Zhu Di looked at Sheng Yong's corpse and spitted on him: "The traitor seeking glory has dirty my hall, if it weren't for the sake of Shandong Tiexuan, I would have brought you to justice a long time ago." ”

After that, he ordered someone to drag Sheng Yong's body away, and gave the treasure knife to Yuan Heng and said: "Mr. Yuan, you know people and are used to walking the rivers and lakes. Today, I will give you this precious sword, you can do it cheaply, help me find the monk and the people around him, whether it is dead or alive, give a letter, and heal this matter of my heart. I will reward you severely. Your apprentice Hu Ying also went with you to be a helper. If you can't find that empty news, don't go back to the court. ”

Yuan Heng held the treasure knife in his hand, knelt on his knees, and said that he obeyed the order.

Zhu Di waved his hand, and the two got up and left the palace.

The two of them came out of the palace and returned to the next place, Hu Ying asked Yuan Heng: "Master, this world is vast, where can we go to find the empty monk?" ”

Yuan Heng sighed and said, "If you can't find it, you have to look for it." If we can't find the empty monk, Sheng Yong will be our end. That's what he meant when he gave me the sword. ”

When Hu Ying heard this, he was startled, and said to Yuan Hui with a sad face: "Master, I hurt you." I was eager to make meritorious contributions, so I took the initiative to ask Ying to track down the whereabouts of the Kongwen monk, but I didn't expect this to be the situation now. ”

Yuan Jue twisted his beard and smiled: "You don't have to be discouraged, we are not clueless about this matter." ”

Hu Ying's eyes lit up and said, "Master, have you found a clue?" ”

Yuan Jue said: "Do you think that empty monk wants to be restored, where do you say he will go?" ”

Hu Ying thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Tie Xuan is dead, Gao Wei hanged himself, and Shandong has been flattened." Ma Meiyin was also enclosed in the mansion, and he didn't see outsiders, and he really couldn't think of any other place in the world that could help the empty monk to restore. ”

Yuan Hui chuckled and said, "You are really smart, you are confused for a while." That Xiping Hou Mu Sheng is located in Yunnan, with 100,000 soldiers, and Prince Yiwen is a good family, and now the empty monk has nowhere to go, I conclude that he will definitely go to Xiping Hou Mu Sheng. ”

Hu Ying patted his forehead and suddenly realized: "What the master taught is." We can then go to Yunnan to check the whereabouts of the monk Kongwen. ”

Yuan Heng said with a sad expression: "You go to Yunnan first and make a front stop." I want to bring Xiao Wu's ashes back to Ningbo Mansion and bury them in the ancestral grave, so that he can be buried in peace. As soon as the matter is over, I will also rush to Yunnan to investigate the whereabouts of the empty monk with you, and I will not give up if I don't find him this time. ”

Hu Ying comforted him and said, "Master, you are mourning, I am one step ahead." With that, he said goodbye, packed up, and rushed to Yunnan.

Yuan Hui took the ashes of his son Yuan Xiaowu back to Ningbo Mansion, found a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to bury Xiao Wu, and thought that he was over the age of six, and he had countless people in his life, but he ended up with a broken son and grandson, and couldn't help but feel sad and cry loudly.

July 15 is the Taoist Zhongyuan Festival, which is called the Yu Lan Festival in Buddhism and the Ghost Festival in folklore. On this day, ancestors are usually worshipped.

The streets and alleys of Ningbo began to clean the courtyard from the seventh day of the seventh month of July, invited the ancestral tablets of their families to come out, put incense cases, placed tributes, and worshiped their ancestors. On the 13th, 14th, and 15th of July, it is even more solemn, they must offer in the morning and evening, pour tea and incense, and wait for the ancestors to eat and drink, and on the night of July 15, they will send their ancestors back, because on this day, the gate of hell will be opened, and all kinds of cows, ghosts, gods, snakes, demons and monsters will come to wander in the world.

Every household has to burn incense and paper, send money to their ancestors, so that they can have enough money for the journey, and they will have enough food and clothing below, and by the way, they will also buy money for the little ghosts.

