Xu Zhi saw that it was getting late, and he couldn't enter the Shaolin Temple at this time, so he had to lead Zhou Yuanzhi, Pang Xun and others to the waterfall outside the Shaolin Temple to rest. Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Xu Zhi arrived in front of the gate of Shaolin Temple, but did not enter, and said strangely: "Brother Xu, are you inconvenient to take us into Shaolin Temple because I and Qiuyue are girls?"

Xu Zhi said continuously: "Yuan Zhi, it's not like this!", and after speaking, he told Zhou Yuanzhi what he was worried about. Zhou Yuanzhi said with a smile: "I see, since Brother Xu has this question, Little Sister has a plan!"

Xu Zhidao: "What kind of strategy is it?"

Zhou Yuanzhi asked rhetorically: "Brother Xu, don't ask anything first, you answer me first, can I enter the Shaolin Temple?"

Xu Zhi said with a smile: "Of course, the Shaolin temple rules do not stipulate that female pilgrims cannot come to Shaolin to worship incense and worship the Buddha!"

Zhou Yuanzhi said with a smile: "That's good, my plan is that instead of the two of us guessing here, let's sneak into the Shaolin Temple tonight to see what is going on!" Xu Zhi heard it and applauded.

Zhou Yuanzhi instructed Pang Xun again: "Brother Pang, Brother Xu and I are going to visit Shaolin at night, you lead the disciples of the Spear Gate to wait here, if we don't come back in the morning, you don't have to wait for us, go straight back to Jiangnan and ask my father to raise troops to rescue Shaolin."

Pang Xun responded: "Subordinates obey!"

Besides, Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi returned to Shaolin Temple late at night, and the two stopped in front of a big pine tree outside the temple. Xu Zhi pulled Zhou Yuanzhi to jump onto the big tree, overlooking the temple, and saw that it was quiet inside, and there was not a single monk in sight, and there was not even a trace of chanting and chanting Buddha.

Zhou Yuanzhi pressed Xu Zhi's ear and said, "Brother Xu, the silence in this Shaolin Temple is too strange, it seems that all the monks are not in the temple. ”

Xu Zhi replied: "Yuan Zhi, let's go in and see what happened!", and the two of them followed the big tree and gently climbed over the wall of the Shaolin Temple.

Xu Zhi led Zhou Yuanzhi to the main hall where the Shaolin monks chanted sutras, and pierced the window paper, only to see that the lights inside were brilliant, and the ground and Buddha statues were full of sleeping officers and soldiers. Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi didn't dare to stay for a long time, and came to the firewood room of Shaolin Temple, which was originally the place where Shaolin warrior monks slept, Xu Zhi was very familiar with this, and he saw that it was also quiet, because of the dust, several senior brothers, as well as Xue Atan and An Jingsi, were lying on the ground, motionless. Xu Zhi was afraid that something would happen to them, so he was about to turn over through the window and go in to wake them up.

At this time, Zhou Yuanzhi gently poked him behind his back with his fingers, Xu Zhi saw Zhou Yuanzhi pouting towards the house, looking into the house, only to see that among the sleeping monks, two black shadows slowly got up, they looked around, and then tiptoed out of the room. Xu and Zhou were afraid that they would find out, so they followed when they were far away.

Xu Zhi saw that the two black shadows entered the scripture pavilion of the Shaolin Temple one after another, and after a while, the scripture pavilion was lit up, and it was obvious that there were people inside to answer them. Xu Zhi remembered the scene when he and An Jingsi followed the man in black that day, and pulled Zhou Yuanzhi to jump on the cypress tree next to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, he learned the experience of listening to the window last time it was easy to be discovered, so he simply jumped on the roof of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion with a dragonfly, and opened a small gap in the tiles on the ridge, so that he could see the situation inside, and it was difficult to be discovered.

I saw a person sitting in the Scripture Pavilion, with red clothes and hair, bright eyes and bright teeth, but it was Li Xiuyun. There were two people standing beside him, one was Li Xiuyun's maid Hongye, and the other was Zhou Chen. There were two bald monks kneeling on the ground, and they couldn't see clearly for a while. It wasn't until Li Xiuyun asked the two monks to stand up that Xu Zhifang could see their appearance clearly, it was the emptiness and lookout of the Dharma Hall.

