Chapter 12: A Monkey Abandoned by Buddha

Since when, the tribes in the Western Regions have had a legend, a legend about Chang'an City.

In this legend, the Heavenly Khan of the Tang Dynasty lived in a palace built of gold, and held lightning in his hands. Even if he was thousands of miles away, the Heavenly Khan living in the golden palace could still take people's lives.

The legendary Chang'an City is always bright, because the sun is hanging above the palace of the Heavenly Khan, and the moon is decorated in the bedroom by the Heavenly Khan's Khatun. The most beautiful girls from all over the world dance under the moon. Their skin is as white as milk, their voices are as beautiful as nightingales, and their eyes are as bright as stars. Everyone who has seen these eyes will be deeply addicted, not knowing hunger, not knowing thirst, and not knowing that time is slowly passing until they turn into a pile of dry bones...

It is a place without cold, where the land is fertile, food will automatically grow from the land, fruit trees will automatically bloom and bear fruit, and bees will offer their hard-made honey to the great-Tian Khan.

People don't need to work to have enough food, don't need to brew, mellow beer will gush out from the ground, don't need to graze, cattle and sheep will thrive, don't need to weave, mulberry silkworms will automatically spin silk, cocoon, and become silk.

The people in the city called Chang'an have nothing to do except drinking, eating, and having fun. They wake up from drunkenness every day and fall asleep in drunkenness...

The Chang'an City in the imagination of the Huihe people often appears in the songs of Huihe shamans. These magical people who are said to live in the world and can communicate with gods and ghosts tell these stories to gods and ghosts after adding their own fantasies about Chang'an City. Of course, they tell more to the Huihe people who believe everything the shamans say.

"Chang'an, Chang'an, what on earth do you look like that can make these people in remote places worship you as heaven!"

Yun Chu muttered to himself, and the appearance of the Tang Dynasty City that never sleeps in Xi'an kept appearing in his mind, and various descriptions of Chang'an in history books appeared from time to time.

Although his reason told him that Chang'an could not be as good as the herdsmen imagined, he was unwilling to admit that Chang'an was not as beautiful as they imagined.

Chang'an City is only suitable to appear in dreams. After waking up, the snow-capped mountains and grasslands in front of him are still unchanged for thousands of years.

Today's weather is very sunny. Yun Chu cooked goat milk and prepared tsampa and butter early in the morning. When the sun completely appeared, Selaima and Naha were not there.

So he ate all the prepared food by himself. His stomach was full and his whole body felt hot. He hadn't felt so good for a long time.

Selaima and Naha should have better food. From now on, he doesn't have to save and can eat as much as he wants.

Just when Yun Chu was brushing the red horse's hair to cultivate affection, Lao Yangpi came to this small Sai tribe again.

He came on a camel. The camel was tall, which made him look tall. In addition, the seven or eight young men and women following behind the camel made this old guy who looked like a monkey more majestic.

Old Sheepskin is the oldest Hu man Yunchu has ever seen!

He is so thin that his face is only the size of a palm, and his waist and back are hunched like a shrimp. It is obvious that his skin is too big, and there are too few bones, muscles, and internal organs in his body, so that the whole skin seems to be piled on his body, just like a bare old sheepskin without hair. Perhaps, this is why he is called Old Sheepskin.

Although thin, this guy has a lot of hair on his body, especially the beard on his face is growing wildly, resulting in the only thing that can attract attention on his small face is his clear eyes.

Old Sheepskin's eyes are light blue, without any impurities. It is these eyes as clear as the water of Grasshopper Lake that make people want to get close to him involuntarily.

"My little eagle, are you ready to leave home and fly?" Old Sheepskin smiled at Yunchu.

"I'm waiting for you." Yunchu put away the brush and stood up straight.

Old Sheepskin waved his hand, and the young men who followed him immediately formed a staircase with their bodies beside the camel.

He walked down the stairs step by step, and finally came to Yunchu and looked up at him and said, "You should have followed me a long time ago, but you stayed in this wild man's den for three more years for a stupid woman."

Sailaima was watching Yunchu not far away. Yunchu also looked at Sailaima and waved to her affectionately, smiling and said to Old Sheepskin, "It can be considered as living three more years."

"Are you so sure that you will die if you follow me out?" Old Sheepskin found a sunny place and squatted down wrapped in a thick sheepskin cloak.

When he squatted down, he looked even thinner. For the sake of politeness, Yunchu had to sit on the ground, so that he could look into Old Sheepskin's eyes.

"In the six realms of reincarnation, everything you cherish will eventually be destroyed in a cruel way.

Your closest relatives may be the sentient beings you killed! The people you hate the most may be your parents and children!

Everything is a continuous cycle of cause and effect, why do you value it so much?"

