Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Fire Fills Jinling
"I think, therefore I am,"
"Whatever I'm going to do, I'm going to do it. ”
"Since you have done it, persevered, and worked hard, you can succeed. ”
"I can go, I, never back down!"
Baoyu suddenly laughed, his face burned into black charcoal by the sea of fire pulled out a particularly ugly smile, and the body that was penetrated by the knife mountain could no longer shed blood. I just know that I have to move forward.
One step, two steps, numbness of the body.
Three steps, four steps.
Baoyu froze in place, trying to move forward, but her body refused to obey.
His leg bones have long been broken, and his body does not exist, but he doesn't know how he got out of these four steps?
"Master, I'm in Jinling City. ”
A soft call called him back to the present.
Baoyu opened his eyes and found that he was intact, and when he opened the curtains, he could already see the towering walls of Jinling City.
Four steps, let him walk for a day and a night.
The four-step path made him endure unimaginable pain in his life.
Baoyu spat out the window, gritted his teeth and said, "If you don't go to Zhuangzi, find an inn nearby." ”
There is still a day before the big exam, and he doesn't believe it, and he doesn't dare to go again?
He doesn't admit defeat!
...
However, it was said that Jia Yucun arrived in Jinling a few days ago, and as soon as he went to court, he sorted out the unjust and wrongful cases that had accumulated for many years, and the whole city praised him as the master of Qingtian.
On this day, there was no drumming to sound grievances, so they dismissed a servant, and only one herald was left to accompany him to talk.
The official lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Yin Weiyi, so he heard Jia Yucun smile and said: "Senior monk, I haven't seen you for a long time, why are you still refusing to recognize Jia Hua after so many days?"
Jia Yu Village's original name was Jia Hua, the word Shi Fei, and the alias was Yu Village. He uses aliases outside, and only for acquaintances, he uses his real name.
The official raised his head and smiled: "Don't dare to climb the big master." The little one is not a monk now, and when he returns to the vulgar, he has changed back to his original name and surname, and the eldest man calls me Liu Ergou. ”
Liu Ergou sneered: "Monks can't eat meat, they can't find women, it's really boring." Don't talk about this, the eldest lord left two dogs, I don't know what I want to ask? Don't hide it from the eldest lord, we are used to being monks, and at first glance we are in this world, we must be careful in everything, and most of them pay attention to it. ”
Jia Yucun said with a smile: "Don't talk about this, you and I met in the broken temple, although it has been a long time, it is still a poor friend and cannot be forgotten." Come with me. ”
took Liu Ergou to the back hall, entertained with good wine and meat, served a few meals, drank a few rounds, hooked shoulders and backs, and was very affectionate.
After eating, he casually asked, "You just said to pay attention, is there anything else you need to pay attention to in this Jinling City?"
"Of course there is,"
Liu Ergou said proudly: "You are the Yin of Jinling Mansion, there is nothing else, just pay attention to this sentence." ”
It was like a drunken layman, his face was full of color, and he sang madly: "Jia is not fake, white jade is a horse for the hall of gold; Afang Palace, three hundred miles, can not live in Jinling for a history; the East China Sea lacks a white jade bed, the dragon king invited the king of Jinling; the harvest year is full of snow, pearls are like earth, gold and iron." ”
Jia Yucun smiled and said, "This is the four major families of Jia Shi and Wang Xue. ”
"That's right, I know that you have a holiday with the second master of Jiafu, for fear that you will be blinded by lard, and you will have to get along with the four major families. You have dealt with so many cases as soon as you took office, but there is only one case, and I have come here for your good. ”
"Which one?"
"It's a personal life lawsuit. ”
Liu Ergou drank the wine poured by Jia Yucun with a grin, looking like 'good for you', and said arrogantly: "The sister-in-law of the Xue Mansion is also the eldest prince Xue Pan, do you know? He and a grain merchant in the city competed to buy a maidservant, and they didn't give in, and they actually beat people to death. I'm afraid that Jia Hua will have to deal with the eldest son, so you will hide the case file, so as not to offend the Xue family, and I don't know how to die. ”
Lin Xiuzhu was waiting beside him, no matter how good his cultivation was, he couldn't help it.
Listen, the teacher remembers the poor and lowly friends, and this Liu Ergou can't climb along the pole. It's 'lard blinded by heart', and it's 'I don't know how to die', it's really a character who doesn't treat himself as an outsider, but as an elder.
Lin Xiuzhu snorted angrily and was about to step forward and say.
"Don't be angry. ”
Jia Yucun said with a smile: "He just drank too much wine, not to make me ugly." Besides, you're thinking about me inside and out, aren't you?"
Lin Xiuzhu said angrily: "He wants to be good for himself and wants to climb up." ”
"People are sophisticated, nothing more than that. ”
Jia Yucun shook his head, asked Lin Xiuzhu to help Liu Ergou to the guest room to rest, and went out by himself, not knowing where to go.
What Jia Yucun said, Lin Xiuzhu regarded it as a holy decree, and immediately cleaned up the guest room for Liu Ergou. But the rest, don't care.
With a bang, Lin Xiuzhu slammed the door and went out, Xu was shocked by the drunken person, and Liu Ergou opened one eye and laughed.
"It's just the four major families, it's just a monster that doesn't enter the stream, this Jia Yu Village, why do you always feel a little strange. ”
habitually touched his head, but instead of touching his bald head, he had black hair in a bun, and a wry smile swayed at the corner of his mouth, a little self-deprecating.
Jia Yucun came back from outside, with two more white flowers of silver in his hand. One hundred taels was the money for his tea, and the other was on a tray, and a piece of white flowers was as much as five hundred taels.
