Lao Zhang threw out three questions in a row, Rao is Hongyi came here today specifically to tell about this matter, and he was choked by him for a while, and he didn't know where to start.

He recited the Buddha's name, shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The grievances and hatreds in this matter, alas, but teach me where to start......" He sighed from the bottom of his heart, as if containing countless regrets and past, when the fire in the hall was swaying, the figures of the three people were imprinted on the wall in front of the Buddha, the sound of crickets, everyone's thoughts followed Hongyi Chi Shen away.

"That year, the great monk sent me a message, saying that Mr. Jinliang was going to Miyun County to hunt in the near future, and asked me to act on the camera, and I found a tavern near Baiyunguan, the way to pass, and gave the shopkeeper a piece of gold, and told him to transfer the shop to me along with his companions, and the gold ingot was enough for him to buy three shops, and he naturally went happily. After two days and two nights, sure enough, Mr. Jinliang came to my store with his cronies on horseback, saying that it was hard hunting and that he wanted to rest in my shop. ”

Wang Xinghui thought to himself that Zuo Zongtang had been hunting on horseback for a day, and when he suddenly saw a teahouse, he would definitely go in to rest and drink tea, and how could he prevent a smiling guy in this deserted village and wild shop from suddenly poisoning him? He knew that Zuo Zongtang would not have died in that conspiracy later, but he still couldn't help but be terrified when he imagined the scene of killing people in the wilderness at that time.

Lao Zhang suddenly said: "You have spent so much trouble, if Zuo Zongtang doesn't enter your store, won't you waste your efforts?"

Hongyi said: "With this great monk in Mr. Jinliang's personal entourage, he will naturally do something, but he is not afraid that he will not take the bait." Master Hongyi himself is also a disciple of Buddhism, but he has achieved fame, retired to the mountains and forests, and is naturally informal, although Buddhism is unparalleled in the world, but he has short hair on his head. So he has always called Miaozhu a "great monk", but he is not a monk.

Miao Zhu nodded and admitted his deeds, and said: "You two must despise the two of us for harming people's lives by such despicable means as conspiracy to poison, but at that time we also had no choice, Zuo Zongtang is a martial artist with soldiers, countless bodyguards around him, and his own martial arts are also extremely high. ”

Master Hongyi continued, "Who would have thought that at that moment, something would happen again. Just as I was about to serve out the poisoned tea in the back kitchen, one of my companions in the shop reached out and pressed me. This man was the tea doctor of this teahouse, and he shook his head at me, and the expression on his face was obviously that he had found out that I had poisoned the tea, and I immediately thought that as long as he opened his mouth and shouted, the matter would be revealed immediately, and I would immediately be in danger of my life, so without saying a word, I would kill him. Unexpectedly, I even out of eleven palms, were dissolved by him casually, a palm did not hit him, I was anxious to find out the dagger, stabbed him in the lower abdomen, I stabbed him in the hand to kill, so that my family heirloom Liuhe spy knife tricks, after the dagger pierced, to cut his spinal nerves, so that he did not have time to make a sound to die, this was an extremely ruthless trick, is my Liuhe door in the Jedi survival trick. I knew that although my hand touched his lower abdomen, the dagger in my hand did not know where it went. My surprise is not trivial, when I opened my eyes, the dagger did not know when it ran into his hands, I knew that his martial arts were much higher than mine, and my heart was suddenly like ashes, thinking that I had worked hard for several years, and my father's revenge could not be avenged after all, but I was afraid that I would die here that day, so I could only close my eyes and let him fall. ”

"But the man returned the dagger to me and whispered to me: 'This man deserves to die, but not in this way, and if you want to use this method again, I will stop it.' I asked him why, and he said to me, 'If you want to know the details, come to me in the Baiyun Temple on the third watch tonight.' Then he let me go. ”

