On the third day of the twelfth month of the leap month, the north wind howling along the Jianchuan Gorge blew dust and dead leaves into the sky. {with}{dream} щ{suimеng][lā}

Standing in the south of Jianzhou City, more than two miles away, on the nameless mountainside of the village that has been abandoned for a long time, looking at this majestic ancient city, into the eyes of a vast and gloomy, as far as the eye can see, there is not a living thing.

"Senior brother, have you seen it this time? It's been three days, why don't you even have a figure. The little monk Guangnian sat on a wooden stool with only three legs, holding a dry branch boredly, and writing on the ground, as if he were drawing a cow.

"Didn't you say when you went down the mountain that it was better to find the scholar later and have more fun. The great monk opened his eyebrows widely, and his eyes were full of helplessness. His face had also thinned and his complexion darkened, as if he had suffered enough in the past month.

"Who knew that this place was cold and hungry, and it didn't mean anything at all. Guangnian wiped his snot and threw it on the ground.

The stone statue Guanghui hurriedly moved his feet away, for fear of being thrown by him - the three brothers and sisters had been walking outside for a whole month, and the monk's robes of Guang Nian and Guang Kai were already dirty, but Guang Hui's body was still very clean. When I was in the temple before, everyone was about the same, and when I came out, I found that this stone statue loves to be clean so much.

"That scholar is too good at running, coming and going like a gust of wind, we have been following behind others for almost a month. It's better to wait for the rabbit, anyway, he will always come to fight Jianzhou. Guang tilted his head and said boredly.

"What if he doesn't come?" asked Guang Nian looking up.

"Not coming, won't you?" Guang Kai touched his somewhat ridiculous head, "Jianzhou City has so much silver, can he afford it?"

Guang Nian grinned and said, "Senior brother also knows, he is drawing silver?"

Guang Kai opened his mouth, but finally did not refute, he really did not want to continue this protracted battle between good and evil.

"Senior brother," Guang Nian threw away the dry branches, patted the dust on the hem of the monk's robe, stood up and said, "I think that the more he looks like he wants to fight Jianzhou, the less he will come." You forgot, we've been hit by his tricks several times. ”

"Could it be that he knows that the three of us are looking for him?" said Guang Kai with a frown.

Guang Nian nodded: "Maybe I know." Don't hide it from Senior Brother, I feel now that even if we find it, we may not be able to get him. Maybe he will kill him in turn. ”

The great monk grinned: "That's not it, before we go down the mountain, the head abbot has calculated, this trip is no disaster and no danger......"

"No matter how powerful the abbot is, he can't expect everything accurately. Senior brother made a mistake three times, and the abbot made one or two mistakes out of ten, right? Maybe it's our fault. That's unjustly killed...... "Guangnian has never been big or small, dare to say this behind his back, the abbot of the whole Quanzhou Kaiyuan Temple, probably only him."

Guang Kai shook his head with a wry smile, and pouted at his junior brother Guanghui, as if to say, with this stone statue, what is there to worry about.

Guang Nian also glanced at Guang Hui, but his expression was not at all at ease, and he stretched his face and said, "That scholar only needs to kill the two of us, even if it is ...... mouth."

Guang Kai laughed out loud, quickly covered his mouth again, and glared at Guang Nian.

Guang Nian also knew that his joke was a bit too much, so he shrank his head and flashed aside.

All morning, the three of them chatted while looking at Jianzhou City. After eating dry food at noon, Monk Guangkai finally couldn't sit still, got up and said, "It's not a way to wait, let's go to the city and have a look." ”

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Everywhere the Seven Divisions went, they killed officials and killed the rich, and most of the officials and gentry who were let go in various counties fled to Jianzhou City. Naturally, the news of the arson of the Seven Divisions was also brought into the city.

After some interpretation, this rumor added to the horror, as if the team called the Seven Divisions of Yuezhou was all murderous demons, and the leading scholar was even born with three heads and six arms, and it was okay to eat people and drink blood.

As a result, Jianzhou City had already blocked the city gate, cleared the wilderness, and was ready to defend the city.

The officials and gentry in the city, in the face of this great fear, had to unite and form a city defense army of thousands of people, among which there were not only people and demons, but even "wood".

