Chapter Seventy-Three: The Bloodstained Buddha (Part II)
As a royal Buddhist temple, the incense has always been the first in Chang'an temple, the number of Buddha houses, pagodas, Buddha statues, Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist monks is also incomparable to similar temples, there are many famous monks in the Great Ci'en Temple in the past dynasties, and their relics are also placed in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
The Dashun Dynasty advocates Buddhism, and there are many people who believe in Buddhism, even if it is not the fifteenth day of the first month, there is an endless stream of people who come to the Great Ci'en Temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha and even play. Liu Yu did not believe in religion but did not contradict the ideas of Buddhism, accompanied Xu Xuanzhu and the Han sisters to the temple, watched them kneel on the futon in front of the Buddha and worship and make a wish, only stopping to watch.
Buddhist temples are different from the market, the market is dominated by men and few women can be seen, but the people who come to the Buddhist temple are more women and Taoists, and they are generally beautiful women. It is also related to the idea that women are virtuous if they are not talented in this era, women are generally only responsible for housework, and there is no work as sustenance on weekdays. Coming to the temple to worship the Buddha has also become a compulsory course for the daughter's family. Even those self-proclaimed talented ink writers like to come to Buddhist temples to set up stalls to do calligraphy and painting, or pretend to be gentlemen who unsign to attract everyone's attention.
The Buddhist temple is the best place for marriage in this year, as well as a place to find an affair.
The main hall of the Great Ci'en Temple is magnificent, the six Buddha statues of the golden body sit on the high platform on both sides, the height is close to the roof of the main hall of four or five zhang high, and a slightly smaller Buddha is placed in front of it, which is the object of worship of all pilgrims. Liu Yu looked around, he was feeling a little bored, and his eyes saw two thin figures from the crowd, one was dressed as a girl, and the other was dressed as a little eunuch, kneeling on a futon, and the two little buttocks were pouting and kowtowing to the Buddha statue while chanting something.
Looking at the familiar back, when the two of them finished worshipping and stood up and turned their heads, Liu Yu couldn't help but smile, it was Wu Shuo who pulled her little sister, the fourteenth princess Xiao Qi'er.
"Bad bad bad guys...... Wu Shuo pointed over when he saw Liu Yu, panicked as if looking up to the sky and sighed, "Wow, Bodhisattva, you, you, you lie to me." ”
"Miss Wu, Miss Qi, I haven't seen you for a few days." Liu Yu stepped forward, and the faces of the two little girls rose with respectful and distant expressions. Small steps back a little.
"It's over, it's over! Bodhisattva Bodhisattva is not unspiritual, I just made the first wish that I will not see this bad person again......"
Liu Yu listened to Wu Shuo's words, and directly smiled and interrupted: "As a result, you saw me as soon as you turned around, didn't you?" ”
Wu Shuo stretched out his arm, pointed at Liu Yu again, and said, "You, you stand still!" No, no, no, no more ......"
"I didn't insult you, why should I be so hostile?" Liu Yu stopped more than two meters away from them, he mentioned "indecent manner", Xiao Qi'er immediately thought that he was peeking at her body that day, and then jumped into the lotus pond, and then she was carried ashore by him in a hazy way, she must have seen and touched. The little face turned red, and the person hid behind Wu Shuo.
Liu Yu's face sank and said, "You two sneaked out of the palace, right?" One also pretended to be a little eunuch. I want to tell you that I am now the right commander of the Imperial Forest Army, the former general of the palace, and I am responsible for catching you sneaking out of the palace, and I will go back and spank him hard. ”
Xiao Qi'er's face was shocked and thought it was true, and she hurriedly said: "Don't embarrass Xiaoya, yes...... I was going to come out, and she could have come and gone to the palace. ”
"Oh, no, she helped you out, it's an accomplice, and the sin is one." Liu Yu said with a somewhat pretentious cold smile.
"That'...... Just punish me alone. Xiao Qi'er was very righteous, "Xiaoya is helping me, and she shouldn't be involved." ”
Wu Shuo complained on the side: "Silly and stupid Qi'er, this bad guy is fooling you, you see that he is not wearing a guard uniform." ”
"I am the right commander of the Royal Forest Army, I have the power to act cheaply, and I can arrest you back if I don't wear a guard uniform......" Liu Yue said jokingly, and suddenly found that a black shadow was crumbling from the Buddha statue and then fell towards the top of Xiao Qi'er's head, Liu Yue hurriedly rushed forward to throw Xiao Qi'er out of the air, time was only in a blink of an eye, when Liu Yue held Xiao Qi'er to dodge, the thing fell heavily to the ground, everyone was surprised to look over, but there was a person lying on the ground, his fingers moved, but because of a large amount of blood flowing from his neck, A life.
"Whew! Swish! Swish! “
Cai Yingnu, Lu Chu'er and other guards were listlessly looking around in front of the door, but at this time, they drew their swords and rushed up, separating the Buddha statue that had fallen from the dead body from everyone. Lu Chu'er shouted: "Stay away from the corpse, no one is allowed to leave!" ”
Some frightened women tried to flee, but were stopped by the guards with their swords.
