Chapter 206 – Present and Melancholy
The white-robed monk came in a furious manner, Xu Fengnian’s face was a little embarrassed, not afraid, just inevitably a little weak. Under the sky, any father, who will not be annoyed that someone would dare to cheat their daughter son of a bitch? When Li things away from home to sneak out of the two Zen Temple walking rivers and lakes, carrying a small two hundred silver, it is estimated that her father in the temple of the scriptures accumulated for many years of family money, the results of the three of them, eating and drinking, and soon be poor, it is estimated that the heroine went home to say that leaks, to the white monks to bear a grudge on the? Xu Fengyen is in the wrong, had to force a smile, made up his mind to fight not to return the favor and scold not to return the favor. White monks walk fast with big steps, in fact, behind a woman, not much pretty, and smearing powder slightly thicker, the original Li something in the Wutong courtyard to hang half a catty of rouge on their faces, that is a family of ah. The white monk came to Xu Fengnian in front of the wind and fire, pointing to Xu Fengnian’s nose, he asked the teacher: “My daughter stuff and my disciple north and south, I heard that you kid earlier too much two dinner, they were driven to the Western Sichuan South Zhao, this is your Qingliang Mountain hospitality? Back to let me see the daughter if lost a few pounds, do you believe that I go to your door to scold the street to go?”
The woman who came beside the white-robed monk first smiled at Xu Fengnian, then tugged on Li Dangxin’s monk’s robe and whispered, “What do you mean, I’m not me, you have to call yourself a poor monk. Things back to the mountain after telling you how many times, high people should have high people’s temperament style, things do not always say that year with her traveling with the jianghu swordsman, what is it called, old yellow? She can see the identity of the master at a glance? Li dangxin, you look at you again, like words?”
White monk is obviously still angry, cold snort, only slightly changed his words: “Believe it or not the poor monk to go to Qingliang Mountain to scold the splash and roll to go? Poor monk today also just did not bring the knife that has been sharpened countless times ……”
The woman should be more than their own men out of the world, coughing, interrupting the white monk’s threatening words, turning his head to Xu Fengyen smiled and explained: “Your Highness, don’t listen to this bald man blindly, there is no such and such a knife is not a knife, in fact, it is the old presiding priest of our temple chopping wood chopping firewood thing, something that her father is just nostalgic for the old bald head … … … … Oh no, is to miss his master, so it, from time to time to take out to sharpen the knife, afraid of rust. The old abbot did not leave anything, but also a wood knife, a hand-copied vajra sutra, and that daily labor after returning to wash their hands in the vat, alas, wood knife and scripture is okay to say, take it on the take, that the cylinder on the sink some, only to be placed in the temple not to move, otherwise we things in the future dowry can be more than one object …… ”
The white monk helplessly said: “Which has the water tank as a daughter’s dowry reasoning.”
Woman white eyes: “Jiangnan Road how many celebrities prefer to use the bottom of the tank silt pots? It’s worth a lot of money!”
Xu Fengyen smiled and agreed: “Yes, I have seen Jiangnan Lu family of the Ministry of Rites Lu old Shangshu used a famous pot, it is the early years to go to the two Zen temple incense burning, trick with the old abbot asked for more than a dozen pounds of mud made.”
The woman instantly smiled, looking at this young feudal lord who did not have much of a stance more and more favorable, “Yes, yes, yes, yes!”
Then she glared at the white-robed monk, “Speak properly, don’t hurt the peace!”
Li Dangxin stroked his bald head, one thing leads to another, a daughter-in-law’s word is more effective than an imperial decree.
Han Gui at this time it is not easy to be able to interject, bowed and saluted: “Poverty small pillar peak green mountain view Han Gui, to the monk without Zen has been longing for.”
Li Dangxin looked at this Wudang Daoist who was not well known before the Buddhist-Daoist dispute, compared to his treatment of Xu Fengnian, there were a few more smiles, and he returned the salute with panache, “Real Han is courteous, this time the Lotus Peak three debates, you and I will be in the third one on the last day, I hope that Real Han will be merciful with his mouth when the time comes.”
Han Gui laughed: “Poverty Road Commission can not be the name of the real person, the two Zen monks call out the name of Han Taoist can be.”
Li Dangxin laughed, “Taoist Taoist, a person who has attained the Way, Taoist Taoist, a person who has proved the Way, Real Person Real Person, a person who seeks the truth. It is better for the poor monk to call you Real Man Han, if Wang Chonglou is here, the poor monk might as well call out Taoist Wang, if Hong Zaixiang is standing in front of him, then he should really honor the name of Taoist Hong.”