Therefore, there is a poem: "I went to Zhongyuan to send money, and the evening breeze was speechless to send green smoke." Time is old, people are not yesterday, only mourning is like last year. ”

Of course, at this time, it is inevitable that there will be a game of entertainment, the most lively place in Ningbo Mansion is the Tianfei Temple outside the east gate, people will carry out the statue of Tianfei Niangniang, floats parade, accompanied by dragon dance lanterns, stepping on stilts, blowing and beating all the way, so lively.

It will be late, people will also light lamps to pray for blessings, and there are lotus leaf lamps and mussel shell lamps floating on the Yongjiang River. In particular, the clam shell lamp has different shapes and is divided into good-looking. The lights are dotted, and the stars and moon reflected on the surface of the river reflect each other, it is really a galaxy flowing backwards, heaven and earth.

Folklore, light the lamp to shine on the underworld, because the underworld is dark. On the 15th day of the seventh month, the deceased returned to the yang realm, and after feasting on the offerings of their families, the yang light a lamp to light their way back.

Yuan Hui also put a lotus lantern on the water, watching the lamp swaying into the distance, he silently said in his heart: "Little Wu, Dad killed you by mistake for a while, don't blame Dad." Today is the Midyear Festival, and I burned a lot of money for you, which is enough for you to go back to the underworld. Next time you are reincarnated to find a good family, don't be born in a family like your father, be an ordinary person, and live your life peacefully. ”

When the prayer was over, he burst into two more tears.

He turned around and climbed the stairs, with the flow of people, unconsciously came to the Tianfei Temple, he took out ten cents, asked the temple for incense, came to the main hall, and respectfully paid three incense sticks to the Tianfei Niangniang.

Suddenly he was struck on the back, and he turned to see that two women, one old and one young, hurried past him, and walked towards the west side hall, and under the eaves stood a man, long and jade, and in the night, he could not see his face clearly.

The young woman walked up to the man and said excitedly, "Brother Shixing, I finally see you." ”

The man hurriedly made a silent gesture, looked around, pulled the woman around, and walked out, the older woman following closely behind the two of them.

Yuan Heng suddenly woke up, this man was Zhang Shixing, Xiao Wu died because of him, Yuan Heng hit the fire up, hurriedly chased over, and when he got closer, he put his palms out towards Zhang Shixing's back, and then shouted: "Look at the palms." "Save the future that someone will say that he is sneaking up behind the back.

Zhang Shixing was pulling Song Sanniang to walk out, suddenly heard the footsteps behind him, and heard a palm, hurriedly pushed Song Sanniang to the side, suddenly turned around, and the person who came to the palm, his original skill and Yuan Heng is much different, last time in Huai'an with a palm on him, he spit blood, recuperation for many days, recently the body has just recovered, and Yuan Heng slapped again, this time he was more seriously injured, his body flew backwards, hit the wall, fell, and spit out a mouthful of blood.

Song Sanniang and Song's mother saw that Zhang Shixing was injured and fell to the ground, and hurriedly rushed over to check, seeing Zhang Shixing's eyes closed, his face was pale, and he vomited blood, they were distressed, and they both got up and pounced on Yuan Heng, shouting: "Who are you, why did you beat my father-in-law (son-in-law)?" ”

Yuan Heng snorted and said, "He is a criminal of the imperial court, I am ordered to arrest him, and the two of you are guilty of the same crime as him." ”

After that, he stretched out his finger and pointed at the acupoints of Song Sanniang and Song Mu, and the two of them snorted and collapsed to the ground.

When the people who burned incense in the temple saw someone fighting, they all surrounded them, but now when they heard a few words from the imperial court, they were so frightened that they scattered and fled, making a mess.

At this time, an old man walked into the hospital with a few people, and when he saw Zhang Shixing fall to the ground, he hurriedly helped him up and pushed him through the palace.

Yuan Heng saw that the old man had a childish face and was in good spirits, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Senior brother, I haven't seen you for decades, and you are still so energetic." ”

The old man was Yuan Hui's senior brother Zhang Songxi, he and Huang Zicheng and others had already met with Hosokawa Goro, and the boat was ready, but Zhang Shixing had never been seen, and he knew that he and his wife and mother-in-law had made an appointment to meet at Tianfei Temple, so they came to check the situation with everyone.

