the time. When the heavens and the earth change greatly, you will separate the netherworld from the desolate world, and you will definitely protect the six realms of reincarnation. ”

"Follow the instructions of the Dao Venerable and know what to do with peace of mind. ”

"Hehe, you do things, I don't worry. Xue Xi patted Pingxin's shoulder, "There's not much nonsense, so you don't have to think I'm verbose, see you later." ”

The light and shadow are like white horses passing through the gap, and in the blink of an eye, it is more than 60 years. After more than 500 years, Xuexi and they returned to Chang'an City again. Five hundred years of ups and downs, Chang'an City has not changed. The old shadows of 500 years ago overlap with the close-up of today, as if depicting a ukiyo-e with a confusion of light and shadow. It's just that the city is still the same city, but the people are no longer those people, after all, it is already five hundred years later.

Today's emperor of the Tang Dynasty is Taizong Li Shimin, whose country name is Zhenguan, and has been on the throne for thirteen years.

On the morning of this day, Prime Minister Wei Zheng came out of the class and said, "Your Majesty, when the four seas are peaceful and the eight directions are quiet, Your Majesty should follow the ancient law, open a selection field, recruit wise men, and promote talents to capitalize on science." ”

The Tang Dynasty has a history of nearly 1,000 years, and now is the time when the national strength is the strongest. It is just to show kindness and promote the prestige of the country.

Li Shimin immediately played the award, and immediately promulgated the imperial list, and every state and county in the Tang Dynasty posted the list. However, in Haizhou, there is a bachelor named Chen Cao, whose expression is Guangrui. I was overjoyed when I saw the emperor's list.

This Chen Guangrui has poetry and calligraphy in his belly, but unfortunately his luck is not good, and he fails to pass the exam every year. This time, the emperor's grace was immense, and Chen Guangrui felt that it was the time for him to show his talents. He immediately went home, packed up his softness, said goodbye to his mother, and rushed to Chang'an alone to take the exam.

And this Chen Guangrui is indeed running at the right time, and he became the champion in one fell swoop, for a while. The scenery is immeasurable. When he was traveling across the street, he was hit by Prime Minister Yin Kaishan's daughter Yin Wenjiao, nicknamed the red hydrangea full of Jiao.

This God-given marriage, a pair of wonderful people set up in the ground are now married to each other. The four joys of life, when the title of the gold list is titled, the candle night in the cave room is already all two, and it is really a double happiness.

"Chen Guangrui, this guy is also a three-day blessing. "The east gate is not far from the upstairs. Bai Xuan, Xue Xi and Ta Xue looked through the window at Chen Guangrui who was about to leave the city gate and his new wife Mantangjiao.

"Still. He was an important pawn in the spread of Buddhism. Xue Xi took a sip of wine and said with a smile, "A mere mortal can be calculated by the gods and Buddhas of the heavens, and it is also his blessing." ”

Chen Guangrui and his entourage went out of the city gate. first went back to Haizhou's home, and then went straight to Jiangzhou to take up his post. Unexpectedly, this time, he was trapped at the bottom of the river for decades, and his wife was separated for a few years.

It's almost time to reach the boundary of the Hongjiang River. Chen Guangrui's old mother had to stay in Hongjiang because of the hot weather, and Chen Guangrui and Na Mantang Jiao were beaten into the water by thieves when they crossed the Hongjiang River, and they took away their identities, and even had wives and children.

These bad things, don't Bai Xuan look boring, even Xue Xi is not very interested.

Xue Xi and Bai Xuan set up a cloth village in Chang'an and started business again. The location of the cloth village is not bad, facing the street in front and along the river in the back, Xuexi simply transformed the cloth village into a teahouse. The decoration is more elegant, and by the way, the interior is repainted, and the whole teahouse will be completely new in a few days.

The only flaw is the plaque and couplet outside the door. The name of the teahouse is called Qingxin, Qingxin Teahouse, the two words of Qingxin are beautiful, meaningful, and make people's eyes shine, as if the heart is really calm, and you will know that it comes from everyone's hands at a glance.

