Chapter 19, Sudden Events

After the two left, Shi Yunyang and Ran Tianluo always felt that something was wrong. So they lifted their heels and went up on the streets of Khotan, and walked for a while into a residential alley, and after looking around at a door, they flashed into the door, and then slammed the door shut. Shi Yunyang and Ran Tianluo just followed from a distance to ensure that they would not be discovered. Seeing the two sneaking through the door, they crept to the door. Shi Yunyang attached his ear to the door, but couldn't hear anything. Then he squinted into the crack in the door. I saw that the door of the small courtyard was locked again, Shi Yunyang pondered, in broad daylight, sunny day, why did he close the door, there must be a ghost in it.

immediately said to Ran Wenyu: "You wait for me here, I'll go in and have a look." ”

Ran Tianluo nodded and said, "Then you should be careful." Shi Yunyang snorted, immediately jumped up, and gently climbed over the wall. The toes landed on their toes, and they didn't make the slightest sound. Shi Yunyang walked sideways, lowered his center of gravity, and leaned lightly towards the inner door. Shi Yunyang looked through the crack in the door panel, and saw that the room was very simple, there was only one table, on which was covered with a map-like paper, and the light in the room was not good, so he lit a wind lamp. There were four or five Hu men in the house, and the two men from earlier were among them. All five were dressed in normal attire, wearing black and red tunic robes, black turbans wrapped around their heads, and armed with long knives and daggers around their waists. At this time, all five people gathered around the small square table.

Among the five, a tall man with a big black mole on his face, like the head of the five. At this time, he was pointing on the table, Shi Yunyang listened intently, and the big man said a series of words, but he couldn't understand a single one. But listening to that voice, it's definitely not Khotanese. Shi Yunyang pondered: "Could these people be foreigners, how could they come here to plot something in the border of Khotan?" He didn't dare to wander his mind and listened intently, and he remembered the words of those people word for word.

After the black mole man finished speaking, a person on the other side answered, only to see that the man's face was extremely fierce, and his left hand was pressed on the knife all the time while he spoke. Shi Yunyang saw that the rest of the people's sabers were on the left side, but the man's saber was on the right, and when he was surprised, the man turned around slightly, only to see that his right sleeve was empty, and there was no right arm.

Before he could finish speaking, the bearded man shouted, and with one foot on the edge of the table, spit and stars flew all over the sky. The scarface turned around, slapped the bearded man on the head, and kicked him away with a kick, and the beard was not happy, and turned his head to hit the scarface, and the two scuffled together, and among the five there was a young man who had not spoken all this time, and stood aside with his hands very coldly folded. The big man with the black mole glanced at the man who had not spoken, and the cold-faced man did not answer, and instantly pulled the knife, and before the knife came out of the scabbard, he suddenly withdrew it, and stood with his hands held again, and the muscles of the man's face did not move a little from beginning to end. I saw that after the knife was unsheathed for a few breaths, the beard screamed, and a little finger of his left hand was suddenly broken, and blood flowed.

After the black mole man put away the map-like things, he handed over a few words to a few people. The bearded man looked pained, pulled a piece of arrowroot cloth from his bosom, wrapped the wound, and walked with the other four to the door. When Shi Yunyang saw that those people were about to walk out of the door, his body jumped, his feet buckled the beams, and his hands were propped up on the wood, and he hovered steadily on the beams. The men opened the door and came out, not realizing that there was a person hanging above their heads. Just glanced left and right, and saw that there was no one outside the door, so he walked towards the outer door.

Ran Tianluo saw that several big men suddenly walked out of the inner door, and strode towards the outer door, Ran Tianluo was shocked. Although this alley is hidden, there is no hiding place around it at this time. Suddenly, the man with the black mole had already walked to the door, and it was too late. Ran Tianluo jumped slightly, his figure floated up, and with a slight loan of his toes on the wall, he jumped into the wall like a fish leaping into the wall. As soon as Ran Tianluo landed, he suddenly leaned against the wall, looking for a blind spot in his line of sight. At this time, the five men had just gone out. The timing was very good. If you enter one minute earlier, you will be discovered by the people behind, and one minute later you will be hit by the black mole man in front. This time is really a good time.

