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    Chapter 603 The Sad Mandala "That's it!" Miao Peilan chuckled, "The general we heard back said that you issued an imperial edict to ask them to retreat, so they had no choice but to come back. Sister Xiao was so angry that she almost killed him, but fortunately he said  I told you the direction you were going, saying it was Gangrenbuche Mandala, so we chased her. Sister Xiao was originally going to come, but the queen was seriously ill and she had to go back to take care of her, so she didn't come. " Zuo Shaoyang was shocked.  : "The Empress Changsun is seriously ill?" "Yes, the day you left, the Empress' illness suddenly worsened. Originally, Sister Xiao wanted to persuade you to stay and treat the Empress, but unexpectedly you were kidnapped." "No wonder Your Majesty.  They will spend 800 miles to mobilize the army to intercept and rescue me. It turns out that it is to treat the queen. Hehe." "We inquired all the way, but there was no news about you when we arrived at Bowo. We rushed to the Tubo cities, but there was no news.  I heard about you." Zuo Shaoyang said with a smile: "We turned around and went north to Duomi." "No wonder, we have asked all the inns, but there is no news about you, so we are so anxious."  Zuo Shaoyang asked curiously: "You two know Tibetan?" "No, when we entered the Western Regions, we paid a lot of money to hire a merchant from the border who knew the Western Regions dialect to come with us. He helped us inquire. I can't find any news about you.  , we decided to wait in Luozhe. The merchant couldn't wait any longer, so he took the money and left. Anyway, there were Han merchants in Luozhe, and we waited at the city gate every night, but after waiting for more than a month, we still found nothing.  There is no news from you." Bai Zhihan thought about the hardships of those days, crying and laughing: "Yes, those innkeepers all know us, and when they see us coming, they shake their heads and say no." Zuo Shao.  Yang kissed the two daughters distressedly: "We were delayed on the way, and then we took a detour to Yangtong and didn't enter Tubo. It's all my fault for making you suffer." The two daughters clung to him, feeling extremely satisfied.  , Miao Peilan said: "We have been waiting for you not to come, so after discussing it, we decided to go directly to Gangrenbuche Mandala, which is where you would go anyway. We paid for a Han businessman who understands the Western Region dialect to be our guide and take us with him.  When we arrived at Gangrenbuche Mandala, we found out that no Dharma King was coming. The original Dharma King had left for many years, and an elder and four protectors had gone to look for him. We originally wanted to wait at the mandala.  But it was too shabby, the only inn was shabby and shabby, and no locals could speak Chinese, so there was no way to communicate. The guide suggested to us that we should wait in Qionglong Yincheng, the capital of Shangxiong Kingdom.  It is the only way for you to get to Gangrenbuche. There are also some Han merchants there. It is better to wait there than here. We agreed. When we came here, he helped us find an inn owned by the Han people, and then left. We were there.  As expected, I've been waiting for you!" After saying this, Miao Peilan smiled happily.  Zuo Shaoyang wiped the tears from her cheeks for her: "How long have you been waiting here?" "It's been almost a month! We heard that a powerful Dharma king came from Xiangxiong Kingdom.  Han people, we guessed it was you." Miao Peilan said with a proud smile, "But we didn't know how to find you, so we stayed outside the palace. We saw your motorcade coming out today. Sister Bai said we were coming to stop you outside the city.  , This is better. So I went out of the city and waited here. "At this time, a strong wind blew over, making them a little unsteady. Zuo Shaoyang said: "Let's get in the car, it's warm."  As the two girls walked towards the car, Dalongxin and others gathered around them.  Zuo Shaoyang introduced both parties. When Dalongxin and others learned that they were the two concubines of the Dharma King, they hurriedly knelt down and saluted.  "The two girls had never received such a great gift, and it was an old man like Dalongxin. They hurriedly hid behind Zuo Shaoyang. Zuo Shaoyang laughed loudly and asked Dalongxin and others to get up.  Everyone mounted their horses and moved on.  Along the way, the two girls kept whispering to Zuo Shaoyang and expressed their endless love for each other.  After setting up camp that night, Zuo Shaoyang wrote a letter home, telling his family that Bai Zhihan and Miao Peilan had joined him and that everything was fine in the Western Regions. He reassured them and wrote a letter to Xiao Yunfei in the capital.  The content is roughly the same.  Then he called the chief bodyguard and asked him to send two bodyguards to deliver the letter to the border of Tang Dynasty and hand it over to the Tang Army Station.  The chief escort hurriedly agreed and called two escorts who were ready to go back to deliver the letter early the next morning.  