Li Xiuyun said with a smile: "The two masters have been lying in the Shaolin Temple for so many years, it is really hard for you! When I play the Ming court, I will definitely give the two of them a heavy reward!"

Likong replied: "These meager credits of the subordinates are all due to the princess, and the subordinates dare not be rewarded, but I ask the princess to reunite us with our family as soon as possible." ”

looked at it and said: "Princess, what Senior Brother Likong said is also what I think in my heart, and I ask the princess to forgive the hardships of his subordinates!"

Zhou Chen persuaded: "The two masters bear the burden of humiliation for the court, and the princess also remembers your merits. Although the Shaolin Temple is currently controlled by us, we only control their actions and do not have their loyalty. If there is chaos today, Shaolin Temple can't add to the chaos, please continue to be patient with the two masters, your family and the court will take good care of you!"

He smiled bitterly: "Princess and General Zhou, you don't know the suffering of your subordinates in Shaolin Temple, I think that your subordinates also obeyed the princess's decree back then, pretending to be a rich businessman who was robbed by the official army, and only after nine deaths did he hide from the Shaolin Temple up and down, and lurked in the Shaolin Temple, but every day he ate rice soup, and he had to face the wall, chant scriptures, and practice martial arts, and we didn't want to leave this place where there were no seven emotions and six desires, no joy, anger and sorrow!"

looked at it and said: "Yes, so we look forward day and night to the official army to capture the Shaolin Temple as soon as possible, and we can also recover our free bodies as soon as possible!"

Li Xiuyun said with a smile: "It seems that we have done the right thing by setting up an internal line in Shaolin Temple! It's just that this matter has been a one-way contact between the two masters and General Zhou, and today the princess is very interested, I want to hear how the two masters gained a foothold in Shaolin?"

"After the subordinates lurked in the Shaolin Temple, as long as they saw a Kong Ming lantern appear in the south at night, they knew that General Zhou was going to contact us, and we would secretly open the Scripture Pavilion of the Shaolin Temple in the dead of night the next day, waiting for General Zhou's arrival and accepting the will of the imperial court." ”

Li Xiuyun smiled: "Then why did you take your contact location in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion?"

Looking back: "The reason why I chose it in the Scripture Pavilion is because it is far away from the main hall, and it is usually relatively secluded, and no one comes at night;

Zhou Chen smiled and said to Li Xiuyun: "I didn't expect that the two of them were still quite thoughtful, but once there were some accidents!"

Wang sighed: "It's not that Xu Zhi to blame, he doesn't know how, sleepwalking with insomnia at night, followed us to the library pavilion, that time if it wasn't for Lord Zhou's wit, let us hide him in the bookcase, and was almost discovered by the abbot!"

When Hongye heard this, he couldn't help but interject: "Princess! This Xu Zhi is really the nemesis of the imperial court, no matter how good things he does, he has to block it!"

Li Xiuyun said with a smile: "Okay, let's not talk about him, by the way, the two masters, you and your senior brothers live in the same house, you go out frequently at night like this, won't it arouse the suspicion of others?"

He replied: "Back to the princess, in order not to let the senior brothers suspect, we used the excuse of going out to practice for a while every night, at first everyone didn't believe that we would be so diligent, and then several senior brothers met us many times to practice in the practice room, and they were used to it, and they didn't ask us much when we went out at night!"

Zhou Chen praised: "Virtual, real, real, virtual, two masters, you really have a way!"

Li Xiuyun said with a smile, "How did the two masters help the imperial court break through the Shaolin Temple?"

Wang Wang replied: "Under the situation of the imperial army besieging but not attacking, the Shaolin Temple was cut off from food and cooking, the abbot and several senior monks were afraid of causing panic and mutiny among the monks, so they deliberately concealed it from the Shaolin monks, but the Shaolin monks did not understand the reason, but thought that the abbot and other senior monks were not well managed and operated, resulting in insufficient food in the fiefdom under the mountain, and they asked to go down the mountain to save themselves!" Especially the disciples of our Dharma Academy, due to the negligence of the Zhide Zen master, and the elder brother because of his irritable temper, so several senior brothers could not express their inner appeals, so they had to ask to see the abbot together, but the abbot was not allowed, and let Yin go back to enlighten everyone, but because he was not convinced by everyone, he had to ask me to help, I secretly encouraged everyone to go down the mountain first, get back the food and then ask the abbot and the senior brother to plead guilty, these senior brothers went down the mountain and were either killed or arrested!"

