Chapter 313: I Want to Make a Wish
The people in white reacted extremely quickly, and after three sieges, they couldn't take Gai Wu, and they heard the footsteps of the crowd getting closer and closer, and they immediately retreated, and they didn't hesitate to retreat.
He Mulan didn't come alone, she knew that the temple that could let Gai Wu send someone to ask for help must not be an ordinary temple, He Mulan was not a big person, and the other party's backstage might have something to do with the person who assassinated her, so she simply brought all the more than 200 Lu Shuihu people.
The monks at the door naturally stopped her, but there were no more than 200 monks in the entire temple, so how could they be Hemulan's opponents? When He Mulan rushed into the small courtyard where Gai Wu was with the momentum of thunder, in addition to seeing the empty courtyard and the wide open back door, only Gai Wu was covered with flesh wounds.
The warriors of this era have long regarded injuries as a common thing, and Gai Wu has rich combat experience, and has avoided most of the fatal injuries in the siege, but there are still many injuries. He Mulan and the others were all people who had been fighting for a long time, and when they swept his wounds, they knew that his injuries were not deep, and they all showed reassuring expressions.
"Why do you ask for help? Who hurt you?"
He Mullan returned his sword to the sheath and stood in the courtyard to ask.
"I told you, you can't go to the mountain hall where you preside, the presiding officer is in the ...... of meditation."
A group of monks ran over panting, obviously He Mulan came too fast, and there was a move along the way, these monks were very afraid of her, as if they wanted to stop but did not dare to come in, they shouted from a distance.
When they found that the back door was wide open and Gai Wu was wounded again, the monks widened their eyes in fright, turned around and ran.
"Master, this temple is not right, just now a group of people in white besieged me and rescued a great monk. That great monk has a brain problem, and these monks may also be demon monks." Gai Wu shouted hatefully: "I can't let them get away!"
"Go and arrest all the monks in the temple!"
Hermulan had been instructed by Tuoba Tao not to spare these Assassins.
"Yes!"
A group of Lu Shuihu people immediately dispersed, and chased after the monks in a few steps like eagles catching chickens, grabbed them and tied them with their belts, and continued to look around the temple for other monks.
For a while, the sound of scolding, chanting the Buddha's horn, and screaming were endless. This is a temple in the city, not a wilderness temple, and after entering such a group of fierce gods, there are people around to see what is going on.
The people of Dawei are fierce, many people believe in Buddhism, and when a group of people have the courage to enter the temple, good guys, there is actually a group of miscellaneous Hu attacking monks!
"Save these monks!"
"Oops, this strongman has entered Pingcheng, how did the left and right guard generals be!"
"Murder! Kill! "
"Come and find the government!"
The chaotic shouts spread throughout the courtyard, and I don't know if someone is fishing in troubled waters or if it is really a hot stomach, and when the Lu Shuihu people brought by He Mulan controlled the monks of the whole temple, the Kangning Temple was already surrounded by many people watching the excitement.
Gai Wu and He Mulan stood under the eaves of the courtyard of the Kangning Temple, and He Mulan helped Gai Wu bandage while listening to Gai Wu talk about his experience. When I heard Tan Yunfa's wish, I couldn't help frowning.
"That's impossible."
He Mulan thought of later generations, when the system was already relatively sound, especially in developed countries abroad, no matter how humane and focused on human rights, there should be a gap, and it was never to the point where everyone was equal.
"If he had made this wish, he would never have fulfilled it in his lifetime."
Gai Wu was stunned, as if he was surprised by Mullan's determination.
"Master, do you also think that people should be divided into three, six, nine, and so on?"
Hua Mulan also has the opinion of a Han doctor?
"No, I just think that all people are born different, so there is no such thing as equality of all beings." He Mulan shook his head, "I was born with greater strength than others, so it is easier for me to be promoted and rise out than others. Is it my fault that I have more strength and that you have less strength than me? In this case, we all have an upward path, but I am faster than you, isn't it unfair? It's not unfair, it's a little unfair, it's not something you can get rid of if you want to."
"It's not the right way to go. People want to think about how to play to their strengths, not to pursue the equality of all beings. You're tall, I'm short, and when we compare our heights, I put a stone underneath me, and it looks the same height, but does it make sense? If you're tall, you'll do what you can do if you're tall, and if you're short, you'll do what you can do when you're short. In this way, no one needs to say who is more useful or powerful, because all beings are different in the first place, and this is the best gift God has given us."
He Mulan looked at Gai Wu, who was already stunned, and smiled slightly.
