Yang Qian's guest meets the chivalrous monk

Yang Yi, zi qianzhi, Zhejiang Yongjia people also. From an early age, he was a gentleman, informal, erudite and talented, and was appointed as the commander of Anzhuang County, Guizhou. Anzhuang County, the ground is connected to the ridge table, the Nantong Bashu, and the barbarians are mixed. The locals are good at raising clams and poison, do not understand the etiquette, believe in ghosts and gods, and advocate demon law. It produces gold and silver, pearls and jewelry. It turned out that in the system of the Song Dynasty, when an official sent abroad left Beijing, the emperor had to personally inquire, and the courtiers presented a poem to see the talent of this person as an official. In March of the second year of Jianyan, Yang Yi was ordered to leave Beijing. Emperor Gaozong asked Yang Yi, "What is your official position?" Yang Yi said: The subject was granted the title of Zhi County of Anzhuang County, Guizhou. The emperor said: Do you know anything about the customs and customs of Anzhuang? Yang Yi dedicated a poem to the emperor: Wild smoke falls in the east wind, and the end of the world is delivered. People know each other very little, and birds sound the same. The hammer is even the bi lost road, and the southern sky of Xiang County is absolutely convenient. Since the shame of the years without inches to make up, will also be Li Le Qian Yuan Gong. Emperor Gaozong listened to this poem and understood compassion and said: You go to such a distant place to make people pity. Go to the post for the time being, and it won't be long before you are recruited back to Beijing to be appointed again. Yang Yi waved tears and resigned.

Coming out of the palace, he met Guo Zhongwei, the envoy of Zhenfu. After the two of them finished seeing the ceremony, Zhongwei said: I heard that you were honored as An zhuang, how is this good. Yang Yi said: Wild smoke miasma, nine deaths in a lifetime. I want to go, but I can't go. If you go to the place of death, please teach me. Zhongwei replied: If you want to know the details, you can only go with you to ask the benefactor Zhou Zhenfu, and now he has been demoted to Lianzhou and will leave on the same day. The two came together to see Zhenfu Zhouwang. Yang Yi prostrated his head and said: Yang Mou was recently appointed as Anzhuang County, and he also asked for advice. Zhou Wang hurriedly replied: Anzhuang is a place where barbarians are infested, and every household understands the law of demons and is good at using poison to charm others. If you can surrender them, all the treasures of gold and silver will be to you. If you can't subdue them, be careful. Your wife's family, don't take them home for the time being, for fear of being insulted by local officials. Yang Yi listened, burst into tears, and said: How can this be born. Zhou Wang looked at Yang Yi's pain and said: I am now demoted to a post in Lianzhou, and I am on the same road as you, and when I reach the guangdong border, I will be separated from you again. Coiled along the way, you don't have to care. Yang Yi and the two of them resigned, waited for more than half a month, and got up with Zhou Wang.

