Li Defa and Li Decai were walking towards the main hall, because the two brothers came back from the yamen every night, they had to go to the main hall to meet their parents, and then they went home, at this time the two were walking forward, and suddenly heard a loud shout from behind, the two stopped and looked back, the two had just turned around, and a sleeve arrow swished, shooting at Li Defa's person, cutting off two front teeth, and the arrow went straight into the throat. Didn't scream. He staggered back two steps and fell to the ground on his back. Spit out a few mouthfuls of blood and died instantly.

When the first sleeve arrow was shot at Li Defa, the second sleeve arrow was already flying towards Li Decai's face, after all, he was born as a military general. When the two turned back, they saw that Wang Shi first put an arrow at Li Defa's front door, and then adjusted the direction to shoot Li Decai, which left Li Decai time to react, so when the second arrow shot Li Decai, he avoided it by going down to the cat's waist.

Everyone must have doubts, if this Wang Shi doesn't shout and put arrows directly behind his back, isn't it over for the two brothers, in fact, it's not, because this Li Defa and Li Decai, both of them are wearing iron chain mail, not to mention that the sleeve arrow can't be pierced, even the strong bow and crossbow are difficult to penetrate, leaving Wang Shi with a place to shoot, only such a narrow area as the head facing the door, Li Defa is wearing an iron swallow wing helmet on his head, and the brother Li Decai in the back took off the helmet and held it with his hand, Wang Shi originally planned to give Li Decai an arrow on his head from behind, and secretly thought to himself: The back of the head is full of bones, and I don't know if the sleeve arrow can shoot through the skull。 Because he was unsure, he shouted and attracted the two brothers to look back.

Li Decai avoided the sleeve arrow, hurriedly put on his helmet, pulled out his waist knife in his right hand, and shouted: "Bold minion! Dare to plot against a certain family, look at the knife!"

Li Decai slashed with a knife, Wang Shi did not have a weapon in his hand, he would not use a weapon, he could only make a fist, at that time Yuanhui Zen Master only taught him a set of Fuhu Arhat boxing, a set of bone removal techniques. Wang Shi saw him chopping his head and face with a knife, so he had to avoid it backwards and hide between the pillars, Li Decai shouted in his mouth while chopping: "Dog minion, don't hide." ”

The two chased and dodged until they reached the empty dam in the back hall, Li Decai saw the corpses all over the ground and was even more angry, jumped his body to the ground, and split Huashan, and the head of the knife was slashed against Wang Shi's top, the momentum was so fierce that he couldn't avoid it if he wanted to, because Li Decai saw that Wang Shi just wanted to retreat all the way, so this jump, flew straight up and cut close to Wang Shi, and cut down with a knife, so that the root of the knife was used to focus, Wang Shi could not withdraw to the tip of the knife at such a moment, even if Wang Shi retreated backwards, the tip of the knife could still be cut on his head. Li Decai is laughing secretly in his heart, look where you are fleeing this time. Wang Shiyan saw that he would die if he retreated, so he simply rolled his body forward and used a trick to kick the eagle. At this time, Li Decai was jumping up in the air, making a knife to split Wang Shi, but he saw Wang Shi rolling under him, and the knife in his hand was splitting into the air, and he was puzzled, his body was still falling, but he was kicked in the crotch by Wang Shi from the ground. Anyway, Wang Shi took advantage of the time when he jumped up and rolled down to the bottom, and used this trick to kick the eagle, and really kicked on Li Decai's private parts, Wang Shi used all his internal force with this kick, and kicked the two eggs in Li Decai's private private into meat sauce. The body was also kicked by this kick, and it flew up two meters high, and then fell to the ground with a heavy thud.

I saw Li Decai lying on the ground, his face was in pain and hideous, he threw the knife aside, and covered his private parts with both hands. Wang Shi got up from the ground, walked over and picked up Li Decai's knife, slashed him in the neck, cut off his head, and splashed himself with blood.

Throwing the belt in his hand on the ground, he turned over and came to the front door, he wanted to take off Li Defa's clothes to change them on, but when he looked at the other party's figure, he dispelled this idea, this Li Defa brother is eight feet long and his body is three meters wide, Wang Shi is six feet long, and he is so delicate that he can't wear his clothes even if he takes off his clothes.

