Noon.

Although the snow is a little smaller, the sky and the earth are already silvery.

The ground was covered with snow, and people stepped on the snow and squeaked.

Xiao Ding and the other four people walked through the mountain gate of Shaolin Temple, and saw the abbot Master Qingxuan leading the crowd to greet him outside the Tianwang Palace.

Apparently it had already been reported in advance.

Ye Rongqiu has changed back into men's clothes, with a long sword hanging from his waist, and he is heroic. She walked in front side by side with Xiao Ding, and her look was not inferior at all.

Xiao Ding looked at ease and full, as casual as if he was returning to his own home, and looked forward to it with a light smile.

Liu Changfeng returned to his previous indifferent look, holding the scabbard tightly in his left hand and not squinting.

Zhou Ziheng smoked his pipe as always, squinting his eyes, looking left and right.

These four people, wherever they go, can make people stop and watch.

But no one gave them a second look.

All the monks bowed down and stood solemnly behind the abbot Master Qingxuan, all with their hands folded, their eyes looking at their noses and their noses looking at their hearts.

Master Qingxuan clasped his hands together and saluted: "Amitabha, Master Ding is hiking in the snow, the old man has never greeted him from afar, forgive sins, forgive sins." ”

Xiao Ding and Ye Rongqiu bowed down and hugged their fists at the same time, and Xiao Ding said with a smile: "Master Abbot is serious, and there is a lot of disturbance when he is uninvited. ”

Master Qingxuan smiled slightly, tilted his head sideways, and said, "Where, where, a few donors, please!" ”

Abbot's room, after tea.

Master Qingxuan stood on the left and right of Jing Xuan and Jing Kong.

Putting down the teacup, Master Qingxuan looked at everyone and said solemnly: "Wudang's 'Changfeng Swordsman' Liu Changfeng, 'One Sword Horizontal Boat' Zhou Ziheng, the two donors have retired to the rivers and lakes for 20 years, although the voice and appearance have changed, but the spirit is still the same, and the old man still knows it." ”

Liu Changfeng and Zhou Ziheng bowed and clasped their fists, and Zhou Ziheng laughed and said: "The abbot really has good eyesight!" ”

"Ding Shizhu is the only young master he has seen in the past 30 years, and looking at today's rivers and lakes, there is no one in his generation who can match him. There is also this young man, whose swordsmanship must be good, and he is obviously a famous teacher. But the old man was so clumsy that he couldn't see the origin of the donor, and he was really ashamed. Amitabha! ”

Ye Rongqiu said with a smile: "In the next generation, it is a late study of the rivers and lakes, and the name is not passed on, and it is normal for the abbot master not to know the origin of the younger generation. ”

Don't look at her young age, but her experience in the rivers and lakes is no worse than Xiao Ding. This time on the mountain, friends and foes are inseparable and mixed, and the origin of the teacher will never be revealed casually.

Master Qingxuan glanced at Ye Rongqiu and said with a smile: "The donor is too humble. ”

Then he turned his head to look at Xiao Ding, and said with one hand: "Master Ding seems to have something to ask last night, please give me advice!" ”

Xiao Ding got up, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back for a few steps, and said slowly: "Then please forgive me for speaking bluntly, the mysterious person has passed the book for thousands of miles, and Shaomu Mountain has a plan to capture the dragon, this matter has long been spread in the rivers and lakes." I waited for yesterday to go to the bottom of the mountain, and last night someone secretly peeped, and was escaped by him on the way to pursue a man in black. “

After a pause, he continued: "Whether the man in black is a friend or foe is not yet known, and even whether I am a fellow or an opposing abbot in Shaolin may not be sure. Tomorrow, all the major sects and fellow martial artists will come one after another, and among them, there will be the Blue Dragon Society to help the people wait for the opportunity to act. It can be seen that the chaos of tomorrow's scene is really worrying. ”

