Chapter VI: Arrest

Monk Zhu got the country, and at first he was busy with government affairs, and he didn't have time to take care of Luguang Temple. When I was a little free, when I lived a comfortable life, I thought back to the difficulties of the battle, and naturally thought of the thrilling scene of Luguang Temple in my emotion, if it wasn't for the dense rescue with the Buddha's heart fist, his life would have been gone. For several years, he did not see Mibu asking for help from the imperial court, so he sent several envoys to visit Mibu, and also gave a lot of gifts, and invited the master to the capital. Mi Bu not only refused to accept the item, but also refused the invitation. is so ignorant of lifting, he dares to live up to the emperor's order, if it is someone else, his head has moved several times. Monk Zhu saw the face of the monks, so he had to shake his head and sigh, not caring about it.

On the contrary, the emperor sent people several times, which made Mibu worried, and the reason why he handled the treasures in a low-key manner was because he didn't want others to worry about it, and he didn't want the temple to be famous, so he wanted the temple to return to peace. But he didn't expect that disaster would come.

On that day, after the red sandalwood box of the spiritual pagoda was opened, there was also a brocade box, thinking that it must be a treasure given by the emperor, but when the silk in the brocade box was opened, everyone was stunned, there was no treasure in it at all, only a scripture. Zheng Xiao couldn't believe it, and neither did Puzhao, Zhixin and the monks.

You bald donkeys, where did you come from, how dare you bewitch the people, and tease your own officials, what crime are you willing to do?

Zheng Xiao was immediately furious, did not listen to Puzhao's explanation, and had to let the officials tie him up and escort him to the county for questioning.

This is strange, the emperor has clearly given treasures, how can there be only one scripture? It seems that the monk must have stolen the treasure alone.

Zheng Xiao was annoyed and ashamed, and after returning home, he wrote a chapter and sent someone to the capital.

Monk Zhu never thought that this kind of thing would happen in Lingguang Temple, and thought of urging Mibu to enter Beijing several times, but it turned out that Mibu had another plan, and he actually stole the treasures given by the emperor without permission, and in anger, he issued an edict to arrest Mibu. But he demanded "no injury, no death, no posting." ”

The officials of Dali Temple sent by the imperial court rushed to Lingguang Temple to investigate on the spot, and through understanding, it was confirmed that the dense suspicion was the greatest. Then the group was led by Luo Shuangxing of the left and right temples and rushed to the Guoqing Temple in Tiantai, Zhejiang. The emperor asked for "three noes", and they also dressed up in disguise, only carrying short knives, not revealing the identity of the officials, and bringing the official documents of Dali Temple.

From Nanjing to Tiantai Guoqing Monastery, I walked for seven or eight days. They approached the presiding officer and asked him, saying that Mibu had left the monastery and returned. Luo Shuangxing didn't believe it, and turned this ancient temple established by the Sui Dynasty upside down, only to believe that Mibu was gone, so he looked for a way back and kept chasing it.

Luo Shuangxing took the servants to look for it along the way, and chased it all the way to Lingguang Temple, but still didn't see a dense figure, so he had to go back empty-handed to report. These people are all first-class masters in Ouchi, and they never miss a crack in detecting and arresting people on weekdays, but this time they failed, for fear that the emperor would blame them, so they hid at home and didn't dare to go out. Luo Shuangxing was very scared, and after thinking about it for a day, he still went to report it. Sure enough, Monk Zhu was furious and scolded him for having no brains. When Monk Zhu was a traveling monk, he knew very well the way the monks traveled and visited, and when he came back from the rooftop, he must have visited the famous mountain monasteries along the way, how could he be in a hurry like a merchant traveler? He asked Luo Shuangxing to search the monasteries along the way, and he would definitely find dense cloth.

Luo Shuangxing suddenly realized, admired the emperor's wisdom, and hurriedly led more than ten officials to go out to look for it again.

In fact, the matter of the county order Zheng Xiao excavating the spiritual pagoda of the temple soon spread in the temple. Soon after Mibu came out of Guoqing Temple, he met a wandering monk and heard about it. He smiled knowingly, and still leisurely traveled among the mountains and rivers. One day, near Meicheng, I saw a team of horses galloping by. He then diverted to the Xin'an River and entered Jiangxi.

Luo Shuangxing followed the road from Lingguang Temple to Tiantai again, checked several temples, and later got the news at the Daciyan Hanging Temple near Meicheng. Mibu was here the other day.

Jiande Daciyan Hanging Temple is the founding patriarch Mo Ziyuan in the Yuan Dade period, who abandoned his home from Lin'an to here, and the stone was named after the Buddha. Luo Shuangxing came here for the first time, and he was very amazed to see the temple on the cliff, so he took the official to the top of the mountain. He observed the nearby terrain and road direction from the top of the mountain, and judged that the dense cloth might enter the west, so he led people to look in the direction of Jiangxi.

Speaking of dense, when he was young, he had traveled to hundreds of temples in the south of the Yangtze River, and some temples in the deep mountains and old forests had also been there, this time he avoided the official road and walked the mountain path, so that the whereabouts of the dense were confusing.

Luo Shuangxing tossed around in Jiangxi for several months, but there was still no dense news, so I had to return to Lingguang Temple. Puzhao handed him a dense letter in person, saying that he had been a layman for three years, and instructed them to manage the monastery and protect the royal treasures. Luo Shuangxing was stunned for a moment, and the dense payment did not indicate the address time, it seems that it is indeed not easy to find a needle in a haystack. He had no choice but to return to the capital to report to the emperor.

Monk Zhu pondered for a long time and waved his hand to retreat.

After Luo Shuangxing left the palace, he was so worried that he was going to die, and hurriedly went to see Lang Hongjie, the right attendant of the Criminal Department. Hong Jie is his cousin, and he is also the third-in-command in the Criminal Department, he is well-informed, and he wants to hear his opinion when he encounters today's events and what are the dangerous signs.

Hong Jie is in the Criminal Department, holding the power of life and death, and has developed his careful and cautious character. He figured out what was going on, then slapped the table.

Shuangxing, you have been doing things for many years, how can you be so careless?

Cousin, why did you say that?

The emperor's life-saving benefactor, and a monk, has long abandoned the world, knowing that this is a capital crime, why does he want to be greedy for treasures? The emperor's "three noes" must have a reason.

Luo Shuangxing was stunned for a moment, and did not agree with his cousin's statement, because Mibu hid the treasure in the spirit pagoda, he didn't want people to know and find it, so that the treasure could be taken as owned. Zheng Xiao's digging of the treasure was purely accidental, and it was not expected.

Although they are monks, there are many people who are immortal and greedy for money.

So why didn't the emperor pursue your misconduct?

yes. Luo Shuangxing felt trembling. According to common sense, they missed twice and failed to complete the arrest task, with the temper of the current emperor, they would have cut off their heads a long time ago, but this time the emperor did not say anything. It seems that things are not so simple.

Cousin, what should I do then? Will the emperor be held responsible?

Hong Jie sighed deeply, patted Luo Shuangxing's shoulder and said, resign yourself to fate!