Opened the gate and went out to pull the door over, went to tie the horse stake and led the two horses to leave, looked down and saw that he was covered with blood, and then recalled: Li Defa said that there is a back door, and there is a horse breeder in the back manger, since there is a back door, there must be a gatehouse, and there must be a gatehouse. The blood on his body is too eye-catching. Why don't you turn to the back and get the door to the back door clear, change his clothes, feed the horse, and walk on his horse to-morrow morning.

I made up my mind. All the way to the back of the wall along the two horses, until the wall has been around the root of the wall for about half a mile, the end of the wall to the east, followed the wall to the east for dozens of feet, then saw two black doors in front of the wall, closed. Wang Shi walked to the door and raised his hand and knocked. I only heard an old man in the door cough a few times and asked loudly, "Who?"

"I'm from the front door, and this will lead the second and third masters' horses in. ”

The old man coughed a few more times before he got up and opened the door. Wang Shi led the horse and asked as he walked inside, "Why are you the only one behind here?"

When the old man saw that Wang Shi had led the horse in, he went to close the door, and said while inserting the latch: "The back door is not like your front door, there are many people who come in and out every day, and the people who come in and out of this back door are doing things, so there is no need for so many people to watch, that is, there are those who deliver vegetables and meat every morning, and pour buckets." Wait until the evening when you bring the horses over, and you'll be done. ”

After listening to the old man, Wang Shi was still standing by the gatehouse, and the old man put the latch in and turned around and pointed to the right: "You are new to the stable, you don't know the stable, go forward more than a dozen battles along this road, there are a few huts, where is it." Give the horse to Fan Mazi, who keeps the horse, and you can go back. ”

Wang Shi thanked him, led his horse, and walked along the path for more than a dozen battles, and saw that there were three huts in front of him, and a shed next to it, and there was a row of three-foot-high troughs at the front door of the shed. Wang Shi led the horse to the bottom of the shed, tied the two horses to two pillars, and the horse skillfully ate the forage in the trough. Wang Shi looked around for a while, but did not see Fan Mazi, who raised horses. shouted a few more times, but still no one came out to answer. Then he opened the house one by one, pushed open the first hut on the east side, which was piled with hay and a few bamboo baskets, and in the second house there were some sacks, Wang Shi took out a sharp knife and cut open the sacks, which turned out to be soybeans for feeding horses. There is a bed in the middle of the third room, and there are several boxes on the ground, which should be Fan Mazi's bedroom. Wang Shi opened the box and found a clean suit inside, a fine linen yellow shirt, lost the bloodstained black shirt, and replaced it with this short shirt. I also found a few pieces of money in the box, and I carried them all on my body. Came out of the house and shouted a few times, there was no impact, it turned out that the back groove Fan Mazi who raised horses, was idle during the day, I heard that Li Defu bought a girl, and set up a banquet on the dam in the front hall, so he also found a banquet on the empty dam in the back hall.

Wang Shi searched again and did not see anyone, so he went to the house to get some soybeans and forage to feed the horses, and then used a wooden bucket to carry a bucket of water to dump in the trough for the horses to drink, after finishing it, worried that the front door was not bolted, someone would break in, hurriedly walked through the front door, was not knowing the path to a place, turned two into the corridor, next to the row of five wings, the light inside through the window shot, Wang Shi secretly said in his heart: Is there still someone here. While he was suspicious, the door of one of the rooms opened, and a maid came out with a lantern in her hand. As the maid walked out, she turned around and closed the door. It turned out that Li Defu's third aunt and wife lived here, respectively, the second wife Hu, the third wife Zhou, and the fourth wife Chen. Coming out of the door, this maid was the maid Cuicui of the second wife Hu family. Because he heard that Li Defu got another woman back, several aunts and wives were sulking in the room, and when they saw that it was late, no one came to deliver the meal, so the anger was even greater, so Hu asked Cuicui to go to the kitchen to ask, why didn't he send food to the back so late. Usually a few aunts and wives are in a good mood, so they go to the front and back hall to dine with the old lady, if they are in a bad mood and don't go to the front to eat, the kitchen will let the running hall send the food to the back.

