I've been waiting at home until dusk is approaching, and finally I can't sit still, it's been more than half a day, not to mention going to Baode Temple, even if I go to the White Horse Temple outside the city, I should come back. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info is so chaotic outside, I really can't rest assured, and I took the horse with Liu Da and went straight to Baode Temple.

Baode Temple was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty, originally located outside the old city, after Emperor Yang of Sui built Luoyang City, this temple was assigned to the city, located in the south of the South City. Nanshi is mostly inhabited by dignitaries, so the incense in the temple is also very vigorous, especially now that the Luoyang city gate is very strict, those good men and women come here to worship the Buddha.

The winter days are short, and when I arrived at Baode Temple, the sunset on the horizon had already fallen half of my body, but there were still people in front of Baode Temple. After a closer look, I found that there was a porridge shed outside the temple, and several monks were serving porridge to the people in line while reciting scriptures in their mouths.

Wang Mai leaned over to take a look, this is not porridge at all, you can almost see the bottom of the bowl at a glance, and the corn in it can be counted in one breath, that's it, there is still an endless stream of people in line. Many people have seen puffiness on their faces, which is an extremely undesirable symptom.

"Noble ......" A timid little girl walked up to Wang Mai, seven or eight years old, with a dirty face and some grass clippings on her head, and handed over a porcelain bowl with missing horns.

As soon as Wang Mai put his hand into his arms, he was held down by Liu Da: "Don't ......"

"Why not?" Wang Mai pushed his hand away and grabbed a handful of five baht from the money bag and gave it to her.

"Thank you, your honor......" The little girl knelt on the ground and kept pounding her head.

The crowd of onlookers next to the "noble ......" immediately fell to their knees when they saw this scene, and they all stretched out the bowl in their hands.

Wang Mai was stunned for a while, and then he understood why Liu Da stopped him just now, and in desperation, he had to give the money in the money bag to these people one by one. There was not much money in the money bag, and it soon bottomed out, but more and more people were kneeling on the ground.

"No more ......" Wang Mai shook his money bag and prepared to enter the temple.

The "noble ......" crowd was still reluctant to leave, still looking at him with desperate longing.

"There's really no ......" As soon as he said that, the corners of his clothes were grabbed by several hands. The people behind were also ready to move, and kept squeezing towards the front, and Wang Mai was suddenly frightened into a cold sweat.

"Official, let's go......" Liu Da kicked away a few people in front of him, dragged Wang Mai and began to rush out.

But as the saying goes, ants bite elephants to death, no matter how powerful Liu Da is, it is impossible to escape from the dense crowd. Wang Mai only felt that countless hands were stretched out towards him, like a demon in hell, and his heart was about to jump out of his throat.

"This doesn't work, it has to be like a way......" The two were struggling to support themselves in the middle of the crowd.

"Fuck me up, stop ......" Liu Da reddened and pulled out the treasure knife in his hand.

The crowd suddenly froze, looking at the snowy sword in fear, but they still stared at the two of them, unwilling to leave.

"What to do? What to do? ......" Wang Mai just leaned on Liu Da's side, swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and looked at the wolf-like crowd.

"Let me think about it......" Liu Da's panting white breath sprayed on Wang Mai's face, and he couldn't care about it for a while.

The crowd of "noble ......" saw that the two of them didn't seem to dare to use the knife, and they were ready to move.

"With ......" Liu Da held a knife in one hand, reached into his arms with the other, took out an object and threw it into the distance of the crowd, "That's all." ”

The crowd of "......" rushed to the landing point like a tide, and the two quickly took the opportunity to escape.

"You...... Rich...... How...... No...... Take it out early...... "Wang Mai's upper and lower teeth kept fighting, and he was so shocked that he couldn't say a word.

"The amount of money brought is not enough for these people to rob," Liu Da said as he looked at the crowd of people scrambling frantically in the distance, "Besides, I didn't bring any money, it was a deerskin ...... that wiped knives on weekdays."

Just as he was about to praise this kid's wit, he saw two teams of poor people with water and fire sticks running in the distance. When these poor people saw the frantic crowd, they couldn't help but say, they picked up sticks and beat them, and for a moment the screams came and went, and the crowd scrambled to flee.

The leader asked the monks at the gate of the temple, and came to Wang Mai with a frown: "If Lang Jun has money, he can donate some to the temple, and the temple will naturally give alms on his behalf, so why tease these poor people." ”

"I ......" Wang Mai couldn't say a word, "I was really thinking about it, I didn't expect such a result, and I bothered you big brother." ”

The messenger shook his head and left, but the crowd just now was a wail, and Wang Mai was very uncomfortable.

"Ah Lang," Liu Da pulled Wang Mai's sleeve, "Let's go, these people are also to blame." ”

"Daddy...... Daddy...... "The cry from not far away reached his ears, and Wang Mai took a closer look, it was the little girl who asked him for money just now.

Ignoring Liu Da's urging eyes, he still walked to the little girl and squatted down to take a look. The man in front of him was scrawny, looking to be in his thirties, lying on the ground on a slanted angle, his chest had collapsed in a large area, blood was spilling from his mouth and nose, his eyes were wide, and he looked at the gray sky under the twilight in distraction.

