(Epigraph: The title of this volume is "Vacuum", and this inscription is the general epigraph of this volume.) In "Journey to the West", Sanzang named the heart ape "Wukong", and the image of Sun Wukong is well-known. However, what kind of emptiness is the so-called Wukong?

Buddhism often says that "the four are empty", and the four refer to the four basic material phenomena that are enough to form the world: earth, water, wind, and fire. The four concepts of emptiness not only mean that all things are empty, but that they should be all empty. In modern times, there are a group of pseudo-scholars who are a little bit of learning who always like to use one kind of physical common sense to steal another philosophical concept. For example, someone said that according to the research and analysis of microscopic physics, the final particle composition is composed of energy waves, so the universe is actually "empty", so they think they know what it means to be empty.

In the past, it was often described as "retreating into the empty gate", and the gate in the middle of the temple was also called the "empty gate". There is also a saying for "vacuum" in the Dao of Xiudan. In the Western system of speculation and debate, there has always been a chicken-and-egg problem, which is not clear, and can be summed up in one sentence: "I think, therefore I am" or "I am therefore thinking"? The answer to this question cannot be found! But there is a way to solve it, that is, "I am no longer there." If even I don't have it, this question will be solved.

What is emptiness, emptiness is not emptiness, it is not delusional emptiness, it is not illusory emptiness, it is nothing. What is gone? Is there no "me" gone. This is not a literal artistic conception, nor is it a literary technique. It's not just empty talk that I don't have it. You have to really enter this state and then cross this state, so that you can call Wukong. There is such a state in the empirical evidence of human beings, or it can be truly entered into such a state of existence.

When many people enter the realm of "emptiness" for the first time in empirical evidence. The first feeling was not the joy of enlightenment, nor the liberation of enlightenment, but the shock of a cold sweat and immediately withdrew, and I did not want to go in again. It is no wonder that no matter what kind of religion or philosophy a person professes, he always thinks and looks at things from the perspective of "me". He was suddenly in a certain state, and "I" did not have that feeling of hesitation and fear, which was incomprehensible to outsiders.

However, emptiness is not the highest state, but a process that must be passed to the ultimate path. Therefore, it is often called the Vacuum Tribulation in the Dan Dao. Therefore, the perception of the realm of emptiness is also different, and this book will talk about the emptiness of the stone field and the emptiness of the Fahai respectively. )

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The man in yellow listened to Liu Yiyi's answer, his eyes lit up, and he said, "Then give me a drink." ”

Liu Yiyi has a characteristic that others do not have. I just don't care if there are guests coming to the door, and I don't care what the guests are after they come to the door, and the guests are always very quiet and tranquil. She said, "Fifty yuan a cup...... Please wait. "I started boiling water to make tea.

The man in yellow has been watching her with interest, and most people should be staring at Liu Yiyi for this kind of scene. Watching beautiful women make tea with no hands should be a very beautiful picture. However, the man in yellow didn't look at Liu Yiyi a few times, and kept staring at the stove and copper kettle. After the copper kettle was placed on the red peat stove, Liu Yiyi placed a cup in front of him.

The man in yellow began to look surprised. He picked up the cup and sighed: "The twelve-edged pink and blue glaze of the Bianliang official kiln! What kind of cup is this?"

"It's a teacup. Liu Yiyi only replied with four words.

"Teacups? Yes, this is a teacup. The man in yellow nodded when he heard this, and smiled himself.

When the water was boiled, Liu Yiyi flushed the pot, and the man in yellow didn't just look surprised, but stood up with his mouth open. He walked a few steps to the tea table and rubbed his eyes: "I'm not mistaken, right? This is a purple qi red cloud clay pot, this chrysanthemum on the ground doesn't seem to be an ordinary decoration!"

Liu Yiyi: "Please sit down and I'll pour you tea." How about this teapot. You don't know if you drink tea. ”

When the man in yellow heard this, he honestly walked back to his seat and sat down, and after Liu Yiyi gave him a warm cup, he poured a full cup of tea. When Liu Yiyi poured the tea, he had closed his eyes, and seemed to be focusing all his attention on the tip of his nose, looking very intoxicated. Liu Yiyi didn't care what his expression was, but only said, "Please use tea." "Just sit back behind the counter.