The two came to Zhenjiang and hired a big boat. Zhou Wang and Yang Yi used the middle few cabins. The remaining cabins were paid by sailors to carry others, and there were thirty or forty people in total. Among them, there was a wandering monk who went to Huguang Wudang Mountain to burn incense. The monk said that he had come from Funiu Mountain, but he was very rude and not careful enough. There were thirteen men in the cabin with him, none of whom liked him, and he often asked for tea and food with these people. The man in one of his cabins said: The monks are all compassionate and careful, there is no greed, how can they please us. The monk replied, "You little people, I want you to serve me, and it is enough not to abandon you." A thousand villains in the mouth, ten thousand villains cursed everyone. The crowd was popular, but some scolded the monks, and some wanted to beat the monks. The monk was not in a hurry, and pointed at his scolds and said, "Don't scold." The one who scolds will not make a sound. Pointing at him and saying: Don't hit. The man who hit him could not move. The men were all stuck, a bunch of them sitting in the cabin, just rolling their eyes. A man next to him, seeing this, shouted loudly: "No, there are monsters here." The people in the various cabins heard it and came out to watch, which also alarmed Zhou Wang and Yang Yi. The two walked to the hatch to watch and were also surprised. Just as he was about to ask the monk, the monk saw that the two were officials, so he got up and gave a salute to the two and said: The little monk is a monk from Funiu Mountain, and he wants to go to Wudang Mountain to be happy, and he happens to be on a treasure boat, and he is bullied by everyone, hoping that the two adults will be the master. Zhou Wang said: Although they scolded you, although they were not, you did not conform to the principle of compassion of the monks. The monk replied, "Since the two adults have begged for their forgiveness, I will not bother." Touch the person who can't speak with your hand and say: You talk to yourself. This dumb man can speak. Then he pulled his hand to the paralyzed man and said, "You automatically." The paralyzed man can raise his hand. It was like acting, and the people on the boat laughed together. Zhou Wang quietly said to Yang Yi: This monk must be a person who knows magic, we just need such a person, why not leave him to live in your cabin." Yang Yi said: What I said is that I don't have a family in the cabin, so I can let him live. So he said to the monk, "Since you are at odds with them, go and live in my cabin, and don't give up on your usual porridge." The monk said: Don't dare to disturb. The two lived together.

After three or four days, the two of them said some classics or gossip in the morning and evening, and the monk could answer them. Yang Yi also often said some pitiful words on the road to impress the monks. He also said to him: I want to go to Anzhuang County to be a zhi county. The monk said: When you go to Anzhuang to become an official, you must stop a little before you can go. Yang Yi told him about his poverty. The monk said: The little monk's surname is Li, and he is originally from Yazhou, Sichuan, and has relatives who have moved to Weiqing County. I still have brothers and sisters in my family, and I will go back and find someone with spells and means for you, and go with you to ensure that you are fine. If you can't find someone, you can't go easily. I will not go to Wudang Mountain for the time being, and accompany you to take office. Yang Yi thanked him again and again, and told the monk everything about his confidant. This monk saw that Yang Yi was open and honest, and he was easy to do his duty, and the monk respected him even more. Knowing that Yang Yi was very poor, he took out ten gold and fifty or sixty pieces of silver from his own clothes and gave them to Yang Yi for coiling. Yang Yi repeatedly resigned before accepting. Unconsciously, he had spent more than half a month in the boat and arrived at the boundary of Qiongzhou in Guangdong. Zhou Wang said to Yang Yi: I am going east to Lianzhou, and now entrust you to the elders who are good and heartwarming, so let's say goodbye here. He instructed the monk a few more words, arranged a banquet, ate half a day's worth of wine, and parted ways.

After walking for a few more days, I came to the boundary of Biaoqiao County. The monk said to Yang Yi: This is where my house is, dock the boat at the dock, I will go up to find someone, and you are waiting here. The monk put on his back, took the staff, and said goodbye. I went for seven or eight days in a row, and there was no news. Yang Yi was very anxious, but he firmly believed that the monk was a good man with faith and righteousness, would not deceive himself, and was hanging in the air every day. On the ninth day, I saw the monk leading seven or eight people, carrying two cages and some food. Carrying a small palanquin with someone, he came to the side of the boat. Lifting the curtain, I stepped down a beautiful woman, about twenty-four or five years old. The monk led the woman to meet Yang Yi and said to Yang Yi: At this time, my niece, who is widowed at home, I specially let her serve the lord. She has learned some spells since she was a child, and after the adults, everything depends on her, but you can be safe. It was getting late, and the monk and his party rested on the boat. Yahuan Gate went to burn the fire to cook for everyone to eat. Lee rewarded the boatman with silver. After eating and drinking, everyone went to sleep, and Yang Yi and Li Shi went to the official cabin to rest.

