Golden Greenery

When I returned to the Central Plains, more than eighty years had passed since I last left. This time, Yang Yi did not return from the Western Regions. He took a sea ship and set foot on the land of the Song Dynasty again from Hangzhou.

After bidding farewell to Count de Port, Yang wandered aimlessly in Europe for a year, and then went to Rome, a large city in the south, where he met a Byzantine scholar named Gavras.

Gavras was asked three times by Sheep Yi's extremely profound soul: Who am I? Where do I come from? What am I going to do? They were deeply attracted and became like-minded people, chatting happily with each other.

So Gavras warmly invited Yang Yi to Constantinople. He said that the world we see in front of us is an illusion. If we want to see the essence of the world clearly, we must inquire about the soul and the universe.

When Yang Yi asked him how to pursue the question, Gavras said: Go read a book and find the answer from the book.

Yang Yi was convinced, so he followed Gavras to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Byzantium is the name of later generations, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire. Byzantium continued the culture of ancient Greece and Rome, admiring philosophy, astronomy, geometry, and so on.

The two of them walked from Rome to Constantinople for more than a month. The conversation on the road for a month easily let the sheep know the secret. Gavras discovered that he was neither a scholar nor profound at all.

However, as an aristocratic gentleman who deeply understands etiquette and self-cultivation, and a senior cultural person, Gavras introduced Yang Yi to the Byzantine Empire Library in a very graceful and trustworthy manner, and then Yang Yi was never seen again. Saw him.

The Imperial Library, also known as the Seton Library of Constantinople, is undoubtedly one of the largest libraries in the world today. The Seton Library has a very comprehensive collection of almost all Western classics from ancient Greece to ancient Rome to the present.

In this regard, the Central Plains is indeed inferior to the West. There are Sutra Collection Pavilions and Book Collection Pavilions in the Central Plains, but there are indeed no libraries facing the public.

Although the Seton Library is only open to Byzantine nobles, civilians who break in will be hung up and beaten with whips, and Yang Yi's self-proclaimed 'Duke' does not work here. However, Gavras was a teacher of philosophy and history to the current Byzantine emperor, Empress Zoe, and his recommendation worked.

Yang Yi lived in the library for six years.

Although he was not a nobleman, and his recommender Gavras never showed up again, Yang Yi was rich. Having money can make the world go round, and it can also bribe the officials in the library.

It took Yangyi six full years to read all the books in Xidun's library. Most of them he couldn't understand at all, so he had to read through them page by page like a dog looking at the stars.

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He also watched it for six years. The Seton Library is really big. Six years later, Yang Yi felt that he was full of wisdom, but when he thought about it carefully, he seemed to remember nothing except a few anecdotes and debauchery.

Of course, there has been no discovery, no way to inquire into the origin of the world. who I am? I still don't know.

But he still felt that Old Master Gavras was right, and there was nothing wrong with reading more books. Therefore, Yang Yi, whose time was meaningless, decided to spend the next hundred years reading all the books in the world.

Yang Yi left Constantinople and went to read somewhere else. He didn't know that he was the only person in human history who had gone through all the books in the Seton Library. This was not only unprecedented, but also unprecedented.

On the day he left, the librarian Xiton shed tears sadly.

In the following twenty years, Sheep passed through Persia, which is now the Seljuq Empire established by the Turks. I went to the original Tianzhu again, and it was even more chaotic. There were more than a dozen countries, large and small, and I couldn't even remember their names.

Then Srivijaya, Khmer and Champa are very close to the Central Plains. Of course, there would be no library along the way. The places where most books were stored were usually temples, so Yang Yi went to one temple after another.

If the monks let him look, he would look at it quietly. If they didn't let him look, he would take out his money and give it as alms, and then look at it slowly. It would be unreasonable to pay for it and not let him see it, so he would have no choice but to beat it. After the beating, the monks would politely invite him in to see it and take care of his meal.

In the Jueling Temple in the Champa Kingdom, they were beaten into the temple. Several old monks with profound Buddhist teachings were beaten to tears by Yang Yi. After being convinced, Yang Yi asked the temple kitchen to cook first, and then walked into the Sutra Collection Building with his hands behind his back.

Lying in the side room was an old monk who was as thin as a piece of firewood. He was so old that he almost lost his human appearance. He was breathing out more than he was breathing in. He was obviously going to die soon.

The old monk has an old heart. "Boy, if I were sixty...seventy years younger, how could I allow you to be so presumptuous?"

Yang Yixin said: That's not necessarily true. Do you know how many years I have lived?

