Volume II, Temples and Rivers Chapter 50, The Egret Temple

Zhao Zhengli was not affected, if this was the case, how could the senior brother in charge let him come to this dangerous place in the capital.

Seeing that he was preoccupied, the Bi family sisters hurriedly expressed their position, saying that no matter what his identity was, the two sisters were willing to follow him.

Zhao Zhengli's heart warmed, he didn't know how to sensationalize, and reached out and scraped the bridge of the two sisters' high noses to express his gratitude to the two sisters.

The intimate behavior in public made the Bi family sisters blush, and the six princes and Yang Zhiming had goosebumps all over their bodies, and the two of them also knew how to ride away on horseback, after all, out of sight is clean.

In the afternoon, the group stopped in Chenzhuang Town, a hundred miles away from Qingzhou, which is close to the Yellow River ferry, where there are many pedestrians, porters on the wharf, merchants trading and trading along the street, and beggars begging in the muddy ground. Yelling and noisy.

The carriage of Zhao Zhengli and his entourage passed by an inn in the town, "Bang! With a bang, a ragged beggar was kicked from the inn and staggered down in front of the carriage, and the frightened carriage almost kicked him with a hoof, but was dissolved by Zhao Zhengli's reins.

at the same time; There was scolding and scolding in the inn: "The stinky young man who asks for food pretends to be a ghost, and he doesn't look at the place for money." ”

The beggar got up in embarrassment, patted the dust and said dissatisfiedly: "Don't regret the surname Chen, you don't want the great creation to be sent to the door, and you won't have a place to cry when the time comes!" ”

The man in the inn saw that he was unrelenting, and walked to the door to accuse him in public: "You said you had seen the temple, why didn't you say that you had seen the Jade Emperor?" Why don't you go in when you really see yourself? Still showing me here? ”

There were already many pedestrians on the street, which soon attracted onlookers, and many people echoed their words: "Recently, there have been countless people who have relied on Shenxia to cheat, and this trick has been rotten on the street!" ”

"What's more, I heard that someone was cheated of 5,000 silver tickets two days ago!"

"That's a living person from the south, this beggar doesn't know how to read words and feelings, and he actually asked the locals to repeat the old tricks, and people have already seen through these little tricks."

"It's not easy for outsiders to deceive, I heard that many people from the rivers and lakes have come recently, and if you are not careful, you may lose your life!"

"Seek wealth and danger, planted in this life, pay attention in the next life!"

“……”

Seeing the ridicule of the people, the beggar hurriedly defended himself: "I really saw it, on the cliff, you see that I can't climb up and I was thrown on the waist." After speaking, he lifted up his tattered clothes, revealing a large bruise on his waist, and then patted his chest and swore an oath: "If anyone gives me a hundred taels of silver, I will bring it personally, if not, I will cramp and peel the skin and listen to it." ”

"Yo! You want me to see if it's a fight, right? ”

"This kind of person hasn't met a master of the rivers and lakes, otherwise nine lives are not enough to be beaten."

The onlookers still don't believe him, because there have been too many lies and scams recently.

Zhao Zhengli, who had been watching from the carriage, suddenly beckoned: "This brother, take a step to speak!" ”

Everyone looked at the white man in the carriage, the white-robed man next to him was also magnificent, and the scholar in the green shirt and cotton jacket who rode on the other side also gave people a good temperament, and at a glance, they knew that several people came from an extraordinary way.

"It's over! Another foreigner has been slaughtered! ”

"It's hard to say, look at a few people and don't look like good stubble!"

The beggar was not stage frightened, he turned to look at Zhao Zhengli who was driving the carriage, his handsome and fair face was full of smiles, which made his eyes stunned, and his first reaction was that this guy was not a woman in disguise?

Zhao Zhengli made his smile look as friendly as possible: "What temple did you say you had seen?" Is there a basis for this? ”

The beggar pulled his unkempt hair: "There is no basis, but I can tell the general outline of it!" ”

"Tell me about it!" Zhao Zhengli became interested and looked at him.

He was full of excitement: "Hanging above the cliff, surrounded by fairy mist, covering a large area of the palace, revealing a corner of the black Qiong Tower, overflowing with sunshine. Then he sighed: "It's a pity that I am a mortal fetus, and I can't climb the cliff, otherwise I would have entered the temple early." ”

He said it so seriously that the Bi family sisters in the carriage couldn't help but poke their heads out, and suddenly two beautiful heads appeared The beggar looked dull.

Zhao Zhengli reminded: "Hey! Drooling! ”

The beggar shyly returned to his senses, while the two sisters covered their mouths and smiled.