Jia Yucun handed two fifty taels of silver to Liu Ergou, so frightened that Liu Ergou hurriedly knelt down, saying that the old man did not mention it.
"Don't be afraid, this is for your errand money. ”
Jia Yucun looked up to the sky and sighed: "I think I, Jia Yucun, have valued righteousness over profit all my life, but I didn't expect to be an official, but I looked forward and backwards, and wanted to be the person who was corrupt and bent the law." Liu Ergou, you take this one hundred taels of silver, it is considered to be for you, and the other five hundred taels are sent to the Feng family, a grain merchant, and tell them that it is an apology from the Xue Mansion. ”
Liu Ergou cheered up and said, "Don't worry, sir, the Feng family is a greedy and forgetful person, and the official just wants to ask for money." With these five hundred taels, they were able to blossom. ”
"That's good, inside and out, we have to take out the eldest prince of Xue Pan. ”
Jia Yucun carefully advised: "Remember to go at night and don't be seen." ”
"Sir, just put your heart in your stomach. ”
Liu Ergou happily walked away with the silver, and Lin Xiuzhu saw people leave, his handsome little face looked at his teacher with bitterness.
Jia Yucun just smiled and chanted to the sky: "Heaven and earth are chessboards, and Hao's masterpieces are black and white, we should have ...... like this."
Lin Xiuzhu didn't understand, where does this Liu Ergou look like a hero?
...
In the middle of the night, the fire burned half the sky.
A brown figure, a white-clothed man. One after the other, they shot out of the city like meteors and fell between the mountains and fields.
"Jia Yucun, you are so ruthless!"
Liu Ergou was dressed in a maroon official costume, fell to the ground, vomited blood from the corner of his mouth, and said angrily: "I thought that I could help you to rise to prominence, no matter how bad it is, I am also a useful person, why do you want to kill me? I know you want your gentleman's name, but I am also a person who can hide my mouth, and it is useful to you, so why do you want to kill me?"
Jia Yucun was a little embarrassed, the white lords were stained with mud, and said with a smile: "I thought you scolded me for being vicious, blaming me for killing the grain merchant's family, but it turned out to be for yourself......
Monk, isn't Buddhism a blessing for the world, why do you only remember yourself?"
"I, I'm vulgar for a long time. ”
"Not necessarily. ”
Jia Yucun brushed open the folding fan and said with a smile: "People are in the world, and their hearts are in Buddhism." You came from thousands of miles away from the vast Tang Dynasty, is it just to pay off such a trivial matter?"
The fluttering words frightened Liu Ergou and jumped up and looked at Jia Yucun dumbfounded.
Later, he smiled bitterly: "Even if I am not from the Great Zhou, it is useful to be a servant for the Great Zhou." Sir, I'm just eating with a mouthful. ”
"That's not possible, Da Zhou, in the end, it is a Confucian world. ”
Jia Yucun's eyes were very bright, so bright that they made people feel cold. Liu Ergou was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly smiled: "Master, you are a Confucian, then why do you want to help Xue Pan? This is a great opportunity, you killed the grain merchant's family, just to blame the Xue Mansion!"
"Naturally, I want to blame the Xue Mansion. Xue Fu wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, hired Liu Ergou, a servant, and killed the grain merchant's family. Such a crime, just wait for the four major families of Jia Shi Wang Xue to weaken a little more, and they can be the last straw that crushes the camel.
So, Liu Ergou, you have to die. ”
Liu Ergou quietly retreated and persuaded: "No, sir, I am useful to you." You have also seen that I am the strength to lift people, and I have the strength to lift people!"
"If you don't have the strength to raise people, how can the Tang Dynasty Buddhism send you?"
Jia Yucun Zhengse said: "Whether it is the Tang Dynasty or the Great Zhou, it is a Confucian world. High monk, if you want to open up a world of bliss for Buddhism, you must follow the rules of Confucianism in the Tang Dynasty. ”
"Listen to me: the Son of Heaven is angry with his sword, and the messengers look at each other from afar. The geese travel edge stone path, and the fish pass through the flying beam. ”
A cold light turned into a sharp sword, which instantly pierced Liu Ergou's chest.
Liu Ergou's whole body was full of golden light, and the golden body of Buddhism was sacrificed with all his might, and it was still pierced through his chest. He blocked Jia Yucun's eight chantings, and this last time, he didn't even have the ability to dodge.
"There are several songs in "Sword Yin", but there is no such sentence. ”
"Jia Yucun, this poem was not written by you, it turns out that you ......"
Jia Yucun stepped forward, tapped Liu Ergou's forehead with a plain white folding fan in his hand, and saw Liu Ergou staring at his round eyes and falling to the ground with a poof.
There is no breath, the blood is cold, and the dead can't die anymore.
Jia Yucun sighed in a low voice: "Thousands of miles of lonely graves are full of thorns, and the wind is sad under the bright moon. Monk, for the sake of you and my fellow villagers, leave your whole corpse. ”
The white clothes stayed away, leaving only a newly raised grave.
There are no tombstones, no willows, and no one will come to pay their respects. Even the pedestrians who were in a hurry happened to meet them, and they didn't notice the low mound full of thorns.
Only a faint exclamation remained, far away with the wind.
"There are novices who travel thousands of miles of asceticism, giving up their worries in their hearts, there are monks who walk in all directions, just to save the lotus flower in their hearts, there are Taoist priests who are disturbed by good thoughts, and forget that they once asked to be immortals, and there are real people who are trapped by love, wandering the world, and good and evil are with him. ”
"It's just that you and I are different. This Confucian Great Zhou can't tolerate unintentional monks. ”