As soon as Cuicui came out of the door, he was seen by Wang Shi, and he stepped forward without asking for any reason. At this time, Cuicui was about to leave with a lantern, but she saw a man wearing a jute cloth, and at first thought it was a person who ran the hall to deliver food, Cuicui said angrily: "You slaves are so unreasonable, now that you see a newcomer in front of you, you are so lazy, and you don't come to deliver food." After saying it just now, but seeing that Wang Shi was not carrying the food box in his hand, he was even more angry in his heart, and when Wang Shi walked in front of him, he held a lantern and shone it on his face, but he didn't know him. He asked, "You're not running away." ”

Wang Shi said: "Who said that I ran the hall, I am here to send you on the road." ”

Cuicui heard Wang Shi say that he was here to send her on the road, and she was even more puzzled. He asked, "Take me on my way?"

Wang Shi sneered, grabbed Cuicui's throat with his right hand, and with a struggling hand, he snapped and broke his throat bone. Both hands to clasp Wang Shi's right hand. struggled twice, then incontinent, feces and urine, feet kicked, eyes rolled and died in pain.

Wang Shi pinched Cuicui to death, pushed the door and entered the house, only to see an oil lamp lit on the table, covered with a red gauze lampshade, a woman in her twenties wearing a brocade embroidered skirt, sitting at the table in a daze, this person is Li Defu's second aunt Taihu. Hu Shi raised his head sharply, saw a strange man coming in from the door of the room, and scolded loudly: "The wild man from there is not going to get out quickly." ”

Wang Shi didn't bother to talk, an arrow stepped forward, and the right palm made a move to cover the top of the king, because he was afraid that her brains would burst out and fly to her body, so she only used twenty percent of her internal strength, and only heard a snap, and the woman fell to the ground in response. Wang Shi's palm only knocked her unconscious, in fact, she didn't die, but this palm caused Hu's brain to be hit hard, lost his memory, and became an idiot after waking up, wandering around the streets, and was taken home by Zhao Peigen, who was driving a carriage in the city, to be his wife, and gave birth to two sons, this is a later story.

It is said that Wang Shi saw Hu Shi fall to the ground, thinking that he had beaten Hu to death, so he stepped out, searched room by room, and killed the third aunt Tai Zhou and the maid. came out of the third aunt's room and kicked open the door of the fourth aunt Chen's room, so frightened that Chen and the maid Qiuwen hurriedly drilled under the bed, Wang Shi rushed up quickly, grabbed Chen's feet and dragged them out, Chen's mouth was wow and screamed, only shouting for help. He dragged Chan out of the middle of the room and stepped up on his chest with his right foot. Chen Shi saw that Wang Shi took out a sharp knife to untie his wrist in his right hand and was about to stab it when he raised the knife, so he hurriedly shouted: "Strongman, if you want to kill me, please tell me a reason." ”

Wang Shigang pulled out the knife to stab her in the chest, and when he saw Chen's question, he stopped, and secretly thought that this woman was a little interesting, and she could still ask such a question so calmly as someone else's scared half dead, and then said: "If you want to complain, you can complain about your husband, Li Defu, he forcibly bought the singing woman osmanthus, I rescued her today, but your husband Li Defu deserves to die, I have already killed him, you are his family deserve to die!"

"You can save the singing woman Osmanthus, why do you want to kill me. Chan asked rhetorically

"Because you're Li Defu's wife, you have to be damned. After Wang Shi finished speaking, he raised his knife and was about to stab.

Chen hurriedly stretched out his hand to block it, and said in his mouth: "I was also robbed by Li Defuqiang, you can't kill me." ”

When Wang Shi heard her say this, he stopped: "Seriously! If you were really robbed by him, I will spare you." ”

Wang Shi raised his foot and released Chen, who got up from the ground and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, saying, "Thank you for the grace of not killing." Then he went to the bedside and took some gold and silver jewelry for Wang Shi, and said, "These are a little bit of the little woman's thoughts, and I hope the strong man will accept them together." ”

"Since you were also robbed by him, where is your home and how was it robbed by him. ”

Chen sat down on the stool next to him and thought for a while: " My father is Chen Haiqing, who sells cooking cakes in the city, the neighborhood calls him Chen Cooking Cakes, my father was seriously ill in the winter of last year, bedridden, unable to go out to do business for several months, cut off his life, and went to the pharmacy every day to grab medicine, and spent all the money in the family, to see that the life could not go on, my mother made cooking cakes to sell on the street, I helped to carry the burden, the mother and daughter sold out a load of cooking cakes, and were about to go home, but they were bumped into by Li Defu, and they couldn't help but say that they snatched the slave family back and forcibly accepted them as concubines. After Chan finished speaking, he began to cry again.

