Chapter 63: justice

In the intermittent narration of Zhiqing, Xiao Yan and others gradually understood.

After the invasion of the south of Jin, the Xingguo Temple, which was originally prosperous, quickly declined. The monks in the temple either died in the war or fled to other countries. In the end, there were only more than 50 people left, including Zhiqing. Just after Jiankang was recovered by Xiao Yan, a few monks came to the temple, saying that they had escaped from the north and wanted to make a stand here. They belong to the same line of Buddhism, and it is appropriate to take care of each other in these troubled times, so the abbot Baosheng took them in. Later, more than a dozen people came one after another and settled down in the temple.

Since they were not talking about the same place at that time, there was no doubt about the humanity in the temple. But as time went on, the monks in the temple gradually felt that these people who came later seemed to be very familiar with each other and often muttered together, and several fat people did not look like monks, so some people reported to the abbot Baosheng.

Master Baosheng has been nearly 80 years old. When he was a teenager, he had entered the Zen forest to devote himself to practicing Buddhism. He did not know much about the world and was compassionate. It's just to warn the monks that the monks are compassionate and should not be prejudiced against outsiders, not to mention that people in Buddhism should bless each other in troubled times.

Later, when people saw Master Baosheng, they were compassionate, and their old and pedantic became worse. However, they still pretended to be respectful in front of Baosheng. The monks in the temple were helpless, but they hoped that these people would leave as soon as possible. Later one morning, four overnight people came to the temple and said that they were sad to escape from the south. After leaving them, after breakfast and morning classes, the group of people confused the monks in the temple with eclipse. When they were found, they were all locked up in an empty side hall behind the temple. Baosheng didn't understand until then, but it was too late, leaving only regret.

Zhiqing and several younger brothers were pulled out by the group to be responsible for the usual meals and reception of the porter. After they took control of the whole temple, many people came one after another. As can be seen from the daily meals, there are at least 100 people hidden by them in the temple. These people usually go out in the Xingguo Tower in the back mountain and don't know what to do at night. A bolder brother went to have a look, and a woman's voice came from there from time to time.

After listening to the informed story, Xiao Yan ordered Gao Zhan to take people and lead them to the back to rescue the monks of Xingguo Temple. Then he told someone to bring the fat monk here. After such a shock, coupled with the bleeding in his ears, he was already depressed and pale. Seeing Xiao Yan bring him here, there was a look of fear in his eyes.

"Say it!" Xiao Yan came straight to the point and didn't talk nonsense to him.

"What did you say..." The fat monk may not have reacted. After Xiao Yan asked, he asked for an unknown reason, but then he realized that although the man in front of him was not old, he was fierce enough. Just now, the strong enemy was around and cut one of his ears without blinking his eyes. Now he is holding the victory... He dares to think about it himself. So he stopped after saying only three words and stared at Xiao Yan. Seeing that Xiao Yan had nothing to do, he seemed to be a little relieved.

"My name is Zhiguang. I was originally a monk of Wutaishan Wenshuyuan. I was expelled from the hospital for violating the temple rules. Now the world is messy and I have to become a monk. On the way, I met a village and was introduced to join the 'Tiangong Dao'. I began to preach and recruit believers with a person who claimed to be a Ming Zun messenger in Jiangbei. Later, after a long time, it may be that the people above saw that I was reliable, so they sent me to the Damingwang Temple in the suburbs of Lin'an as the abbot of the temple. Later, I received an order from the Xuanwu Heavenly King, one of the four heavenly kings in Dao, to build Kangxingguo Temple and wait for the opportunity to control it.

"What is the purpose?" Xiao Yan asked, "Who is the Xuanwu King?" A few days ago, I received a report from Shenfengwei. Now there is a new church called Heavenly justice. Xiao Yan didn't care about it, but he didn't expect to meet it today.

"There is no specific purpose, mainly to develop more officials and people to enter the road. As for the Xuanwu Heavenly King, no one has ever seen them. For example, I am just a first-class incense master. There are also messengers, venerable ones, and then Bafang Mingzun. Upward, there is the Heavenly King, and there is a Heavenly Lord on the Heavenly King. Zhiguang saw Xiao Yan's question and quickly replied. Seeing that Xiao Yan was still confused, in order to save his life, he endured the pain in his ears and said, "The person behind the general shooting the Buddha statue just now is the patrol in our way. He just arrived yesterday, but he didn't expect to be..." Zhiguang couldn't go on after saying this.

However, Zhiguang's words reminded Xiao Yan and asked, "What kind of patrolman was that man just now! Do you know him?"

Zhiguang shook his head, "This has just come down from the general altar. I haven't seen it."

"General altar, where is your general altar? How old is this man? What does he look like?

"I only know that it is in the south of the Yangtze River. I'm afraid only those above Ming Zun will know exactly where it is. The messenger always wears a mask and can't see his true face. However, I don't want to hear the sound very loud.