Wang Mai trembled and stretched out his hand to probe his nose, then withdrew it like an electric shock, and closed his eyes unbearably.

"Daddy...... ...... wake up" The little girl's cry resounded in his mind like thunder and lightning, Wang Mai only felt that his throat was blocked by something, and he wanted to cry uncomfortably.

Liu Da vigorously broke open the clenched fist of the corpse, and there was a blackened five-baht coin inside.

"Your father is dead...... Wang Mai opened his mouth for a long time before squeezing out a sentence.

"Daddy...... Daddy...... "The little girl's desperate cry still refuses to stop.

Wang Mai helped her remove the grass clippings from her hair and wiped the tears on her face: "I hurt him, I'm sorry." ”

"Ah Lang......" Liu Da picked up the little girl, and the little girl did not resist, but just stared at the corpse that slowly lost its temperature.

"Don't worry, I will find someone to bury your father's corpse, you and I go home, there are a lot of delicious food at home, and meat ......" Wang Mai touched the little girl's head and comforted her with great difficulty.

When the little girl heard the news of the food, her eyes finally regained her brightness, and she swallowed a large mouthful of saliva and stopped crying.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the temple gate did not know when it would be closed, so the three people with heavy hearts had to ride back.

As soon as he walked not far away, he saw a carriage passing in the distance, and Wang Mai recognized it as his own carriage at a glance. The carriage at home has all been replaced with rolling bearings, and there is no annoying friction sound when walking, and it is very quiet.

The groom in the car also recognized the two of them, and hurriedly reined in the reins: "Alang......"

"What's going on?" Wang Mai looked at the crying Rou Niang in the carriage and asked.

"Yu'er......" Rou Niang's crying voice was hoarse, and Liu Ning'er next to her hurriedly told her about the situation.

It turned out that during the day, the two came to the temple with incense to pray for blessings, and Rou Niang let the family and the servants of the nursing home enter the temple to worship together, leaving Grandma Sun to take care of Sun Yu in the carriage. After queuing up for a blessing ceremony all morning, I came out to find that Granny Sun was knocked unconscious in the car, but Sun Yu was gone. The people scattered to look for it, but there was no news all afternoon.

"Yu'er was taken captive?" Wang Mai was taken aback, "Didn't you report to the official?" After speaking, he shook his head, with the efficiency of the government, I am afraid that ......

Now Luoyang City is so chaotic, not to mention that the child is lost, it is not strange that the adult is missing. It's just that I don't know what the reason for the thief who kidnapped Sun Yu is, if it is to extort money, it is better to say, even if the family is bankrupt, the child will be released.

After inquiring with everyone for a long time, I learned that it was not the first time that children had been lost here, and all of them were children under the age of five. People in the neighborhood said that since two months ago, there have been dozens of children missing in this area, but they have never heard of gangsters extorting missing children. It is also rumored that these children were taken captive and eaten by evil spirits.

As soon as the war in Luoyang began, the curfew time was advanced by an hour, and everyone had no choice but to go home first and wait for tomorrow morning to make plans.

Wang Mai hugged Rou Niang for a long time before she leaned on his shoulder and fell asleep. Carefully covering the quilt for her, Wang Mai walked out of the room and prepared to discuss with Liu Da and others about finding the child.

As soon as I entered the front yard, I heard the sound of the gate ringing, and looking at the figure, there was no doubt that it was rich.

"Brother Wheat......" Fugui looked at Wang Mai standing under the lantern in astonishment.

"Alas......" Wang Mai sighed.

Fugui is no longer the simple country boy he was at the beginning, and now he has learned to hide everything from himself, and he knows that he must be planning something in the city to cooperate with the Tang army's attack.

After a closer look, he found that his sleeves were red: "Are you injured?" ”

"I met a few thieves who blocked the road and robbed, and I sent them away......" Fugui smirked and scratched his head.

and quickly pulled him into the room, took off his shirt, washed and bandaged the wound, the stimulation of alcohol on the wound is not something that ordinary people can bear, even Shan Xiongxin snorted, but wealth is a lifetime without saying a word. Wang Mai realized that he already had more than one scar on his body.

"Our Xuanjia army often rushes into battle...... Fugui explained on the side.

"Does she know your mother?" Wang Mai was very angry. Everything seemed to be going wrong today, and he hated why he had brought Fugui to that dock in the first place.

"I didn't dare to ask her to see ......"

"If it hurts, call it out......"

"It doesn't hurt, I have thick skin......"

After bandaging the wound, Fugui heard Wang Mai talk about Sun Yu's disappearance, and he was silent for a long time: "I should know where Sun Yu is now." ”

"You know?" Wang Mai looked at him in surprise.

"There are often children lost in the area you mentioned, and there is a Longxiang General's Mansion nearby."

"General Long Xiang?" Wang Mai frowned, Qin Qiong had been sealed by Wang Shichong before, but recently he has been busy with the affairs of the prisoner, and he rarely goes out when he returns home, and he doesn't know when there will be another general in Luoyang.

"Two months ago, Zhu Wei retreated into Luoyang, and he is the general of Long Xiang who was crowned by Wang Shichong."

"Zhu Cang?" Wang Mai was shocked, "Man-eating demon king Zhu Cang!" ”