In the middle of the night, Yishui County is like an old monster, listlessly squatting in the moonlight of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and when Ximen Qing takes Yang Lin to fly past this monster, he can even feel the decaying rancid smell emanating from this monster.

This is a city that has been tossed by corrupt officials and corrupt officials to lose its basic vitality, although there is a lot of corruption, but it is rare to cut life so ruthlessly.

The only few places where the lights are bright and the wine is green, and the drunken gold is the gold cave and the joy cave of the Yishui officials, and only there can you find a trace of vitality. But standing on the Yiling outside the city and looking at the city from afar, the prosperity of Zuihou is like a ghost fire flickering on the barren mound, and the sheng song is even more like a ghost whimpering.

Ximen Qing threw a cold look at this world, and then beckoned Yang Lin into the deep mountains and old forests of Yiling.

The moonlight was bright, and along the secluded mountain path, Ximen Qing and Yang Lin walked cautiously. Tigers don't know what the Mid-Autumn Festival is, when they should eat people, it doesn't matter what festival you have, just eat it.

Walk to the head of the ridge, see a nunnery in front of you from a distance, Ximen Qing and Yang Lin climb vines and attach Ge, go up to the front of the hermitage, push open the door to see, but it is a Sizhou Great Sage Ancestral Hall. Ximen Qing said: "Brother, let's rest here." ”

By the moonlight, when I looked around in the ancestral hall, I saw that this ancestral hall was the same as Yishui County under the mountains, and it was also dilapidated to twelve points. But I saw:

The incense burner overturned, and the derrick was skewed. The stone steps in front of the door are mossy, and the wooden windows on the hall are moldy. The left plastic waiter, the bird's nest on his head is messy; The right eagle guard, dressed in cobwebs as clothes. King Kong loses his head and does not see majesty; Garan lacks pupils, how to cast mana? The glory is only in the past, and the collapse is now.

When Ximen Qing looked in the middle, he saw that the statue in the center was still intact, with a high nose and deep eyes, curly hair, a strange appearance, and a majestic description. Looking at all this, Ximenqing couldn't help but shake his head and sighed.

Yang Lin couldn't help but ask: "My brother is a well-known hero in the world, a hero who can't be overwhelmed when everything is coming, what's the sigh now?" ”

Ximenqing replied: "I only sigh, from heroes to heroes, to the Jiangshan Dynasty, there will be times of failure after all." ”

Yang Lin said: "What do you mean by this?" ”

Ximenqing pointed to the statue in the ancestral hall and said, "Brother, look, this is the Great Sage of Sizhou." During the Longshuo period of Tang Gaozong, there were Hu monks and monks in the Western Regions, came to the Middle Earth, built a temple in Linhuai, Sizhou, and when the temple was built, it was dug out of the golden statue in the soil, engraved with the words of Puzhao Wang Buddha, and Tang Zhongzong gave the name 'Puguang Wang Temple'. ”

Yang Lin listened, thought for a long time and said, "It's such a coincidence? When a temple was built there, a treasure with a sign was dug up, wasn't it the monk who buried it himself? ”

Ximenqing smiled when he heard this: "Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, who knows?" But even if the Sangha Master buried it himself, so what? This Sangha master is not bad, he preached in Sizhou, and the folk legend is that he slashed demons and eliminated demons, and he could use willow branches to heal the wounded, and he was benevolent to the people, so the local people respected him as the great sage Sangha monk, and the people were commonly known as 'Sizhou Great Sage'. ”

Yang Lin was in awe, and saluted with his fists towards the statue in the temple: "It turned out to be a bodhisattva who saved the people, forgive the villain for the crime of rude nonsense!" ”

Ximen Qing said again: "The poet immortal Li Bai once wrote in a song "Sangha Song": 'This monk originally came to this country from Nantianzhu for Fatoutuo. Han Yu also has a poem: "After the Sangha came out of Huaisi, the potential to the Buddhas was especially wonderful." It can be seen that during the Tang Dynasty, the reputation of the Great Sage Sangha was prosperous. After he passed away in Sizhou, Sizhou built a Sangha tower to commemorate him, Huaibei Mountain Left, there are many temples dedicated to the Sangha as the main god, the customs are there, even on this Yiling, there is such an ancestral hall. ”

Yang Lin looked around and sighed: "I see! I can't imagine that the scenery was like that back then, and now it is dilapidated like this-I know why Brother Siquan has to sigh! ”

Ximenqing nodded and said, "It's good that you understand!" I hope that the brothers will understand for a lifetime, and not for a while. ”

Yang Lin listened, lowered his head and thought deeply, but stopped speaking for a while.

In the silence of the moonlit night, there was a sudden sound of a tiger's roar, and Yang Lin, who was in deep thought, was startled, jumped up, and glanced at Ximenqing.

"The roar of the tiger is only near here!" As Yang Lin spoke, he also clenched the muddy iron pen barrel gun in his hand. Although Ximenqing's face remained unchanged, he also shrugged his shoulders and fine-tuned the sun and moon double knives on his back to the best angle that he could pull out with his hand.

With a slight jump, Ximen Qing climbed the wall of the Sizhou Great Sage Ancestral Hall, raised his eyes to look outside the temple, but saw that in the moonlight shadow, there seemed to be a bloated figure on the waist of the ridge climbing.

