The city lord said: "The heroes are smiling, in fact, the city lord is me, and the guard is also me." It's just that the guards welcome guests is the face of the city lord and my country, and the city lord's presence shows the respect of our people. These are all etiquette needs, and I hope that all guests will not be surprised. ”

Su Yue and the others didn't dare to say it even if they were really dissatisfied, so Su Yue said: "The city lord is serious. What the city lord has done is not only to maintain the dignity of the country, but also to treat the hospitality, I can't wait to be grateful, how dare I have a complaint?"

The conversation was dry, and everyone chatted while eating. It's just that these wine and meat are really a little difficult to swallow, just like those in the row houses, at that time, just to eat hot, fill the stomach, I don't care what the taste is, after filling some stomachs at this time, I really feel like chewing wax, seeing that the city lord eats with relish, everyone is not good, so they have to swallow reluctantly.

"The lord is happy today, guarding this border city alone, and today a few guests from the capital have finally come. I heard that General Su was also a brave general of the Eight Counties Megatron side, the owner has been stationed in Penglai, in addition to government affairs, city defense, is a maneuver, although the border is sometimes tense, but there is no big war to fight, the general today to see our city defense army, how do you feel? Don't take care of the face of a certain city lord, just speak bluntly. ”

Su Yue said: "The city lord's words made Su embarrassed, to be honest, Su had never seen such a neat military posture in his life. ”

When the city lord of Yata heard this, he smiled happily, and the famous Su Pihu gave such a high evaluation, he was obviously very useful, but he still said: "The general is raised, what can you see just by walking?" ”

It was late at night, and Tong Xi, who had walked for a day, was already sleepy, and when she heard this, she couldn't help but shudder, and said in her heart: "Why is he so ignorant, when has this happened?"

Liao Tingyun stood up directly and said, "The old lady is not going, the old lady is sleepy." ”

Su Yue also said: "Since I left Wanfa Town, I haven't slept well, so I don't know the day." ”

Atta said: "In this case, then tomorrow, tonight you go back and have a good rest, tomorrow no matter how late it is, the Lord is waiting for you." Then he ordered a place for them to rest.

The crowd withdrew. On the way to the residence again, Tong Xi saw that Hou Sheng didn't look as scared as before, and with a sneer in his heart, he stepped forward and taunted: "What about the ghost, what about the ghost, where is the ghost?"

Hou Sheng blushed and didn't dare to speak.

Su Yue also remembered something, and said as he walked: "You can go back by yourself tomorrow." ”

Hou Sheng blushed and didn't speak, and it took a long time to stumble out a sentence from between his teeth: "I, I, I...... I want to ...... with you" Because he said too quickly, the words behind were vague, and Tong Xi said "Huh?", but the other three people heard it clearly, but they all acted as if they didn't hear it.

Hou Sheng paused, he knew in his heart that it was impossible for them to take him, not from any point of view. He didn't speak anymore, but remembered it silently in his heart.

After a few nights of half-asleep in the cold field, when you return to the warm and soft bed, you feel comfortable and comfortable everywhere, and this sleep is better than the best panacea. When they woke up, everyone felt refreshed and full of energy.

Tong Xi opened his eyes but couldn't find Liao Tingyun. Breakfast was still the same, and Tong Xi complained that the food here tasted like a boiled footcloth, with a strange smell, and it was difficult to swallow.

As soon as they came out of the city gate, they bumped into Liao Tingyun who was outside, and their faces were full of red light. Tong Xi rushed up to greet her, wondering why she hadn't eaten breakfast. She just smiled slightly, deliberately dragged Tong Xi and waited for the big team to pass, and then threw her a rabbit leg and walked away. It turned out that she got up early, thinking about the food like chaff here, so she found the kitchen of the city lord's mansion, brought some salt and pepper, and secretly went out of the city to the mountains to eat some game, the strange thing is that the mountain road here is overgrown with weeds, as if no one has walked for a long time, is there no woodcutter here?

Liao Tingyun caught a pheasant, a hare, plucked the feathers and cut the abdomen, looking for water to wash, she stretched out her sleeves, watching the wind blow towards the city, here is overgrown with weeds, full of trees, looking in the direction of the city, the lush green has been extended to the foot of the city, now it is a dry season, in case of a fire improper, the wind will not take two hours to burn to Penglai City. So she put her toes on the tips of the grass and galloped along the trail of the mountains, looking for a place where she could make a fire. After looking for a short time, I saw that there seemed to be walls and tiles in the hidden places in the mountains and forests. When I got closer, I found that this section was not like before, although it was also barren but the road was clearly visible, judging by the weeds covered, this road used to be very open. At least two carriages can be used side by side.

