Chapter 31: The Flute
Song Yang is telling jokes and the truth. When there is nothing to do, he will definitely sacrifice the 'magic weapon' of the fire Dao people, and the Marquis of Changchun has even arranged a fire point in his own fiefdom, and there is nothing he dare not burn in this world.
When Lord Hu heard this, he just replied casually: "Burning the palace is a later story, if you have nothing to do now, you might as well go and burn the Jingwang Mansion." As a king, colluding with foreign enemies to betray the country and usurp the throne, burning him ten times is not enough. "Since the Mid-Autumn Festival, King Jing has temporarily lived in the palace, there is no main owner in the palace, and burning it is just to vent his anger, and it will not hinder the overall situation. However, Song Yang thought about it and replied very seriously: "This can be burned." β
"Let's get down to business, there's a lot to do." Master Hu didn't smile, and waved his hand a little impatiently...... The king of Zhenxi is thousands of miles away, and the whip is out of reach, and almost all of the people in Jingzhong, from the people's hearts to the army to the courtiers, are held by the traitors, and the situation in front of him is completely one-sided, and it is not easy to get it back, but it is not without a chance, at least Song Yang has a key Fenglong in his hands...... Song Yang and Master Hu discussed for a long time, and it was not until dusk that Master Hu got up to say goodbye.
Before leaving, Song Yang suddenly asked, "If there is no Yan Guo to preside over this matter, will you care?" β
Master Hu smiled: "If it's just long live going crazy, as if things are on the surface, I really won't get involved; But if it is a rebel usurpation, whether there is a Yan State or not, the old man will not give in half a step. As a courtier, Hu Chengxiao has the responsibility to protect the country and never allow rebels to be disobedient. β
After speaking, Master Hu asked rhetorically: "If there is no Yan State to preside, and there is no relationship with the King of Zhenxi, will you care?" "It's almost the same problem, but there's one more 'King of Zhenxi'.
Song Yang said honestly: "If you can't see it, forget it, if you run into it... Most of them still know how to manage. β
Master Hu was interested: "Why? β
"Feng Leong is bullied too hard, and it's a little unpleasant."
Song Yang's answer made the old man laugh, and Master Hu shook his head while laughing: "What are you?" Chivalrous? I can remember clearly that just now Chang Chunhou was still talking about burning the Phoenix Palace. β
"Two different things, not quite the same." Song Yang shrugged his shoulders, but what was the difference, he didn't explain, and he didn't know how to explain it, but unfortunately Chu Rong was no more, otherwise he would be able to say it in one sentence: he has the surname.
In a world where there is no sense of belonging, 'following your feelings' is probably the easiest way to live.
Master Hu waved his hand, didn't pursue it any further, and changed the topic again: "By the way, two things, last time I returned to the capital from Fengyi, at your request, I began to track down Shi Xiaoxiao's whereabouts." Someone saw him in Phoenix, but it wasn't clear after that, and before he could continue to investigate, wasn't there something wrong; The other is the Hongbo Mansion, I'll help you get in touch. β
After speaking, Lord Hu waved his hand and left the inn.
After Prime Minister Zuo left, Song Yang didn't stay long, took the old dwarf road, and the two of them hurriedly walked up the long street, and rushed to Nancheng while there was no curfew. When I was in a hurry, I was thinking back and forth in my heart, I hadn't gone to Fengyi in February this year, and I was still in Phoenix City, and at that time, Shi Xiaoxiao returned to Jingshi from Hongcheng, and the monk didn't come to him, so what did he do?
Before dark, he returned to Hong Long's hideout.
As soon as he saw him coming, Feng Leong perked up and sat up with his hands on the ground: "What's the matter?" β
Song Yangjingli's situation was probably explained, and the more Feng Long listened, the more pale his face became, and he couldn't help clenching his fists, gritting his teeth and muttering: "I don't believe that the rebellious ministers and thieves can succeed, I don't believe that evil can prevail over good, and I don't believe in ......."
Speaking of which, it's just a 'I don't believe' to cheer himself up, as for what specific ideas he can have, he can't think of it at all, and he feels angry but unable to do anything, suffocating in the emperor's chest and lungs, making him hurt and stuffy.
