Chapter 2250 Meeting an old friend in a foreign land
Manager Li was also clever. He took out two pieces of not very good silk cloth from the luggage. These were the ones that the two bandits had brought with them when they tried to sneak in.
In order to perform well, each of them brought ten pieces of cloth. Unfortunately, they could not perform well and the silk cloth they brought was of average quality.
They were sent back to Yumen Pass, but their belongings were left behind and confiscated by them.
Naturally, this man is their Miss Man.
Manager Li said that the two pieces of silk cloth were the cost of their caravan's accommodation in the village, and the old man was lost in thought.
The villagers stared at the old man with sharp eyes, and wanted to agree to it on his behalf. Two pieces of cloth were not a small amount, and they could be exchanged for a lot of wheat, and even more for barley.
The old man shook his head and gestured for another one.
Steward Li pondered for a moment, then took out a horse and said, "We can add another one, but our master wants to live in a good place, and we want to live together or nearby. It's not easy to separate them."
The old man looked at Zhou Man and others standing beside him and nodded in agreement.
Manager Li smiled, knowing that they probably didn't have many delicious foods here, and their cooking skills might not suit the tastes of their masters, so he decided to go back and get some silk cloth or tea to exchange for some food, vegetables, meat, and other things for Mrs. He to cook.
Manager Li brought Wei Xingren and instructed the guards to arrange the people going up and down. Manbao and the others followed behind to join in the fun, mainly listening to them talk, listening to Wei Xingren's translation, and then learning from them.
The old man was very interested in the babbling children. He smiled, made arrangements for the others, and then took them to his house to stay.
He said he was the village chief and lived in the best house in the village. His two sons lived on either side of his house. Besides them, there were two other guests living in his house. If they wanted to learn Chinese, they could learn from the two guests. He said approvingly, "That guest is amazing. He understands everything we say."
Wei Xingren: ...It's as if he doesn't understand. If adults want to learn, wouldn't it be more convenient to find him?
The old man had already happily opened the door to the courtyard and shouted inside: "Master, Master, there are guests coming."
Manbao and Baishan looked up and looked at the person who walked out of the house in shock.
Zhiren was also surprised for a moment, then he smiled, "So it's Donor Zhou and Donor Bai, it seems like fate has arrived. Please come in quickly."
Although the old man didn't understand Chinese, he could understand his expression and was also surprised. "Do you know him?"
This question was directed at the monk, and Zhiren smiled and said, "Yes, we are old acquaintances. These young men are my friends from the old place."
The old man was even more polite to Zhou Man and his friends, warmly inviting them into the house. Then he shouted towards the houses on both sides, trying to call out his grandchildren who were still at home to make milk tea for them.
However, most of the villagers had gone to the village entrance to join in the fun and share the guests, including the children. Therefore, he only called out a two-year-old baby who was stumbling and could only walk. She held onto the door sill and cried, as if calling for her mother.
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Manbao held back her laughter, walked forward and held the child in her arms, took out a candy from her purse, crushed it and put a little into her mouth. The child tasted the sweetness and stopped eating immediately.
After sucking it, she looked at Manbao with tears in her eyes.
While giving her candy, Manbao curiously asked Zhiren, "When did the master come to the Western Regions?"
Zhiren then smiled and said, "Two years."
Manbao was very interested. "Master, are you heading back now, or have you only come this far?"
"We're on our way back now, but I heard there are a lot of robbers on the road, so I plan to stay here for a while, then turn to Xizhou and return via the grasslands from Yizhou."
Bai Shan was startled and asked, "Isn't Xizhou Gaochang? Master, are you going back?"
Zhiren explained, "I came from Qiuci and originally wanted to take this trade route back through Yumen Pass, but I didn't know there were a lot of bandits along this route, so I decided to go through Xizhou, find a caravan from there and go to Yizhou, then all the way to Fengzhou and then go south."
That's going too far.
Zhiren looked at them and asked with a smile, "Why did you come to the Western Regions?"
Manbao explained the story of smallpox in Xiazhou.
Zhiren was stunned for a moment before saying, "I see. No wonder the road was peaceful when I came here, but now it's in such chaos. Smallpox... Has Xiazhou suffered a great loss?"
Manbao nodded.
Zhiren sighed inwardly, then wondered, "There's a cure for smallpox in the Western Regions? I wonder where this news came from."
Man Bao said: "It's not a treatment, it's a preventive vaccination method."
She said, "We've tried it. Human smallpox can be vaccinated, but it's more dangerous. I heard cowpox is safer, but we don't know how to vaccinate. We can't always ask others to try it, so we wanted to come here to seek some advice."
Zhiren was not very confident because he had never heard of this method.
Bai Shan was a little curious, "Master, have you traveled all over the Western Regions?"
Zhiren laughed bitterly. "How can I travel all over the Western Regions? I have a good friend who went to India many years ago to seek the true scriptures, but he never returned. Coincidentally, I have many questions about the Lotus Sutra, so I want to retrace his steps to resolve my doubts and find him. But we only got as far as Khotan Town. Xiaoboluo and Daboluo are at war, and Tubo is also involved. We can't go through."
Although there were documents for customs clearance and both Tubo and Xiaoboluo believed in Buddha, they would rather detain him than let him pass.
After half a year of hard work, Dabolü finally agreed to escort him there, but they changed their minds at the last minute and sent him back to Yutian Town. They also wanted to borrow troops from him and the Jin Dynasty. As a result, Yutian Town was not at peace either, because when Tubo intervened in the affairs between Xiaobolü and Dabolü, it "accidentally" occupied the three places under Yutian Town and abducted all the people in the tribe to Tubo.
Seeing that the timing was not right and that things could not be delayed any longer, Zhiren quietly left Khotan Town with his apprentice and passed through Qiuci, intending to return to the Central Plains.
It's just that most people in the Western Regions believe in Buddhism, especially in Gaochang, no, it's now Xizhou. Especially in this area, from nobles to the poor, everyone worships Buddha. So he simply preached Buddhist teachings all the way back, so he walked a little slowly. When they arrived here, they were robbed by horse thieves.
Zhiren looked at Zhou Man, and after a moment's silence, he said, "I have something to ask of you, Benefactor Zhou."
Manbao hurriedly said, "Master, please speak."
Zhiren stood up and asked her to go to the guest room to take a look.
Jie Chen was injured, which was one of the important reasons why he decided to go to Xizhou. The horse thieves on this road were too brutal.
Jie Chen was lying on the bed. Manbao lifted the quilt and took a look at his wound. There was a huge wound on his back that ran from his shoulder to his waist. It had been treated and some green medicinal herbs were applied on it. Manbao sniffed and smelled that it was a hemostatic medicine, but the wound had worsened a little, probably due to insufficient use of the medicine.
Zhiren said, "This is a knife wound. There is also an arrow wound on his leg. The arrow is poisoned, but I don't know what the poison is. I tried to detoxify it, but it didn't work. So I have to trouble Master Zhou."
See you at 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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