"Why, think I'm talking about sophistry?"
"No, it's not......," Gai Wu was a little stunned. It's just that it's rare to hear Master say such a large paragraph......"
He Mulan is not a person who talks a lot on weekdays, Gai Wu has not been in contact with her for a long time, and he doesn't know that she is actually a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, so he is naturally surprised that she can say such a truth.
"It's not that I don't like to talk, it's that many times no one understands what I say. And I don't expect others to understand ......" He Mulan closed his eyes, thinking of the "land reform" that Tuoba Tao wanted to carry out, thinking of the impact of Helian Ding's surrender to the Wei State, and thinking of Bei Liang's imminent move, I only felt that the burden on her shoulders was so heavy, and there were few people in this world who could share it, and she was suddenly depressed.
Even if under her subtlety, Gai Wu and this group of Lu Shuihu people can keep up with her, then I don't know. [,! How many years.
The two were talking, and suddenly they heard a loud noise outside the door. When He Mulan and Gai Wu heard it, they were all scolding and insulting!
"You bastards are poor and crazy, aren't you? How dare you commit murder at the foot of Heijo? When the guards come, let you know that this is not a place for you to run amok! "
An older elder threatened and yelled:
"You will be punished!"
"That's it! The presiding officer here, Master Tan Yun, is a good person who often heals our ......" A younger woman blushed slightly and pleaded, "Do you have any misunderstanding with the monks in the temple?" Let's go in and see if Master Tan Yun is okay."
"And what nonsense with them! We rush in! "
"That's it, I don't think these bastards dare to rush us!"
A group of men, women, and children rushed in hand in hand, and the monks who were tied up in the hall heard the movement outside, shouted loudly, and called for help to the people outside, and after a while, these people of Pingcheng rushed in. The Lu Shuihu people were at a loss and did not dare to make a move, but He Mulan ordered to arrest all the monks in the temple, and they had to surround the human wall and keep the people out.
Some of these people came out to visit the market, and some lived nearby, and when they saw these Lu Shuihu people, they didn't give an inch, what vegetables they bought in the morning, the sundries they held in their hands, and even picked up stones and grass roots on the ground and threw them on Lu Shuihu's body.
Even the clay figures are a little earthy, not to mention that these Lu Shuihu people were originally very short-tempered, and they were thrown with stones and mud, and they were about to have a seizure right away......
"Stop!"
He Mulan led Gai Wu from the backyard to the door of Shakya Hall, and under a loud shout, everyone froze.
He Mulan was wearing a military uniform, wearing a giant sword at his waist, and wearing the typical clothes of the Xianbei people, these people were for the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven, which eye was not bright? Thinking that this adult had hundreds of people as his subordinates, his momentum weakened by three points, and the clay straw shoes and broken shoes in his hands were all put down, and he laughed loudly.
But there are many who do not give up, because of their piety, and when they see Hemulan appearing, they reprimand: "You are their master? Don't you know that this Kangning Temple is a trick in these workshops? How can you embarrass the masters?"
There was a woman who seemed to be a monk here, crying at Hermulan's feet, just calling her son's name.
He Mulan didn't expect that such a small temple, neither a Huguo Temple nor a big temple presided over by a great monk, would have so many people who cared about it, and suddenly couldn't get off the stage.
Gai Wu didn't care about this, he glared and scolded: "What master! Plagued the lives of our Lu Shuihu people, and almost ruined me with demon methods, obviously a demon monk! "
"What did you say!"
"You strongmen, spewing blood for robbery!"
Seeing that there was going to be a dispute at the moment, He Mulan held down Gai Wu, and when he saw Lu Shuihu behind him, he was about to explode, and he wanted to divert the object of the contradiction between the two sides, and ordered them: "Search the whole temple, if they do something hurtful to heaven and reason, they will definitely leave some traces."
Her voice was loud, and she was at the door of the Shakya Hall, and in an instant she heard a few inhalations in the hall, obviously someone inside was surprised or weak-hearted, and she was a little out of shape when she heard Hermulan's words.
The Lushuihu only bound them, but did not gag their mouths. These monks began to ask for help from the people outside, and only portrayed He Mullan and others as murderous demons and evil spirits.
Seeing that there were more and more people coming around, He Mulan didn't have a good temper and continued the street with them, and while directing Lu Shuihu people to search the whole temple, he solemnly hugged his fists to the people around him.
"I am Huaishuo Hua Mulan, Xi is the former Tiger Benjun Tiger Ben Zuo Sima, and now I am searching this temple on the order of the Great Khan, if you have any doubts, you can go with me to the Yamen to confront you."