Wang Shi saw that she was crying miserably, thought it was true, and said: "Since this is the case, I will spare your life, but I can't let you go now, if you go to report to the official, I will be trapped in the city." And you endure for a while. ”

Chen said: "As long as the strong man can save the life of the slave family, it is up to you to dispose of it." ”

Wang Shi got up and went to the bedside, ripped off the bed tent, twisted it into two ropes, tied Chen's hands and feet, tied them to the foot of the bed, and then called the maid out from under the bed. After shouting a few times, the maid still refused to come out, Wang Shi said angrily: "If you don't come out, I overturned the bed and dragged you out and beat you to death!"

Chen said: "Qiu Wen, come out quickly, he won't kill you, you heard it just now." ”

Qiu Wen muttered under the bed and said, "I'll come out, you won't kill me." ”

Wang Shi said: "Come out quickly, I will spare your life, but I am afraid that you will go to report to the official, wronged you for a while, and tied you up." When I'm gone, someone will come and let you out. ”

Qiu Wen trembled and got out from under the bed, and Wang Shi also tied her hands and feet and tied her to the foot of the bed. Plugging his mouth with a piece of cloth, he turned over and closed the door as it was, and continued to walk to the front door, seeing that the door was still closed and not open, and thinking that no one had broken in, he hurried to latch the door. Walking step by step from the old road to the back door, the old man of the porter was complaining in the house: "These people know how to shoot horses and whiskers, and they don't send food to eat at such a late hour." ”

The old man was complaining, Wang Shi walked to the gatehouse, pushed the door in, the old man sat on the stool in front of the bed, took a cup of tea and was drinking, saw Wang Shi come in, drank tea by himself, just glanced obliquely. Wang Shi walked in front of the old man, did not move, saw that he was drinking tea with his head down, raised his right palm and used five points of internal strength to slap the top of his head, and with a bang, the old man fell to the ground, and his life was whimpered.

Wang Shi rummaged through the old man's room and found a few taels of silver in the cabinet under the bed. After thinking about it, why not go to the house in front of me to search, this Li family is very rich, some are gold and silver, and get more to bring with you to make a plate fee.

dragged the old menzi's body under the bed and hid it, turned over and went into the inside to look around room by room, walked to a big room behind the main hall, saw a big lock on the door locked, two vermilion doors, Wang Shi went to the front and picked up Li Defa's waist knife, drew the knife and cut the big lock twice, cut the lock, kicked open the door, and shone it in with the lamp, only to see more than a dozen large boxes side by side in the house, cut the lock on the box, and when he looked at it, Wang Shi was overjoyed, only to see that the boxes were full of silver ingots. Fifty taels and one, ten silver ingots were placed on one floor, and one box was three layers, each box totaled 1,500 taels and 16 taels and one catty, which weighed more than ninety-three catties now. Wang Shi went to pull a leaflet, wrapped some of it, and wrapped more than a dozen ingots around his waist. The rest of the chests were filled with money. I had no choice but to do it, and carried the large bag of silver to the stable, and went into the house and fell asleep on the bed in the back trough, and did not dare to sleep when there was something in my heart, but squinted dimly, closed my eyes and recuperated. About two or three hours later, I heard the sound of drums in the distance, it was already five watches, I got up from the bed and tied the burden to the saddle, and I was busy with my work, and the east was already white, and the roosters crowed in the distance. Wang Shi stopped tying up the baggage, led the two horses to the back door, and as soon as he reached the door, he heard a man outside shouting and knocking on the door, "Open the door, open the door!"

Wang Shi shouted loudly: "I don't want vegetables today, you go back quickly, you will come tomorrow." ”

"What! Didn't you Steward Zhao say that he was doing things in the house these days, and asked me to send more food, why don't you want vegetables again. Are you kidding. ”

Wang Shi shouted: "The master said that I don't want your food, it's not fresh, and I won't break your legs if I don't leave!"

The man who delivered the food heard Wang Shi speak fiercely, dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and pushed the wheelbarrow away. When Wang Shi heard that he was far away, he opened the door and led the horse out, and tied the reins of the other horse behind the saddle of the horse. Pull the door over, ride a horse and walk out of the city, Wang Shi has never ridden a horse before, he was a little scared at first, and slowly walked for a while, and his courage gradually increased.