But the word teahouse in the back is a little unsightly. Crooked and twisted, the thickness of the strokes is not the same, just like the naughty work of a naughty child. These two styles are put together, how awkward it looks.

Then the door link, the upper link is "a few people in the world are idle, ask who to treat with a cup of tea, and spend half a day", and the lower link is "a big immortal in the hole, there is a pool of lotus to recruit me, to prove three lives".

The couplets are to the point, and they are a bit brilliant, but the words are still a problem.

The word of the lower link, heroic atmosphere, there is a kind of world big, who else is contained in it, especially the fairy word, which is extraordinarily spiritual, but the upper link is not good, the handwriting is the same as the word teahouse, obviously from the same person's hand. Of course, this person is stepping on the snow, it's not that she can't write it well, it's just that she deliberately wrote it like this. The word Qingxin comes from Xuexi, and the next link is naturally Bai Xuan's handwriting.

This bizarre teahouse quickly attracted a lot of people. Chang'an City was originally the political and cultural center of the Tang Dynasty, and there were countless talented and beautiful people here, and naturally there were more people who liked to be vassals and elegant. Xuexi, the first day of the opening of the Qingxin Teahouse, had a lot of business.

Although the plaque at the door and the opposite side are criticized, the tea here has to be a must. In this way, it spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and Xuexi's teahouse quickly became famous. A teahouse is not a restaurant, no matter how famous it is, the number of people who really come is actually limited. Xuexi didn't invite a buddy, they were the boss's wife, a buddy, a bookkeeper, and a tea maker.

Unconsciously over the years, Jiangzhou's Mantangjiao gave birth to a baby boy, and for fear of being killed by thieves, he deliberately put the baby boy into a wooden basin and flowed down the river. The water flow is turbulent, and the wooden basin is in danger of overturning from time to time, but unexpectedly, a white lotus is born out of thin air, holding up the wooden basin and protecting the wooden basin. The wooden basin floated to the foot of Jinshan Temple. The presiding Dharma name of Jinshan Temple is Fa Ming, and he is a monk with true cultivation.

On this day, Fa Ming was meditating and participating in meditation, when he suddenly felt that his consciousness was shaking and he couldn't help himself. Frightened, he hurriedly calculated, but it turned out that there was a great source of blessing coming, and it happened that he heard a cry at this time.

Fa Ming immediately realized that this person with a great source of blessings must be the one who wept profusely. Fa Ming heard the cry coming from the river, so he immediately led someone to salvage the baby boy. The baby boy didn't cry when he saw the stranger, but only looked at Fa Ming with a smile. Fa Ming saw that there was a blood letter on the baby boy's body, and after reading it, he immediately understood the reason. Fa Ming named the baby boy Jiang Liu. Adopted in the Jinshan Temple, I didn't realize it for eighteen years.

Jiang Liu, who grew up in Jinshan Temple, cut his hair and became a monk at the age of eighteen, officially joined Jinshan Temple, received the degree, and was given the Dharma name Xuanzang. One day, Xuanzang talked about Buddhism with other monks. Xuanzang was exposed to it from his ears and eyes. He has an amazing understanding of the Dharma.

Those wine and meat monks couldn't debate, and they were angry in their hearts, so they scolded, "You karmic animal, you don't know your name, and your parents don't know you, what the hell are you doing here?"

When Xuanzang heard this, he found Fa Ming and cried about it. Fa Ming felt that the time had come, and returned the blood letter and clothes he picked up from Xuanzang back then to Xuanzang. Xuanzang take a look. Suddenly everything was clear.

"The enmity of parents, can't be revenged, how can it be a human being?" Xuanzang cried, "For eighteen years, I didn't know my biological parents, and I only know that I have a mother today." If it weren't for the master's rescue and support, the disciple would have gone to find his mother today, and then put his head in an incense pot. Rebuild the temple and repay the Master's deep kindness!"

