24. Have mercy on the world, and there are many sorrows
The wind swept the clouds, gobbled up.
The chicken, duck and beef on the table disappeared into Lin Buyi's abdomen at a rapid speed, and Qian Xiaoyi on the side was a little stunned.
Qian Xiaojia also kept silently reciting "Amitabha", for fear that a thunderbolt would come down from the eyes of God, and the 'holy monk' would be split together with the post station.
Lin Buyi didn't care at all, but he felt that the food in this post station was not as good as the food in Jinshan Temple.
Sauced beef tastes like chewy wax, and roast duck is far from what you have eaten on earth in previous lives.
Boneless phoenix claws are good, but the portion is too small.
Maybe it's because of the cultivation that I have eaten, and the amount of food I eat is much larger than when I first crossed over.
"Master Xuanzang, the horse has already been fed with fodder and is waiting outside the door. ”
"Then let's go. ”
Lin Buyi put down the dishes and chopsticks, and let out a long burp before standing up.
The two heralds wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads, and their hearts couldn't help but beat drums, this holy monk looked ...... It doesn't seem to be reliable in the mountains......
"Two donors, the poor monk still has one thing to ......"
As soon as he went out, Lin Buyi stood still, and turned to look at the two of them again.
"Does the mage want to bring some meat to eat on the road...... The next official will go and prepare ......"
"No, no," Lin Buyi hurriedly shook his head and stopped him: "The poor monk just wants to ...... Tell you how to ride a horse. ”
"Huh?"
Qian Xiaojia was stunned, and immediately reacted.
The holy monk grew up in the mountain gate since he was a child, and it is natural that he can't ride a horse, but they felt that Lin Buyi's mana was profound and omnipotent, which can be regarded as a misunderstanding of thinking.
So, outside the post station next to the official road, a strange scenery appeared-
Two officials jumped up and down to teach a young monk how to ride a horse.
Pedestrians passing by looked sideways, but because the post station was where the official house was located, no one really dared to come up and laugh, just stood aside and pointed, and from time to time recited a few sour poems and laughed generously.
About noon, Lin Buyi finally succeeded in riding the horse, pulled the reins, and controlled the horse on the side of the road.
For ordinary people, it may take a day or two just to learn to ride a horse, and if you want to know the reins of a horse and run long distances, it takes a long time of continuous practice to get used to it.
However, Lin Buyi has made great progress in terms of physical fitness and state of mind cultivation these days, and he has also watched a lot of equestrian competitions on TV in his previous life, so it only took a few hours for him to successfully learn riding.
"The holy monk is really powerful, I thought I learned to ride a horse at the beginning, but it took more than half a month!" Qian Xiaoyi exclaimed on the side, I don't know if this is the case, or deliberately touted.
"That's because you're stupid, I only used seven days!"
“......”
Listening to the two mocking each other, Lin Buyi laughed, and didn't care whether they could catch up or not, as soon as he pulled the reins, the horse neighed, and galloped away along the official road.
"It's over, the holy monk is running!"
The two brothers couldn't help but say, took up their salutes and got on their horses, and hurriedly followed.
......
In the evening of the same day, about half of the distance was walked.
A few people found a post station to live in, and after eating, the golden lotus around Lin Buyi began to slowly appear again.
It can be inferred from this that each of the rune papers given to him by the monk Faming can only last for about a day.
Fortunately, there are still a lot of rune papers, and Lin Buyi didn't take it seriously, so he used another one, which saved some unnecessary trouble.
That night, he stayed awake all night, trying to run the immeasurable Zen sound in his body and trembling until the next morning, when one of the seven chakras and eight veins described in the sutra had penetrated one of them.
Moreover, there are also different degrees of dark brown silt on the surface of the body, which are all impurities discharged from the body during the quenching process.
After taking a bath and changing into monk's clothes, several people went on the road again, and it was not until the next day that they entered the boundary of Hongzhou.
The three of them walked non-stop for another half an hour, and although it was already evening, there were more and more pedestrians on the road.
Unlike those you saw along the way, most of the pedestrians here were unclothed and yellow-skinned.
After seeing Lin Buyi and the others, they all avoided it, with fear on their faces.
Looking at the sallow faces of passers-by, Lin Buyi gradually frowned.
It looks like they're ...... Flee from famine?
Lin Buyi grabbed the reins, turned over and dismounted, and the Qian brothers also followed behind him and stopped.
At this time, two people happened to walk by the side of the road, an old man with a little girl, the old one looked skinny, there seemed to be only a layer of human skin left on the high cheekbones, his eyes were dull, and his eyes were full of confusion.
The little girl looked quite spiritual, her eyes were dripping and she looked around, and after seeing the official uniforms on the Qian brothers, she quickly flashed her eyes to the side.
As if with an unforgettable fear.
Lin Buyi saw that she didn't dare to face the official errand, so he asked Qian Xiaoyi to lead the horse and wait with his brother.
Then he took some food from his backpack and walked towards the old and the young.
"This old man ......"
As soon as he spoke, the old man hurriedly took two steps forward and blocked in front of the little girl, his eyes were full of vigilance, and then he showed a pleading color: "Master, please let us live......"
As he spoke, he knelt on the ground with a pop.
Lin Buyi hurriedly supported him: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!"
Seeing that his legs were weak and he couldn't stand up, Lin Buyi handed over the steamed buns and meat in his hand again: "Uncle, we are from Jinshan Temple, I don't know what happened here, if you are offended, I hope you don't mind." ”
When the old man saw the food, his eyes gradually glowed, and he looked Lin Buyi up and down again before taking it, and then kowtowed: "You...... You're really not here to arrest us?"
"Monks don't speak," Lin Buyi nodded: "Let's eat quickly." ”
After a while, the old man finally nodded, stretched out his hand and handed the food to the little girl: "Erya, come and kowtow to the master." ”
The little girl stepped forward and kowtowed, although Lin Buyi didn't like these red tape, he didn't bother to stop it, and immediately asked: "Uncle, what's going on here, why do you all look so down?"
"Hey......"
The old man sighed, tore off a small piece of steamed bun and put it in his mouth, and said while chewing: "It's all evil ghosts who kill people." ”
Seeing that Lin Buyi didn't speak on the side, the old man told him the cause and effect of the incident again:
Since the body of Niujia Village was found in the moat half a year ago, rumors of water ghost killings have begun to circulate in nearby villages.
At first, everyone didn't take it seriously, after all, the life of the little people, how to live or how to live.
But in the following months, there were more and more corpses outside Hongzhou, and many people fell asleep inexplicably and never woke up.
Until a while ago, more than 40 corpses appeared in Sanxi Village, the largest village in Hongzhou, overnight, and Hongzhou City immediately sent troops to investigate the case, but still failed to find out any information.
At this time, all the people in the village panicked and began to flee in all directions.
But seeing that spring was about to begin, the people in Hongzhou City still pointed to the people outside the village to farm and provide food, of course they didn't want them to escape.
So the local county government ordered the villagers to move to nearby villages for a while, but a large number of corpses appeared in several villages, and people were not worried where to move, and many people began to flee to other state capitals.
The county officials in various places had no choice at this time, so they began to send troops to suppress it, ordering the people not to leave the village.
Where are the villagers willing to sit and wait for death, forced to helpless, there are villager riots in various places, and the old man fled here with his granddaughter in a riot.
Lin Buyi stood aside, listening to the old man's narration, and his brows sank deeper and deeper.
Could it be that the fake assassin in Hongzhou City has been so unscrupulous?