However, Yang Yi is always a kind person. Faced with such a dying old monk, he still showed kindness to the younger generation.

Instead of reading in a hurry, Yang Yi asked the old monk for a glass of warm water and fed it to him with his own hands to soothe his throat. In fact, the most important thing was that Yang Yi discovered that the old monk was a Central Plains man like himself.

After hearing this, Yang Yi had a conversation with the old monk.

The old monk said that he might not survive this year. His dharma name is "Lingxiu", which Yang Yi finds very inconsistent. However, Monk Lingxiu did come from the Central Plains. He was not a monk here. He lived here to hang out, and he stayed here for forty or fifty years.

After recalling it hard, Monk Lingxiu remembered that his secular name was Yang Yande. He was the fifth son of General Yang Ye, the former right leader of the Song Dynasty, and was known as Yang Wulang. More than sixty years ago, he was appointed commander of the infantry army and followed his father to fight against the Khitans of Liao.

The supervisor Wang Qian, who did not understand war, gave blind orders and forced Yang Ye and Yang Yande and his son to fight. As a result, they fell into a heavy siege by the Liao army on Jinshatan Beach. Reinforcements from Pan Mei, a subordinate of South Korea's Gong and Xingying troops, were delayed in arriving, which eventually led to Yang Yeli's death in the battle and the Song army's defeat.

After Yang Wulang crawled out of the pile of dead people with half his life, in order to avoid being hunted by the Khitans, he shaved his hair and ran into Wenshu Monastery in Mount Wutai. There, the frustrated Yang Yande was inspired by the Buddha, and ended up cutting off the worldly world and becoming a monk.

But somehow the news leaked out, and the Khitans chased him to Wenshu Monastery to arrest him. Yang Wulang, whose scar had not yet solidified, had to run away again. He ran to Songshan Mountain in one breath and entered the Shaolin Temple with a letter of introduction from the abbot of Wenshu Monastery. , the Dharma name is clever and beautiful.

No matter Yang Wulang, Yang Yande, or Lingxiu Monk, they were all unlucky in their lives.

Among the monks of the "Ling" generation in Shaolin Temple, Lingxiu and her junior brother Lingmen have the best relationship. The two junior brothers have been like real brothers for more than ten years. Lingmen, who is both civil and military, has profound Buddhist teachings and is the successor that Shaolin Temple focuses on cultivating. Lingxiu became a monk halfway and was a bit out of character. Fifty years ago, he took his junior fellow apprentice Lingmen to the foot of the mountain to peek at a peasant woman bathing, but was caught by the abbot's master Zhiyan.

Lingmen was fined to face the wall for one year, but Lingxiu did not face the wall. He was fined to leave the temple and wander around begging for ten years. The treatment of monks who focus on training and soy sauce will definitely be different.

The day he walked out of the mountain gate, his junior brother Lingmen cried very sadly and told him to come back. His junior brother is much younger than him, so he actually treats his junior brother as his son.

Monk Lingxiu is not good at Buddhism, and he is no longer good at martial arts after being seriously injured on the golden beach. After leaving the Shaolin Temple, he traveled all the way to the south to seek alms, because the south was rich and peaceful.

Six years later, he had made a lot of money in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and was about to go back, but unexpectedly he was targeted by a villain named Jintai.

Although Jintai was very young, he was very powerful in martial arts, and Lingxiu was no match for him. As a result, the money he had received for charity was robbed, and he was chased to the sea.

Then his boat was overturned by wind and waves, and he was finally rescued by a passing ship. Unexpectedly, it was a pirate ship.

Pirates will not embarrass a monk, but the navy of the Song Dynasty will embarrass pirates. The pirate ship fled south desperately, not daring to dock at the port of the Song Dynasty. Monk Lingxiu followed him to the Champa country inexplicably. Covered with injuries and injuries, and separated by mountains and rivers due to the long journey, he was barely able to return to the Central Plains.

Yang Yi: "..."

We are both degraded people in the Central Plains, so why should we have known each other before. Yang didn't even read a book and chatted with Monk Lingxiu for four days with strong sympathy. On the fifth day, Monk Lingxiu passed away.

Before dying, he gave his ultimatum to Yang Yi and asked him to take it back to Shaolin Temple. The ultimatum is the monk's identity certificate.

Monk Lingxiu asked Yang Yi to go to the Shaolin Temple to find his junior brother Lingmen, tell him his experiences over the years, and then ask the monks from the Damo Academy of the Shaolin Temple to avenge him and kill the evil thief Jintai.

Yang Yi all agreed.