Fa Ming agreed. "When you go to find your mother, you can take this blood book and sweatshirt with you, only to make a fate, and go straight to Jiangzhou to meet your mother. ”

Xuanzang said goodbye to his teacher and put away the blood book and sweatshirt. All the way to Jiangzhou. When I arrived in Jiangzhou, I acted according to the plan, and sure enough, I recognized my mother and complained to each other, which was a touching scene.

An eighteen-year feud has finally come to an end. Chen Xuanzang will continue to be his own monk. Chen Guangrui and Mantang Jiao's persuasion was useless, so they had to send Xuanzang to Hongfu Temple near Chang'an to practice.

It is now the thirty-first year of Zhenguan, and the city of Chang'an is the same as in the past. Xue Xi, Bai Xuan and Ta Xue are still running their own teahouses there, and this teahouse is now a must-have in Chang'an City.

These days, the most prestigious person to be rumored in Chang'an City is Yuan Shoucheng, who is the uncle of Yuan Tiangang, the current Qin Tianjian Taizheng. He set up a hexagram stall on Ximen Street to tell fortunes for people.

This person, Xue Xi is also quite familiar, and he has some origins. His divination technique was passed down from Zhou Zijing back then. In the past few years, he would go to Qingxin Teahouse every day to drink a cup of tea, but he didn't pay every time.

In the past, I used to give a hexagram as tea money every time, but these days I have changed it to a golden carp every day. A bowl of tea is just worth a few dollars, and Xue Xi doesn't care much about it, so it's up to Yuan Shoucheng to mess around.

Today, Yuan Shoucheng's hexagram stall came to a white-clothed showman. Yuan Shoucheng saw at a glance that the true body of the person who came was the dragon king outside Chang'an City, in the Jing River.

It turned out that the golden carp that Yuan Shoucheng sent to the Qingxin Teahouse every day was his reward for a fisherman on the bank of the Jing River. Yuan Shoucheng's hexagram calculation is very accurate, there are fewer and fewer water tribes in the Jing River recently, and the Dragon King of the Jing River, who is the king of the Jing River Water Tribe, is not in a hurry.

The Dragon King of Jinghe made a bet with Yuan Shoucheng to block the amount of rain tomorrow.

"Tomorrow there will be clouds in the morning, thunder in the morning, rain in the afternoon, and enough rain in the morning, and a total of three feet three inches and forty-eight hours of water. After Yuan Shoucheng's divination, he confidently revealed the results of the hexagram.

Of course, the Dragon King of Jinghe didn't believe it, how did he know that he had just returned to Shuifu, and he actually received the Holy Decree of the Jade Emperor, and what he said was exactly what Yuan Shoucheng said.

It's a matter of losing face, and it's also a matter of fifty taels of fees, the Dragon King of Jinghe is a dragon king, how can he be defeated by this thing. The only thing he worries about is the life and death of the Jinghe Water Tribe.

In order to keep the Jinghe Water Tribe, the Dragon King of Jinghe listened to the ghost idea of the military advisor, changed the time without permission, and deducted the number. As soon as the rain stopped, the Dragon King of Jinghe also turned into a white-clothed Xiushi and smashed Yuan Shoucheng's hexagram stall.

Unexpectedly, this matter was soon discovered by the Jade Emperor, and he wanted to behead the Dragon King of Jinghe, and the supervisor was Wei Zheng, the prime minister of the dynasty. The Dragon King of Jinghe had no choice but to come to Tang Emperor Li Shimin to save his life in the starry night.

Li Shimin also agreed, and left Wei Zheng behind the next day. The two discussed the government and played chess until noon. Li Shimin's chess skills are much worse than Wei Zheng's, and he has already lost in the middle game. When he finished thinking about a move, he saw Wei Zheng lying asleep next to the desk, sweating profusely. Li Shimin is also a generation of virtuous monarchs, and he felt sorry for his courtiers, so he personally fanned Wei Zheng with a mountain fan and a cool breeze, and saw Wei Zheng in a cold sweat.

It turned out that Wei Zheng fell into a dream and slashed the dragon, but in the end, he was much worse than the Jinghe Dragon King, and he was almost escaped by the Jinghe Dragon King. Fortunately, with the help of Li Shimin's three cool breezes, he caught up with the Jinghe Dragon King and killed the Jinghe Dragon King with a sword.

