Chapter 7 The Burning of Shaolin

"There are six other Taoist priests under Wu Gan, called Liuzhenren, strong in martial arts, it is said that they came from Dali, but they don't know what sect and faction they are, and the East Factory is because of Wu Gan and his masters, not only is the power higher than the West Factory, but even the Jinyi Guard has to give them three points." Another monk in his fifties said uneasily.

"Senior Brother Zhu, today Dongchang is coming to arrest you, saying that you are a thief, where does this start? I don't know where your parents are? Does it have anything to do with them? Qingxu got up, paced back and forth in the room, and suddenly turned his head and asked Zhu Yu, who was sitting cross-legged on the underground futon.

"My parents were arrested by the officers and soldiers eight years ago, and now I don't know if they are dead or alive, as for why they arrested my parents, the master of the Lion Rock Zhengxu Zen Temple should know the reason, but he said that I was still young and didn't tell me, so the officers and soldiers said that I was a thief, maybe it had something to do with my parents." Zhu Yu looked at several uncles and uncles and said.

"In this way, Master Kongshi must have told the abbot Master Kongwu about your background when he sent you to Shaolin, and you can ask him another day." Qingxu said with confidence.

In the next few days, what should the monks of Shaolin Temple do every day, the difference is that the vigilance has been strengthened, the warrior monks still sleep in the meditation room by the temple gate, according to the distance from the capital to Shaolin, it will take at least ten days to ride back and forth, so Zhang Han moved Wu Qian and the officers and soldiers, it should also be about ten days, unless Wu Qian is nearby.

Sure enough, in the second half of the night of the tenth day after Zhang Han left, the monks who were on duty outside the mountain gate suddenly ran back to the temple and shouted loudly: "The officers and soldiers are coming, the officers and soldiers are coming, everyone quickly get up and defend against the enemy." Where the monk's words fell, he could only hear the neighing of war horses from far and near, and it was clear that he had reached the temple gate.

The monks had already prepared, picked up sticks one after another, and crowded to the front of the temple, while other monks carried rice, noodles, vegetables and other daily necessities, and escaped from the back door by the moonlight, and hid towards the mountain behind the Shaolin Temple, in case Shaolin was broken and had time to evacuate.

Master Kongxin slowly pushed open the temple gate, but saw that under the flickering torches, hundreds of officers and soldiers were shining in armor, their military appearance was neat, and they were riding majestically outside the courtyard gate, it can be seen that this group of officers and soldiers is obviously more effective than the team led by Zhang Han more than ten days ago.

In front of the officers and soldiers, there were two people riding on tall war horses, carrying swords, dressed in short clothes, one was Zhang Han who had come before, and the other looked not tall, his face was thin, and his eyes were shining.

Seeing the Shaolin monks led by Master Kongxin, Wu Gan clasped his hands into fists on the horse and said loudly: "Which of you is the abbot, come forward and speak." ”

Hearing that Wu Gan was about to see the abbot as soon as he opened his mouth, Qingxu and a few disciples of his generation stepped forward with sticks in hand and blocked in front of Master Kongxin.

"Master Kongwu, the abbot of my temple, has been in poor health recently, and I am empty-handed, and General Wu can say something to me." Master Kongxin clasped his hands together and said slowly.

"Don't pretend to be garlic, as long as you hand over the thief surnamed Zhu, I will let you Shaolin go, otherwise, don't blame my subordinates for being ruthless." Wu Gan said as he pulled out his sword and pointed at Kongxin.

Wu Gan has practiced martial arts with Lingyazi for many years, not only has he practiced a Qingcheng faction martial arts, but a set of eight-pole swordsmanship is even more superb, but it is a pity that he is greedy for wealth and wealth, and enters Beijing and enters the East Factory, Lingyazi is also helpless, so he has to break off the friendship between master and apprentice.

Kong Xin knew that Wu Gan was not good at coming, and he had secretly used his internal strength early, so he only waited for Wu Gan to stab him with his sword, but he heard Zhang Han pointing at Zhu Yu beside Kong Xin and said loudly: "General Wu, it's this kid, catch him quickly." ”

Wu Gan looked in the direction of his finger and saw a child with a stick in his hand, looking at him with angry eyes, Wu Gan didn't say a word, jumped off the horse, grabbed Zhu Yu with a sword in one hand, and grabbed Zhu Yu with the other.

Wu Gan's move of no one on the side surprised the Shaolin disciples present, it was not for his own martial arts strength, he would never make such a move.

Seeing that Wu Gan was only a foot away from him, Zhu Yu hurriedly raised the stick in his hand and subconsciously stabbed at Wu Gan's wrist holding the sword, but Zhu Yu's stick was handed out, and Wu Gan's sword had been swung out, and the tip of the sword was only less than three feet away from Zhu Yu.