Hearing the footsteps of the five people in the distance, Ran Qianluo relieved his heart slightly, and at this time, Shi Yunyang also jumped down from the beam. Walked to Ran Tianluo's side.

Ran Qianluo asked, "What did Gongzi Tan hear?"

Shi Yunyang said: "This place is not safe, don't stay for a long time, let's leave this place first, and talk to you in detail later." ”

Ran Tianluo nodded, and the two jumped out of the wall, and at this time they were no longer in sight. The two hurried back to Lia's house.

At this time, it was still a long time before Xuanzang's lecture ended, and Liya's house was empty, so Shi Yunyang told Ran Qianluo about what he saw outside the door, and when Ran Qianluo heard the cold-faced man break his beard, he couldn't help but feel chills in his heart for a while. "These people are so cruel to their own people, they must not be kind of good. ”

Shi Yunyang said thoughtfully: "These people are very strong in martial arts, and these people must have come to Khotan for this lecture." ”

Ran Tianluo said: "Childe suspects that these people will be unfavorable to Master Sanzang?"

Shi Yunyang nodded and said: "At this time, the state of Khotan is opening the altar to give lectures, and these gentlings happened to appear at this time, and they are strong in martial arts. They definitely don't come to listen to the Buddhist scriptures. It is not difficult to guess that their target can only be Master Xuanzang. ”

Ran Tianluo nodded yes, and then asked, "What should we do?" I think that Master Sanzang is a good person, son, we can't ignore this matter. A flash of resoluteness in Ran Qianluo's eyes was being seen by the young man. Since this has happened, of course I won't ignore it.

"Let's go to the high platform of the sermon first and wait and see what happens. Shi Yunyang said. Ran Qianluo nodded. He didn't hesitate at the moment, and went straight out to the crowd of people who were preaching.

After a short time, the two came to the high stage of the preaching. At this time, the Myoho-renge-kyo had finished speaking, and he was currently debating the Dharma with the eminent monks. Xuanzang sat on the central platform, and the monks sat on the slightly lower platform, like the stars and the moon, surrounding Xuanzang in the middle. Xuanzang argued with the major monks, and the answers were all reasonable, and they could all find sources in the Buddhist scriptures. All the monks were not convinced.

Shi Yunyang and the others observed under the high platform for a long time, but they didn't see those people reappear. Between tossing and turning, I don't feel that the sun has turned west. A few touches of sunset burned like a fire, dyeing the whole world red. That bright red seems to make the whole world magnificent. In this desolate northern country, the night is very cold. At this time, the sun is still there, but the temperature has become cold, and people can clearly feel the arrival of night.

In a short time, the sunset disappeared completely, and the land began to darken. Soon a group of armies armed with torches came out of the palace, and many torches were planted near the high platform, and the afterglow of the remnant sun was instantly replaced by firelight.

The debate continues, and those monks who have attained the Tao have been asking questions to Xuanzang sharply, thinking that if Xuanzang is concerned, he will be able to leave his name through the ages. But Xuanzang has a true Buddha in his chest, and the Buddhist scriptures are familiar in his chest. For those sharp questions, Xuanzang answered them one by one. Shi Yunyang heard Xuanzang's victorious arguments again and again, like attacking a city and pulling out a village, and he couldn't help but clap his hands.

About an hour later, when the debate on the stage was at a fever pitch, Ran Tianluo vaguely saw those people appear in the crowd, so he reminded Shi Yunyang softly. Shi Yunyang looked in that direction, and saw that the five people were walking in five different directions, and the man with the broken arm and the bearded man stood from behind the crowd to the side of the soldiers guarding the scripture field. The scarred face dodged left and right in the crowd, circling around the throne of the king of Khotan, and the other two mixed in with the crowd. After a while, there was no trace.

Shi Yunyang had a premonition that something was wrong, and he was about to turn around and say something to Ran Tianluo. Suddenly, I saw a flash of swords in the crowd, and the scarred face jumped up, turned over in mid-air, and slashed at the head of the king of Khotan. The king of Khotan was startled, and shouted, and a soldier standing next to him pulled out his beard knife and met the blow, the scarface was cold, and the move immediately changed from vertical to horizontal, and the soldier couldn't dodge, and was cut into two pieces in an instant, and blood splashed on the face of the king of Khotan. The king of Khotan was so frightened that the six gods had no master, and retreated in panic. In a hurry, he accidentally bumped into the table, and even the table fell to the ground at once. The blade of Scarface was in front of him in a blink of an eye, and the king of Khotan hurriedly shifted the table to his chest, and the blade of Scarface slashed on the table. The blade of the knife happened to be cut on the tip of the Khotanese king's nose, and a blood mark immediately appeared. There was a thud, and the table was cut in half.

