In the middle of summer, the heat is not inferior to that of southern Xinjiang.

With the assembly of the army in the country and the southward crusade, many Chinese people and Hu Yongli who had been swaggering in the capital of Xiangguo were conscripted into the army, so that the security in Xiangguo City was improved, and it was no longer as chaotic as before.

It is located in a garden villa in Chongrenli, Xiangguo, the trees are shady within the high wall, the slender and dense moso bamboo is miscellaneous, and there are a hundred flowers in full bloom to compete for beauty, and the garden scenery is dizzying.

There is an attic up to two zhang in the garden, the upstairs is wrapped with colored satin to shade the sun, and the downstairs bends the water to circulate to dispel the heat, which is a very elegant place. At this time, on the upper floor of the attic, several people were seated in order, looking intently at an old man with a snow-white beard and white hair sitting in the middle of the attic.

The old man is Yan Mu, and to this day, he has a great reputation in Xiangguo, and every time he opens the altar to talk about the scriptures, many people are present.

Everyone in the attic was listening to Yan Mu's preaching on Taixuan, and suddenly there was a lot of noise outside the building, and everyone looked at it together, only to see a group of people walking through the bamboo forest to this place. The high-crowned person who was surrounded by these was none other than Cheng Yao, an important minister of the Qiang Kingdom.

Cheng Yao can be described as a spring breeze recently, there are greetings in daily life, there is no lack of scenery in and out, at this time, around him, there is no lack of old Jin people, but also many new military leaders of Zhuhu.

Walking near the attic, Cheng Yao paused, looked back at the crowd, and everyone stopped, and sent Cheng Yao into the building one after another.

When Cheng Yao went up to the attic, several people in the building also stood up and bowed to one side.

Regarding the etiquette of others, Cheng Yao only responded slightly, walked a few steps to Yan Mu's seat, and saw that Yan Mu was about to get up, so he hurriedly raised his hand and said: "I, a layman, have turbidity with me, and it is already rude to disturb Yan Shijun Xuanjing with a cheeky face, how dare I move my body again." ”

After Yan Mu heard this, he no longer stood up stubbornly, and signaled the newly accepted disciples to quickly prepare a couch to invite Cheng Yao to the table, and then said with a smile: "There are demons in the country, and it is not easy to do the Tao, if it is not for Cheng Gong's full help, the people of this township will have to lose the Tao for a long time. ”

After hearing this, Cheng Yao said with a smile: "If you don't suffer from the suffering, you can't worry about the way, Shijun has this sincere Taoist heart, how can anyone who has a heart for this be a bystander." I just did what I had to do, Siyi entered China, and said that it was rampant in the world, which was what I regretted in the Central Plains, and I only hated and did not have the mystery of heaven to break this Buddha. Shijun entered the country and broke through, which is a great blessing for everyone. ”

What these two men said was a recent incident. Earlier, Yan Mu gradually became famous, which caused the dissatisfaction of some Hu monks in Xiangguo, and they made an appointment to discuss the law. When it comes to lip service, Yan Mu is still able to travel among famous families in Jiangdong, and there is no shortage of mysteries in the intersection. Today's Buddhist teachings are still a lot of crudeness, and most of these monks are pretending to confuse the world, so it is even more difficult to have any profound attainments, and they are dumbfounded by strict refutation in a few words.

Although they lost the argument, these monks refused to give up, and privately invited a group of Hu people to drive Yan Mu out of Xiangguo. Or Cheng Yao came to help, not only severely punishing those monks, but also giving away garden villas and enshrined Yan Mu here.

Cheng Yao came to visit, and the rest of them didn't want to stay and bother, so they left one after another, and only Qian Feng stayed as Yan Mu's disciple.

"The terroir of the Central Plains is different from that of southern Xinjiang. Shiyi lives here, can he still enter the world? I am riddled with chores, and I have no time to serve Shijun for a long time, and I have to work hard for you to wait and see. ”

After everyone retreated, Cheng Yao said to Qian Feng with a smile. Although he has never been in Jiangdong, he has also heard the name of Qian Feng, and there is no lack of curiosity about him. In particular, the lord Wang Dundu, who was assisted by his people, has been defeated and died, but Qian Feng was able to escape into the northern country with disfigurement, and such an experience added a bit of mystery to this person.

Qian Feng did not hide his identity, of course, he did not take the initiative to reveal it, it was really Liu Kui who already knew his true identity, and he wanted to contact Cheng Yao, and it was impossible for Liu Kui to take the risk for him to conceal it. However, fortunately, he does not have a good reputation in Jiangdong, and the close relationship with the Shen family is even a little uncertain even for Liu Kui, a person who fled from the south, and Cheng Yao is unlikely to associate too much with this, but there will be no danger because of this.

Guanglu asked, Feng really didn't dare to be. It is a great blessing in life that the crippled body can still survive. When I meet Master Yan again, I am even more loved by the sky, and I dare to slack off. ”

Qian Feng personally presented buttermilk to the two of them, and then avoided sitting next to him to copy the scriptures, as if he didn't pay attention to anything outside his body, but it really looked like everything was lost after the rest of his life.

