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Chapter 59 It's Inevitable
Yunchu and Ding Dayou, who came out of the yamen of Duwei's Mansion, looked at each other in blank dismay.

Things were completely beyond Yunchu's expectations. The plan he thought he could grasp at his fingertips turned out to be completely unacceptable to Cheng Chumo.

"He didn't want to pay 1000 taels of gold, so he refused to agree?" Yunchu questioned his IQ for the first time.

Ding Dayou scratched his thick hair, thought for a while and said, "Probably not, Cheng Chumo is not a despicable person."

Yun Chu also grabbed his hair and said: "Then there is only one reason, Cheng Chumo has not been staying in Yumen Pass for a long time."

Ding Dayou said thoughtfully: "That's right, their family has held Yumen Pass for too long.

Emperor Taizong tolerated their family's control of Yumen Pass because he trusted Lu Guogong. Our current Majesty may not think so. "

Yun Chu sighed and said, "It's still short-sighted, I don't even want a hard-core crop, and I don't know what they want."

Ding Dayou stopped and looked at Yunchu and said, "Just now, Cheng Chumo wanted to kill you, do you believe it?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "Isn't it?"

Ding Dayou said with a smile: "If I hadn't been here today, if you hadn't mentioned Master Xuanzang, you might not be able to leave the yamen of the Captain's Mansion today."

Yun Chu recalled what happened just now, and Cheng Chumo's expression was very strange for a while.

"Do you still want to deliver your 2000 taels of gold to Cheng Chumo?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Obviously not from the same way, it's not bad to become a stranger from now on. Rich people have been rich for a long time, and they don't dare to try the benefits of new things."

With Naha on his back, Yunchu went to the barracks with Ding Dayou talking and laughing.

They left, but Cheng Chumo's side was not stable. After he pondered for a long time on the soft couch, he began to write quickly. Soon, he wrote a letter and handed it to the servant, ordering him to set off immediately and send this letter to the servant. The letter was handed to the father.

Cheng Chumo waited at home for a whole day, but he didn't wait for Yunchu to send the gold. Instead, he heard the news that Zhechong Mansion in Shangzhou had withdrawn from camp and returned.

As a result, Cheng Chumo's worry became more intense, he didn't know what Yun Chu wanted to do when he came here.

Could it be a tempting pawn sent by someone.

As a child of an aristocratic family, Cheng Chumo knows far more than Ding Dayou, the captain.

The worry is much deeper than that of a simple military officer like Ding Dayou. As long as Ding Dayou doesn't betray the emperor, he can basically live in peace for a lifetime.

Their family can't do it, the family is too big, and the requirements are much more.

But the current emperor has begun to be indifferent to the veterans of the Zhenguan period.

Longyou Dao is the most affluent Dao in the Tang Dynasty and occupies the most extensive area.

Only when people come to Ganzhou can they know the prosperity of Longyou Dao.

This bustling city, which can be ranked even in the entire Tang Dynasty, gave Yunchu great comfort.

The most rare thing in Ganzhou is the abundance of marshes and grass, the gathering of birds, the swamps everywhere, the confluence of thousands of springs, and the winding water system. It is a blessed place of heaven.

Yunchu rode a camel past Heishui, and saw the dilapidated ruins of Heishui Kingdom.

The shepherd drove his flock out of the dilapidated ancient city with innumerable ease and comfort.

Yunchu walked through the collapsed city gate and saw ruins and scattered bricks and tiles, as well as rolling hills all around, as if he had passed through a tunnel of history.

In the darkness, one can vaguely hear the knocking of knives, the cries of shops, the sound of teahouses, and the cries of panic when fleeing the ancient city.

It also seems to be standing at the high altitude of history, and clearly saw the long years of the Yue family gathering herds, the Han-Hungarian wars, the tea-horse trade, the military garrison, and the destruction of the ancient city; saw the prosperity, tragedy, stability and fragility of the ancient city.

When he came to this ancient city, Yunchu couldn't help but think of the sad song "The Last of the Mohicans". .

Ganzhou not far away is obviously more prosperous than here, but Yunchu seems to like it more.

If you like Ganzhou, it is natural to mention the Tang Jiaofang Daqu "Ganzhou", and the eight-tone Ganzhou, which is intercepted from "Ganzhou" Daqu, is even more famous all over the world.Later, it was used as Ci Pai, and because the whole word has eight rhymes in the front and back, it is named eight tones.

If it is said that Heishui City is easy to make people feel nostalgic for the past, then Ganzhou City satisfies all Yunchu's imagination of the Han family city.

A city without bell towers and drum towers is not a perfect city, and Ganzhou has no shortage of the same.

When Yun Chu entered the city, it was the time when the twilight drum was beating. When the twilight drum was beating, the people returning to the city would unconsciously quicken their pace. Even the birds on Qilian Mountain seemed to know that it was getting late, so they rushed to the city one after another. Forest.

Yunchu likes this city, but he doesn't like the inns in this city. In other words, Yunchu is dissatisfied with all the inns he has stayed in so far.

Even though it is a city that does not lack water, the inns here are still unacceptably dirty.

He thought the room in the brothel would be cleaner, but after seeing it, Yunchu decided to hold Naha in the tent to make ends meet, no matter how the prostitutes in the brothel kept customers, he would never turn his head back.

He didn't think about doing anything with prostitutes, he just wanted to use another skill of prostitutes.

