490 The Beginning of Journey to the West
ps: Today's chapter, this week is probably all the same chapter, because I came back to my hometown to help. Luoye's hometown is from the countryside, although it is not a big deal. There are so many people in China, which of the ancestors of three generations did not leave the countryside
Out.
Pingxin bowed, "The Taoist Lord is walking slowly, Pingxin needs to guard the six realms of reincarnation, and it is not convenient to send far away."
Xue Xi'e's head and nodded slightly, "Yeah, it's okay. You should pay attention to what you told you before. Although we sisters can look down on the slightest movement of heaven and earth, we cannot pay attention to it every moment. Heaven and earth are always there.
During the great change, you will separate the underworld from the vast world and the vast world, and you will definitely protect the six realms of reincarnation."
"Abide by the Lord of Dao's instructions and know what to do."
"Haha, I'll be relieved when you do things." Xuexi patted Pingxin's shoulder, "I won't say much nonsense, so you won't be too long-winded and see you again."
Light and shadow pass by like a white horse, and in the blink of an eye it took more than 60 years. After more than 500 years, Xue Xi and the others returned to Chang'an City again. Five hundred years of ups and downs, Chang'an City still remains unchanged. Old shadows and the old shadows of five hundred years ago
Today's close-up scenes overlap each other, as if they depict a Ukiyo-e picture with chaotic light and shadow. However, the city is still the same city, but people are no longer those people. After all, it has been five hundred years later.
The current emperor of the Tang Dynasty is Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, whose country is named Zhenguan, and has ascended the throne for thirteen years.
On the morning of the morning, Prime Minister Wei Zheng came out to express his remarks, saying, "Thank you, today, the world will be peaceful and the world will be peaceful. Your Majesty should follow the ancient methods, open up the selection of wise men, recruit talents, and use talents to transform them.
reason."
The Tang Dynasty has a history of nearly a thousand years, and now it is the time for its strongest national strength. It just demonstrates its kindness and promotes its national prestige.
Li Shimin immediately approved the report and issued the imperial chart in an instant. Every prefecture and county in the Tang Dynasty posted the chart text. However, there was a scholar in Haizhou named Chen E, whose name was Guangrui. After seeing the imperial chart, he was very happy.
Win.
Chen Guangrui has a poetic spirit, but unfortunately he has bad luck and failed the exam every year. This time, the emperor's kindness was so great that Chen Guangrui felt that it was the time to show his talent. He immediately went home, cleaned up his fineness, bid farewell to his mother, and alone
Hurry to Chang'an for the exam.
Let’s say that Chen Guangrui is indeed in time. He won the top scorer in one go. For a time, he was very glorious. When he was parading on the street, he was hit by Yin Wenjiao, the daughter of Prime Minister Yin Kaishan, and the red hydrangea nicknamed Mantangjiao.
This marriage was given by heaven, and a wonderful couple in the local area now became a couple. The four great joys in life were held. When the golden list was awarded, there were already two wedding nights. It was really a good time for two.
"Chen Guangrui, this guy is only lucky for three days." Not far from the East City Gate, it is upstairs. Bai Xuan, Xue Xi and Taxue looked through the window at Chen Guangrui who was about to leave the city gate and his newlywed wife Man Tangjiao through the window.
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"But he is an important chess piece of Buddhism spreading eastward." Xuexi took a sip of wine and said with a smile, "It is hard to say that a mere mortal can be plotted by gods and Buddhas all over the sky, and it is also his blessing."
Chen Guangrui and his group left the city gate. They first returned to Haizhou's home, and then went straight to Jiangzhou to take up their posts. However, they unexpectedly went there and were trapped at the bottom of the river for decades, and their wife and children were separated for several years.
When it was almost time to reach the Hongjiang area, Chen Guangrui's old mother had to stay in Hongjiang because of the hot weather. Chen Guangrui and the mangung were thrown into the water by thieves, taking away their status, and even having their wife and children.
These bad things, let alone Bai Xuan's boring look, even Xue Xi is not very interested.