The man in yellow didn't speak when he drank tea, his eyes were half-closed, he couldn't stop shaking his head, and there were words in his mouth, and the tip of his nose went around the teacup. He never put down this cup of tea, nor did he drink it all, but finally put down the cup after more than ten minutes of intermittent work.

"Who is the owner of this teahouse, little girl? I want to meet him. ”

Liu Yiyi: "It's my brother Shiye, he's right behind you, and you can see him when you turn around." ”

Although I was in the classroom, my ears were constantly moving, and I was far away from the movement between the green snow teas. The distance from the school classroom to this tearoom was exactly as far as my divine consciousness could reach. As soon as this guest came to the door, I felt that he was not an ordinary person, so I finally waited until the end of class, and I didn't attend the last self-study class, so I hurriedly slipped to the green snow tea room. As I got to the door, I heard the man in yellow say he wanted to see me.

The man in yellow stood up and turned around to see me arching his hand and smiled: "Is it Shi Ye Shi's real person......?" In Xiaxuanyuan, the ordinary master heard that the Wucheng Green Snow God Tea appeared in the world, so he specially rushed to a taste, and it really lived up to its reputation!"

Before I asked, he reported that his family was the mortal master I was waiting for. I suddenly thought that this person was very cute, and he didn't hide his head and tail at all. I also smiled and said, "It turns out that the head of Xuanyuan is fortunate to be happy, please sit down and serve tea again." ...... What is it that you want to see me?"

Fan Fuzi smiled a little embarrassedly: "I was fortunate enough to taste the tea, and it really has a wonderful aftertaste." I would like to ask Shi Zhenren about this green snow god tea, as well as this stove and copper kettle for boiling water. Especially where did that purple sand teapot come from?hehe, I'm really embarrassed to see that I'm greedy, I don't know if I can cut my love?...... I don't have any good things from my Xuanyuan faction, but there are a lot of elixirs that are hard to find in the world. ”

Before I could speak, Liu Yiyi said: "All these things are for you? Then it is better to move this tearoom to your house! How can we open a teahouse?"

I hurriedly said, "Yiyi, don't talk like that. Ordinary masters and Taoist friends. If you like this tea, you can come and drink it every day, and someone will be happy to give it away. It's just that none of the things you just said are mine, they are all placed here by other masters in the cultivation world to cheer me on. If you want, I can help you ask the owner, but I don't dare to decide on my own. ”

Fan Fuzi: "Actually, I'm just curious, I want to ask about the origin and make a joke with you." It's not really trying to claim it. It's rare to find such a wonderful artifact, but I didn't expect it to be all gathered in this small tearoom today. Such a good tea should be shared in the world, how dare ordinary masters be selfish. ”

"If you like it. I can give you a pot of green snow god tea, although the tea leaves are not much, but it is also a heart. ”

Fan Fuzi shook his hand: "Then how can you be embarrassed by such a precious thing......"

I interrupted him: "Daoist friends don't have to excuse you, I'm already very surprised that you came to the door today! It's because I have something to find you, so I specially sent a message with tea, and I know what Taoist friends like. I thought you'd come, but I didn't expect you to come so quickly. ”

Fan Fuzi: "Shino Zhenren has something to look for me?"

Of course, I have something to look for him, I just want to ask him about the whereabouts of Dan Xiasheng and the matter of the Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill. But this kind of thing is not good to talk directly, it is better to explain the cause and effect clearly before asking. So I thought about it for a while and said tentatively: "I don't know if Daoyou have enough time, there is one thing I want to start with Daoyou. ”

Fan Fuzi: "As long as there is good tea in the cup, I have time, Shi Zhenren has something to say, please speak." ”

Liu Yiyi came over to add him tea. He closed the door to the green snow tea room and retreated to the backroom very consciously. Only my mortal master is left in the front hall. I told a story to the mortal master, briefly starting with my Yin God being injured by the Zhenling Treasure Seal, and then about my Yuan God being received by a master's magic weapon, and finally another master saved me. Everything is very concise, I didn't say that the name of the real person and the gentleman of the wind is the name of the place, I guess that ordinary people can guess that there is a master who must be upright. I mainly talked about how I was rescued in the end, and how Liu Feier lost ten years of her youth because of it.

