112. Brothers Break Up (I)
Zhuge Zheng and I were very efficient, but in a few days, I cleaned up the list of Shaolin monks. After this cleanup, a total of more than 2,000 Shaolin disciples who did not have a degree were sent away from the temple to return home, including the virtual bamboo of children entering the temple.
When Murong Fu heard the news in the back hall of Henan Mansion, he couldn't help but be speechless, and only secretly said in his heart: Xuzhu is really ill-fated, he just recognized his father, and in a blink of an eye, his father and mother went to prison; is worried about how to continue to stay in Shaolin as a monk, and he will not even be a monk for a while. I wonder if these changes will have a huge impact on his worldview, values, and outlook on life?
"That's right," Zhuge Zheng added at this time. "Mr. Xuzhu asked to visit Xuan Ci and Ye Erniang in prison, and I have agreed."
A place like a prison, even if it's a five-star quality, I'm afraid it's not much better. Xuan Ci and Ye Erniang, one has a high status and the other is ruthless, when did they suffer like this? I don't know if it will be more painful when Xuzhu sees the unbearable appearance of his parents wolf BΓ¨i? Thinking of this, Murong Fu couldn't help asking, "Aren't you afraid of the Void Bamboo Prison Robbery?" β
"I know Mr. Xuzhu, those jailers are all vulgar people who don't understand martial arts. If he wants to rob the prison, please spare the lives of these people. Zhuge Zheng replied with a righteous face.
Murong Fu was immediately stunned when he heard this, turned out the few remnants of conscience, and silently lit a wax to the honest and pedantic void bamboo.
Fortunately, Zhuge Zheng also had no intention of always turning the topic on Xuzhu, and continued: "There are a large number of fake monks who have not been cleaned up this time, and some of them are children who have entered the temple and are now old, and they have no relatives to send them home. There was an old man sweeping the floor in the Scripture Pavilion, who looked at least seventy or eighty, and he was so deaf that he couldn't understand when I spoke to him......
Sweeper? Why did you forget him? A thin layer of sweat immediately appeared on Murong Fu's forehead, and he didn't have the heart to listen to the rest of the words. I only secretly said in my heart: How could such a heavyweight boss be deaf? He's too lazy to talk to you, is he?
When Murong Fu came back to his senses again, Zhuge Zheng and I had already said, "...... I have made the decision to compile a list of elderly people over 60 years old, and I am ready to arrange for them to go to other temples to take refuge. β
Murong Fu immediately shook his head and said solemnly: "Since these people are old, I can't bear to let them trek through mountains and rivers again, in case they die in the middle of the road...... It's better to make up for them and let them stay in Shaolin for the rest of their lives. β
"Complementary? The silver money ...... "Zhuge is asking me tentatively.
"Naturally, it's Shaolin!" Murong Fu replied without thinking.
Zhuge Zheng nodded to me and did not answer. I should have guessed a long time ago! After a moment, he sighed faintly.
"And that Dali Zhennan Wang......" Murong Fu said suddenly.
Zhuge Zheng raised his eyebrows instantly, and said in a low voice: "After the martial arts conference that day, he has been taking the guards around him to mess around, and I don't think he has any plans to return to Dali in the short term." What do you mean......"
Zhuge Zheng and I had such a tacit understanding with him, Murong Fu couldn't help but smile slightly, and said softly: "In a few days, try to invite this Zhennan King and his subordinates together." Sometime...... Useful for the occasion. β
As soon as Murong Fu's voice fell, the two immediately looked at each other and smiled.
After a while, Ma Juan hurriedly walked over and asked for instructions: "My lord, since the Shaolin Temple has opened up the situation, the investigation and rectification of the hundreds of temples and dojos on the five roads around Tokyo can be carried out immediately. As soon as the official furniture has been arranged under the itinerary, I don't know when the adults will leave? β
ββ¦β¦ Departure tomorrow. Murong Fu pondered for a moment and gave the exact time.
