In front of the gate of Lai Junchen's mansion, a young monk was pacing back and forth in front of the gate of Lai Junchen's mansion with a disturbed heart, this person's legal name was Minghui, and he was Xue Huaiyi's henchman, and he came to meet Lai Junchen on the order of Xue Huaiyi.

Recently, a series of things happened, and Xue Huaiyi suffered repeated setbacks, but Lai Junchen, who was a military advisor, disappeared from Xue Huaiyi's field of vision, and there was no news, which made Xue Huaiyi very dissatisfied.

If he hadn't been wounded with a stick, he would have rushed to question Lai Junchen, he was bedridden and couldn't move, so he could only send a henchman to contact Lai Junchen.

Minghui had been waiting for a quarter of an hour in front of the door of Lai Junchen's mansion, and still hadn't been able to see Lai Junchen, he saw Lai Junchen's carriage return to the house with his own eyes, but he was a step too late and couldn't stop the carriage in time.

After a long while, a middle-aged housekeeper hurriedly walked out of the mansion, hugged his fists and smiled: "Let the senior monk wait for a long time!"

Minghui hurriedly greeted him and said, "Can you come to Zhongcheng?"

"Although my lord is in the house, he is sick and very ill, and he can't see outsiders, I'm sorry!"

Minghui was stunned for a moment, and then said hurriedly: "But I have something important to meet him!"

The housekeeper's face sank, and he said a little unhappily: "A few days ago, the Holy Lord summoned my master, but when he heard that the master was unwell, he stopped summoning him and let him recuperate with peace of mind. ”

The butler's implication is that you can't even see the saint, what are you?

Minghui heard the meaning of his words, and his face was extremely ugly, but he was very helpless, so he had to take out Xue Huaiyi's letter and hand it to the housekeeper, "Please forward this letter to Lai Zhongcheng, what the general of my family wants to say is on it, if it is convenient, please ask him to reply to a letter, I will wait here." ”

The butler took the letter and turned around and walked into the gate, leaving the monk Minghui alone outside the gate.

In the study, Lai Junchen was worried, pacing back and forth with his hands on his hands, and on the side stood his staff Yan Shi, Yan Shi, about thirty years old, with thick eyebrows and square face, burly figure, and a military appearance, but he was actually a resourceful scribe, who had followed Lai Junchen for many years and was his confidant and adviser.

Yan Shi is very aware of Lai Junchen's anxiety, seeing that the saint has gradually given up on Xue Huaiyi, if Xue Huaiyi is executed, Lai Junchen is likely to be regarded as Xue Huaiyi's fellow party, how can he not be anxious?

At this time, the housekeeper reported at the door: "Master, I have told the monk outside the door that he took a letter to the master, saying that it was a handwritten letter from Xue Huaiyi to the master. ”

He presented the letter to Lai Junchen, who stepped forward to take the letter, opened it and looked at it, it was indeed Xue Huaiyi's handwritten letter, in which Xue Huaiyi asked him why he avoided it, and whether he wanted to betray him? The tone of the letter was quite unkind.

Lai Junchen tore the letter to shreds in annoyance, threw it into the incense burner and burned it, and then turned back to the butler and said, "Is the monk still there?"

"Master Qiqi, he is still waiting for a reply at the door. ”

"If you go to sue him, you will say that I will consider it, and I will help his master when it is critical, so that his master will not be cranky. ”

"I understood, so I'm going to sue him. ”

The housekeeper hurriedly went, and then Junchen sighed and asked Yan Shi, "Sir, what should I do now?"

Yan Shi smiled slightly, "Zhongcheng doesn't have to do anything, just let it be, whether Xue Huaiyi is dead or alive has nothing to do with Zhongcheng." ”

"That being said, I used to be too close to Xue Huaiyi, and some handles fell into his hands, just in case. Lai Junchen said with a worried face.

"Not only Zhongcheng, when Xue Huaiyi gained power, I don't know how many courtiers and high-ranking officials had close contacts with him, why should Zhongcheng mind, in fact, I think the key is the attitude of the saint, as long as the saint still uses Zhongcheng, then any evidence and the like are meaningless. ”

Lai Junchen nodded, Yan was right, he was indeed a little worried, and a heart that had been hanging in the air for a long time finally fell

It was the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, and early in the morning, Hanoi Lao Nun unexpectedly returned to the Lin Toe Monastery with more than 50 believers, all of whom were burly and tall young men.

Hanoi Lao Nun seemed a little preoccupied, and as soon as she returned to her meditation room and sat down, her eldest apprentice, that is, the abbot of Lin Toe Temple, Zhiwen Nun, walked in quickly.

"Master, General Xue came to us yesterday. ”

"Oh, is his wound healed?"

"Although he can't walk yet, he basically doesn't need to be helped, so he first asks Master when he will come back?"

"And what did you say?"

"According to Master's previous explanation, I said that I would come back in the next two days, and I would bring tens of thousands of believers with me. ”

Hanoi nodded, "And then? What else did he say?"

