Chapter 108: Go with your heart
Since ancient times, it has been easy to ask questions, but it is much more difficult to prove them.
And the hardest part is to prove that I am myself.
The problem these soldiers are facing now is how to prove that they are soldiers of the city guard battalion, although this problem is much easier than proving that I am myself, but it is also a little difficult for these six soldiers now.
The reason for this difficulty is not that they have nothing to prove their identity, but that the Taoist in front of them seems to be deliberately embarrassing them.
Just as the soldiers were in a dilemma, a voice suddenly rang out.
"This Taoist chief is indeed a member of the Buddhist family, and these donors are indeed soldiers in the city guard camp."
No one expected that what they had proved for these soldiers was peace and happiness.
The man looked back at An Le sitting on the ground and shook his head with a smile.
"Do you know that because of your words, I have no reason to save you."
The man lowered the sword back into his scabbard, and there was a hint of pity in his tone.
"Good and evil in this world will be rewarded in the end, and it is impossible to escape if you fly away. Even if I escape today, this time I will eventually be bound by cause and effect, and I will eventually be in calamity. ”
An Le folded his hands and bowed to the man.
"And you and I meet is fate, I am a dying person, I don't want me to have too much causal involvement with you, the karmic debt I bear is too big for you to bear."
At this moment, An Le felt as if he had returned to his childhood, and he felt that he had said these words as if he was a master and had said them to himself, but unfortunately his memory at that time had been blurred.
"Your Buddhists will cause and effect, but my Taoist lineage does not talk about cause and effect, what we pay attention to is to go with nature and follow the heart."
The man pulled out the mouth of the gourd, poured a sip of water, and said freely.
"This Taoist, he has already said that he is a remnant of the Buddhist family, please don't embarrass me anymore."
The leading soldier saw that the man in front of him still didn't seem to want to leave, so he immediately stepped forward to warn.
"I've already said that my Daomen adheres to the principle of going with the flow and going with my heart, and at this time my heart is telling me that I should save this guy."
The man stuffed the wooden stopper of the gourd back, and then said indifferently.
"I said that you really don't know how to do it, what is the reason why I wait to retreat again and again, but you are aggressive?"
The young soldier finally couldn't take it anymore and began to scold angrily.
Several other soldiers also felt that the person in front of them was a little embarrassed.
"This Taoist master, this matter is my own sin, so everything is retribution, and I understand your kindness."
An Le saw that this man was about to clash with the soldiers who were chasing him, and he didn't want to involve this person because of himself, so he hurriedly persuaded him.
"Hey, you monk, I also said that this matter is not that I sympathize with you, but that my Dao heart requires that I must save you, even if you don't want to, I will knock you out and take you away, and afterwards you thank me and hate me so much, it doesn't matter."
The man immediately waved his hand to interrupt Anle's words.
An Le didn't expect that the person in front of him would be such a self-talking person, others didn't want him to help, but he wanted to help.
"Now that the words have been spoken, do you want to come up and fight and let me go, or do you recognize the reality and take the initiative to get out of the way?"
The man then turned to look at the six soldiers surrounding him and asked.
"Since you're so stubborn, you're welcome."
The leading soldier had already seen that the Taoist in front of him was determined to rob the remnants of the Buddhist family today, so he rushed towards the man with a long knife.
At the same time, the other five saw their leader rushing towards the man with a long knife in hand, so they also rushed towards him with a long knife in hand.
Seeing the six people rushing towards him from six directions, the man didn't panic at all, seeing that the six people were about to rush in front of him, but he held a long sword and went directly to the leader of the fastest soldiers.
In an instant, his long sword stabbed like a snake into the stomach of the soldier leader.
Although he struck with his long sword, he did not draw it out of its sheath, and this sword was pierced by him with the scabbard.
The leader of the soldiers saw his sword stabbed into his abdomen, but by the time he tried to dodge, it was too late.
The sword slammed straight into his abdomen, and he felt as if something was blocking his abdomen, and it was so uncomfortable that even his breathing became extremely painful.
Then he fell to the ground with the long knife in his hand, and he himself fell to his knees on the ground, holding his stomach and panting vigorously.
