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Chapter 407 Picking up a Spirit Beast

In the first month of the 19th year of Zhenguan, Master Xuanzang returned to the Central Plains with the Chang'an monks and passed through Changle County, Guazhou on the [-]th.

At that time, the boiler built by Changle County Machinery Workshop had already been put into use, and the boiler was installed in an open space next to a biogas digester. The county hired an old man to be responsible for burning the boiler.

The boiler burns coal, and the hot gas is transported around the biogas digesters through pipes to increase the temperature in the digesters.

In just a few days, the biogas digesters in the county that had almost been on strike began to produce gas one after another, and the biogas lamps in the shops, residences, and workshop areas on the street were lit up again every night. .

That evening, Master Xuanzang walked on the streets of Changle County and witnessed the prosperity and prosperity of this small town.

Luo Yong also respects Master Xuanzang, the legendary Tang monk.

In his last 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 knows, the more he respects him.

In the first year of Zhenguan, Xuanzang wanted to go to the Western Regions to obtain Buddhist scriptures, but failed many times. In the third year of Zhenguan, a catastrophe occurred in Guanzhong, Chang'an was short of food, and the imperial court allowed the people to eat whatever they had. Master Xuanzang mixed with the refugee team. All the way to Liangzhou City.

From Liangzhou to the west, and then out of the customs, there are many obstacles along the way. Master Xuanzang has been arrested many times, but fortunately he was able to escape every time. After leaving the customs, he walked on the vast Gobi desert. , It is also a narrow escape.

Along the way, with many difficulties and obstacles, he left his footprints in many places, and also spread his reputation.

I heard that he studied at Nalanda Temple earlier, before others arrived, his reputation had already spread to the past. On the day he entered the temple, he received a very grand welcome.

During this period, he left Nalanda Temple, traveled around the world, visited teachers and studied, and his works during this period include "Hui Zong Lun", "Restraining Evil Views", and "Three Body Treatise".

In the 15th year of Zhenguan, Xuanzang met with King Jieri, and King Jieri held a grand Buddhist debate meeting in Qunu City with Xuanzang as the main argument. There were 2000 kings of five seals and [-] Mahayana Buddhist scholars present. , and [-] outsiders participated.

After this lecture, Xuanzang became famous in five seals, and was honored as "Mahayana Heaven" by Mahayana, and "Liberation Heaven" by Theravada. The meaning of perfection.

Master Xuanzang and the monks did not stay in Changle County for a long time. During those few days, Luo Yong was busy collecting supplies for Du Gou, who was building a canal on the mountain. There were large quantities of food, vegetables, cement, and iron shovels and baskets. , was loaded on the vehicle and transported to the construction site.

Nowadays, the traffic in Changle County is quite developed, and many towns are paved with cement roads. These vehicles that transport supplies can go all the way to the foot of the Snow Mountain, and then the donkey porters will carry the supplies up the mountain.

Material transportation like this happens once every few days, especially rice, noodles, meat, vegetables and soy products. So many young and strong people are doing heavy physical work on the mountain every day. Luo Yong and the others agreed early in the morning. Don't limit everyone's food intake, everyone eats with their stomachs open, and the daily consumption is really no joke.

Offering such delicious food and drink, even the environment is hard and the work is heavy, but it is rare to hear that someone is exhausted.

There are even rumors that a certain person was originally very thin, and he went to the mountain to repair the canal with others. Everyone said that he would definitely not be able to bear it, but the man worked on the mountain for two or three months. Also a little bit stronger.

Although Master Xuanzang is an eminent monk who has attained the Tao, he also cares about people's livelihood. In the past two days in Changle County, he often heard people talking about these things, and he seemed quite relieved.

He has been away for more than ten years, and when he came back, both the countries in the Western Regions and the Hexi Corridor had changed a lot, and the changes in Changle County were especially great.

Two days later, the monks set off again in a wooden carriage. Luo Yong sent them to the station and prepared a lot of food and warm clothes for them.

It was still in the first lunar month at this time, and the winter on the west side of Hexi was very long, especially when passing through the Yanzhi Mountain, it was most likely to be attacked by cold currents.

At the time of parting, Master Xuanzang said, let Luo Yong remember to visit himself when he returns to Chang'an City, and tell him about the strange things that Luo Yong and the others have been tinkering with over the years.

Luo Yong readily agreed.

After sending off Master Xuanzang and the monks, Luo Yong started to work on the canal again.

He has received the letter from Mrs. Luo, and there are also letters from the Bai family. Although he now knows that the person who will come here to take over his class is Bai Yimao, Luo Yong still decides to send this letter to him before he leaves. A canal was repaired.

It's not that he is personally reluctant to give Bai Yimao the merits of the canal. The Bai family treats their brothers and sisters of the Luo family well. If this matter only concerns Luo Yong, then he will reciprocate and give this It's a generous gift, and it won't be very distressing.

