Chapter 034: Reach down and show your colors are all Zen
Xu Fengyen woke up with a splitting headache, sat up shakily, picked up the bamboo kettle from the bed and drank a mouthful of spring water, went to the table and picked up the green porcelain bottle and poured in the last two elixirs, and then drank all the cool water from the bamboo kettle in one gulp, the headache feeling weakened, and he felt refreshed immediately, and he glimpsed the embroidered winter knife lying on a pile of secret manuals and reached out to hold it, and then he listened to the sound of gold and stone as the blade shook, and then he realized that his body’s true qi flowed, and his body’s skeletons were moisturized and he seemed to have endless strength, and he subconsciously wanted to pull out the knife to suppress the urge to use it. Xu Fengnian subconsciously wanted to draw the knife to suppress this impulse. He came to the outside of the hut and saw the bull rider making a fire on the stove, cooking a pot of asparagus.
Xu Fenian asked, “Did you steal those pieces of mine?”
The young senior uncle played dumb and pretended to be stupid, “I don’t know.”
Xu Fengyen frowned, before he could threaten to scare him with his sword, the bull rider was so weak that he scattered his feet and ran wildly, the two to three pounds of asparagus were dug out by him with great difficulty and hard work with one hoe after another, but fleeing for his life was so important that he could not care about the tasty asparagus. Xu Fengyen went to the stove, cooked the asparagus, took chopsticks and slowly ate it all, only then went to the cave under the hanging immortal peak, found a small pile of uncarved pebbles, must be the bull riding to make up for the mistakes, smiled, sat down against the wall, followed the “Green Water Pavilion A Zi Sword Learning Record” described in the superior sword posture, take embroidered winter carving out the chess pieces, only the first cut down, the force is too fluctuating, will be a hard pebble cut into two halves, Xu Fengnian froze. Two halves, Xu Fengyen froze for a moment, no longer in a hurry to the next knife, knee meditation, breathing and exhaling, this journey Xu Fengyen has been aware of the five roots unusually sensitive, this time it is felt in the body of the divine qi abundance and clear insight, for that previously only Taoist immortal art of the recipe “a breath of air to the root of the breath, so-called fetal breath,” but a little bit of subtle empathy, and the first time he opened his eyes, the first time he opened his eyes, the first time he opened his eyes. Xu Fengnian opened his eyes and said to himself, “Is this the Great Yellow Court?”
The bull rider carefully appeared at the cave entrance and laughed, “It is the Great Yellow Court. His Highness the World Prince can’t afford to waste it.”
Xu Fengnian laughed to himself, “Wasted.”
The bull-riding one shook his head and laughed, “That’s too early to say.”
Xu Fengyen calmly said, “Several hundred books in the hut, all of them are given to Wudang, are you willing to accept them?”
The young senior uncle laughed nervously, “Take it!”
Xu Fengnian laughed, “In the future, if you give Wudang Mountain a thousand taels of gold every year for incense money, do you dare to accept it?”
The bull rider thought for a while and smiled bitterly, “Not quite.”
Xu Fengnian laughed it off and waved his hand signaling that the bull rider could disappear. Hong Zaixiang exited and walked back in, saying softly, “Your Highness, don’t hold a grudge for stealing the chess pieces.”
Xu Fengyen softly said, “Roll.”
Xu Fengyen spent half a day to adapt to the strength of the knife, and then go to carve the chess pieces will be handy, the shape is round, looking at the black and white two piles of chess pieces, the great success of the long exhale, accidentally will be the chess pieces to the blow flick chaotic, black and white confused together, Xu Fengyen took the West Sichuan dialect scolded, re-packing, went to the Purple Bamboo Forest, chopped the two Luohan Purple Bamboo to carry back to the thatched cottage, split open, and then spent one day weaving the two chess boxes, to be able to To do this, it is three years of hard traveling and self-weaving straw sandals to sharpen out of the unimpressive skills. Will three hundred and sixty one chess pieces respectively into, Xu Fengyen looked at the secret book has not moved thatched cottage, and then the waist satchel knife, both hands carrying chess box to the house outside to look at a few eyes of the cold vegetable garden, the two big maids sweet potatoes green bird are waiting at the side of the Wudang is only one person to see off Hong Zaixiang, and the first few two people to meet the battle is actually almost the same.