"He said that there will be an uncovered puja tonight, the scale is unprecedented, and there will be many monks staying in Intoe, and he hopes that we can arrange food and lodging. ”

Hanoi Lao Ni said sullenly: "If they have any requests, try to meet them! In addition, I brought fifty-three believer warriors, and they will guard the Guanyin Hall. ”

Abbot Zhiwen was surprised, she had never heard that the master had also formed a samurai from among the believers, but the master had thousands of believers, and it was reasonable to form a samurai, but to replace the guards of the Guanyin Hall, I am afraid that the other party might not agree.

"Master, I'm afraid it's not us who has the final say over there in Guanyin Hall. ”

"This is my temple, why don't I have the final say!"

Hanoi's face turned gloomy, and he said to Abbot Zhiwen: "You go and sue Sù Hongzhao, if he doesn't agree, then Lintoe Temple will not accept any monks from White Horse Temple today, and let him explain the consequences to Xue Huaiyi!"

Abbot Zhiwen had never seen the master so loud, she was so frightened that she didn't dare to say a word, and hurriedly retreated, Hanoi Lao Ni was really restless in her heart, she really didn't want to go back to Linzhi Temple, but thinking of the horror of those people, she didn't dare not come, especially Li Zhen promised to spare her life after the matter was completed, and let her see a glimmer of hope for survival.

And her batch of gold and copper coins, it is estimated that she will not be able to get them back, and the thought of this makes her heart ache like a knife.

She paced back and forth in the inner hall with her hands, waiting for the apprentice's reply, and after a while, Zhiwen finally returned, and Hanoi Lao Ni hurriedly asked, "How is it?"

"I told them what Master had said, and in the end they agreed to take a step back and give it to us during the day, but after dark, they had to take over the Guanyin Hall. ”

Hanoi Lao Ni stood for a while before saying, "I'll arrange it first!"

Hanoi Lao Ni brought this group of believer warriors are naturally dressed up by internal guard soldiers, commanded by Captain Wang Zongyi, Lintoe Temple is undoubtedly an important battlefield, even if Li Zhen can't personally sit in the town, he has to deploy heavy troops here.

The internal guard soldiers are currently placed in a compound, and Wang Zongyi is also patiently waiting for the order to move next, at this time, several female nuns accompanied Hanoi Lao Ni into the compound, and the internal guard soldiers who were resting in the courtyard stood up one after another.

Hanoi Lao Ni clasped his palms together and saluted Wang Zongyi, "Let's go to the house to talk!"

She asked a few female nuns to wait in the courtyard, and then she and Wang Zongyi walked into the house, and Hanoi Lao Nun asked worriedly: "General Wang, the other party is only willing to exit the Guanyin Hall during the day, and they will take over after dark, I don't know if this will work?"

For Wang Zongyi, it doesn't make a difference during the day, the key is that they have the opportunity to enter the secret passage, and he asked, "What else is the news?"

"There will be a large number of monks coming to Linzhi Temple soon, I don't know how many will come, it is estimated that they will continue to come in 66 after a while. ”

Wang Zongyi pondered for a moment and said, "Since this is the case, then let's take over the Guanyin Hall first!"

The so-called uncovered puja is a kind of open puja, whether monks and laymen, whether believers or not, can come to participate, Wu Zetian has held five sessions for Xue Huaiyi in a row, each session cost a huge amount of money, when holding the puja, but also in the crowd a lot of money, attracting countless people to scramble, every year there are people in the scramble unfortunately trampled to death.

Today's puja was not held in the imperial city as usual, and it is said that because the courtiers thought that the influx of idlers into the imperial city would bring insecurity to the major government offices, this year's puja was held in an open field south of Luoyang, next to the Tianjin Bridge.

As early as a few days ago, a large number of monks from the White Horse Temple entered Luoyang City for the preparation of the puja, they surrounded a festival place covering an area of hundreds of acres with a curtain, built a high platform in it, tied it with colored silk as a palace, dug a large pit, as deep as five zhang, and all the Buddha statues were pulled out of the deep pit.

The monks found a large number of believers to testify, all the Buddha statues are gushing out of the ground, not only that, the monks also let people kill hundreds of cows, with the blood of the cow to paint, they painted a Buddha statue as high as 20 zhang on the white curtain, on the morning of the 14th day of the first month, this magnificent Buddha statue of 20 zhang high and 8 zhang wide stands in the south of Tianjin Bridge, and the whole Luoyang City is clearly visible.

Thousands of monks went door-to-door to publicize, this Buddha statue is painted by a monk Huaiyi stabbing his knee to take blood, expressing the high respect of Huaiyi monks for His Majesty the Holy Spirit Emperor.

In the liquor shop on the left bank, Li Zhen, Jiuzhi, Zhang Li and others sat in front of the window on the second floor to drink, and from the window, you can clearly see the huge Buddha statue standing in the south of Tianjin Qiaonan.

"Lao Li, do you think that these monks are sick, do you think Xue Huaiyi's surname is really 'blood'? ”

Jiuzhi's voice was very loud, and his speech was extremely damaged, which attracted a knowing laughter from the drinkers in the lobby, and then Jiuzhi glanced at Li Zhen and saw that he seemed to have something on his mind, so he smiled and asked, "Lao Li, why are you so preoccupied?"

