Chapter 95: The Mystery of the Edict
Cao Yang wants to return to the beggars and ascend to the position of the former helmsman. The leader of the beggar gang heard that Cao Yang was still vulgar, and he was a little suspicious of Cao Yang. A person who sees through the red dust should be empty. Since Cao Yang has only been a monk for a few months, he has only been enthusiastic about doing things for three minutes. Maybe Guo Qi, the master of the North Helm, is right, Cao Yang's character really needs to be considered.
Now that Cao Yang has nothing, he has no relatives. There are still many disciples in the gang who have benefited from Cao Yang to intercede for him, and the gang leader Er Genzi has decided to let Cao Yang return to the beggar gang, but he has to start from the outer disciples and start all over again. Cao Yang was full of gratitude and cried bitterly.
But Guo Qi felt that the old enemy had returned, and he had a feeling of unsteadiness in his heart. Although he has always opposed Cao Zheng, there is a helper's wife blowing the wind on the pillow, and the helper is like a boiled frog in warm water, and gradually let go of his prejudices.
Three months later, Cao Yang finally got his wish and ascended to the position of the master of the southern helm, and formed a party in the gang for personal gain, cultivating many henchmen, in order to be able to compete with the team led by Guo Qi.
During this time, Cao Zheng has been studying the Dharma Mind. Patriarch Bodhidharma is a Tianzhu person and has supreme praise in Buddhism in the Central Plains. Cao Yang failed the township exam that year, and he didn't even get into Xiucai, so it stands to reason that he couldn't read Sanskrit. When he took out the Dharma Mental Method, he felt a kind of anger that wanted to burn it all at once, and since he understood it, he didn't want to let others get it.
When Cao Zheng turned the first page, he found that it was actually written in Chinese, and the translator was still the abbot of Hanshan Temple. Cao Yang was glad that it was God's help, so his ambitions began to swell.
If the abbot of the heart lamp knew, he would definitely be angry and not be able to eat fast for three days. People who think they are smart sometimes do the stupidest things.
Flipping through the books, the beginning is to talk about some understanding of Buddhism and morality. But Cao Yang no longer has the patience to look at those benevolence, righteousness and morality, and in the face of tough fists, Xiucai will also be afraid of soldiers. Cao Yang went straight to the point, and read Dharma martial arts from shallow to deep. However, in the past three months, I still have no understanding in terms of comprehension, and I have not reached a qualitative leap.
One of them is an explanation of the Dharma stick method, and Cao Yang has a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the dog stick method. It stands to reason that Cao Yang should be the easiest to learn the Dharma stick method, but the Dharma stick method is more difficult to learn than the dog stick.
One day, Cao Yang was practicing stick technique in the garden and was met by the lady of the helper who was passing by to enjoy the flowers. The mistress was surprised: Yangyang, what kind of stick method have you learned? It seems to be very different from the dog stick method.
After Cao Yang practiced a few tricks, he stopped and replied to his mistress: I learned my own stick method, of course it is different from the dog stick method, little fool.
Although the two have been separated for a long time, they rekindled their love when they met, and they did not feel strange at all.
Cao Yang said again: Mrs. Helper, you better go back, I'm afraid that I will be seen gossiping.
The mistress sighed: "The mouth grows on them, and they can say whatever they like." You and I are happy with each other, it is a match made in heaven.
Cao Yang couldn't let go: But we'd better not love each other, I can't even give you a name. If there is an afterlife, I will marry you.
The mistress said with a firm look in her eyes: There is no afterlife, I just want this day. If you want, we can go back to the way things were.
The mistress wanted to snuggle into Cao Yang's arms, but he stopped her. Cao Yang refused: Mrs. Helper, it's better for us to keep a certain distance.
The mistress felt bored and turned away. Cao Yang didn't have the heart to practice the stick technique, so he ran out to drink alone.
After three rounds of drinking, Cao Yang went to the former Fengjiang River for a walk, hoping to see Yang Yi again. But she didn't see her, presumably it was the last flower picking that left a shadow on her. Cao Yang knew that Yang Yi's family lived in Fengqiao Town, which was not far from here, but he didn't want to visit her because he didn't want to cause her more harm.