Just when Zhu Yu was about to be stabbed by Wu Qian's sword in the face door, he only heard a "dang" sound, Wu Qian's sword was plucked by a wooden stick flying from nowhere, and a sword stabbed off, hitting Zhu Yu's side of the empty arm, only to hear the empty edge scream, the body fell to the side, and the monks next to him were busy holding him to stop the bleeding.

Wu Gan knew the power of the Shaolin monks, put away his sword, retreated a few feet, looked up, and saw Master Kongxin holding a wooden stick, blocking Zhu Yu and several other little monks.

Although Shaolin Temple is famous for its swordsmanship, in order not to kill at will, the real enemy is to use sticks, which is naturally a little less deterrent, but I don't know when the cloud piercing stick method passed down is practiced by everyone, and it is easy to deal with officers and soldiers.

Wu Qian did not dare to be arrogant anymore, but calmed down, transported the internal force to the palm of his hand, held the sword tightly, pulled a sword flower, and then pointed the tip of the sword at Kong Xin.

Here, Kong Xin also had the qi of the dantian, raised his stick and prepared to meet Wu Gan, but he heard Zhang Han behind Wu Gan shouting: "Soldiers, go up together." As soon as Zhang Han's voice fell, the soldiers behind him dismounted, raised their swords and guns and rushed towards the monks.

Wu Gan really passed the guidance of the famous teacher, a set of swordsmanship made the drip water, plus the internal strength was profound, gradually, the empty letter has fallen behind, and Wu Gan brought too many soldiers, and all of them have martial arts, Shaolin monks have fewer enemies, and they have lost unconsciously.

Suddenly, a black shadow flew out of the Shaolin Temple, falling between Kongxin and Wu Gan, as soon as the black shadow landed, it hit a palm on Wu Gan's chest, Wu Gan saw the black shadow suddenly appeared, he transported the internal force to the left hand that did not hold the sword, when the black shadow slapped himself, he hit with his left palm, the two zhang intersected, Wu Gan only felt a huge force through his palm, hit his chest, the body unconsciously flew backwards, fell to the ground three or four zhang away, but the black shadow turned around, disappeared.

Everyone present was shocked by this sudden change, and they all stopped fighting, looked at Wu Gan, only to see Wu Gan spit out three or four mouthfuls of blood, and spitted out the word "withdraw" with difficulty, turned his head, and fainted.

Seeing that Wu Gan was injured and unconscious, Zhang Han had to ask Wu Gan to be lifted up, and the soldiers were asked to carry the dead and wounded soldiers on horseback, and retreated down the mountain in a gray manner.

Just when the monks were busy treating the injured disciples, they suddenly heard someone shouting that it was on fire, and everyone rushed into the temple, and saw that the entire Shaolin Temple was in flames, and seven or eight temples and meditation rooms were bursting with flames.

Except for the monks who treated the wounded, all the other monks, under the command of Master Kongxin, found pots and pots that could hold water, and went to the release pond and the ditch that flowed into the temple to scoop water to extinguish the fire.

The sun rises from the mountains, and through the smoke wafting in the air, you can see the glow reflected on the top of the mountain, and the Shaolin monks stand in front of the ruins of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, silently watching the burned hall, and no one says a word for a long time.

"Zhu Yu, you go to Tianlong Mountain, where the emperor is far away, and it is not safe in Shaolin Temple." Master Empty Wu whispered to Zhu Yu who was standing aside.

"Why is that? Why did the officers and soldiers arrest me? Who are my parents? Zhu Yu turned around, raised his head and asked if there was nothing.

"Amitabha, good! Wonderful! Master Kongwu folded his hands, recited the Buddha's name, and said: "You are the grandson of Emperor Jianwen in the previous life, when the battle of Jingjing, your grandfather was defeated and fled overseas, and gave birth to your father overseas, when you were four years old, your parents returned from overseas, and were found by officers and soldiers, so they were arrested, but they didn't expect that they didn't know how to learn your whereabouts and find Shaolin. ”

"In this way, Shaolin's suffering is all because of me." Zhu Yu said uneasily.

"It's not your fault, Zhu Yu, you can only blame Zhu Di for turning against your grandfather, his descendants are worried that you, the orthodox heir of the emperor, have taken away their world, so they want to put you to death, the night is long and the dream is many, you can leave now, Shaolin will survive this catastrophe." After Master Empty Wu finished speaking, he handed Zhu Yu a letter. "When you arrive at Tianlong Mountain, give this letter to Lan Yiming, the head of the Tianlong Sect, and he will take you in."