"I'm worried about the White Horse Temple!" Li Zhen sighed lowly.

"White Horse Temple!" Jiu Zhi was stunned, and his voice was very loud.

Li Zhen hurriedly held him down and reprimanded in a low voice: "You be quiet!"

Jiuzhi nodded hurriedly, "I see!"

At this time, an internal guard soldier rushed up to the second floor and whispered a few words in Li Zhen's ear, Li Zhen was in good spirits, stood up and said to Zhang Li: "Let's go." ”

"You're gone, what should I do?" asked Sakushi dissatisfied.

"You are waiting for my news in Luoyang, and I will send someone to inform you. ”

"Got it!" Sakushi waved his hand impatiently, "I don't want to tell me to go!" That hell place. Under Li Zhen's fierce gaze, he bit his lip in time.

Li Zhen took Zhang Li and left quickly, only Jiuzhi was left at the wine table, he was bored and poured himself a drink, at this time, a guard slowly walked up and said with a smile: "Fat brother, why do you drink alone?"

"Yo, why is Lao Chen here, come, come, accompany the fat man and I have a drink." ”

The guard was not polite, and sat down opposite him, he glanced at Li Zhen and Zhang Li, who had just ridden away from the wine shop, and asked casually: "It's hard to be an internal guard! Tonight is the night of Shangyuan." ”

"Not really...... It's like when I was in Qianniuwei in the past, when I was free all day, eating, drinking and merrymaking, but now in addition to earning a little more, I am tired to death, and I have to do hard work tonight. ”

"We don't talk about this, drink!"

"I don't want to say, let's drink!"

The two pushed the cups and changed the glasses, drank more than a dozen glasses of wine, and the tongue of the wine began to knot, and the speech was not clear.

"Lao Chen, I won't tell you, I actually don't want to work in the internal guard, it's too hard, at night, Lao Tzu has to go to squat outside the White Horse Temple for a night, such a cold day. ”

A strange light flashed in the guard's eyes, and he asked in a low voice: "What are you doing in the White Horse Temple, don't say it if it's inconvenient, brother, I won't be surprised!"

"My brother, what can't you say, isn't it just stalking?"

Jiu Zhi also lowered his voice and said: "I'll tell you, don't go out to spread it, Lao Li will know, you have to kill me." ”

"What does the fat brother think of me, am I the kind of person who doesn't have a solid mouth?"

"I know your kid has a tight mouth, I sue you. Xue Huaiyi is going to transport a large amount of armor from the White Horse Temple tonight and transport it to Beibi Mountain. ”

"Impossible, isn't it?

"I don't understand!"

Jiuzhi pursed his lips disdainfully, "We have installed a lot of brothers in the White Horse Temple, this news is absolutely reliable, otherwise I wouldn't have to go at night." I went to the White Horse Temple. ”

In the end, he was a little overwhelmed, leaned against the wall, and said something vaguely, that is, it was not worth going to the internal guard.

"Fat brother, fat brother!" the guard called him twice, he was secretly happy in his heart, and hurriedly got up and walked quickly to the restaurant, and when he was far away, Jiu Zhi slowly opened his eyes and laughed coldly

The guard surnamed Chen hurriedly found Wan Guojun, he was one of the eyeliners that Wan Guojun specially arranged to stare at Li Zhen, and today he finally got the information from Jiuzhi's mouth.

"Are you sure the information is accurate?"

Wan Guojun looked at him suspiciously, "A large amount of armor is going to be shipped out of the White Horse Temple tonight?"

"The information is absolutely accurate, this is the leakage of the fat man's wine history, he has always been greedy for money and lustful, and he has no mouth after drinking, if he doesn't have a good relationship with Li Zhen, he is not qualified to enter the internal guard at all, we all know him, he drank too much today. ”

Wan Guojun was silent, he knew that this news was likely to be true, because many people knew that Xue Huaiyi had tens of thousands of monks and soldiers, and if he said that there was no armor and weapons, it would be absolutely impossible.

He knows very well the value of this information, if he can catch Xue Huaiyi trafficking armor on the spot, it can prove that he has a heart of disobedience, and he can definitely bring down Xue Huaiyi, which is of extraordinary significance to Princess Taiping.

If the armor is transported out tonight, it means that Xue Huaiyi is going to act, and it is normal to transport it to Beibi Mountain, and they are likely to enter Luoyang from Hanjia City.

Wan Guojun immediately spread the map on the table, and soon found the official road from the White Horse Temple to Beibi Mountain, which was a straight official road, more than forty miles away from Beibi Mountain.

Although Wan Guojun felt that he should immediately lead people to the White Horse Temple to ambush him, he thought about it and still had to report to Princess Taiping first, on the one hand, he was afraid that Princess Taiping would make trouble for him afterwards, and on the other hand, he also needed military support, and the more than 100 internal guards under him were probably not enough.

He interrogated him in detail again, asked every detail clearly, and then hurried to Princess Taiping's mansion

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