They continued to set off to Gangrenbuche Mandala.  There is still a month's journey from the capital of Shangshung to Gangrenbuche.  When they arrived at Gangrenpoche, it was already approaching the Tibetan New Year.  Arriving at Gangrenbuche Mandala, Zuo Shaoyang was dumbfounded.  This is not a city at all, it is just a few houses surrounding a high altar.  The altar was as big as a football field and was made by cutting off the head of a small hillside.It was surrounded by stones.  In the middle of the altar, there is a towering flagpole, which is covered with colorful prayer flags. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? It is already the middle of winter, and many homeless people are huddled in the corners of adobe houses in ragged clothes, shivering in the white snow.  Some have frozen to death in the snow.  The body was mostly covered in snow, and no one took it away.  Behind the mandala is the majestic Gangrenbuche Peak. Most of this majestic and majestic sacred mountain is shrouded in a world of ice and snow.  It is like a Bodhisattva from the divine world, looking down from the clouds on the mandala below.  The injuries of Qijia and others have all healed. Before reaching the mandala, Dalongxin had already sent Qijia and Paga back to report.  When they appeared at the foot of the mandala, the only people who greeted them were more than thirty lamas shivering in the cold wind.  There were young and old, all frozen like ice sculptures, but their faces were filled with uncontrollable joy. They knelt on the roadside to greet their Dharma King.  Zuo Shaoyang reined in his horse and looked at all this, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: Is this his own territory?  The one he wants to lead is such a group of hungry and cold people?  The altar owner of the mandala was sent by King Xiangxiong. He was quite decently dressed, and he was particularly flattering to Zuo Shaoyang.  After Zuo Shaoyang asked the lamas who were kneeling on the ground to get up, he didn't bother to be polite to the altar owner and asked: "Where is my temple?" Because he looked around and did not find a temple.  The altar owner said blankly; "Temple?" Dalong Xin hurriedly said to Zuo Shaoyang: "His Holiness, our sect is different from Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty. We don't have a temple, and we all practice in caves." Cave?  Zuo Shaoyang was even more dumbfounded. He didn¡¯t know that Bon religion did not have temples at first. Only after Tibetan Buddhism began to spread in the Western Regions and with the construction of Tibetan Buddhist temples, Bon temples began to be built.  Before this, I practiced in caves or at home.  Accompanied by Dalong Xin, the altar master and others, Zuo Shaoyang came to the monastery of their Jeer religion, which was a cave next to the sacred mountain Gangrenbuche.  The cave was not big, and it was dark and cold inside. The floor was covered with dirty, torn mattresses, which were very thin.  In the middle of the cave, there are several statues of gods enshrined.  Zuo Shaoyang said: "I brought so many people, how can we live in this cave?" Dalongxin said: "Put up a tent." They did come here with tents all the way.  But when they arrived at the mandala, they still set up tents, which Zuo Shaoyang couldn't accept. Moreover, seeing the strong wind carrying snowflakes and filling the tents all over the mandala, how could they live in this place?  However, residence is not the most important thing right now. What Zuo Shaoyang is worried about is, what to do with the homeless people sleeping on the streets?  Looking up at the sky, there are dark clouds, and messy snowflakes seem to fall from the depths of the dark clouds in an endless stream.  Apparently, a blizzard has just begun.  The top priority is saving lives!  Fortunately, Zuo Shaoyang was already prepared and bought a large amount of grain, tents and sheepskin jackets from Xiangxiong Qionglong Silver City.  Zuo Shaoyang said to the altar master: "Gather all the people in the city who need relief, and I will distribute to them things to protect them from the wind and cold!" The altar master was a little shocked: "His Holiness, you, you want to provide relief to the people in the whole city.  "They will be distributed to all the poor people who cannot withstand the cold." "But there are more than 5,000 poor people in the city!" "That's almost enough. This time I'm from Qiong."  "Long bought back a lot of things, and I'm worried that the people will not be able to survive the winter." "But these are your personal properties. Just give them to the poorest people as a token."  If you don¡¯t take it away, what¡¯s the point of keeping it? Why don¡¯t you give it to those who need it the most? ¡ª¡ªHurry up and gather them!¡± Although the altar leader was the chief executive, there was no integration of politics and religion at that time, but he still had to obey the Dharma King on many matters.  's command.  What's more, it's a great deed of good deeds such as providing relief to the victims.  After sighing, the altar owner quickly ordered his men and more than thirty lamas to go to all parts of the city to inform the news that the Dharma King wanted to help the people.  