She stood quietly in front of the hall, with the posture that they would take a step forward and make a move herself.
Several women had already cried together, and the monks in the hall were already frightened when they heard the "order". The majesty of the emperor is naturally not to be offended, and the neighbors who originally shouted the loudest also pressed their angry expressions, but their footsteps did not move a step, as if they wanted to see the final result.
This made He Mulan think of the time when Tuoba Tao later ordered the "destruction of the Buddha". At that time, even if they were found to be tribal, there were still many people who secretly tricked the monks, and even let the monks take refuge in their homes. The villagers next to the withered leaf temple even sealed the mountain road for the two monks in the temple and made a fake mountain wall, how huge is its project? Another example is Zhang's mother and son, in order to protect the bitter master in the temple, the family was almost ruined.
In this era, there were almost no shelters for the common people, and the only ones who would teach the people knowledge and shelter the people to escape from war and forced labor were temples and Taoist temples.
Taoism is a place of Qing cultivation, it is not easy to obtain Taoism, and Taoism almost does not accept Hu people, it is too difficult to learn Chinese characters and practice scriptures, Buddhism is not, chanting the sentence "Amitabha", you can become a monk if you shave your hair, Sanskrit scriptures even if many old monks for many years may not be proficient, the gap is not very big.
It is also common for Buddhist monasteries to regularly give porridge and medicine, to help the poor, and to teach many Hu and Han people how to learn characters and make a living, and it is also common for them to receive widespread support.
But this time, no matter how pious they were, all of them were overshadowed.
As a group of Lu Shuihu people wailed sadly, more than a dozen Lu Shuihu people walked out of the apse with the corpses of their clansmen on their backs or in their arms, crying as they went, almost to the point of grief!
These. [,! The clansmen of the Tiantai Army did not die in the war, nor did they die in the process of the mission, and if they died, they would be a warrior. But now, he died aggrieved and unjustly in the backyard of this temple, with ropes tied to his hands and body, and it seemed that he was very painful before he died, and the hideous expression at the time of death has been forever fixed in that moment.
The Lushuihu people believe in Buddhism the most, so they will stay in this temple, and now the corpses of the Lushuihu people have been found in the backyard of the Kangning Temple, and the blow they suffered can be imagined.
They had been ordered by Gai Wu and He Mulan to bind up the monks, and they did not insult them or stuff anything into their mouths, but only put them in the main hall of the hall, hoping that they were wrong and would give them a chance to apologize.
But now facts speak louder than words, and it is these monks who should apologize.
The onlookers were frightened stupid, there were so many lives, and the deaths were extremely painful, the people of Lu Shuihu cried and put them outside the Shakya Hall, while reciting the Buddha's name while untying the ropes on the bodies of the deceased, it was really sad to see the tears and hear the tears.
Gai Wu already knew the fate of these clansmen, but Rao was still so shocked that he took a few steps back and sat down on the ground all of a sudden.
"It's my uncle's centaurs! They...... Some of them are my elders, and I used them as horses when I was a child...... Uncle Valilua, Uncle Churia......"
He Mullan, a forensic doctor, saw that these people were dying in real pain, and inevitably suffered from occupational diseases, so he knelt down and began to perform an autopsy.
She was not afraid of the horrific death of these deceased, carefully examined their pupils and mouths, and carefully probed their bodies and limbs, and was immediately furious: "They actually suffocated people to death!" Where are these compassionate monks, they are simply a bunch of crazy people! "
Chen Jie had been following behind He Mulan, he had a good relationship with Gai Wu, and when he saw the latter crying silently, he couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder.
"You...... You're so sad. Our general used to be called 'Xuanyi Mulan', and many soldiers in the army who died in battle were buried by him. Now though it's gone...... It's not ......" He thought for a long time and couldn't think of any wording, so he had to fork it.
"But you will avenge them, and our generals will not stand idly by."
Speaking of it, it is also a creation to make people, before these people did not know who was entrusted to kill Hemulan, but because they found out that He Mulan was a friend of Gai Wu, these people stopped and did not want to do it, but the murderer became the one who was killed and killed, and no one knew who was the main messenger.
It stands to reason that He Mulan shouldn't care about these murderers who want to assassinate her, but she understands that these people are just swords used by others in their hands, and they are also the clansmen of apprentices, so she can't help but feel that they are hurt by things, so naturally she will not stand idly by.
This has something to do with her in the first place, how can she stand by and watch?