Yun Chu smiled when he heard this. The old guy was still the same as before, wanting to make himself a monk as long as there was a chance.

Thinking about his origins, Yun Chu didn't find it strange.

No matter who followed Monk Xuanzang in the Western Regions and in India, after living together for seventeen years like sharing the same fate, they would become a monk.

Lao Yangpi is such a person. According to him, he followed monk Xuanzang for seventeen years and protected Xuanzang for seventeen years.

Although what Lao Yangpi said has not been confirmed by Yunchu, this does not prevent Lao Yangpi from being a wise man who has experienced a lot.

The old guy is proficient in Sanskrit, Tocharian, and Turkic. The most terrible thing is that he can also speak fluent Tang Chang'an Mandarin! He writes beautiful calligraphy with a brush, even the most popular Fei Bai in Chang'an.

Yunchu learned the Tang Dynasty Chang'an Mandarin from Lao Yangpi, and also learned calligraphy from Lao Yangpi. He even learned the complicated etiquette of the Tang people from Lao Yangpi, and he also knew the landscape of the Tang Dynasty well.

He claimed to have traveled throughout the Western Regions and even accompanied a monk named Xuanzang to a country called Tianzhu.

Yunchu expressed reservations about following Xuanzang to Tianzhu. However, it was from his words that Yunchu learned about the vast land of the Western Regions from a high altitude for the first time.

Then, after confirming it with some of the knowledge he already knew, he obtained the coordinates of his region, as well as the coordinates of time and space.

Seriously speaking, Lao Yangpi is actually Yunchu's first leader in this world.

He really wanted to take Lao Yangpi as his teacher, but unfortunately, Lao Yangpi never agreed.

Perhaps he was bewitched by Xuanzang. Now Lao Yangpi is a fanatic believer in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. He persistently believes that he should climb to Chang'an City even if he has to crawl, and finally die happily in that glorious and glorious city. , in the bright city.

This may be his last hope in his long life, but he doesn't know which one of the three people he is: Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, or Monk Sha.

Lao Yangpi's enthusiasm for Chang'an infected Yun Chu. He, a barbarian, regarded Chang'an as his destination. There was no reason for him, a pure Chang'an native, to spend his whole life in the Western Regions.

Lao Yangpi's behavior and words are very similar to pyramid schemes, and the Chang'an City he describes is more like heaven than a human city.

Just because the final destination was Chang'an, Yun Chu chose to believe in this person. After all, people with lofty goals will not be so bad.

"You were eight years old when I first met you. Five years have passed. I have also taught you for five years. I can tell you with certainty that with your abilities, little eagle, believe me, you should Go to Chang'an, instead of continuing to drag your tail in the muddy pond of the Western Regions and get yourself covered in filth.

Go back soon, or I will die here. "

The old sheepskin monkey-like round eyes slowly became foggy, and it could be seen that he was very sad at this time.

Yun Chu's heart hurt for no reason, he lowered his head and asked in a low voice: "Why didn't Xuanzang take you with him when he returned to the Tang Dynasty?"

The fog and sadness in Lao Yangpi's eyes immediately disappeared when he heard these words, and his eyes became as sharp as an eagle, staring at Yun Chu.

This sentence should have touched on Lao Yangpi's pain point. Yun Chu did not avoid it and stared into Lao Yangpi's eyes.

"Alas..." Lao Yangpi sighed, and then said weakly: "The mage was picked up by officers and soldiers..."

Yun Chu nodded and said, "Let's go!"

Lao Yangpi was stunned for a moment and said, "Leave now? Aren't you reluctant to leave?"

Yunchu stood up, came to Selema, hugged the woman who raised him heavily, and whispered in her ear: "Mom, I'm leaving."

Selema resisted crying and took out a bunch of white stones from her arms and tied them to Yun Chu's wrist. These stones were the white jade Naha used to throw stones, and they were still stained with Selema's body temperature. .

"Live well, I will wait for you under the snow-capped mountains, waiting for the day when you become a great hero."

Yun Chu nodded, returned to the tent, took out a cowhide backpack and put it on his back, then put a cowhide horse bag on the horse, and led the horse to Lao Sheepskin, who was already riding a camel, without saying a word. He left the Cypriot tribe where he had lived for thirteen years.

Mi Man stood next to the tent, watching with envy as Yun Chu rode his horse past his tent. It could be seen that he wanted to follow him several times, but in the end, for some reason, he sat quietly with his back to the tent. down.

Yunchu didn't see Naha, which made him a little disappointed. Selema followed them for a while, then stopped under a tall cedar and watched Yunchu go away.

However, a plump marmot chased the team along the high slope in the grass for a while. Finally, because it saw the golden eagle circling in the sky, it disappeared into the grass and disappeared.