The trees that shade these tiles are two rows of dark green cypresses, which are different from the surrounding areas. After the cypress tree, suddenly opened, a grand temple suddenly appeared in front of the eyes, the temple is in front of a gray long wall, in the middle of the wall is a black with gray regular script big characters - "Buddha", below is written "outside the Buddha country" four small li. The temples are layered one after the other, like a staircase.

After the Buddha wall is the main entrance of the temple, the plaque above the lintel has fallen in half, hanging in the air, covered with dust, full of spider silk, with the words "Guizhen" engraved in a timeless font. The vermilion lacquered gate faded to a dark red, and the lower part of the door was broken and pitted, some like stones, some like knives and axes. Two seals were crossed in the middle of the door, and a heavy copper lock hung from the knocker. The steps were covered with moss, and weeds grew in the crevices of the stones. On both sides of the stairs were originally a pair of stone lions, but now one fell to the ground, but its eyes were still majestic, and the mane on its neck was still shaking, refusing to give up its last dignity as a divine beast.

Liao Tingyun sighed in her heart: "It's a pity that such a temple is deserted. She looked at the dark red door and suddenly sighed in her heart: "If the incense continues, it will not be lonely." ”

If they are lifeless, they are like dead, but their death is not the end of life, but the collapse of the body and the disappearance of connotation culture.

It's much safer to start a fire in a monastery than outside. She jumped up, holding the wall with one hand, and the chicken and rabbit in the other, lifted her legs, and climbed into the temple, where the open space in front of the temple was overgrown with weeds, and the clay "corpses" of Vajra Arhats were everywhere. She had flint with her, but she could not find the wood to make the fire and roast the meat, because even the two doors of the main hall had been removed.

In the corner outside the hall, there was a bulge more than a zhang high, green and white, overgrown with weeds, like a lot of sundries, and when Liao Tingyun approached, he found that the white thing between the stems, leaves, and stones was actually a pile of white bones. They were obviously burned, because there was a wooden plank under the white bones that had not yet been burned, and Liao Tingyun could see from the remaining door shafts, these two unburned planks were the two removed door panels on the main hall. The white bones were mixed with dirt and grass and vines, and it was impossible to count the number, but a rough estimate was that there were at least dozens of heads.

And if there are so many bones piled up together, if someone had not intentionally dug up the grave and piled up here, there are generally only two situations: plague or slaughter.

Some of the bones showed signs of being neatly severed, and it was clear that these people had been killed. A large long bone on the thigh or arm, I don't know if it was the thigh, stood among the bones, like a dead soul making a last, desperate appeal to the world.

It's still early, the morning fog is thick, the sun has just stretched out a fingernail, only a little dawn of sprouts can be seen on the top of the mountain, the quiet morning was originally refreshing and refreshing, but at this time it makes people shudder.

There are brown fire marks on the stone wall behind the earthen bag, the earthen bag is against the wall, and so many corpses have been burned, the wall has long been blackened, and now the color has faded, indicating that the corpses have been burned for a long time.

When Liao Tingyun was looking at these white bones, she didn't know that in a corner, there were a pair of eyes that had been staring at her in the dark. From the time she climbed over the wall into the temple to the time she found this bone-covered dirt bag, she never left the sight of these eyes.

The owner of these eyes seemed to observe Liao Tingyun's spirit, and when he shook his head, he raised his foot and kicked down a crockpot, and the crockpot panned forward, making a rough sound.

Liao Tingyun looked back in the direction of the sound. The smell of death that permeated the bulging bones made her extremely cautious, and she reacted very quickly, and the person who was spying on her had not yet moved, she had already jumped through the window, entered a Buddhist room, and grabbed the man by the collar. The man's body is not sensitive, but his reaction is fast, Liao Tingyun has not picked him up yet, he has already told him to forgive:

"The official spares his life, the official spares his life......"

Liao Tingyun saw that the person in front of him was thin, bareheaded, childish, and the monk's robe was pulled by himself, but it turned out to be a little novice, Liao Tingyun instantly understood.

"Are you a little monk here?"

When Xiao Shami heard that it was a female voice, he believed that she was not from the official family, and took a deep breath and nodded.

"How did such a big temple get sealed?And what's the matter with the pile of white bones outside?" Liao Tingyun said as he gathered a pile of firewood, ignoring the fact that there was a monk standing beside him, sharpened two branches, skewered the meat, and took out pepper and salt to prepare roast chicken and hare.

"Woman, if you are willing to put me down, I will talk to you slowly" The little novice does not have much Buddha nature, and the worldly atmosphere when he speaks is very heavy. "Thank you for the grace of the heroine not to kill, and when I straighten my sleeves, I will tell the truth.

This temple was originally called not a Guizhen Temple, but a Faen Temple, and later it was changed to this name by the order of the city lord.