"But! But! Master Empty Nothing, what should you do if the officers and soldiers come again? Zhu Yu asked worriedly.

"You can rest assured, for more than a thousand years, Shaolin has encountered such a thing not once or twice, the officers and soldiers are coming, we will fight if we win, if we can't win, the monks of the whole temple will withdraw to the back mountain to temporarily avoid the limelight, and there will be no problem." When Master Kongwu said this, Zhu Yu couldn't say anything about staying, so he ran to the backyard and said goodbye to Uncle Qingli.

When Qingli told Zhu Yu that if something happened in Shaolin, he would definitely take action, Zhu Yu realized that it was Qingli's uncle who injured Wu Gan last night.

"Uncle Qingli, you defeated Wu Gan with one move last night, what kind of exercises did you use?" Zhu Yu asked Qingli tentatively.

Qingli smiled lightly: "There is no good or bad exercise, as long as you work hard, what kind of exercise can be practiced into peerless martial arts, the difference is that everyone's understanding is different, you go to Tianlong Mountain, you must practice martial arts well, and you can be worthy of great responsibilities in the future." ”

Zhu Yu said goodbye to Qingli, went back to the meditation room to pack up, empty, Master Kongxin took the monks to send Zhu Yu to the mountain gate, everyone was reluctant, empty to Zhu Yu left and right, Zhu Yu went on the road with tears.

According to the instructions of Master Kongwu, Zhu Yu did not take the avenue, but walked to a place dozens of zhang away from the mountain gate, turned west, waded through a small river, followed a sheep's intestine path, and walked into the mountains and forests.

At this time, Zhu Yu had taken off the monk's clothes worn by the monks, and wore a slightly shabby black cloth clothes, carrying a bag wrapped in cloth, which contained some bits and pieces of silver, some dry food and a few changes of clothes, and the empty letter to Lan Ling'er's father had been sewn into his clothes by the skillful Kong Ling, and when Kong Ling was sewing the letter, he repeatedly warned Zhu Yu to let Lan Linger practice hard and not worry about himself.

Climbed a high mountain, in front of a mountain qing, Zhu Yu went down to the bottom of the qing, found that there was a small river at the bottom of the qing, it was already afternoon at the moment, Zhu Yu felt a little hungry, so he found a flat stone to sit down, took out dry food and eaten.

Zhu Yu was full, took a few mouthfuls of river water in the river and drank it, got up and was just about to leave, when he suddenly heard the sound of "hum hum" behind him, Zhu Yu was shocked, turned his head to look, and saw a huge bear standing behind him, the bear landed on its hind feet, standing upright like a human, fiddling with its front paws, as if teasing itself.

Compared with tigers, bears are slightly clumsy, but they have amazing strength, run better than ordinary people, and are no less aggressive than tigers.

Zhu Yu didn't have any weapons in his hand, so he had to bow his head and quietly grab two stones, just waiting for the giant bear to rush forward so that he could use the stones to fight back.

The giant bear didn't seem to be in a hurry, still landed on his hind feet, and walked slowly towards Zhu Yu step by step, just when he was still seven or eight feet away from Zhu Yu, the giant bear suddenly lowered his figure, landed on his front feet, and rushed towards Zhu Yu, Zhu Yu subconsciously threw the two stones in his hand towards the giant bear, but one stone hit the thick butt of the giant bear and bounced to the side, obviously not causing any damage to the giant bear, and the other stone grazed the giant bear's head and smashed to the ground.

Zhu Yu's counterattack obviously angered the giant bear, only to hear the giant bear "woo" roar, open his teeth and claws and pounce on Zhu Yu, Zhu Yu saw the bear pounce on him, turned on one side, dodged the giant bear's attack, the giant bear missed, turned around, and grabbed Zhu Yu with two front paws. At this moment, Zhu Yu suddenly felt a huge internal force rising from the dantian, instantly transmitted to his palms, and slapped a palm towards the chest of the giant bear, and the giant bear was hit by Zhu Yu's palm, and flew out, rolled on the ground three or four times, and then dragged the injured body to move towards the dense forest little by little.

When the figure of the giant bear disappeared into the dense forest, Zhu Yu came to his senses, the palm power he used before was the powerful Vajra palm taught to him by the master of the empty sky, he practiced according to the law every day, but he had never used it, and he was shocked when he suddenly used it today, and he used the strong Vajra palm method luck against the previous boulder, and when he wanted to hit another palm, the previous internal force could not be gathered, so he had to do it.

In this way, Zhu Yu identified the south, climbed the mountains and waded through the mountains and rivers from the path, and walked for seven or eight days, until the dry food he brought was finished, and it was estimated that it was far away from Shaolin, so he asked the mountain people for directions and walked on the official road.