Chapter 143: The Love of the Bodhi Tree
As soon as he said this, Su Qi's eyes widened in shock: Zhang Pu? Where is Zhangpu?
Under her stunned gaze, the man in black slowly removed the Ugin mask from his face, revealing an angular face.
"Zhang Pu! It's really you! Su Qi looked up and down at Zhang Pu, who was dressed in black, still a little incredulous, "But how could you ......?"
Mu Yunsong naturally knew her doubts: the Zhang Pu she knew was a small and stocky farmer, while the man in black in front of him was thin and tall, and in appearance, he was not the same person at all.
"You forget, he's not human at all." Mu Yunsong looked at Zhang Pu with a cold gaze, "If this king is not mistaken, you should be a goblin transformed into a tree!" ”
After he mentioned this, Su Qi immediately understood: Tree spirits and vine monsters can change their body form at will, conjuring vines to hurt people, not to mention changing tall, short, fat and thin.
"The prince of Beijing is really wise," Zhang Pu narrowed his eyes, but his tone was quite sneering, "I want to know, how did the prince understand my identity?" ”
"The case of serial murder in Yanbei Daying has really puzzled me for a long time. Although you act in a high-profile manner, you are also neat and tidy, which makes it difficult for people to grasp the clues, but ......" Mu Yunsong stared at Zhang Pu, his eyes were like torches, "The so-called Skynet is magnificent and negligent, but all evil deeds will always leave evidence and become the reason for you to reap the consequences!" ”
Zhang Pu smiled contemptuously: "I want to know what evidence I left behind." ”
"First of all, it is the traces of the deceased being tightened and bound, and it just so happens that the same trace has just been seen by this king, and it is on the body of the Fan family's Ding Nursing Courtyard. At that time, the king suspected that the person who killed people in the camp in Yanbei was the same person who was haunted by the Fan family.
I have fought with you in the Fan family, I have seen the rattan that comes out of your body with my own eyes, and I have also seen your ability to disappear out of thin air, proving that you are a goblin and not a human. Therefore, it is very easy for you to use a rattan to penetrate the window of the Military Registry and steal the top secret scroll; And it is not difficult to kill people in the barracks without knowing it. ”
"The prince is really as wise as a torch." Zhang Pu sneered, "It's just, how do you connect the man in black with the honest Zhang Pu?" ”
"For Zhang Pu, this king has long been suspicious." Mu Yunsong's gaze fell on Zhang Pu's right hand, "I was holding the balance that day, but unexpectedly, your hand bones suddenly broke. This king was still a little guilty, but only two days later, he saw the flower garden in Huimu Zhai that you had taken care of. Mu Yunsong sneered, "It just so happens that this king has also repaired the house and decorated the yard for this girl, and I feel that a person with a serious injury to his right hand cannot do so much work in one day, unless...... Your hands are already healed. And those who can regenerate broken bones in a short period of time are either immortals or goblins. ”
Su Qi really despised himself: it was a shame that he was unaware of such an obvious thing as a yin-yang mage.
"But what really made me have an epiphany and guess your identity is this." Mu Yunsong slowly raised his right hand, holding a blood-stained Bodhi leaf between his two fingers, "This was found on the body of Ma Tao, the soldier you killed, stuck between his fingernails, obviously caught by him when he was dying." It was this small Bodhi leaf that made the king suddenly startled in his heart.
The Bodhi tree is called the Buddha's holy tree, it comes from Tianzhu in the Western Regions, it is sunny and warm-loving by nature, it is mostly seen in the south, in the cold and bitter places in the north of Dayan, it cannot survive at all, so there can be no Bodhi tree in the north.
It is strange that in just a few days, this king actually saw the Bodhi tree twice in Quang Ninh City, once in the courtyard of this girl, saying that you planted it with your own hands; And the other time, it was in the woods outside the walls of the Fan family's courtyard. ”
Su Qi recalled that at that time, Mu Yunsong chased and lost the man in black, and he once punched a tree trunk angrily, but now that he thinks about it, it is a Bodhi tree.
Mu Yunsong showed a thoughtful expression, "Not to mention where the Bodhi tree you planted in Su Qi's courtyard came from, just say that in the woods outside the wall of the Fan family's courtyard, I have sent someone to look for it, and there is no trace of the Bodhi tree."
At this point, the king finally understood why he couldn't catch you that day: you didn't disappear out of thin air, but you transformed into the true body of the Bodhi tree, and deceived us all. ”
He explained this, and Su Qi also understood. Zhang Pu is a Bodhi tree cultivator, although he can transform into a body, but his appearance after becoming a human cannot change, so when he pretends to be a man in black, he often wears a Ugin mask.
But Mama Li, the only one who had seen his true face, followed Miss Fan to Huimu Zhai to look for Su Qi that day, and took a look at Zhang Pu who went out, and recognized her at a glance, so she was so frightened that she was incoherent. And Zhang Pu realized that he might be ganged up by Mama Li, and wanted to get rid of her in the future, but Mama Li was infatuated with him, Zhang Pu simply planned it, and colluded with her to stage a hijacking and blackmail under the pretext of promising to take Mama Li away and fly away.