As soon as the corpses were brought out of the apse, the onlookers began to be silent. Some people heard Chen Jie's words and looked at He Mulan with an expression of awe.
No one will associate the high-ranking Hermulan with the servant, and the one who deals with the dead the most is the monk of the Pure Land Sect who is beyond the undead, and the other is the shaman who has the most contact with the Xianbei people and other miscellaneous people.
The highest ** master of shamanism is dressed in black, specially leading the gods to invite the spirit, this spirit is the heroic spirit of the dead in battle and the ancestral spirit of the ancestors, and it is the spirit of guidance to guide the soul of the Hu people, so many people heard Chen Jie's words, and saw He Mulan dressed in black, kneeling in front of the corpse and rolling his eyelids and probing the pulse, probing the corpse spots and traces of the limbs, and immediately felt an indescribable mystery.
It was originally a routine procedure for forensic work, and it was also a spell used by these ordinary people to talk to adults and ghosts, and He Mullan's ability to tell how these people died in one mouth made people feel awe-inspiring.
"These people were first given a drug, but this drug is probably not very effective, or ......" The ancient alchemy has not yet reached the extremely pure effect, and it is even more nonsense to be colorless and tasteless. Either I was found out that something was wrong and I didn't drink much, or I drank the drug and woke up again before I died.
He Mulan paused, and then continued to say to Gaiwu: "They were bound while they were unconscious, so there was almost no sign of a struggle. Later, however, the monks suffocated to death with cloth towels or other fabrics, and they inevitably began to struggle, so that there were signs of violent resistance on their limbs and the back of their heads......"
She stretched out her hands, rubbed her palms hard, almost to the point of redness, and covered the eyes of a Lu Shuihu person, silently counting the seconds in her mouth.
When he counted to one hundred and twenty, He Mulan estimated that two minutes had passed, took his hand down, and stroked it casually, and the eyes of the middle-aged man named Churi who stared in pain finally closed.
Fortunately, the time of death is not long, if you want to stay longer, you can really only keep this posture and expression stiff.
"Don't be sad, since Your Majesty said that he will investigate thoroughly......" He Mulan heard the sound of inhaling around him one after another, and couldn't help but look around a little inexplicably.
"…… There will definitely be an egret official...... Hey? What are you doing on your knees?"
He Mulan looked at the people kneeling down one after another, and was shocked.
"It's not you who hurt people, so you don't have to bow down like this!"
How did she know that she casually made the dead blind, and the muttering of the countdown looked like she was reading a spell. The people of this era because of their own low level of education, more believe in the gods and witches, now see so many dead people are already scared half to death, many people have wondered if this temple has suffered some gods, and see this general wizard come to the temple to subdue demons and eliminate demons, beyond the undead, suddenly knelt down one by one, wanting to ask him to forgive the previous offense.
Except for a few women who were still crying, the scene was almost one-sided in favor of Hermulan
[,! He Mulan didn't know what these people thought, she thought that these people were frightened to see too many dead people, and while not being alarmed, she asked Chen Jie to find Su Hejun to deal with the matter, and at the same time comforted the people and asked them to leave first, so as not to be frightened.
How dare these people go, all of them are extremely pious. Don't talk about them, even Lu Shuihu and Gai Wu and others behind He Mulan all had surprised and happy expressions, and they couldn't wait to kneel down.
After a while, in addition to those Lu Shuihu people who died in the apse, the other Lu Shuihu people who searched the temple made another heavy discovery!
In addition to the apse, a large number of weapons were also found in several meditation rooms. In addition to the sword, which was a common and forbidden weapon in the Wei state, there were also nu, longbows, and many pieces of armor.
At that time, it was customary for people to wear weapons, but armor and bows and arrows were not reserved by ordinary people, let alone monasteries.
Some of the civilians who smelled that something was wrong immediately got up and wanted to leave, but Mullan did not stop them. It is that people have the instinct to avoid evil, these people only ran over after the incident, most of them are nearby residents, if there is really a problem, the egret can find out.
After a while, what was even more shocking was that two women were found in a remote courtyard. One of the two women had a big belly and was clearly pregnant.
This matter went on and on, and the people who took each wave were dumbfounded, and even a well-informed person like He Mulan was speechless when he saw two women found in the temple.
As soon as the two women saw the woman crying on the ground, they immediately ran over to help her, and called "Ah Weng" in their mouths, and several women cried together and sang sadly.
He Mulan was most afraid of this way of talking, which seemed to be crying and singing, and listened intently for a long time before he could hear what the women were saying.