Li Xiuyun sighed: "The two masters' tricks are really ruthless, but they did disintegrate the defense of the Shaolin Temple!

Likong sighed: "We thought that after the power of the Shaolin Temple was greatly weakened, the imperial court should seize the opportunity to eradicate this nail in the Central Plains in one fell swoop, but what we waited for was to let us continue to wait, we were very puzzled, and we also suggested to General Zhou many times that the official army should take the Shaolin Temple as soon as possible!

Li Xiuyun comforted: "In fact, the imperial court is in the next big game of chess, this Shaolin Temple is just one of the chess pieces, a bait, we are waiting for the opportunity, the greedy fish will naturally take the bait, and then the world will naturally be peaceful, and the two masters will be able to reunite with their families forever!"

"In General Zhou's contact, we also understood that the imperial court left the Shaolin Temple deliberately, but the opportunity was fleeting, and the situation in the Shaolin Temple changed a lot later?"

Zhou Chen asked, "The change you are talking about is that Xu Zhi and they came to the Shaolin Temple!"

looked at it and replied: "Yes, since Xu Zhi and them came to Shaolin Temple, the abbot and they have slowly listened to the opinions of Xu Zhi and others, so that the situation in Shaolin is not under the control of the two of us!"

Hongye asked: "Two masters, one Xu Zhi is so difficult to deal with? He is a newcomer, he is not familiar with the place, you are still afraid of him, and he is still in control of the situation?"

The empty face said with shame: "This sister doesn't know, before Xu Zhi came, the Shaolin monks were all pure and noble people who didn't ask about the world, they were dedicated to the Buddha, and they only asked for a peace in doing things; After Xu Zhi came, he explained to the abbot that the abbot was an indecisive person, and he couldn't stand the persuasion of the two junior brothers, plus Xu Zhi proposed: It is better to stand up and survive than to sit and wait for death, Shaolin Temple can not be destroyed in the hands of our generation, and it is to stimulate the fighting spirit of all monks. So later, when he competed with the imperial court and gained the upper hand, there was a competition with the same door in Shaolin Temple, and Zhide went down the mountain to rob grain!"

Zhou Chen saw Li Xiuyun's face full of melancholy, and sighed: "The princess should have really listened to General Yun's persuasion, and should not have left Xu Zhi in this world, he would bring endless troubles to the princess!"

Li Xiuyun muttered: "Xu Zhi and I are really a pair of insoluble enemies, I don't know what the outcome will be in the future!" She brushed the hair in front of her forehead and continued to ask: "You know that the Shaolin Temple is going down the mountain to rob the grain, why didn't you tell the imperial court earlier? Why did you tell General Yun about the Shaolin Temple's grain robbery? You asked him to lead the troops into the Shaolin Temple?"

Seeing that Li Xiuyun was a little unhappy on his face, he quickly knelt on the ground and said: "Back to the princess, we don't know that the Shaolin Temple is going down the mountain to rob the grain, that day the abbot and several senior monks suddenly gathered everyone, who knew that Xu Zhi immediately proposed to go down the mountain to rob the grain to save himself, contact the Huangchao rebels, and persuade the rebels to go north to the Central Plains." We were taken aback at the time, but we didn't expect that all the brothers and sisters agreed with Xu Zhi's proposition, and what we didn't expect was that the abbot immediately made a decision to let us follow the letter to harass the official army as a cover, and let Zhide and Xu Zhi take people down the mountain to rob grain. ”

Likong continued: "What Senior Brother Ran said is that we were also secretly complaining at the time, and we didn't expect that Xu Zhi's plan would be implemented immediately, and we didn't even have a chance to tell the imperial court!"

Only then did Li Xiuyun understand and comforted: "This is the cunning of the abbot, he knows that there are the eyes and ears of the imperial court in the temple, so he preemptively strikes, no wonder you guys! What happened later?"

Likong continued: "Later, we didn't believe that Xu Zhi and Zhide would have great ability to snatch food from the hands of the imperial court, so our only worry was that the abbot asked Zhijing to contact Huang Chao, which would ruin the major affairs of the imperial court. I know that after Zhijing passed through the barracks, she followed him all along, and in a poplar forest south of the barracks, seized the letter from his hand, and took the opportunity to attack him and kill him!"