At this time, Xiao Yan fell into meditation and had a question in his heart that he had never been puzzled. He couldn't find the answer here, so he turned around and asked, "What's wrong with the crossbow hands and secret paths in this temple?"

"The crossbowman is our divine guard in heaven. After controlling Xingguo Temple, he was brought by the patrolman. A total of 36 people may have been withdrawn long ago. As for the secret roads in this temple, I don't know how many years they have been built. We found them later, but they were criscrossed. Because the time was too short, we only knew a few secret roads leading to the outside the temple, and the rest had not been explored. We also asked the monks in the temple. It seemed that if we hadn't found them, they were all I don't know." Zhiguang heard Xiao Yan's question and said hurriedly.

"Hmm!" Xiao Yan didn't know anything when he heard this. He nodded and gave him a hug and locked him up for the time being. After Zhiguang went down, Xiao Yan's face became more and more solemn. Although he didn't ask anything in Zhiguang's mouth, Xiao Yan knew that the man must have known him just now, otherwise he would not have called out his name in one bite. Xiao Yan and Zhang Xian were about the same age, and it was absolutely impossible for him to call out his name without knowing it.

Xiao Yan knows that there are not many people he is really familiar with when he comes to this world. And today, I came here more casually. It is estimated that the justice in this temple did not expect it, so this matter is purely accidental. Could it be that after a brief look at Zhang Xian and Yue Xiao'e Yue Lin, I was immediately relieved. How could it be them?

But why don't you kill yourself! At the beginning, there were many opportunities to shoot the four of them on the spot. Xiao Yan was still thinking, and a sound of footsteps interrupted Xiao Yan's thinking.

"Amitabha! The old man led the monks of the temple to thank General Xiao for saving his life. An 80-year-old monk led 40 to 50 monks of different ages to kneel to the ground.

"Master, you don't have to." Xiao Yan knew that the old monk was the abbot of the temple, Master Baosheng, and quickly came forward to hold the road with both hands.

A buzzing Buddha. Seeing the group of disheveled monks in front of him, Xiao Yan suggested that they go wash first, and at the same time asked several sergeants to order them to return to the city to quickly transport a batch of grain, vegetables and cloth for them to relieve their urgent needs. Xiao Yan greeted all the people in the hall and walked out of the hall gate and turned around the hall.

It took a long time to turn this hall. The whole hall is rectangular, but behind and on the left side of the hall is a small slope more than ten feet high. Although the slope is not high, it is large. Even this hall is about five or six miles away. No wonder those crossbowmen come and go!

Xiao Yan knew that the secret road in the hall was under the hillside behind the hall, but there was nothing he could do. The hillside was so wide that he could only slowly search from the entrance. Although the crossbowmen didn't kill themselves just now, they don't know the reason, but Xiao Yan absolutely can't keep such a place outside the city. They must clean him up. Otherwise, in case of natural change, it will be difficult to deal with.

But now it's too late, and Xiao Yan knew that those people could not be caught, so he just ordered to strengthen the vigilance, but did not continue the search. On the other hand, he also wanted to ask the abbot of the temple. He had lived here for decades and could not know anything.

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The bright light at the top of the hall shines brightly in a partial hall of Xingguo Temple. When Master Baosheng heard that Xiao Yan wanted to ask about the secret road in the temple, he brought Xiao Yan here. Before he came, he only said one sentence. There were more than 300 halls and Zen houses in Xingguo Temple, which was the only room without secret roads. Xiao Yan was stunned on the spot. With the construction conditions at that time, how long would it take for such a large project?

After sitting in the hall for a long time, Xiao Yan's mood still can't calm down...

"This temple was built on Dulongfu at the southeast foothills of Jiangshan (Zhongshan). It was built in the Southern Liang Dynasty for the burial of the remains of the famous monk Baozhi monk. It was built with a pagoda. In the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Baogong Zen Temple. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Maitreya Buddha Taoist Temple. Taizu of this dynasty was awarded the title "Taiping Xingguo Temple". Since its establishment, the temple has been in frequent wars to avoid war disasters. , successive abbots are constantly building secret roads.

Hearing this, Xiao Yan realized that the feelings were dug out by several generations. So he nodded and motioned Master Baosheng to continue.

The golden man went south. Baosheng's old voice sounded again, "We narrowly escaped the disaster. Later, General Xiao recovered Jiankang. We thought it would be all right from now on, but we were killed by such thieves. Speaking of this, Baosheng seemed to miss those early and happy monks and didn't say anything for a moment.

Xiao Yan did not disturb him, but quietly looked at Baosheng with a vicissitudes of life.

Long time!

"These people are actually Maitreyas. They didn't have a good heart before they came here."

"What Maitreya, why did another Maitreya come out?" Xiao Yan thought.