Volume 2 The Dragon of the Northland Chapter 23 The Poor Chase a Thousand Miles
When the army returned to the ship, the owner of the village was seriously ill, and the leaders said that it was really the monks who were too strong in martial arts, and they were coerced to confront the government.
Han Jiyou was also afraid that arresting these people would cause a popular uprising in the future, so he used pacification methods and sent people back to Yuezhou to report to Li Yuanyu.
Due to the speed of the flying boat, the messenger followed Guo Hong and the others to return to Yueyang.
Guo Hong on the boat asked about Jiao Fengming's origin, and Yun Xuansu said: "Senior brother, this matter is a long story, do you know the origin of my Wangwu faction?" ”
Guo Hong shook his head and said, "Please also ask my senior sister to teach." ”
Yun Xuansu arched his hand to the sky and said: "My Wangwu faction is the same as your Hengshan faction, inheriting the Taoist system of Sima Chengzhen of the Shangqing faction, and the "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Sutra" is said to have been made by the Yellow Emperor, and the Taoist ancestor of the Shangqing faction, Wei Hua, was preserved in the Songshan stone room, and was obtained by Li Zhen in the imperial history during the Kaiyuan period.
At that time, Xuanzong enshrined Sima Patriarch as a real person, and built a balcony view for him in Wangwu Mountain for cultivation, Li Zhen brought a book to Wangwu Mountain to seek advice, and after getting guidance, he went down the mountain to spread the first 300 words of the general outline of the "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Sutra", and made a commentary, which is the "Yin Fu Sutra Interpretation" that is now in the world.
"Patriarch Sima spent several years to understand the more than 5,000-word "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Sutra", and left it as the town school of the Wangwu faction. However, this peerless discipline is only suitable for women's cultivation, so he accepted a group of female disciples in his later years, and only one of them entered the hall, and that was Patriarch Jiao Zhenjing. The balcony view was inherited by the fourteenth generation grandmaster of the Shangqing faction, Li Hanguang.
"After Sima Patriarch Immortal went, Patriarch Jiao went to Songshan Taimur Mountain, and found that Li Zhen had to go through the stone room to understand the painstaking understanding, and evolved the "Fetal Breath Dafa" from the "Yin Fu Sutra", Tianbao two years (743) accepted Princess Yuzhen as a disciple, and in the fourth year of Tianbao (745) Li Hanguang returned to Maoshan, and Princess Yuzhen succeeded to the palace in Lingduguan."
"Patriarch Jiao intersected with Li Bai, Liu Yuxi and others, Li Bai once wrote "Sending Jiao Refining", and also met Princess Yuzhen through Patriarch Jiao, and was recommended to go to Chang'an to enter the Hanlin Academy.
"Princess Yuzhen cultivated in Lingduguan, and Baoying went to the first year (762) of the immortal. Patriarch Jiao returned from Songshan, when the Jurchen Xie Nature traveled the world's famous mountains and came to the Wangwu in Guozhou, Sichuan (Nanchong, Sichuan).
Later, Xie Shizu returned to Jinquan Mountain in Guozhou, and on November 12, the tenth year of Zhenyuan Dynasty (794), the sun soared into a sensation, and Han Yu wrote "Xie Natural Poems" for this purpose. The ancestor Yunhua Sanren Xie Wangji is the daughter of Xie Nature's ancestor.
Dongji Zhenren Xie is naturally very famous, and it is rumored in the world that she is Sima Chengzhen's disciple, in fact, Sima Chengzhen passed away shortly after she was born, and it is impossible in time.
Yun Xuansu continued: "The former master of the Wang House is the niece and granddaughter of Ancestor Jiao's own family, this master met a Shaolin disciple when he was in Songshan, and the two had a personal relationship, so they were both expelled from their own sect. The two went to Chang'an together, and she became attached to a tantric monk, who is famous all over the world, referring to the "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Sutra" and gained, combined with the kung fu he practiced when he was young, and created a multi-treasure Ruyi glazed formula, but the monk felt that this skill entered the devil's way, so he sealed it and refused to teach others. Later, their daughter Jiao forgot that she was young, and stole this work to her mother's old lover, that is, the Shaolin outcast who also came to Chang'an. Now it seems that this Shaolin outcast may be the master of righteousness!
