Daoist Abandoned Wisdom

In the middle of the night, with gusts of cold wind, Xiuyuan stood on a high place, standing quietly.

The sound of flapping wings came from the north, and the white carrier pigeon hovered for a long time, as if finally recognizing its owner, it bent down, flapped its wings, and landed on Xiuyuan's shoulders, using its red beak to groom its white feathers.

Xiu Yuan gently touched its head, held it in his hand, reached out to pick the letter box on its foot, opened it, and there was nothing in the letter box.

He frowned slightly.Was it that the news never came, or was the news already robbed?

In the room, Tao Xinian had just finished taking a bath and was in a good mood, holding a small brass heater in his hand, lying on the bed reading a book.Abo came up to him and watched it with him, but Abo couldn't read a few words at all, so he just watched the fun.

"Hey, let me tell you...that big bald donkey is weird, why did you agree to rent it to him like that?"

Tao Xinian turned his head to look at the money bag beside the bed, then turned his head and continued to read, meaning that he only needs to have money.

"Hmph, no morals!"

"Don't worry about the things you shouldn't care about, just take the money with your eyes closed."

He thought he probably guessed who Xiu Yuan was, but he didn't want to expose it.He is not a loyal royal guard, but an ordinary commoner who has nothing to do with politics, there is no need, is it?

"Daozhang, when will we go up the mountain? The chickens are going to starve to death."

"Nothing, they will fly out to eat grass when they are hungry."

Abe: "..."

Tao Xinian scratched his half-dried hair, and said: "Wait a few more days, and wait for a long-distance vacation, so that I can go to his house to give gifts. By the way, I will accompany me tomorrow to buy a beautiful silk and give it to my sister-in-law. "

"Wow, it's different when you have money. You've started to spend lavishly. Let me remind you that the rent you collected has already been spent..."

"I know... It's long-winded. Giving gifts to Yuandao is no better than others. It can't be too shabby. You only give it once every few years. If you spend more, you can spend more. Don't be too stingy."

The next day, the sun was just right, the sun was hanging brightly in the sky, and finally there was the breath of early spring.There are still many old clothes in Tao's house, so there is no need to worry about not having enough clothes to change and wash.Tao Xinian changed into lighter clothes and went shopping with the boy that Abo had transformed into.

Not far from the gate of Tao Mansion, I saw a handsome monk wearing a bamboo hat and leading a white horse into the west courtyard of Tao Mansion through the west side gate.Abo stretched out his head to look curiously. He grabbed Abo and said, "Hurry up, it's already past noon. If you don't hurry up, you'll be hungry again if you don't make it back in the evening."

"My lord, the horse you want."

Xiu Yuan stood in front of the rockery in the west courtyard, not wearing a monk's robe, but black casual clothes, with a bamboo hat on his head, not like a monk, just like a wanderer wandering around.

The little white dove was pecking at the millet on the ground to eat, but Huiwen didn't look up when it came, and she didn't seem afraid of life at all.Seeing that the little white pigeon was almost finished pecking, Xiu Yuan sprinkled another small handful of rice down.

"Any news from the north?"

Huiwen shook his head, and said: "Since the news came last year, there has been no movement. The superiors asked the subordinates to obey the orders of the adults, and the subordinates thought...the superiors might only send messages to the adults..."

Xiu Yuan shook his head slightly, and said, "My carrier pigeon is back, and brought back an empty mailbox."

"What?" Huiwen was shocked, "I was robbed halfway?"

"No, Feixing doesn't seem to be frightened." Feixing is the white carrier pigeon.

He leaned down and touched Fei Xing, and Fei Xing leaned towards him, rubbing against his palm affectionately.

Sometimes no message is worse than message hijacked.Huiwen thought about it for a while, not daring to speculate wildly, just lowered her head and waited for Xiu Yuan to speak.

"I'm afraid there may be chaos in the court, and His Majesty has no time to take care of it for the time being. The two of us are trapped in Nanliang, and all my cronies are dead, so I can't go north to inquire about news. Where are your men?"

"A few of them are hiding in the city. They don't move on weekdays, and they occasionally send messages. One of them has already left for the north, and he hasn't been away for a long time, so he hasn't sent back any news."

"Understood, you can't always be outside, go back, I will find a way to tell you if there is something to do."

"Yes, my subordinates retire."

When Huiwen disappeared at the entrance of the alley, Xiuyuan also packed up a little bit, and led the horse to go south.

"Hey, have you guys heard about it? Something big happened in the north..."

At dusk, Tao Xinian was carrying a big food box, and Abo was walking slowly towards the southern suburbs with a piece of silk in his arms.

"What's up?" asked another.

Tao Xinian stopped by the restaurant, and several middle-aged people were sitting at the door chatting.