The reason for this decision is mainly due to Du Gou.Du Gou was born in a gentry family, and he has heard and seen in that environment since he was a child, and he knows the communication and games between gentry families. When Du Ruhui was still there, Du Gou was also a Beijing official. After leaving Chang'an City, he increased his knowledge and honed his skills. will.

Luo Yong went back to Chang'an City this time to serve as the county magistrate of Chang'an. There was no better assistant than Du Gou, so Du Gou would definitely go back with him when the time came.After Du Gou returned to Chang'an City, how to gain a foothold, how to make others look up to him, this is what Luo Yong is thinking about now, Du Gou now needs this achievement more than Bai Yimao.

In order to promote this canal, Luo Yong asked Tang Jian for help this time, asking him, a "white stack scholar", to write another novel.

Dean Tang readily agreed. Although the main task of writing novels does not seem to be very high-end, it comes with money. Last time, the "Song of the White Stack" has been printed over the years. How many times, he has taken a lot from Luo Yong just for the manuscript fee.

Although Dean Tang has a good background, he obviously still hasn't reached the level of treating money like dung, otherwise he wouldn't have been demoted from his official position for accepting a lamb from others.

If the news of writing novels spread among the gentry, it would be a bit of a loss. After all, he is so old, and he was once a high-ranking person.But after all, the money earned by his own ability, Dean Tang is very open about this aspect.

He also wrote this novel very smoothly, and finished the draft in three or two days. Once he sent it to Luo Yong, he was waiting to collect the money.

As a result, Luo Yong ran over with his manuscript that evening, and just said, "I'll tell you that your writing style won't be popular."

"Then how should I write it?" Dean Tang bowed down for five buckets of rice, and didn't argue with him. The "Song of Baidie" last time was written according to Luo Yong's idea, and the response was very good.

"Look at what you wrote, it's neither cute nor refreshing, and it doesn't feel substituting." Luo Yong has been busy here for a whole day, and now he finally stopped to catch his breath, and ended up running here again. While burning brain cells, he couldn't care less about being tactful at this time.

"Why is there no sense of substitution? Isn't the protagonist this time also a young girl?" Luo Yong also said last time that young girls are the group who love fantasy and read this kind of novel the most.

"What do you do for her to come from a family of officials? There are only a few women in the world who come from officials. Don't you want to write it specifically for those people?" Luo Yong said: "Or change it to an ordinary rich family. , to a wider audience.”

"Is there anything else?" The white stack scholar stroked his beard and humbly asked for advice.

"Also, you let this woman meet a down-and-out scholar, and the two fell in love secretly. It turned out that the scholar came from a high-ranking official family, and he was well-educated. In the end, he helped the girl's governor to solve the local water source problem and repaired the water source. A canal, this plot is too old-fashioned, not fresh, not attractive enough." Luo Yong said.

"Isn't this new?" Dean Tang felt that he had already dared to think about it. It was already very bold for young men and women to give and receive privately.

"No." Luo Yong said decisively.

"Then how do you write it?" He wanted to see what novelty he could make up with the story of this canal.

Does Luo use this to make up? As a former young man in the 21st century, who has not been baptized in online novels? The novel routines of those years are still a lot.

Luo Yong still has some printed editions in his space. There are all kinds of themes. Novels with female protagonists and novels with male protagonists have slightly different routines. Earlier, when Luo Yong was extremely bored, he had read a few of them. .

"First of all, this girl must be of ordinary origin and ordinary appearance. After all, most people who read books are relatively ordinary." County Magistrate Luo taught Dean Tang a class.

"Good." Dean Tang also agreed with this point.

"Secondly, you have to give her an adventure. It's too old-fashioned to meet a talented person in trouble. Otherwise, you might as well let her pick up a divine beast."

Dean Tang: "?"

"This divine beast looked like a puppy when it was first picked up. The girl was kind-hearted. She picked it up and took care of it carefully. They got along day and night, and then the divine beast became attached to the girl."

Dean Tang: "!"

"The girl's hometown was hit by a drought, and everyone was helpless. At this time, the divine beast finally no longer concealed its divine power, and made rain fall from the sky. It also used its divine claws to plan a canal on the ridge, so that the snow on the mountain flowed down. It flows all the way to the girl's hometown."

Dean Tang: "..."

Luo Yong thought for a while, and added: "Add a bit of sadomasochism in the middle."

Dean Tang didn't know what to say at this time, if the beast was picked up as a puppy, would that be okay?

Compared with his routine, the plot of the young girl and the down-and-out man giving and receiving privately is really weak.

Who wouldn't want to pick up such a good thing as a divine beast? Thinking about it makes people feel excited, okay?

The author has something to say:

Dean Tang: "Why don't you write about an old man who finds a mythical beast."

Magistrate Luo: "..."

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