It turned out that there were two men in this temple who were the only sons of these two women, they were Di people, and there was no land in the family, and Tuoba Tao fought every year, so these two women gave up their wealth and put their sons into the temple to be monks. They were originally people from Heicheng, and outside Pingcheng were forbidden fields, and those who lived in the city rarely made a living unless they were craftsmen, and they had to do this for seven months a year.
They were strong men, and they became monks. Before they entered the monastery, they had wives, and their mothers, in order not to cut off the heirs in the family, sent their daughters-in-law into the monastery, cooked for the monks, and by the way, they did the same thing with their married husbands, so that they could have children.
The women wept and cried and took the blame on themselves, and cried and cried that their sons and daughters-in-law were persecuted and murdered by them. But many of the people present were military families, and when they heard them do this, they couldn't help but spit on the ground, scolding them for being greedy for life and afraid of death, and delaying their sons.
He Mulan saw this kind of thing many times when he first came here, and those who couldn't survive to become monks still had a bite to eat and someone to support, and this was not the fault of the monks, but the problem of the state. She couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic in her heart, and she opened her mouth to stop the righteous indignation of these people.
With the weapons and women being turned out, the monks in this temple are indispensable for the great sin of fornication and rebellion, and the monks are even unlucky. When Gai Wu saw those weapons, he knew that he had taken revenge, and he just wanted to quickly collect the corpses of his clansmen, so that they could be cremated and sent back to Xingcheng.
A group of people in the temple cried, screamed, and scolded, but He Mulan was full of desolation, and couldn't help but stand with his sword, almost having the idea of splitting the turbid sky!
"He Mulan, His Majesty has summoned you to enter the palace quickly! And these Lu Shuihu people! "
With Su Hejun's familiar voice, a team of Yulin soldiers followed him into the temple.
Chen Jie probably met Su Hejun halfway, the two entered side by side, and they were stunned when they saw so many people kneeling down in the courtyard.
Su Hejun was a little uneasy in his heart, for the sake of He Mulan, and for Tuoba Tao, he shouted in disguise: "You wait for the people to disperse quickly!" Knowing that a dead person is useless to kneel! There is a debtor who is wronged, and I will not find you if I want to find you! "
This shout attributed the reason they knelt down to the fact that there were dead people here.
The Yulin army didn't think much about it, a group of people rushed into the Shakya Hall, tied up the monks, and another egret official cleaned up the corpses and checked the traces in the courtyard.
He Mulan didn't know why Su Hejun came so quickly, so he could only follow Su Hejun out of the courtyard, followed by Lu Shuihu. As soon as the two of them walked out of the mountain gate of this monk's hall, Su Hejun lowered his voice and said to He Mulan beside him:
"The news from Tongwan City, Helian Ding was attacked by unknown people and horses, and now he is missing. His Majesty was originally going to investigate the news in person, but he was pressed down by Cui Taichang, and now he has sent you to Qinzhou with a thousand Lin troops day and night, and bring those Lu Shuihu people with you......"
Su Hejun looked at the surprised He Mulan, and said with a solemn face:
"The place where he disappeared was near Xingcheng, where most of the Qiang and Lushuihu people were there. You don't know, as soon as Princess Mingzhu regained her free body, Di Ziyu rebelled with the Qiang people, scattered and fled, and disappeared."
"Huh? Di Ziyu?"
He Mullan couldn't even remember this unlucky bastard.
She seemed to remember that in the yard he and she also seemed to have touched hands.
Having said that, at that time, he must have known that Zhao Ming was Helian Mingzhu, so his irrational actions at that time were for ......
Jealous?
"Do you suspect that Di Ziyu did it?"
Hemulan's face also became heavy.
The Qiang people have tens of thousands of children in the Xia country, and their good wives are gone, if it is out of face, it is not impossible to retaliate
[,! "Just speculation. Qinzhou is the territory of the Lu Shuihu people, and it is convenient to have your apprentice as a guide. The Yulin Army is here to protect you from going to the summer land, but so many men and horses will definitely not escape the eyes of the Qiang people. His Majesty wants you to investigate one or two first, and if it is really Di Ziyu and the Qiang people who did it, then send the garrison of Xia Di to crusade against them."
Su Hejun spoke very quickly, but the sound of horses' hooves under the seat did not stop.
"I'll take care of the matter here, and if you concentrate on it, Helian Gong will be fine. It's important to remember ......"
Su Hejun's face was solemn.
"It doesn't matter if the rest of the people wait, Helianding's life and death are the most important things."
"Xi Qin is still in the hands of his soldiers and horses!"