After the winter solstice, the last harvest season in Canton has just passed; On the edge of a bunch of paddy fields are neatly stacked, with cicada singing rice (two months ripe) and bales of straw covered with white rice (regenerated rice).

The bales were then collected by truckloads of straw from the city of Guangfu and eventually gathered in a hydraulic crushing and grinding workshop in the south of the city to be used as silage for the livestock.

So, though the city had experienced turmoil not long ago; But as a rural farmer who has worked hard all year round, it is finally time to have some leisure and meager remaining days; Even if God blessed the harvest in the past two or three seasons, there were no obvious floods and droughts, and the rebels in the city did not add any extra levies, so that their tight trouser belts could be loosened somewhat.

In addition, they sold the poultry, livestock, melons and vegetables and other agricultural and sideline products produced by the Zi family, and the mountain goods and wild harvests such as herbal skins collected for their own use; As well as the daily needs of the money that has been saved for a whole year in the province of Thrift, and the daily needs of all kinds of needles, threads, brains, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar cloths; However, it has made the wild markets, small markets and morning markets in various places on the outskirts of the city become extremely prosperous again.

In particular, the supply and marketing stores set up by the rebels not only used copper coins to buy all kinds of objects in the mountains and fields, but also sold some daily necessities cheaply in large quantities; There are even well-made knives, axes, hammers, saws, shovels, shovels, rakes and other iron utensils; The black oil is shiny, and people can't move their feet when they see it.

The news of the arrival of eminent monks from the holy land of Buddhism has added a different atmosphere and meaning to these markets.

Although most people are already so poor that they have no means of long-term wealth, and they are reluctant or unable to afford decent offerings such as flowers and fruits; However, there are still people who do their best to give up two coppers to buy a large handful of crude incense sticks, and then divide one of each person carefully, and as a greeting and offering outside the post station where they have settled in the north of the city.

For those of them who are numb and dull by the hardships and torments of their livelihoods, even if they only have a momentary opportunity to look at this great virtue from afar and worship while holding incense, it can be regarded as a blessing to be able to go back and talk to their families for a few days.

Perhaps the hardships and hardships encountered throughout the year can lead to more blessings and good fortune.

However, among the large group of city stations, Guangyi, a monk of Guangyan Temple in Xinzhou, who is one of the leading ones, is very dissatisfied. In order to maintain the image of Elder Yoshinobe, a virtuous monk, he had not eaten for several days; He could only secretly nibble on a few dried meats in the dead of night to satisfy his hunger, and he only felt that his stomach was becoming more and more dull along the way.

And the expected rich families who came to build momentum and echo were not there, as if they were taken by the arrogance of the thieves; Even if the Tongji of Sangui and Wangren Temples that were agreed in advance, no one came to contact and transport materials; As for the poor sticks outside who can't squeeze half a tael of oil out of their bones, what is the use of coming in more; Afterwards, those grass thieves liquidated and killed, no matter how many they killed, who cared.

The common name of the monk in the broad sense was originally Shi Luhua, and he was a native of Solu County, New South Wales many years ago. It's just that the family uses the clansmen as the sitting tigers to rob and travel to and from the business, and there are more ghosts on the night road, which attracts the culling in the county; In the end, he was the only one who escaped, and took the degree he bought in his early years and threw himself into the Guangyan Temple in Zhiti Mountain, Xinzhou, to avoid trouble;

Then he soon discovered that in fact, the life in the monastery was not much worse than that at home. From the lords, the prison and the monks, to the pyromans and the novices, there is no need to observe any rules and precepts in private, and there is often a lot of wine and meat and women in their arms; Even the brothels in the county town have no shortage of them.

And he was born with a good body and strength, and a few strokes of the family tradition, and soon he was able to "deter" and "persuade" those tenants and villagers who postponed the rent of the temple and were unwilling to abide by the "established rules", and was fierce and stern enough to make a name for himself with his fists and feet; As a result, he was able to emerge as the head of the monks in the monastery who set up the convenient courtyard (guest house) and the persuasion house (rent collection), and was ranked as one of the nine Cantonese generations under the seat master and the prison court.

He was also able to preside over and run the convenience house, and made friends with many heroes and outlaws, not only to provide them with a shelter to rest, but also as a nest owner to sell stolen goods; Many blood goods that cannot be sold directly can be turned into real copper and wealth that everyone likes to see with a slight change of appearance through the workshops and shops under the temple. And these outlaws have also never been stingy, solving some foolish people who are detrimental to decency and compassion for the monastery.

However, not long after this kind of spicy and spicy life was good, I heard that the grass thieves had invaded Lingnan and trapped the lands of various states, even Xinzhou, which was located in the northwest corner of Guangfu, was not immune; Then the eunuchs and gentry in those cities began to fall into great bad luck; I heard that their property was scattered, and they were tortured, and their lives were better than death, and their wives and daughters were all occupied by thieves.

Guangyi is still a little envious and greedy, but it is a pity that he can't join in such a grand event. Then, after some time, a new grass thief spoke of these torture methods, which extended and spread to the rich and powerful families in the countryside. At this time, Guangyi was still a little gloating and looking forward to it, because his enemies and the officials who chased him at the beginning were all ruined.

