Chapter 8: The Crazy Stone
Gao Jie and the little nun Hui Jing saw that the embroidered spring knife surnamed Wu Xiaoqi was as fast as lightning, cutting the long sword of the black-robed old man, and continued to slash down on the top of his head, they were suddenly shocked and frightened, and quickly closed their eyes, unable to bear to look at it again.
I only heard a crisp sound of "ding", and then I heard the little flag surnamed Wu shouting: "Who dares to stop me from riding in Jinyi Wei Ti to do things?!"
The Jinyi Weiguan Academy, which was responsible for reconnaissance and arrest, was called "Ti Cai", and they were subordinate to the judicial organ directly under the emperor's direct jurisdiction -- Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division. These Jinyi guards can directly arrest and torture prisoners, and judicial organs such as the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have no right to interrogate. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division was in charge of the "edict prison", and all the prisons were presented to the emperor without the need to convey them through the command, and the power reached the limit.
Due to the lack of restrictions on power, Jin Yiwei fabricated charges in order to solicit merit and rewards, unscrupulously expanded the scope of involvement, and created numerous unjust, false and wrongful cases. It is precisely because of the privileges of the Jinyi guards that they can do mischief and bend the law for bribes, but they are protected by the emperor's "barrier", which has caused chaos in society.
Gao Jie and Hui Jing opened their eyes at the same time, only to see that Xiaoqi surnamed Wu was holding a knife in both hands, hanging on the right side of his body, his body trembled slightly, and his cold eyes searched around in the dark night. The two wrestlers also quickly approached him, and stood in the shape of a zigzag, guarding the surroundings.
And the black-robed old man Xu Chuan's head was unharmed, and he also opened his eyes at this time, with a relaxed look on his face.
"Dog Eagle Dog, don't be rampant!" A loud shout came, and under the moonlight, two figures came out of the air and landed beside the black-robed old man.
On the left is a strong man, dressed in coarse linen clothes, stepping on straw sandals, with a hat on his head, in his forties, with short beards and a black rod in his hand, pausing on the ground, looking very powerful.
It seemed that the shouting just now was shouted by him, because the person on the right was an old nun, with a red robe on top of the gray monk's robe, and a quiet and peaceful face, who looked to be about sixty years old.
"Host Master!" Gao Jie was watching intently, when he suddenly heard Hui Jing beside him whisper softly.
Gao Jie turned his head to look at Hui Jing, did not ask silently, and turned back to look at the field again.
When the black-robed old man Xu Chuantou saw these two people, he smiled slightly, put aside the half-broken sword in his hand, and said to the strong man: "Fortunately, you arrived in time, otherwise my brothers and I will be separated by yin and yang!"
The strong man looked around nervously and asked, "When we heard the whistle of the eldest brother, we rushed to find him." You're not hurt, are you?!"
Xu Chuantou shook his head and said with a smile: "Not hurt at all!"
Then, he pulled down the hat on his black robe, turned his head to look at the old nun, and said in a trembling voice: "Thank you eldest sister for saving me, you, how are you all these years?"
At this time, Gao Jie saw the appearance of Xu Chuantou clearly, he was in his fifties, his appearance was ordinary, his expression was indifferent, and he was a little similar to the old nun.
Like a stone falling into a calm lake, the old nun's face was also slightly moved when she heard this, her eyes were red, and she said in a trembling voice: "Hongru, sister is okay, you ...... It's so old!"
Xu Hongru nodded, his voice gradually became colder, and said: "I'll talk about it later, clean up these three people first, and you must not leave your hands behind, otherwise it will definitely harm the innocents in the temple!"
As soon as the words fell, the strong man couldn't bear it anymore, and with a loud shout, the dancing stick rushed up.
Xu Hongru immediately waved his palm, and the old nun did not move beside him.
Xiaoqi surnamed Wu and the two wrestlers, who had been on guard for a long time, also shouted, the three of them turned in a circle, the sword light rose again, and the two sides fought together.
Wu surnamed Xiaoqi was uneasy at this time, just now his embroidered spring knife was only a line away from Xu Hongru's head, but it was swept away by a burst of objects, through the moonlight, he saw a small gray mark on the embroidered spring knife, and understood that it was just a stone. Being able to use a small pebble to bounce off his full force at such a distance, it seems that there are masters by his side, and the three of them are probably not opponents, and listening to Xu Hongru's words just now, they are about to be killed.
His mind was racing, and with the power of the collision between the embroidered spring knife in his hand and the iron rod of the strong man, he resolutely rose up, and swept towards the jungle a few feet away. He was going to abandon his men and run away.
Seeing that he was about to go to the jungle, and Xu Hongru and the strong man over there were entangled by two unwitting wrestlers, and they couldn't chase after them at the moment, Xiao Qi surnamed Wu was secretly happy in his heart, and he wanted to get out, and immediately reported to Lord Zongqi, and then found this place to retaliate.
However, the snickering joy ended up being an empty joy.
Xiaoqi surnamed Wu suddenly felt a piercing sound of breaking the air behind him, and before he could react, he was hit in the back by a stone, and blood suddenly spurted out of his mouth, and his body fell forward, and he fell to the ground, not knowing life and death.
Gao Jie saw clearly now that the stone was shot from the sleeve of the robe of the old nun standing on the side.
He first saw Xiaoqi surnamed Wu cut Xu Hongru's long sword with a single sword, and knew that it was a master. In addition to his fast knife, his knife strength, speed and skill are also very skillful.
But in the blink of an eye, he was knocked down by the old nun with a stone, and he had no power to fight back, Gao Jie suddenly felt that his worldview was subverted, and he was dumbfounded: "What a god, that's really a crazy stone!"