The next day, the monk got up, had breakfast with everyone, and said goodbye and left. Say to Li Shi: You must be careful what I tell you, and you must not be too big. Goodbye on the day of the relocation. It is said that this Li clan is not only charming and beautiful, but also gentle in nature, very clever, talented and intelligent, and Yang Yi love each other, like a couple with a hair. After walking for dozens of days, we came to a river, which was connected to the Tumba Shu River in the east and the Dianchi Yelang in the west. Where the rivers meet, the water is very turbulent, there is no wind and waves, and it is very difficult to cross. Sailors need to have enough to eat before they can sail across the river. Once the boat was opened, the wind and waves were strong and could not be stopped. What's more, the river is full of sharp reefs, so be very careful. After the boat was finished, it was about to start the boat, only to see Li Shi hurriedly say to Yang Yi: You can't drive the boat, and you have to avoid the three-day wind before you can pass. Yang Yi said: Now there is no wind, why not open. Li Shi said: This strong wind is only going to blow in an instant, and I want to say, quickly park the boat in Puli and avoid the strong wind. Yang Yi was about to try Li's skills, so he asked the sailors to dock the boat in Puli. The sailor said that there was a stone pond next to it, there were many people, everything, just stopped to rest. No sooner had the sailor propped the boat up to Puzikou than a strong wind blew up from the northwest corner. At first, it was just dust, but then it blew down the trees, turned over the monstrous waves, and the ghosts cried and howled, which was very amazing. The strong wind did not know how many ships had been damaged and did not stop until sunset.

On the third day, the wind blew again, and in the afternoon, the wind stopped. There were several small boats carrying goods from the market to sell, and Yang Yi saw that Li Shi not only knew magic, but also knew astronomy, and his heart was very happy. Let the people on the boat buy fresh fruit and flatter Lee's. There was a boat seller of konjac sauce, Yang Yi said: I have only heard that the konjac sauce is a delicacy in the land of Yunnan and Shu, and I have not eaten it, so why not buy some for Li's to eat. Let the sailor ask for the price, saying that it is five hundred dollars. Yang Yi said: Xiao Wei, go and ask your wife for some money to buy sauce. Xiao Wei came to ask his wife for money, and Li Shi said: Don't buy this sauce, there is trouble in buying it. Xiao Wei replied to Yang Yi. Yang Yi said: What trouble can there be when buying a jar of sauce is definitely too expensive, and I am not willing to get money. Then he gave his own money to the barbarian who sold the sauce, and took the sauce to the cabin to taste, the sauce is fragrant, the color is as cute as red agate. It is very sweet to eat in the mouth. Li Shi saw that he hurriedly took the lid to cover it, and said: The old man can't eat, trouble will come immediately. We don't have this konjac sauce here, and the source is in South Vietnam. Its wood is like a valley tree, and its leaves are like mulberries, two or three inches long, and it refuses to grow more. After September, it can only mature after frost. The natives picked it and brewed it into a sauce. It is very precious to dedicate it to the Royal Family. This one was stolen and sold, and the matter has been revealed.

It turned out that this konjac sauce was sent by the county magistrate to the south vietnamese country by the county official, and purchased it with heavy money, and the capital hall did not dare to enjoy it, but it was a treasure to be presented to the emperor. The rich have worked hard and spent countless sums of money to get this can. I was about to exchange a silver jar for it and give it to the county magistrate, but this barbarian stole it. Because the rich man lost the sauce, he was very panicked and sent people to scatter and arrest them, as if they were dead. Someone sent a message to the rich household, the rich family was holding a barbarian, setting up a search fast boat, twenty or thirty people armed with knives and guns, sounding the gong to pursue, killing Yang Yi on the boat, to get the sauce. The ship still has half a arrow. Yang Yi heard the wind tightening, very panicked, hiding in the cabin, not knowing what to do. Li Shi said: I told you not to buy, now that you are in trouble, these barbarians, who can use their knives and guns at every turn, where are they afraid of any etiquette. Then let Yang Yi not panic, let Xiao Wei take a basin of water, read a spell, and paddle into the water, only to see the fast boat, just like nailed in the water, no matter how to hold on, it will not move. The people on board panicked. Shouted: Someone on the official ship will demonize the Fa, go and ask someone to fight the Fa. At this time, Li Shi had already called the sailors over and said: Don't worry, the official ships are sheltered here, because someone took the konjac sauce to sell, we didn't know it, bought this sauce, but did not move. Now the original is returned, and the money is gone. When the people on the clipper saw this, they heard that they had not eaten his sauce, and said: As long as the original is returned, the silver you bought the sauce will also be returned to you. Then the sauce was sent back, and the other side returned the silver, and neither side used the knife soldiers. Lee drew a few drawings in the basin of water, and the clipper floated out. Yang Yi said: This time, thanks to madame, I was able to avoid this disaster. Li Shi said: In the future, you just need to listen to me and keep you safe.