For example, the craftsmanship of combing the hair of the guests, the craftsmanship of bathing the guests, the craftsmanship of trimming the nails of the guests, and the craftsmanship of massaging the guests.

These are the crafts that a man with great ambition and self-discipline should enjoy.

It's a pity that the prostitutes in Ganzhou city don't know anything about these serious crafts except for sleeping with them.

Giving Naha a bath is really exhausting.

Shampoo her hair and she will howl, rub her ashes, she will howl, and if the bath bean water accidentally falls into her eyes, she will also howl, and even bite Yunchu, but the gas is only on her bare buttocks. After that, she cried even louder, and she cried like a pig.

Along the way, I always wanted to buy her a woman who would take care of her washing. After all, this child is six years old, so I can't always bathe her as an older brother.

It's a pity that none of them are satisfied. Those women seem to dislike bathing even more than Naha.

As for the hair, this child's hair is naturally curly. Poor Yun Chu wanted to comb this child into a suitable bun, but no matter how he did it, it didn't fit.

Therefore, Yunchu missed the old monkey more and more. The old monkey seemed to be able to do everything, including styling the little girl's hair. Although it is obviously not the hair style of the Tang people, it is absolutely beautiful. He really looks like this stinky girl. Princess.

There is no way, Yunchu can only make this girl a ponytail that is exactly the same as his, but his hair is long and straight, and the ponytail looks good when combed. Naha's hair is curly, and the ponytail will explode when combed. There is a big explosion of hair on the back of the small head, which is really not good-looking.

After finally coaxing the girl who wanted to drink water, pee, and tell stories to her brother to fall asleep, Yunchu put a piece of licorice in her mouth, chewed it slowly, and went outside the tent to blow for a while. Evening wind.

I always felt that someone was peeping in the dark, and when I looked carefully, I found the old monkey squatting on the hitching post like a vulture.

"I heard Naha crying?"

"Maybe because he was on the road for several days, this child can't bear it anymore, so it's right to play a little temper."

"Well, that's good, that's good, I like that child too, as long as I see her, I won't worry about it."

"Since you like her so much, why don't you come and help her comb her hair? She always thinks that the hair I combed for her is not good-looking."

The old monkey smacked his mouth twice and said, "Yunchu, do you really think this girl is your own sister?"

Yun Chu said in a low voice: "The last person who said she wasn't my own sister was beaten by me, not to mention broken bones and tendons, and I even knocked out all the teeth in her mouth."

"Oh, since that's the case, the little girl should be your own sister."

Yunchu inserted the half-drawn Tang Dao back in again, leaned close to the old monkey and said, "Did you cause the Horseshoe Temple murder?"

The old monkey shook his head and said, "It's not me."

Hearing the old monkey's simple three words, Yun Chu actually believed it. He even thought that the old monkey might not bother to tell such a lie.

"Over the years, not only Xuanzang went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, but also Western monks came to the Tang Dynasty to teach the Dharma.

The Buddhism in Tianzhu is not recorded in special bamboo slips, but is passed down from generation to generation orally, so it is messy and requires supreme wisdom to distinguish the authenticity from the false.

Most of the scriptures that Xuanzang retrieved were actually transcribed by Xuanzang himself in Sanskrit. The Bayeux scriptures retrieved from the Landa Temple were also lost due to the long journey.

Some monks lost to Xuanzang in the Sutra Debate Conference, and they were unwilling to accept it. They heard that the Great Tang Dynasty in our Eastern Land was prosperous and prosperous, so they went all the way to the Great Tang Dynasty to pass on the scriptures and teach the Dharma.

Therefore, the temples along the way became the residences of these fan monks. Some temples were deeply influenced by the fan monks and had lost the profound meaning of the Tang Dynasty. Some people inevitably became murderous.

This is true of the East and West Zhaohuli Temples, and so is the Horseshoe Temple.

Someone knew from nowhere that Lao Yangpi of the Western Regions was related to Xuanzang, so he put the matter of the Horseshoe Temple on my head.

This time, I encouraged Ding Dayou to take away the Buddha’s footprint jade from the East and West Zhaohuli Temple, and sent people to destroy their granaries and take away their treasures, just to cut off their roots, and by the way, remove the people who framed me from Dig out from the dark. "

"Have you found it?"

The old monkey shook his head and said: "This kind of debate will definitely not happen overnight, it will take dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of years to see the resolution.

Yunchu, you are too impatient. "

Yunchu also felt that what the old monkey said was very reasonable. Religious disputes have always been the cruelest battles, so let go of your obsessions and watch slowly.

"Can you take the gold in my hand back to Chang'an, I always feel that there is a pair of eyes staring at me behind me."

"The person staring at you is a member of the Cheng family, you shouldn't have given them such a big deal at Yumen Pass that your family would be ransacked at any time.

Let people misunderstand that you are a dead soldier sent by the enemy to harm their family. "

"Is this kind of thing that is beneficial to the financial integration of the world also a harmful thing?"

"The Son of Heaven doesn't like this kind of convenient transfer of wealth, strong stems and weak branches are the stable foundation of Datang.

Once Chang'an's money can be easily circulated to the frontier, this will make the emperor of Datang unable to sleep. "

Yun Chu let out a long breath and said, "Could it be that I am a secret cast by the Pearl?"

The old monkey nodded and said, "It must be so."

(End of this chapter)