Out of the city gate to the west of the official road to the west, along the way Xiaoxing night stay, walked for five or six days, this day because of greed to see the mountain scenery more than a journey, the sky is late, but did not see a village and town, the heart is anxious, do not know how to be good, at this time it is the weather in May, although the day is gradually hot, but at night it is also cold and deserved. If you sleep in the wilderness, feeling the wind and cold is not a trick. Thinking of this, he slapped the horse's ass twice with his hand, and sped up to hurry. After walking for five or seven miles, he heard the wind chimes ringing in front of him from afar, Wang Shi was secretly happy in his heart, the place where the wind chimes rang must be the temple nunnery, go and be careful, so that he could stay for one night, and always avoid the cold air of this night. Hurry up and urge the horse to rush forward for three or four miles, but see, under the sparse moon and stars, a temple stands on the edge of the mountain cliff, two diamond-shaped brave in front of the mountain gate, the gatehouse is towering, and a large plaque is written with gilt line and gold characters: "Guixi Temple" why is it called this name, only because of the name of the place: turtle shop, when this temple was built, the old monk took this name. The meaning of the turtle west temple is to say that the turtle word is the name of the place, the west is the meaning of the west sky, and the Buddha will return to the west heaven and become the supreme enlightenment. Therefore, the name Guixi has the meaning of cultivating a positive fruit and returning to the West Heaven Bliss, and it also covers the place name in it.

Wang Shi walked to the temple gate, and when he looked up, he saw the gilded characters on the plaque: Guixi Temple. I was a little unhappy in my heart, why did I take such an unlucky name, Guixi Temple, Guixi Temple. I didn't want to go in, but it was getting late, and there was no room for the left and right. I had to go forward to call the door, raised my hand and patted a few times, and when the door opened, a middle-aged monk was bareheaded, wearing a yellow cloth, standing on his chest with one palm and saying to Wang Shi: "Amitabha." ”

Wang Shi hugged his fists and saluted: "I am a passing guest, because I am greedy for a few steps, I have come here late at night, there is no other place to stay, I want to disturb your temple for one night, and I hope that the master will be convenient and leave tomorrow morning." ”

The monk who opened the door is a monk who knows the temple: Jing Nian, who has been a monk here since he was a child, is now in his forties, and his mind is a little lively. Seeing Wang Shi's quiet appearance, leading two tall horses alone, a big burden seemed to be heavy on the back horse, and it was estimated that it was a yellow and white thing, so he had a crooked thought in his heart, and a smile came down his face: "People are out of the house, who can go with the house, we are monks, it has always been convenient for people, the donor please come in quickly, there are more than a dozen clean rooms in the east of the temple for pilgrims to rest." ”

Jingnian brought Wang Shi into the door, and instructed the short fire worker to come up and lead the horse to the stable, and said: "The west head has its own stable, and it has its own fire worker to feed it with fine materials." ”

Wang Shi thanked and said: "In the coming day, I will repay the silver and the temple." ”

The short man came forward to lead the horse, Wang Shi hurriedly went to the back of the horse to take down the burden containing the silver, put it in his hand, and walked to the east with the monk Jingnian, not a hundred steps away, the red wall and green tiles in front, and the bright windows were clear. Row up a dozen houses. Jing Nian took Wang Shi to a room in the northernmost corner, settled down, and went out to give a salute. Wang Shi put the burden down on the bed, felt a little tired, fell asleep, and was a little hungry. I had to be patient. When he fell asleep on the bed, he got up to meditate and exercise, and when he was busy for a while, he lay down and went to sleep.