Zhao Zhengli looked at the sixth prince Song Maoling again: "Ahem, do things for your family, you can see ...... money"

The six princes naturally saw through his wishful thinking, combined with the description of ancient books, the black heron temple was black, whether what the beggar said was true or not, he felt the need to give it a try, and generously took out two ingots of silver from his arms and threw them to the beggar: "Lead the way, if it is true, there will be a heavy reward!" ”

The beggar took the silver and put it in his mouth without shame and bit it, and when he heard that the face of 'there is a heavy reward', he smiled even more, and said with a grim face: "Small, let's take a few masters!" It's just a rugged mountain road...... I'm afraid that the carriage won't be able to go! ”

Zhao Zhengli naturally parked the carriage in the inn stable, and then hired a few mules, because the horses were for the exclusive use of the official family, and ordinary people had to use mules, donkeys, oxen, etc. to travel. This is also one of the reasons why the people on the street talk about the extraordinary way of Zhao Zhengli and his party.

Soon, there were stories of outsiders being cheated all over Chenzhuang Town.

The beggar led the way in front, and the six princes Song Maoling and Qiyun Shanyang Zhiming followed closely, followed by Zhao Zhengli and the Bijia sisters.

A group of people left the town, took the small road to the north and traveled for dozens of miles, winding, rugged and steep, this kind of terrain is rare in the north, so it is sparsely populated and overgrown with wild grass.

If it weren't for the fact that a few people had enough means to protect themselves, they were really worried that the beggars would trick a few people into doing evil things in the barren mountains.

As he continued to move forward, the fog in the mountains and forests was cloudy, and the beggar wondered: "Strange, why was there no fog last time?" ”

After walking for dozens of meters, the fog became thicker, even if the vision of the Grandmaster Realm was only 100 meters, the beggar was even more puzzled: "Why is the fog so thick today?" It shouldn't be! ”

"How far is this place from the Cliff Palace?" The sixth prince, Song Maoling, frowned and asked the beggar.

"Extrapolating from the last time I came; Less than 100 meters, there is a stream at the cliff, and you can see the palace when you reach the stream, but the fog is very strong today, and it is estimated that it is invisible. The beggar replied with great seriousness.

Everyone didn't speak again, they hurried in a muffled voice, and walked less than three meters, the horses under the crotch were restless, and the horses' hooves did not advance an inch, and several people had no choice but to put the reins on the stone pier and wait for them to come back and take them again.

The fog was rising, the rugged mountain road was less than a few steps, and the beggar suddenly felt that he couldn't see his fingers, and it was all white, and he said in a panic: "It's over, I can't see anything!" In a panic, he took a few steps back, and his eyes could barely see a meter away, and he said with a bitter face: "A few masters, this fog is too evil today, why don't you come back another day?" ”

The group didn't embarrass him, because they all noticed that the environment was weird.

Song Maoling, the sixth prince, said: "This place is extraordinary, I can only barely see about seventy meters. ”

Yang Zhiming also nodded and said, "Me too!" ”

The Bi family sisters glanced at each other: "We can only see forty meters!" ”

And the people also understood roughly according to their calculations; There is a difference between the high and low realms here, and it is basically difficult for the beggar to move an inch.

They all turned their eyes to Zhao Zhengli, as he stared ahead in a daze.

"I saw the temple on the cliff, the corner of the flying eaves was completely black, and the rest of the part was wrapped in a thick mist......" Zhao Zhengli was stunned for a long time, and after repeated confirmation, he opened his mouth in a daze.

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, he could see so far, wouldn't the realm ......

"Follow me, let's get as close as we can!" Zhao Zhengli looked at the direction of the white mist in front of him, everyone nodded in acquiescence, and asked the beggar to retreat to a safe position, the beggar ran faster than a rabbit when he heard the words, as for the 'heavy reward' has long been forgotten to Jiuxiao, although he is a beggar, but he still knows how to spare his life.

Zhao Zhengli and his party walked less than ten meters, and their vision dropped sharply, and the Bijia sisters had symptoms like beggars earlier; Stretching out his hand and not seeing his five fingers, it was difficult to move an inch in the white fog, Zhao Zhengli naturally would not leave the two of them, and walked forward with two jade hands.

The two sisters' fingers were clasped very tightly, and their hearts were beating fast, and their eyes were basically snow-white at this time, unable to see, unable to distinguish, and could only rely on Zhao Zhengli to guide the direction.

The sight of the six princes and Yang Zhiming was limited to ten meters, and it was precisely this ten meters distance that allowed the two of them to see the cliff, which was the same as what Zhao Zhengli described, they had learned about ancient books and knew the general record of the Egret Temple, so they were several times more excited than Zhao Zhengli: "It is really as described in ancient books, and the Egret is divided into black and white; The temple is hidden in a mystery, which originally means that the temple is completely black, hidden in a snow-white mist. ”

"Listen! There is the sound of a stream! Yang Zhiming suddenly reminded him.

