Cai Jiujin put down the vegetable picks on his shoulders, sat on the rocks, and gasped for breath. ○

Cai Jiujin has been walking on this rugged mountain road for nearly four years. At the end of the road, there is the "Jixiang Kitchen" of the "Liuhua Temple" on the top of the mountain, and Cai Jiujin has provided green vegetables and kitchen materials for the temple for more than 13 years.

Cai Jiujin's vegetables, fresh and insect-free, the price is fair, especially those green vegetables picked from the vegetable garden in the early morning, the green leaves and white stems, and the clear and pleasing fresh dew, no longer need to be cooked, it is already quite able to arouse people's appetite.

Since the last "Liuhua Temple" presided over the master of flowers, Cai Jiujin's leafy vegetables, radish, sweet potatoes and other dishes have been welcomed and praised by the monks in the temple. After all, the "Liuhua Temple", which is prosperous with incense, gold owners, and the care of the government, doesn't care about those little money.

Especially in recent years, Master Wuhua schizophrenia, raped and killed several folk girls to repent and commit suicide (see "Mandala" volume), it is said that the "Shaolin" General Yuan has sent four masters of Wuhu, Wuxiong, Wuhu and Wuant to preside over the temple in "Beiliang Town", and the number of vegetables and fruits purchased has increased, and it has increased every day.

Regarding this situation, Cai Jiujin sometimes secretly wonders: "I don't see that the monastery has increased the number of shaved monks, but I see that the demand for vegetables and fruits is increasing step by step, and the amount of food for these great monks is getting better and better." After all, the four new hosts are generous, and they give a lot of money every time, and he is happy to earn more, and there are two babies at home to support him, and life is not easy.

Because of the heavy weight of the vegetable burden, even the young and strong Cai Jiujin has to rest three times on the mountain road for more than ten miles.

Yesterday evening, he had already made an appointment with a few friends, and after today's completion, he would go to the "Liangcheng Inn" to find Ruoshuang girl for a few drinks.

Cai Jiujin has a friend who has played since he was a child, named Zhu Siliang, a pork dealer who kills pigs. Zhu Siliang has a brother-in-law who breaks bones and tendons, and is called a color opera, an entertainer who plays tricks. (See Butterfly Dreams, Volume 1)

Cai Jiujin, Zhu Siliang, and Cai Opera, these three people have made a new friend, and they are the newly appointed chief catcher of the county, called Dugu Remnant Peak.

Since the "Beiliang" chief arrester "Nine-Fingered God Hunt" Ao Jintie was brutalized by the "Destroying Playboy" Gongzi Ming (see Chapter 2 of the volume of "Slaughtering the City"), his position was taken over by Dugu Yanfeng, the deputy chief catcher of "Heishui County" in Linxian County.

Compared with the image of Ao Jintetsu, who is as bearded as a halberd and tall and tall, Dugu Remnantfeng is very young and quiet, like a reader who burns incense and reads at night, more than like a head catcher in Ziyi who investigates thieves and investigates murderers.

Dugu's personality is very good, especially when he laughs, the whole person is like a small delicate porcelain, so beautiful that even the pen used for flower arrangement feels too reckless and profane.

His popularity is better, he is a distant relative of the county lord Xi Qinggu, but he does not have the frame of an official, so in less than a month after taking office, he became good friends with a vegetable seller, a pig killer, and a trickster.

There are many kinds of friends, and Dugu Remnant Peak is undoubtedly a very useful one.

Once, Cai Jiujin's five-year-old son was seriously ill and urgently needed a large amount of money to buy medicine, and the husband and wife were so anxious that they hugged their heads and cried.

Another time, Zhu Siliang, who had a hot temper, accidentally injured a splash who came to buy meat and pay for it, and was put in prison.

Another time, when the color actor was performing a trick at the birthday banquet for a rich man in the city, he was secretly given a lot of silverware by the aunt's wife, and the color actor was confused for a while, so he rolled into bed with the aunt's wife, and was caught and raped by the master's family on the spot, beaten half to death.

What is a friend? It's called a friend.

Now, Dugu Yanfeng and two other friends are waiting for Cai Jiujin in the pergola at the foot of the mountain, waiting for him to go drinking together.

"Liuhua Temple" is in front of you, and there is an endless stream of pilgrims on the mountain road in front, but the road on the back mountain is quiet as usual.

In fact, the road up the mountain is the same as the road of life, there is not only one way up the mountain, there will be two or many roads, but most people will be accustomed to squeeze the lively and easy to walk road, and ignore other lonely and difficult paths, because of conformity, but also because of inertia.

In fact, it doesn't matter which way you choose to reach your destination.

Thinking of Leng Ruoshuang's cold and beautiful face in the "Liangcheng Inn", Cai Jiujin picked up the burden of vegetables again and sped up his pace.

Cai Jiujin is a family person, his wife is a rough man, not good at words, and even more incomprehensible peasant woman, her eyes and heart are endless farm work and two children who will never be obedient, even in the dead of night, the routine sexual affairs of the husband and wife are also boring, so that when Cai Jiujin is doing it, he always feels that he is moving a pile of fat meat on the meat case with Zhu Si.

Even, on several occasions, his woman had fallen asleep snoring like thunder during his exercise.