"He said, 'If we use this again, he'll stop it.'" Naturally, it means that he knows about the conspiracy between me and the great monk, we have a total of one night, and still can't think of where this person is sacred, in order to prevent outsiders from discovering the clues, we never meet outside the joint, only use letters to connect, how can he know about our conspiracy to assassinate, that night the two of us went to the appointment, the tea doctor really did not lose his trust, waiting for me in front of the view, he went straight to the point and said, this person, he has to be killed. I thought to myself, Mr. Jin Liang is extremely difficult to assassinate, since he insists on doing it for him, why don't I end up pushing the boat and sell him a favor, huh...... However, our great monk is not allowed again. He said and looked at Miao Zhu, "The great monk and Mr. Jinliang have a grit of teeth, far more than me, if you have to kill him with your own hands, you might as well ask the great monk to talk about the next thing." ”

Miao Zhu raised his eyebrows and said proudly: "Yes, Zuo Zongtang and my father are officials in the same dynasty, but he supports the army and respects himself, and sits back and watches Hangzhou lose, resulting in the death of the soldiers in the city, but he sits on the seat of the prefect of Hangzhou with the bones of his comrades. If I can't get rid of this thief with my own hands, I will not be willing to do so. At that time, I questioned the man and said: "I have been undercover for three years, just waiting for today, why do you have to let you kill him with a word, what kind of hatred do you have with him, although you are strong in martial arts, how can you guarantee that you will definitely kill him?"

The man smiled and said: "I know that you are not convinced, it is better to do this, let's make a bet, whatever you two choose, if you can win me, Zuo Zongtang's life will be taken by you, I will not ask again, if you can't win me, you can't fight his idea again." ”

When I heard him say this, I secretly rejoiced in my heart, thinking that if he threatened him by force, I might not be his opponent, but I could only be at his mercy, but now that he asked us to choose, I don't believe that none of us are as good as him. ”

Lao Zhang answered: "That person is just a tea doctor, he must be very good at boiling water and making tea, you can't choose, I can't imagine that his martial arts are so powerful, well, in this way, you choose a thing he can't do and compare with him, you choose to meditate and retreat, memorize scriptures, he must not be as good as you." ”

Wang Xinghui couldn't help but glance at him and said: "Let's mainly talk about the origin of that chess game today, why did you forget, the great monk is good at chess, so he naturally chose to play chess, besides, at that time, the great monk was the main book of the march, and he was not a person in Buddhism, how to meditate and chant the scriptures?"

Lao Zhang scratched his head and smirked: "That's right, why didn't I think of it." Great monk, go on. What happened next?"

Miao Zhu said: "Yes, I boasted of my chess skills at the time, naturally I gambled with him, we played against each other in the Baiyun Temple, that person is really extraordinary, I have never met such a powerful opponent since the art of art, we played for two days, regardless of victory or defeat, and it is even more rare that he is so talented in civil and military affairs, although I am on a par with him in chess, but the force is far from the same, if he bullies, why do we have to bet for two days? All it was necessary to put the knife on my neck and threaten him, but he refused to force him, and it was not until the afternoon of the third day that I sealed the victory and forced him between the numbers. ...... ”

"The next scene is similar to the one we had yesterday, I was about to win, but he made a sudden move and played a series of robberies, and he became invincible. ”

At that time, we only sighed and accepted our fate, but the man said to the two of us, he had to play this play, it was really my chess skills are too high, he had to do it in order to be undefeated, that is, that night, he told me about the origin and ominous place of this cycle of three tribulations, that is, I told you yesterday the allusion to the mutiny in Shengguang Temple, he said: "If I don't take this step, this person will die at the hands of the two of you, this is not what I want; ”

Although he forced me to flatten, according to the agreement, it was considered to have stopped the assassination plan of the two of us, but the man was not happy at all, we both admitted the gamble and surrendered, I was still unwilling to leave, asked him when to do it, he sighed and said: "It is limited to one year, and I have not killed this person outside of one year, and then you will do it, I don't care." "Since then, we have not dared to do this again, and this mage has not been known since then, but I still stay with Zuo Zongtang in order to see how that person can take his life within a year. ”

