Guan Dadong's henchman Cao Zheng has been imprisoned, and Humen is immersed in a peaceful celebration. Just wait for the executioner to fall on the execution ground tomorrow, and Cao Zheng's head will fall to the ground. As for the mystery of whether Cao Yang and Cao Zheng are twin brothers, it will eventually be buried in the doubts of history.

From today to noon tomorrow, in order to prevent Cao Zheng from escaping from prison, Guan Dadong ordered Ding Shier to take ten elite soldiers from the inner gate to closely inspect the inside and outside of the yamen dungeon.

Came to the dungeon of Yamen, there were eight Humen elite soldiers outside the door, and Ding Shier and two elite soldiers in the dungeon paid close attention to Cao Zheng's every move.

Unexpectedly, the catastrophe was coming, Cao Zheng actually put on a calm appearance. He sat cross-legged on the grass and closed his eyes in contemplation. Ding Shier drank and chatted with the two elite soldiers, nothing more than gloating over the suffering of a generation of heroes. Who can be blamed for this? It was Cao Zheng who died, met the wrong person at the wrong time, and did the wrong thing.

"What do you see that old man doing?"

"Wait for death! ”

"Let me tease him, the brothers have shown me. ”

Ding Shier walked to the door of the prison with a pot of wine, and said with a smile, "Since tomorrow is the death date of Cao Daxia, why don't we drink wine together today, get drunk and relieve a thousand sorrows, just want to get drunk for a long time and never wake up." ”

"Thirsty, thirsty. If you have wine, give it to me. "Cao Zheng is in prison, and his mind is starting to go a little crazy. Anyone who knew that death was near, would be scared half to death. He hurriedly got up from the haystack, grasped the doorpost of the prison with both hands, and lost the majesty of commanding the whole gang in the past.

"Anyway, you're going to die tomorrow, can you tell me the masked man, if Cao Yang and you are the same person. Ding Shier poured the elixir and jade liquid from the white porcelain wine bottle into the cup and handed it to Cao Zheng, "If you answer truthfully, this bottle of wine will all belong to you." ”

Cao Zheng's head was shocked, and he kept shaking his head, "No, I'm Cao Zheng, Cao Yang's brother, not the masked man you said." ”

Ding Shier poured a glass of wine on Cao Zheng's face, and said indignantly: "If you dare to be hard at the end of your death, this glass of wine is a reward for you." Then he smashed the bottle to the ground, which frightened the soldiers and jailers in the prison.

The next morning, the streets were filled with angry people. They saw that Cao Zheng had been tied to a wire cage and had been reduced to a prisoner. The people hated it to the core, and they wished to break it into thousands of pieces, crush the bones and scatter ashes.

Walking along the main road of Suzhou City to the west of the city, people threw rotten vegetable leaves, rotten tomatoes or rotten eggs at it along the way. Cao's front was like charcoal, bloodless, and his expression was very haggard. As the people threw it, they talked about it.

"This dog thief took away the dog beating stick of Gang Leader Li, which is definitely not a good thing. The neighbors threw all your stinky stuff at him as a punishment. ”

"Beheading is too cheap, this dog thing, according to me, he deserves to be executed for the crime he committed!"

"Hmph! I can't imagine that the three hundred years of beggars have produced these two scum, it is really a disaster for the beggars, and it should be over today. ”

The prisoner cart continued to the execution ground. Cao Zheng was tied to his knees with a big flower tied to his knees, and a chopped wooden board was stuck behind his back. Standing next to him was the executioner, holding the butcher's knife in his hand, the blade shining with cold light, ready to be killed with a single knife after the order.

The atmosphere was not as tense as usual, but full of joy, even for children as young as eight or nine years old. Cao Zheng lowered his head, because the masters of the Tiger Gate, the Dragon Gate and the Beggar Gang were present, so the closed disciple Sima Rui would also become in vain. Now I can only accept my fate, although I have no power to return to heaven.

