Chapter 5 What is Death?

"Xianggong, wake up, ......wake up" The crisp call sound, Wu Zhi slowly opened his eyes, Qiqiao stared at himself with a strange face, just strange, the soft little body in his arms twisted, Wu Zhi woke up violently, hurriedly put down the Xuan, Xuanyu was sleepy, stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes, and said in a daze: "Is it dawn?" ”

Qiqiao smiled and said, "Yes, it's dawn, it's time for lunch!" ”

She exclaimed "ah", and then she saw Qiqiao and Wu Zhi, her face was slightly red, but she was not flustered, smoothed the slightly wrinkled green shirt on her body, and said: "Uncle Huang's arms are so warm, but my niece is asleep." ”

Wu Zhi saw Qiqiao's strange expression, afraid that she would say something embarrassing, so he hurriedly said: "Let's go, go to the ...... for dinner" pondered for a while and said: "Go out shopping after dinner, Qiqiao, have you ever slipped out to play recently?" ”

Qiqiao immediately shook his head into a rattle: "No, Qiqiao has always been the most obedient." ”

Wu Zhi frowned slightly and said, "That's difficult, I originally expected you to lead the way and find some good places." ”

Qiqiao was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes, and said with a smile: "What's so difficult about that, I'll go find the servants who bought it." ”

Wu Zhi smiled slightly: "Then it's a labor lady." ”

Qiqiao waved his hand and said with a grin: "It's a lot of work." Turning around, she saw that she was snickering to herself, pinched her little face and said, "Little girl, what are you laughing at?" didn't wait for her to reply, just pulled it up and left, and said, "Sister Jinlian, they can wait." ”

Wu Zhi smiled and followed.

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In the past few days, she is tired of being in your palace every day, she comes early every day, and she is sent back at night when she holds the lamp, and all the princesses of your palace love her very much, beautiful and quiet, and her small mouth is more like smearing honey, coaxing all the girls to be very happy, only Qiqiao often wonders if this little girl has been lowered, otherwise how can it be so abnormal?

In the past few days, Wu Zhi often took her out with the princess to play, and also took a few girls to relax, on this day, Wu Zhi was enjoying flowers and tasting wine in the garden with the princesses, and she was also seated, and drank a glass of osmanthus wine under the help of Qiqiao.

In the middle of the play, a palace lady came up on the cyan gravel path outside the park, and whispered a few words to the palace lady who was standing in front of the pavilion for more than ten steps, and the waiter looked at the princess and princess who were playing in the pavilion, his face was a little hesitant, and he beckoned: "What's the matter?" ”

The attendant hurriedly walked up a few steps, knelt down and said, "Lord, princess, it is a message from the host of the Great Xiangguo Temple, saying that he hopes that the prince will have time to go to the Great Xiangguo Temple for a gathering." ”

Qiqiao said: "Isn't the great monk in trouble again?" "But he spoke to Wu Zhi.

Wu Zhi smiled: "Ninety percent is yes, there is nothing to do today, it's okay, go to Xiangguo Temple." ”

Qiqiao's eyebrows danced, and immediately echoed: "I'll go too!" ”

Wu Zhi shook his head again and again, and said, "The great monk is not enough in his life? Plus, you're just afraid of causing chaos in the world! ”

Qiqiao naturally pursed her mouth and sulked, but fortunately, the golden lotus girls were relieved, and when they saw that Wu Zhi only brought Bao Yu in the end, they turned their grievances into joy, and shouted like no one else to play the Golden Flower Card with the third sister.

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Wu Zhi and Xuan Ying took a double carriage, took a few disguised guards, and went straight to the Great Xiangguo Temple, and the Happy All the way kept laughing, Wu Zhiqi said: "What is good about the Great Xiangguo Temple?" See you so happy? ”

She smiled mysteriously and shook her head silently. Wu Zhi knew the stubbornness in this girl's bones, and he couldn't ask what he didn't want to say, so he could only speculate for a while, and then put his thoughts away.

Taiping and prosperous times, Xiangguo Temple incense is more and more prosperous, Zhao Huan ascended the throne when the Bodhisattva golden body is rebuilt, Xiangguo Temple takes the opportunity to repair on a large scale, look at it from afar, the Zen temple is deep, the temple is sublime, there is a trend of "golden and green, clouds are disfigured".

