Chapter 33, the storm comes
The wind and rain in Jingzhou hit, under the heavy rain and strong wind, the people on the street hurriedly took refuge, although the brightly dressed people were a little hurried, but Shi Shiran walked into the various restaurants, teahouses or shops on the street, drinking wine and tasting tea, maybe by hiding from the rain to buy things by the way.
As for the poor people or street vendors, they can only find a place to shelter from the rain, if they hide under the eaves of other people's houses, and they still smile and say kind things in the hope that others will allow them.
Gu Jianping walked in the wind and rain, walking unhurriedly, the heavy rain hit his bald head, stirring up a little splash, and provoking a few children hiding from the rain under the eaves next to him laughed.
Seeing such a scene, Gu Jianping also smiled, touched his bald head and continued to step forward, suddenly a figure in front of him rushed over, he hurriedly dodged, and then the figure on the opposite side seemed to not see the front of him, but he sped up a step and just bumped into his arms.
With the huge impact, Gu Jianping couldn't help but take a step back slightly, he grabbed the shoulder of the figure that came over, and was about to ask, but the figure hurriedly retreated, revealing a delicate face.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry to get home. "Said the rain that hurried into the distance
"It's strange, looking at how this figure and face look like a woman, could it be that I have encountered the vulgar things of women disguised as men in all worlds. “
"No, I'm a monk, and I look average, it's not good! The things in my box" Gu Jianping was shocked
Looking for a quiet and uninhabited alley, Gu Jianping opened the box, in addition to his own clothes and some silver two plates, there were also important items entrusted by the abbot of Xiangguo Temple in Jingzhou to the dragon monk.
"Amitabha, how did this thief steal that important item from this locked box, and still be able to hide from my warning" Gu Jianping was puzzled for a while
Walk along the most prosperous eastern street in the city until two and a half miles to the east and then walk south into a small alley, here are the weekday residences of many day laborers in the city, low houses, poorly furnished, although it is in Kyoto, where the imperial city is located, but it is also a slum where people work every day for a bite of food and clothing, but often unable to settle the bill on the same day, starving and cold.
As a result, there will inevitably be things that will not be seen in the dark, and to some extent, more than 80% of the petty thieves in Kyoto come from here.
As the headquarters of thieves and thieves, related sects or gangs naturally exist, and a delicate figure is like a light swallow, scurrying on the low houses and trees, and the figure flickering into a fairly magnificent triple entry and exit courtyard.
Tianjiao Gate, three quaint characters engraved on a red camphor plaque in the main hall. Hearing this undetectable movement, a middle-aged woman in the room said with a smile on her face
"Swallow, you're back, it's raining so hard outside....."
"Master, look what treasure I just got"""" The swallow jumped into the house and said with a smile
"Hey, this letter is a unique self-destructive method of Buddhism. The middle-aged woman walked out with a smile, grabbed the void in the direction of the swallow with her right hand, and then a surprising scene appeared, the letter that the swallow stole from Gu Jianping's closed box actually appeared in the middle-aged woman's hand.
Void theft, this is how this middle-aged woman became the master of the sect and allowed the sect to survive in Kyoto, a place where dragons and snakes are mixed to the bottom.
"Wow, Master, your Heavenly Thief Demon Hand is getting more and more powerful, I was so vigilant just now that I couldn't even notice how you stole things. Swallow said with a smile
"Practice makes perfect, Yanzi's talent is far above mine, maybe in another three or five years, the level of your Heavenly Dao Demon Hand will already surpass me. The middle-aged woman said
"Master, this thing is being dealt with, whether to sell it on the underground black market or wait for the monks to redeem it. Swallow asked
"From the content of this letter on the cover, it seems that the Buddha Gate Songshan General Altar is empty to preside over the host of the Great Xiangguo Temple, plus this also has a means of self-destruction, such as the specifications, presumably the major events involved in the Buddhism must be related to Kyoto and even the world, plus a while ago the Eight Sages King and the Prince have been to the Songshan Temple. It seems that the news of the doom in Kyoto is true nine times out of ten. ”
"The Great Tribulation of the World, in that case, is it time for our Heavenly Thief Gate to rise. Swallow asked curiously
"It's difficult, in the past, when the Liang Kingdom was founded, the thirty-seventh sect master of our sect made so many contributions, but now, in the eyes of those people, we will always be petty thieves who can't be on the stage. ”
"Hmph, those hateful guys, especially the Buddha Sect bald monks, I will steal their things again today, and they will feel distressed when I steal them. The swallow said angrily
"Silly boy, I'm talking angrily again. ”
"But according to what you say, it's unwilling to let them redeem this thing easily, well, let me think about it. After thinking about it for a long time, the middle-aged woman still couldn't make up her mind, she said slowly
The place of life is unfamiliar, and the task items have been stolen again, this is a very embarrassing thing for Gu Jianping, before he came, he promised the empty host that he would definitely deliver the things to Xiangguo Temple on time to the hands of the dragon host.
Kyoto, just like a pool there, can't see anything on the surface, but only those who have experienced it here for a period of time know how unfathomable the pool water here is, and how many mysterious and weird means there are below, today Gu Jianping can be regarded as having seen it.
The heavy rain finally stopped, Gu Jianping wandered on the streets near the Great Xiangguo Temple, and the time to deliver things as agreed was up, although he thought of how to find the thief, but for the means of stealing his own things, Gu Jianping never figured it out, such a strange thing, for him, this is not only a lesson but also a foreshadowing.
Above the sky, the black clouds were surging, and the rain that had stopped had fallen some raindrops, and the cold wind with moisture blew, blowing Gu Jianping's simple cyan monk's robe even more wet.
The wind and rain came, this matter is just the beginning, and there will be more bizarre and strange things in the future, Gu Jianping believes that this is what he will experience, there is no way to avoid it, some of these things come directly to him as today, and some come back from the people around him or even strangers who have nothing to do with him, all in all, Gu Jianping will eventually be involved in it.
Why is this, Gu Jianping has a faint guess and answer in his heart.
Coming to a side door of Daxiangguo Temple, Gu Jianping knocked on the copper ring on the door, and it was a white-haired old monk who came to open the door.
As soon as he stepped into this door, Gu Jianping felt like he had stepped into another world.