Han Gui smiled without saying anything.
Li Dangxin glanced at Han Gui’s clear eyes, converged the sharpness, softly lamented: “Your Wudang and Longhu Mountain is indeed not quite the same, if that gang of yellow and purple nobles heard this, not to mention the old Taoist priests of the Xi character generation, is the condensed character generation, at this moment should also be on fire and not clean.”
Han Gui calmly said: “It is not that Wudang Taoist compared to Longhu Mountain Tianshifu purity of mind longer, only the two mountains to practice different paths, but ultimately the same path, poor Taoist master and Wang Baojiao on Longhu Mountain old real Zhao Xituan, extremely respectful, several times to invite the old real person to come to my Wudang on the Tao, the old real person as long as each time passing through the Northern Liang, but also never because of the different portals and refused. Poor Tao then twice personally listen to the old real person Zhao said that the three religions are united, and benefited greatly.”
The white-robed monk laughed and asked, “If the poor monk remembers correctly, it was your Wudang Lu Zu who first advocated the unity of the three religions? Then may I ask whose unity is it in the end?”
Without thinking, Han Gui blurted out, “Lu Zu once said that the Tao is the same as the weapon, which is the root of the unity of the three religions. In my humble opinion, I don’t know what it is, but I do know what it is not. It is this one, may not be in the Zen to the depths of Zen no Zen can participate in the hands of Zen monks, may not be in today’s Wudang Mountain coincides with the extinction of the Buddha Shengdao, the same may not be in the mouth of those who are well read in poetry and books, the most good at talking about the mountain readers.”
Li Dangxin once again touched his bald head, his eyes seemed to be quite appreciative, nodded and apologized, “The poor monk was rude to test the waters three times, don’t blame Real Han.”
Han Gui laughed, “No harm, no foul.”
A group of people hiking in company, the white monk and Han Gui casually chatting about Wudang customs and people, neither Buddhist wit nor Taoist mystery, as if he met his old friend in his hometown, words are stepping on watermelon rinds sliding wherever they are. The white monk intentionally ignored Xu Fengnian, probably afraid that he could not help but find a knife to cut people to go? A man, meet rob his daughter-in-law, that is without saying anything to carry a knife to cut people, meet rob their own daughter, cut or not, in addition to that bold little brat in the end how the character is very key, and then it is necessary to look at the daughter of her mother’s attitude. At this time that Li something’s mother or the north and south of the little monk’s mother, Xu Fengyen is extremely pleasant, although not the mother-in-law look at the son-in-law more and more joyful eyes, but also like the road accidentally encountered a daughter of their own ideas of the younger generation of young people, talk about will not be how intentionally enthusiastic, but certainly will not be pulling down the face of the treatment. The woman is also a big heart boundless, at first there is some end posture, after all, the young man in front of you that is the number one person in the Northwest heavy clan, but soon it is water to water, nagging parents up, complaining about the territory of the Northern Liang, spend money is really great, especially when you things from the Northern Liang back to piggyback on a number of rouge and water powder, have long been used up, the results of her now go to the store in that Youzhou to take a look at that the price is really Dead expensive dead expensive.
Speaking of which, the woman is very thankful to Xu Fengyen a few sentences, said something that the daughter did not know the importance of leaving the Qingliang Mountain Wang Fu in one breath on the receipt of so many expensive gifts, and then the woman laughed to herself, frankly now want to pay her back the money that is absolutely can not be paid back, this trip to go in a hurry also did not bring back the gift, the family that the savings have long since been lost to her. Xu Fengyen listening to the woman has no qualms about revealing her shortcomings, Xu Fengyen face smile has not been broken, perked up his ears to eavesdrop on both sides of the movement of the little Taoist boy Qingxin on the strange, master of a Taoist priest with the famous known as “bodhisattva” of the white monks to talk about together is already strange enough, the king of the hall of the Northern Liang can talk to the woman! He can talk to that woman too?