After getting out of the carriage, Wu Zhi pulled Yu Ming, walked through the bustling square of the crowd, entered the main hall, called Xiao Shami, and asked to see Elder Zhiqing, Xiao Shami originally shirked, but saw Wu Zhi hand over a letter, but the envelope was the handwriting of Zhiqing, and he was busy leading Wu Zhi and a few people to the meditation room in the side courtyard, and then went to tell Zhiqing.

After waiting for a while, footsteps sounded, and an old monk walked into outside the meditation room, with a long beard and a kind face, it was Zhiqing, Wu Zhi and him were old acquaintances, and he stood up and smiled: "Master don't come unharmed." ”

Zhiqing smiled and lowered the Buddha's name: "Amitabha, your king is getting stronger and stronger." ”

The two sat down, Xiao Shami served vegetarian tea and stepped back, Wu Zhi said, "Master Zhishen is causing trouble again?" ”

Zhiqing smiled bitterly and nodded: "I hurt a few splashes, and after getting drunk, I even broke the golden body of the Bodhisattva of Manjushri Hall, this is ...... Alas......"

Wu Zhi said: "Master Haihan, it's all mine, I bear the blame by myself, and I should invest in reshaping the golden body of Xiangmanjushri Bodhisattva, in addition, Xiao Wang made a vow again, eat ninety-nine eighty-one days of fasting food, I just hope that the Bodhisattvas from all walks of life will not condemn ......"

Zhiqing Gao Xuan Buddha number: "Amitabha, the prince is the Buddha of this world, and it is his blessing to be willing to eliminate sins for Zhishen." ”

Wu Zhi said with a smile: "I'll go see Master Zhishen and persuade him a few words, the so-called cycle of cause and effect, how can I get rid of my evil fate by others?" It will still fall on him after all. ”

Zhiqing bowed slightly, and said with a smile: "Wang Ye Huigen is natural, if it weren't for the tens of millions of people in the Great Song Dynasty who couldn't leave the prince, the old man would come to the door every day to persuade the prince to leave the world of flowers as soon as possible, give up his skin, and achieve a positive result as soon as possible." ”

Wu Zhi sighed and said, "Master's words are good, but who will go to hell if I don't go to hell?" For the sake of tens of millions of Li people, Xiao Wang can only throw this stinky skin bag in the world of flowers and flowers, and he doesn't know when he will be freed. Sighing and standing up, pulling Zhiqing to leave, Zhiqing stood up and sent out, sighing all the way, as if he was also sighing for the suffering suffered by the martial arts cultivation in the world.

When Zhiqing had been accompanying Wu Zhi to a small Zen temple in the northernmost part of Xiangguo Temple to say goodbye, she couldn't suppress her curiosity and asked, "Uncle Huang also wants to become a monk?" Could it be that the immortals are fake, but the Buddhas are real? ”

Wu Zhi laughed: "What is true, what is false?" Just fool the old monk for a few words, the old monk gets angry, the consequences are very serious, how can you get rid of that kid of Zhishen? ”

She couldn't help but giggle and said, "Uncle Huang, you will deceive people." And said: "Who is Master Zhishen?" ”

At this time, I heard a loud voice in the Zen courtyard shouting loudly: ", Lao Tzu wants to drink today, why don't you get out with me quickly......"

A little novice escaped from the Zen courtyard with a rolling belt, looked at Wu Zhi and took a few looks, and then didn't stay, and flew as if he was gone.

Wu Zhi smiled: "Let's go, let's go in and see the great monk Zhishen." He took his little hand and walked into the Zen temple.

Beside the courtyard in the courtyard, a great monk sat bare-chested on the ground, drinking wine from a wine bowl, and the wine trickled down his steel needle-like beard and fell onto the black chest hair on his chest.

Hearing the footsteps, the great monk raised his head, put the wine bowl on the stone table, got up and shouted: "Master, your old man has arrived, and the birds are fading out of his mouth!" ”

Wu Zhi sighed and said: "Zhishen, that day, you said that you watched the tide of the Qiantang River, and you realized everything, you knew everything in your past life and this life, I just sent you to Xiangguo Temple to practice, it has only been less than a year, but you have reverted to the old state, you knew it was like this, why bother in the first place?" ”

Lu Zhishen scratched his head and said: "Master, I should have listened to the tide and passed away in this life, but somehow, I just don't know how to pass away, it's strange." ”

Wu Zhileng for a while, after hearing that the great monk Qiantang watched the tide, he was enlightened, and he responded to the tide and rounded, and saw the words of faith and silence, and sat in Liuhe Temple, is it true, there are really gods and Buddhas in the world? However, it can't be said that it is because he has ruined the fruit of his death, and if he can't cultivate Buddhahood, he can't rely on his head.