"After most of the year, there was no movement in the army, and the left thief had never been in danger, I was a little impatient, and the people in Beijing were panicked on this day, saying that it was the Xinjiang Hui Ma Hualong who colluded with the Kokand Khanate to rebel, and the vanguard had reached Liangzhou, Gansu. On this day, the left thief came back from the court, angry, and I later learned that he had asked for orders to fight in Xinjiang again, and was ridiculed by the iron hat king monk Greenqin, so he was upset. On this day, I followed him around Houhai, and found a chess hall in a small alley, with a plaque of "the first national player in the world" hanging on the lintel, and a couplet read: "One is competing for a thousand years; Beijing has been known as the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties since ancient times, and this couplet says that "when will the Spring of the Six Dynasties be exhausted", which seems to be hoping that Beijing will fall soon. In fact, there may not be this meaning in the couplet, but maybe the current situation touched him, he was angry, and immediately rushed in, shouting angrily at the steward: "It's just that you and other literati are useless, but here you are blowing nonsense, what kind of national hand in the world." At a time when the border court of the country is in turmoil, it is really unreasonable to say that when will it be the spring of the six dynasties, and such ominous words will be made! I asked you pavilion masters to come out and play against me, if you don't win, you will definitely beat this arrogant person out of the Beijing Division. ”

I was surprised at the beginning of the curtain, a literati in his fifties walked out, he was the tea doctor who agreed with me to take Zuo Zongtang's life within a year, but at this time he changed his outfit, lupine scarf, quite elegant. I thought about it in my heart at the time, probably already knew the truth, it must be that he couldn't get close to Zuo Zongtang, so he tried to open this chess hall in Beijing City, in order to move the eyes and ears, he knew that Zuo Zongtang loved to play chess, and expected that he would be attracted by the world's No. 1 name sooner or later to try his hand. So I kept quiet, to see how he did it, and made up my mind that if I did it later, if that person could take down the left thief, forget it, if not, I couldn't say, I had to help. ”

Unexpectedly, that person lost three games in a row, all under Zuo Zongtang's hands, Zuo Zongtang laughed and said, immediately called someone to take down the plaque and smash it, asked him to get out of the Beijing Division immediately, and instructed that person not to allow him to be called a national player again.

"I only sighed, watching the loss of such a good opportunity, The one-year period has not arrived, I can't make my own decisions according to the agreement, and it didn't take long for the front-line war to be tight, Monk Greenqin lost his land and lost his master, the court recalled him, cut off his title, and the left thief was appointed as the Qincha, expedition to Xinjiang, and returned with a complete victory.

"On this day, I passed by Houhai again, but found that the chess hall had been replaced with a plaque of the world's first national player. ”

Zuo Zongtang was very angry, broke in, and wanted to draw his sword to kill the pavilion owner, but the pavilion owner said that he asked for three more rounds, and if he lost again, he would be guilty of pleading. ”

It was also the left thief who was in a good mood when he returned to the dynasty victoriously, and he said: "Okay, I will convince you." "The two of them played three more games, each game did not exceed fifty left thieves and lost, this time it was the turn of the left thief to be convinced, I and he have both played against each other, naturally I know that the person's chess skills are more than ten times more than Zuo Zongtang?

"I saw that the upper link of the couplet had been replaced: pacifying the Western Regions, still imagining the first game of the hero; the lower link was replaced with: Houhai Yingtai, asking why it is like the waves of the two lakes for a thousand years? I didn't understand the deep meaning at the time, but after the left thief saw it, he was stunned on the ground, and the man didn't speak, and after he looked at it for a while, he asked him: "In this way, am I worthy of being a national player?"

The left thief bowed down and said politely: "It's because I have eyes and don't know the real person, I offended last time, please forgive me, Mr. is pedantic, convincing, and can also be the beauty of adults, please follow me to turn around, I will definitely protect Mr. to the Holy God in the future, and show Mr. Zhuang's talent." ”

The man suddenly laughed, and then looked directly at the left thief with awe-inspiring eyes, and said sharply: "You listen to me, the day before yesterday, Donghu invaded, I knew that you had to go on the expedition, and I couldn't bear to frustrate your spirit, so I lost you in three sets; I hope that you will be cautious and do not do any wrong! As he spoke, he put the two sunspots on the table, pressed them with his hands, and walked into the inner hall without looking back, and the two sunspots suddenly turned into powder.