The burden of the family, the heavy labor, this wooden and hard woman, she is too tired.

I don't know where to start, Cai Jiujin, whose life is gradually getting better, falls in love with lingering in the restaurant inn, and admires those young girls who are beautiful in spring, even if he says a word or two with Leng Ruoshuang and looks at it once or two, he feels that life is full of meaning.

There are bells ringing on the top of the mountain in the distance, the believers and pilgrims sing together, and Cai Jiujin followed the bell to go up to the "Xiaogu Mountain" and entered the "Liuhua Temple".

"Xiaogu Mountain" turned out to be a nameless barren mountain, and its name has a reason.

It is said that the place where this dynasty was founded, there were many large and small states, and there were two sisters-in-law, with a group of fleeing villagers to avoid the military disaster, and avoided the deep mountains. At that time, the mosquitoes in the mountains at night were as big as flies and peas, all over the mountains, and the sister-in-law and the villagers all hid in the "Liuhua Temple" to repel mosquitoes, only her sister-in-law was unwilling to be a daughter, and a large group of men were in the same room, stubbornly stayed in the wild, and finally were bitten to death by a group of mosquitoes. In order to commemorate the chastity of this sister-in-law, later generations called this mountain "Xiaogu Mountain".

In the area of "Beiliang", natural disasters have occurred frequently in recent years, and the incompetence of the government has made more and more good men and women who have come to the "Liuhua Temple" to worship the Buddha and ask for Buddha, and they are increasing day by day.

In the middle of the cigarette smoke, Cai Jiujin smoked his eyes and shed tears, so he wanted to find a place with less incense smoke to rest.

There happened to be a few pilgrims from other places who had an argument with the monks in the temple, Cai Jiujin carried the vegetable basket and walked all the way to the inner hall, and no one noticed it.

The scope of the temple is very large, and even Cai Jiujin, who has been here countless times, has inadvertently lost his way.

The location he is in now is a remote Buddha hall, Cai Jiujin has never been here before, he wiped his tears, and at the same time he caught a glimpse of the dragon god statue on the shrine, green and hideous, not like a good class, the statue of a naked woman under the green dragon's minions is like a life, which makes people look at it, blushing and heartbeat, and thinking about it.

Cai Jiujin was taken aback, and wondered: "In the inner hall of this temple, if you don't worship the Nyorai Guanyin Vajra Arhat, how can you worship such an evil god?"

He glanced at the place and made an unexpected new discovery.

In the corner behind the statue of the green dragon, there was a pink belly pocket on the ground.

Cai Jiujin pressed his heart that was beating wildly and was about to fly out, he looked around and saw that there was no one, and stepped forward to pick up the red belly pocket, the fragrance was still there, obviously it was left behind by his daughter's family.

In this solemn and widowed inner hall of the monk's temple, how can there be a woman's belongings?

In the faint candlelight, Cai Jiujin took a closer look and saw two delicate characters embroidered on the corner of the pink belly pocket:

Manyu!

Isn't Manyu the daughter-in-law of Jin Chengwu, the shopkeeper of the town's "Shuyu Zhai"? Hasn't this little lady been missing for several days? How could her handkerchief be lost here......

Cai Jiujin seemed to remember something, he dropped the pick, and left quickly with a frightened face.

It's just that when he walked out of the side hall, he was seen by a middle-aged monk with a high nose, deep eyes, thick beard and blue eyes.

It's like bumping into a ghost on the mountain, Cai Jiujin walked more and more urgently, panicked, panicked faster and faster, and even tripped over the uneven bridge when crossing the bridge.

As soon as he got on the bridge, he suddenly heard someone behind him call him: "Tan Yue, please stay!"

Cai Jiujin was stunned, and when he turned around, he saw a monk who did not look the same as the monk of Middle Earth.

Before Cai Jiujin could speak, suddenly, two invisible steel cones broke out from the bottom of the chain bridge and penetrated the instep of his foot from the center of his foot.

Cai Jiujin howled in pain, Hu Seng flew up, and slapped his palms at him!

Cai Jiujin pushed his palms flat in a panic, and connected with Hu Seng, but when he felt that the opponent's palm power was not very powerful, he suddenly felt that the two palms were in pain, and it turned out that the opponent had been pierced through by two sharp piercings that were almost transparent!

Cai Jiujin howled wildly, endured the pain and pulled up in the air, his three friends were at the foot of the mountain, as long as he escaped to the bottom of the mountain, he would have the opportunity to gain insight into the unspeakable secrets of the temple and make it public to the world-

However, he no longer had a chance!

The sleeves of Hu monk's robe were raised, and a puff of transparent spikes were all smashed into Cai Jiujin's body.

Cai Jiujin fell into a mountain stream.

As soon as his feet were touched by the water, his ankles had been cut off by two monks who had emerged from under the stream, and before he could resist, his hands were cut off by the long knife, and he opened his mouth to exhale, and the monk Hu dropped his toes upside down, grabbed his jaw with his left hand, and pulled out his tongue with his right hand.

Cai Jiujin wanted to fight back, but his hand was broken, he wanted to pull out his leg and run away, but his leg was broken, and even when he wanted to shout, his tongue was broken.

What awaits him is only death and guilt for his family.