Section 32: Li Er's self-abuse
Li Er watched the hawkers, beggars, scholars, and nobles on the street, and he even followed a monk holding a bowl to watch him go door-to-door.
The monk is already very old, he hangs his own degree on his chest, proving that he is a real monk, he wants to build a small temple, the people of Yuezhou seem to respect the old monk very much, each family will have a master to put two copper coins in the bowl, some women will give him some rice balls, or dry food, the old monk will receive alms will be sincerely grateful, from the street to the end of the street, his bowl has been filled with copper coins, the old monk no longer goes to the fate, handed over a bowl of copper coins to the shopkeeper of a timber shop, and begged for a bowl of water, He sat under the eaves and ate the dry food given by the donor, and his long eyebrows danced in the wind, and his expression was satisfied and calm.
"The master must be a high-ranking monk, why do you want to do such a frivolous thing?" Li Er walked up to him and asked the old monk.
"Cheap? Why didn't the old monk know? One hundred and twenty-five households in this street, each family gave two copper coins to the old monk, and promised a good fate, everyone wished the old monk to build the temple as soon as possible, and the old monk collected these good karma and made them into a temple that could calm the mind and guard the heart. β
Li Er did not argue, took out two coins from his sleeve and put them in the old monk's bowl, the old monk smiled and returned the money to Li Er and said: "Yuezhou is rich, there is no shortage of money here, the old monk collects not money but grand wishes, gods, the reason why the Buddha is effective, is to rely on the wishes of good believers to be able to be Quartet, the donor has no love for Buddhism, there are no ghosts and gods in his heart, these two coins are just money, there is no good thought with the money is harmful to the temple, the donor please take it back." β
The old monk may have felt tired, so he sat down again and found a rice ball and continued to eat his lunch.
"I'll give you money. You have to take it, giving you money is my greatest kindness, whether you want to or not, you must buy these two coins into the pillars of the temple, my words cannot be violated. β
The old monk looked up at Li Er, then looked at Duan Hong and the shadowy guards in the distance, sighed, and took the money from Li Er, folded his hands and said, "Amitayus Buddha." All iniquity shall be upon me. Then he took the sack on his back and left the street with his bowl.
"Order, order is very important, no matter what method you use to promote your ideas, you must abide by order, you can't do whatever you want in the name of benevolence, and order needs me to formulate, and only I can collect money from the people!"
Hearing Li Er's words, Duan Hong was very strange. I don't understand why His Majesty wants to bully an old monk with kind eyebrows, this old monk must be very extraordinary, he is full of anger, but he is very comfortable to stay by the old monk's side, just like bathing in the spring breeze, Duan Hong does not understand Buddhism, but he knows that it is not true compassion that cannot give him such feelings.
Li Er laughed, like a child who had succeeded in mischief. I auctioned out a gold coin and ate a bowl of tofu brain at a small stall, regardless of whether the small vendor could find it or not. He told the vendor that he had to find the change before he finished eating, and if he didn't find it, don't blame him for eating white food.
The disdainful gazes of the hawkers and other diners made Duan Hong just want to get into the cracks in the ground, but Li Er didn't care, he ate the tofu brain in a big gulp, and kept praising the good taste.
Wait until Li Er finishes eating the tofu brain. When I was about to find my own head, I saw the vendor take out a basket from under the table, and the basket was full of copper of different denominations, and the peddler was looking for the copper with the smallest denomination, but there was really no smallest. That's when I took the face value a little larger, and after a while, I counted a lot of them.
Li Er didn't dare to provoke the bright body, but he was not polite to the Duanhong peddler, let Duanhong lift the hem of the robe, and poured those coppers on the robe that Duanhong had in his pocket, and said in his mouth: "There are many nobles in Yuezhou City, and there are not a few people who eat a bowl of tender tofu on the villain's stall without copper. I'll make it up to you. β
Duan Hong's nose is about to be crooked, although he is a eunuch, but it is the first time that he has been pointed at by outsiders, looking back at Li Er, as long as His Majesty's face is slightly wrong, he is ready to stuff all these copper coins into the stomach of this Zeng Da Niu, so that he knows that he cannot be despised.
Li Er was not angry, he became more and more happy, and beckoned to Duan Hong, and the master and servant walked away in a burst of laughter, and Duan Hong couldn't wait to throw away all those copper coins, it was too embarrassing.
Li Er seemed to have the interest of shopping at this time, and bought a lot of things along the way, the three guards were full of things, and there were still half of the copper coins in the pocket of Duan Hong's robe.
It doesn't matter if you buy paper kites, clay figurines, doll whistles, windmills, and even two bamboo horses, but what do you do in the shop where the women go in and out, and the door of the shop pΓΉ clearly says "This store only entertains women". Li Er didn't seem to see it, and insisted on walking in, but the female guy was about to stop him when he was put into the corner by two big men.
