It was Cao Yanmian, the former queen of Karakhan who was included in the Cao family genealogy. She was not inferior to him in terms of status and appearance, and she was much younger. Who knows if Zhang Erlang would still miss her?

As a result, she was still hesitating, but Zhang Zhao hugged him directly in front of the public.

Even though Ms. Cao Sanniang was quite fierce, she was so shocked that she was completely stiff and speechless.

"Don't move!" Zhang Zhao muttered softly, hugging the short soft man in front of him tightly in his arms.

Smelling the faint orchid fragrance in Cao Sanniang's hair, Zhang Zhao felt greatly comforted, as if he had really returned home. He had not felt this way for a long time.

When the stiff Cao Sanniang heard this, she also felt Zhang Zhao's emotions, and her body slowly softened.

She hugged Zhang Zhao with her backhand, and for some reason, tears burst out of her eyes and flowed all over her face.

Suddenly, two figures flashed through her mind, and the face of Sosaburang, whose appearance she could not remember clearly, suddenly became clear.

The scene of her late husband Murong Changdao holding her hand and asking her to live well and raise Nobunaga's son seemed to be right in front of her eyes.

"Sanniang! Marry me when you return to Dunhuang!" Zhang Zhao said angrily.

After traveling through time, he always had an unreal feeling. He always felt that all this was a bit like playing a game.

But today, after meeting Cao Sanniang after more than four years of separation, the feeling of familiarity and peace of mind, the feeling of belonging to the human world, immediately filled his soul.

"Yes!" Cao Sanniang, with tears in her eyes, nodded like a kitten. She was very happy because Zhang Zhao used the word "marry", which meant that she entered the Zhang family as Teng's concubine.

Although the system of concubines has become less common since the Later Han Dynasty, it is not non-existent.

Moreover, Zhang Zhao’s first wife was her sister Cao Yanxi, so as Teng’s concubine, she was completely justified.

However, Mrs. Cao Sanniang suddenly smiled.

"If Erlang wants to marry a slave, I'm afraid there are still hurdles that must be overcome!"

"What kind of obstacles? Can they still stump me, Zhang Erlang?"

Zhang Zhao asked enthusiastically, did Sanniangzi mean his father-in-law Murong Guiying or his father Cao Yuanshen? That doesn't matter!

Mrs. Cao Sanniang chuckled, and a few cunning little fat spots appeared on her baby-fat face.

"My son, Nobunaga, is now twenty-eight years old. Do you think he would be happy to have someone who is only eight years older than him?"

Ugh! Zhang Zhao was stunned. To be honest, let alone Murong Nobunaga, he himself was not ready yet to be a father to a sixteen-year-old rebellious adolescent boy!

"Pfft!" Cao Yuanxin, who asked a group of guards to cover the two of them from behind, couldn't help laughing.

.....

In the early morning, Zhang Zhao woke up with his nose twisted. Before he could get angry, a fleshy little thing stepped on his nose.

Huh? Why does it look like a little foot?

King Zhang opened his eyes angrily. Who dares to be so bold as to step on the nose of King Zhang?

And it was quite arrogant. Not only did the little foot step on his nose, but the owner of the little foot seemed to feel that it was a little uneven and started spitting and spitting to express his dissatisfaction.

"You boy, we have just met, you are going to give me a showdown, right?" Zhang Zhao grinned, stretched out his hand and patted the owner of the little feet gently on the butt.

At this time, a person hurried in from outside the door, holding another fat and white baby in his arms.

She glanced at Zhang Zhao with some fear, put down the little doll in her hand, and went to hold the head of the bed. She also wanted to continue to pick up the other fat baby who was stepping on Zhang Zhao's head with her little feet.

But as soon as she reached out to hold the little baby on the bedside, Zhang Zhao, who was freed from the control of his little feet, took her into his arms, then picked up the collar and gently explored it with his big hand.

