Chapter 84: The Woman in White
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"Shopkeeper, what's going on?" The white-clothed man who came down the stairs saw everyone in front of the cabinet, his brows furrowed slightly, and he asked in a faint voice. Li Jing stepped forward, but before he got close to the white-clothed man, the two attendants behind the boy were already in front of him, "Hugh has to step forward!" ”
Two soft reprimands but with a soft female voice, only then did Li Jing smell a faint fragrance. He looked up and realized that the two guards standing in front of him were actually two young women. Looking at the white-clothed man behind them, it turned out to be a fresh and refined beauty.
Li Jing paused slightly, and sighed in his heart that Datang was really open, and he could meet a woman in men's clothes anywhere, and his eyes couldn't help but stay on the woman in white for a while. The woman in white was a little annoyed by Li Jing's gaze, and a pair of pretty eyes glared at Li Jing fiercely. The two maids of the protector were already coquettish, and their hands were already pressed on the hilt of the sword.
Feeling rude, Li Jing hurriedly retracted his gaze and arched his hand and said: "Li Jing has seen this son in Xia Qingning Township, and he was rude just now, please forgive me." ”
When the son-in-law heard this, the expression on her face was slightly better, and she snorted lightly in her mouth, and she didn't look at Li Jing anymore, so she motioned for the maid to continue going downstairs. Li Jing blocked the front, and arched his hand again: "It's getting late now, and I missed other mansions, and now there is only one here, and I heard that it was taken by the son." There seem to be only a few people in Xiaguan, and I don't know if I can admit my favor and give up other vacant rooms and warehouses to Zaixia. I am willing to bear all the costs. ”
The woman seemed to be in a hurry, and she didn't want to entangle with Li Jing more, so she nodded, and said in a somewhat cold tone: "Shopkeeper, arrange a building for them." ”
"One building is not enough, this general has more than a hundred men and horses, and dozens of carts." The shopkeeper was stuck between the two, and he was also a little embarrassed. As soon as the man in white made a move, he took over the entire mansion, which shows that he is not an ordinary person. And the later one is even more simple, with more than 100 people directly around him, with clear swords and guns.
Hearing the shopkeeper call Li Jing a general, and he also brought hundreds of people and horses with him, the woman's eyes couldn't help but freeze for a moment. The next moment, her attitude changed slightly, and she also clasped her fists at Li Jing and saluted: "I don't know if a general is coming, the shopkeeper will leave us the Tianzilou where we live, and take the rest to this general and his subordinates." This general, there is still something to do next, farewell! After speaking, he smiled slightly at Li Jing, walked past Li Jing with two maids, and walked out of the mansion directly.
Looking at the distant back, Li Jing frowned slightly, and then called the shopkeeper to settle the team. In his heart, Li Jing was still a little curious about this woman in white, and only three people actually wrapped up the entire mansion. Didian is not an ordinary inn, in the early Tang Dynasty, Didian and Dian were two different business places operated separately. "Di" originally referred to a warehouse where goods were stacked, and "shop" originally referred to a place where goods were sold.
After the early Tang Dynasty, in addition to stacking goods, Didian also began to live with merchants. After the merchant brought the goods to the store, the owner of the shop and the tooth man acted as intermediaries for the merchants, selling the goods or buying the goods. In this way, the store has developed into a place for merchants to trade, with a variety of properties, such as warehouses, hostels, and shops. The store collects the value of the house and the rent of the stack. Due to the huge profits, after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the aristocratic bureaucrats and temples also opened Di shops, so a large number of Di shops emerged, in Chang'an, Luoyang and other big cities around the market, there are less than 100 places, more than 3 or 400 places. In the late Tang Dynasty, even in the suburbs and villages, there were also mansions. Some Jiedu envoys even set up mansions and shops on the main roads of the pass and forcibly levied the merchant tax.
In general, Didian is a large hotel with warehouses, shops, hotels, and restaurants. Those who can open a mansion are not simple people, and those who only have three people living in the hotel and have to wrap up the entire mansion in one go are even more difficult.
Li Jing had just arranged the accommodation of the team below with the shopkeeper, and Li Hui'er and Yu Youniang, two happy guys who didn't know where to play just now, appeared again, and as soon as they saw Li Jing, they wanted to take him to Fahua Temple.
"San Lang, I heard that Fahua Temple is the largest temple in Dengzhou, and when you get to the foot of the Buddha Gate Mountain, how can you not go up the mountain to worship the Buddha. You grew up here, and you have to take us up the mountain to worship the Buddha yourself. Li Hui'er is always so hot, and on him, Li Jing has never seen the royal demeanor of a princess in his impression. However, when he saw the expectant eyes of Yu Youniang next to him, he couldn't say anything if he refused. Yu Xuan asked him to take care of Yu Youniang when he left, especially after Li Jing knew that Yu Youniang's bad marriage, he couldn't help but feel a little more pity for this junior sister.
"Okay, it's not dark yet, I'll take you up the mountain, but let's go and get back quickly." Li Jing remembered that the Han family had also asked him to go to Fahua Temple to buy sesame oil and make a wish, but later he never had the opportunity to go up the mountain after he was in Chishan Town. Although Li Jing did not believe in gods and Buddhas in his heart, he remembered that he had promised Han, so he planned to go up the mountain to accompany the two aunts and grandmothers.
Chizan Hokkeji Temple belongs to the Tiantai sect and recites the Lotus Sutra. This temple is the largest Buddhist temple in the whole of Dengju, but this temple was only built for 50 years, and this temple was built by the Silla native Jang Baozhen, and the temple was also recited by a group of Silla monks, as well as a small number of Japanese monks from the Tang Dynasty who lived here.