Cao Zheng looks back on his proud life, but he never knows what it means to make mistakes. Why can a rich man have three wives and four concubines, and even go to pick wild flowers outside, but he can't have fun as a flower thief, without scruples.

Time goes back to twenty-one years ago, Cao Yang became the master of the southern helm in the beggar gang, and his fame is in full swing in the rivers and lakes. His expectation is to become the leader of the beggar gang, but his strength and prestige are far inferior to Guo Qi, the lord of the North Helm. But Cao Yang is a person who is good at slapping horses, and he speaks without leaking, and never shoots the hooves of his superiors, so he is deeply loved by the helper.

Guo Qi read countless people and found that Cao Yang was not a reliable successor, so he repeatedly told the gang leader that he could not pass on the dog-beating stick method to a person with strong martial arts but bad conduct. At first, the gang leader wavered his original intention a little and decided to cancel teaching Cao Yang's dog-beating stick method indefinitely. Cao Yang felt that he was being beaten on the head, so he found another way and often slandered the helper's wife, so that she could blow the pillow wind to the helper and speak ill of Guo Qi.

Later, the gang leader decided to restore Cao Yang's reputation and snub the righteous man Guo Qi. In the contest between the two, Cao Yang still had the upper hand.

Because Cao Yang had an affair with the helper's wife, he was found out by Guo Qi and taught him a hard lesson. Guo Qi knew that he couldn't tell the gang leader about this, even though the gang leader no longer trusted him. So Guo Qi quietly told Cao Yang's wife about it.

Cao Yang's wife has always been obedient to her husband, and she didn't dare to point her nose at Cao Zheng and scold the street.

Cao Yang pedals on two boats and enjoys it. In the face of his mother's questioning, Cao Zheng gave a very good reason, that is, the opponent's false accusations were made out of nothing. And he promised that when she became the helper, she would be allowed to wear gold and silver and enjoy the supreme glory.

But how can the paper be wrapped in the fire, Cao Zheng's wife accidentally found that her husband and the helper's wife were ambiguous and behaved intimately behind the rockery in the garden.

After that, Cao Yang's lady had a serious illness. No matter how Cao Yang tried to seek medical advice, it was to no avail, and his wife finally returned to the West with his life, which gave him a big blow.

Cao Yang became a monk from then on, and there was an uproar in the gang, and the gang leader was very sorry for Cao Yang's departure. Guo Qi did not gain the trust of the helper because of this, but the relationship between the two fell to a freezing point.

The abbot of the heart lamp in the temple wears a robe, although he is very young, only more than ten years old, but the comprehension of Buddhism is unmatched in the temple, often a retreat is more than half a year, and the monks send fasting twice a day.

When Cao Yang entered the temple, the abbot of the heart lamp resolutely objected, but some masters said good things for him because Cao Yang donated all his belongings as incense money. For example, everything is suffering, and the Buddha crosses sentient beings. Since Cao Yang donated all his net worth, then he basically achieved the four major empty.

The abbot of the heart lamp shook his head, and the clouds: The so-called four great emptiness are Dao emptiness, sky, earth emptiness and human emptiness. The four aggregates are one of the five aggregates. Cao Yang's consciousness is still stuck in the atmosphere of the rivers and lakes in the past, and there are distractions in his heart, how can he achieve the real four major empty?

The masters did not hesitate to say: the abbot is right. But Cao Yang has given up fame and fortune, and has also cut off contacts on the rivers and lakes, lost his wife and no children, and then wants a depressed person to lose his sustenance, which is the sorrow of the holy land of Buddhism!

The Heart Lights and Clouds: The Cycle of Cause and Effect. Where there is a cause, there must be an effect, and if you sow good results, you will get good causes. There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south!

The masters did not listen to the abbot's advice, and unanimously decided to agree to Cao Yang's decision, and ordered his disciples to help him shave his hair and become a monk, with the Dharma name Xiutuo.