"Jiao Fengming is the daughter of Jiao Wangqing, known as the jade-faced fairy, who is ruthless and notorious in the rivers and lakes. Jiao Wangqing and my master Xie Wangji are the same generation, so Jiao Fengming is the same generation as my senior sister. Their vein has long been reformed by Patriarch Jiao, but they always want to return to Lingdu to seize power. My master was seriously ill and fought with Jiao Wangqing, and finally died when the lamp ran out, so I had a great revenge with their mother and daughter! ”
The speed of the flying boat was extremely fast, and it soon returned to the Yuezhou dock.
When everyone came to the Assassin's Mansion, Li Yuan learned of the situation, so he ordered someone to send a letter to Han Jiyou, asking him to select a group of teenagers from the water thieves' village and send them to the city to study.
This is equivalent to having a hostage, and reading and literacy has always been out of the reach of peasant households, without the slightest resistance, and they will be grateful to the government.
Guo Hong has also seen the governance ability of this lazy assassin, and it seems that it is not a blessing to be able to achieve this position!
Li Yuan also issued a sea fishing document, arresting Yizhen and his disciple Shi Quanyi and others, but as for Jiao Fengming, he did not write it into the official document.
This is because the mother of this woman is a famous person in Luoyang, although she revealed her identity, only Guo Hong saw it, and the other water thieves could not testify, so she ignored it during the cautious period, anyway, she had nothing to do with the case of Li Susu.
As for the Dongting Shui Kou, in fact, they are all good citizens on weekdays, most of them will pay taxes on time, and the government does not dare to persecute too much.
Yun Xuansu and He Qiong saw Wang Dudu and Hongdou, and talked about how to defeat Yizhen and attack Qingtan Village.
Li Susu was also on the side, and when he heard that Lu Yu had injured Yizhen with a puppet design, he turned around and entered the back hall.
Lu Yu was also beside her, and saw that she was hesitant and hurriedly followed.
Li Susu hid behind the screen and whispered a few words to Xiao Mercury, who came out and asked, "What is Lang Jun's intention to be such a female puppet?" ”
Lu Yu cut off gold and cut iron: "It was Senior Brother Guo's idea." ”
Guo Hong: ???
He was talking to Yun Xuansu, his hearing covered a long distance, and Lu Yu didn't lower his voice, so he naturally couldn't avoid this tailwind.
Xiao Mercury asked again: "What about the white peony?" ”
Lu Yu knew that trouble was coming, and hurriedly apologized: "I, Lu Yuping, only have three obsessions, one is to be chivalrous and righteous, the second is the title of the gold list, and the third is to marry Su Su!" Among them, getting married to Su Su is the most important one! Little Mercury must help me make sense! ”
Xiao Mercury whispered: "I also want to help Lang Jun, but the lady is really angry, you need to be kind and plead!" ”
Lu Yu nodded and said, "Please also ask Xiao Mercury to help me with a lot of kind words." ”
After a while, Xiao Mercury took him around the screen, and Li Susu half-leaned on the couch, still looking unhappy.
Lu Yu stepped forward to make amends, swore to say good things for a long time, and finally coaxed him back.
At this moment, the maid came in and said that the prince of the palace asked them to go to the front, and Li Congqing's father and daughter came over to thank them.
Lu Yu couldn't stay, but Li Susu said: "What's so scary, don't you dare to say it clearly in person?" ”
The three of them walked into the front hall and saw that Li Congzhen, Zhang and Bai Peony had just entered the door.
When Li Congzhen's family saw Lu Yu, they bowed down and thanked him.
Lu Yu hurriedly said a few words of humility.
Zhang stabbed her husband, Li Congqing hesitated for a moment and said: "I heard that Lu Sanlang made a doll exactly like the little girl, but is there such a thing?" ”
Lv Yu: Exactly the same? Who made the rumor?
This is really a puppet that flies to the pot, the three of them become tigers, and the white peony looks like a puppet...... No wonder it's good-looking...... No, no wonder Su Su was angry just now.