And at the end of December, after several officials in the government office were assassinated one after another, even the sacrifices in Jianzhou City stopped.

The situation is tense, and it is obviously not easy for three foreign monks to enter the city. Even if it is the golden sign of Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, it has not come in handy.

In desperation, the great monk Guangkai asked for help from his junior brother Guanghui.

But the statue had no intention of helping, and turned around and left. Guang Kai and Guang Nian glanced at each other, and had no choice but to follow him.

walked to more than a mile outside the city, and the stone statue Guanghui was annoyed by the question, so he found a thick stump, wiped it clean, sat down, took a slender branch, and wrote on the ground.

"Hit the mark. ”

"Hit?" Guang Kai looked surprised, "What's the trick?"

"The city is too big, there are too many people, and the scholars can't take it. He let the wind go to attack the city, borrowed the hands of the gentry in the city, cleaned up Jianzhou, stopped the sacrifices, and settled the hearts of the people. We've also been hit ......," Guanghui continued.

The great monk patted his head widely: "It makes sense! He used the prestige of the capital city to intimidate the people of the counties, so as to teach them to wait for the day and not dare to relax...... The means are different, but the ends are the same!"

"What do you mean, what do you mean?" Guang Nian obviously didn't understand, and asked anxiously.

"In addition to the foresters of Ningyang County, He Dafu of Sangang County, Li Dianguan of Yongding County, and those who killed people and their helpers...... What these people are most afraid of at the moment is not the Moon Worship Cult, but the gentry who have fled to the Fucheng, and they are afraid that they will lead the army to crusade. With these people in charge of county affairs and the revitalization of the market, the counties have the current situation. ”

Guang Kai said in one breath, swallowed his saliva and continued: "The gentry in Jianzhou City are afraid of following the mistakes of the counties, and if they want to defend the city, they must gather manpower and buy the people. The Forester was used by the scholar...... But in this Jianzhou city, the rich squires who have never met before, how can this not be the case?"

When Guang Nian heard this, his face was extremely surprised, and he suddenly snatched the branch in Guanghui's hand, drew two circles on the ground, one wrote Jianzhou City, and the other wrote the six counties of Jianzhou, and then raised his head and said: "That scholar is to let this side be afraid of that side, and that side is also afraid of this side...... I'm afraid to come and go, and in the end, no one can sleep well, and the sacrifice will not dare to be carried out, and the people will also benefit?"

Guang Hui nodded, and Guang Kai also nodded.

"This ...... Where is this still a scholar, this is a monster!" Guang Nian shook his head, looking incredulous.

"It's as wise as a demon. The great monk took a long breath, "It was this seemingly vicious plan that made him take only two hundred people and see that he was about to recover the Jianzhou Mansion." ”

"But ......" Guang Nian frowned and said, "The people I met in Pengjin and Nanyan counties obviously heard from the people under the scholar's command that they were going to attack Jianzhou in the near future. Could it be that he even lied to his own people?"

"We didn't find him, he may not know us. More than what I heard and saw, maybe he deliberately let us know. The great monk Guangkai muttered to himself: "It's all because this monk's robe is too conspicuous......

"It's quite conspicuous. ”

"When you go down the mountain, you should change your clothes. Guang Kai shook his head and sighed, until Guang Nian pulled his monk's robe, he reacted, it was not Guang Nian who replied to him just now, let alone the stone statue Guanghui.

Rather, it is a monk with a face.

"Amitabha," standing in front of the three of them was the monk Huiyuan, who sang a Buddha and said: "The three came from afar, followed all the way, and must have worked hard, so it is better to go back early." ”

The three monks of Kaiyuan returned the salute, in addition to the stone statue Guanghui, the other two monks, one large and one small, were extremely embarrassed. The three of them chased after Qisi's ass for a month, and they didn't even see a shadow, but they were found by others.

"Amitabha," the muscles on Guang Kai's face twitched slightly, still trying to make himself appear calmer, "the master is polite. The poor monk is not good at learning and art, so he should return to the mountain gate and devote himself to penance...... It's just that I've been looking for so long, and I can't see it, and I have an obsession in my heart, so I wonder if your lord can give me a meeting?"

Monk Huiyuan's face was difficult: "Bu Ye said that what he is most afraid of is the monk, so it is still not good." ”