White-robed monk Li Dangxin is the most important figure in the Lotus Peak controversy, as a contemporary two Zen temple presidency, itself is the world of Buddhism, and Xu Fengyen is also Wudang’s first-class honored guests, so this line of people went straight to the top of the mountain of the Wudang main viewpoint Ziyang Palace to land, Wudang originally did not have the habit of this kind of to give people three, six, nine, etc., but soon Wudang Mountain found that they do not pay attention to the mountaineering visitors are the most pay attention to mind, is to learn from the mouth of the guests, the original Wudang main viewpoint Ziyang Gong. Is a guest mouth to know, the original belongs to the Wudang Mountain Taoism nine palace thirty-six view, even in the jianghu has long had the seat of the points of the high and low difference, to be able to stay in the nine palace that is the most can show the official status and the status of the jianghu thing, if you can be among the thirty-six view in the upper eight view rest, it is worth to gloat a little bit, with the increase in the number of tourists, especially that the set of the Jiangnan Huainan two road family celebrities, many far away from the main peak of the lower eight view also people, the main peak, the main peak, the lower eight view also people, the main peak is a good place, but not the main peak. With the increase in the number of visitors, especially the arrival of the Jiangnan Huainan and Huainan Famous Clansmen, many of the lower eight guangs are far away from the main peaks and are overcrowded, so much so that they have to be closed.
When Xu Fengyen and the white-robed monk and his group walked in from the back door of Ziyang Palace, there was a little Taoist boy with clear eyebrows and eyes running to Han Gui in a hurry, crying and whispering: “Master uncle, there is a new group of honored guests on the mountain, and the Palmistry Master personally accompanied them to visit the main peak of the mountain, and the guests were not like the usual outsiders who made a lot of demands, and did not want to settle down and rest on the mountain, saying that it was a good idea for them to stay on the mountain. Mountain landing rest, said the town at the foot of the mountain inn booked a room, but the palm of the law of the real person personally said, said that these guests can not be slowed down, to us is to change also changed out of three or four quiet rooms, my master and a few uncles are anxious to death, it is not easy in the Purple Sun Palace only to find out two, and then really can not be done, near the top of the mountain of the Divine Heavenly Palace of the Void View are also difficult to say that even the woodsheds are also vacated to the guests to live, so we have not let the guests half of the room. So we can’t let half of the guests stay on the mountain and half come down, right?”
Xu Fengyen was practicing his sword on the mountain, and most of the Taoist priests of the Qing and Ning generations had met, and he was unforgettable, so he laughed and asked, “Little Taoist Master Ning and, who is it, such a big face?”
When the young Taoist once at the entrance of the mountain, accompanied that bull-riding Taishi uncle together to greet the person in front of him, naturally knew Xu Fengyen’s identity, the young Taoist hurriedly saluted and said, “Reporting back to the king, listening to Qingfeng master uncle said that it is the student of Mr. Han of Shangyin Palace of Learning.”
Xu Fengyen suddenly realized that he had previously received a spy report from Qingcang City in Liuzhou, saying that old Mr. Han had continued his westward journey to Ruoduo Mountain, but after hearing that Wudang Mountain was going to host a Buddhist-Daoist competition, he had let several of his disciples return to Liangzhou to meet up with that Immortal Man of Wine, Chang Sui, who had gone to the northern part of the Jixi alone in Wudang Mountain, and the old man had only brought his granddaughter, Han Guo Xiu, and those few escorts to continue the journey far and wide. At that time, Xu Fengyen only dared to hope that one of Han Gu Zi’s disciples could stay in Beiliang, if it was Xu Huang, a great master of art of war, that would be the best, if it was Sima Can, a free-spirited vertical and horizontal scholar, that would be good as well. Now hearing this news, Xu Fengyen felt some regret, if only one or two people came to Wudang Mountain, most likely it is the nail in the coffin to serve for Northern Liang, but even Chang Sui came, I’m afraid it means that one will not stay in Northern Liang. Xu Fengyen sighed in his heart and laughed: “Ning and the little Taoist priest, you go and tell your master, just say that let the king’s room to this group of guests, the king guesses that it’s always not difficult to live in that room for two or three people.”
How could the little Taoist monk dare to take this.
Han Gui softly said, “Ning He, just follow the king’s orders to act like this, and also, let me and Qing Xin’s house to the guests as well ……”
Without waiting for Han Gui to finish speaking, the young Taoist priest blurted out, “Senior uncle, how can this be done? Little Pillar Peak Green Mountain View and Lotus Peak can be more than ten miles of mountain road away! Qingxin …… Qingxin senior uncle is exhausted every time he comes to Lotus Peak to find us to play …… No, no, no, it’s to come to Lotus Peak to help Senior Uncle Ancestor borrow books …… ”
The more the little Taoist monk of the Ning character generation said the lower his voice, Han Gui’s disciple Qingxin little Taoist boy could not wait to dig a hole in the ground to drill down, finished, this time back to Castle Peak Guan will not be able to avoid being punished for copying the canonical books ten times.