I slept until dawn, got up from the bed, thought about finding the convenience of the toilet, opened the door and walked to the north path, through an arch, saw the three blue brick houses in front, turned to the front of the house, only to see three yellow-black wooden doors closed by themselves, and was anxious to find a place. A door opened in the middle, and an old monk came out, short in stature and in good spirits. Dressed in a red brocade robe. Seeing Wang Shi standing at the door, his face anxious. Pushing forward with one palm, he said, "Ah Buddha Buddha! Why is the donor standing in front of my door so anxious?" ”

Wang Shi hugged his fists and bowed to salute and said: "Xiao Ke, I stayed in your temple last night, and I got up this morning and was in a hurry, looking for a toilet, and I walked here to disturb the Zen master." ”

This old monk is the abbot of the temple Mingkong Zen Master's younger brother, the name of the law, the Zen master, in the morning is about to get up to go to the Daxiong Treasure Hall to chant the scriptures to do the morning class, a door just met Wang Shi to find a toilet. Then he pointed out: "You go to the west path, pass the abbot's room, turn the garden, go straight to the south, pass the Guanyin Hall, there is a fork in the road next to the Daxiong Treasure Hall, turn west to the stable, next to the thatched house." Wang Shiru got the amnesty, hurriedly hugged his fist at the Zen master Ming, trotted all the way, and ran to the toilet. As I passed by the stables, I glanced at the horses, which were grazing in the trough.

Coming out of the latrine, plus I didn't eat last night, my stomach was even hungrier, I went around the temple a few times, all the monks came to the Daxiong Treasure Hall, Wang Shi also followed to the door, and the monks sat on the futon in turn and chanted the scriptures. The abbot in front, Master Mingkong, closed his eyes and concentrated on chanting. Ming Zen Master sat next to him, Wang Shi looked at it for a while, walked down from the Daxiong Treasure Hall to the door of the Zhishu room, and the Zhike monk Jingnian saw Wang Shi coming over in the house, got up from his seat, and came out to ask: "Ah Mi Buddha." ”

Wang Shi hugged his fists and bowed and said: "I'm bothered, Xiao Ke gets up early and is hungry, but what food can be eaten to satisfy his hunger." ”

Jing Nian said: "The poor monk is about to come to call the donor for dinner, you come with me." ”

Wang Shi followed Jingnian upwards, walked to the outside of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, turned the path to the west, and walked forward for more than a dozen steps, only to see a large room with fifty or sixty long tables lined up horizontally. Jing Nian asked Wang Shi to sit down at the table in front of him, and instructed the Huogong Daoist who was cooking rice inside to bring out a bowl of rice, a plate of tofu, a plate of broad beans, and a plate of green vegetables. "Coarse tea and light rice, the hospitality is slow, and I hope that the donor is not strange." ”

Wang Shi got up and hugged his fists and thanked: "I deeply feel the gift of my teacher." ”

After a while, all the monks came to the restaurant to eat, although there were many people, but there was no noise, Wang Shi ate, thought about leaving, passed by the Daxiong Treasure Hall and went in to worship a pass, came out and turned the vegetable field, walked back to the room, walked to the head of the bed to carry the burden of silver, but there was no more. Suddenly, my brain was buzzing, and I turned around under and below the bed, but I didn't see the shadow of the burden. Wang Shi thought to himself: There are still 1,300 taels of silver in the baggage, and when he got up and went out of the room in the morning, the burden was still on the bed, and his father-in-law must have been taken away when he went out. When I entered the temple last night, I saw that the monk who knew the guest saw that I was carrying the burden, and his eyes lit up, and now he didn't take it, who else could there be, and there was no one else to stay in this room. Thinking of this, Wang Shi rushed to the top door with a burst of anger. Angrily ran to the guest room at the mountain gate. I saw the monk Jingnian smiling and drinking tea.

Jing Nian was drinking tea, and when he saw Wang Shi rushing into the house with an angry face, he was relieved. With an expression on his face that he didn't know what to say, he asked, "Why is the donor so alarmed?" ”

Wang Shi saw that Jingnian's heart was not beating, his face was not red, and he had a bewildered expression, but he had no idea in his heart, didn't he take it. He said in a calm voice, "My baggage is gone. ”

Jingnian pretended to be surprised and asked, "But I don't know what the bag you brought into the room last night, where was it put at night?"

"It was this burden, which contained 1,300 taels of silver, which was placed at the head of the bed at night, and when I got up this morning, I was in a hurry, so I went out to find the latrine, and then went to eat, and then I went back to the room to find that the burden was gone. ”

Jingkong pretended to be angry and said: "There is such a shameful thing in my Buddhist Pure Land, don't worry, I will go to tell the abbot, gather the monks of the temple, and be sure to find out the burden and return it to the donor!"

Wang Shi clenched his fists and bowed in thanks: "This is the best!"