As a celebration, he even took the transformed monk and those green forest heroes to start robbing the families of the powerful families who had died on the road; And he occupied several groups of large families in the monasteries who had escaped to seek refuge, and the taste of acting wantonly in public in front of their fathers, brothers, husbands, and children was really unforgettable and useful to him.

However, just as he had the heart to recruit some more offerings from among those foolish men and foolish women to make temple properties; As if a calamity had fallen from heaven, the grass thieves entrenched in Guangfu once again stretched out their magic hands to this outer land; This is what the Buddha can endure, and the monk can't bear it; Take out the knives and guns for the thieves, find all the outlaws and heroes who come and go, and intercept and kill the collectors sent by the grass thieves one by one on the road.

Then, when the grass thieves sent hordes of troops, the local area was already surrounded by bewitched and mobilized heads; It was the result of the joint protection of the temples in NSW; Then, even if these grass thieves were taken by their position, they generally retreated hastily; Then, as if they had received some kind of encouragement and encouragement, they began to intensify their attacks on the checkpoints and checkpoints set up by the grass thieves, and even converged to attack the county town that was still occupied by the grass thieves.

It's just that when they have no siege experience, it is easy for them to complete the internal negotiation and distribution, and they are waiting for the city to open the door; Then another group of grass thieves had already attacked this "Dharma Protector Army" joined by many monasteries in the twilight without warning or warning; In front of the galloping horses' hooves and the rows of swords and spears, many people also tasted defeat and despair for the first and last time in their lives.

Especially the firewood demon who led the young gray hair, and the monks who chased and killed him, he was not merciless; Besides, they even want to engage in some kind of public trial and crime, and mobilize those foolish men and women to watch and expose, and the result is that the famous Zen forest in many times has been completely discredited because of this example that has been exposed, and the temple has been completely discredited, and even the belongings and external houses have been robbed and occupied by the nearby villagers.

Guangyi also escaped as a lost dog again, so as to avoid being torn to pieces by those angry villagers. Therefore, these remnants of them who were in exile finally found the ancestral court and holy land of Zen Buddhism under the banner of asking for help, and used the golden body relics of the six ancestors as a guarantee and coercion to make these things happen now.

Thinking of this, Guang Yi couldn't help but squeeze the wooden spoon in his hand a little fiercely, and poured the bowl of thick porridge cooked in the borrowed place into his mouth like a vent; After all, there are nourishing and refreshing medicinal materials such as astragalus, Huaishan, and jade bamboo to maintain their current strength and spirit.

However, just as he had swallowed the third bowl, he suddenly felt a violent wriggling in his belly; Guangyi's face couldn't help but change greatly and his heart was shocked: could it be that his own family was poisoned; Then he was in the midst of the unbearable oppression and gushing of the dung gate, and sprinted towards the only corner of the post station.

However, a gust of wind suddenly flashed in front of him, but one person had already rushed into it and couldn't wait to squat down, and he didn't even bother to close the door; Guangyi immediately recognized the identity of the other party, it was the iron rod head from Qingyun Temple, but the kung fu of his fists and feet was even better than him.

Then, as the movement in the abdomen of the broad sense intensified and the face was as dull as the bleakness, the inns that had been quiet everywhere seemed to have been awakened by some invisible force, and in the midst of all the movements and actions of lifting the trouser belt, a swarm of bees gathered on the edge of this hut, and they also complained and complained:

"Brother Shi, okay."

"I can't hold it anymore."

I saw that the iron rod head who had just gotten up changed his face again, and squatted back again; In the generalized sense, which had been held back for a long time, felt the warmth and wetness that had been lost for a long time in a certain loveless expression and sad snort.

Then, as if the door to a new world had been opened, these gathered monks were like a cannon battle, and you puffed and I sneered in this small square inch, and the resounding one after another became a sonata of grains.

And when the depressed generalized slowly moved his strange steps, wanting to return to the house to clean and replace, and then another rush went straight down his crotch, and then took a few steps and another burst... is the so-called reason that a good man can't stand the three splashes, and after half a sound, Guangyi can only sit on the ground with a straight waist and can't stand upright.

So the next day, the believers who had gathered outside the room received news that all the monks had fallen ill overnight, and then some of them came out with a vow, and it was said that they had contracted dysentery on the road and were quarantined.

Then the gathered believers naturally dispersed; After all, the epidemic is not something like a disease that can be treated differently just because you read a few more verses or are more religious, especially for poor families who can't afford to take care of their diseases.

And then in a prostration and weakness that stretched out and couldn't straighten the waist, no matter how good the calculation and ability were, I couldn't stop playing. The rebel soldiers in white linen robes who appeared later only had to tie up them, who were weak to speak, and carry them into the car one by one for interrogation and interrogation.

Among them was the sturdy monk who accompanied Yoshishin, and I saw that his face was full of grief and indignation and lifelessness; Because these people have practiced martial arts all their lives, and they don't know how many murders and arsons they have done, but they didn't expect that in the end, they broke the skill on the anal sphincter that they had never cultivated;

After the quick dispersion made of croton and rhubarb brought down the monks who had other dissenting intentions, there was only one old monk Yoshishin who only ate vegetarian porridge offered by the people, and he was able to live unharmed.

(End of chapter)