Everyone listened silently, and there was really the sound of the murmuring of the stream, which showed that what the beggar said was true, but he looked around and heard his voice and did not see his shadow.

Zhao Zhengli led the Bijia sisters, and the group walked quickly towards the direction of the cliff, and they didn't reach the cliff after walking dozens of meters, and even the original sound of the stream gradually disappeared, but they still felt that the temple was close at hand.

"Oops! We're lost in the fog! Yang Zhiming was the first to react.

The six princes suddenly woke up: "The second half of the record is; Looking at the illusion in the heart from a distance, it is bound to be confused. It seems that in this fog people will hallucinate, the stronger the obsession in the heart, the easier it is to be misled, we are all eager to find the Egret Temple, so the fog appears as a temple, and completely leads us away from the real location of the temple! ”

The Bi family sisters were stunned the whole time, because they didn't see any temple at all, even Zhao Zhengli, who pulled them, couldn't see it, and they were completely blind at the moment.

Zhao Zhengli didn't speak, he was reflecting on what went wrong in the specific link.

"Whew!"

In the fog of this barren mountain, there was a sudden sound of rushing footsteps, several people were shocked, and they looked behind with a brush, and saw a burly man in Khitan costumes running wildly without arguing the direction, several pairs of eyes were intertwined in the fog, and they were all stunned in place for a moment, because they all thought that the other party was an illusion generated by their own eyes!

Zhao Zhengli recognized each other, Harasha, one of the three major Khitan commanders, set up a ring in the capital a few days ago to fight all walks of life in Qingguo, and finally drew with the sixth prince Song Maoling before relenting. According to the time, he should return to Khitan with the mission, and the purpose of appearing here is self-evident.

"Rank, fundamentally speaking, this commander is also half a Jianghu person, so fighting for this opportunity is not a political purpose." Harasa spoke tentatively.

"Then it depends on whether you have the ability to do that!" The sixth prince, Song Maoling, showed hostility for the first time, because this land belonged to his Song dynasty, and people from other countries would be boycotted if they crossed the border, not to mention that the other party's identity was still the commander of the army, how could he tolerate it.

The atmosphere was tense in an instant.

"Senior brother! If you go any further, you won't be able to see it! ”

"Hold on a little longer, there will be people from all walks of life here soon, and I'm afraid that it will change when it's too late."

As soon as the words fell, three or two monks in robes appeared from the white mist, and the people who came were Jueyan of the Northern Shaolin of the National Teacher's Mansion, Yuantong of the Southern Shaolin, and a bitter monk of the Great Buddha Temple who was hurrying with a black wooden Zen staff and a muffled voice.

Several monks suddenly appeared, which made the three parties all startled and hesitated for a moment.

The monk Jueyan of Northern Shaolin shouted at Zhao Zhengli: "The surname is Zhao, you hit my Jingyuan master hard, how to calculate this account!" ”

"Wasn't Xiao Jingyuan expelled from Shaolin?" Before Zhao Zhengli could speak, Biyu was the first to gag his mouth in the direction of the clear direction.

"That's also the former uncle!" The monk Jueyan did not forgive.

Zhao Zhengli said the most cruel words with a smile on his face: "Is it reasonable for your master and uncle to join forces to besiege and kill this Dao?" If you didn't kill him at that time, even if your Buddha blessed, put the words here today, who dares to violate this way again, your Buddha is here, and this way will be killed! ”

“…… You! Jueyan didn't expect the other party to be so tough.

Monk Yuantong clasped his hands together and said: "Amitabha, the Buddha and the Taoist family, Zhao Daoyou seems to be speaking a little bit, where did the Buddha offend you?" ”

Zhao Zhengli glanced at him and said disdainfully: "If you don't accept it, you can also scold my Taoist patriarch!" ”

“…… The poor monk wants to duel with you! Jueyan gritted his teeth angrily.

"Just you? I'm afraid it won't threaten the Tao. Zhao Zhengli raised his eyes and said lightly.

"You...... It's too much of a deception! Monk Jueyan was angry, if it weren't for Yuantong pulling him, he would have rushed over and broken the net with Zhao Daochang.

Harasa felt that the situation was not good; Twisted around and disappeared into the fog, leaving behind a group of bewildered people.

Song Maoling immediately chased in the direction of Harasha's disappearance, and the rest of the people followed after a slight pause, after all, they all knew the truth of unanimity.