The monk Jingnian ran to the abbot's room at the back and said: "Last night, a guest came with a burden with 1,300 taels of silver. Now come and ask the temple for it. ”

Abbot Mingkong Zen Master pondered for a while, rang the bell with the order, and gathered all the monks and more than a dozen fire workers in the open space in front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, Mingkong Zen Master looked around and said: "My Buddhism is precepted is, greed, anger, ignorance, anger, last night a guest stayed in the guest room of the temple, got up early to eat back, and the burden was nowhere to be found. There are no other guests in the guest room, and the person who steals the burden must be from the temple. How could a monk do such a stealing? Whoever takes it and hands it over at this time, I read that he is a first offender and will not be prosecuted. If it is found out after a while, it will be severely punished. Master Mingkong asked several times in a row, but no one came out to answer. With the order of the first pure dust monk, he took three or four people, and began to search all the way back from the guest room, turning a temple upside down, but he did not find any trace of the baggage.

The first Jingchen took a group of people to search back and forth in the temple several times, but found nothing, so they had to come back to report to Zen Master Mingkong. Zen Master Mingkong stepped forward with one palm: "Amitabha! As the saying goes: What one person hides, ten people can't find it." This is really true!" Mingkong called Wang Shi to the front, the two saluted each other, Mingkong Zen Master said: "The donor's burden is lost in the temple, it is because I discipline the disciples strictly, so there is today's disaster, but it is up to the donor to deal with it." The little monk had no complaints. ”

Wang Shidao: "As the saying goes: sake is red, and wealth is moving." The monks of the Heji Temple, how can they all be like Zen masters. Fortunately, Xiaoke still has some broken silver on his body, and if he can't find the burden, forget it, I won't be embarrassed in the temple. Then he got up and took his leave. ”

Wang Shi said goodbye to the Zen master, went to the stable to lead the horse, out of the Guixi Temple all the way to the front of the road for ten miles, saw a market town on the front road, although it is not big, but there are three streets and six markets, do buy and sell, but it is a densely populated place. I found an inn to stay in. Had lunch. Wandering around the street a few times, I went back to the inn to rest early, the more I thought about it on the bed, the more angry I became, and I thought to myself: the good end of more than a thousand taels of silver is gone, how can I be willing, when I entered the temple at night, I saw the burden of three people, the monk who knew the guest: Jing Nian, the short man who fed the horses, and the monk who took care of the vegetable garden. When he came out of the house in the morning, he saw the old monk in his robe, who had no idea that there was silver in his baggage. No matter who it is, if you steal this money, you will not be able to hold it, and when the wind and waves are calm, you will definitely come out and squander it. He was only ambushed in the place of Fireworks Willow Lane, and sooner or later he was arrested! After thinking about it again, maybe he didn't go to the land of fireworks, but secretly seduced the lonely young woman, or the widow of her dead husband, which is not necessarily. The only way is to ambush near the temple and see which of the three of them will follow him out of the temple, and there will be a result. Made up my mind.

Wang Shi came out of the guest room, saw the innkeeper was bowing his head in the counter to settle accounts, walked to him, knocked on the counter table with his hand, the shopkeeper looked up and saw Wang Shi, stopped what he was doing, and asked with a smile: "What do you have to say from the guest officer!"

Wang Shi asked in a low voice: "What is the name of your ground, there is a place for fireworks and willow lane." Or that swingers. After speaking, he made a foolish expression and winked at the store.

The owner of the shop is an old man in his fifties, as the saying goes: thirty is like a wolf, forty is like a tiger, and fifty is like a wolf is better than a tiger. As soon as he heard Wang Shi's words, he suddenly became interested, squinted his eyes and smiled: "Our place is called Mingyue Town, there are often passing merchants, there is a brothel in the east street of this town, called Fengyue Building, and there are a few good fans in it." Why does the son like this bite too. ”

Wang Shidao: "Is there any other place besides this place?"

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "It seems that Gongzi is also a wife, then you can go to Yunshui Street, Widow Zhao's house, she opened a teahouse, as long as you are willing to pay the silver, you will get it." Hey, hey, hey!"