Ayiguli hissed softly, and immediately leaned against Zhang Zhao's chest with a charming look, then her face turned red and she lowered her head.

"Khan! The child is watching!"

"Where's Guo Waner? Come in quickly and take these two little guys out. You have to learn more!"

"My lord, you know how to bully me! Humph! I will have two babies at a time, no! Three!"

The Guo family's little wild cat, who had never been pregnant, walked in angrily and carried the two fat babies out one by one.

The older one is a boy, the second son born to Zhang Zhao by Ayiguli. Just now he was the one who used his little feet to stomp on my face, King Zhang.

The younger one is a girl, the eldest daughter of Cao family, Cao Yanmian, who was born to Zhang Zhao. Like her mother, she is gentle, quiet and a little timid.

The two babies were both conceived when Zhang Zhao left, and it took several months before they saw their father.

Zhang Zhao didn't feel much about them, after all, he wasn't even familiar with them, and he didn't have any sense of blood connection.

It's just that he didn't feel annoyed at all when the two little dolls screamed, and even their little feet stepped on his face. Zhang Zhao didn't feel any discomfort at all, but felt very comfortable in his heart.

Alas! King Zhang became the father of three children before he was even ready to be a father.

And these two things are pretty good. Queen Zhongyun Li Ruoliu also has an eldest son who is more than three years old. He has never seen him at all. This father is really incompetent.

As soon as Zhang Zhao thought about it, the movements of his hands slowed down.

Ayiguli looked at Zhang Dahan strangely, gritted her teeth, straightened her waist, pushed Zhang Zhao off her body, and then pounced on her like a wolf.

Last night, Cao Yanmian was in bed, and the little wild cat Guo Waner also ran over in the middle of the night. She had to take care of two little babies, so she didn't go to bed. Seeing that the king was going back to Dunhuang again, she had to hurry up.

At three o'clock in the morning, King Zhang touched his waist and took in the air-conditioning as he walked out of the deputy king's palace built specially for him by Li Shengtian. In order to return to Dunhuang as soon as possible, Zhang Zhao had to hurry up every moment.

.....

In the Samaroo Temple, Zhang Zhao, wearing a loose robe, slowly walked in from the main entrance.

Before he walked in from the main entrance, the monks of Samaroya Temple also arranged for cranes, auspicious elephants and other animals to be the guides, and slowly led him to Samarasu Temple.

The main entrance of Samaro Temple, which had been closed all year round, was also opened for the first time at this time.

This door is usually closed. Pilgrims and believers will not go through this door at all. There is a special term called the empty door of escape into the empty door, which refers to the main entrance of the temple. It is used to refer to the monks who became monks to serve the Buddha.

In other words, at this time, only monks will enter through this door on specific occasions.

The word "Dharma Protector Jialan" is not a casual word for Buddhism.

Legend has it that Buddhism has eighteen garlands such as Sanskrit and Thunder, but these are all legendary gods and Buddhas. In China's thousands of years of history, there was only one person who truly embodied the Buddhist protector garam, and that was Guan Yunchang Guan Erye.

The reason why Guan Erye became the Dharma protector Jialan was thanks to the wise master, the ancestor of the Tiantai Sect of Buddhism.

This person is not an ordinary person. Not to mention the position of the Tiantai Sect in Buddhism in later generations, we only know its high status from the respect given to the wise master by later generations.

Later generations honored this wise master with the common surname Chen as Sakyamuni of the East, and called him the reincarnation of Sakyamuni Buddha on the land of China.

This kind of status is definitely not comparable to that of Master Sanghalama Tripitaka. This is why the old monk Sanghalama asked Zhang Zhao to come to Samāra Temple again when the time is right.

Because before that, the promise made by Sangharama to Zhang Zhao was more of a lie.

Ugh! It may not be accurate to say that it is cheating. It should be called pie-in-the-sky.