Faen Temple was originally the most vigorous and largest Buddhist temple in Penglai. My Dharma name is Huisheng, and I am the last of the fifth-generation disciples of 'Che Zhi Miao Jue Hui', and I was originally the youngest monk in the temple. I don't know who my parents are, but I've been in the temple for as long as I can remember. We do daily classes and meditation, quiet and penance. I forget when Penglai City came to the Sanssouci Sect, and our pilgrims gradually decreased. It is said that the more you eat the fruit of worry-free, the deeper your faith becomes. Later, more and more religious people in the city became more and more religious, and some people who resolutely did not believe in religion were forced to believe by them.

The disaster soon spread to the temple, where the lord first changed the name to the monastery and allowed the congregations to meet in the monastery, but neither the abbot nor the elders could agree to the pagans coming to the temple to participate in such gatherings. But more and more congregants gathered here, and the gates were blocked. The brothers and sisters were terrified, I once leaned on the wall and saw a bunch of people pressed by the black, flooding the outside of the wall like a flood, as if the entire Penglai City people had come. ”

"What's the matter with these white bones?" Liao Tingyun didn't want to hear his nonsense, so he interrupted him.

"It's our old abbot, as well as the elders and some of the brothers. Because in the end, the official family ordered us to open the door, and the people who just came in were polite, but then more and more people poured in, and they became more and more fierce, forcing us to believe in religion, saying that our family only cared about becoming a Buddha for ourselves, and there was no family and country in our hearts. The more they make trouble, the more hideous they become, although we are very afraid, but still no one succumbs, the few who provoked the head saw this, they pulled out the abbot, pressed him to kneel on the ground to force him to comply, they pressed his head in the dust, looking at the old abbot who was usually dignified, his eyes and mouth were full of soil, and several of our little brothers were scared and cried. The other senior brothers and elders were also frightened and did not dare to come out.

Only a small number of those congregations were silent, and most of them applauded. I saw men and women cheering, and even former laymen and pilgrims of Fa'en Monastery, who had been enlightened by the old abbots or elders.

But no matter how insulting they were, the old abbot just wouldn't give in. The men began to beat him, at first with a combination of fists and kicks, and then with sticks, iron rods, and even knives. The abbot was eventually beaten to death. When Huisheng said this, his eyes were full of tears, and he couldn't help crying. The pheasant and rabbit wafted out a rich smell of meat, Liao Tingyun couldn't help but swallow his saliva, but he saw that the little novice was familiar with these wild meats, and in his eyes, these rabbit muscles mixed with pepper and meat in the barbecue seemed to exist at all. She looked at the little novice with a sad face, and her heart was a little moved.

"Go on. Liao Tingyun spit out three words with a cold face.

Xiao Shami glanced at her timidly, wiped his tears and said, "After the abbot died, many of my senior brothers and even several elders gave in. But there were still many people who followed the abbot and did not want to be religious. The demons from Hell are going to kill us. It was very chaotic at that time, the elders were old, and they were caught after running a short distance, and I didn't care about others, so I just ran, but fortunately, my legs and feet were fast, and I escaped by hiding in the rice jar of the courtyard. Because I was afraid, I didn't dare to come out for a day and a night. After coming out, I found that the temple was empty, the Bodhisattva and Buddha statues were smashed to pieces, the Tibetan scripture building was burned clean, the door of the main hall was gone, and there was still an unburned fire here. He pointed to the location of the dirt bag.

"Since you have been living in the temple, why don't you dig a pit and bury your senior brothers, even if you bury a bag of soil a day, it won't be piled up so high. ”

"I don't dare," Hui Sheng blushed, "I'm afraid they'll find me because of this." I'm not a monk with understanding, but I haven't had any opinions since I was a child, and I've never left here, so I'm living until now. ”

"In that case, you have spoken in such detail to a person I do not know, and I asked you about this pile of bones, and you said that they were killed and cremated here. ”

The little monk suddenly knelt down and wept like rain: "Woman! This is not only the dozens of lives of our Faen Temple, but also the entire Penglai City and the surrounding towns, all those who do not want to join the religion and do not have time to run or cannot run, are either injured or killed, there are not thousands of lives in this, but hundreds of lives——"

Liao Tingyun reacted: No wonder, I couldn't see a single figure after walking for two days.

"If the city lord doesn't care, you can't react directly to the king?"

"The woman is not a native and doesn't know the truth about us here. Although Penglai City nominally belongs to the country of Wuxiang, it is actually an autonomous territory, and it has almost been out of the control of the queen.

Liao Tingyun didn't answer his words, she remembered all the things she had experienced when she entered this magical country, from the snub of the Queen of Wuxiang to her to the three princes of the Wuxiang Kingdom after Su Yue rejected the queen, and they deceived them into taking this road that I still don't know if it was a blessing or a curse. (Of course, the latter one was told to her by Su Yue and others on the road.) She thought more because she didn't see the queen's Akagi and her usual cold-blooded and suspicious. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a chill on her back.

Could it really be that the queen hated Su Yue because of her love