As soon as the Dragon King of Jinghe died, a grudge in his heart did not disappear, and he turned into a wronged soul and came to Li Shimin to ask for his life. Li Shimin was so frightened that he couldn't afford to get sick, and he didn't have much time to fly into the darkness, wandering around alone.

Li Shimin's life is not over, so naturally he can't enter the underworld, and he can only go to the city of death. After all, he has the imperial qi to protect himself, and this time it is a Buddhist calculation, so naturally it is impossible for him to really die like this.

Guanyin Bodhisattva, who presided over the Eastern Transmission of Buddhism, found Li Shimin's soul and helped him to be reborn. After such a change, Li Shimin revered Buddhism and absolutely held a land and water conference to promote Buddhism.

At the water and land conference, Xuanzang stood out, and with his deep understanding of Buddhism, he successfully won Li Shimin's favor. After the land and water conference, Li Shimin had something on his mind again. Because I heard that there is only Theravana Buddhism in the East, but Mahayana Buddhism is in the West Heaven Da Lei Yin Temple, I want to find someone to learn scriptures from the West.

Those monks at the water and land conference were unwilling, the mountain was far away, and there were so many demons and monsters on the road, no one was willing to risk their lives. Only Chen Xuanzang stepped forward and showed that he was willing to go to the West Heaven.

Li Shimin was overjoyed, immediately set up an incense case, burned incense and prayed, and became brothers with Chen Xuanzang. Because Li Shimin is older, Chen Xuanzang has become a royal brother. Li Shimin gave Chen Xuanzang the treasure robe and tin staff he got from Guanyin Bodhisattva before, and gave him a purple gold bowl to make Chen Xuanzang use for his fate on weekdays.

Li Shimin sent it all the way, and sent it outside the city gate before finally stopping. Xue Xi and Bai Xuan and Taxue were mixed in the nearby crowd and watched this scene.

Li Shimin pointed to Chen Xuanzang as the number of the scriptures and named him Tang Sanzang. Chen Xuanzang thanked him, and the two said goodbye.

Chen Xuanzang was about to say goodbye to the west, but Li Shimin stopped him. Li Shimin ordered someone to bring a glass of wine and asked Chen Xuanzang to drink it. Buddhism's precepts are not allowed to drink, and of course Chen Xuanzang did not dare to accept it. Li Shimin told him that this was a glass of vegetarian wine, and it was okay to drink it, so Chen Xuanzang took it.

When he was about to drink, Li Shimin stopped him again. Pinch a piece of soil from the ground and sprinkle it into the cup, "Royal brother, please." ”

"This?" Chen Xuanzang looked at the muddy wine in confusion.

"Brother Yu, when will you come back?" Li Shimin held Chen Xuanzang's hand and asked.

"At least three or five years, at most ten years, I will return. Chen Xuanzang, who still doesn't know the difficulties in the future, is full of confidence, and he is full of ambition, just like the glorious martyr who joined the revolution.

"The days are long, the mountains are far away, and the royal brother can enter this wine. Li Shimin patted Chen Xuanzang's hand and said meaningfully, "I'd rather love a twist of soil in my hometown than ten thousand taels of gold in my hometown." ”

Only then did Chen Xuanzang know Li Shimin's deep meaning, and he immediately drank all the wine and thanked him for leaving the customs. After Chen Xuanzang and the others disappeared into the distance, Li Shimin drove back to the palace.

"Heh, let's go back too. Bai Xuan stretched, "I've been standing here for a long time." ”

Xue Xi and the others immediately turned back to the teahouse, still doing their own business with peace of mind. In the case of Journey to the West, Xuexi and they just wanted to be a spectator, but they didn't have much intention of participating.

On the other hand, Chen Xuanzang is going, but there are constant difficulties and obstacles, and his life may be unsafe at all times. Of course, he is still in the Tang Kingdom, and he doesn't know what will happen in the future. (To be continued.) )