When the other five saw that their leader was defeated by one move, they all accelerated towards the man, and they wanted to get close to him quickly and defeat him.
But after the man knocked down the leader of the soldiers with one move, his body fell backwards in the opposite direction like an arrow from the string.
Although his body was rapidly regressing, he didn't even look back.
At the same time, as soon as his long sword was retracted from his waist and pushed backwards, the soldier who was attacking him from behind felt a piercing pain in his abdomen before he could cut off the long knife in his hand.
The next moment his long knife fell from the man's shoulder, and he fell to his knees like the leader of the soldiers, curled up and gasped for air.
The other four soldiers had already entered the range of the attack at this time, and they all slashed the long knives in their hands towards the man's head.
But the man still maintained an indifferent demeanor, and saw that the long sword in his hand withstood the long knife attack of the four people as soon as he raised it.
Then he took advantage of the momentum and went short, then he propped one hand on the ground, put his legs together, and made a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree spin around the arm like a spinning top.
In the process of maneuvering, he kicked each of the four in the abdomen.
This kick was as fast as lightning, but he only used a minute or two of force in this kick.
But it was this two-point strength that made the remaining four people immediately feel a sharp pain in their abdomen, and then they also fell out of their hands like the weapons in the hands of the other two soldiers.
And they also knelt on the ground, curled up in a ball, holding their stomachs, gasping for pain in pain.
When the man stood up, all the six soldiers who had surrounded him knelt neatly on the ground.
They kept the same pose, and if you looked at them from above, the six of them formed a perfect circle.
After dealing with the six soldiers, the man walked over to An Le's side and looked at him with a smile.
"Dao Chang is good kung fu! Under ······"
Before he could finish his sentence, he saw the man raise his arm and slash at his neck with a knife in his palm.
The next moment, An Le felt that his eyes were dark and he lost consciousness.
After An Le completely fainted, the man directly lifted An Le of more than 100 catties with one hand, and then carried him to his shoulders with a little force.
"Grandma's Luozhou Prefecture is close at hand, and now I'm afraid I won't be able to enter, so it's better to continue south to Anzhou."
After saying that, the man carried An Le and walked south, leaving the six soldiers of the Luozhou City Guard Battalion kneeling in pain on the spot.
Just when the man robbed An Le, He Qiu was chasing An Ding all the way with several other soldiers.
An Ding knew as soon as he escaped that if he wanted to get rid of the pursuit of these officials, he had to go to the city of Luozhou, otherwise there would be no chance of escape.
So he ran all the way north towards the city of Luoju, and since he was not injured, he was much faster than An Le.
But He Qiu's reaction was also very fast, he asked the soldiers to take off their bulky armor at the first time, so the distance between the two sides has been very tight.
However, An Ding is not worried, because in terms of endurance and speed, he is much stronger than ordinary people.
But what he didn't know was that although he could easily get rid of those soldiers, it would take a lot of effort to get rid of He Qiu.
Seeing that the two sides had been keeping a certain distance, He Qiu couldn't help but worry that once this remnant of the Buddhist family really fled into the city, it would be really difficult to catch him.
After thinking about it for a while, He Qiu thought about it: since it was difficult to catch up with him, he simply didn't chase him.
Therefore, he immediately ordered all his soldiers to slow down.
The slightest hint of his command overwhelmed all the soldiers under him.
"My lord, it was already difficult for us to catch up with the remnants of the Buddhist family, but now you are asking us all to slow down, won't the distance between the two sides get bigger and bigger?"
A soldier asked, puzzled.
"That's right, if we let the remnants of this Buddhist family escape, we will be dealt with by military law when we go back!"
Another soldier also hurriedly said.
"Don't worry, this guy can't run, you guys now listen to my command, let's line up horizontally, one person is spaced apart by dozens of steps, and then the people on both sides are a little faster, and the people in the middle are a little slower."
He Qiu said with a treacherous smile on his face.
The crowd still didn't understand what this Lord He meant, but before the operation, the city lord had told them to completely obey the command of this Lord He.
So they had to line up horizontally according to He Qiu's command, and then distance themselves.