But it was Ma Juan who saw that Murong Fu had changed into his regular clothes again, obviously going out, so he immediately pulled down a night/mother's face, and asked in a hard voice: "Where are you going, adult?" β
Murong Fu was furious when he saw Ma Juan's debt-collecting face, and he got up to leave in a hurry. "I'll go for a walk and I'll be back in a minute!"
Ma Juan didn't give up, and only said coldly: "Where are you going for a walk?" Why not bring entourage protection? The son of a daughter, don't sit down! β
Ma Juan and Murong Fu met in the first year of Yuanyou, when Sima Wen wanted to cut the land of Wuqi to Western Xia, and it was Murong Fu who turned the tide and kept the country. Since then, Ma Juan has greatly admired Murong Fu and is willing to follow him as his eagle dog minion. Until March this year, Murong came back to Shaolin Temple to inspect, but he was involved in a vendetta in the rivers and lakes and was seriously injured. It has been more than half a month since he came to his senses, but instead of thinking about how to make up for the time to preserve his career, he is making a big fuss about finding his righteous brother Xiao Feng. Although Murong Fu still came to his senses in the end, the unattainable and unfathomable idol in Ma Juan's mind completely collapsed. For his own future, for the sake of the court, and for the people of the world, in just half a year, Ma Juan quickly grew from a champion who only had naΓ―ve political ideals to a housekeeper who was always supervising Shangguan and not being lazy and causing trouble. The blood and tears in it, I really don't want to mention it!
Murong Fu was choked by Ma Juan's questioning, and he couldn't answer for a long time.
In the end, Zhuge was kind to me, got up and said, "Why don't I accompany Lord Murong on a trip?" β
"No way!" Unexpectedly, Murong Fu categorically refused without thinking about it. "You and I are brothers, and you are brothers with my eldest brother. If you can't see it for a while, what if you dismantle my platform? β
Murong Fu said so confidently that Zhuge Zheng was speechless immediately. After a long time, he gritted his teeth and said to Ma Juan with a smile: "Master Ma, do you understand? You Lord Murong are so scheming, if he suffers, I will cut off his head and send it to you! β
Murong Fu raised his eyebrows and smiled, and bowed to Zhuge Zheng and took his sword to leave.
Zhuge Zheng was the first time I saw Murong Fu with a sword, he was worried about Xiao Feng's safety and hurriedly persuaded: "What are you doing with a sword?" After all, you are righteous brothers, and you will be hurt and angry when you move your sword and sword! β
Murong Fu raised his voice and replied: "Props! With that, he picked up his light work and left.
In a farmhouse at the foot of Shaomuro Mountain, Xiao Feng had been waiting for a long time. Seeing Murong Fu appear with a sword, his face couldn't help but sink.
Unbeknownst to him, Murong threw the long sword in his hand as soon as he raised his hand, and said loudly: "Your biological father Xiao Yuanshan's right arm was indeed broken by me, if you can't get angry, come and cut off my arm!" β
Before Murong Fu's words fell, the long sword that Xiao Feng had just reached out to catch fell to the ground with a "chok". After a while, he bent down and picked up the long sword and rested it on the table beside him, and asked as calmly as possible, "Why did you do this?" β
"Why?" Murong Fu stood with his hands in his hands and asked sideways. "Mr. Xiao, how did Master Lingxuan die of Zen Master?"
Xiao Feng was speechless immediately, and said abruptly for a while: "Murong, he is my father after all." β
Murong Fu nodded and replied, "I know now, is the eldest brother going to avenge your father?" Xiao Fengzheng didn't know how to answer, Murong Fu sneered again, shook his head and sighed. No matter how close these righteous brothers are, where can they kiss their biological parents? What's more, now the eldest brother has a large number of righteous brothers, and there are not many younger brothers, and there are not many younger brothers! β
Xiao Feng's eyebrows jumped wildly, and Liang Jiufang gritted his teeth and said, "Murong, do you have to talk to me like this?" β
"My temper has always been like this, why should my eldest brother come to provoke thorns today?" Murong Fu still looked disgusting and disgusting. "Without further ado, do you cut or not? If you don't, I'll go. The younger brother is entangled in official duties, but he is not as free as the eldest brother, if he wants to be a Han, he will be a Han, and if he wants to be a Khitan, he will be a Khitan! So saying, he turned around and walked out of the farmhouse.
