Datang romantic little landlord

"Master, why is it so noisy in the Daxiong Palace?"

Monk Wen Zai smiled and said, "Amitabha, if you say it to your nobleman, this is dismantling the original Buddha statue. At the same time, the poor monk recruited craftsmen from Chang'an City to start casting Buddha statues in the main hall."

Hearing Monk Wen Zai's explanation, Zheng Yuanshou and the others didn't think too much about it.

It is not easy to cast such a large pure gold Buddha statue in the Tang Dynasty. The usual method is to cast it by the lost wax method.

That is to shape the inner clay sculpture first, wrap the clay sculpture with beeswax, carve it into a casting model, and then fill the clay core with other refractory materials and spread it into an outer mold.

Afterwards, it is heated and baked with fire, the wax film is melted and lost, and the entire casting model becomes an empty shell, and molten gold or copper water can be poured inward.

In the history of China, the largest bronze Buddha statue is the imperial bronze statue of Avalokitesvara with Thousand Hands cast in the Song Dynasty. The 21-meter-high Buddha statue used [-] military service craftsmen and took four years to cast.

The Buddha statues that Xingguo Temple intends to cast are not that tall, so naturally they don't need so many craftsmen and time.However, craftsmen also need to be recruited to work in this hall, and it will take at least several months to complete the casting.

In this way, those ding-ding-dong-dong construction sounds are quite normal.

Of course, these are just the thoughts of Zheng Yuanshou and others.Since the so-called gold mines are all scams, Monk Wen Zai will naturally not be full. He really recruited craftsmen to cast some golden Buddhas.

Zheng Yuanshou and others went into the Daxiong Palace and took a look around. Sure enough, many craftsmen were busy here.The original clay Buddha statues are being demolished, and there are still a lot of yellow mud piled up in the hall, presumably they are going to be used to rebuild the mud tires of the Buddha statues.

After everyone looked around, they took their leave and left to return to Chang'an City.

All kinds of situations in Xingguo Temple, there are also trilogy from each prefecture every day, and I will report in detail when I return to the mansion.

Naturally, nothing happened in the side hall where the gold was stored, and 140 members of the aristocratic family surrounded the side hall tightly.Every half an hour, there are still parts on the wooden platform, through the windows on the gable wall, to determine the condition of the gold in the side hall.

The only problem is that the partisans feel that the construction work of the craftsmen in the Daxiong Palace is really too noisy.

Naturally, Zheng Yuanshou and the others didn't bother to care about this kind of trivial matter, they just told them to keep an eye on the side hall and not to worry about other things.

Ten more days passed like this, and it was time for Shijia to switch defenses with Cheng Yaojin and others.

Outside the gate of Mingde, Li Wangyou and Cheng Yaojin had already been waiting here with a brigade. After seeing Zheng Yuanshou and Wang Renyou, they greeted each other politely.

Even if everyone can be regarded as enemies, this kind of effort to save face is still necessary.

Li Wangyou despised it in his heart, now that he was hypocritical, he didn't bother to continue talking nonsense with Zheng Yuanshou and the others, and went on his own.

There was no words all the way, and when everyone arrived at Xiahou Village outside Duqu County, Niu Wu suddenly reined in the horse and looked in the direction of Xingguo Temple in astonishment.

"Lang Jun, look quickly, is the Xingguo Temple flooded?"

Not only Li Wangyou heard Niu Wu's loud voice, Cheng Yaojin, Zheng Yuanshou, Wang Renyou, Cui Xin and others naturally also heard it.

Everyone raised their eyes to look in the direction of Xingguo Temple, but saw that the temple not far away was billowing with thick smoke...

Zheng Yuanshou, Wang Renyou and the others suddenly panicked, and their hearts skipped a beat, secretly thinking that something was wrong.

"No, Xingguo Temple is really flooded! Quick, quick! Go and see what happened!" Li Wangyou looked anxious, and rushed out to Xingguo Temple with his horse.

Only then did the people behind him come to their senses, and hurriedly urged their horses to rush towards the temple.

Everyone rushed to the temple in a panic, only to see that the parts of the Zheng family, Wang family, Lu family, Li family, and Cui family were in a mess at the moment.Some were busy looking for buckets to fetch water to put out the fire, some ran around looking for fire extinguishing tools, and some yelled and shouted for help.

And the place where the fire broke out was the main hall and the side hall where the gold was stored.

Li Wangyou and Cheng Yaojin were also shocked, and hurriedly called Fuzhong Buqu to help put out the fire.

But in this temple, the main hall is all made of wooden buildings, and there is no water bag to put out the fire. Only relying on the trilogy to carry the well water with buckets, there is no way to put out the growing fire.