After running for a while, when he looked back at the pursuers in the rear, he suddenly found that the soldiers in the rear had completely distanced himself from him.
Although they can still see each other faintly, their figures are already very small.
An Ding couldn't help but take a long sigh of relief.
"It seems that these miscellaneous people have no strength to run, but fortunately, Lao Tzu's endurance is good enough."
As his nerves relaxed, he himself felt tired, so he involuntarily slowed down a bit.
After running like this for a while, An Ding turned his head again to observe the pursuers behind him.
I thought that the distance between the other party and myself should be slightly shortened, but when I looked back, I found that the distance between the other party and myself was still very far, and there was a tendency to widen.
Faced with this situation, An Ning's brow couldn't help frowning.
The old saying that there must be a demon when things go wrong is very reasonable, and he feels that it is very wrong for the soldiers in the rear to chase so slowly.
Seeing that the city walls of Luozhou City, which had gradually become larger, a sense of foreboding came to An An's heart.
As he got closer to the gate of Luozhou City, his premonition became more obvious.
So after running for a while, Anding finally couldn't help but stop and rest.
In fact, he not only wanted to take a break to recover his strength, but he also had to observe the pursuers behind him to see what the hell they were doing.
Soon, the figures of He Qiu and others finally appeared in his field of vision, although the figure was very small, but he was running towards Luozhou City unhurriedly.
But soon settled down and discovered something unusual.
After taking a closer look, he noticed that the guys who were chasing him in the rear had dispersed.
There was some distance between each of them, and the closer they leaned outside, the closer they got to them, while the few in the middle pulled back a little.
Seeing the other party's stable formation, his brows furrowed even tighter.
An Ding could see at a glance that there was a problem with such a formation, but he couldn't think of a reason for what the specific problem was for a while.
"Do you want to keep running now?"
In his stable heart, he asked himself.
However, looking at the gate of Luozhou City in the distance, and then looking back at the soldiers chasing him, An Ding still gritted his teeth and felt that he would continue to run into the city first.
So he once again picked up his speed and ran in the direction of the city of Luozhou.
Later, He Qiu and the others saw An Ding speeding up and fleeing towards Luozhou Prefecture again, and those soldiers couldn't help but feel anxious.
"Let's slow down again!"
But He Qiu found that Anding was still not in a hurry when he accelerated again, and he ordered the soldiers to slow down again.
"My lord, if we slow down any longer, the remnants of the Buddhist family will really escape into the city."
The soldiers were also anxious like ants on a hot pan.
"Don't worry, everything is under my control, it's just that this guy is a little stupid, and if we don't slow down, he will really run into the city."
He Qiu still insisted on his opinion.
In desperation, the soldiers had to slow down again.
An Ding, who was speeding up in front, turned around to find that the pursuers behind him had slowed down again, and the uneasy feeling in his heart came back to him.
But he still didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in the other party's gourd.
Just as he became hesitant again, he caught a glimpse of the Luo River on the west side of Luozhou.
This large river is the main source of water for the city of Luozhou, from which several tributaries flow through the city, including a moat that surrounds the city of Luoju.
When he saw Luohe, An Ding suddenly felt a flash of inspiration in his mind, as if something had been captured by him.
But this inspiration was fleeting, and it was about to disappear completely in his mind, and he involuntarily looked back at the pursuit behind him.
When he saw the other party's formation, a word suddenly popped into his head: fishing nets.
That's right, the formation of the pursuers in the rear really looks like an open fishing net.
"They are chasing Lao Tzu into the city like a fish!"
At this point, he finally understood.
"These guys were originally the city guard camp in Luozhou City, which means that this matter was instructed by the city lord, so it is very likely that the guards at the city gate know that they already know their identity, maybe a large number of people have been ambushed at the city gate at this time, and they are waiting to drill into it!"
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be scared out of a cold sweat, and he almost fell for the other party's trick.
"Fortunately, Lao Tzu reacted quickly, otherwise I am afraid that I would really fall into the trap today."
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn around and run towards the east.
The reason why he chose the south was entirely because there was Luoshui blocking him in the west, and he had no way to escape.