It is certainly not easy for a girl who can make the flower thief feel compassion, Yang Yi is such a beauty embryo. But at that time, the girls were very conservative in their thinking, and they lived in the boudoir all the year round, and they didn't dare to show their heads outside, waiting for the matchmaker's matchmaking. If you meet a good person, it is a blessing from the previous life, if you can't meet a nobleman, then you can only resign yourself to fate.
Half a year later, Cao Yang's cultivation of the dog-beating stick method has improved by leaps and bounds, but the Dharma stick method is still making rapid progress. During this time, Cao Yang's desire for power has become even stronger. In order to win the position of the gang leader, a shocking conspiracy was carefully laid out, although the gang leader's wife was old and decrepit, Cao Yang was a little disgusted with her, but in order to seize power and usurp the throne, he had to use this crucial chess piece.
So every time he met the wife of the helper, Cao Yang would greet him warmly. This underground love affair was well hidden, and even the rival Guo Qi did not find any clues. Once, Cao Yang handed the helper's wife a pair of medicinal powder.
At night, after the day's work, the helper returned to the bedroom to rest tiredly. The helper's wife handed him a cup of tea to refresh himself. After the gang leader drank it unsuspectingly, Cao Yang walked out from behind the screen, smiling wickedly as if he had succeeded in his treacherous plan.
The helper suddenly felt his heart like a knife, and asked, "What did you drink for me?"
Cao Yang said unabashedly: a cup of poisonous tea.
The wife of the gang leader took off the mask of hypocrisy and said bluntly: It is okay to have an antidote, unless you write the edict of the gang leader with your own hands, you will die violently in an hour.
After writing the edict of succession, the gang leader thought that he could get the antidote to continue his life, but Cao Yang told him that the poison came from the Western Regions and could not be saved. The helper's wife thought that she could stay with Cao Yang in this way, but she was wrong. Cao Yang lit the acupoint of the helper's wife with lightning speed, and then eliminated them all quickly.
After becoming the leader of the beggar gang, Cao Yang did everything smoothly, because his old enemy Guo Qi had left the beggar gang indefinitely. Up and down the beggar gang, the Cao gang leader constantly eradicated dissidents and cultivated many henchmen. Many of Guo Qi's former sworn friends cooked rabbits and dead dogs, and those who did not have a firm stance tended to join the flames and shouted to Cao Yang: Gang leader Shengming!
And so it went for another ten years. Finally one day Cao Yang learned the news of Yang Yi, but she was already married, her husband was a well-known rich businessman in the village, but he had many shortcomings, he was not gentle with his mother at all, and he liked to mess with flowers and grass everywhere. Yang Yi suffered a lot of humiliation and wanted to divorce immediately. However, the law of the Song Dynasty stipulated that the lady had no right to divorce her husband.
As the leader of the beggar gang, Cao Yang was furious, and directly led twenty elite soldiers to forcibly break into Yang Yixianggong's mansion. Before Cao Yang could make a move, the elite soldiers raised their swords and fell, and Yang Yi's Xianggong was killed.
Yang Yi didn't even have the slightest sympathy for the dead Xianggong, but was very grateful to the leader of the beggar gang. The two hit it off at first sight, but their appearance has changed a lot. Cao Yang changed from bald to fluttery, which surprised Yang Yi and didn't recognize the other party immediately.
The crisis of Hanshan Temple has been sealed by history, and Cao Yang sighed that the world is impermanent, and hopes that Yang Yi can find a suitable home as soon as possible. Before leaving, Cao Yang threw Yang Yi a bag of silver, which was counted as compensation for that bad fate. This scene is familiar, and Yang Yi later realized that Cao Yang, the leader of the Beggar Gang, was the monk who took away the first time in her life eleven years ago.
But this time, Yang Yi chose to forgive and forgive Cao Yang's mistakes when he was impulsive.