Guo Hong said on the side: "Yes, Senior Brother Lu is profound, and he turned the puppet into a living person last night, so Yizhen will be tricked." ”
Tell you to just shake the pot.
Lv Yu: !!
You're ruthless! Such a pit brother!
Li Yuan's father and daughter and Li Congzhen's family all looked at Lu Yu with strange eyes: Only last night or has it always been like this?
Bai Peony hesitated, blushed and whispered: "The concubine has admired her for a long time, and she is willing to recommend herself to sweep the bed, I heard that Yizhen is no longer humane, and the puppet is not a living person after all, so San Lang should not use it." ”
Lv Yu: ???
What is this?
Li Susu snorted and walked away.
"Susu, listen to me!" Lu Yu ran in with him, and the big man was hunched over, like a child who had done something wrong.
Li Yuan held his forehead with one hand: "Ridiculous! ”
An hour later, after all kinds of explanations, Lu Yu persuaded Li Susu back under the still suspicious eyes of Li Yuan and others, and explained to Bai Peony that he was just chivalrous and righteous, and had no intention of accepting her as a concubine.
Li Susu asked about the puppet, but Lu Yu said that it suddenly disappeared today.
All:......
A picture appeared in his mind, Lu Sanlang viciously destroyed the corpse, the puppet was brutally poisoned, and there was no proof of death.
Guo Hong: Senior Brother Lu, you succeeded this time, and the sign in the future is not the soup bath, but the inflatable baby...... Puppet.
Bai Peony blushed and followed her parents to leave.
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Shi Zong came in and reported to Li Yuanyu: "There is news from Xiangyin County that a group of monks are haunting there. ”
Li Yuan ordered him to lead people to pursue, Shi Zong discussed with Lu Zhizhen, and borrowed the flying boat of the Hengshan faction to rush over.
Led by the county government to catch thieves, they came to a nearby hill in hiding, and in front of them was a small village, surrounded by paddy fields made by barricades, and some villagers were busy in the fields.
At the foot of the hill, not far from the village, there are a few thatched huts, smoke rising from the rooftops, and under the big tree at the entrance sit a few people dressed as monks, chatting and laughing while eating.
From the mountain, it can be clearly seen that it is Yizhen's disciples, Shi Zong, Lu Zhizhen and others who are nearby and ready to start.
Yamashita Shi Zong ordered his men to outflank him from both wings, and Lu Zhizhen, Yun Xuansu, and her three retinues, as well as Hengshan's disciples, also acted together.
These people quietly leaned over and broke out, and more than 20 monks heard the shouts of killing, picked up their weapons and formed a formation to kill out of the encirclement.
Lu Yu, Guo Hong, He Qiong and Cao Shouzhen had just arrived at the top of the mountain, and when he saw that the fight was starting, he said to Guo Hong: "Senior brother is so miserable for his brother today, jump all the way down and compare his skills!" ”
Guo Hong smiled: "Okay, how do you say if you lose?" ”
"Just bet on a Taoist method called life extension. If you lose, let's talk about the Hengshan faction's money-chasing technique. ”
Guo Hong said: "Senior brother has a big step, think you have won me?" ”
"Of course! Prepare ......"
Guo Hong has already started to rush out.
Lu Yu: "You are cheating! ”
Guo Hong shouted while jumping: "You are a senior brother, naturally you have to let me!" ”
He Qiong saw that the two of them did not take the mountain road, but went all the way down the hillside, each jump was six or seven meters away, and the pace was as fast as thunder!
This is the light skill of the Daomen to go down the mountain, you need good eyesight and leg strength, otherwise you will be very happy if you miss one step.
This hillside is sparsely wooded, and the slope is about 45 degrees, so it is indeed a good place to try light skills, and even if you make a mistake, you will not fall to your death.
Although Guo Hong was small, he was very nimble, started early, and walked between the trees in the mountains, but reached the foot of the mountain before Lu Yu.
Lu Yu: "You won, now pass on your true life extension technique." ”
Guo Hong panted with his legs in his hands.