After hearing this, the mortal master sighed: "The woman in this world is really lamentable and lovely! If I were you, I would do everything I could to save her." You don't need to say any more, I know what you're looking for me. Would you like to listen to me tell me a story?"

Ordinary masters actually have stories to tell, of course I have to listen respectfully. His story is about his younger brother Dan Xiasheng. Dan Xiasheng, a disciple of the Xuanyuan faction, is proficient in refining all kinds of elixirs, known as the first in the world, and has been famous for a long time. Ten years ago, when he was collecting medicine in the mountains, he happened to meet a woman who was a cultivator and a monster was in danger, so he came to help. The two worked together to fight off the monster, and the woman was seriously injured and dying. If it were another situation, this woman's life was not guaranteed, but fortunately she met Dan Xiasheng.

Dan Xiasheng spent half a year carefully treating her injuries, and finally saved her life, and then carefully recuperated and gradually healed. In the past half a year, the two have been getting along day and night, and after a long time, they have become Taoist couples, and they have decided to join hands to live in seclusion and be a pair of free immortals. This heroic and beautiful story was originally very happy, but a year later, something unexpected happened. A year later, Mrs. Danxia became pregnant and gave birth to a son in October. After the full moon, this son was frail and sickly, and even suffered from strange diseases for many years.

If this son was born in an ordinary family, I am afraid that he would have died a long time ago, that is, Danxia and his wife used a supernatural cultivation to keep his original spirit alive, and Danxia was born to continue his life with the elixir of the world. The cause of the disease is also that although the internal injuries suffered by Mrs. Danxia when she fought with the monster that day were treated, the root of the disease finally fell on her son. Although Dan Xiasheng is known as the world's No. 1 in refining medicine, he is helpless against this congenital deficiency disease, even if this child barely survives, I am afraid that he will not live for ten years.

Danxia and his wife reluctantly remembered the Xuanyuan Sect's secret recipe for the Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill, and if they wanted to save this child, they were afraid that the only way to save this child was to change the furnace and change the Ding, which could only be refined into the Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill. Originally, the preparation method of the Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill was extremely difficult to collect, and even if ordinary people knew it, it was impossible for ordinary people to really refine this elixir. But Danxia and his wife had no choice but to try their best. In the past eight years, Danxia and his wife have searched for all the elixirs in the world, visited famous mountains and masters, and received great assistance from the disciples of the Xuanyuan faction.

After Fan Fuzi finished speaking, he looked at me, and I felt that there was a question in his eyes, so I only heard him sigh again: "You want the Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill to save your benefactor, Dan Xiasheng wants the Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill to save his son." ...... This matter is very secretive, because this thing is too precious, so Dan Xiasheng doesn't want outsiders to know. Today I tell you that it is also a kind of fate, because you ask for Dan not for your own use. But as far as I know, Danxia and his wife did not refine the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pill. ”

"It's not refined, is it because the medicinal materials are not complete?"

Fan Fuzi: "There is still a lack of a medicine and a medicine." Thirteen vermilion fruits, they have made up ten, and three are missing. As for that medicine, I don't even know what it is, and it is said that it does not exist in the human world. ”

"Zhu Guo, I have three, I can get them together! As for that medicine guide, as long as he can name it, I will also look for it. ”

Fan Fuzi: "Can you get together three Zhu Guo? That's a good thing, you can go to the door and find them." But I ask you, if you have a medicine, you may not be able to make a pill, what if this furnace of pill does not work? Or if you only have one pill, what should you do?"

"If the Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill does not succeed after all, it is also the will of heaven that cannot be forced, if there is only one Pill in one furnace, I will not forcibly take it. But before I become a pill, I must try my best to help them cultivate people and do things, right?"

Fan Fuzi finally nodded and said, "If you have something to do, then you can try your luck." ”

"Where can I find Danxia and his wife?"

Fan Fuzi: "Normally, you can't find them." The child could not leave his parents to take care of them, and the husband and wife always left one in a secret place to take turns to take care of them while the other went out to seek elixir. But every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, the family of three would meet in the cave house to hope for peace in the coming year. The practice cave of Danxia and his wife is in a hidden place halfway up the alchemy peak of Huangshan Mountain. You don't bother on Chinese New Year's Eve, they can visit on New Year's Day. If you have three Zhuguo in your hand, they will receive you...... That's all I can say. ”

I sincerely thanked: "Thank you seniors for your advice!"