"Death is death, what's so hard to understand!" Wu Zhi snorted, and said, "Zhishen, you don't mess around, how about I help you build a small temple to practice?" ”

Zhishen nodded slightly, folded his hands, looked solemn, and said in a low voice: "Death, death, Amitabha." ”

Wu Zhi laughed and said, "It's mysterious again." ”

She looked at Zhishen curiously, she had never seen such a monk before.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the courtyard, and a guard hurriedly came in, whispered a few words in Wu Zhi's ear, Wu Zhi bowed his head, looked at Xuan, and said, "You play with the great monk for a while, and the house will come to pick you up later and take you back to the palace." ”

Seeing that Wu Zhi seemed to have something, although he didn't want to, he had to nod his head in agreement. Wu Zhi said to Zhishen again: "My little niece will be handed over to you, but you can show me it." ”

Zhishen nodded slightly, glanced at Xuan, and said, "This female catastrophe is imminent, does the master know?" ”

Wu Zhi laughed and said: "You monk is full of nonsense, so how do you say this catastrophe should be solved?" ”

Zhishen shook his head and said: "It's incomprehensible, it's incomprehensible, it's fate, and you will definitely die." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, what you say is weird and scary...... Help me take care of her! He smiled and scolded and walked outside, not taking Zhishen's abnormality seriously.

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Wu Zhi went out of Xiangguo Temple and went straight to the outskirts of Beijing, but it was the eldest sister who was sick, for Master Li, who could not get any name, Wu Zhi thanked her for being lonely, and she was obedient and took care of her in every way. Hearing that she was sick, she naturally wanted to go over and take a look.

When he rushed back to the palace from Master Li, it was already the time to hold the lamp, and he asked about the guards in the palace who went to Xiangguo Temple to pick up people, but he had never seen Zhishen and Yuanyuan, Wu Zhi was taken aback, although Zhishen acted recklessly, but he was not a person without measure, could it be that he sent Yuanshen to the palace? Busy people went to the palace to inquire about the news.

Half an hour later, the guards who went to the palace to visit the letter rushed back, and she did not return to the palace, and immediately, your prince's mansion was in a mess, and a fast horse ran out of the palace and ran around, Wu Zhi sat in the study, his face sank like water, pondering where he went, and even more pondered what Zhishen had said, and his hairs stood up, isn't it, Lu Zhishen is crazy? Forced to be mentally abnormal by the cumbersome rules of Xiangguo Temple? The so-called enlightenment is nothing but the words of a madman?

Qiqiao accompanied Wu Zhi, seeing that Wu Zhi's expression was not good, he would not be coquettish and stupid, and gently leaned on Wu Zhi's shoulder, silent. The rest of the princesses didn't know the news of her disappearance, and they dispersed early.

Wu Zhi was thinking wildly at the same time, one message after another came, in the past few years, Wu Zhi's huge network has never been so high-speed, the entire Bianjing street, I don't know when there will be more people of all kinds, crooked melons and cracked jujubes, strong men dressed as high rollers, white-haired old men, and beautiful girls, seemingly unrelated, but scattered in various urban areas to do the same search, looking around for news.

The officers and soldiers patrolling the city also exchanged their heads and ears, not knowing what they were talking about, but they no longer patrolled as they did on a daily basis, and often called pedestrians to search their bodies, especially when they saw a teenage girl, they would definitely catch and take a look.

The owners of various inns and restaurants coincidentally received an urgent summons from the "boss" of the block, and hurriedly went out, most of them were worried in their hearts, is the cost of protection going to increase again?

Jewelry shops, rouge shops, gambling houses, all kinds of business shops, all kinds of workshops have poured into the black-clothed man to search, even the largest jewelry store in the capital, the Ye family jewelry with the big backer of the king has also entered a few big men, the shopkeeper smiled and led them to look around, and even the backyard went in for a walk, provoking the guys to mutter, I don't know where these people are sacred.

At this time, the entire Bianjing City seemed to be operating under the palm of Wu Zhi's hand, and at this moment, the real master of Bianjing City revealed the tip of the iceberg of his might......

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An hour later, the door of the prince's mansion opened, more than a dozen fast horses galloped out, galloped to the east, very fast through the streets and alleys, more than a dozen passengers were very good at riding, there was no slowdown on the road, less than half an hour, has galloped to the front of Kaifeng Mansion, the horse neighed, grabbed the reins, turned over and dismounted.

