Holy Bone

Chapter 580 Daoist Jin'an, do you know the difference between the divine cow of the Tianzhu people and the divine cow of the Tubo people?

Jin An seems to have gotten used to the fact that some people mistaken goats for white yaks along the way.
After he casually explained a few words,
He smiled and said: "The weather on the plateau is changeable, the weather is still sunny during the day, and the wind and cloud suddenly change at night. We saw that there is a suitable place to spend the night here during the day, and we thought about going a little longer to find a shelter from the wind and then have a good night's rest. It turned into a blizzard that could blow away cows and horses, but fortunately, it arrived safely without any danger."

"excuse me."

"Excuse me, is there a place for the cows and horses to rest here?"

Jin An raised his hand to press the big-eared winter hat on his head, and the three of them stood at the door, blocking half of the wind and snow outside.

These tea merchants confirmed that the three people in Jin'an were alive and not snowmen in snowy mountains, but they were very polite. Not only did they take the initiative to tell the cattle and horses where to rest, but the tea merchants also offered to give up their seats to the three of them, and offered to pour a few bowls of buttered tea for Jin'an. The three of them warmed up.

"It must be freezing to drive at night in this ghostly weather. Let's drink a bowl of buttered tea to drive away the cold. I didn't expect to meet us Han Taoist priests in a place as far west as Tubo. I saw too many red-robed lamas. It's cold. Seeing Xiaodaochang, you give people a sense of intimacy like meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign land, as if even the ice and snow are a bit warmer." The tea merchant greeted the three of Jin'an very familiarly.

And this tea merchant is the middle-aged plateau red tea merchant who swore frankly that he had seen the white yak, a mythical beast in the snow mountain 20 years ago.

"Then we'll bother you more."

"Young Master Yiyun, Qi Bo, let's sit here."

The three of Jin'an sat down in the corner.

This is the ruins of an ancient city in the wild. Naturally, there are no tables, chairs or benches. People who are hiding from the wind and snow here just find a place to sit on the ground, and then use cow dung cakes to make a fire.

The fire with cow dung cakes is not only long-lasting and not easy to extinguish, but also bakes cakes. It is the best fuel to use in the alpine areas with thin air.

The biggest disadvantage is that it smells a bit stronger in a closed environment.

At the beginning, Jin An, Mr. Yiyun, Qi Bo, and the goat couldn't bear the smell of roasted cow dung, but after ten days and a half months, they got used to it, and felt that the cow dung cake was quite fragrant, with a The fragrance of herbs and earth is not used to it for a day.

After a short self-introduction, Jin An knew the name of the other party. Zhao Jinchuan was from Wuzhou Prefecture, and Jin An was also from Wuzhou Prefecture. Such a chat immediately shortened the distance between the two.

"Daoist Jin'an, no wonder I feel like old friends at first sight. From the first time I saw you, I felt like meeting my relatives. It turns out that we are really fellow villagers separated by a strip of water."

Zhao Jinchuan took out the skin bag containing highland barley wine, and said that he would drink three cups with Jin'an.

Being able to see people from Wuzhou Mansion here, Jin An is also overjoyed. He has been away from Wuzhou Mansion for more than half a year, and he also misses many friends in Wuzhou Mansion and the Taoist Temple of the Five Zang. thing.

It's just that although Zhao Jinchuan is from Wuzhou Prefecture, he is not from Fucheng, and he spends most of his life doing business on the Ancient Tea Horse Road.

Although I haven't heard any news about the Wu Zang Taoist Temple, I heard that everything in Wuzhou Fucheng is in order. The impact of the Yinyi River flood in September last year on Fucheng has long since passed. Fucheng is still as prosperous as before, and the traffic of merchant ships and passenger ships Weaving, everything is as usual, and Jin An's heart has settled down.

As long as Fucheng is fine, and the Five Viscera Taoist Temple is under the care of Mr. Fuyin, General Duwei, and the three great families, he will definitely be able to settle down well.

While the two were talking, Qibo took out a cloth bag, and then took out a few pieces of cow dung cakes to light the bonfire.

Then he took out some pots and pans from another cloth bag, boiled snow water, and boiled buttered tea.

The vegetation in the plateau snow area is sparse, and there are not many edible vegetables. The Tibetans mainly raise livestock and eat meat, and tea can "catch the greasy meat, and make you sleepy all night." Therefore, these butter teas have become essential nutrients for the human body. good substitute.

Because the high-altitude frigid zone does not produce tea, the ancient tea-horse road came into existence. It originated from Wuzhou Prefecture, passed through the central and southern regions of Tubo, passed through the Gala Kunlun Mountain Pass, and reached Ghasni, Tianzhu, Seljuk and other places. Merchants exchanged tea, silk, and excellent handicrafts from these frontier areas for a large amount of sheepskin, cowhide, mat, scorpion, cordyceps, matsutake, precious medicinal materials, gold, good horses, etc., earning the price difference between the two places and profit. huge.

In particular, most of the good war horses in Kangding Kingdom came from the Tubo area.

Therefore, if you want to survive in the alpine region, this butter tea is a must-have tea for the locals every day.