Zheng Yuanshou's legs suddenly went limp, and if it wasn't for the help from the servants beside him, he might have just sat down on the ground.

"Gold! Old man's gold! Quick, quick, put out the fire, put out the fire!"

Cheng Yaojin was also jumping, and yelled angrily at the trilogy of the five surnames Qiwang Mansion: "Zhiniang thief, you trash, you are not as good as a dog! Let you guard the temple, why did you escape? Lao Tzu's gold If something goes wrong, watch out for your dog heads!"

Li Wangyou sighed at the side, and said comfortingly: "Hey, this fire can't be extinguished in a short while. Uncle Cheng, there is no need to worry, as the saying goes, real gold is not afraid of fire. This ruined temple will burn as well. No matter how much you burn it, it won’t burn the gold. Even if it is melted a little by the fire, it’s not a big deal, just remelt it again.”

Zheng Yuanshou, Wang Renyou and others, who were originally ashamed, were slightly relieved to hear what Li Wangyou said.

That's true, gold is not wood, so it doesn't matter if it burns.After the fire is extinguished, Jin Zi will not run away on his own.

Thinking of this, Zheng Yuanshou's face softened a little, and he stretched out his hand to summon the leader of his family.

"What's going on? Why did this good thing go out of water? Is the gold still there?"

The leader of the trilogy directly knelt down, and replied in fear and trepidation: "Back to your lord, I don't know why I got out of the water. I saw the righteous monk before, and shortly after entering the Daxiong Hall with his disciples, the Daxiong Hall was ignited. The fire quickly spread. Baxia and others were about to put out the fire, but the fire quickly rushed over and ignited the side hall directly. Gold should be fine. Before the water disappeared, Baxia and Wang, Cui, Lu, and Li's family Qu, checked it on the wooden platform."

"That's good, that's good." Hearing this, Zheng Yuanshou let go of his hanging heart a little: "Hurry up and get someone to put out this fire! Then go find me that monk of Zhengdao, the old man wants to ask , What the hell is going on with this fire!"

"No!" The Zheng family followed the order and left.

On the other side, the tribal leaders of Cui, Lu, Li, and Wang's family also reported the whole story to their lords, and everyone agreed, which made Zheng Yuanshou and Wang Renyou feel relieved.

Since the gold is all there, today's matter is nothing.

But soon Fuchu Buqu came to report, and there was no trace of the monk in the temple...

695 Chen Wan's Death

Hearing that the righteous monk and his lay disciple Lin Yang could not be found, Zheng Yuanshou and the others couldn't help but feel a shadow over their hearts.

On the contrary, quite a few parts reported that before the main hall caught fire, many people saw the monk and his disciples entering the Great Hall of Great Heroes.Many people even speculated that this inexplicable fire was set by the monk himself, right?

There are quite a few people who have seen this incident with their own eyes. After all, the side hall where the gold is stored is next to the Daxiong Hall.

The monks entering and exiting the Daxiong Palace are all under the nose of these trilogy.Moreover, there is only one entrance and exit to the Daxiong Palace, and no one saw the monk running out of it after the fire broke out.

At this moment, Zheng Yuanshou and the others didn't care whether the monk set the fire on or not, so they could only desperately urge Mo Qu to put out the fire.

Even with Li Wangyou, Cheng Yaojin and others who brought nearly a hundred members today to help, due to the lack of fire extinguishing tools, it would be an hour before the fire was extinguished.

The Daxiong Hall and the side hall where the gold was stored in Xingguo Temple were almost burned to the ground, leaving only a few broken walls and ruins emitting lingering smoke.

Because of the eagerness to fight the fire, those parts were all blackened by the smoke, holes were scorched in the clothes by sparks, and many people's hair was also burnt.

Zheng Yuanshou and Wang Renyou, the patriarchs of the aristocratic families, couldn't care whether they were injured or not, and urged everyone to move away the smoking ruins and move the gold out of the ruins of the side hall.

Li Wangyou also asked his family to help clean up the ruins and dig for gold.

Fortunately, there are already more than 200 tribes from various prefectures in Xingguo Temple at this time, and the speed of cleaning up those ruins is not slow.

Soon all kinds of broken pillars, bricks and tiles that were still smoking were cleaned out, and the floor tiles of the side hall were exposed.But something happened that surprised everyone. The gold ingots worth a million taels of gold had disappeared without a trace.

After receiving the report of the trilogy, all the bigwigs of the aristocratic family went crazy, and they all rushed over in a swarm, regardless of the filth.

The floor tiles of the side hall have been cleaned out, but there really is nothing.Not to mention those piles of gold, I didn't even see a single ingot of gold.