The next day, the wind stopped, and the people ate breakfast and sailed across the river. After walking for a few more days, we arrived at the Anzhuang Boundary. The county's officials and servants all came to pay their respects. After settling in madame's luggage, Yang Yi went to the back hall to meet Xu Dian and ate a banquet. While drinking, Yang Yi said to Xu Dianguan: When I first arrived, I didn't know the customs and customs of the land, and I also asked you for advice. Xu Dian official said: I still need the support of the chief, and I dare not make this remark. Here it is connected with Ma Long, who has a Xue Xuanwei Division, who is a descendant of Xue Rengui of the Tang Dynasty and is rich enough to rival the country. The local barbarians are bound by it. There is a custom in this county that after the chief officer enters the post, he will first visit him, and then he will return the salute and exchange courtesy with each other. Please also pay attention to the governor. Yang Yi asked how far away this place was from Malone. Xu Dian official replied: There are about forty miles. Then the two men talked about some local affairs, finished drinking, and went their separate ways.

Yang Yi told his wife about Xue Xuanweisi, and Li Shi said: Xuanwei is young and very smart, if we are careful to get along with him, not only can we get his money, but we will have to rely on him in the future. We must not be arrogant and say that he is a magistrate, nor can we neglect him. He also said: In three days, a demon dressed in red will come to stir up trouble, and when he comes to see you, you must not be tricked by him into standing up and ignoring him. Yang Yi remembered them one by one. After three days, Yang Yi went to the City God Temple to offer incense, and he sat down in the public hall, and his subordinates came to see him. Only to see that there was a native man wearing a red cloth man with a collar and a square turban at the bottom of the steps, walked up to Yang Yi, did not kneel, and said in his mouth: Please get up, give the old man a beating. Yang Zhixian asked him: What kind of old man are you, and what does it have to do with my yamen? The old man did not answer him, but kept saying: Please get up and give the old man a beating. Yang Zhixian ignored him, but he was rude in front of himself five times, and he saw that there were more people watching the liveliness next to him, which was detrimental to his majesty. I only remember madame telling me not to get up. At that time, I was angry, and if I could take care of anything else, I let the soap official go forward and take it down, and beat it as it was. The soap officials rushed up, pulled the old man down, and hit ten large boards. The officials who were watching all came to ask for forgiveness, and Yang Yi threw him out. The old man said as he walked: Don't panic.

Today was originally a good day for Zhixian to sit in the hall, and did not want to be disturbed, YangZhixian sullenly withdrew from the church. Li Shi said: I told you not to pay attention to this man in red, how can you bother with him again. Yang Yi said: I listened to your words, and I did not get up, sat upright, and just hit him on the ten boards. Li Shi said: He has come to fight the Fa, and if you get up, he will turn into a monster at night to do evil and do everything possible to intimidate you. If you are afraid of death and beg for forgiveness, this county magistrate is doing it for him. Those door soap officials are all his way, where someone is willing to stand on your side and me. Now that he has been beaten, he has not come to scare you, and he will come tonight to take your life. Yang Yi didn't know how to be good. Li Shi said: Don't worry, you can relax your mind, and make sense at night. In the evening, I ate and packed up. Li Shi first drew four symbols of white powder and ash according to the orientation, and also drew a symbol in the middle. He told Yang Yi to sit on the middle charm and said to him: If there is a monster at night to scare you, you must remember not to move, just sit on the charm, do not be afraid of him. After Li Shi finished speaking, he took out a large gold needle three or four inches long in the box, and offered it in front of the statue with an incense candle and a zhu charm, and sat outside the white circle and waited.