Xiao Qi'er in Liu Yu's arms was also a little panicked, she was still listening to Liu Yu's nonsense, and she never thought that he would "insult" her again, but this time if there was no help from this bad guy, the corpse would really smash her squarely, either dead or injured.
Liu Yu felt good, the jade man in her arms seemed to have forgotten to struggle, and when she reacted, it didn't seem to be so intense, and she pouted and broke free and hid behind Wu Shuo.
Liu Yu stepped forward to check, the person was dead, and the hair on his head showed that he was not a monk, and he was dressed like a common man, but he was very strong, and he could survive a period of time and climb down the Buddha statue after being cut throat, and looked up, and he didn't understand how this person climbed behind the Buddha statue, and why there was a sharp knife on his neck.
"There could be someone up there."
Liu Yu's words made Xu Xuanzhu vigilant, "Huh! Pulling out a guard's sword, a woman dressed as a woman was holding a sword in her hand that looked like a woman, Liu Yue was stunned and said with a smile: "It's just a hypothesis for the husband." ”
"Go to the officer." Liu Yudao instructed Lu Chu'er, "Go to Jingzhao Mansion and don't go to Nancheng Yamen, go and go back quickly." ”
Taking advantage of Lu Chuer's failure to report to the official, Liu Yu continued to stare at the Buddha statue, and the Buddha statue seemed to have spirituality, dripping blood drop by drop, and someone shouted: "Look, the Buddha is crying blood!" ”
This remark made all the pilgrims think that it was a Buddha statue appearing, and they knelt down to worship, but Liu Yu knew that things were not so simple. After all, in a few days, this will be the place where the royal sacrifice ceremony will be held, and it is at this time that the death will occur. The dead did not look like civilians.
Sui Yi's efficiency was also okay, and when he got Lu Chuer's report, he hurried over, and when he arrived at the Great Ci'en Temple, Sui Yi and all the officials were sweating profusely and panting.
"Damn, it's going to be a time to die." Sui Yi scolded and scolded, seeing that he was conducting an autopsy, he leaned over and approached Liu Yu and asked, "Brother Liu, are you ...... It's really a bit of a back, to this corpse...... How to see? ”
"I'm not a pretend, what can I think? Why don't you hurry up and call the monks in the temple to come out and ask questions? ”
Sui Yi was reminded and immediately went to ask the monks in the temple.
The crowd of onlookers became more and more crowded, and Liu Yue was looking at the corpse in a daze, when a voice came from his side: "Liu Gongzi, why do you say he died?" ”
Liu Yu felt that something was wrong, his voice was very familiar, and on one side of his face, Liu Liniang's smiling men's clothes also looked at him sideways.
"Twelve less, don't you recognize the slave family? Turn your face back, don't look at it! ”
The coquettish voice made Liu Yu take a breath of cool air, how could he forget her, she should go back to Chang'an City to continue to complete her spy mission if she didn't succeed in kidnapping last time, maybe the person in front of her was killed by her.
"Li Niang, long time no see." Liu Yu smiled bitterly and said in a low voice.
"Don't call Miss Liu? This beautiful lady is really kind. Twelve Shao, you haven't answered the slave's question yet. ”
Liu Yu really called the heavens and the earth to be ineffective, and now those guards are not paying attention to him at all, if he shouts, Liu Liniang may be poisoned. Just because you let him go once doesn't mean you'll let him go a second time.
"Liniang, don't fool me, where did I know the cause of this person's death, it won't be ...... Li Niang, you killed it, right? ”
Liu Liniang snorted lightly and said, "Twelve young people want to wronged the slave family for murder?" Hum! In the eyes of the twelve young people, Liniang is a murderer who does not blink? ”
Liu Liniang seemed to be very emotional, but she didn't look into it further, as if she had tacitly acquiesced to the fact that she killed the person.
"Say! Where is Xu Rong appearing? Liu Liniang's tone this time was a little less frivolous and a little more stern.
Liu Yu was in his heart, "Oh! "With a bang, no wonder Liu Liniang will come to him.
"Xu Rong? Li Niang is talking about Xu Xiangye's son, Xu Rong, the waiter of the Ministry of Works? ”
"Less garlic, aren't you the new right commander of the Royal Forest Army? You Imperial Guards have secretly taken people, where are they hidden? ”
is really worthy of engaging in intelligence work, and Liu Liniang is not so easy to fool. Liu Yu complained bitterly in his heart.
"Liniang, you may still know something, I, the right commander of Laoshzi, is a false official who sends calendars, if they really arrest people, they won't tell me where to hide, or ...... You go and ask my boss who is in charge? ”
Liu Liniang suddenly leaned over and said in Liu Yu's ear: "You little villain, sooner or later you will be honest." After saying that, a burst of fragrant wind fled, Liu Yu turned his head, and the person was gone.
That's it?
Liu Yuzheng hesitated when He Mao and the Imperial Forest Army also hurried over, and said in his heart, no wonder Liu Liniang wanted to leave.
"It's the secret talk of the Imperial Guards who died." This is the only news He Maolai brought to Liu Yu.