He looked at Master Qingxuan and said, "As far as I know, there are already a few big devils in the rivers and lakes who have already sneaked here, and the other Blue Dragon Guild members will naturally not be too few. It can be seen that it is really unwise to openly inform fellow martial artists in the rivers and lakes that this secret letter about the Blue Dragon Society is hidden in Shaolin. With the abbot's style of acting, he will never be so hasty, and he really can't figure out the reason. ”

Master Qingxuan's expression was gloomy, and he sighed: "Master Ding's heart is really like a mirror, in a word. When the old man received the flying pigeon from a friend from outside the customs, his heart was also extremely shaken. This letter is related to the safety of martial arts, and if the content of it is leaked slightly, it will set off a bloody storm on the rivers and lakes, and even related to the life and death of the entire martial arts righteous path. ”

Master Qingxuan took a sip of fragrant tea, and then said: "The stakes are very high, immediately send someone to find a drunken Taoist from Wudang to come and discuss the big thing." After a night of deliberation between the drunken Taoist and the old man, it was decided that he would go to find the 'Exquisite Hand' Duan Wuxi. Because it is rumored that Duan Wuxian spent a whole year casting a lock, which no one can open except him. But ......"

Xiao Ding smiled and said: "But this matter is extraordinary, you can't pin your hopes on an iron lock, so Duan Wuxian smelted and synthesized it with extraterrestrial fine iron, and finally cast a box that is constantly slashed by knives and cannot be burned by fire, and also contains the 'Thunderbolt Hall' mechanism firearm in the box." If the box is struck by an external force, it will inevitably detonate the built-in firearm, so that even if the box accidentally falls into the hands of Xiao Xiao, no one else can get a glimpse of the contents of the letter hidden in the box. It is difficult to seize an object in the hands of the three elders of Shaolin, and even if you get it, it is just a chicken-ribbed object. Because the key that opened the box must have been kept separately and secretly. ”

Xiao Ding paused and continued: "This plan can be regarded as seamless, Shaolin is already heavily guarded, and the masters in the temple are like clouds, and the reputation of the three elders resounded through the rivers and lakes. The Blue Dragon Society would never dare to blatantly come to the door to seize the letters. Could it be ......"

Master Qingxuan took a deep breath and whispered a Buddha name: "Amitabha, as Lord Ding said, this plan could have been considered foolproof. But he never thought that on the day of the winter solstice last month, the head of the Qingcheng faction, Zao Wou-ki, suddenly visited, and the old man found out that the plan had been leaked. ”

Ye Rongqiu frowned and said, "Could it be that the head of Qingcheng has received any information?" ”

Xiao Ding smiled lightly: "It shouldn't just be him who received it." ”

Master Qingxuan glanced at Xiao Ding and said: "Master Ding Shi is really smart, that's right, not only Zhao Wouji, the head of Qingcheng, but also Xuan Lingzi, the head of Wudang, Chen Xuanguan, the head of Kongtong, the second elder of Huashan Songhe, the head of Emei, Fan Shitai, and the left protector of the beggar gang, Elder Wei and others also came one after another, because all the major factions received a letter from Shaolin at the same time. ”

Xiao Ding and Ye Rongqiu glanced at each other and were silent. Because they knew that they couldn't interrupt Master Qingxuan's speech at this time.

Master Qingxuan said in a deep voice: "Our faction received a secret letter a few days ago, the content of which is shocking, it is related to the life and death of the righteous path of martial arts, and I am willing to go to Shaomu Mountain on the day of the winter solstice to discuss countermeasures." Shaolin Qingxuan respectfully. ”

Master Qingxuan smiled helplessly and said, "These words are written in the letters received by the major factions, whether it is the tone or handwriting, they are the same as the old man. ”

Zhou Ziheng, who had been silent, took two puffs of cigarette in a hurry, and said in a loud voice: "Good means, good means, the thieves of the Blue Dragon Society knew that they could not get the secret letter, so they spread rumors everywhere in the rivers and lakes under the pretense of Shaolin, but forced Shaolin to tell the truth. ”

Ye Rongqiu continued: "They must have spread information in both black and white, presumably after the winter solstice, the area around Shaomu Mountain must have been mixed with dragons and snakes." ”

Standing behind Master Qingxuan is Jing Xuan, the elder of the Vinaya Academy, and the first Zen Master of the Dharma Academy.

