407. Pick up a spirit beast
In the first month of the 19th year of Zhenguan, Master Xuanzang returned to the Central Plains with the monks in Chang'an, and passed by Changle County, Guazhou on the 18th.
At that time, the boiler built by Changle County Machine House had been put into use, and the boiler was installed in an open space next to a biogas pool. The county hired an old man to specialize in boiling the boiler.
The boiler burns carbohydrate, and the hot gas is transported to the surroundings of each biogas tank through pipelines, thereby increasing the temperature in the biogas tank.
In just a few days, the biogas tanks in the county that had almost all had already gone on strike began to produce gas. The shops, houses, and workshop areas on the streets, and every night, the biogas lights in these places lit up again.
In the evening of that day, Master Xuanzang walked on the streets of Changle County and witnessed the prosperity and prosperity of this small city with his own eyes.
Luo Yong also respects this legendary Tang Seng.
In his previous life, his impression of Master Xuanzang was mainly the image in the TV series "Journey to the West". In this life, he learned a lot more. The more he learned, the more he respected him.
In the first year of Zhenguan, Xuanzang wanted to go to the Western Regions to seek Buddhist scriptures, but he applied for a place many times but failed. In the third year of Zhenguan, Chang'an suffered a major disaster in Guanzhong and lacked food. The court allowed the people to eat with the plum blossoms. Master Xuanzang mixed in the refugee team and arrived at Liangzhou City.
From Liangzhou to the west and then out of the customs, there were many obstacles along the way. Master Xuanzang was arrested many times, but fortunately he was able to escape every time. After leaving the customs, he walked on the large Gobi desert for a lifetime.
The road was difficult and dangerous, and he left his own footprints in many places and spread his reputation.
I heard that he had studied at Nalanda Temple earlier, and before others arrived, his reputation had already spread. On the day he entered the temple, he was also very popular.
During this period, he left Nalanda Temple, traveled around the country, and visited teachers to study. During this period, his works include "The Treatise on the Conquering of Evil Views", and "The Treatise on the Three Bodies".
In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Xuanzang met with King Jieri. King Jieri held a grand Buddhist debate in Qunu City with Xuanzang as the main subject. There were five seals and eighteen kings, three thousand Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhist scholars, and two thousand heretics attended.
After this lecture, Xuanzang was famous for the Five Seals and was honored by the Mahayana as the "Mahayana Heaven" and by the Hinayana as the "Liberation Heaven". This is a very high glory and is acknowledging that he has achieved great perfection in both Mahayana Buddhism.
Master Xuanzang and the monks did not stay in Changle County for a long time. During those days, Luo Yong was busy raising supplies for Du Gou, who was building canals on the mountain. A large number of grain, vegetables, cement, shovels, baskets and other supplies were loaded onto the truck and transported to the construction site.
Nowadays, the transportation in Changle County is quite developed, and many towns have paved cement roads. These cars carrying supplies can travel all the way to the foot of the Daxue Mountain, and then the donkey porter carries these supplies up the mountain.
The delivery of such materials once every few days, especially rice, flour, meat, vegetables and soy products. So many young and strong people are doing their physical strength in the mountains every day. Luo Yong said early in the morning that they would not limit the appetite of everyone. Everyone eats with their belly open. The consumption every day is really not a joke.
Such delicious food and drinks are provided, even if the environment is difficult and the work is heavy, but I rarely hear that someone is exhausted.
There are even rumors that someone was originally very thin and went to the mountain to build a canal. Everyone said that he would definitely not be able to bear it at that time. As a result, the man worked on the mountain for two or three months, not only did he not be able to bear it, but he was still a little stronger.
Although Master Xuanzang was a monk who was enlightened, he was also very concerned about people's livelihood. In the past two days in Changle County, he often heard people talk about these things, and he looked quite relieved.
After more than ten years of travel, when he came back, both the countries in the Western Regions and the Hexi Corridor had changed a lot, and Changle County had changed particularly greatly.
Two days later, the monks set off again on a wooden carriage. Luo Yong took them to the station and prepared a lot of food and clothes for them to keep warm.
It was still in the first lunar month, and the winter in Hexi was very long, especially when passing Yanzhi Mountain, it was most likely to be attacked by cold currents.
Before leaving, Master Xuanzang said that after Luo Yong returned to Chang'an City, remember to visit him and tell him about the strange things that Luo Yong had made over the years.
Luo Yong agreed happily.
After seeing off Master Xuanzang and the monks, Luo Yong started to work on the canal again.
He had received Aunt Luo's letter, and there were letters from the Bai family. Although he had known now that the person who was going to come here to pick up his shift was Bai Yimao, Luo Yong still decided to repair the canal before he left.
