Chapter 16: Anecdotes
Hejian, Zhulin County.
A few months ago, Yan Chongyue, the general of the former Liang Zhennan, had led his troops to fight with the Northern Qi army, the battlefield was only twenty miles away from here, and the people in the city were panicked at that time.
Later, when the news of Jingshi Jianye came, the border army disturbed that this was returned to the king of Jingqin, and the army's heart was unstable.
Sure enough, soon after, due to the appearance of the generals, the command was turbulent, and the front line was defeated.
The routed thieves and the invading Northern Qi Dynasty flaunted their might, attacked and plundered the surrounding counties. The county lord of Zhulin had expected it, and slipped away with his family, leaving only the elders in the city and a group of village soldiers, who were unable to support themselves and were quickly defeated in the face of the invasion.
The county seat was broken and plundered for three days.
The tragedy is horrifying, and even after a few months, the people who have returned to this place still have lingering palpitations.
Now, half a year later, the city is depressed, no longer lively, pedestrians are in twos and threes, bowing their heads and hiding their faces, and walking in a hurry.
Crunch!
In the suburbs of the city, in a manor, the courtyard door was opened and closed, and the bolt was pulled down.
The servant led the way, and trotted briskly towards the inner hall with a middle-aged man, who looked a little solemn and nervous.
"Big deal!"
"Big deal!"
In the hall, several people in regular clothes were discussing, but they heard a rush of pace outside the door, and then saw that their previously steady companions were so out of shape, they were all shocked, and they unconsciously lifted their hearts.
I saw several pot-bellied middle-aged people standing up one after another, surrounding the man, and asking anxiously.
"Brother Huitang, what's going on?!"
"Did the old horseman find out?"
"What can I do? Do it in advance! ”
The middle-aged man who was overwhelmed by the noise couldn't stop breathing, and he couldn't take a breath, so he listened to the slightly flustered words of a few people on both sides in his ears, and was annoyed for a while, raising his arm to push everyone away, but he couldn't move.
Until another person in the hall put down the teacup, slowly got up and took care of his robes, and took in the ugliness of several people, a trace of disdain flashed, and he slammed the table and made a bang.
At the same time, he shouted: "A little thing will make you panic so far, what kind of system!" ”
"What if the man finds out?"
"Everything has been completed, there is help from far and near, great things can be achieved in front of us, and we have no way back!"
“……”
Alas, some people sighed, and others were infected by the other's calmness, and relaxed their minds and no longer panicked.
Yes, they are not only these few people, but also help outside, there are strong men, money and food, plus the people and horses of the Huanxi Sect and the Worry-free Sect, and a few days ago, they also bought a large number of weapons and armor from various military offices, how can it not be done?
They were ashamed that they were too panicked when they were the first to do such a thing.
On the other side, ignoring them, the man looked at the 'Huitang Brother' who broke into the door and caused waves.
Blandly said, "What the hell is going on?" Did the old guy really see through it? Oh, it's not too late. ”
After all, he is the head of a mansion, and in this period of decay, the court has fallen, the border is in an emergency, and the original lord of the mansion has become the de facto emperor of the soil, and he has the ability and the keenness to detect the abnormal.
There is also this Li Huitang, who originally thought that he was an old man who was serious, otherwise he would not have instructed him in all foreign affairs, but the slightest turmoil made the hall panic. …
The heart is still small......
Sighing, this person looked at Li Huitang, planning to knock on it in private for a while, this person is still reliable.
Unexpectedly, Li Huitang poured a few sips of tea and said a strange thing that was jaw-dropping.
"What a woe! Brother Du! ”
"In the City...... A whole bunch of bandits have come to the city! shouted to surrender to the government office! He also said that he wanted to confess his crimes! ”
Bandits? Everyone is still thinking about it, what is this, it is better to say that there are fewer bandits, and their goods can go safer, it is better to say that it is a good thing.
But it is a miracle that those bandits who killed a thousand knives would go to the government office to surrender.
However, only Brother Du seemed to think of something after hearing this.
With a snap, he pushed everyone away, took half a step forward, clutched the other party's shirt, and his eyes tightened.
"You say, a gang of bandits turned themselves in!?"
"How many! Where did it come from! ”
Gritting teeth, lip flaps trembling.
The gaze selects and devours people, as if it is incredulous, and it is confirmed.
Li Huitang saw Brother Du's panic and puzzlement, he heard the same when he first heard it, and went to investigate in person, and found that it was indeed the group of people they had contacted before.
The 'birthday thief' of Guangdu Mountain.
So he nodded.
After a while, Brother Du's expression in front of the meeting suddenly turned pale, and fine sweat appeared on his forehead.
The two strands of war, Fang Cai's calmness and freedom were no longer visible, like thin leaves in the wind, panting, and the next moment he was about to fall to the ground.