Let them all come to the altar to receive it.  After receiving the news, the people rushed in and soon surrounded the mandala in darkness.  In front of the Dharma King, these people were much more orderly than the hungry people in Hezhou. Even though they saw mountains of food, woolen blankets and tents piled on the altar, as well as more than a dozen large pots set up with steaming food boiling in them.  Beef and mutton, the eyes radiated with crazy light, but no one rushed to snatch it.  Just as Zuo Shaoyang ascended the altar,After the Lord introduced his identity as the new Dharma King, all the people under the altar cheered and fell to their knees.  Zuo Shaoyang was very moved. This was a great trust in himself, or a great trust in the authority of his Dharma King. He walked to the stage and said as loudly as possible: "As your Dharma King, I  Seeing you suffer is as heartbreaking as my own relatives, so I want to help you weather the storm. I bought a lot of food from Qionglong Yincheng, as well as sheepskin jackets and tents to keep out the cold, and now distribute them to everyone.  Line up one by one to get it. If you get it, go down this way. Each person will receive a small bag of food, a sheepskin jacket, and a large bowl of meat. If there is no home, there will be a tent for five people.  Stop it. I want to pay to build houses for people who have no homes and people who live in tents. As long as we unite sincerely, we can get through this difficult time!" Although his Tibetan language is still very poor, he can already express himself clearly.  , the kneeling people cheered and kowtowed in unison.  I consciously took pictures and formed a long queue.  Come up one by one to receive relief supplies.  Zuo Shaoyang looked at them with emotion in his heart.  After everyone had received their belongings, Zuo Shaoyang visited the tents one by one and found those with frostbite and serious illness. He immediately ordered them to be carried to the cave to wait for his treatment.  A bonfire has been lit in the cave.  Of course, there is no forest here, just cow dung, and cow dung bonfires.  It makes the whole cave very warm.  This cave is quite large. There is a small room in the inner corner for Zuo Shaoyang, Bai Zhihan, and Miao Peilan, plus a large room each for the ten delicate beauties.  The remaining space will be used to accommodate the sick and wounded.  There were hundreds of people with frostbite and serious illness who were carried to the cave. Zuo Shaoyang treated them one by one according to the principle of first treating the serious and then the less serious, first the urgent and then the slow.  Several of them had acute abdomens that required surgery, and preparations were made immediately to perform operations overnight.  Fortunately, there are two women helping now. Both of them are familiar with the job. They have been Zuo Shaoyang's assistants for a long time and have rich experience.  They didn¡¯t sleep a wink all day and night, and were busy until the next morning.  The altar owner and others were stunned when they witnessed Zuo Shaoyang's laparotomy.  Soon it spread, and Zuo Shaoyang's magic was said to be magical.  So the next morning, when Zuo Shaoyang came out of the cave, there were people kneeling in the snow outside the cave.  They all came to thank the Dharma King for his kindness.  Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly asked them to get up. It was winter now, and it was too cold to build houses. They could only wait until spring. Fortunately, they bought enough tents this time, and people living on the streets had shelter.  Although the urgent need was solved, a difficult problem before him made him feel helpless, that is, how to improve the lives of these five thousand people.  Yesterday, he visited almost all the households in the mandala and found that most of the people were poor and had very few cattle and sheep at home. The largest family had no more than a hundred, and generally only had twenty or thirty, and quite a few of them had.  They don't even have a single sheep, so they earn some food by working as coolies, helping people herd animals, and carrying work for people traveling to the sacred mountains.  The right elder of the sect is called Dachi.  He was an old man who stayed behind in Mandala and did not go to Datang this time.  This old man doesn't talk much, but he was almost all in charge of the disaster relief yesterday, and he is very prestigious in the local area.  The escorts received the money and set off back.  After sending away the escort, Zuo Shaoyang decided to hold a sect meeting to discuss several major events.  Two elders and four protectors were present, and the meeting was held in the cave where Zuo Shaoyang lived.  Everyone sat in front of the cow dung fire. After listening to Zuo Shaoyang expressing his worries in broken Tibetan, everyone fell silent and no one spoke.  Because everyone is aware of this problem, but there is nothing they can do about it.  ro!  ~!
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