Because according to Sangharama's calculations, the city of Shule was so strong that even the kings of Khotan for several generations could do nothing.

Although Zhang Zhao had the divine fire thunder, it would be difficult for those who have not seen the power of gunpowder to imagine how powerful this thing is.

Sangharama felt that no matter how powerful it was, it could only blow a hole in the Khotan city wall.

And if they can only blow a hole, Li Shengtian will still need to lead the Khotan army to resolve the final battle.

In this way, although Zhang Zhao has made great contributions, and can even be said to have made the first contribution, it is only a credit after all.

In the end, I can send another monk army, some weapons, equipment, cloth, money and food, etc., and then I can send them away.

But he never expected that Zhang Zhao would be so fierce. Not only did he blow up the Shule city wall, but he also took Shule city almost with just a few thousand of his men.

In the entire Battle of Shule, the greatest role of the Khotan army was actually to capture Fort Esquesa and Fort Yusuf, which were at horns with each other outside the city.

It would be even more exaggerated later in the battle at Xia Atush. Zhang Zhao personally led more than 3,000 men, and directly outside the city of Xia Atush, he alone defeated the 20,000 cavalry led by Bugra Khan Saktu.

This is a real iron cavalry, not the kind of herdsman who makes up for the numbers, but the iron cavalry that the Kara Khanate relies on for its survival.

In particular, the loss of Saktuna's three hundred gulam guard armored cavalry directly destroyed the future of the Kara Khanate.

Faced with such an unparalleled achievement, Sangharama was unprepared, and he was immediately cornered. However, Sangharama was not prepared to refuse the payment, because he had no way of doing so.

Zhang Zhao's defeat of the Kara Khanate this time not only helped Khotan break an almost unsolvable situation. You must know that before Sangharama became a monk, he was a close branch of the Yuchi family of the Khotan royal family.

Zhang Zhao not only created a glorious future for the Khotan royal family, but also saved Buddhism, which was almost exterminated in Shule and even in the Kara Khanate.

With such a great contribution and such a great kindness, do you dare to break your promise?

Therefore, as one of the leaders of Anxi Buddhism, after learning that Zhang Zhao would be coming back soon, Master Sanghalama Tripitaka sent out a "hero post" and spent his own money to hire people everywhere.

It’s not that he doesn’t have enough reputation to ‘enlighten’ him as the Buddhist protector Jialan, then let everyone recognize him.

The solemn and solemn chanting of Buddhist scriptures comes from Khotan Yuechang Tianshan Temple, Shule Dayun Temple, Qiuci Subash Temple, Xisi Buddhist Temple, Gaochang Daguanyin Temple, Yanqi Kaiyuan Temple, Yizhou Kaiyuan Temple, Shazhou

More than twenty famous Buddhist temples in Anxi, including Guanyin Temple and Lingyuan Temple, all sent eminent monks here to certify Zhang Zhao as the Buddhist protector Jialan.

But! Their information is really out of date. How can a mere Dharma Protector Jialan satisfy the appetite of our Yinlun Dharma King?

Zhang Zhao deliberately kept silent because he wanted to force these eminent monks from famous Anxi monasteries to endorse his identity as Yinlun Dharma King again on such an occasion.

So, just when Master Sangharama was about to certify Zhang Zhao as the Buddhist protector Jialan, there was suddenly a loud sound of drum music outside the door.

A group of Anxi Buddhist monks looked at Master Sangharama in confusion. Master Sangalama asked people to open the closed door of the temple in confusion. What he saw in front of him was completely shocked.

Dozens of large and small life-size statues of Buddhas such as Sakyamuni Buddha and Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva were carried in amid the chants of more than 300 eminent Indian monks.

An eminent Tianzhu monk walked in with dozens of Tianzhu coolies carrying a mountain of scriptures.

When they heard that Tang Sanzang had hand-written "The Treatise of Yogi", all the eminent monks were a little numb, but they could still hold on.
To be continued...