About two o'clock in the morning, I heard the sound of wind and rain in my ears, getting closer and closer. When I got to the door, it was like a cracking sound, and I flew into the room. This monster, the size of a tea tray, couldn't really see it, and pounced on Yang Yi. When I reached the outside of the white circle, I was blocked and kept flying around the circle. Li Shi recited the incantation and burned the rune into the air. This monster flew more urgently outside, saying that it was too late, then fast, Li Shi's eyes fixed, looked at this monster, and shouted: Stay. Pressing the monster to the ground with one hand, looking closely, it looks like a big bat, covered in black and white patterns, with a long bright red mouth, and it is very frightening to see. Yang Yi was stunned, and it took half a day to come back to his senses. Li Shi said: This monster is the embodiment of the old man, if you beat it to death here, the old man will die. I'm afraid it won't be easy to take over, and there are more of his descendants, and they will definitely come to take revenge, so I will keep his life for the time being. Folding the two wings together and nailing them with a golden needle to the charm inside the white circle, the monster could no longer move. I took the basket and covered it, worried about the cat and mouse and so on.

The next day, Yang Yi got up early to ascend to the church, only to see about twenty old people, dressed neatly, kneeling in front of Zhixian and saying: We are all relatives of Old Man Pang, Pang Mou does not know the height, last night rushed into the old man, was held. Also hope to open the grace, spare him once, the little man and he will definitely come to honor the old man. Yang Yi said: Since you know, if I don't have the ability, I don't dare to come here and become an official. Now I don't kill him, see how he escapes. The old men said: It is not a secret that the affairs in this county were previously controlled by a few of them, and the government was not allowed to decide. Now that he knew the strength of the old man, he no longer dared to offend, spared old man Pang once, and the people in the county naturally submitted. Yang Zhixian withdrew from the church and came to see Li Shi. Li Shi said: Wait until tomorrow they come again to ask for forgiveness before they can let him go.

After another night, Yang ZhiXian ascended to the church, and the old people came to beg for forgiveness again. Yang Zhixian said: Look at the faces of all of you, spare him once for the time being, and the next time you are rude, you will never spare him lightly. The old men thanked each other and went away. At night, Lee walked into the white circle, pulled out the golden needle, and the monster flew away. As soon as he flew to the house, Old Man Pang got up from the bed, thanked the old people and said: I almost can't see you. This county is OK, but his wife is very powerful. Her spells, which I don't know where she learned them, were much more powerful than ours. In a few days, you and I will prostrate ourselves with all the gifts, and we will never cause trouble again.

Yang Yi returned to Houya, and Li Shi had already prepared a generous gift for him to visit Xue Xuanwei. Yang Yi set off overnight, arrived at the Malong Territory in the morning, and reported in front of the Xuanwei Division, and Xue Xuanwei personally came to greet him. Invited to a banquet in the garden, Xue Xuanwei saw that although he was thin, he was very learned, good at talking, able to write poetry, and could drink. So he took advantage of the wine to test Yang Yi's talent. Let the man take out a purple gold ancient mirror and say to him: This is made of purple gold, and it is bright and clean. There are four gua on the back of the mirror, and when you knock on it, there are four sounds, and in the middle is the sound of the yellow bell. Emperor Hancheng once took a mirror to paint Fei Yan's eyebrows. Yang Yi looked at the ancient mirror and made a poem: 猗與 Z instrument, Zhaozhi Xuanyuan. Daye Fan Jin, Yan Emperor Bingqian; Chiseled out chaos, Daming Zhongtian. Fu's painting is complete, and the four elephants are complete. According to the law of the times, the teacher is absent-minded. High and low, clear and turbid, the palace signs circumvent. It has both forms and effects. Gentlemen see the rules, the crown is like a dress, and the lady is coming, and the sky is clear. Yan Yan bi see, not for less to move. Where am I, where am I? Yang Yi finished writing the article without adding points, showed it to Xue Xuanwei, saw that the writing was so good, and did not feel that he was praising Chen. He took out a small mirror and asked him to compose another song. Yang Yi made another poem: Seeing the yuan fish, it is actually ominous. Jing Cong Jing Ming, the light of the Shun Emperor. Fully focused on the photo, inside and out.