"My relative is a businessman in the north. He just came from the north this morning and said that the emperor in the north has collapsed..."

"Collapsed? What's so strange about this? Are there still few emperors who have collapsed these years? Didn't our southern side change hands more than ten years ago?"

Another person lowered his voice and persuaded: "Hey, don't talk nonsense, keep your voice down!"

"What are you afraid of? There are no officers and soldiers around..."

Tao Xinian stood and listened for a while, Abo looked at him suspiciously, and urged: "Don't go? It's getting dark!"

"Got it." He walked towards Tao Mansion with strides.

Lord Wei in the north was in his prime, and he had never heard of any illness, so why did he collapse so gracefully?

"Little brother, this is for you." Tao Xinian was thinking about something, he didn't notice a notice handed over to him, he looked up and saw a Taoist priest wearing a light gray Taoist robe, looking at him eagerly, He had to reach out and take it.

"Little brother, seeing that you are carrying a mahogany sword, you must be a cultivator, or aspiring to cultivate the Tao. You see, if you are interested in the Heavenly Master Dojo Conference in the north, go and join in the fun..." After finishing speaking, see the front A Taoist happened to pass by, and he quickly chased after him, disappearing at the end of the alley.

It turned out to be preaching.

He looked at the small notice in his hand by the light of dusk: All fellow Taoists are invited to meet in Jizhou on the sixth day of June for the Tianshi Dojo Conference.

"interesting."

"Master Dao, do you want to go?" Abo looked at him expectantly, as if he really wanted to go.

Tao Xinian lowered his head and thought for a while, to be honest, he really wanted to go.In the north is Kou Qianzhi, the authentic master of the Northern Heavenly Master, and in the south is Tao Hongjing, the authentic master of Maoshan, and Lu Xiujing, the authentic master of the Southern Heavenly Master. His master Qingyun Taoist is a miscellaneous school.Although Kou Tianshi is dead, he wants to go to the north to experience the authentic Taoism of Bei Tianshi, and see how this Bei Tianshi is different from Nan Tianshi and Nanmao Mountain.

"Let's talk about it, if you want to go north, you have to prepare well."

"I haven't traveled far yet!" Abo jumped up and down, very excited.

Tao Xinian knocked on him and said, "I haven't said I'm going yet!"

"Go, go, stay on Qinglong Mountain all the time and you won't see much of the world, and you can exchange Taoism with fellow Taoists when you go to the north!"

Tao Xinian shook his head and smiled helplessly, there was really nothing he could do about it.To go to the north, at least you have to buy a horse. It is very difficult to take a carriage along the way, and the time is difficult to control.A horse, even if it is an inferior horse that can be ridden, needs at least one or two gold, let alone a good horse.

He stretched out his hand to unlock the door, and it was quiet in the west courtyard, the lights were not lit even after night fell, and Xiu Yuan seemed to be absent.He glanced at the food box in his hand and thought it was a pity, he could have eaten it together.

On the edge of the Yangtze River, a white horse galloped towards the edge of the river. When it was near the edge of the river, Xiu Yuan pulled the rein suddenly.The white horse roared and snorted, and Xiaobu stood still.Xiu Yuan jumped off the horse, looking at the Yangtze River flowing eastward, and even to the north of the Yangtze River.Luoyang, the capital of the Wei Dynasty, was far to the north of the vast river, and it was impossible to see it.

After standing quietly like this for a moment, he faced the direction of Luoyang, the capital of Wei, knelt down, and kowtowed three times heavily.

When he raised his head again, the complex and mournful emotions in his eyes disappeared, and he returned to clarity.After standing in the cold wind for nearly half an hour, he got up on his horse and returned to Jiankang City.

He unlocked the door of the west courtyard, led the horse back to the stable, and fed it some food.Back in the room and lit the lamp, there was a food box on the low table.He reached out and opened the lid, and there was a small dish of snacks, a dish of beef, a dish of vegetables, and a bowl of rice.His expression became milder, and he touched the side of the bowl with his hand. It was already completely cold, at least it was delivered an hour ago.He sat down at the table and slowly began to eat the bowl of cold rice.

Meteor flew in and stopped at his feet, cooing, with a grain of rice still stuck to his mouth, it seemed that he had already been fed.He touched Feixing's head, took out a pen and paper, wrote a letter, rolled the letter into a thin roll, and stuffed it into a small bamboo tube.

"Go to Feixing." He waved his hand casually, and Feixing immediately understood what he meant, and flew to the north with wings.

No matter how the court changes in the future, it may have nothing to do with him.

The author has something to say: Kou Qianzhi, Tao Hongjing, and Lu Xiujing were all famous Taoist priests during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.In this era in the text, Kou Qianzhi and Lu Xiujing have passed away, while Tao Hongjing is still alive.