Xuexi and Bai Xuan set up a cloth shop in Chang'an and started a small business again. The location of the cloth shop was pretty good. It was facing the street in front and along the river in the back. Xuexi simply transformed the cloth shop into a teahouse.
It was more elegant and repainted the interior by the way, and the entire teahouse was completely renovated in a few days.
The only flaw is the plaque and couplet outside the door. The teahouse is called Qingxin, Qingxin Teahouse. Qingxin’s two words are beautiful and meaningful, making people shine. It seems that my heart is really calm.
I know it was made by everyone.
But the two words "The Teahouse" behind are a bit unattractive. Not to mention the twists and turns, the strokes are all different in thickness, just like the naughty work of a naughty boy. Putting these two styles together makes it awkward to see them no matter how you look at them.
Let’s talk about that couplet. The first couplet says, “How many people in the world are idle, ask who to spend a cup of tea, and spend half a day”, and the second couplet says, “There is a fairy in the cave, and the pool lotus will recruit me to prove the three lives.”
The couplet is realistic and quite good, but the handwriting is still a problem.
The characters in the lower line are heroic and grand, with a great world. Who else can contain the momentum of me? Especially the character "Immortal" is particularly spiritual, but the first line is not good. The characters are the same as those of the teahouse.
It was obviously from the same person. Of course, this person was walking on the snow. It was not that she couldn't write it well, but she just wrote it like this on purpose. The word Qingxin comes from Xuexi, so the second couplet was naturally written by Bai Xuan.
This weird teahouse quickly attracted a lot of people. Chang'an City was originally the political and cultural center of the Tang Dynasty. There were countless talented men and beautiful women here, so naturally more people like to be polite. Xuexi, the Qingxin Teahouse, was opened on the first day of the opening of the Qingxin Teahouse.
A lot of business.
Although there are many criticisms at the plaque at the door and the opposite side, the tea here has to be said to be a masterpiece. This spreads through ten, ten and hundreds of people. Xuexi and their teahouses soon became famous. The teahouse is not a restaurant, and no matter how famous it is, it is really
In fact, there are still limited people coming. Xuexi and the others did not invite their friends, they were the bosses, the clerks, the accountants, and the tea-making chefs.
After years of consciously, Man Tangjiao from Jiangzhou gave birth to a baby boy. Because she was afraid of being killed by a thief, she deliberately put the baby boy in a wooden basin and flowed along the water. The water flowed rapidly, and the wooden basin was in danger of overturning. Unexpectedly,
A white lotus was born out of thin air, lifting up the wooden basin and protecting the wooden basin. The wooden basin floated slowly to the foot of Jinshan Temple. The presidency of Jinshan Temple, Faming, was a monk with true cultivation.
On this day, Faming was meditating and meditating, and suddenly felt his spiritual consciousness vibrated and could not help himself. In shock, he hurriedly calculated it, but it turned out that a great source of blessing was about to come. At this time, he heard the crying.
Faming immediately realized that this person with great blessing must be the one who cried loudly. Faming heard that the crying was coming from the river, so he immediately took someone to salvage the baby boy. The baby boy saw it.
The stranger stopped crying and just looked at Faming with a smile. Faming saw that there was a blood letter on the baby boy. After reading it, he immediately understood the reason. Faming named the baby boy Jiang Liu and adopted it.
In Jinshan Temple, eighteen years have passed.
Jiang Liu, who grew up in Jinshan Temple, was 18 years old and became a monk. He officially joined Jinshan Temple. He received a certificate of vassal and was given the Dharma name Xuanzang. One day, Xuanzang talked about Buddhism with other monks. Xuanzang was influenced by Buddhism since he was a child.
Has amazing insights.
The wine and meat monks debated, but they were angry and scolded, "You are a beast of karma, you don't know your name or your parents, why are you still here?"
When Xuanzang heard this, he found Faming and cried to tell the matter. Faming felt that the time had come, and returned the blood letter he picked up from Xuanzang and his clothes to Xuanzang. After reading it, Xuanzang immediately understood everything.