Song Yang let Feng Long lose his temper by himself, and turned his eyes to look at Li Yifeng: "How are you?" As he spoke, he took out the medicine he had prepared in advance from his satchel and handed it over. Li Yifeng was treated by Song Yang and taken care of by Luo Guan, although the serious injury was far from healing, but the internal strength recovered as before, at least with the strength of a battle, he was leaning against the wall and sitting, looking down and not knowing what to think, he didn't raise his head when he heard the words, and responded in his mouth: "It's okay." β
After receiving the wound medicine, Li Yifeng's mouth moved, but the word 'Xie' was not said after all.
Song Yang didn't take it seriously, sat cross-legged on the ground, and looked back at Fenglong: "Tomorrow" began to explain the serious matter in a low voice, the emperor nodded, Gonggong Li showed joy, Li Yifeng was still expressionless, bowed his head and said nothing...... At noon the next day, there was a sudden chaos outside, the sound of horses' hooves and shouts was loud, and after a while, the noise was getting closer and closer, and the shouting was clearly audible, obviously a large number of people scattered into the nearby streets and alleys. β
Song Yang looked relaxed and smiled: "That's good." β
The dwarf got up, greeted Song Yang, 'I'll go to work', and ran out of the broken house.
After a while, the sound of hurried footsteps came, first three men in black broke into the door, and then a group of officials rushed in like a fierce god, but whether it was the man in black or the official errand, they just held the knife and shouted and cursed, and after entering the house, they didn't look at a few people in the house at all, as if Feng Long, Song Yang and others did not exist.
There was only one catcher, who walked straight to Feng Long, knelt down and kowtowed: "The minister is late to save the driver, and my emperor forgives the sin." β
Caught in middle age, with a bitter gourd face, he is weak when he speaks...... Master Shangshu Du of the Criminal Department.
Without allowing Feng Long to say anything, Lord Du stood up and made a gesture to several of his subordinates in the room, among which the three officials quickly took off their official uniforms, revealing the civilian uniforms that had been worn long ago.
The others were busy and took off their official uniforms for Feng Long, Li Gonggong, and Li Yifeng to change into.
After the cross-dressing, Lord Du waved his hand again, and the sound of blades clashing in the house suddenly became loud, and the man in black and the officials feinted for a moment, then abandoned the knife and surrendered, and Lord Hu finally nodded to Song Yang, and quickly escorted the prisoner away.
This morning, Phoenix was in chaos.
Murong Xiaowan was planted in the hands of Prime Minister Zuo, and the Murong protΓ©gΓ©s in the city were all enraged, and began to make trouble everywhere since the curfew was lifted, threatening not to let the young lady go, and the forbidden army took people everywhere, and the criminal department also moved, and the messenger who had been on standby for a long time rushed to the long street, and one of the teams chased three black-clothed thugs all the way to the vicinity of the Beilai Zen Temple...... After the rebellion, the courtiers and prime ministers have already appeared on the stage, but I don't know if there are still traitors in the secret, even if the prime minister is shrewd, he can't tell who else is involved in the rebellion... However, Master Hu knew that there was one person who would never participate in the rebellion: the Shangshu of the Criminal Department.
Lord Du doesn't make friends, but there are no real enemies, from the ancestors for a few lifetimes, the Du family has adhered to the word 'neutrality', never involved in any right and wrong, no one can win them over.
Yesterday, when he was talking in secret at the inn, Song Yang asked Prime Minister Zuo: "You ask Master Du for help, can he really be trusted?" β
"Lao Du has a relationship with your father-in-law, don't you know?" Master Hu smiled, but his tone quietly increased: "What's more, the Du family has been established for several generations... Why do you think they can be neutral? If there is no emperor to support you, you let them be neutral and show the old man! If the Jinluan Palace wants to be stable and stable, there must be left, right, fierce, and good, and a group of people must always stand in the middle. β
"If they didn't have loyalty in their bones, they wouldn't have been chosen by the emperor to be this 'neutral'." Saying that, Master Hu relaxed his tone again: "Don't worry, the old man can still see this matter clearly, you can try it." β
Sure enough, after hearing that Feng Long was still alive, Lord Du nodded without hesitation and agreed to help...... You can't always say that the emperor is still in the slums, not to mention the danger, to reverse the current contrarian trend, Fenglong is very important, if you can't see the sky again, he can't play a role, what's the difference between death and death.
As for Murong ProtΓ©gΓ©'s trouble, of course, it was Xiao Wan's order, today's chaos in the city is to cover Feng Long's return to his loyal courtiers, but the matter is not over, and the Criminal Department and Lord Du's mansion are not safe, and in the end, Feng Long and the three of them changed back into civilian clothes and were sent to prison by Lord Du... At the moment, I can think of the safest place.