Ximenqing's heart moved, and he said secretly: "Isn't it the black whirlwind Li Kui who came with his mother on his back?" Thinking of this, he beckoned: "Brother Yang Lin, come and see, is that one person or two people?" ”

Yang Lin walked in the green forest for a long time, and his eyesight in the dark night was much better than that of Ximenqing, but under the same look, he said in a low voice: "Brother, a big man carried an old woman up this ridge, and he didn't need to ask about the black whirlwind that picked up his mother!" ”

Seeing Ximenqing nodded, Yang Lin instigated: "Why don't you shout, brother?" The Black Whirlwind heard it and must come to rendezvous. ”

Ximenqing hurriedly shook his head and said, "I can't do this." In the dead of night, when I shouted, what did I hear was Brother Tie Niu? It's okay to attract a tiger, but if you attract someone, it's trouble! ”

Yang Lin was stunned and said, "Who can this deep mountain and wilderness recruit?" ”

Ximen Qing looked at Li Kui's figure and said lightly: "Hunter." ”

Yang Lin slapped his head hard and shouted, "That's right! For the sake of those two big insects, how many sticks did the hunters in Yishui County eat from the government? I'm afraid that I won't be able to live in peace after the Mid-Autumn Festival! If they know the identity of the Black Whirlwind, it will be very bad! ”

Ximenqing nodded and said, "Exactly!" If it is broken, and the government will hunt it down, you and I will be fine, but if Brother Tie Niu's mother has three longs and two shorts, how can we be happy in our hearts? ”

Yang Lin's face was ashamed, and he whispered: "But it's the little brother who thinks simply!" ”

Ximenqing said with a smile: "If you encounter something in the future, think about it a lot." You and I will go down from here and welcome their mother and son. ”

Yang Lin nodded. The two of them walked out of the Sizhou Great Sage Ancestral Hall and quietly greeted Li Kui's mother and son.

The road in the mountains is different from the flat ground, although it can be seen clearly when standing on the top of the ridge, but when it walks head-on, it is circling back and forth, and the distance between each other is far and near, and even the figure of Li Kui's mother and son is also seen from time to time.

After walking for a while, when Ximenqing jumped on a pine tree again, and looked down, he secretly screamed that it was not good. It turned out that the old woman was alone, sitting on a big bluestone by the pine tree under this hill, but Li Kui was nowhere to be seen.

Ximen Qingxin said: "Li Kui must have gone to find water to quench his mother's thirst." What a foolish thing! What is this place? Where the big worm haunts, but leaves a lonely old woman by the roadside, isn't it lard that blinds the heart? ”

Thinking in his heart, he was not slow at his feet, and shouted: "Brother Yang Lin, come with me!" "The toes touched the ground, the light work unfolded, and he swooped down from the slope, and his body was agile, like a bird.

Yang Lin is nicknamed the Jin Leopard, and his light skills are also quite successful, and he is even more worthy of moving in the mountains and forests, and he followed Ximenqing closely at the moment, and rushed down the slope.

When the two of them rushed down from the slope, they looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Although he took a shortcut this time, the clothes on his body were torn apart by the arrowroot needles and thorns on the slope, even if he stood with the beggar disciples on the rivers and lakes, they must be shining with each other, and they were bright for a while.

Although Li Kui's old lady's eyes fainted because she thought of her son crying, she couldn't see anything, but her ears were sharp, and when she heard movement in front of her, she said in a trembling voice: "What is there?" ”

Ximenqing hurriedly bowed and said: "Don't panic, old aunt, the villain is a passing guest, and he has something urgent to cross this Yiling, so he took advantage of the moonlight to hurry." ”

The old mother listened to Ximenqing's clear voice and gentle tone, so she put her heart at ease, patted her heart and said: "It turns out that like the old body, they are all hard-working people who are in a hurry, but the old woman is scared!" ”

Ximen Qing said apologetically: "This is the younger generation, isn't it!" ”

When I raised my eyes, I saw that the old mother's hair in front of me was like snow, her temples were frosty, her old face was wrinkled, and her cloudy eyes were dull. Ximen Qingxin said: "Fortunately, I came, otherwise I knew that this poor old lady was going to die in the tiger's mouth, but I pretended not to know, wouldn't it violate Ye Zhiqiu's teachings of Brother Ye Zhiqiu Ye 'not to deceive'?" ”

Mother Li heard Ximenqing's polite words, and she was grateful to her old woman for being polite for several years, so she said, "Guest, go down the mountain quickly!" There have been two more big insects here recently, the one who hurts life and creates evil, Amitabha, and the old woman can't bear to say it! You two should hurry down the mountain, and you will see the blessing of the Bodhisattva! ”

Ximenqing and Yang Lin glanced at each other and thought, "This old mother has good ears, Brother Yang Lin didn't say a word, she also knows that there is another person here." ”

But at this time, where is Ximenqing willing to go? He stepped forward and said, "Old aunt, since you know that there is a tiger, how dare you come up to the mountain?" But isn't it a risk? ”

Mother Li sighed and said abruptly: "That's it! My wife is a hard worker! The husband is following the husband, the husband is dead, since I want to carry me across the mountain in the dark sky, what else is there to say? Just walk as much as you can! There are tigers and no tigers, so you don't have to worry so much! ”

Ximen Qing hated: "Where is there such a bastard son! Throw the old lady on the mountain with the tiger, and he will fall! If you see him, see that I don't have a boss shaving his ears and slapping him! "This is exactly what it is:

Sweep away the dust and cherish the great sage, and set aside the moon to see Cixuan. But I don't know what will happen next, and listen to the next breakdown.