I saw Jingkong clasping his hands together and said in a deep voice: "Yes, after the winter solstice, there are several times more martial arts people coming down from Shaomu Mountain than before, and there are many underworld demons who have been retired for many years. ”

Jing Xuan continued: "Although those demons dare not blatantly come to my Shaolin to find trouble, but in order to avoid extraneous branches, after the winter solstice, our temple has closed the mountain gate, no longer receives pilgrims, and strengthened patrols. ”

Liu Changfeng still didn't move his eyebrows, only to see him say coldly: "I'm just wondering, who is so clear about the inside story and familiar with the tone and handwriting of the abbot master, who will be sacred?" ”

Master Qingxuan whispered a Buddha horn and said in a deep voice: "Amitabha! Lord Liu Shi was worried, and Lao Wei also thought that the organization of the Blue Dragon Society was so huge that it would be easy to buy the disciples of a certain sect with wealth and power, but this matter was only known to the three senior uncles and the drunken Daoist, and even the two nephews of Jingxuan Jingkong did not know. The three uncles have long been otherworldly and don't care about earthly things, and the drunken Taoist is even unwilling to do it in order to enjoy the pleasure of traveling outside the world, and he has joined the organization against the Blue Dragon Society, so he will not divulge this matter. “

"As for Lao Gao, he grew up in Shaolin since he was a child, and he was dedicated to Buddha, and after taking over the mantle of the master, he took the promotion of Shaolin as his responsibility all his life. I will never do such a self-inflicted thing! ”

Master Qingxuan paused, raised his head and said with a smile: "As for you, the old man doesn't have to worry, 'a sword across the boat' Zhou Shizhu has been chivalrous and righteous all his life, and the Changfeng swordsman Liu Shizhu also belongs to the Wudang righteous path, this young man is a famous family at a glance, and Ding Shizhu After a battle last night, Lao Wei knew that his style of acting was bright and fair, and he was a person who was destined for my Buddhism. ”

Xiao Ding seemed to feel that Liu Changfeng was a little embarrassed, so he hurriedly took over the words and said with a smile: "Master Mingjian!" I thought that there was no shortage of three sects and nine streams under the Qinglong Society, and it was really simple to find someone who imitated the handwriting super strongly. ”

Master Qingxuan sighed: "No matter what, the news leak is also a fact, and the old man decided after consulting with the heads of various factions, so he can only calculate it." ”

Xiao Ding said: "After deliberation, the senior masters decided that the abbot would issue a martial arts sticker and invite fellow Jianghu colleagues to gather in Shaomu Mountain on the eighth day of the lunar month and read the secret letter in public, right?" You are sure that the Blue Dragon Society will never let the people in the rivers and lakes know the contents of the secret letter, and will definitely come forward to snatch it. But the masters of the major factions of the martial arts righteous path gathered together, and if they fought hard, the Qinglong Society would have no chance of winning. ”

Master Qingxuan said gloomily: "That's right, if you fight hard, it will indeed be difficult for the Blue Dragon Society to gain the upper hand." There are many disciples of the major sects, and my Shaolin has been rooted here since ancient times, and there are many top masters in each faction. But such a lose-lose situation is something that the old man never wants to see. ”

Xiao Ding said with a smile: "Master rest assured, the Blue Dragon Society will never dare to fight hard with the major factions, first, they are not enough manpower here, and it is not enough to compete with the major factions in the case of uniting with each other; Second, they have always been accustomed to acting in the shadows, and they have always done shady business. “

"This third, I just found a useful news in the next place, I'm sure they won't mobilize people to commit Shaolin." Xiao Ding blew on the tea in the cup and took a sip gently.