Hong Zaixiang unexpectedly sent to the Xuanwu Dangxing four-letter pagoda.
Xu Fengyen has seen two hundred Northern Liang iron horsemen armor to be line, looked back at the Lotus Peak, no head to ask a sentence: “How do you say?”
The sweet potato with a heart of gold laughed: “A thousand years in the mountains, the world is already a thousand years.”
Xu Fenian laughed: “Did the white fox face in the Hearing Tide Pavilion ascend to the third floor?”
Sweet Potato shook her head and softly said, “Not yet. The Wutong Court is all betting on this, the slave girl bets that there is still a year and a half left, betting six taels of silver. The green ants and the girls all think it will be a bit later.”
Xu Fenian sat in the carriage and said, “Then I’ll bet ten taels of silver on White Fox’s face going up to the third floor within a year.”
Sweet potato kneaded the shoulders of His Highness, Xu Fengyen leaned against her breast, opened the chess box, rubbed both fingers over a chess piece, closed his eyes and said softly, “Focus again.”
The sweet potato whose body’s natural body scent would fade away in the winter hmmm, but her eyes glanced at the green bird in the Sycamore Garden that was most at odds with her.
The green bird was silent, only the line of sight that looked towards His Highness the World Son’s brow was eloquent.
The minds of the two personal maidservants were as silent as they could be.
Two hundred iron horsemen into Liangzhou, the main city road people consciously dispersed, Xu Fengyen stopped the carriage in the middle, let sweet potato to a very fond of soy sauce beef store to buy some back to quench their appetite, here the cooked meat is the most flavorful, beef is the best in Northern Liang, the secret sauce is second to none, yellow sauce, cinnamon, ginger, star anise and other ingredients in the right amount, not to mention the other, just the bottle of soy sauce on the table, a lot of diners want to eat the meat in the sauce, after After eating the meat in the sauce, many diners would like to take the goat, but they have not succeeded. Xu Fengyen in the past and Li Hanlin Yan Chi set a few detrimental friends for the wrongdoing, all to come here to feast a bit, Li Hanlin more overbearing and ferocious, almost the entire century-old store to move back, if not Xu Fengyen to the snot and tears pasted on the face of the old shopkeeper to intercede, the people of the city would not be able to eat this authentic authentic, but of course the main still take care of their own tricky tastes.
The most interesting is not the beef sauce, but the store has a beautiful gas little girl, said to be the shopkeeper’s distant relative’s distant relative’s daughter, in short, the relationship can be pulled to a hundred thousand eighty thousand miles away, surprisingly this girl before the five or six years her first time into the city, hand carrying a rope, holding a black and white naive cat, like a bear is not a bear, like a cat is not a cat, and then a learned scholar of Liangzhou a good deal of citation, only to find out that it is the West, but it is the West, and it is the West. Only to explore that is the Western Sichuan only “tapir beast”, nicknamed the panda, the ancient books recorded that this tapir beast good food copper and iron, but these years have not heard of any neighbor’s door iron to steal and eat, but often see the girl holding bamboo sticks and leaves, Xu Fengyen returned from his travels, and then did not see the girl and the big cat, travel before going to the store to eat beef, all love to tease the girl, Li Han, the girl, the girl, the girl, the girl, and the girl, and the girl, and the girl. Love to tease the girl, Li Hanlin several times want to steal soy sauce, were she took the bamboo branch hard knock hand, if not His Highness blocked, the little girl will be thrown into the animal cage with the pet.