The white-robed monk turned his head to his daughter-in-law and tsked: “Look at the younger generation on the mountain, more toward their elders, and stupid north and south of a piece of play of those few little bald, can all day to think of cheating food and drink in our home.”
The woman laughed and said, “Wrong, it is clearly all aimed at our daughter. The little monks I see on the road in the temple are so unkempt, but every time they go to our house, which time they are not wearing freshly cleaned and tidy monk’s robes?”
The white-robed monk became furious: “There’s such a thing?!”
The woman said with blank eyes, “You just realized that?”
The white-robed monk said angrily, “Those little bald heads just don’t want to be knocked around, and the stupid north and south are even more stupid, this is not luring wolves into the house, what is it?!”
The woman did not have the good sense to say, “Knock, knock, knock, knock out one by one epiphany is good, so as to save the need for you to be the presiding officer who does not take any money but only gives out money.”
In the end, Han Gui and the little Taoist boy went to a Palm Ruler Chen Carefree’s Qing generation of disciples to borrow a place to stay, while Xu Fenian went to the halfway point of the mountain to practice the sword to wash the elephant pond thatched hut to stay a night, before going down the mountain, Xu Fenian first white monk sent to the room where he stayed, Han Gui was the first to take his leave to leave, at this time, Wudang Mountain, everyone was busy with a busy, Han Gui, in addition to the responsible for the access to the Ziyang Palace, in fact, there is still a whole bunch of matters to be busy at hand. In fact, all generations of Taoist priests on the mountain know very well that Han Gui is going to take charge of the future, after all, even the old master Wang Chonglou also said that Han Gui’s heart is the most stable, and even Hong Zaixiang also joked half-truthfully and half-faithfully that the mountain is full of cinnamon trees in the Xiaozhu Peak, which is the most suitable for Han Gui, who has the word “cinnamon” in his name, to cultivate and realize the Tao. And such as Wudang Mountain today only surviving Chen Carefree Yu Xingrui two highest seniority real person, to Han Gui this uncontested younger generation also extremely valued.
Xu Fengyen sent to the threshold, the white monk pushed the door and suddenly turned around and asked, “Have you seen the poor monk’s uncle?”
Xu Fengnian froze for a moment before he realized that he was talking about the chicken soup monk under the Little Rotten Mountain in the Western Region, the old monk was precisely the elder brother of the Dragon Tree Sacred Monk, nodded his head and said, “I can fight with Topaz Bodhisattva without dying …….”
Li Dangxin waved his hand, “People are dead, who are the good words for.”
Xu Fengnian fell silent, speechless.
The white-robed monk let out a sigh and said sentimentally, “But then again, Shifu was able to land the lotus in his heart thanks to you showing up. Back then, I traveled ten thousand miles west alone, it is the master uncle can not rest assured, the intention is to go to the western region of that place to pick me up to return to the two Zen temple, did not think that that time to stop, stopped for twenty years or so. The poor monk’s epiphany said, why not benefit from the teacher uncle’s insights. Okay, one thing is one thing, the matter of the daughter, not yet finished. However, the master uncle can fall lotus flower, I have to thank you.”
Li Dangxin bowed her head and folded her hands.
Xu Fenian folded his hands and gently returned the salute.
When Xu Fenian left, the white-robed monk closed the door, the woman sat on a chair rubbing her calf stomach and laughed, “What about the daughter, there is only one, north and south stupid, in the end, it’s been a family for a long time. Alas, it would be good if I had two daughters.”
Li Dangxin muttered in a low voice: “Even if there are two daughters, I’m not happy to be this kid’s old man! If I see him once, I’ll drive him away with a broom!”
The woman unprecedentedly did not fight, softly said: “Earlier with this child chatting all the way, I talked about our family things too much playfulness, he accompanied me to chat, also said a word inadvertently, quite interesting, to the effect that when he was a child is really naughty and unruly, when he was young, always disliked the elders of such and such a variety of constraints, and the result is not easy to wait until their own Grew up, suddenly realized that no one scolded him when he made a mistake, but instead, he missed being a child.”
The white-robed monk leaned against the back of the chair, rubbing his bald head.
For some reason, it was also a bit nostalgic for the scenes of his own childhood when he gave his master a jab in the ear.
