Fang Buyi's "home" is a dilapidated temple, on Anyang Mountain on the outskirts of Tongzhou City, about an hour away from Tongzhou City.

Although Anyang Mountain is known as a mountain, it is actually just a large soil slope that stretches for more than ten miles, and it is not very steep. The dilapidated temple where Fang Buyi lives is halfway up the mountain in Anyang Mountain.

Fang Buyi brought food and trotted all the way back to the ruined temple.

Although he was young, his body was very strong, and his foot strength was quite good, and he came to the halfway point of Anyang Mountain in less than an hour.

Seeing that the ruined temple was ahead, I suddenly heard a burst of dog barking from the ruined temple, mixed with the panicked cry of a little girl.

Fang Buyi thought to himself: "Those big wild dogs have come to the temple to be guests again, and they scared Sister Ling'er to cry." ”

He galloped to his feet, and in a short time he came to the gate of the ruined temple.

Looking through the cracks in the broken gate, there were four wild dogs barking wildly in the courtyard. A little girl was crying, but she heard only the crying, but there was no one in sight, and she didn't know where she was hiding.

Fang Buyi shouted loudly: "Ling'er, don't be afraid, watch my brother beat these dogs." ”

The little girl's voice came from a side room, and she cried with joy: "Brother Buyi, you are finally back!" ”

When the four wild dogs saw Fang Buyi walk in, they let out a low roar from their mouths, revealing their fangs, and pounced on him.

Fang Buyi hurriedly picked up a long stick with a thick arm from the door, and hit the wild dog in front of him, and hit it with a stick, which hit the door of the head, and with a muffled sound, knocked the wild dog to the ground, and whined twice.

Fang Buyi was obviously familiar with beating dogs, and the long stick in his hand sometimes swept across, sometimes poked, and sometimes slammed. Either in the head of the wild dog, or in the waist, on the back.

The wild dogs were in pain, and gradually became frightened, and did not dare to pounce on them again. After eating a few more sticks, he didn't dare to bark, and ran out of the temple gate with his tail between his legs.

Fang Buyi chased away the wild dogs, stood in the center of the yard, and shouted loudly: "Ling'er, are you okay?" It's time to come out! ”

I only heard a "squeak", and a little girl of five or six years old ran out of a dilapidated side room, pounced on Fang Buyi, tears flashed in her eyes, and shouted: "Brother Buyi! Stretched out a pair of small hands and hugged Fang Buyi.

The little girl was dressed in pink, a little shabby, but clean. There are some cyan patches on it, and the thread is crooked, which is a masterpiece of square cloth.

Fang Buyi looked at her red little face, a pair of big black eyes, shining with tears, two faint tear stains hanging on her cheeks, pitiful, gently patted her back, and said, "Good Ling'er, it's okay, the wild dogs have been beaten away by my brother!" ”

Ling'er sobbed for a while before stopping.

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Fang Buyi led Ling'er to the main hall.

This hall is tall and spacious, except for a Maitreya Buddha that is more than three feet long, and some dilapidated living utensils that the two usually use, it seems empty.

The Maitreya Buddha was smiling, but his face was covered with patina, which made his expression look a little awkward.

Fang Buyi comforted Ling'er for a while, and suddenly said mysteriously, "What do you think this is?" ”

put the large paper bag given to him by the middle-aged beggar on a straw mat, and looked at Ling'er expectantly.

Ling'er blinked her big eyes and said, "Hey, Brother Buyi, what is this?" Fang Buyi said: "You open it and take a look?" ”

Ling'er opened the paper bag, and the roast chicken was revealed, although it was a little cold, it was still fragrant. Next to the roast chicken, there are two meat buns and three eggs.

Ling'er clapped her hands and said, "It's so fragrant, it's delicious!" ”

Fang Buyi said: "Don't be busy eating, I'm lucky today, I brought you something." ”

Ling'er saw Fang Buyi's mysterious face and said, "What is that?" Fang Buyi said: "You close your eyes first." ”

Ling'er obediently closed her eyes, her face full of expectation.

Fang Buyi took out a red head rope from her arms, put it in her hand, and said, "Okay, I'll count one, two, three, and you will open your eyes." Then he counted three times.

Ling'er opened her eyes and saw that what she was holding in her hand was the red-headed rope that she had been thinking about, and she giggled, her voice as beautiful as a silver bell.

Fang Buyi tied the red head rope to her hair bun, took an old bronze mirror in front of her eyes, and asked, "Is it good-looking?" ”

Ling'er said happily: "It's good-looking! With a smile on his face, he hugged Fang Buyi again.

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At dusk, Fang Buyi lit a fire in the hall, put the roast chicken by the fire and heated it, and the brother and sister feasted on it.

The remaining half was put into an old clay pot and saved for tomorrow.

At night, the wind suddenly blew fiercely, and after a few thunderstorms, several lightning bolts streaked across the night sky, followed by torrential rain.