The king of Khotan was shocked, and these assassinations failed, and the guards around the king of Khotan all rushed up, and they were entangled with the scarface for a while. When the army of the garrison of the preaching field saw that the king was in trouble, they all rushed to the throne together. By the time the troops had almost passed, Scarface scolded. The man with the broken arm and the bearded man took the opportunity to cut off the back of the escort army. From the rear launched an attack on the garrison. For a while, there were screams, stumps all over the ground, the number of troops was not much, but the three people were excellent in martial arts, and the army only relied on the number of people to drag the three people.

At this time, the lecture field was already in chaos, the crowd fled and ran in all directions, and the wooden fish flags were scattered all over the place, and there was chaos for a while. The two men in the crowd winked at each other, and then they rose together, kicked on the slumped shelf on the ground, and leaped with their feet to the high platform. The blade slashed straight at Xuanzang. Xuanzang was shocked. I never thought that I would encounter such a danger when I came to Khotan to preach the scriptures.

It turned out that Scarface's attack on the king of Khotan was just a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and Scarface attacked the king of Khotan, and he expected that the army would come to his rescue, at this time, the man with the broken arm and the beard dragged the army from behind. At this time, Xuanzang was already defenseless. The two people in the crowd could assassinate Xuanzang, a plan that did not leak.

The two knives were rapidly enlarged in Xuanzang's eyes, Xuanzang was just a monk who was proficient in Buddhism, the monks were compassionate, and the killing of martial arts was the same, it was absolutely not. At this time, I expected that I would have no way to live. Without thinking much about it, he closed his eyes and recited the Heart Sutra alone.

I saw that the knife was approaching quickly, and it was less than three feet away from Xuanzang in the blink of an eye. Suddenly, a painted halberd flew out and approached the door in front of the two people, and the two saw that the halberd was very violent, so they stretched out their hands together to retreat. The next moment the halberd and the knife collided violently, making a crisp sound of gold and iron rubbing, and the two of them were instantly knocked down from the air by the halberd. The bodies of the two fell to the ground like meteors, smashing the shelf of several eminent monks.

The two men protected their bodies as they fell, so they were not injured, so they turned over and got up, clutched their knives tightly, and shouted in all directions. At this time, I saw that on the side of the high platform, a figure rushed up along the vertical platform wall, as if walking on the ground. It didn't take long to come to the high platform. The man was dressed in a purple and brown robe, as if he was Shi Yunyang.

Shi Yunyang gave Xuanzang a salute and asked, "Has the master ever been injured?"

Xuanzang clasped his hands together and returned the salute. "Amitabha, thank you for the rescue, the poor monk is fine. ”

Shi Yunyang said: "That's the best, the master's Buddhism is profound, I'm afraid it is the true Buddha who came into the world, no wonder even I, a person who doesn't understand Buddhism, can listen to it calmly." ”

Xuanzang said: "The donor feels calm, but he is realizing his own Buddha. Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform. The donor has this Buddha fate, and the poor monk is very happy. ”

The two assassins on the high stage saw that the two people on the stage seemed to be ignoring themselves, and the black mole man screamed and kept provoking below.

Shi Yunyang was very annoyed when he saw the two of them, and kept chattering, but he never retreated. Then he said to Xuanzang: "The general trend is to wait here for a while, and then I will clean up these two noisy monkeys, and then come to the master to teach Buddhism." "After that, a spiritual power in his hand is growing, and he is about to attack.

Xuanzang saw that the young man was about to fight the two alone, so he said: "Young man, be careful, these two may have gone astray for a while, my Buddha mercifully asks the young man not to hurt their lives." ”

Shi Yunyang smiled, he didn't want to take the lives of the two of them, so he said: "The master is really compassionate, and he will definitely not take their lives." With that, he turned to look at the two of them, and a powerful spiritual power burst out from his body, forming dozens of running dragons around him