Xue Xuanwei was even more obedient to Yang Yi, and stayed with him for five consecutive days, with daily hospitality. Yang Yi wanted to resign and leave, but Xue Xuanwei repeatedly stayed and asked Yang Yi's age. I didn't think that Yang Yi was thirty-six, Xuan Wei was twenty-six, and he was ten years older. So the two became brothers and rejoiced with each other. He also placed wine to send off, and gave Yang Yi two thousand gold and silver wine vessels. Yang Yi repeatedly resigned before accepting. Yang Yi bid farewell to Xue Xuanwei and returned to the county. Only to see old man Pang and an old man, prepared gifts and one hundred and two pieces of silver per person, a total of more than two thousand two, sent to the county court. Yang Yi saw that they were so attentive, so he left them at the county court to eat wine and dinner before sending them away.

According to the old column: Yiren's complaint, whether it is accurate or not, needs to pay three pieces of paper money now. When there are many things, there is also a lot of income. If you encounter a lawsuit for the life of a person, if you are willing to reconcile, you need to estimate the murderer's family property, please ask ZhiXian to divide the family property into three shares, one to Zhixian County, one to the bitter lord, and one to the murderer. This is a good government. There is also a custom among barbarians, if there is a festival, the people come to give gifts to Zhi County. Yang Yi spent more than three years in Anzhuang and received a lot of money. They were all placed in Xue Xuanwei's mansion, and the eunuchs were very rich. One day, he said to Xue Xuanwei: Contentment is not humiliating, I am here, thanks to the love of my brothers, and now the money I have accumulated has done enough to live a life, and I am about to resign and return to my hometown. How to get the belongings I have accumulated here, how to get them into the house, and I hope that my brothers will help me. Xue Xuanwei said: Since you have already resigned, I will not keep you, and I will send someone to send you to the ship with your belongings, so that you will not bother." Yang Yi bid farewell to Xue Xuanwei, returned to the county, and gathered Old Man Pang and other elderly people to give them some small gifts. On the day of getting up, the people all put up incense lanterns and candles to send them off, and saw that Yang Yi had no luggage, only a few boxes when he came, but he did not know that the belongings had already been sent to the ship.

After walking for more than a month, I came to the place where the boat was parked in the old days, stopped on the shore, and saw the monk and several people waiting on the shore. On the boat and Yang Yi met each other, and the joy was infinite. Set up a banquet immediately to talk about parting feelings. Yang Yi told everything about the county. The monk said, "I have come today, and I have nothing else to say, but only for my niece." She originally had a husband, and it was only because of you that she let her accompany you to Anzhuang County to help you. Thankfully, the peace and security returned, and Li Shi will return it to his original husband, and the property is at your disposal. Yang Yi heard that he and Li Shi both cried, and Yang Yi committed suicide again, and he was willing to give up his money and wealth, and he had to be with Li Shi. However, it was not approved by the monks. On the second day, the monk divided the money he had received into ten parts, six for Yang Yi, three for his niece Li Shi, and one for himself. Let Li Shi and Yang Yi separate, the two cried incessantly, as if they were separated from life and death, and finally separated. The monk escorted Yang Yi to Lin'an's home.