After Qibo cooked the buttered tea, he took out beef jerky and horse meat, roasted them hot, and distributed them to Jin'an and Mr. Yiyun with ginseng and caterpillar fungus, which were the most worthless in the snow-capped mountains, to replenish their bodies with calories.

Although Mr. Yiyun is a Danqing painted skin and doesn't need these things, he still needs to simply pretend to be in front of people.

The division of labor between the three is very clear, Jin An and fellow villager Zhao Jinchuan inquire about information, Qi Bo is in charge of logistics, and Mr. Yiyun pretends to be a person.

Jin An started to eat the Cordyceps beef jerky, and continued to chat with Zhao Jinchuan while eating: "I never imagined that I would meet so many people in the plateau, desert and Gobi in the snow season. Thousands of mountains and rivers are separated, how can there be so many tea merchants running to this no-man's land, is there any business to do here?"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Jinchuan was stunned by Jin An's question.

"Daoist Jin'an, didn't you come from Wuzhou Mansion? Why, didn't you know about this along the way?" Zhao Jinchuan looked at Jin'an in surprise.

Jin An frowned slightly: "How do you say that?"

This time it was Zhao Jinchuan who looked Jin'an up and down again, and then asked cautiously, "Master Jin'an, didn't you enter Tubo from the ancient tea-horse road that our caravans often take?"

Jin An frowned again: "It's really not."

Zhao Jinchuan was surprised: "Could it be that Xiangxiong came from Jingshugu in Xizhou Prefecture? But this doesn't make sense. If you really want to come from there, how can you not know that such a big thing happened here?"

"The three of us left Yangguan in the west and entered the Western Regions. Zhu Jubo crossed the Snow Mountain and entered Tubo Xiangxiong." Jin An briefly mentioned.

Then he asked curiously: "The big thing you mentioned just now, what kind of big thing is it?"

"What! You are Tubo who came from Zhu Jubo in the Western Region?" Zhao Jinchuan jumped up from the ground in surprise.

This Zhao Jinchuan is a very nice person, familiar with himself, but this is not good, he always likes to be surprised.

"Bull! I, Zhao Jinchuan, rarely admire anyone in my life. Daoist Jin'an, you three are people that I, Zhao Jinchuan, rarely admire in my life!"

"You not only crossed half of the Western Regions, but also crossed the Snowy Mountains on the most difficult route. The key is that it is still the snow season when the wind and snow are the most violent!"

Hearing Zhao Jinchuan's bluff, everyone who had been eating meat and laughing in the ancient city of Shenyu also looked over in surprise, and some inquiries and explanations were indispensable.

After finally dealing with the others, Jin An spoke dryly, but this time he was not polite. He took the highland barley wine handed by Zhao Jinchuan and poured it vigorously, drinking half of the highland barley wine in his skin at once.

Zhao Jinchuan waved his hand and generously said that the highland barley wine was given to Taoist Jin'an for you. If you want more, there are still many in his cavalry.

These highland barley wines are not worth much in the local area, and he can get a lot of them in exchange for any tea he brought from Kangding.

He was more interested in how Jin'an and the others crossed the Western Regions along the way, and how they crossed the snowy mountains that were too close to heaven and too close to hell during the snowy season.

That was really a look of admiration.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Jin An came to Tubo, he developed new believers for the Taoist Temple of the Five Viscera.

Qi Bo, who was poking the cow dung cake in the fire with a rock, looked at Jin An with great interest, while Jin An showed a dumbfounding expression: "We'll talk about this later, let me tell you what happened here first?"

Speaking of this matter, Zhao Jinchuan rarely showed a serious expression on his face, and said: "This matter has to start from last year, probably in February and March of last year, a large avalanche occurred on a snow peak in the Kunlun Mountains, triggering a chain of avalanches. Although I didn't see the scene with my own eyes, according to the Fan people, even if they are far away, they can feel the shock of the earth breaking..."

Hearing this, Jin An, Mr. Yiyun, and Qi Bo all stared.

this point in time.

Isn't it the time when the seal of the Sun Bureau of the Undead God Kingdom was broken, and the deepest part of the desert basin happened to have a big explosion?

Could it be a coincidence?

Or is there a connection between the two?

Could it be that the explosion in the depths of the desert basin affected the snow peaks on the side of the Kunlun Mountains, causing a big avalanche?If it is as guessed, this Kunlun Mountain is also somewhat involved with the Duan Tian Jedi Four Elephant Bureau.

None of the three spoke, and continued to listen intently.

Zhao Jinchuan continued with a very mysterious face: "You also know that the Kunlun Mountains are not only our hometown of gods, but also sacred mountains for the Tibetans and the people of the Western Regions. A sudden avalanche in the Kunlun Mountains will definitely alarm the Tibetans. , but here is located in the extreme west of Tubo, and the mountains are closed during the snow season in February and March, so the Tibetans planned to wait until the end of the snow season in May and June before entering Kunlun Mountains, and guess what happened?"