Li Er walked into the store and found that the shelves were full of items such as belly pockets, as well as some other strange items, all of which were women's personal things, and he touched his nose and planned to go out, but he was squeezed out of the store by some screaming women, and when the female shopkeeper was holding a broom and preparing to pick people, Li Er and Duan Hong had disappeared into the alley.
There are people in the depths of the thick shade, and the two words of Yunfu on the lintel make Li Er happy again, seeing that the door is closed, and there is not even a person on duty in front of the door, he stretched out his finger to Broken Hong.
Broken Hong, who was angry, was willing to let go of this good opportunity to be discouraged, and kicked open the door with one kick, and the arm-thick door latch was broken into two, Dongyu, Man Bear, and the housekeeper Lao Zhao was drinking and chatting in the gatehouse, and when he saw someone knocking on the door, he was immediately furious, and he saw Li Er when he went out, and he quickly lay on the ground and didn't dare to move.
"Yun Ye is there, take me over, dare to break his dog's leg by ventilating the news!" Li Er went straight inside, and the housekeeper Lao Zhao hurriedly led the way in front. Hou Ye and King Wei are drinking in the back garden.
"You used to say that building a huge ball and constantly rushing the heat into it can bring people flying, which is the same as Kong Ming lantern, let's start to do it after we return to Beijing, it is very difficult to fly by relying on our own strength, and it is not bad to get a flying thing to play with first." Li Tai said to Yun Ye while lying on the recliner with his pants on.
"That's natural, go back to Beijing to finish Xiaoya's marriage, I guess I have nothing to do, we will spend a few days of leisure, Your Majesty is busy reading at this time, I guess I don't have time to find my bad luck, I can be idle for a few days, I have long coveted the royal hunting ground in Nanshan, when will I go hunting?"
"It's still early, now the prey in the hunting ground has cubs, it's not the time to hunt, I want to hunt until late autumn, then it's a good time to hunt. The autumn hunt will take a whole month, and you have to play, you first tell me that you are sending such good books, is it just that you are going to trap me in the study, you have a good idle life, to be honest, am I very annoying? Li Er sat on the small table between the two reclining chairs very unimpressively, and looked at Yun Ye and Li Tai condescendingly.
"Don't get up, just answer like this, don't think about it, as soon as you answer with your heart, the answer will change, hurry up, yes or no? You just hate me pointing fingers at it, right? β
"No, there is no such plan, His Majesty is a genius in the world, a few books will be read soon, Weichen and others have studied for a long time, but they are not good enough to have a path suitable for the future of the Tang Dynasty, so they have to hope that Majesty XiΓ can accept the heads of hundreds of schools and finally find out this road."
Li Er's eyes stared at Yun Ye like an eagle, and Yun Ye was very uncomfortable, so he shrank his body down, and stumbled to say the reason he had made up a long time ago.
"Fart, I was despised for a day today, I was despised for a monk, I was despised for a hawker, and I was despised for a broom when I entered a shop, and now you are also going to despise me? What people outside the monk said makes sense, I don't care about it, the hawker is found by myself, and it doesn't count, the female shopkeeper is not suitable for men to enter and exit, and it is reasonable to be driven out with a broom, if you can't tell why, you see how I clean you up, if you don't answer well, the prey of my autumn hunt is you! β
Yun Ye secretly complained, Li Er was born with a careful eye, I don't know what crazy I was today, I guess I just want to see the market, after reading the hawkers, monks, and women, it's time to look at myself like a nobleman, I don't know what he sees from others, and what he wants to see from himself, forget it, don't want to, talk to him about learning.
Mr. Yan Zhitui preached the theory of the three qualities of sex, and he divided human nature into three classes, that is, the wise people, the foolish people and the mean people. He said that wisdom is not taught, although foolishness is useless, and people who are mediocre do not know if they are not taught. β
He also said that His Majesty is a wise person, a gifted talent, who does not learn to know himself, does not teach to know himself. Wechen disagrees with this view, knowledge comes from accumulation and precipitation.
In the early years of His Majesty's expedition to the north and the south, he often met the needs of the people, and the decrees formulated would naturally be correct, but in the following ten years, His Majesty has been staying in Chang'an, and a palace wall separates His Majesty from the people.
Neither the twists nor the information are enough to tell you how the world is changing three times a day, and it is inevitable that there will be omissions in formulating the laws of the people today according to the actual conditions of the people in the past.
However, His Majesty is the king of a country, and he can't haunt the market all day long, so Weichen and others compiled their experiences into a book and dedicated them to His Majesty, wanting His Majesty to see a real Tang Dynasty, and there is no second intention! (To be continued......)
PS: Section 1