Kaifeng Mansion is like a small city, although it is not comparable to the palace solemn and magnificent, but it is also the city in the city second only to the palace, the city is divided into three gates, the city is the official office of each road, every morning when the Kaifeng Mansion is opened, the flag is displayed, the gongs and drums are sounding in unison, and its majesty is also a scene of Bianjing. The founding of the Great Song Dynasty, most of the princes of the past dynasties have been trained in Kaifeng Mansion Yin, which shows the importance of the status of Kaifeng Mansion, the current Kaifeng Mansion Yin is Xu Bingzhe, but the case is vigorous and resolute, although he has been repeatedly impeached as a cool official, but there is the support of the Li family in Bianjing, although the Li family was suppressed by the king a few years ago, the power is not as strong as that year, but the queen mother's family, after all, respected, and I heard that the Ye family and the Li family are operating together overseas, and there is a strong tendency to unite, so no one dares to offend the Li family, and it is Xu Bingzhe who is the Kaifeng Mansion Yin but also sits as safe as Mount Tai.

Several military men stood straight at the gate of Kaifeng Mansion, and when they saw a group of riders coming, a military man greeted him and said with a grin: "The house is closed, the house is closed!" I'll hand it over tomorrow! ”

The man in brocade clothes who walked in the front ignored it, and said lightly: "Lead the way, go to the cell!" ”

As soon as the military man stared at him, before the scolding words came out, he had already received a big slap, and the guard behind the man in brocade picked up his neck and fell out, scolding in his mouth: "Why don't you go and pass on Xu Bingzhe?" ”

The soldiers guarding the door are a little dumbfounded, although there are countless nobles in the capital, but there are not many people who dare to call Kaifeng Mansion Yin Ming, a sharp-eyed soldier immediately nodded and greeted him, and there were also soldiers who rushed to the back office to deliver the letter.

Needless to say, it was Wu Zhi and his party who came, but they got the information, two hours ago, there was a death near Xiangguo Temple, and the official took away a man and a woman, the man was a big monk, and the woman was a teenage girl.

Accompanied by the military Han, he entered Kaifeng Mansion, and before arriving at the prison, he put the sword and gun of the military officer in the prison cell out of the sheath, but he said that he would not let Wu Zhi into the cell, Wu Zhi nodded slightly, and it was not difficult for them, the guards next to him did not know where to move a chair, Wu Zhi sat down and squinted his eyes to recuperate, and remembered to return to the skin, according to the witnesses present, the great monk did not know why he argued with the deceased, and the deceased was killed with a few punches, the deceased seemed to be surnamed Cai, as if there was some origin, and soon after the incident, a large group of military horses came and took away the monk and the little girl.

Just thinking about which surnamed Cai could invite Kaifeng Mansion, a rush of footsteps came, and when he opened his eyes, an official in a purple python suit hurriedly came, with a white and pure face, and a flickering gaze in his triangular eyes, which did not look like a good character.

The person who came was Xu Bingzhe, who saw Wu Zhi stunned for a moment, and hurriedly came over and bowed and saluted: "Xiaguan Kaifeng Mansion Yin Xu Bingzhe has seen your king Chitose." ”

The prison officers who had been tense were dumbfounded, and several section officials ran over and knelt down to plead guilty. Wu Zhi waved his hand and said with a smile: "You are also dutiful, what a crime." ”

The section level peeked at Wu Zhi's kind expression, and then he was slightly relieved, but he still kowtowed a few heads and stepped aside.

Wu Zhi said to Xu Bingzhe again: "Have you ever imprisoned two people in the prison in the afternoon?" A big monk and a little girl! ”

Xu Bingzhe was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "There is such a thing." ”

Wu Zhi said: "Who is the bitter master? ”

Xu Bingzhe took a few steps forward and said in a low voice: "It's the old Xiangye, the deceased is the nephew of the old Xiangye, called Cai Jiu." ”

Wu Zhi said "oh", Cai Jing is retired in the capital, and he has not heard from him for a long time, but he has forgotten a little.

"Open the cell! I'll take a look. Wu Zhi said.

"Don't, your king wants to interrogate these two, and I will bring them up, why should you enter the filthy land of your king's daughter." Xu Bingzhe waved his hand at the section level as he spoke, and shouted, "Aren't you going to invite the master and the young lady out?" ”

Wu Zhi got up and walked into the cell, Xu Bingzhe hurriedly followed, the cell was dark and damp, and a foul smell came to his nose, Xu Bingzhe frowned, and wanted to cover his nose with his sleeve, but when he saw that Wu Zhi strode in like no one else, he had to walk aside with a smile.