Then he said, "Don't call me a senior, a true person, and an elder to me. ...... In this tea room, I smelled the medicinal fragrance of Huang Ya Dan and tasted this green snow god tea. Taking Yellow Bud Pill with Green Snow God Tea can temporarily nourish the face and restrain the symptoms of premature aging, it seems that you have already thought of this solution. It's just that Huang Ya Dan is also very rare, I didn't expect you to have it in your hands. ”

"Don't hide it, I still have more than twenty pills in my hand, and I can't last long. ”

Fan Fuzi: "It's a pity that all the Zhu Guo obtained by my Xuanyuan faction in recent years has been given to Danxiasheng, and there has been no Huang Ya Dan for a long time." I heard that Guyunmen was a furnace last year, and if you really have no way, you can go to Guyunmen and try to borrow some emergency. It's just that this thing is very precious, and the women of Guyunmen are not very good at talking, so I didn't say this reminder. If you do borrow medicine, don't say I told you. ”

Guyunmen is the sect where Zhang Zhi is located, and Zhang Zhi is the eldest disciple of the head of Guyunmen. Fan Fuzi told me that Guyunmen's new furnace Huang Ya Dan was kind, but he didn't forget to remind me not to leak out his talk. I haven't dealt with Guyunmen, but I have dealt with Zhang Zhi, it's really not good, you can go and ask Zhang Zhi to think of a way, if the wind gentleman is also willing to help me speak, I guess there is still a little hope to have a few yellow bud pills. But one pill of yellow bud pill in three days can't last long, and you still have to pin your hopes on Danxia and his wife.

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Fan Fuzi told me that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, I went to visit Danxia and his wife in the cliff of the alchemy peak of Huangshan Mountain. Look at the calendar time and there is still more than a month. It's useless for me to be anxious, since the master told me so, it must make sense, and I can only go at that time. I relayed these words to Feng Junzi and Han Ziying, and their opinions were the same. There are exactly three vermilion fruits ripe in the Mei's forbidden land. There is a fourth Zhu Guo next month, and I plan to send them all, and I will send one more, which will always show more sincerity.

The business of Zhiweilou is getting better and better, although the wine and food are sold very expensive, and even after the most famous Tianxianglou in Wucheng, there is still an endless stream of diners. If you don't book in advance, you won't even be able to find a seat in the hall, let alone a private room. Most of the guests spend with public funds and have banquets with public funds. The business of the green snow tea room is still so light, but gradually there are customers who come to the door. There are all kinds of strange people who come, and I guess most of them are cultivators. Liu Yiyi also doesn't care what the origin of the guests is, they always make tea and collect money. Sometimes there are no guests in a day, and at most, five or six guests a day can come, which is enough.

Teacher Liu still goes to the green snow tea room to drink tea at noon every day. Ah Xiu often accompanied her to chat with Liu Yiyi, which was the most lively time of the day in the green snow tea room. And every morning, I have to go to see the sunrise with Liu Fei'er, not just for a romantic date, but to teach her the art of valley opening. I'm a little selfish. Not only did I teach her the art of underground quality and valley in mortals, but also the art of middle-grade valley in real people taught to me by the gentleman of the wind. I don't have as many rules as a gentleman, what I teach is "picking the sun". I reckon. The Wind Gentleman knows. But he pretended not to know and said nothing.

Teacher Liu is not a cultivator, she can't learn the real sun. But she's very smart, so to speak, much smarter than me, and she understands what I say, but she can't get to that level. If you can't reach it, you can't reach it, and there is no harm in doing it anyway, so it's good to practice it as a kind of "qigong" that is popular in society. But things have changed a little, the last time I proposed to her in a dream, she didn't say yes, and she didn't say no. Because she passed out. Later, when they saw me again, the look was wrong!

When she saw me, her eyes were obviously a little more delicate, but a little more subtle. Our "relationship" seems to have regressed from before, that is, in dreams, it is not as intimate as before, but it is much more natural. At least in reality, she was willing to quietly engage with me after avoiding teachers and classmates. Her attitude makes me feel good but itchy. I wanted to bring up the topic of marrying her a few times, but she cleverly avoided it. Looking at her look, she is in love, this is a very normal worldly love, but she is still waiting, I know what she is waiting for, she is waiting for everything to be truly possible.