Although I am a little curious about Qian Feng, it stops there. After the greetings, Cheng Yao's attention was still on Yan Mu, and after chatting a few words, he said with a smile: "Please see you today, I still want to invite a few more doses of Xuansan to Shijun." There have been a lot of troubles lately, and if you don't have this pleasure, you will be sleepy and tired, and you will be tired of eating. ”

After Yan Mu heard this, he asked his disciple to take some cold food and powder in the jade box, handed it to Cheng Yao, and then said: "Although this is interesting, it should be stopped." ”

When Cheng Yao heard this, he was a little vigilant, and frowned slightly: "There is no lack of poison in the scattering, and I have also heard about it." But that's the bad skills of laypeople who can't reach the mysteries, but Yan Shijun's skills are mysterious, can't he be exempted from this harm? ”

"There is a mystical pleasure in the scattering, which is not something that the laity can hold, and the mediocre harm himself, and it doesn't stop at this end. Violence to seek death, treachery to kill life, are all ways to take death, how can you take the blame for eating alone? ”

Yan Mu is well versed in this, and naturally has his own set of rhetoric and theories, there are many people in this world who have taken their own way to death, and in comparison, the proportion of people who die after being dispersed is already small.

Cheng Yao agreed with Yan Mu's crooked reasoning, and nodded after hearing the words: "The brave man has a grudge, the fighting spirit conspires to die, and the life and death of a person is a blessing or a curse, after all, it still depends on the trade-offs of his own heart. ”

"However, it is not a pleasure that ordinary people can enjoy. If you often indulge in this, such as fish and shrimp exposed to the mountain beams, animals drowning in deep streams, how can you not be harmed? This is not the poison of loose food, but the non-part of people. Cheng Gong is not lacking in elegance, but he is also entangled in chores, and he can't stay quiet for a long time, so he is still pleasant and comfortable, and he can't do it for a long time. ”

After Cheng Yao heard this, he nodded again and again: "If I wasn't fortunate to meet Yan Shijun, how could I hear more of such virtuous voices and be taught." It's a pity that many people in the world have mundane dust to cover their eyes and distracted thoughts, like Yan Shijun, who keeps true knowledge alone, but has become an outlier in the world. ”

Qian Feng had already honed the depth of the city, and his mood was not good, but when he heard Cheng Yao's admiration for Yan Mu, the cantilever calligraphy brush still subconsciously paused, leaving a little ink mark on the paper.

Cheng Yao didn't pay much attention to this, and began to ask about the harm that laymen like him would have if they had to be dissipated often.

Yan Mu naturally has another set of rhetoric, which not only makes Cheng Yao wary of this, so that he will not be afraid of loose food like a snake and scorpion, but also strengthens his brand concept by the way: "The mystery of happiness is a wonderful realm that can only be achieved by internal and external cultivation." Under the pretense of external forces, it is a pedestrian path after all. If the person who does this does not know the wonderful realm, and the difference between what is done is the slightest difference, and the severity is missed, then the person who receives the Dharma will inevitably lose his spirit from the body, and his will be lost in nothingness, although he is alive like death, and he is still alive like death, and this is the so-called obsession with the mysteries, and he must not be cautious. ”

Hearing the mystery of Yan Mu's words, Cheng Yao became interested again, discussing how people can become alive but look like they are dead for a long time.

After more than an hour, outside the attic, Cheng Yao's family announced that he was summoned in the garden, so Cheng Yao ended the discussion with Yan Mu unsatisfactorily, and sighed regretfully: "It seems that I still have to stop outside the Xuanmen after all, and now the country is used for the side, and everything inside and outside the country, the lord has paid me, and it is really difficult to have too much leisure to travel around Xuanxiang with Yan Shijun, so I will leave for the time being, and I will come again to ask for advice in the future." ”

After finishing speaking, he stood up, and Qian Feng got up and sent him out of the attic.

Walking outside the attic, when they were about to separate, Cheng Yao's heart moved, and he stood outside the building and looked at Qian Feng and asked: "Shiyi also grew up in Jiangdong, and there is a rare high wisdom among Nanshi. In your opinion, what will be the result of King Zhongshan's use of things in the south this time? ”

After Qian Feng heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Barbarian folk customs, less peek at the size of the Central Plains; Born in the world, it is difficult to think about the sad hometown. I really don't dare to talk about big things, so as not to pollute the light and the eyes. ”

"Shiyi is too modest, what you have failed is just because you are not a human being, if you have long obeyed the lord of China, you are definitely not a backward generation. Right now, it's also idle talk, and if you talk about it, I will listen to it. ”

Cheng Yao said with a smile.

"In that case, Na Feng didn't hesitate to ask."

So Qian Feng sighed for a while and then said: "The courage of the King of Zhongshan, Feng is rare. However, the people of the ancient destiny of heaven have their own good omen, and they have heard a little about the old things in the north, and they should be different from this kind of mountain king, but they are narrowly better than ordinary people. The Central Plains is vast, but Nanxiang also has its own strength. In the past, Wei Wenbing dun the river, and once sighed that the sky was limited to the north and the south. From this point of view, this time we may be able to accumulate a small amount of merit, but it is really difficult to connect the north and the south. ”

After Cheng Yao heard this, he pointed at Qian Feng and laughed: "Qian Shiyi's argument still stops at the old tune after all. Since the Lord's work, the revolution of heaven and earth has changed from the present, and it is by no means an old tune, nor is it a narrow-minded ability. But after all, you were born in the Southern Wilderness, and if you are biased or unkind, you don't have to be stupid. ”

"Feng is also brave to make a statement, if it is the lord of the country, it is not a vulgar eye. But the king of Zhongshan ...... Alas, I also talk about the big with the small, and I dare not say it deeply. ”

After Qian Feng finished speaking, he said goodbye to Cheng Yao and turned around and returned to the attic.

After Cheng Yao heard this, he was slightly stunned, and then he couldn't help but guess Qian Feng's unfinished meaning. He didn't think what Qian Feng said was so subtle, Nanshi was trapped in knowledge after all. But Qian Feng's words about the King of Zhongshan were not favored by Heaven, which made Cheng Yao think a little. A few years ago, the king of Zhongshan was defeated, and the lord personally came forward to clean up the mess.