Lu Yu: "Don't take medicine when you're sick." ”
This sentence is quite in line with the taste of Daomen cultivation, what magical method will be used to prolong life later?
"What about down there?"
"It's gone."
Guo Hong: ???
So short?
Are you sure it's not righteous? You can't really play with puppets secretly at night, do you?
Hey? No pills...... Nope.
Oh, it's "people are gone", that's what it means!
"What's that called?"
"Extended ...... The art of mistaking life, hahahaha! ”
"Senior brother, your belly is so small, hahahaha!"
The two slapped each other and parted as if nothing had happened.
Lu Yu rubbed his hands, Guo Hong's hands were so hard, he suffered a loss.
……
They slightly adjusted their breath to join the battle, and the monks' formation was immediately dispersed.
These monks used a ring knife, Guo Hong slightly put a little thunder and lightning power, and the other party was numb and stunned for a while.
The battle between the masters is only a fraction of a centimeter, and this stupid effort is enough to distinguish the winner from the loser.
Guo Hong kicked the two people in front of him in the lower abdomen with two kicks in a row, and the other party immediately fell to the ground and wailed.
He rushed all the way in and was invincible!
When the rest of the monks saw that the situation was not good, they fled into the house.
They guarded the gates, forsaken their swords, and resisted with their clubs.
Shi Zong ordered his subordinates to light torches and said to the monks: "Now you are really thieves when you gather people to rebel, if you resist stubbornly, this official will burn you to death in the house, and the state government will have no objections!" ”
After being stuffy for a while, one person said: "I'd rather die than give in, burning to death is nirvana, and I will be reborn in bliss." ”
"Burn!"
"Wait! One more thing to say! ”
"If you have any last words, tell me quickly."
"Is the prison food good?"
The monks opened the door and threw wooden sticks, and came out one by one to be tied.
Shi Zong waited until no one came out again before letting his subordinates go in and search.
More than 30 monks tied up the ground and tied them aside with ropes.
"Where is the righteousness?" Shi Zong asked, grabbing one of the monks by the collar.
"Master went out with the second senior brother early in the morning, and he hasn't come back yet."
When the villagers saw that the government had arrested these monks, they turned around and went home, closed the door and did not dare to come out, and the village was silent.
The search and robbery did not find other monks, only three women were found, all of whom were victims of these monks robbing ~ lust on the road, not from the village.
One of them, with his hair disheveled, still stained with blood on his body, and a ribbon around his neck, could not speak, but only cried in a low voice, and according to the captured monk, she tried to kill herself this morning, but was found and rescued.
Seeing that the matter was over, Shi Zong asked his subordinates to escort the prisoners to Xiangyin County, and at the same time sent several rescued people to temporary placement.
The injured woman was already out of breath, Yun Xuansu stepped forward to check, then got up and shook her head and said, "I can't feel the pulse, my body is starting to get cold." ”
Shi Zong asked the two rescued women, but they couldn't tell the situation of the dead woman, only that there was a woman locked up next door, and just now the monks retreated to the house to guard, brought the woman over, and locked them up.
It was inconvenient to escort so many prisoners with a corpse after all, Shi Zong asked his subordinates to go to the village to open the door of the family, and ordered: "You wait to take care of this female corpse, I will send someone to transport it away when I get it settled in the county." ”
The villagers were submissive and did not dare to disagree.
Everyone walked two miles along the road, and Guo Hong suddenly shouted: "No, there is something wrong with the woman who died just now!" Go back! ”
Shi Zongyi also suddenly woke up, asked some people to continue to escort the prisoners and continued to go, and mobilized five of his subordinates to return with Guo Hong and others.
When they came to the house, they found that the corpse of the woman they had seen before them was missing, and when they went to inquire about the family, they had already run away.
"Senior brother, how did you see that there was something wrong with her?" He Qiong is still covered in clouds and fog, and I don't know what's going on.
Guo Hong explained to He Qiong: "The woman's face was covered with blood, her long hair covered her face, but her clothes were tightly wrapped, while the other two people who were found at the same time were disheveled. ”
At this time, a leopard followed Lu Zhizhen in, circled in front of a cabinet in the house, and let out a low roar.