Zhang Songxi looked up, recognized it as Yuan Hui, and said angrily: "Yuan Hui, the grievances between you and me should be resolved by you and me, don't implicate others." Why did you hurt my disciple? ”

Yuan Heng smiled and said: "He is a criminal of the imperial court, of course I will arrest him." ”

Zhang Songxi said: "If he is a criminal in the imperial court, he should be arrested by the local government quickly, why do you want to be cross-handed?" ”

Yuan Hui untied the cloth bag behind his back, showed the treasure knife given by the emperor, and said to Zhang Songxi: "This is the treasure knife given by the emperor, I am allowed to act cheaply, senior brother should not understand it." ”

Suddenly, someone in the crowd sneered and said disdainfully: "What kind of bullshit emperor, it's just a plot to usurp the throne." ”

Yuan Jue glanced at everyone, only to see a monk standing in the crowd, with his head on the left, he had seen the portrait of Zhu Yunwen, which was very similar to this person, he immediately jumped up and stabbed him.

He knew that Zhang Songxi was similar to his martial arts, but the other party was overwhelming, and he didn't know if there were any hidden masters among them, so he had to strike first.

Zhu Yunwen saw a cold light flying, he couldn't dodge, his eyes closed, and he shouted: "My life is over." ”

only heard a pop in his ears, he hurriedly opened his eyes to look, only to see that the steel knife was inserted into Huang Zicheng's chest, it turned out that at the moment of crisis, Huang Zicheng flew over and blocked the knife.

Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai, the two abbots, cut the feudal domain, mishandled the measures, and caused a big disaster, but in the end, they were all martyred in order to save Zhu Yunwen, and they can be said to be loyal ministers.

Yuan Hui was about to draw his knife and slash at Zhu Yunwen again, Zhang Songxi suddenly jumped up, and hit him with a punch to the back of the head.

Zhang Songxi stood at the gate of the temple and shouted to everyone: "You guys go quickly, I'll cut off the queen." ”

Huang Zhan and Wang Shu hurriedly helped Zhang Shixing up and escaped from the temple with Zhu Yunwen.

Zhang Songxi made a mistake with both hands, made a starting gesture, and shouted to Yuan Heng: "I haven't seen you for decades, our senior brothers will take a good look at the kung fu in their hands, and I will clean up the portal by the way." ”

Yuan Heng snorted and said, "That is naturally your senior brother's kung fu, otherwise I wouldn't have carried the imperial sword with me." But how old and frail are you, and it's not good to last. ”

Zhang Songxi took a step forward, turned his palm into a knife, slashed it in the air, and shouted: "Then I will fight quickly." ”

Yuan Heng dodged sideways, and poked Zhang Songxi's ribs with a finger.

The two of them have been in the same house for decades, and both sides are very familiar with the tricks, so they have not won or lost after hundreds of rounds.

As Yuan Hui expected, Zhang Songxi was old and not conducive to a long-term battle, seeing that he had not been able to take down Yuan Hui after fighting for so long, he couldn't help but become anxious in his heart, deliberately sold a flaw, turned around and walked backwards, leading Yuan Heng to shoot his back with both palms, he suddenly turned sideways to the side, and hit Yuan Heng on the left side with his backhand.

Yuan Hui was guarding against his move, and hurriedly gathered strength to meet it, his palms intersected, Zhang Songxi urged the internal force, wanting to shatter Yuan Heng's heart in one fell swoop, Yuan Heng hurriedly resisted, and the two palms stuck together and could not be separated.

Yuan Hui's internal strength cultivation was not as good as Zhang Songxi's, and he was invincible, and the corner of his eye suddenly swept to the temple Zhu Chen Afu who was hiding behind the stone pillars of the main hall, and said: "Miao Zhu, you help me kill him, I will definitely reward you heavily." ”

The temple wished Chen Afu greedy for money, walked over step by step, pulled out the steel knife on Huang Zicheng's body, and slowly walked towards Zhang Songxi.