Fang Buyi laid a straw mat and an old mattress for Ling'er, and was about to lull her to sleep.

We heard a young man's voice say, "Senior sister, it's raining so hard!" You see there's a fire in front of you, and I think there's a family, so let's just go and hide. ”

Fang Buyi felt strange in his heart, thinking that very few people came to this dilapidated temple all year round, and there were few people passing by, and this man and woman didn't know what they were doing.

Fang Buyi thought so, and the man's voice had already reached the courtyard: "It turned out to be just a ruined temple." There was a hint of disappointment in his voice.

A young woman's voice said, "If the temple is broken, the temple will be broken, as long as you can shelter from the rain." He said loudly, "Anyone?" ”

Following the sound of footsteps, the door of the hall was opened, and two monks, a man and a woman, wearing rain hats, appeared at the entrance of the main hall.

Fang Buyi took advantage of the firelight to see the man's thick eyebrows and big eyes, his appearance was honest, and the woman's ice muscles and snow skin were pretty and colorful, and they were all around twenty-five or sixteen years old. The two were dressed in cyan robes, the clothes were very gorgeous, and they held hands, most of them were a pair of lovers.

The two of them were soaking wet, with a long sword stuck diagonally on their backs, and a cloth bag hanging from their waists, and they didn't know what was inside.

When the male monk saw Fang Buyi and Ling'er, he looked stunned and said, "It turned out to be two children, so I was disturbed a lot." "I thought it was just two children, so I didn't need to be polite.

Fang Buyi said: "The two brothers and sisters don't need to be polite, and my sister and I don't have anything to entertain, please take care of yourself." ”

The two of them found a spacious and clean place on the left side of the main hall, found two old straw benches, and sat down to rest.

Ling'er timidly hid behind the cloth coat and peeked at the female monk. Seeing that she had a beautiful face and beautiful clothes, her eyes were full of envy.

When the monk saw that Ling'er was cute, she smiled and said, "Little sister, your red head rope is so beautiful!" What's your name and this little brother's? ”

Ling'er replied timidly: "My name is Ling'er, and this is my brother Fang Buyi." After a while, he said, "Sister, you are so beautiful in this dress." ”

The female monk's eyes turned and she said to the male monk, "Senior brother, have you heard, this girl has much more vision than you." ”

The monk had just set up a simple shelf and said, "Make fun of your brother again!" Don't say it, these two babies have a good name. As he spoke, he took off his outer robe and hung it on the shelf.

Just as the monk took off his robe, a black mass fell in front of him with a "snap" and rolled twice.

Fang Buyi looked at it, and it turned out that a piece of black cloth had fallen to the ground, and next to the black cloth were two severed hands. The severed hand was cut off very flat, as if it had been cut with a sword. The blood had clotted black, and it looked terrifying.

When Ling'er heard the voice, she looked at the two severed hands, and then she was shocked and screamed. Fang Buyi hurriedly blindfolded Ling'er and buried her head in his arms.

The friar said, "Don't frighten the children, too. With an apologetic look on his face, the monk quickly picked up the black cloth, wrapped his limbs and severed his hands, and put them aside, feeling that it was not appropriate, and covered them with a rain hat.

The female monk said softly to Ling'er: "Don't be afraid, Ling'er, the eldest brother is careless, he scared you, and my sister will compensate you." ”

Although Fang Buyi didn't call out, he was already frightened.

The female monk said to Fang Buyi again: "Little brother, you tell Ling'er, don't be afraid. Those hands were cut off from the great wicked people. Master sent me and my brother to track him down for thousands of miles and kill him with a sword, this is called eliminating harm for the people, and we are going to go back and tell Master. ”

Before Fang Buyi could decide whether to believe the female monk's words, the male monk suddenly said, "Senior sister, listen, someone is coming." ”

The female monk listened attentively, her face changed slightly, and she said, "It's the officers and soldiers of the Yu Kingdom, there seem to be about twenty of them, and they seem to be all samurai, not like they came to us." "The so-called samurai are monks who practice physical arts, and those who practice magic are called monks.

Fang Buyi only heard the wind and rain outside, and there was no other sound, and thought: "Why can't I hear it, do these two people have ears to the wind, you can hear someone coming from a distance." ”

The male monk said in a low voice: "Let's kill that thief, most of the spiritual power has been consumed, if the officers and soldiers start to move, it will be very troublesome, why don't you avoid it first?" The female monk snorted softly and said, "We are monks of the Shang Kingdom, and we are not under their control, and we have not done anything illegal and forbidden in the territory of the Yu Kingdom, can we still be arrested and sent to prison?" The monk stopped talking.

After a long time, Fang Buyi heard a noise of people and horses neighing in the distance, mixed with the metal sound of armor and weapons colliding, the sound was getting closer and closer, it seemed that it was really a group of officers and soldiers.

He had lived in this dilapidated temple for more than a year, and he had never seen so many people tonight, so he couldn't help but feel strange.