Guo Hong, Lu Zhizhen, and Cao Shouzhen glanced at each other, Cao Shouzhen stepped forward and opened the cabinet door, only to see a corpse hanging inside, drenched in blood, only wearing close-fitting clothes, and looking at the size of a woman.
Her flesh and blood were blurred above her neck, and her entire scalp was peeled off!
Everyone gasped.
"This thief monk is so cruel, in order to escape for his life, he took off his scalp to make a disguise~ mask!" Cao Shouzhen said angrily, he and Guo Hong studied the disguise technique under Liu Tai, so they naturally knew what was going on.
This method of peeling human skin raw is the lowest and most evil method of disguise, and it requires killing people to extract the skin.
Liu Tai taught him to change his face shape with a special film made of gum, and finally reached the point of being fake, which is the essence of the Taoist disguise technique.
And after Guo Hong learned to be unphased, he didn't have to be so troublesome, and a little makeup was vivid.
"The point is that this woman was not dead at the time, she was skinned alive." Guo Hong pointed to the sides of the wooden cabinet, leaving blood marks from his fingers.
He Qiong listened to Guo Hong's words and vomited in disgust.
Lu Zhizhen said: "In this way, a monk saw that the situation was not good, and immediately made a disguise~ mask, pretending to be a woman to cheat death and get out, it is really cunning like a fox!" ”
"Chase, if you don't catch this guy, it's hard to tolerate!" Lu Yu was also angry, the third place in his heart was Xingxia Shangyi, he couldn't see this kind of evil behavior, otherwise he wouldn't have rushed to the front every time.
The robbers were all good at chasing people, and they followed the trail and found a few women's clothes, bloodstained ribbons and the human skin ~ mask with the cape.
After searching for a long time and finding no trace, everyone had to return.
They tortured those monks, some of them were tortured, and confessed that it was Shi Quanyi who killed people and changed their faces, and Yizhen had been hiding in a tree hole outside the village, which was requested by the old monk himself, saying that he wanted a person to use his skills to heal his wounds.
It wasn't until the next day that there was news that two monks, one old and one young, had taken a boat to the north, and the old monk had broken his arms, half-dead and seemed to be very sick.
Shi Zong, Guo Hong and others rushed to the place where the monk got on the boat and asked the local boatman, only to learn that they had paid a lot of money and did not say where the destination was.
Guo Hong was also beside him, thought for a while and asked: "This boatman should greet his family when he goes out, go to his house and ask, did he say how many days he will come back?" ”
Shi Zong's eyes lit up, and he was secretly amazed at his ability to perceive the details.
"It's a pity that the little refiner doesn't do thieves!"
Guo Hong was praised by others, and his face was slightly red.
The person who went to inquire later reported that the ship's owner had left a message that he would go out for about seven days.
"Then one back and forth is a three-and-a-half-day trip each! One hundred and fifty miles a day......" Lu Yu said.
Guo Hong said with a smile: "Senior Brother Lu, it's not such an algorithm, the speed of the boat on the river is different. Generally speaking, if the wind direction is not taken into account, the downstream is more than twice as fast as the countercurrent. Now the southeast wind rises in April, and when you go downstream, it is a headwind, and when you come back, it is a tailwind. Nowadays, the boat sails on the river (Yangtze River), and does not sail against the wind to the east, about 150 miles a day, and can open the sail when returning, although it is against the current, it is faster than when it goes, about 200 miles a day......
Lu Yu counted with his fingers and said, "The place where he is going is about six hundred miles away?" ”
Guo Hong said with a smile: "When they arrive at the place, the boatman always has to rest for a day to recover, so it is about five hundred miles." ”
Yun Xuansu said: "Go east to the river for five hundred miles, that is Ezhou City, the seat of the Wuchang Army's envoy!" ”
Everyone praised (nodded and praised): "It's still Guo Xiaolian's master, and it makes sense." ”
Lu Yu: "Hey, according to my algorithm, it's a little more than 500 miles......
Everyone: "Cut...... What insight can you have? Playing with puppets. ”
Lv Yu: The ???!!! of Puppet Playing
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