The section level led the way in front, and soon arrived in front of a wooden prison, a few feet square, locked up more than a dozen prisoners, sitting or lying, crowded and messy, but Lu Zhishen's tall body Wu Zhi naturally recognized it at a glance, he sat cross-legged in a corner, closed his eyes and meditated.

"Uncle!" With a crisp shout, a small figure flashed behind Lu Zhishen, it was Yu Yu, who carefully dodged the lying prisoner and ran to the wooden fence.

Wu Zhi saw that her pale green skirt was still so clean and smooth, and she was obviously not tortured, so she was relieved, and the guard next to her didn't wait for the section to speak, and split the iron lock on the fence with a knife, opened the fence, and jumped into Wu Zhi's arms.

Xu Bingzhe was fluttering in his heart, secretly glad that he saw the little girl for the first time and saw him dressed gorgeously, obviously having a great background, so he didn't rush to solve the case, and was ready to find out the identity of the little girl, otherwise, if the little girl had a little mistake today, her black yarn would definitely not be guaranteed, just look at the intimacy between the little girl and Wu Zhi, it must be a close relative, I think it is the Ye family in Jiangnan or the Xiao family in Liaodong, I can't afford to offend, compared to it, the old man Cai Jing can be ignored.

Wu Zhi looked at Zhishen, who was still recuperating with his eyes closed, and snorted: "There is no measure in action, today you will be in prison for a night of reflection." ”

Xu Bingzhe nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "Do you want to go down to the official to help Dashi change to a cleaner cell." ”

Wu Zhi shook his head and said, "No need, keeping him here is also for this case, you have to handle it impartially." ”

Xu Bingzhe smiled: "That's nature. "Although now in Dali Temple, the Yushitai survey is very strict, and he has not done a few unjust cases such as turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands for rain, but what your king has explained, it is naturally another matter, not to mention that Cai Jiu's actions have long been heard of, if it weren't for Cai Jing's face, he would have been done a long time ago.

Only then did Wu Zhi say to the person in his arms: "Have you ever been wronged? ”

Xu Bingzhe's heart immediately raised his throat, but he saw the little girl shaking her head lightly and said with a smile: "The cell is very interesting." "I wiped a cold sweat, I couldn't cry or laugh, the cell was interesting? Only this kind of wealthy daughter can say it.

Wu Zhi smiled: "It's good to be interesting, Uncle Fang Cai is full of concerns, so I'm afraid that you will cry." ”

She giggled, "You're fine." ”

Hearing the word "瑗瑗", Xu Bingzhe's heart chuckled, and when he saw Wu Zhi's eyes like lightning, he lowered his head in panic.

Wu Zhi took her hand and said, "Let's go back." ”

She said, "Wait a minute! He turned his head and shouted to the wooden prison: "Little San'er, come here." ”

Wu Zhi Daqi, looking up, in the corner of the prison, a thin figure shrunk out, it was a small child, I couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, his clothes were ragged, his face was black, and he didn't know how many months he hadn't cleaned his life, but his eyes were quite smart, but his eyes were full of fear, looking at himself.

Wu Zhiqi said: "Who is this little guy?" ”

She smiled and said, "It's my good friend, called Xiao San'er, I heard her say that she has lived here for nearly a year." Uncle take her along, and she invited me to eat Wotou. ”

Before Wu Zhi could speak, a weak voice sounded in the cell, "Kind official, please take her away, she is not guilty......" A figure staggered to his feet, walked two steps, and came to the fence, only to see that under his long fluffy hair, it seemed to be a woman, struggling to kneel, kowtowing hard: "The official save her." ”

Wu Zhi took a closer look at the cell, and then saw that it was a women's prison, then looked at Lu Zhishen, and then looked at Xu Bingzhe.

Xu Bingzhe hurriedly explained, it turned out that when the prisoner was detained, Lu Zhishen was not separated from the superintendent, Xu Bingzhe couldn't figure out the origin of the superintendent at that time, and he was a monk, so it was temporarily up to him, these women in the women's prison were extremely dirty, and they didn't want to provoke the great monk to do anything wrong.

Wu Zhi looked at the women in the cell and frowned, but he didn't pay attention to it before, it seems that after a few days, he needs to instruct Yushi to bring the matter of improving the cell into the upper study, although the matter is small, but it is also related to countless lives.