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"If parents cannot revenge, how can they be human?" Xuanzang cried, "For eighteen years, I have not known my biological parents, and I still know that I have a mother. If this body is not rescued and raised by my master, how can I be today? Let my disciples go
Find your mother, then put on your head and rebuild the palace to repay your master's deep kindness!"
Faming agreed. "You go to find your mother, you can bring this blood letter and sweatshirt to your side. You can only beg for alms and go directly to the private yamen in Jiangzhou to meet your mother."
Xuanzang bid farewell to his mentor, put away his blood letter and sweat shirt, and rushed all the way to Jiangzhou. When he arrived in Jiangzhou, he acted according to his plan. Sure enough, he recognized his mother and expressed his feelings to each other. It was another touching scene.
An eighteen-year grudge finally came to an end. Chen Xuanzang still had to continue to be his own little monk. Chen Guangrui and Mantangjiao were useless to persuade him, so he had to send Xuanzang to Hongfu Temple near Chang'an to practice.
It is now the 31st year of Zhenguan. In Chang'an City, it is as usual. Xuexi, Bai Xuan and Taxue still run their own teahouse there. This teahouse is now a unique place in Chang'an City.
During these days, the most famous person in Chang'an City was Yuan Shoucheng, who was the uncle of Yuan Tiangang, the Imperial Heavenly Supervisor. He set up a divination stall on Ximen Street to tell fortunes.
Xuexi is quite familiar with this person, and he has some connection. His divination technique was passed down from Zhou Zijing back then. In recent years, he has gone to Qingxin Teahouse to drink a cup of tea every day, but he never did
Pay.
In the past, I used to give Bu Yigua as tea money. These days I changed it to give a golden carp every day. A bowl of tea was not worth much money. Xue Xi didn't care much, so I let Yuan Shoucheng
Nonsense.
Today, a white-clothed handsome man came to Yuan Shoucheng's hexagram. Yuan Shoucheng could see the true body of the person, which was the Dragon King outside Chang'an City and the Jing River.
It turns out that the golden carp that Yuan Shoucheng sent to Qingxin Teahouse every day was his reward for a fisherman on the banks of the Jing River to tell fortunes. Yuan Shoucheng's fortunes were very accurate. There were fewer and fewer aquariums in the Jing River recently. As the king of the Jing River aquarium, Jing,
How can the Dragon King of Rivers not be anxious?
The Dragon King of Jinghe and Yuan Shoucheng made a bet to block the amount of rainfall tomorrow.
"Tomorrow, clouds are spread at Chen, thunder is produced at Si, rains at Wu, rains at Wei, and water is three feet, three inches, and forty-eight o'clock." After Yuan Shoucheng divined the divination, he expressed the result of the hexagram with full confidence.
Of course, the Dragon King of Jinghe did not believe it. He didn't know that he had just returned to the Water Mansion and actually received the Jade Emperor's imperial edict, which was exactly the same as what Yuan Shoucheng said.
This is a small matter of losing face, and a fifty tael of course money is also a small matter. The Dragon King of Jinghe is a Dragon King after all, how could he be defeated by this matter? The only thing he is worried about is the life and death of the Jinghe Aquarium.
In order to protect the Jinghe Aquarium, the Dragon King of Jinghe believed the military advisor's idea, changed the time privately, and deducted points. As soon as the rain stopped, the Dragon King of Jinghe turned into a white-clothed scholar and smashed Yuan Shoucheng's hexagram.
Unexpectedly, this incident was soon discovered by the Jade Emperor and was about to behead the Dragon King of Jinghe. The presiding official was Wei Zheng, the prime minister of the dynasty. The Dragon King of Jinghe was helpless, so he had to come to Tang Emperor Li Shimin to help him.
Li Shimin agreed and kept Wei Zheng the next day. The two discussed the government affairs and played chess until noon. Li Shimin's chess skills were much worse than Wei Zheng, and he had already suffered a defeat by the middle game. After he finished thinking a step
But when he saw Wei Zheng lying beside the desk, he was sweating heavily. Li Shimin was also a wise king of generations and felt sorry for his ministers, so he personally fanned Wei Zheng's mountain fan and the cool breeze. He suddenly saw Wei Zheng's cold sweat.
