Listening to Xiao Tang's words and questions, the strongman leader who looked like Tian Hu smiled coldly, and secretly said in his heart: It's just killing people and setting fires, and this life can be regarded as a good life. Now I have brought Xiao Tang here, and I only teach the officers and soldiers that he has fled to the Wutai Mountain Boundary, so that Daddy can escape from the arrest of the officials and soldiers according to the strategy he set...... Anyway, it can be regarded as repaying his love for giving birth to me and raising me.

He thought about it in his heart, and then sneered at Xiao Tang and said, "Xiao Renxia, aren't you very good?" But I also fell for my father's trick! You killed my second uncle, arrested my cousin Tian Shi, and vowed to arrest my father and ask the court for credit! My Tian family has a lot of hatred for you, do you still think that my Tian will be afraid that you will not succeed!? ”

Xiao Tang suddenly heard this, it turned out that this guy was Tian Ding, the son of Tian Hu, and now he did not kill himself like in the original book when Tian Hu was gone, but played the banner of his Lao Tzu to deliberately attract people's eyes

, so as to teach Tian Hu to be able to evade the search and arrest of the official army.

However, Tian Hu actually used his own son as bait, who else would be willing to die for him in the future? Xiao Tang shook his head and said to Tian Ding: "It is said that tiger poison does not eat children, but Tian Hu used you as a substitute ghost in order to survive for a while!" If you don't miss family affection like this, you are willing to die for him. ”

Tian Ding's face was quite calm, and he said: "Xiao Renxia, you don't have to sow discord at this time!" The rebellion is a heinous crime of the Yi clan, no matter how you are caught, our Tian family's uncles and brothers will all be chopped alive by Ling Chi, if my father can escape, he can have more hope. Besides, everyone is their own master, I am for my biological father, but you are loyal to the official family of the Great Song Dynasty, what else can I say? ”

Ru Tingqi on the side was impatient to hear this, and he immediately shouted: "Virtuous nephew, you don't have to talk to Xiao Tang too much!" When I arrived, I heard that the elder Zhizhen of the Wenshu Monastery of Wutai Mountain, Xin, Dai and other military states from near and far praised him as a living Buddha in the world, but no matter what kind of Buddhist monk he is, or an ordinary cloth pawn, since the start of the incident with your Lao Tzu, we have killed people in Dafa Li, and they all say that there are more lice and don't bite, and they don't care about killing the bald donkeys of this temple! ”

Ru Tingqi turned his head and looked at Xiao Tang and the others, the neck of the monk he held hostage had been cut by the sharp blade of the steel knife, and a wisp of blood slowly flowed from the wound. I heard Ru Tingqi laugh again: "The surname Xiao, since you will definitely refuse to let me go, Lao Tzu will bring this monk in the Wenshu Monastery to accompany the burial!" On the Huangquan Road, there is a cadre of monks from Elder Zhizhen to accompany them, but it is also necessary to ask the monk to chant the scriptures for our brothers and do the Gongguo Dojo. If you don't care about the life or death of the monks in the temple, you can also teach the people in the rivers and lakes to see your face! ”

The rest of the Hedong thieves heard Ru Tingqi's order again, and they also hung their blades on the necks of those monks of Wenshu Monastery who knelt on the ground! The monk who was held hostage by Ru Tingqi turned pale, if he hadn't been strangled by the strongman leader behind him, he was afraid that his legs would be weak, and he would sit on the ground softly, seeing that this group of murderous thieves was about to make a move, the monk in charge of the temple immediately cried to Xiao Tang and said: "This general, all military masters! Please don't rush these heroes to do it! Hoping for mercy and saving the life of the little monk is also a merit, which is better than being Luo Tian Dajiao! ”

"The disciple is confused! Eighty-four thousand methods, all from one mind. If the mind is pure, it will be like a void, that is, it will be free from the root of the 84,000 afflictions and diseases of the body and mind. Ordinary people should be born and dying, full and hungry, all of them are confused, and the people in my Buddhism chant and participate in enlightenment, just to solve confusion and epiphany. What is death? All sentient beings, if they have a life, they will eventually die, their afflictions are Bodhi, and their lives and deaths are nirvana. ”

At this time, Elder Zhizhen, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, and he immediately looked at Xiao Tang again, and said: "It turns out that this is Xiao Tang Xiao Jushi, although the poor monk is lonely and unheard, there are often pilgrims here in the past, and he has also talked about world affairs, and I also have a disciple... He once said that he had a relationship with Xiao Jushi, and he had heard for a long time that Xiao Jushi was loyal to the way of heaven and righteousness, and now Xiao Jushi led the soldiers and horses to Hedong, what happened? It is also for the good deeds of the people's happiness, national security and people's peace, the prosperity of the three religions, and the tranquility of the Quartet.