Without the surname Wu Xiaoqi, the two wrestlers immediately became flustered, plus Xu Hongru and the strong man were already skilled, just a few faces, one was crushed by an iron rod, and the other was split by a palm The neck bone was broken, and both fell to the ground and died.
After packing up the two wrestlers, the strong man immediately ran to Xiaoqi, surnamed Wu, and the iron rod fell, which also completely solved it.
In an instant, three large living people were strewn across the wilderness.
"Kill!" Gao Jie shouted in his heart. In his previous life, he had only seen murder scenes on movies and television, but he had never seen the real thing!
At this moment, he, like the little nun Huijing beside him, was shaking uncontrollably like chaff.
In addition to being scared when she saw the murder scene, what frightened her even more was that the host Tai, who she had been familiar with since she was a child and cared for herself, actually participated in the killing!
She was shaking, and her little head could no longer think normally.
Subsequently, in the voice of the old nun chanting "Amitabha, blessed by the Virgin", Xu Hongru and the strong man dug a pit on the spot and buried the three corpses.
After eliminating all traces of the fight, the old nun suddenly raised her eyes and shouted in Gao Jie's direction: "You two, come out!"
"Damn! I was discovered!! Gao Jie felt a chill in his heart, and secretly screamed in his heart: "They won't even kill the two of us! My new life has just begun, I can't just die like this! Blame me for the tip of my ears, I have nothing to do to run to see what is lively, I am really curious to kill the cat......"
Just when he was still feeling sorry for himself, he only felt that the collar on the back of his head was tight, and his body suddenly left the ground.
At this moment, Gao Jie and Hui Jing were carried by the strong man one by one and put in front of the old nun and Xu Hongru.
The old nun didn't look at Gao Jie, but looked at Hui Jing, and the feelings in her eyes were a little complicated.
Xu Hongru, on the other hand, widened his eyes and scanned Gao Jie back and forth, as if he was very surprised.
"Big brother, do you want to get rid of these two boys too?" the strong man asked loudly.
Gao Jie secretly complained in his heart, it seemed that he was going to be more auspicious, he hurriedly piled up a smile on his face (although he also knew that the smile was not much better than crying), and smiled at the old nun: "You are the presiding teacher of the Temple of the Nine Heavens of the Holy Mother of the Virtuous Land, the kid knows at a glance that you are well versed in Buddhism, and you must be a Taoist Gaoni, not only the martial arts are unfathomable, but also the heart of the Bodhisattva, and you will never embarrass the boy and this unlucky little nun, right?"
After he finished speaking, he didn't get any reaction, only to see the old nun and Xu Hongru silent, just looking at him quietly, and there seemed to be a playful taste in their eyes.
Gao Jie felt like a mouse in a cage, about to be used for experiments, so his body trembled even more. But he forced himself to calm down and continued: "This Xu Daxia and this, eh...... A strong hero, a Ming Dynasty eagle dog with a blade, eliminating harm for the people, must be a legendary hero, killing the rich and helping the poor, helping the needy, and not embarrassing me, a poor middle peasant, a small hunter, right?!"
Seeing that they didn't react, but the taste of banter in their eyes was even stronger, Gao Jie knew that these tall hats were of no use to them in the slightest.
The little nun Hui Jing likes to wear high hats, because she is still young and has poor resistance, and these people in front of her are all tried and tested old sparrows, so naturally they will not be fooled by themselves.
"Alas, it looks like it's really going to be over!"
Gao Jie was desperate, his blood surged, and his body no longer trembled, only to see him take a step forward, block in front of the little nun Huijing, and said loudly: "If you want to kill me, kill me, this little nun is a monk, and she will never tell about today's events." Kill me, let her go, it's always okay!"
Xu Hongru's eyes lit up and asked, "You, aren't you afraid of death?"
Gao Jie was alone at this time, fearless, and said loudly: "Afraid, aren't you going to die?! Miss me Gao Jie, I have never been afraid of a plane crash at a height of 10,000 meters, what else can I be afraid of? As long as you don't hurt her, everything will come at me!"
Xu Hongru suddenly clapped his hands and laughed: "Hahaha, good boy, not bad! a bit heroic!"
Immediately, he leaned over and asked in Gao Jie's ear, "But, when did we say we were going to kill you?"
The old nun on the side couldn't help laughing at this time, laughed out loud, stretched out her hand and pulled Hui Jing from behind Gao Jie, hugged her tightly in her arms, and comforted softly: "Hui Jing, don't be afraid, it's all over!"
"She's Hui Jing?!Oh my God, she's grown so big!" Xu Hongru on the side turned his eyes to Hui Jing, and his voice trembled with excitement.
"Well, she's Hui Jing, you see, her eyes look very much like you!" said the old nun to Xu Hongru with a smile.
At this point, Gao Jie was completely sure that he didn't have to die.
It seems that Xu Hongru and the old nun are not extremely vicious bad people, and they seem to have a lot of relationship with the little nun Huijing, and they are likely to be relatives.
Gao Jie, who finally put his heart in his stomach, sat on the ground with a plop with his feet weak, and the heroic spirit that was so heroic just now has long been gone.
Xu Hongru calmed down, turned his head and saw Gao Jie sitting on the ground, laughed again, and stretched out his hand to pull him up.
Knowing that he was young and frightened, he probably couldn't walk, so Xu Hongru asked the strong man, his sworn brother Yu Hongzhi, to carry Gao Jie on his back, and then said: "It's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's go!"
Just take the lead.
"Hey, where are you taking me?!" Gao Jie panicked again, screaming as if he was afraid of being abducted by human traffickers.
"Have you forgotten what you came up to the mountain for? Your father is waiting for you in the temple!" the old nun also picked up Hui Jing and said to Gao Jie with a smile.