Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

I took a bite of the braised pork.

Pretending to be nonchalant, he asked, "Where is your village?"

"Jiangyuan Village, Xinfeng Town, Lintong County. It's a pity that this is a legend about a temple. It would be much better if it was a legend about a large tomb."

Lu Bin's face was full of regret.

They were so obsessed with digging a big tomb.

Whenever I see a mound of earth while walking, I wonder if it is a grave mound and whether there are treasures underneath.

After the meal, they all looked at me eagerly.

"Master Chen, please take us with you."

"I came here hoping to make a fortune, but after spending all my money on food, clothing, housing, and transportation, I've lost a whole riverbank. My kids at home can't even eat."

"How about you, Master Chen, take care of the cooking and we'll do the hard work for you, and just pay us a salary."

They also know that it is basically impossible to get a piece of the pie for no reason.

There are plenty of people who will do jobs like digging holes and moving earth as long as they are paid, so they have no bargaining power in front of me.

All I can do is lower my demands and beg me for food.

As for how much they can learn in the process of making this meal, it all depends on their understanding and luck.

"Leave me your address. I'll find you if I need you."

"Okay! Master Chen, you must think about us."

Lu Bin wrote down the address, which was a guesthouse in the western suburbs.

At that time, accommodation was generally in hotels and guesthouses, usually in rooms for four or six people, or in large dormitories that could accommodate more than a dozen people.

If you live in a large dormitory, the smell of feet and sweat, as well as the sounds of snoring, grinding teeth and farting, will make you feel filthy.

"Of course I will. Don't bother sending me off. Just go and do your own thing."

After persuading them to leave, Cui Hao and I headed towards the hospital.

Cui Hao held the bag containing the passbook and walked on the road, feeling dizzy as if he was walking on cotton.

"Brother, are we dreaming?"

"Just two round trips like this, and each of us is worth ten thousand yuan households!"

"If I show my passbook, will all the pretty girls throw themselves at me?"

"Ouch! I can't think about it anymore. I'm going to drool if I think about it anymore."

I smiled and hugged Cui Hao: "Look at you, you are so useless. This is just the beginning. We will achieve great things in the vast world in the future."

"Yes! There's a lot to be done. I need to go to Hong Kong Island to see what the top beauties look like. Are they as alluring and seductive as Brother Dong said?"

"I also want to see the blonde foreign girl, hahahaha!"

As soon as we walked into the hospital gate, we saw Zhang Nan sitting by the flower bed, as if waiting for us.

Cui Hao grinned at me and said, "Brother, I won't disturb you guys enjoying the moonlight."

Zhang Nan walked towards me with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face.

"Thank you."

"What are you thanking me for? Oh! Did Professor Zhang get transferred to the cadre ward?"

"Yes, the nurses took great care of me. The rehabilitation department also sent a doctor to perform acupuncture to help me wake up. I don't know how to thank you enough."

"Hey! Let's not be polite. Have you eaten? If not, I'll treat you."

Zhang Nan nodded, and we walked side by side towards the restaurant across the street.

I felt a little regretful when ordering the food.

I shouldn’t have eaten too much just now, but now I’m having dinner with my goddess and I’m so full that I can’t eat anymore.

"Don't order too much, just order a vegetarian dish." Zhang Nan said softly.

"Then we'll have diced meat and eggplant. Eggplant is vegetarian, and the diced meat will give you some nutrition. You've lost weight in the past two days."

"By the way, Sister Nan, have you ever heard of Qingshan Temple?"

I am thinking about the underground palace of Qingshan Temple.

Although the temple has been destroyed, the underground palace that was originally built may still be buried underground.

Zhang Nan pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I've never heard of it. Is it from a temple near Xi'an?"

There are many famous temples in Xi'an, and the ancestral temples of the six major Buddhist sects are all here.

Even the Shingon sect of the island nation regards the Qinglong Temple in Xi'an as its ancestral temple.

But Qingshan Temple is not among those famous temples.

"It's in Xinfeng Town, but it was destroyed in war a long time ago. It's said to be an imperial temple built under the orders of Empress Wu Zetian. I happened to hear someone mention it today, so I wanted to ask if you knew about it."

"It was built under the order of Empress Wu Zetian... That should be recorded in Tang Dynasty historical documents."

"If you're interested, I can take you to the school library to check it out."

Of course I'm interested.

What I am more interested in is being able to be with Zhang Nan.

“Interested, very interested!”

After dinner, we went to Northwestern University and found "Old Book of Tang" in the library.

The Old Book of Tang does not mean that the book is old, but that the time when it was compiled is earlier than the New Book of Tang.

The Old Book of Tang was compiled in the second year of Kaiyuan in the Later Jin Dynasty. The historical materials preserved earlier are also more authentic.

The New Book of Tang was compiled in the fifth year of Jiayou reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty. It revised and supplemented the Old Book of Tang, but it was inevitable that some historical materials were changed.

Zhang Nan quickly flipped through the pages and found the Biography of Empress Wu Zetian and started reading.

I craned my neck and leaned closer.

Although he pretended to read seriously, his mind was no longer on the book.

Listening to her breathing, smelling her body fragrance, and feeling her hair gently caressing my face, I really want to hug her tightly.

Gradually, my face got closer and closer to hers.

I could feel the heat radiating from her cheeks.

Oh, she's blushing!

Zhang Nan was shy, but she didn't move to keep a distance from me.

This makes me very excited.

It felt like there were countless little rabbits cheering in my heart.

"There is no record of Zetian's level."

"Why don't you tell me the story you heard?"

"Oh, good."

I repeated the story, and Zhang Nan held his chin with his right hand, thinking.

"The uplift of a hill after an earthquake was considered a highly auspicious sign in ancient times... and it happened during the reign of Empress Wu Zetian."

"If such a great auspicious sign had occurred during the early days of Wu Zetian's reign, she would have definitely made a big fuss about it."

In the early days of Wu Zetian's administration, many people who were loyal to the Li Tang royal family became dissatisfied, and many rebellions occurred.

The appearance of auspicious signs was undoubtedly a favorable support for Wu Zetian's power and would certainly be widely publicized.

Judging from the fact that a royal temple was built after the auspicious sign appeared, Wu Zetian also attached great importance to this auspicious sign.

"Maybe we're looking in the wrong direction."

"Auspicious events may be recorded in the Five Elements Chronicles."

The Five Elements Records is one of the chapters in the history book, and was first created by Ban Gu when he compiled the "Book of Han".

The records mainly include solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, astrological changes, various geological disasters, and the theory of yin and yang.

Later, all the official histories compiled in successive dynasties also included the Five Elements Records.

Zhang Nan flipped through the Five Elements chapter of the Old Book of Tang and said, "I found it! There really is Qingshan!"

The "Old Book of Tang" records that during a heavy storm and thunderstorm, a mountain erupted, reaching a height of 20 zhang. A pond, 300 mu in circumference, was found with the shapes of a dragon and a phoenix, along with unusual grains of wheat. Empress Wu Zetian, believing it to be a worthy auspicious sign, named it Qingshan, and the county was renamed Qingshan County.

"The content matches your story. Empress Wu believed this was a sign of good fortune from heaven, so she named the mountain Qingshan and changed the county's name to Qingshan County."

"It is also very likely that he ordered the construction of the royal temple, Qingshan Temple."

"So this Qingshan Temple really existed!"