A temple built by the Silla people, a group of Silla monks and Japanese monks chant sutras, but the incense of Hohwasa Temple is very vigorous. However, 30 years ago, Tang Wuzong ordered the extermination of the Buddha, and with the instigation of the Taoist priest Zhao Guizhen and the support of the prime minister Li Deyu, in April of the fifth year of Huichang, he ordered to check the number of monasteries and monks in the world. In May, he ordered Chang'an and Luoyang to stay in two temples on the left and right streets, and each temple had 30 monks. Each county in the world has a temple, the temple is divided into three classes, 20 people in the upper temple, 10 people in the middle temple, and 5 people in the lower temple. In August, the temples of the world were demolished within a time limit; There are more than 4,600 temples in the world and 40,000 Lanruo (private monks' residences).
This time the Buddha was destroyed, most of the Hokkaiin Temple was also destroyed, the golden bronze statues were destroyed, and even several halls were demolished. However, after the death of Wuzong, his uncle Xuanzong succeeded to the throne, because before Xuanzong ascended the throne, he had escaped from the palace, and even became a monk among the people, so he began to worship the Buddha again in Xuanzong and Yizong. Especially during the time of Tang Yizong, he himself indulged in it, built Buddhist temples, built Buddha statues, and gave countless money. Under the advocacy of Yizong, the large-scale Dharma dojo flourished unprecedentedly, and the sound of the Buddha in the Chang'an Buddhist Temple began to resound and praise the true body of the Bodhisattva. Before he died, he also held another large-scale Buddha worship activity after Xianzong, and went to Famen Temple to worship Buddha bones.
The Buddha's bones have only entered the door, and the dragon has cried in the wilderness.
However, as soon as Tang Yizong welcomed the Buddha bones into the door, the funeral car carrying his coffin had already accompanied the crying of everyone to the cemetery. However, it is precisely because of the re-worship of Buddhism by Xuanzong and Yizong father and son that Buddhism in various parts of the Tang Dynasty has flourished again. Because there were many good men and women, especially because the temple was built by the Silla people and the monks were also Silla, the Silla immigrants and Silla merchants along the coast of Dengju all donated a lot, and today, the scale of the temple is only comparable to the original.
Walking all the way to the mountain gate, although it is already dusk, but the pilgrims who go up the mountain to worship the Buddha are still continuous. There are no fewer people who go up the mountain than those who go down. Not only did the Silla immigrants from the nearby Silla Village and Silla Fang come, but even the nearby Tang Dynasty people also came in an endless stream. There are even a lot of people like Li Jing who come on horseback, and there are many people with noble status who are richly dressed.
Following the flow of people who entered the incense up the mountain, Li Jing took Li Huier and the two of them to the Daxiong Treasure Hall first. The Daxiong Hall enshrines a giant Buddha statue of Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, and his eldest disciple Dakyamya and his second disciple Ananda are separated on both sides; On the back wall are statues of Manjushri and Puxian; On the left and right walls are eighteen arhats, giving people a solemn and majestic feeling.
Li Jing bought a hundred catties of sesame oil from a monk who knew the guest and donated it, and the monk smiled more kindly at Li Jing, and even claimed that Li Jing was a person destined for Buddhism. He smiled in his heart, this sesame oil was just donated by the Han family, if it was himself, he would never be willing to donate money to the monks, not to mention that this is still a group of Silla monks. The monk saw that Li Jing was generous, and saw that the two people next to Li Jing were female guests in men's clothes, and seeing that they were extraordinary and luxuriously dressed, he smiled more kindly and encouraged them to draw lots.
Naturally, there must be donations to draw lots, and Li Jing is not interested in this kind of statement that claims to be able to see through the fate of others. He himself is a traveler, and he knows the world for thousands of years, so how can he need others to see through the fog for him? However, Li Huier and Yu Youniang are very eager and interested in this. Li Jing didn't want to follow to listen to those nonsense, so the two of them followed to draw lots, and he simply accompanied the sunset to visit this Chishan Buddhist Temple, which was regarded as a tour.
Li Jing believed in the reins alone, but he was just wandering alone, and he didn't go to the crowded palace, but walked to the quiet place. Under the corridor in the forest, it is also very comfortable. After walking around for a while, he walked to a quiet and unmanned courtyard wing, Li Jing was also a little tired and wanted to go up and ask for water to drink. As soon as he knocked on the door, he found that the door was just hidden, and he tapped it lightly, and the door opened silently.
The courtyard was silent, and Li Jing could even hear the sound of leaves falling on the ground. Looking left and right, Li Jing walked towards the wing room with the seven-foot sword at his waist, leaving a line of shallow footprints on the ground.
In front of the chamber hall, Li Jing looked up, it turned out that this was the Dragon Maiden Palace, the golden boy and jade girl beside Guanyin Bodhisattva.
As soon as the door was pushed open, the first thing that caught my eye was not the dragon girl, but a familiar figure. I saw one of the two waitresses of the white-clothed man I had just seen in the Yamashita Mansion before, covered in blood, with a blood-stained sword tip protruding under the collarbone on the left chest, vomiting blood in his mouth, his face was as white as paper, and he was obviously seriously injured. Between the lightning and flint, Li Jing quickly swept the hall, only to see the woman in white and the other maid he had seen before, surrounded by four or five black-clothed swordsmen at this time.