However, before he could take three steps away, Xiao Feng smashed the table with a punch behind him, and shouted, "Stop!" β
Although he has been mentally prepared, the prestige of Beiqiao Peak has never been in vain. Murong Fu was so frightened by him that he couldn't help but tremble slightly, only to feel that his scalp was numb for a while, and he immediately stood in place.
Xiao Feng saw that Murong Fu always had his back to him and refused to turn around, so he couldn't help but sigh and said slowly: "Murong, no matter what, he is always my biological father." He suffered such a big loss at your hands, but you don't even want to give me a word-for-word explanation, but how do you want me to explain to him? β
Murong Fu looked outside the house and quietly hooked the corners of his mouth, he knew that he had passed the first level.
The hatred of his biological father who had his arm broken, Murong Fu never thought that Xiao Feng did not have half a point. This time I came to meet Xiao Feng, and the biggest possibility was to face Xiao Feng's anger that had endured for months. If Xiao Feng's anger is allowed to control the overall situation, I am afraid that it will be useless for Murong to kneel and beg for mercy. Only by striking first can we have a chance to turn the overall situation around.
After being silent for a few breaths again, Murong Fu made a reluctant look and asked, "What else does the eldest brother want to know?" β
Xiao Feng pulled Murong Fu back and pressed him into the seat opposite him, and said in a deep voice: "How did the whole thing happen, tell me frankly from beginning to end!" β
Murong Fu raised his eyebrows slightly, and started his second-step plan as he wished. "I gave the rank of four rank to patrol the atmosphere around Tokyo, you know about this in the morning."
"Not bad." Xiao Feng nodded. Recalling that at that time, Murong Fu told him that he wanted to use the sesame oil money of the two Buddhist and Taoist families, and he was also worried about whether Murong Fu would be able to get his wish. Unexpectedly, less than a year later, the Shaolin Temple, the leader of the Northern Buddhism, had collapsed.
"The Shaolin Temple thought that I only got the Shaolin Buddha on March 15, but in fact, I was already in Shaolin Mountain after the New Year's Day. The purpose is naturally to conceal his identity and secretly visit the illegal things in Shaolin. Speaking of this, Murong Fu suddenly raised his eyes and glanced at Xiao Feng, and said with an extremely casual expression. By the way, I also came to visit your father. β
"My father?" Xiao Feng was now worried about the grudge between Xiao Yuanshan and Murong Fu, and when he heard Murong Fu suddenly mention his father, his brain couldn't turn for a while, and he was slightly stunned.
"Your adoptive parents, Mr. and Mrs. Qiao Sanhuai." Murong Fu immediately added a sentence. "Uncle Joe broke his waist while working in the fields, and he was seriously ill and bedridden when I visited." Seeing that Xiao Feng was about to get up with anxiety on his face, Murong Fu hurriedly squeezed the back of his hand to appease. "Don't worry, I've sent someone to ask the doctor to see and prescribe medicine. The doctor said that Uncle Qiao's illness was caused by overwork, and he was afraid that he would no longer be able to work in the fields in the future. I have made the decision for you to place the couple in a mansion in Dengfeng County. At that time, you went to the border gate, and I had official business to stay for a long time, so I engraved the news on the wall of the back room, you should have seen it, right? It turned out that the farmhouse where Xiao Feng asked Murong Fu to meet was the former residence of Qiao Sanhuai and his wife.
"See." Speaking of this, Xiao Feng's heart couldn't help but warm up, and he was glad. "Murong, thanks to you!"
Murong Fu smiled slightly, and continued: "Since the eldest brother is going back to Liao, why don't I take Uncle Qiao and Aunt Qiao back to Yanziwu to recuperate?" β
Xiao Feng frowned and thought for a while, and said helplessly: "Although my adoptive parents are poor, they are not superficial people who like to take advantage of others, but they are afraid of ......."
