Chapter 12 Drink the wine to ring the bell

In the seventy-third year of Zhenguan, he was stunned, and a hundred horsemen on Chang'an Street surged, and a thousand iron horsemen of Shenwu King Zuo Wuwei moved with Li Yuanba and Li Chang'an, and five hundred horsemen and five hundred Jin Wuwei were ordered to accompany him. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Such a mighty crowd of people and horses flocked to the Bao'en Temple on the edge of the jade mountain in Chang'an, the jade mountain is not big, it is said that the mountain is actually just a high point of the soil slope, there is a magnificent temple on the top of a few hundred meters above sea level, and you can see that there is a pagoda in the depths of the temple before entering the mountain gate.

Thousand pagodas, 300 meters high, a total of 99 floors, the whole pagoda is surrounded by a huge pavilion for people to see, this pagoda is the place where the relics of Buddhist monks are stored.

Of course, if it is only to store relics, it is naturally not necessary to build it so magnificently, but there are also the ashes of Li Jiming, the son of King Shenwu, and Concubine Nan'an, the prince of Shenwu.

Zhenguan sixty-two Bao'en Temple was ordered to expand the thousand pagodas, the following year the sting was completed, on the same day the bones of the two most noble people were stored in the top floor of the stupa, since then every year sting, Qingming, Chongyang when Li Yuanba will take his grandson Li Changan to Bao'en Temple in the morning and evening to ring the bell twice to worship, never fall.

There are also 500 elite iron horsemen with 100 Jin Wuwei, who seem to be protecting King Shenwu from harm, but King Shenwu has 10,000 Zuo Wuwei personal soldiers, so why should he protect, the real purpose of which is to secretly escort Tang Emperor Li Shimin.

Standing outside the mountain gate, the monks in the temple have been waiting at the door for a long time, seeing the arrival of the three people, they knelt down directly and saluted, ignoring them, the three stepped into the temple, looking at the distant pagoda, some sighs.

Without saying much, he walked to the lobby of Bao'en Temple, Li Shimin, who was dressed in civilian clothes, held a string of Buddhist beads in his hand, and every time Li Yuanba and Li Changan came to worship, he would quietly accompany him, which he owed his own brother, and he owed Li Changan.

It is only at this time that Li Shimin, who suppresses the Buddha and preaches the Tao, will pick up the Buddha beads and go to the Buddha statue to pray seriously.

Looking at the back of Li Shimin's departure, for some reason Li Changan always felt that his grandfather, the emperor's grandfather with a surprising reputation, was uneasy in his heart, but he couldn't understand what could cause him to be uneasy as the most powerful person in the entire Tang Dynasty.

Ignoring what he was thinking, he followed Li Yuanba, the old man and the young man, on the streets of Bao'en Temple, Li Yuanba's footsteps were not fast, but Li Changan did not mean to slow down, and the official boots inlaid with white jade on the soles of his shoes clicked on the bluestone floor, but the distance between the two of them has not changed.

Standing at the bottom of the pagoda, it looks like it feels very high, compared to the whole Tang Dynasty, this thousand pagoda is indeed a very magnificent building, the tiles painted with gold paint appear a little hazy in this morning mist, the dew sticks to the red tower body falls, and the wind chimes hanging in a corner jingle with the breeze blowing, which looks extremely peaceful.

The sky is still bright and the sun has not yet come out, the heavy clouds and mist make it difficult to see the appearance of the top of the tower, with his hands behind his back, Li Yuanba, who is dressed in a dragon python yellow robe, stood beside Li Changan, and said softly in that slightly hoarse voice: "Since you have already crowned, then these things will be done by you in the future, I will go to your second grandfather to drink some wine and talk." ”

Nodding without words, looking at the back of Li Yuanba pinching the Buddha beads and leaving, Li Changan stepped into the thousand pagodas, in this consciousness Li Changan has not come, but in his memory he is very familiar with this place, skillfully walked through the doors, and it didn't take long to come to the top of the thousand pagodas.

Different from other relics pagodas, the center of the Thousand Buddha Pagoda is carved out of a very large piece of granite, all the relics are stored in this granite, and at the top of the granite is deeply smashed out of a groove, which is stored in the ashes of the prince Li Jiming and Nan'an concubine, pouring the burnt gold into it, engraved with the epitaph, and there are two portraits on it.

Looking at the two portraits, Li Changan knelt down, although he can't really be regarded as his parents, but he also raised this body, so it is reasonable that Li Changan should do this.

After three rings, Li Changan picked up the bell pestle on the shelf next to him, the bell was directly above the granite, the copper bell was plated with a thick layer of gold, the sun rose slightly, it was the time of the morning bell, and he came overnight in order not to miss the bell at this hour, and he rang the bell around him with both hands, the sound of the bell resounded through the world, and countless wishes dissipated with the bell, and Li Changan's past memories also went.

The bell soaks people's hearts and ...... Syllable...... Syllable...... In an instant, it spread throughout the temple, and I don't know when people were drunk, closed their eyes and listened, and thousands of years passed quietly.

Li Changan rang ninety times, and the bell rang ninety, tightening eighteen and slowing eighteen reincarnations, and repeating until ninety, and once at dusk, a total of one hundred and eight, eliminating one hundred and eight troubles.

On the top of the Buddha hall, Li Shimin and Li Yuanba, the two most noble people in the Tang Dynasty, lay in front of the Buddha statue without a look, holding the turbid rice wine in their hands, and heard the bell from the pagoda, both of them looked at each other and smiled: "People are still old, and they will make way for this young man in the future." ”

muttered a sentence in their mouths, the eyes of the two people were a little confused, they remembered the year when it was not Zhenguan, that year Li Shimin was still the king of Qin, Li Yuanba was still in high spirits, the entire Tang Li family had just set foot in the whole world, and it was this Bao'en Temple to pray for blessings, and the entire Li royal family prayed for a day in this Bao'en Temple, ringing the bell twice, brothers were in harmony, and father and son were harmonious.

At that time, Li Shimin was still looking up at his father in a dragon robe, and he was still fantasizing about the demeanor of the Ninety-Five Emperor he saw in Daming Palace when he was in Dading Xiansui, at that time Li Changan's father was only a half-young man, and he had just met the Nan'an concubine who had fascinated him all his life.

Rice wine is not easy to intoxicate but not easy to wake up, just like its turbid appearance, not very good-looking but also attractive, I don't know if the two wine glasses collided together when they were drunk, this situation is exactly the same as the high-spirited Li family at the beginning, the sound of clinking glasses between brothers has passed through a hundred years of time, although the words are a little blurred, but with the agreement of those people a hundred years ago became clear.

"Wait from the beginning, drink that wine to ring that bell!"

said in unison, like the loyal and righteous courage of the proud sworn brothers, people couldn't help but applaud, and a wave of admiration couldn't help blurting out, but there were no spectators here, let alone the applauding people, just two iron-blooded men who cried like children.

In Datang, the Li family is powerful and helpless......