"Brother Du!"
"Shopkeeper Du!"
The people around still didn't know the reason, but when they saw that Brother Du, who was still in charge of the overall situation before a few breaths, he had changed into a look like he was about to lose his breath in just a few words, and he was immediately anxious.
Qi Qi rushed forward to help, calling.
"Hugh...... ......"
"I ...... Big ......"
Pushing and shaking, the middle-aged man surnamed Du always lost his mind, and only at the last moment, his eyes were wide.
"A thief is not to be conspired with! The ancients did not deceive me! ”
After a heartbroken wail, he fell to the ground.
The ups and downs of the changes, no one could have imagined, the hall was in chaos, and the howls were endless.
……
Chen Yu didn't expect that someone really had the idea of the location of this spring.
Breadth Mountain, mountain bandit gate.
He walked leisurely, looking around, and it was much more deserted than when he first came here half a day ago.
There were about two hundred mountain bandits originally stationed here, and they were cleaned up by him, and Chen Yu, who was cultivating and nurturing, did not kill without permission this time, even if most of them were stained with blood, which can be called extremely vicious.
He only manipulated the aura, slightly changed part of the consciousness of these people, let them lose their troops and unload their armor, went to the bottom of the mountain in a daze, and confessed their crimes.
Thinking of the news that came out of the leader's mouth, he felt that the prince outside the mountain should be happy to welcome this group of people.
Looking at the circle, the layout is sloppy, and the building is disorganized.
You can't expect a group of bandits who can only fight and loot to keep the mountain clean.
Back in the courtyard, the cypress trees grew tall, and there were stacks of grass around the courtyard wall. Compared to the chaos and dirt of the rest of the place, at least the mansion in front of me can barely be seen.
He had thought that such a place would be occupied by the leader of the bandits, but the memories and thoughts he had taken out of the other party's head had told him that there were other people living there. …
Walking through the courtyard, spacious and level. The large tree is in the corner with lush branches and fallen leaves, and the stone table is piled up below.
It's quite a mood.
It's a pity that the owner doesn't know how to cultivate himself, and he wasted this good place in vain.
Chen Yu went to the courtyard and found a few Buddhist scriptures, but the scribbles on them were messy, and some sentences and paragraphs were commented on by ink in dog-like characters.
Make it up.
More than half a year ago, he traveled to the north and south, and he looked at the scriptures and books, and he didn't say that the true meaning of the increasingly localized interpretation of the two dynasties in the north and south was the ancestral land on the desert in the Western Regions, and Chen Yu had not been there.
In short, apart from the paper scrolls and titles, these scriptures in front of me are almost incompatible with the orthodox exegesis.
I looked at it, and the front was fine, persuading people to be good, karma and so on, but the more back I turned it, I could see that the person who wrote the book was carrying private goods.
"Joy Sect?"
His eyes fell on the name of the person who left the pen at the end, and it seemed that the other party seemed to be quite proud of changing such a book of scriptures.
Occupying the size of half a piece of paper, he wrote down a few words in thick ink about the Great Master of Joy Sect Zuo Zen Enlightenment.
Ugly is ugly, Chen Yu can barely recognize the meaning.
It was at this time that he remembered this sect and had dealt with it before.
At that time, I went down the mountain to visit my uncle, but I met a flower thief who was doing evil, and I cleaned it up by the way.
I still have a memory, the other party seems to be from Hejian, a disciple of the Liu family in Liangxiang, and his martial arts come from this sect of Buddhism called Huanxi.
However, at present, it seems that the so-called branch of Buddhism is nothing more than a group of people with ill-intentioned ambitions who put gold on their faces, who have not read all the scriptures and teachings, and whose books are full of distorted interpretations and proper cults.
"Woody Mountain ......"
He remembered that he asked at that time, and the other party was apprenticed to a master in Wulin Mountain, and was taught a technique called "The Sutra of Miaojue of All Beings", which was claimed to be able to win the woman's Yuanyin cultivation and break through the realm.
And Wulin Mountain is not far from Zhulin County.
In fact, Chen Yu couldn't find this exercise book from the courtyard just now, or the flower thief surnamed Liu was deceived, and Huanxijiao took a book of exercises from nowhere at random to bluff. Either this thing is not available to ordinary people in the Joy Sect, and the owner carries it with him at all times, and rarely spreads it.
Fortunately, he found not only one hundred and ten taels of gold from the leader's bedroom, but also a copy of the "Ten Thousand Teachings of His Life".
There is only half of it, which is known as the men's Yuanyang cultivation.
A perfect match belongs to yes.
I don't know why the five big and three rough bandit leaders hid such a secret in the bedroom and covered it up with a mechanism.