"I have sold their fields at the foot of this Shaomuro Mountain." Unexpectedly, Murong Fu smiled and said, "Big brother, since your adoptive parents are stubborn, if you want to fulfill your filial piety, you should find another way." Once the land is sold, even if they come back, they will have nothing to do to make a living, so they can only be arranged by you? β
Xiao Feng smiled dumbly, and said for a long time: "If you talk about wisdom in this world, how many people can match you Lord Murong?" As he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh slightly and blamed himself. My father had a serious illness in his early years due to overwork, and I was still young and my family was so poor that I couldn't even get the money to see a doctor...... Although some Shaolin monks later treated his father's illness, the root of the disease was always planted. I didn't even think of this section over the years, after all, it was too careless. β
Murong Fu was silent for a moment, and suddenly said: "It turns out that in the murder case in Dengfeng County more than 20 years ago, the real murderer turned out to be the eldest brother!" β
Xiao Feng was immediately startled, stared at Murong Fu for a long time, and said incredulously: "You...... How do you know? β
Murong Fu said in a deep voice: "Big brother, I said early in the morning that I came to Shaomu Mountain to patrol the atmosphere. In this case, the old cases of the government must always be taken a look. Just because Shaolin Temple is in Dengfeng County, ordinary thieves are afraid of the prestige of Shaolin, and this place has always been peaceful. Ordinary theft cases are extremely rare, let alone a life lawsuit? Brother Fang Cai said that Uncle Qiao was seriously ill when he was a child, but he couldn't afford to see a doctor because of his poor family. And the person who was killed was a doctor in the county who was skilled in medicine but loved money as much as his life. Thinking that it must be the eldest brother who came to ask him to see Uncle Qiao's illness, he refused, and the eldest brother killed him with hatred in his heart. The doctor was stabbed to death, but the place where he was stabbed was in the lower abdomen. If an adult had killed him, the knife would have been stabbed in the chest. But he was stabbed in the lower abdomen, and he ...... with the height of his eldest brother when he was a child" Murong Fu casually compared the approximate height of a child and said with a smile. "It should be pretty much the same. Also, it is precisely because the eldest brother is a child that the doctor is defenseless. If the killer is an adult, there should always be some traces of a fight? β
Xiao Feng looked at him dumbfounded, and sighed for a long time: "Murong, you really should be an official!" β
Murong Fu casually stretched out his sleeves and said indifferently: "This kind of thing is just practice makes perfect." β
Xiao Feng shook his head, as if he had fallen into a memory of the past, and said in a low voice: "At that time...... Then...... This doctor was so hateful that not only did he not want to come to see my father, but he also injured my mother and stole my mother's money. I, I can't ...... hate."
"Since he is a doctor, it is his duty to hang a pot to help the world cure diseases and save people, and this doctor is not worthy of being a man if he does not save him when he sees death. If you kill it, you will kill it, and the eldest brother doesn't have to worry about it. "Murong Fuzheng said.
Xiao Feng still didn't show his face, and after a long time, he sighed lightly and said to Murong Fu: "My adoptive parents can only be entrusted to you." And the doctor's family......"
"If they need help, I will order someone to bring them silver. Big brother, don't worry! Murong Fu said immediately.
Murong Fu knew his mind like this, Xiao Feng had something else to say, and patted him on the shoulder happily. "Good brother!"
Murong Fu smiled slightly, and said to himself: Second level!
In fact, it was impossible for Murong Fu to solve an old unsolved case just by Xiao Feng's unintentional words. The reason why he knew that the real murderer was Xiao Feng was only because of the golden finger of the traverser. Don't think that this is just a boring move by him to deliberately show his ability without words, even though Xiao Feng asked him to explain with kind words, but in fact, it was still Xiao Feng interrogating Murong Fu after all. Whether it is mentioning Qiao Sanhuai and his wife or the old unsolved case, Murong Fu has only one purpose: to gradually blur the consciousness of "interrogation" in Xiao Feng's heart, and let him return to the rhythm that he has been accustomed to for many years, discussing and solving problems with Murong Fu. Only in this rhythm can Xiao Feng and Murong Fu not be opposites, which can make it easier for Xiao Feng to accept and trust Murong Fu's next explanation.
And the most important thing is: Xiao Feng himself is unaware of this qiΔ!