Chapter 41: White Lotus
She remembered what the maid of the Huang family said to Miss Huang Er, and she couldn't help but sneer in her heart-
What Buddha Mother, what the three thousand incarnations of Guanyin Master, these are all lies to deceive the ignorant people!
If what she expected, behind these pretenses, there are only three words that make the people of the world tremble - White Lotus Sect!
These three words are like an invisible spell, if someone mentions it on weekdays, I am afraid that it can scare the officials and the people to tremble, if there is anyone who is contaminated with half a point, it will immediately be full of people, and it will be regarded as a demon by the local yamen to show the public, and the extreme point will even splash feces on the whole body in the sun, to prevent the "demon law to confuse the public", and then report to the court to punish the canon, and behead at the entrance of the vegetable market.
From the time of the Yuan and Meng, the White Lotus Sect was listed as a cult of all evils by the imperial court because of its "alien witchcraft" and "confusing the people to make trouble", and under the severe crackdown, it not only did not weaken, but turned into darkness, sneaked into the underground to secretly cultivate followers, and incited the people to rebel against the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty. When the turmoil in the world intensified when Emperor Shun, Luancheng Han Shantong father and son, the white lotus bloomed, Maitreya came into the world, officially founded the White Lotus Society, made scriptures and talismans to spread among the people, and when the time was ripe, he led the people to rebel and became the leader of the world's famous rebels. When Emperor Hongwu of this dynasty was lowly, he defected to Guo Zixing, and when it came to the origin, he also wanted to serve the father and son of the Han family.
But after Emperor Hongwu sat down in the country, like all previous emperors, he listed the White Lotus Sect as a cult and forbidden, and once he found the signs, he immediately hunted and killed them on a large scale - he rose from the lower classes of the people, and knew that this kind of sect was very confusing to the poor people, so he became more and more vigilant and made an example of him.
Therefore, the followers of the White Lotus Sect are becoming more and more mysterious and difficult to find, but they still have the emblem of mutual screening, that is, the "White Lotus Statue of Our Lady". Because the target is so obvious, some believers will draw a simple lotus emblem on their bodies, and when spreading the word to the followers, in order to avoid the government's investigation, they will also falsely claim to be the incarnation of Guanyin Master.
As soon as she saw the unique lotus emblem on the girl's wrist, she was vigilant, but it was only a guess, and she didn't dare to conclude that there were many miscellaneous superstitions among the people, many of which were false, and it was not worth making too much fuss.
Until the beginning of the month, the Buddha statue pendant was found on the body...... Although it is very small and unrealistic, it is indeed the "Statue of Our Lady of the White Lotus"! It's just that I don't know if she is also a White Lotus cultist, or was she deceived and deceived?
She stood outside the door and pondered, the north wind howled, blowing cold all over her body, and even the red rope that tied her hair was scattered, and she came back to her senses, and thousands of thoughts turned into a slight smile - even if it was really the White Lotus Sect's trouble, what did she do?
The rise and fall of this court and the world will be left to those dignitaries and nobles to worry about, at least for now, even if they try to make trouble in Pingningfang or even in the Beijing camp, it will be greatly conducive to the Jinlan Society's rescue action.
Her smile turned to a hint of coldness, and she turned to chase the wind-blown headband.
The head rope fluttered, and it was four or five feet away in a flash, and she was about to bend down, but one of them picked it up for her first.
The morning sun shone between his browsโthe man, who was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, had a pair of cold and straight sword eyebrows, and a pair of eagle-like pupils looking straight at her.
His cold face was too pale, and a long, striking scar crossed the corner of his eye, adding to the solemnity.
The scariest thing is not this - but that this person can actually laugh?
He stared at her, smiled silently, the scar in the corner of his eye was raised, and he was suddenly full of evil and fierceness, but the smile was calm and noble, "This is yours?" โ
He handed the headband with one hand.
Xiao Gu looked at him blankly, and slowly and tentatively reached out to pick it up, but he grabbed his wrist and almost fell into his arms, "What's your surname?!" Which one? โ
His questions were quick and crisp, and there was a hint of concealment and urgency in his voice.