"The Bodhi tree once accompanied the Buddha's epiphany, and it is the most intelligent and compassionate tree in the world." Su Qi looked at Zhang Pu, his eyes were full of helplessness, "Mama Li, why is she innocent?" What are the soldiers of the Yanbei Army? As a Bodhi, why did you abandon your heart, fall into the demonic path, and create murders one after another?! ”
"That half-old was to blame, as for those Qiu Ba of the loyal and brave camp," Zhang Pu snorted coldly, with a chill in his eyes, "They deserve it!" ”
Mu Yunsong said in a cold voice: "What is the crime of my loyal and brave guards? ”
"The slaughter of loyal martyrs has caused my beloved wife to die in the wilderness! Dare to ask the prince, should such a sin be killed?! ”
When he said this, everyone was shocked, Su Qi saw Zhang Pu's face full of pain and resentment, and couldn't help but persuade: "Brother Zhang's mourning, you have suffered this disaster, and you are separated from your lover Yin and Yang, which is indeed regrettable." But everything is a cause and effect, you don't have to worry about it in front of the prince, and tell the ins and outs of the future clearly, and the prince will make a fair decision. ”
Hearing her say this, Zhang Pu calmed down his emotions for a while, and then looked at Mu Yunsong's gaze, obviously guarded, and only turned his eyes to Su Qi and said, "You guessed right, I, Zhang Pu, am indeed a Bodhi tree spirit who has cultivated for thousands of years.
I was originally a Bodhi in the Maha Bodhi Temple in Tianzhu Kingdom, and I was enlightened by a high monk, and I finally turned into a human form after practicing for thousands of years.
At that time, the abbot of Huiming in the temple said that I had deep roots in wisdom and persuaded me to take refuge in Buddhism, but I thought that I had spent a thousand years in the temple and had never seen the world outside.
So I bid farewell to the Mahabodhi Monastery and traveled all the way to Dayan, from the southwest border all the way to the north, but inadvertently encountered the biggest crisis in a thousand years.
Bodhi is a sacred tree, and a Bodhi tree spirit that has been cultivated for thousands of years like me is even rarer in the world. The world of demons and monsters has no laws, and the law of the jungle is important, and in the eyes of the spirits who have cultivated to a higher level, it is the elixir of great replenishment.
Walking to the northern border of Dayan, I was targeted by a winged demon with advanced cultivation, and had a fierce battle with him, and finally reluctantly drove him away, but I myself suffered a heavy blow and had to re-transform into a Bodhi tree seed, bury myself deep in the ground, collect my breath, and cultivate to heal my wounds. ”
Zhang Pu was talking about a very tragic past, but when he said this, his expression became soft, and there was a little inexplicable embarrassment in his eyes: "The place where I buried my wounds deeply happened to be a flower garden, and I was watered and fertilized every day, and in the spring of March, it was ...... sprouted. ”
Think of a thousand-year-old Bodhi tree spirit that shrinks itself into a mass and buries itself deep in the ground, with two tender green leaves on its head...... Well, it's really embarrassing, Su Qi couldn't help laughing.
"The owner of the flower garden was named Ah Luo, who was only a little girl of four or five years old at that time, and when she saw that there was an unknown bud in her flowers, she was overjoyed, and thought that it was a gift from God, so she took care of it more carefully, and often came to talk and chat with the Bodhi bud."
Speaking of this, Zhang Pu lowered his eyes and smiled: "That little girl is hindering my cultivation every day, and she is very noisy, but she can't leave, so I can only listen patiently." Listening to it is the passage of time, and her words have changed from childish words to girl's thoughts.
At that time, Ah Luo had grown to the age of eighteen, and she was born slim and beautiful like a flower, and the linden tree was already tall and straight, which could shelter her from the wind and rain. One day, Ah Lao suddenly staggered and ran, hugged the Bodhi tree and cried bitterly, saying that her father owed Zhang Laohu, the chief of security, a lot of money and could not pay it back, so Zhang Laohu sent thugs to the door to threaten her father, asking her father to send her to Zhang's house as a concubine to pay off her debts, otherwise she would drag Ah Luo's twelve-year-old brother to serve as a strong man to serve hard labor. Ah Luo's father felt sorry for his son, and had to promise to send Ah Luo to Zhang's house tomorrow.
Ah Luo cried and said that the chief Zhang Laohu was a well-known bully, with a murderous temperament and quirks, and that he had killed three or five of her concubines. Ah Luo was very scared, but he didn't dare to tell his father, so he had to hug the Bodhi tree and cry to death. ”
Zhang Pu's eyes were a little red, and his voice was low and hoarse: "I hadn't recovered from my injuries at that time, but I couldn't watch Ah Luo fall into the fire pit and lose his life in vain, so I had to fight to repair myself and turn into a human form in advance."
When I reincarnated into my human form, I heard that Ah Luo had been sent to Zhang's house. I was so anxious that I rushed to Zhang's house like crazy, kicked open the door of the tiger's house, and saw Ah Luo stripped naked and hung on the beams of the house. If I were one step too late, she would have been poisoned by the tiger. I was so angry that I killed Zhang Laohu on the spot, rescued Ah Luo and escaped all the way.
Ah Luo was frightened and frightened, and had a high fever for several days. I placed her in a farmhouse on the hill and took care of her for a few days, but she finally woke up, but everything was lost.
I had to tell her my true identity and tell her that I had been taken care of by her all these years, and that I had already had a secret affection for her and could not give it up, and if she wanted, I would marry her and promise her to be with her for the rest of her life. ”
"Ah Luo agreed?" Su Qi couldn't help but interject, feeling that this story was finally developing in a heartwarming direction.
Zhang Pu nodded with a smile in his eyes: "The two of us lived in the mountain village, I cut wood and hunted, and she planted vegetables and flowers." Time passed so plainly and happily, ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, we already have a son and a daughter under our knees, and Ah Luo is pregnant with a child in her womb, which is a happy and happy family. But the world is unkind, and the waves are rising again.