Before Xu Fengyen walked out of Ziyang Palace, a head of the water whisking room spies and a lieutenant whose jurisdiction was located near Wudang Mountain showed up together, both of them were dressed in plain clothes no different from the ordinary incense burners, seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to report to the king, which made Xu Fengyen kinda look like a nobleman who carried his family servants and mansions on a trip, today there was no cold family in the Ziyang Palace, most of them were outlanders who had a deep relationship with the officialdom of Huagai County and even the whole Beiliang, the Everyone is either rich or noble, or else it’s Xu Huang Sima Can, the “jianghu dispersed people” who are powerful enough to look down on princes and lords. It is said that even the eldest son of the assassin of Hezhou and the daughter of the assassin of Jizhou have jointly climbed the mountain, but still not allowed to stay in the Ziyang Palace, but only in the Divine Heavenly Palace.
Xu Fengyen listened to the two men’s concise and respectful report, there was nothing to give orders, near the Elephant Wash Pond, let them busy themselves. Conversation is not much, but those two are still honored, whether it is the deep city of the great spies, or known as a stable nature of the actual lieutenant, look at each other, are full of smiles that can not be hidden. This kind of from the bottom of the heart with honor, is the other officialdom that with the officialdom big brother close to mix a familiar face mentality, in fact, there is a world of difference. Xu Fengyen revisited, only to find that the silence of the year no one washed the pool is so lively and extraordinary, can be called than shoulder to shoulder, a question to know seems to be two people to be in the pool that boulder on top of the martial arts, very simple rules, who fell from the stone into the pool water even if who loses. Xu Fengyen really can’t squeeze to the edge of the pool to go, can only stand in the place of fifty paces away from the washing of elephants pool, there are many people in the flow of the front chest hanging a bamboo box vendors to and from the shuttle hawking shouting, mouth yells “to see the masters over the fight, can’t not float a big white of our northern Liang’s green ants wine”, or else”. Buy two jugs of wine, complimentary king of Northern Liang in the Wudang Mountain martial arts quotes a”. Pool boulder on the two masters battle is in full swing, Xu Fengyen ears are roaring applause, look around, only when the two masters jumped up high to see the two silhouettes, a knife and a sword, sword light and shadow, interplay, which is probably the so-called floating as a shocking it.
Xu Fengyen somehow got excited, with a certain peddler bought some melons and jujubes, with most of the spectators as tiptoe heel stretching neck, listening to the side of the spectators a shocking explanation of moves, some self-deprecating, look at other people fighting is how grand, spectators such as clouds, applauding the sound of the heavens, compared to their own and Topaz Bodhisattva then final battle of the alleyway fighting, can be much more powerful than the countless ah. Yes, it seems that this is the Jianghu that he dreamed of when he was young. Xu Fengyen slowly kowtow melon seeds, listening to the ears do not charge him half a copper coin friendly introduction, very cozy. According to the side of those gossip is the most well-informed ear of the newspaper God, Xu Fengyen learned that the two young knight-errantry who are soundly displaying their hands, in the jianghu can not be any nameless juniors, Huishan Daxue Ping elected the new world ten, which wear the famous sword “five bunch of vegetative” jianghu Junyan, it is one of the master’s direct disciple of the best friend! A good friend. A little far away? Can an ordinary cat or dog be related to the disciple of one of the new top ten masters in the world? As for the local young man of Beiliang who used the sword, it is even more important, it is said that even the king of Beiliang, Xu Fengyen, also cherished his talent, and even personally instructed two or three strokes of the sword technique.
Hearing this, Xu Fengyen couldn’t help but bare his teeth even more than earlier when he heard that Miss Thing had once claimed to have seen through Old Huang’s expert status with a single glance. Just when Xu Fengyen was a bit melancholy, the crowd was forced to squeeze through, Xu Fengyen turned his head to look, it was two men walking side by side, both with solemn expressions, one holding a long sword in his arms, and one with his hands behind his back, as if he was about to take part in a peak battle to compete for the name of the world’s top ten, Xu Fengyen had to follow the crowd beside him to give way to the two great masters, it turned out to be that the two young warriors in the giant stone after the battle, it was going to be the turn of the two more important Jianghu masters. The two jianghu weight heavier martial arts warrior on stage. A jianghu person “Jiangnan Meiyu sword”, a jianghu nickname “Central Plains Dragon”, listen, can have such a respectful nickname, will not be a warrior?
Xu Fengyen gave way to the two warriors at the same time, thought to himself as if so far there is nothing out of the nicknames ah, is a little bit uncharacteristic, when the four people together down and out in the wilderness, not to mention that gave himself a large series of nicknames of the female warrior Li things, the other two can be there. Xu Fengnian sighed and sighed, kowtowing to the melon, not only is the moment melancholy, the crotch is a little melancholy.