She is still young and beautiful, and she has no worries about a while ago. I knew in my heart that this would only last for three months, and if I still couldn't find the Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill after three months, I didn't know what the outcome would be. But no one showed it in front of her. Fan Fuzi told me that Guyunmen had a new furnace of Yellow Bud Pill last year, and I told Feng Junzi. Feng Junzi said, I don't have to worry about this matter, if it really doesn't work, he will go to Zhang Zhi to find a way, if Zhang Zhi can't do it, he will go directly to Guyunmen to find the head of the scarlet cold.

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These few days have been a rare period of peace, but someone just didn't let me be calm, Liu Fei'er just learned how to open the valley, and someone came to bother me. I also had to receive this person who came, because he was my "boss" and Director Gu. I forgot to mention that Director Gu has met him several times recently, and he is also one of the tea guests in the green snow tea. How could a department-level cadre afford such a high amount of consumption? At that time, his monthly salary was less than 500 yuan.

The electronic receiving device that Director Gu gave me that day suddenly vibrated on my waist, and I quietly felt it out and saw that there were words on it: "There is a yellow Cherokee waiting for you in the alley to the left of the Green Snow Tea Room, and you have an urgent mission." ”

Damn, when he looks for me, it's not good, I'm still in class. Fortunately, this was Teacher Liu's class, and I raised my hand to cover my stomach and said that I was uncomfortable, and at the same time squeezed my eyes at her. Teacher Liu looked at me suspiciously, but she happily granted me leave and let me out of the classroom. I hurried to the entrance of the local alley, where a yellow Cherokee jeep was parked. I pulled the car door open and sat in the passenger seat, and the other person in the car surprised me, and we both stared at each other and didn't say anything for a long time.

I saw a person sitting in the driver's seat. Wearing a police uniform and armed belt. This uniform shows that she is delicate and has a bit of heroic posture, and her figure is upright but does not lose the softness of her curves, which is actually my old acquaintance, the police flower Qu Ling. Qu Ling was the first to react, she blinked and asked, "Special Operations Group?"

I replied, a little embarrassed, "Yes, you—what is the content of the mission?" and I consciously didn't call her by name. Because she didn't call me by name.

Qu Ling smiled and held back: "I am the police officer in charge of picking up and cooperating with you, my name is Qu Ling." I have been informed by my superiors that I will inform you of the contents of this mission, and that your identity and actions will be kept secret, and I will not ask you where you came from or how you completed it. My superiors gave me your code name 32O3, and I will call you 32O3 in the future. ”

After professional training, people are different, she obviously knows me, and the eyes of the two of us are strange and embarrassing, but what she says is still serious. I secretly cursed Director Gu in my heart. I think since he knew Zhiweilou, he should know that I knew Qu Ling, so why did he arrange for her to assist me? Could it be on purpose? Or maybe Director Gu didn't know that Qu Ling was only arranged by the police. Qu Ling said this, and I could only speak according to the rules: "Officer Qu." Since the task is so urgent, please convey the content of the mission. ”

As soon as I heard the word mission, my expression became serious, and I was introduced to the content of this urgent mission. After listening to this, I cried and laughed a little, Director Gu, they didn't let me deal with some supernatural people. Instead, I was asked to deal with a group of ordinary villagers with hoes and shovels.

The beginning and end of the matter is like this: there is a large village in Fanchang Township in Jinbaowei called Da Lijiazhuang. The village is not a small village, with five or six areas connected to each other. There are hundreds of households and more than 2,000 inhabitants in the middle of the fishing ponds and hilly paths scattered across the water network. Jinbaowei is the richest rural area in Wucheng after the reform and opening up, because the natural conditions of that place are very good, which is very suitable for aquaculture, and the economic value of the fish and crabs raised is very high. In recent years, a group of peasants have made a small fortune and gradually become rich.