Xiao Gu was grabbed by his big palm like iron tongs, and she was surprised in her heart - she also had a lot of strength to chop wood every day, she struggled hard, and actually retracted her hand a few points, the man's footsteps flickered, but the palm of his hand was held tighter - this struggle, he actually had hundreds of catties of strength!
"Excuse me...... What's your last name, girl? Where are you from? โ
As if he realized that he was too anxious and scared, the man's smile revealed a gentle apology, but he still persistently asked.
Xiao Gu was about to answer, but a familiar and angry voice came from next to him-
"Lord Qianhu, you are holding my maidservant, what is the reason!"
Xiao Gu turned his head and looked at it, and called out with a little surprise: "Young Master! โ
I saw that Guangsheng's armor had not been removed, and he came back in a hot sweat against the cold wind, he stared at the man coldly, and his face was already cold and angry.
Because the other party was a high-level general, his question was quite polite, but the tone was simply presumptuous and arrogant - if his gaze could be turned into substance, the palm that held Xiao Gu would probably have been cut off by him.
"It turned out to be Shen Zongqi, and it was really a hero out of a teenager."
That Qianhu bowed slightly, obviously having heard of Guangsheng's "great achievements".
When Xiao Gu first arrived in Pingning Town, he went to the street to buy vegetables, and those aunts and aunts saw her new face, and they couldn't help but ask one or two, and heard that she was a new maid from Shen Zongqi's family, and they all had strange faces, and they were polite to her.
Xiao Gu effortlessly inquired from people's discussions: When Guangsheng first came, he only relied on the way of the Chinese military secretary and discipline officer, although everyone heard that he was born in the Jining Marquis Mansion, but looking at the appearance of being alone, he knew that the Tao was not dealing with the family. Because of his good looks and cold and arrogant temperament, some people started to think crookedly, and gathered a crowd to stop him in the middle of the night, saying some indiscriminate words to provoke, and said that they would peel off the pants of this little white face to see if it was a man or a woman.
That night, the people in the barracks and workshops on the mountain heard heart-rending screams, but no one dared to explore them easily. In the early morning of the second day, Guangsheng went to the school field to practice with the baked cake in his mouth, but there was no trace of those people, and they were found in the shade of the hillside in the afternoon: there were three knife marks on each body, one shallow and long across the entire chest, one crossed the face, although it was not big but the bone was deep visible, and the last one was in the ...... Crotch.
The first two are easy to say, and the last one is difficult to see, but everyone present was stunned by the blood-stained pants, and they all felt a cool breeze under their crotch for a while, and they shuddered.
No one knows exactly what the injury is, and I heard those eight women discuss: it is said that the guy is still there, but he has been cut by a knife against the tendons in the critical place, and he has been scared to the point of all weakness, and he can no longer be humane - but he didn't really hurt the vital point, even if he wanted to make a fuss, he couldn't make any trouble.
Although those people also have their own henchmen, they are all clamoring to seek revenge on Guangsheng, but there is no evidence for this matter, and the second is not reasonable, Shangfeng just called him to admonish him and pressed the matter with a few words. Since then, everyone knows that he is not a master to be messed with.
Although he has a cold and arrogant temperament, he is unambiguous in dealing with people, and he has always been unsparing in money and expensive goods, which can be called righteous and thin, and he is even more proficient when it comes to eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling.
Originally, it was safe and sound, but that day in the autumn hunt, his team performed really well, especially himself, a single rider actually passed ten levels in a row, and won the name of the leader of the camp, which was a good thing, but he was the most narrow-minded and could not tolerate people, and heard people laugh and talk about a few words "The young hero is better than the blue", and suddenly there was jealousy in his heart.
He instructed his subordinates to force Guangsheng to go to the competition, but secretly put in the iron thistle terrestris that stabbed the horse's feet, and replaced the blunt bladed knives and guns used in the battle with sharp weapons used on the battlefield.
He is also a veteran of the army, and dealing with rookies is simply a full skill, but he didn't expect to hit the iron plate this time!