Wang Shi clenched his fists: "So, I'll take a look." ”

Came out of the inn and walked along the main street for half a mile, asked a few passers-by to turn left from the T-junction in front, went straight to Yunshui Street, in the middle of the street, I saw a teahouse, the door was high with a cloth curtain, a white cloth signboard was hung on it, a big tea word. At this time, it was almost noon, there were no guests in the teahouse, Wang Shi lingered at the door for a while, only to see a woman walking out of the teahouse, with a high bun on her head and a silver hairpin inserted obliquely. Raw powder-faced and big-eyed, in her thirties, plump, wearing a pink long dress, leaning on the door frame, it is a half-old, with a charming charm. This woman is the owner of the teahouse, Widow Zhao. In the early years, her husband went out to do business and died in a foreign country, and this Zhao widow opened this teahouse in order to make a living. At this time, Zhengdu walked out and saw Wang Shi wandering at the door, so he leaned on the door frame and threw a few winks at him. Wang Shi hurriedly walked away. I secretly said in my heart: This woman is really a wave enough!

After leaving Yunshui Street, I returned to the inn room and drew a topographic map on paper with a pen: Forty miles east of Guixi Temple is Qingjiang County. The north is the mountain, the south is the field, and the remaining ten miles to the west is Mingyue Town, if the monk who stole the silver either goes to Qingjiang County, or comes to Mingyue Town, I only move around the temple, and there will be a harvest. The calculation has been decided

On the second day, Wang Shi did not ride a horse, went to the street to buy a flat pole and two bamboo baskets, and bought a small scale, put on a hat on his head, dressed as a merchant who collected chicken feathers, all the way to the Guixi Temple, only wandered around, ambushed in the woods in front of the temple for five days, and on the sixth day, Wang Shi picked up the burden early in the morning and went east, and came to the woods in front of the Guixi Temple. Just walked five or six miles out of Mingyue Town, but saw a person coming in front of him, wearing a soft-winged gauze hat on his head. He was wearing a green cloth shirt and a pair of six-eared bast shoes on his feet. Shake off his feet and rush to the town. Wang Shi wore a hat to cover his face, the two passed by, peeking at the man, so familiar, try to think, isn't this the pure thought of the monk Zhike? Wang Shi was secretly happy in his heart, this kid finally came out, pretended to go east a few steps, and then secretly followed behind Jing Nian, only to see this Jing Nian swaggering into the town, wandering around the main street, turning to Yunshui Street, looking left and right, sneakily into Widow Zhao's teahouse.

Wang Shi saw it clearly behind him, and secretly said in his heart: Sure enough, this bald donkey is not honest! After a while, Widow Zhao walked to the door and closed the door of the shop. As the saying goes: catch the thief and catch the dirty, catch the traitor in bed. It would be best if I could go in and take the two of them. Wang Shi walked to the door, gently pushed it with his hand, and went around the house again, walked to the back of the house, when he looked, the wall was not very high, jumped hard, put his hands on the wall, climbed up hard, turned over and entered the yard, only to see the kitchen door open, light feet and light hands into the kitchen, in front of the kitchen is the hall, there are seven or eight tables, out of the kitchen door, to the hall, on the right hand side is a wooden ladder, upstairs is the bedroom. As soon as Wang Shi reached the side of the stairs, he heard the voice of Jing Nian from above and said, "Come on, little baby, let me kiss it." ”

Widow Zhao said: "Get out of the way, you know that you will take advantage of the old lady, and you want to get money for things." ”

Jing Nian smiled and said: "Little girl, you know how to recognize money, you see what this is!"

Then I heard Widow Zhao cry out in surprise: "Silver! You have such a big ingot of silver there, wow! Fifty taels!"

Jing Nian smiled: "I still have a lot of them, I want to pay back the vulgar to marry you." ”

Widow Zhao said, "You won't be robbed, right?" ”

Jing Nian said: "Some time ago, a guest came to the temple, with a large bag of silver, which was full of fifty taels of snowflake silver, I, when he went to the toilet in the morning, he went into the house to take out his baggage, and hid it behind the diamond seat outside the mountain gate, and then the abbot asked the first one to take someone to find the temple all over, hahahaha,"

Widow Zhao asked, "What about later?" ”

Jing Nian said: "Where is there anything later, the man saw that he couldn't find the silver, so he had to go out of the temple." ”

"I have so much silver now, why don't you serve me well, haha!" Then I heard Widow Zhao and the bald donkey fall on the bed, and get up. Squeak a bed. Wang Shi had already heard the fire downstairs. This bald donkey is so rude, stealing my money and pretending to be innocent, he has actually been deceived by him.