Xu Fengnian waited for the beef, saw an old beggar in the distance leaning against the wall shivering, his face green, starving and cold, not far from death. The rich all like winter, even if the home can not afford to lay the charcoal consumption of countless ground dragon, also because you can wear comfortable and expensive sable fur, traveling more face. But all the poor people under the sky are most afraid of this season.
In addition to the ragged old beggar, Xu Fengyen saw a delicate back squatting over there, she stood beside a cloak green bridesmaid light red robe of the little monk, I do not know what to say, the little monk then hurriedly ran away.
Xu Fengyen frowned: “Although there are many Buddhist sects, but the rules of wearing robes are similar, which has a small monk to wear this color monk clothes, this is only wearable by a preaching monk, a small monk has the qualification to give a scripture and preach the law? Moreover, when a monk goes out, shouldn’t he wear a shoulder robe? How is it that that shaman is favoring his right shoulder?”
Because the Northern Liang Wangfei had believed in Buddhism all her life, His Highness the World Son naturally learned by ear and knew the rules and etiquette of the Buddhist sect very well.
Qingdao corrected, “That little sanya is favoring the left shoulder.”
Xu Fengnian laughed, “Where did the little monk come from.”
For the monks, Xu Fengyen, who was notorious in Northern Liang, had been very tolerant and kind, offering rewards whenever he met them, and generally speaking most monks would not accept gold and silver belongings, and Xu Fengyen did not care. So much so that many fortune tellers in the city of Liangzhou have changed their profession to become cheap monks, what do you care about deceiving the master, get the hand of His Highness the Prince’s reward is the straight and narrow ah.
Xu Fengnian suddenly narrowed his eyes, staring at a road in the middle-aged Tantric monk walking slowly, wearing a large red robe, withered face, walked to the foot of the wall over there, saw the dying old beggar, face showing compassion.
Waiting to wear a small monk who does not know the rules of holding a cage of steaming buns ran to the corner of the wall in a hurry, but only to see the old beggar’s head tilted, leaving the world.
The tantric monk bent down and reached out, holding the old man’s hand and chanting sutras for the deceased.
The little monk handed the meat bun to the girl who stood up, bowed his head and put his palms together to chant silently.
Xu Fengnian looked at all this in his eyes and felt some emotion.
One big and two small monks, no matter where they came from and where they are going.
Reaching out is Zen.
Lowering the head is also Zen.
Sweet potatoes into the carriage, Xu Fengyen suddenly felt that in the Wudang mountains on the thought of drooling in the sauce of beef is a bit boring, put aside, softly said: “Even if I have got the Wudang master of the rhubarb court, is still more like the monks more, only two Zen enlightenment two Zen temples, the ascetic monks of the Ragged Mountain, how to look at it all than the Wudang and the Dragon and Tiger to be more lovely. ”
Xu Fengyen was ready to return to the house by road, inadvertently saw the girl’s side face, froze for a moment and then was in a good mood, lifted up the package of beef in sauce, got up and laughed: “Sweet potatoes and green birds, I’m going to meet an acquaintance, you guys go back first.”
Xu Fengyen left the carriage and stood far away, waiting for all the Northern Liang iron horsemen to leave, before he walked towards the corner over there.
Xu Fengyen liked that not too familiar with the familiar girl, back then with the old Huang walked to Luangya County is the most downtrodden time, then happened to run into this little girl who ran away from home, claiming to walk the rivers and lakes as a warrior she still has a little bit of silver and copper left on the body, already very poor, with Xu Fengyen after the old Huang do not fight and not get acquainted with, generously on the invitation to the meal big fish and meat, and then completely penniless, the three of them together chilly and miserable for a month of time! The three of them, playing around, stealing chickens and dogs together, is also interesting, usually she looks out, His Highness the son and the old yellow adventure, escaping from the time to tie the two horns of the little ninny feet wind. In the end, she said she wanted to go to the south to see the sea, and separated, Xu Fengyen only knew that her surname was Li, and she liked to call herself Miss Li, if she called out to her as Mistress Li, it would make her happy for days even if she was hungry.