The lifelong practice of our Buddhists is to achieve the perfection of all virtues, the extinction of all evils, the practice of life and death, and the enlightenment to dispel troubles...... It is a layman who does what he should do, and he does not have to worry about it. It is to finally die out at this time, and the poor monks also wish to pray for the physical and mental well-being of the monks and the prolongation of their life. Subduing the four demons for the sorrowful people in the world to do more good deeds and accumulate merits, I only hope that Xiao Jushi can eliminate sins and achieve good results as soon as possible. ”

Hearing this, Ru Tingqi's eyes were even more murderous, and he shouted to Elder Zhizhen in a cruel voice: "Old bald, you are really disgusted with your fate!" I'm going to take you under the knife! ”

Elder Zhizhen smiled slightly when he heard this, and said indifferently: "The floating world has limited time, the sea of suffering is boundless, the six roots cannot be purified, and I have been entangled in the worldly troubles for a long time. The body is like a gathering foam, the heart is like the wind, and there is no root and no substance...... There is no life in life, and there is no extinction in death, even if you give up a pair of skins here, but what? ”

Although Elder Zhizhen was just a thin and elderly monk, but at this time, he was indifferent and frank, and his appearance was solemn, not only the monks in Wenshu Monastery who knelt on the ground, but the trembling monks heard most of the words of the temple host, and they bowed their heads and muttered silently, even Shi Xiu, Hua Rong, Shi Jin and other confidants beside Xiao Tang couldn't help but have a little admiration for this Buddhist elder who seemed to be powerless.

It's just that Ru Tingqi saw that his intimidation and threats were useless, and his heart was even more fierce because he was desperate, and he laughed twice and said, "Virtuous nephew! Cut off one of this bald man's arms first, and see how long his old bones can be hard!? ”

Tian Ding's brows furrowed when he heard this, but only a moment later, he glanced at the little leader next to him. When the little leader saw this, he immediately pulled out the steel knife on his waist and slashed at Elder Zhizhen's right arm!

"Wait! You guys are using the monks in Manjushri Temple as a threat, don't you want us to wait for the rat trap, don't you still have the intention of escaping from here? All the main roads of Wutai Mountain are now guarded by our troops, and if the life of Allah is ruined now, do you think there will be the slightest chance to escape from here? ”

Xiao Tang suddenly opened his mouth to stop the little leader of the thief army who wanted to commit murder to Elder Zhizhen, and he secretly said in his heart that not only was the high-ranking monk in front of him who should not have been killed by a group of evil thieves here, but because of the relationship between Elder Zhizhen and Lu Zhishen, Xiao Tang couldn't watch him die here.

Although Lu Zhishen did not abide by the rules in the Wenshu Monastery of Wutai Mountain at that time, and repeatedly made trouble here, Elder Zhizhen was still very tolerant of him, and the monks in the Zhijiao Temple ridiculed him for being a "good elder" and "a good host of bamboo", but this thin and easy-going Buddhist elder was by no means a good old man who was afraid of things and avoided trouble.

Lu Zhishen is a heroic and uninhibited true temperament, even if Wu Song in the original book can't persuade him, Shi Jin can't move him, and Song Jiang can't accept him, but when Lu Zhishen returned to Wutai Mountain to visit Elder Zhizhen with the Liangshan Army who had been recruited, Elder Zhizhen only said lightly, "Once the apprentice has been gone for a few years, it is not easy to kill people and set fires" can make Lu Zhishen silent. How could Lu Zhishen, who has always wanted to eradicate injustices and kill those who should be punished, care about the words of others? The people who can teach Lu Zhishen to respect in his heart are also the elderly, the small race, and other highly respected figures in the Western Army, and in a word, he can say that he, a down-to-earth and frank flower monk, feels guilty, and I am afraid that only Elder Zhizhen is the only one.

What's more, although Lu Zhishen has repeatedly made trouble in Wenshu Monastery, it seems that he is not bound by any rules and precepts, but even if he dies, Lu Zhishen respectfully obeys what Elder Zhizhen said to him. In terms of the relationship between him and Lu Zhishen or the personality charm of Elder Zhizhen, since Xiao Tang saw him in the temple for the first time, he already had a plan in his heart:

Such a master of Buddhism will never be able to teach him to be killed by this thief and bird in front of my eyes.

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Note: Although Ling Chi and other tortures continued until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and were still a common means of punishing rebellious Kou leaders, since the third year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom in the early Song Dynasty (978), Li Feixiong of Qin Longzhou rebelled against the city for robbing the guards, and was later arrested and sentenced to the heavy punishment of "Yi Qi Three Clans", the punishment of the Yi people is almost no longer used, but the joint sitting method of people who have a certain relationship with the perpetrator is still widely practiced. The punishment of the Yi tribe, which exterminates all the relatives and clansmen of the sinner, is very different from sitting together.

After Wang Qing rebelled, the text also stated that his father, ex-wife, father-in-law and other relatives were all arrested and destroyed, strictly speaking, there are some differences with the punishment of the Song Huizong period in the official history, for the sake of rigor, the Yi people mentioned in the text are just a habitual statement, hereby explained......