It’s not that he was reluctant to give the achievements of the canal to Bai Yimao. The Bai family treated their Luo brothers and sisters very well. If this matter was only related to Luo Yong alone, then he would not feel sorry for him to repay his kindness and give this generous gift.
The reason for this decision was mainly because Du Gou. Du Gou was born into a gentry and heard from that environment since he was a child and knew about the communication and game between the gentry. When Du Ruhui was still there, Du Gou was also an official in the capital. Later, he left Chang'an City, and increased his knowledge and tempered his will.
This time Luo Yong returned to Chang'an City and became the magistrate of Chang'an County, and there was no better assistant than Du Gou, so Du Gou must go back with him. After Du Gou returned to Chang'an City, how can he gain a foothold and how can others look up to him? This is the question Luo Yong is considering now. Du Gou needs this achievement more than Bai Yimao.
In order to promote this canal, Luo Yong asked Tang Jian for help this time, and asked him, the "Bai Die Scholar", to take action and write another novel.
Dean Tang agreed very readily. Although the main thing about writing novels does not look very high-end, it makes money. Last time I wrote the book "The Song of White Drops" over the years, I don't know how many times he has added prints. He just got a lot of royalties from Luo Yong.
Although Dean Tang had a good background, he obviously had not reached the level of treating money as dirt. Otherwise, he would not have been demoted for accepting lambs given by others.
If novels spread among the gentry, it would be a bit of a decline. After all, he is so old and he was a person who once had a high position. However, he was always the money earned by his own abilities, and Dean Tang was very open-minded in this regard.
He also wrote this novel very smoothly. He finished the manuscript in just a few days. He sent it to Luo Yong where he was waiting to collect the money.
As a result, Luo Yong ran over with his manuscript in the evening and said, "Your way of writing is not popular, I will tell you."
"How do you write it?" Dean Tang bowed his waist for five dou of rice and did not argue with him. The last time the "Song of White Drops" was written according to Luo Yong's idea, and the response was very good.
"Look at what you wrote, it's neither cute nor pleasant, nor immersive, and there's no sense of immersion." Luo Yong had been busy here for a whole day. He finally stopped to take a breath, but he had to run here to burn his brain cells. He didn't care about being tactful at this time.
"Why is there no sense of substitution? This time the protagonist is also a young girl?" Luo Yong said last time that young girls are the group that loves fantasy and reads such novels the most.
"What do you do to create a family of officials for her? There are only a few women from a family of officials in the world. Could it be that they have to write them specifically for those people?" Luo Yong said: "It would be better to change it to an ordinary family of small wealthy people, with a wider audience."
"What else?" Scholar Bai Die touched his beard and humbly asked for advice.
"Also, you asked this woman to meet a down-and-out scholar, and the two of them fell in love with each other secretly. As a result, the scholar was from a high-ranking family and was well-educated. In the end, he helped the girl's governor's father solve the local water source problem and built a water canal. The plot is too old-fashioned, without freshness, and not attractive enough." Luo Yong said.
"This is not new?" Dean Tang felt that he was already very daring to think about it. Young men and women were already very bold in giving private lessons.
"No." Luo Yong said decisively.
"Then how do you write it?" He wanted to see what freshness can be created by just the story of this canal.
Can Luo Yong use this? As a new young man in the 21st century, who has not been baptized by online novels? The novel routines of those years are not a big deal.
Luo Yong still has some printed versions in his space now, and there are all kinds of themes. Novels with women as the protagonists are slightly different from novels with men as the protagonists. When Luo Yong was very bored early, he read a few books.
"First of all, this girl must have an ordinary background and looks ordinary. After all, most people who read books are still relatively ordinary." County Magistrate Luo taught Dean Tang.
"Good." President Tang also agreed with this.
"Secondly, you have to give her an adventure. The kind of talented man who is in trouble is too old-fashioned, otherwise you might as well ask her to pick up a divine beast."
Dean Tang: "?"
"When this divine beast was first picked up, she looked like a puppy. The girl was kind-hearted and picked it up and took care of her. She spent time and time together, and then the divine beast became attached to the girl."
Dean Tang: "!"
"The girl's hometown suffered a drought, and everyone was helpless. At this time, the divine beast finally stopped hiding its divine power, causing sweet rain to fall from the sky, and used its divine claws to dig a canal on the ridge, so that the snow water on the mountain flows down the mountain and flows all the way to the girl's hometown."
Dean Tang: “…”
Luo Yong thought about it and added: "A little more abusive love in the middle."
Dean Tang had no idea what to say at this time. Is this OK to pick up the divine beast as a puppy?
Compared with his routine, the plot of a young girl and a down-and-out husband being taught privately is indeed a weak one.
Chapter completed!