Feng Long was escorted away by the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, but the three officials who had given up their official robes to Feng Long and the others stayed behind, and the person at the head said to Song Yang: "The Lord ordered the three of us to stay and listen to the orders of the Hou Ye." β
The three of them looked ordinary, but they had hidden light in their eyes and high temples, and they obviously all had good cultivation, no need to ask, they were Du Shangshu's henchmen, and they were specially transferred to help Song Yang.
Another errand officer also bowed down and said: "Not only the three of us, Lord Du has arranged a team of brothers, all of whom are our own people, all of them are good hands, in the name of maintaining the ground by the errand officer of the Criminal Department, patrolling nearby, as long as the Hou Ye gives an order, they will immediately come to respond." β
Song Yang nodded in thanks, then took out a bottle of medicinal powder from his satchel, and said to Luo Guan: "This is Puyu's antidote, which was just dispensed yesterday." β
Luo Guan understood what he meant, and stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the Zen Temple: "Going to go in?" Song Yang nodded, the simplest purpose, he wanted to find evidence of Wuyu's collusion with Yanding, although there was little hope, but there must always be this secret visit.
The two sat until dark, and three groups of people broke into pieces and infiltrated the alley from the outside to see Song Yang.
The first team of twenty people, from Prime Minister Zuo's mansion, is Lord Hu's doorman master; There are only six people in the second team, who look no different from civilians, and the weapons they carry are short blades such as Emei thorns and ox knives. The third team has the largest number of people, a total of forty people, all of them look fierce and agile, and their gestures are full of murderous aura, after meeting Song Yang, this group of living Hades-like men without exception, all reveal a cordiality from their eyes, Hong Bowei.
Now the head of Hongbo Mansion is Chu Rong, Xiaofu's second brother, the form of Beijing has changed, Hongbo Mansion has completely fallen into passivity, his pressure can be imagined, he was overjoyed to get the notice of Lord Hu, and immediately sent the elite to meet his brother-in-law.
Several forces secretly colluded and put together a team of elite soldiers for Song Yang.
However, Song Yang couldn't think of what they needed to do for the time being, so they first dispersed into the surrounding houses to standby, and then took the Puyu antidote with Luo Guan, got up and walked out of the dilapidated house, turned around and came to the back of the Beilai Zen Temple, and used his body to climb the wall, but as soon as they saw the situation in the courtyard, the two immediately stopped their movements, and frowned at the same time on the wall: As far as the eye can see, all of them are people.
Song Yang's five senses are keen, and he can hear from the breathing of the people in the courtyard that the other party is breathing heavily, and he has no combat power at all, but the trouble is that there are too many of them...... The courtyard was originally not large, and there were more than 100 people stationed there, and the distance between each of them was only three or five feet, and there was no space for sneaking at all.
It may not be difficult to kill them, but it is pure wishful thinking to avoid their eyes and ears and enter the apse through the courtyard without knowing it.
The courtyard is full of monks, monks and nuns, most of them are not young and dressed, sitting there motionless, almost no different from wood carving clay sculptures, looking at the past in the dark, it is really a little crazy.
Song Yang didn't know that these people in the courtyard were all ascetics, and after learning the news of Wuyu's exit, they spontaneously gathered here, hoping to see the old nun to pay their respects. Practicing asceticism in self-suffering and body and mind to correct the Dharma, unless there is a violent storm, they do not enter the house, and they all sit on the ground, steadily blocking Song Yang's sneaking.
Song Yang and Luo Guan remained motionless, from the beginning of the night until the third watch, and still did not see the people in the courtyard disperse or change the guard. Luo Guan shook his head at Song Yang, signaling that things could not be done, and that he would retreat first and then find a way.
Unexpectedly, Song Yang gritted his teeth, took off his carry-on satchel and handed it to his companion, and stretched out his hand to write some words on the back of his companion's palm.
After landing on the ground, Song Yang immediately turned over and jumped up, his body was embarrassed and his movements were scattered, and it seemed that he wanted to jump off the wall again to escape, but he couldn't do it, so he fell again as soon as he jumped...... The movement he made was not small, and the ascetics were all alarmed, and they all got up, and they didn't come to the Zen Monastery to have its own guards, and in the blink of an eye, the fire was raging, and several female nuns rushed in.