"Hey, although the mountains are covered by heavy snow in February and March, ordinary people can't get in, but the white yaks, the snow mountain beasts, can come and go freely. Go to the depths of snow-capped mountains and glaciers like flat land, and enter the deepest part of Kunlun Mountains..."

"It is said that at that time, when sleeping at night, you could hear the sound of someone flying over your head. The local people said that it was a powerful venerable or guru who summoned all the Buddhas and auspicious Buddhas from the ten directions to drive away at night..."

"Although I didn't see these scenes with my own eyes, they were all described by the foreigners, but what the foreigners said is as real as it is."

"Around May, even the Tianzhu people outside the Gala Kunlun Pass got the news, and they rode the sacred bulls over the Galakunlun Pass, passed through Yangtong and Xiangxiong, and headed for the mountain where the avalanche occurred..."

When he said this, Zhao Jinchuan's voice paused, and he lowered his voice mysteriously and said: "Although they are all divine cows, Daoist Jin'an, do you know the difference between the divine cows of the Tianzhu people and the divine cows of the Tubo people?"

Jin An followed the words and asked: "Can you grow one more eye than a normal cow, and one more horn?"

Zhao Jinchuan was stunned: "Master Jin'an, how do you know so clearly? Have you been to Tianzhu?"

This Zhao Jinchuan, as a businessman who has been walking on the ancient tea-horse road all year round, has a glib mouth used to talking all the time, and he can't sit still. Before Jin'an can answer, he has already asked himself and answered: "It's true that the Taoist priest of Jin'an You are right, there are really some Tibetans who saw with their own eyes the tall men from Tianzhu riding three-eyed bulls, three-eyed cows, and white yaks over the snow-capped mountains. I don’t know how many people came, but the ones who were seen on the way were the ones. There are three people."

Jin An frowned slightly.

Unexpectedly, so many major events happened in the Far West last year.

Because the terrain of Tubo is complicated, it is difficult to get in and out, and it is located in a remote place in the west. There are not many exchanges between the two places, and the news is blocked. Bian intentionally blocked the news, and when the news spread to Kangding, it was already close to the end of the year.

According to what Zhao Jinchuan said, it was February this year that Kangdingguo got the change from Kunlun Mountain, and then sent people from Xizhou to enter Kunlun Mountain. It is not known how many people enter the Daxue Mountain during the snow season.

Because people like Zhao Jinchuan entered Tubo through the ancient tea-horse road from Wuzhou Prefecture, and the news from Xizhou Prefecture was not the same.

As Zhao Jinchuan said, even Tubo and Tianzhu have so many esoteric masters and eminent monks who can enter Kunlun Mountains during the snow season. Kangding, whose number has multiplied several times, will not be far behind.

Speaking of this, Zhao Jinchuan cursed in a low voice: "Hey, those Kunlun slaves have crossed the line, trying to spy on the treasures our ancestors left in the land of gods, I really hope there will be another avalanche to bury these niggers forever Under the snow mountain."

Jin An nodded noncommittally.

"However, there is an avalanche of snow peaks in Kunlun Mountains. Does this have any connection with your caravan tea merchants' penetration into the ancient Zhang Zhung Kingdom? If you don't do good tea business, silk business, and ceramic business, how can you get to this shitless no one?" District is here?"

Jin An: "It is said that businessmen can't get up early without profit. Could it be that this avalanche really produced something valuable?"

Zhao Jinchuan didn't hide anything, and said in a low voice: "Everyone already knows about this anyway, so it doesn't matter if you tell Daoist Jin'an. We got news that some Tibetans entered the Kunlun Mountains in May and June, at a place not far from Xuebeng. place, found a glacier monument!"

"Some people say that it is a historic site of the ancestors, while others say that it is the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West, the Taoist temple of Yuanshi Tianzun, and the Tibetans have dug up a lot of treasures. In short, the more rumors spread, the more outrageous they are."

"But no matter what it is, we want to take advantage of this opportunity to go over there to see if there is a chance to make a fortune. Even if we don't find anything, we can still sell the goods of the horse team to the foreigners gathered there. People, or follow Shugu, Xizhou Prefecture, and go out of Yangguan to do business with people from the Western Regions, anyway, there will be no loss at both ends."

Jin An was thoughtful, what kind of ghosts and snakes really came to Kunlun Mountain.

But this is not the point.

The point is that this old Taoist priest can really run around.

Where there is a big movement, there is an old Taoist priest.

Thinking of this, Jin An somehow felt so sore in the back of his teeth.

Thinking of the old Taoist priest, Jin An carefully took out a portrait of the old Taoist priest from his carry-on bag, and asked Zhao Jinchuan about the old Taoist priest.

This time, as before, still nothing.

At the beginning, the ghost mother only said that she heard a businessman from the Western Regions mentioned that she had seen someone who looked like an old Taoist near the Kunlun Mountains, but she didn't mention where it was in the Kunlun Mountains.

The Kunlun Mountains are continuous and vast. If you want to find someone in the vast snowy area, it is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

Even though there is little hope, Jin'an still insists on coming to the Kunlun Mountains to find the whereabouts of the old Taoist priest after walking all over the desert and snow fields.

(End of this chapter)