Li Xiuyun thought to herself: I originally intended to set a trap near the Shaolin Temple to attract the Huangchao rebels, but I didn't expect that Kong would be clever and kill Zhijing, who sent the letter, which would be self-defeating and not attract Huangchao. Alas, it is really up to man to make things happen!

Wang Wang continued: "Just as we got rid of Zhijing and secretly rejoiced, we didn't expect Zhide to lead the monks and dozens of people in distress to come back with two carts of rice grain, and suddenly there was jubilation in the Shaolin Temple!"

When Xu Zhi heard this, he was a little puzzled: At that time, when he was separated from Master Zhide in Dengfeng, there were still more than 20 carts of rice grain, how could he return to Shaolin Temple and there were only two carts left, there must be a reason for this!

I saw Zhou Chen smile and say to Li Xiuyun: "Princess, it turns out that the robbery of military food in Orangutan Gorge is led by Xu Zhi and Shaolin Temple, and those hungry people are just a cover!"

Li Xiuyun also sneered: "This is Xu Zhi's cleverness, I originally thought that he robbed the military rations of the imperial court in order to save the hungry people in the world, but I didn't expect that he wanted to use the hungry people to fish in troubled waters, so that we couldn't figure out their identities!"

When Zhou Yuanzhi heard this, she also secretly stretched out her thumb to Xu Zhi, and Xu Zhi smiled faintly at her.

I saw the empty continued: "We ate the rations taken by Zhide, and it seems that we have returned to the previous ordinary life, but we want to leave the Shaolin Temple more, but we have waited for half a month, and we have not seen a signal of contact! We are afraid of delaying the military affairs of the imperial court, so we discussed privately, and took the seal letter of the imperial court late at night, and personally went to the Dengfeng camp to meet General Zhou, but when we arrived at the military camp, we learned that the princess and General Zhou had already inspected the front line of Huaisi, and General Yun Feiyang Yun received us. He told us that when the princess was leaving, he had instructed him that he could act cheaply on behalf of the court and the princess. When we saw that the matter was urgent, we told General Yun about the Shaolin Temple robbing the imperial court of military rations!"

looked at it and said: "General Nayun is very decisive, he knows that after the Shaolin Temple robbed the military rations, he is ready to send a large army to encircle and suppress the Shaolin Temple overnight. We hurriedly stopped him and made two suggestions to him: first, report the matter to the princess and ask the princess to decide; second, after they returned to the Shaolin Temple, they secretly put the drug in the well, and after the monks of the whole temple were charmed, they could attack the Shaolin Temple without bloodshed. General Yun listened to our suggestion and was overjoyed! He promised to his face that if he succeeded, he would let Senior Brother Kong be the new abbot of Shaolin, and make me the first Dharma Academy and Discipline Academy of Shaolin Temple!"

After hearing this, Zhou Chen smiled and said: "You are still quite shrewd in doing things, let General Yun inform the princess, so that you are not derelict in your duties, General Yun's actions behind him are his own actions, and you don't have to bear any responsibility, right? But you are indeed clever in using drugs to assist the imperial court in attacking the Shaolin Temple! And you also pretend to be unconscious, even if the matter is not successful, you will not be suspected!"

Li Xiuyun also praised: "We rushed to Dengfeng today, and when we saw that the barracks were empty, we knew that Yun Feiyang led the troops into the Shaolin Temple, but I didn't expect that with your assistance, it would be so smooth without spending a single soldier!"

Li Xiuyun suddenly asked Zhou Chen: "Since the soldiers are all in the Shaolin Temple, why don't you see Yun Feiyang, Liu Jingren, and Guo Sheng?"

Zhou Chen also wondered: "Yes, I didn't see them in the Shaolin Temple either!"

Likong replied cautiously: "Princess Yu, Lord Zhou, the villain heard that General Yun and the other two generals returned to Dengfeng City in the afternoon, as if they were welcoming a few friends from Jiangnan!"

Wangwang interjected: "Several adults will definitely return to Shaolin Temple tomorrow to see the princess, and ask the princess to forgive her sins!"

Li Xiuyun let out an impatient "oh", then waved his hand and motioned for everyone to stand down. Xu Zhi saw that Li Xiuyun and the others had left the Scripture Pavilion one after another, and also pulled Zhou Yuanzhi to take advantage of the night to return to the waterfall outside the Shaolin Temple to meet Pang Xun and others.