Xu Fengyen walked slowly, how come there is an extra little monk beside Mistress Li?
Her house is not a temple, right?
Thinking about this, Xu Fengyen, who was carrying beef in one hand, but gripped Xiudong.
That tantric monk, not simple.
When he got closer he heard very Miss Li style speech, where she crossed her arms to educate the little monk, “Stupid north and south, how many times have I said it? You can call me east east, or west west, just not allowed to call me something! Something something something, not bad?!”
Dressed in green bridesmaid light red robe of the little monk red lips and white teeth, appearance is very beautiful, even three years ago Xu Fengyen can see that his bones are clear. Only to hear the little monk weakly said, “Thing, I think your name is quite nice ah.”
Miss Li, who had already stopped tying the two horns in the sky, reached out and twisted the little monk’s ear, saying angrily, “Try shouting it again?”
The little monk didn’t know the slightest thing about seeing the wind, and foolishly said, “Something.”
The little girl was furious, jumped up and knocked the little monk who was a bit taller than her on the head, “Stupid! A thousand times ten thousand times dumber than Xu Fenian!”
The corner of Xu Fenian’s mouth hooked up.
See, there are still people in the world who have unique eyes.
The little monk hemmed and hawed, “Monks don’t lie. Shouting at you Li Zi, you’re going to hit me again.”
The little girl asked back aggressively: “Then I ask you, monks can like girls? Monks have to abstain from sex, understand?!”
The little monk wasn’t really stupid, his eyes squinted to the sky, pretending not to hear.
The little girl turned her head to look at the old beggar who swallowed his breath and didn’t get to eat the meat buns, looking a little bitter.
The little monk whispered, ”After buying the buns, we don’t have any money on us. I slipped out when I originally did not bring much, you spend money and ……”
After all, he did not dare to say the four words big spenders.
The little girl came angry, angrily said: “Early told you my father’s private money hidden in the bottom of the bed Toho, you don’t know more to steal some! You are not stupid is what?”
The little monk vainly said, “Steal more, back to the temple, the master will punish me to buy rouge powder for your mother.”
When the little girl heard rouge and powder, she became interested and no longer cared about the name calling, her eyes darted around.
The little monk saw her like this, hurriedly said, “Really no money.”
The little girl sighed.
Standing behind them, Xu Fengnian laughed out loud, “Miss Li, you want rouge and powder? I’ll buy it for you. The biggest rouge store in Liangzhou city has the ‘Green Swallow Branch’ that the palace concubines use, it’s not expensive, I don’t even need to spend money to buy it.”
The little girl turned around violently, saw Xu Fengyen who was no longer in a pudgy hemp shirt and straw shoes, she did not recognize him at once, and after measuring him for a long time, she jumped a little bit and said in surprise: “Xu Fengyen?!”
Xu Fengnian lifted the beef in sauce and laughed: “No?”
The little girl patted the chest of the small lotus, finally letting go of her heart, and smiled brightly, “I remember you said you were from Xiliang, I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to find you when I arrived in Liangzhou.”
Xu Fengnian smiled, “Don’t worry, when you get here, it’s harder to find me than to find me.”
The little girl did not go into deep thought, she was just happy.
The little monk did not react when he saw Xu Fenian, he was just there with a headache on how to dispose of a cage of meat buns, of course he himself could not eat it, and Li Zi did not love it either.
Xu Fengnian just wanted to take the little girl to the rouge store that regarded himself as a jackal, wolf, tiger and leopard, subconsciously embroidered winter knife to be sheathed.
The middle-aged Tantric monk just took a step forward.
The monk asked in an awkward accent, “You are Xu Fengnian? The eldest son of the Northern Liang King?”
Xu Fengnian smiled, “You are?”
The monk said in a calm tone, “The poor monk has come from the Western Region’s Mount Rotor, and would like to ask His Highness the World Son to head to Mount Rotor.”