Wang Xinghui and Lao Zhang listened to Miao Zhu and Hongyi, you and I finished talking about this past one by one, and suddenly as if in a dream, Lao Zhang sighed: "Tsk, I can pinch the chess pieces into powder, I can't imagine that there are so many hermit knights with high martial arts in the world." ”

Hongyi saw that Wang Xinghui was silent, and Wen Yan asked: "I don't know what this little friend is thinking about?" Wang Xinghui was stunned, immediately came back to his senses, and replied respectfully: "I'm thinking, that couplet ......"

Hiroshi nodded and smiled, and Miaozhu continued: " Amitabha, good, after that time, although the man did not come to interfere with us again, but the master did not show up, I was also disheartened, I don't know what moved the left thief to that person, so that he gave up revenge, but I thought that even a master like him gave up, there must be his reason, I can't understand through, not long after, I also left the left thief army for some reason, and later converted to Buddhism, when leaving, but the couplet was remembered in my heart, until eighteen years later, that is, about ten years ago, I was fortunate to listen to the master open the altar in Zhenjiang Hanshan Temple, I knew that the famous Hongyi Master was the killer of the rivers and lakes who conspired with me in the past。 ”

Hongyi sighed softly and said, "Soon after I left the Baiyunguan that night, I escaped into the empty door, and I don't know anything about what happened to Mr. Ryo after that. That day I reunited with the old monk of the great monk, at that time it was already a change of world, Zuo Zongtang is no longer in the world, more than ten years, I have devoted myself to practicing Buddhism, and my heart has already let go of hatred, but that night the great monk and I talked about many matters after parting, I also had the curiosity to know the details. Amitabha, "pacify the Western Regions, still imagine the hero's first game; Houhai Yingtai, ask how the two lakes are like a thousand autumns" The two couplets left by the person to Mr. Jin Liang can be described as well-intentioned, he said, "pacify the Western Regions, still want to be a hero in the first game", that is naturally to praise Mr. Jin Liang for his great victory in the Western Regions, and call it a hero. He is willing to call him a hero, and the meaning of his words is not low for Mr. Jinliang, but he also said, "Houhai Yingtai, ask how the waves of the two lakes are thousands of autumns", Houhai Yingtai, are in the city of Beijing, at the foot of the imperial city, how can they be as vast as the land of the two lakes? The implication is that he is advising Mr. Jin Liang not to stay in the city, and to go to Hunan and Hubei to do something, so this person and Mr. Jin Liang should be friends and not enemies, but why did he have murderous intentions in the first place?"

Master Hongyi said eloquently: "The identity of that person, we have guessed some clues by chance over the years, but there is no evidence, in the following decades, the famous people in the rivers and lakes have surged, but it seems that they cannot be confirmed by the old man, and the world has never heard of such a number one," he turned to Wang Xinghui and continued: " I just heard the big monk say that the nameless old man that this little friend knows seems to have some connection with the old man in the story we tell, and the little friend wants to know the identity of the old man. ”

Wang Xinghui got up and went to the ground for a long time, thanking Hongyi and the temple. That night, the four of them stayed up all night, sat in the Buddha hall and talked about the current situation in the world, the rise and fall of ancient and modern times, until dawn only leaned on the Buddha statue between the wall to close their eyes and recuperate, the fog rose in the morning, the whole Tushi Palace was like in the clouds, a sharp whistle suddenly broke the silence, and then, there was a gunshot. Wang Xinghui, Lao Zhang walked out of the Buddhist hall quickly, only to see a black and oppressive gendarme under the mountain, coming to the mountain one after another, and had already exchanged fire with the congregation responsible for guarding the mountain. Wang Xinghui sighed and said to Lao Zhang: "It's not good, it must be that Brother Pao will be a traitor leaking secrets, at this time the gendarmerie will intercept all factions on the mountain, and I have repeatedly brought information to the leader of your gang, why are you still so careless!"