As the saying goes, when you are full of warmth and lust, and when you have money in your hands, you should think about building a new house and marrying a daughter-in-law. There is such a family, which is very powerful in the local area, and there are six brothers (in the countryside, there are many brothers who often take advantage). Five of them built new tiled houses and started families. But the second child of this family is named Li Erzhu, who had a high fever when he was a child, burned out his brain, and he was a little mentally retarded, but it was normal in other aspects. Just because of a little dementia, I never said my daughter-in-law in the local area. But this Li Erzhu is not completely stupid, and he is clamoring every day to marry his daughter-in-law, and the family has no choice, so they spent money to buy one for him from other places. Don't be surprised that this was a common occurrence in remote villages at the time. In many cases, the daughters-in-law who were bought in this way were traffickers, some were abducted, and a few were voluntary.

I don't know how Li Erzhu's daughter-in-law bought it, it was quite safe at first, and gradually the family was defenseless, so she took the opportunity to go to the police station in the township to report the case. Unexpectedly, as soon as she arrived at the police station, the people from Da Lijiazhuang came to the police station and openly arrested her in broad daylight. If such a thing happened in the jurisdiction, the local public security department would of course send someone to rescue it. A group of five policemen went to Da Lijiazhuang to enforce the law and take people, but for some reason it aroused the anger of the villagers, and was besieged by a group, and these people were blocked by the villagers on the edge of an inlet, and they did not come out yesterday until now. The leaders of the local township government went to persuade them, but they were also beaten back by a group of villagers wielding hoes and sticks.

This time, Director Gu asked me to go, and the main assignment was given to me two tasks. The first task is to go deep behind enemy lines and rescue the besieged police. The second mission is to insert into the heart of the "enemy" and rescue the trafficked woman. I don't understand why a special person like me should be sent to carry out such a task that seems to only need ordinary civilian police. Qu Ling explained to me what was going on.

What the local government is most afraid of now is **, and this is a large-scale mass violent anti-law incident, and the public security organs are not facing the most vicious gangsters, but the villagers who are angry with the masses. If high-pressure measures are adopted, it is likely to lead to a further expansion of the situation and a further deterioration of the relationship between the police and the people and between the cadres and the masses. The public security officers did not dare to shoot on such occasions, and as for the move, they could only be beaten after being surrounded. I'm going to save those people, and I can't hurt them, I can only touch them in and get them out, and if I am unfortunate enough to be beaten now, I can't fight back. Only then did I understand why Director Gu wanted me to find someone to be beaten, and there was really no more suitable person than me. I also have a characteristic, that is, the eyes can see at night, so it is most suitable to use the cover of the night to save people, in short, quietly enter the village to rob, don't do.

After listening to this, I was still a little puzzled, and I frowned and asked Qu Ling: "Why are the villagers in that place so lawless? Obviously they are abducting and trafficking women, but they have the courage to go to the police station to rob people in broad daylight, and hundreds of people are following to make a fuss?"

Qu Ling also shook his head and sighed: "Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, I'm afraid this incident is just a fuse." I also know about the situation in that township, and some cadres who usually go down to pay education surcharges, farmland and water conservancy fees, retain and collect agricultural taxes at all levels, and engage in unified purchasing and marketing, and when they encounter resistance, they have to ask the township police station to send police. Can this not deteriorate over time? I guess these people have been looking for an opportunity to make trouble. ”

Qu Ling said this, and I also understood it a little. In fact, Qu Ling didn't know that there was another secret in this matter at that time. That daughter-in-law ran out of the western mountains and married to Dalijia Village, and when she started, she really planned to live an honest life. But this woman's long-term water spirit and heart are also alive, and after a long time, she is unwilling to accompany a half-idiot. Later, she somehow hooked up with a single security officer from the Shangxiang Police Station, and she didn't want to spend time with Li Erzhu in Da Lijia Village. The idea of going to the township police station to report the case this time was that the man and the woman came up with it themselves, and it was a good show of "law popularization education" and "cheating and escaping" written and acted by themselves.

From a legal point of view, the people of Da Lijiazhuang did break the law. But in the eyes of the local villagers, there is another way of saying that the people from the police station seduced Li Erzhu's daughter-in-law and arrested Li Erzhu into the bureau. In addition, some people who have long been dissatisfied fanned the flames, and the situation has expanded. These were all things that I learned later from the investigation, and the vigilante was also a little wrongfully dismissed from public office. It's just that Qu Ling and I didn't know about it at the time.