But from a glimpse of it, Chen Yu was basically sure that this was a group of people supported by the Huanxi Sect outside, helping this group of evil monks to collect money, and doing some things that were not suitable for swaggering and deception in the name of the Sect of Interpretation.
At the same time, the foundation of the cultivation of the Huanxi Sect was roughly sorted out.
It can be summed up in four words: nonsense.
Yes, the two recipes are unexpectedly similar, but the Yuan Yin and Yuan Yang are swapped, and some of the drawings are also extremely awkward, Chen Yu, who has experience in reading thousands of martial arts, quickly recognized that this is the little paper figure cut out of the secret book of the knife and stick method on the side, and it was pieced together.
"It's amazing, it's a shame that they have practiced and put in it."
In fact, I learned from the bandit leader that not only their core doglegs were given to practice, but also some 'eminent monks' who practiced them diligently. …
It was only here that Chen Yu realized that this group of guys with the name of Buddhism had even fooled themselves into it, no wonder they were invincible to the outside world.
Shaking his head and smiling, he took a few steps and fell back under the tree.
The spring has been successfully combed, spiritual power is growing, and with the seeds sown by Chen Yu, this place will soon turn into a blessed land.
And before that......
Waving his hand, the blue flames are monstrous.
Swept through the mountain, tongues of fire licked, and his face was expressionless in the light and color, it was better not to pollute the spring in such a sinful place.
The flames were blazing, crackling and exploding, and the walls of the earthen village built by the bandits with mountain rocks were destroyed, turning into gray-black charred blocks like magma, and then shattered into ashes.
The fire burned for half a moment, and hundreds of buildings within a few miles were all gone, and the flames were spiritual, and the blue light jumped to avoid the flowers and beasts.
went to the sky and clouds to overlook, he puffed out his chest and abdomen and sucked suddenly-
Qingyan is like a dragon absorbing water, rolling upside down into the sky and clouds, turning into a curling light smoke and disappearing in his mouth.
Looking again, the mountains are empty and the heat has subsided.
The greenery is as old as ever, and the flowers and plants are colorful and colorful.
"What a good place, it was previously occupied and ruined by a group of scourges."
After a moment's pause, he turned to leave, and before leaving, a handful of clouds fell from the sky, turning into a breeze, blowing away the last vestiges of residual qi.
Chen Yu, who had been running between the springs, did not know what happened after the events in the river, and only heard about it when he stayed in another place for a short time, and it seemed that war broke out again.
However, it was the local government that mobilized troops and generals to sweep and attack the mountain bandits in various mountains in the jurisdiction, and even affected several surrounding waters, and the water bandits were all reined in.
After that, I don't know whether I was forced to be helpless, or it was difficult to return, after all, there were anti-thieves raising the flag, but fortunately, the people and horses in the Guangdu Mountains had 'surrendered', not only with intelligence, but also with a large amount of armor money and food that the anti-thieves had hoarded in advance.
And the attitude of this group of people to repent and reform is too strong.
enthusiastically, crying and grabbing the earth to atone for their sins, they will take all the hard bones of the bandits to themselves.
The bandit leader, who was originally a thief and is now a Guiyi general, will go to battle every time, wearing dozens of arrows without retreating half a step.
Fierce!
It's a pity that people are made of flesh and blood after all, and more than 200 people went down the mountain to 'mend their ways', and I don't know how much is left until now, and it is estimated that all of them have been wiped out.
The prince also persuaded him, and the leader of the righteous bandits talked with the other party a few times in private, and then took the brothers who had eaten meat and drank wine with him to the next battlefield.
In private, the prince of the mansion once sighed to his relatives.
If all the bandits in this world can understand the truth, be loyal, and change their ways like the other party, why worry about the situation collapsing.
Even the thieves who were chased as bereaved dogs also respected and feared this group of people who were supposed to be companions of great things, and regretted that they could not come together.
Fear of the other's ferocity.
……
Call!
It's finally done.
On June 8, all 15 springs were completed, and Chen Yu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, when the last spring was hidden in the barrier, as if sinking into the interior scene.
There was a big trembling, and the subtleties of the previous blockage were washed through and washed through, and the texture was slightly brighter.
He looked at his side, and the Great Array of Prison Immortals had fallen to the ground from the height of the sky when it was originally arranged, and the array pattern was divided into tens of thousands of layers, connecting countless nodes, and immersing thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.
Chen Yu knew that until this moment, this large array was really running successfully.
He admired it for a moment, feeling the purer Lingxia bred out of the Three Realms Well, as well as the strong sense of connection that was transmitted, Chen Yu found in a trance that he seemed to be able to achieve what he had thought earlier, and transmit items through the Three Realms Well.
Moreover, looking at the effect of this spiritual artifact, it seems that the consumption of each transmission is not as high as imagined.