The nun Song Yang at the head knows the [***] master who can hum the 'Dream Chaser'.
[***] also recognized Song Yang, and his surprise flashed, and then he smiled: "Poor Ni is clumsy, I didn't see the donor's good skills last time, and I said that you are just an ordinary pilgrim." β
Song Yang's face was full of horror: "The wall, the wall is poisonous?!" β
[***] only said that he visited the Zen temple at night, and when he climbed over the wall, he was hit by the 'Puyu' internal strength and fell down, his smile remained the same, and he responded: "The Buddha Gate is pure, how can you allow Xiaoxiao to sneak in." After speaking, he reached out and grabbed Song Yang's back collar, as if carrying a chicken, and carried him to the apse, while several other nuns folded their hands and explained a few words to the penance present.
The ascetics all regarded Song Yang as a thief, and they were either silver or thieves when they visited the Monastery at night, and this kind of thing was handled by the master's family, and it had nothing to do with them.
Song Yang's plan was simple... Or it's a bastard, or it can be said that he simply didn't have a plan, and when he 'fell' off the wall, all he had in his heart was only four words: we'll see.
The situation in the courtyard gave him no chance, but he could unlock the poison of 'Puyu', which should be unthinkable to people in the Zen courtyard, so Song Yang threw himself into the net, and after being escorted into the apse, he acted according to the plan of 'walking and seeing'.
The nuns who escorted him were not very skillful, at best, they were good at all, and they thought that Song Yang had no power to resist, and they were not very vigilant on the way, but Song Yang was sure that he could knock them all down before they exclaimed.
Of course, he couldn't do anything in front of more than 100 penances, and Song Yang struggled laboriously and in vain, and was brought into the apse by several female nuns.
The main hall was empty and dim, only in front of the Buddha, a few candles burned alone, the faint light was far enough to illuminate the huge room, and in the flickering candle flames, the eternally merciful and kind Buddha was reflected in the gloomy light.
In front of the Buddhist shrine, an old monk gently taps the wooden fish on his hand and is muttering sutras.
[***] put Song Yang at his feet, folded his hands and bowed and said: "Uncle Qiyu, there is a peek into the Zen Temple." The old monk didn't pay attention to it, and continued his homework, and the nun stopped making a sound, and stayed quietly aside, during which Song Yang wanted to stand up and run away several times, but was kicked to the ground, the ground of the hall was clean, and his clothes were not dirty after falling several times.
Song Yang grinned, his heart was very quiet, his eyes and ears were open, he carefully explored the surroundings, and soon determined that there were no friends in the hall, only the few in front of him, just the old monk...... When chanting, his breathing was terrifying, and if he really wanted to do it, Song Yang was not sure that he would be able to knock him down in an instant.
But what really made Song Yang dispel the idea of moving his hands was not the sound of the old monk's breathing, but another sound faintly emerging from the underground of the main hall: the sound of the flute.
Very light, very weak, very melodious, and very familiar, even if Song Yang's mind is calm, when he heard the sound of the flute, a stunned look flashed on his face: Dream chaser, bamboo flute tune.
The sound of ear calluses is heard on the sea...... The old monk's homework like dead wood finally came to an end, and he slowly turned his head to look at Song Yang: "Who are you?" What to do? β
Song Yang shook his head and didn't answer, looking righteous and awe-inspiring.
The old monk was indifferent, turned his eyes to [***], and was very polite: "Take it down for trial, it's hard work." β
The nun returned the salute, took Song Yang around to the back of the Buddhist shrine, stretched out her feet on the ground and stepped on a few lotus bricks, and then the sound of the machine was soft, the secret door flashed open, and a road appeared in front of her, and at the same time, the sound of the bamboo flute became much clearer.
[***] smiled at Song Yang: "Didn't you ask me where that tune came from?" That's it below. β
Saying that, he picked him up again, and followed the steps straight into the underground dungeon It was not big, almost at a glance, and there was no one else, and the sound of the flute was still coming from under his feet, it should be a two-story dungeon.
For most of the next hour, Song Yang was beaten. Don't come to the Zen monastery, the nun Ping said that she looked gentle and gentle, kind and polite, but when she was tortured, she seemed to be possessed by a rakshasa, and she was really ruthless. Song Yang didn't want to make a fuss about it, he wanted to go to the dungeon from the execution stone room, where Shi Xiaoxiao was still playing the flute......
(To be continued)