It turned out that Wei Zheng was dreaming of killing dragons, but his cultivation level was much worse than that of the Dragon King of Jinghe, and he was almost escaped by the Dragon King of Jinghe. He was fortunate to get help from Li Shimin, and then he caught up with the Dragon King of Jinghe and killed the Dragon King of Jinghe with one sword.
As soon as the Dragon King of Jinghe died, his heart was filled with resentment and turned into an unjust soul and came to Li Shimin to seek his life. Li Shimin was frightened and could not get sick. He had little time to fly and his lonely soul wandered around.
Li Shimin's life is not over, so he naturally cannot enter the underworld, and at most he can only go to the city of Wudian. After all, he has the protection of the imperial energy, and this time it was a Buddhist plan, so it is naturally impossible for him to die like this.
Guanyin Bodhisattva, who presided over the eastward teaching of Buddhism, found Li Shimin's soul and helped him rebirth. After experiencing such an accident, Li Shimin respected Buddhism very much and absolutely held a water and land conference to promote Buddhism.
At the Water and Land Conference, Xuanzang stood out and successfully gained the favor of Li Shimin with his deep understanding of Buddhism. After the Water and Land Conference, Li Shimin had his worries again. Because he heard that there was only Hinayana Buddhism in the East, but Mahayana Buddhism was in the Great Thunder Sound of the West.
The temple wanted to find someone to seek scriptures from the West.
The monks were unwilling to do so at the water and land conference. Not only did the mountains and roads far away, but there were many demons and monsters on the road, and no one was willing to take risks. Only Chen Xuanzang stepped forward and expressed his willingness to go to the West.
Li Shimin was overjoyed and immediately set up an incense case, burned incense and prayed, and became a brother of different surnames with Chen Xuanzang. Because Li Shimin was older, Chen Xuanzang became the royal brother. Li Shimin gave Chen Xuanzang the treasure robes and tin staff he had obtained from Guanyin Bodhisattva, and also gave them a separate gift.
A purple gold bowl was used as a daily begging for Chen Xuanzang. He passed a copy of the textbook. As proof, two porters accompanied him to go west and one horse was used to force his feet.
Li Shimin gave him a trip and sent him to the city gate before finally stopping. Xuexi and Bai Xuan mingled among the crowd nearby, watching this scene.
Li Shimin referred to Chen Xuanzang as a name for the sutra and named Tang Sanzang. Chen Xuanzang thanked him, and the two bid farewell to each other.
Chen Xuanzang was about to bid farewell 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. Buddhist precepts are not allowed to drink alcohol, so Chen Xuanzang certainly did not dare to accept it. Li Shimin told him that this was a glass of vegetarian wine and drink it.
It was okay to go, so Chen Xuanzang took it.
Just when he was about to drink, Li Shimin stopped him again. He pinched a little soil from the ground and scattered it into the cup, "Brother Yu, please."
"This?" Chen Xuanzang looked at the turbid wine in confusion.
"Brother Yu, when will I go back now?" Li Shimin asked with Chen Xuanzang's hand.
"At least three or five years, at most ten years, you will be back." Chen Xuanzang, who still didn't know that the future was difficult, was full of confidence, and he was full of confidence, just like the glorious martyr who devoted himself to the revolution.
"As time goes by, the mountains are far away, the road is far away, I can enter this wine." Li Shimin patted Chen Xuanzang's hand and said meaningfully, "I would rather love a twist of soil in my hometown than a thousand taels of gold in a foreign land."
Only then did Chen Xuanzang realize Li Shimin's deep meaning, and immediately drank the drink and thanked him for leaving the palace. After Chen Xuanzang and his men disappeared from a distance, Li Shimin returned to the palace.
"Hmm, let's go back too." Bai Xuan stretched, "I have been standing here for a long time."
Xuexi and his friends immediately turned back to the teahouse and still did their own small business with peace of mind. During Journey to the West, Xuexi and the others just wanted to be spectators, but they didn't have much intention of participating.
Chapter completed!