"Oh?" Li Shixian asked with interest, "Is there an ambush in the city?" ”

Li Xiucheng was noncommittal, laughing, "Hahaha, brother, let's look at tomorrow." ”

Hanshan Temple outside the city of Gusu, the bell rings in the middle of the night to the passenger ship.

Hanshan Temple in the Fengqiao Town of Ten Miles Road outside the West Gate of Suzhou City, built in the Liang Dynasty of the time of the Six Dynasties, formerly known as "Miaoli Puming Pagoda Courtyard", during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, it is said that the famous monk Hanshan and Shide had been presided over by Tiantai Mountain here, so it was renamed Hanshan Temple, after the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji inscribed "Fengqiao Night Park", Hanshan Temple is famous all over the world, not to mention Jinshan Temple.

Since Zhang Yuliang stationed in Hanshan Temple, the abbot let out his own Zen courtyard, straight only in the Guanyin Hall to participate in meditation and chant Buddha, in the middle of the night of this day, as if it has been two watches, the abbot has not rested, sit on the futon, holding the Buddha beads in his hand, chanting the scriptures in his mouth, the green smoke of the sandalwood on the table is rising, forming a straight line in mid-air.

In the silence of the night, there was an uproar, the door of the Guanyin Hall was pushed open vigorously, and a small novice stumbled in, sweating profusely, looking frightened, seeing the abbot, he stepped forward and knelt behind the abbot, and said in a trembling voice: "Abbot, officers and soldiers, officers and soldiers, all retreated just now!" ”

The cold wind outside whined in, blowing the green smoke rising from the sandalwood away, and the old abbot sighed, "Hey, I know that these big-headed soldiers are unreliable," the abbot saluted the white-clothed priest who was sitting on the lotus platform with low eyebrows, "Nan no Amitabha!" ”

The little novice also saluted, "Abbot." What can we do? Those traitors are the first to kill the monks when they see them! Let's run away! ”

"Run? Where to flee? The world is big, no place is a pure land, my Buddha is compassionate......" The abbot stood up, the yellow monk's robe was straight and not stained with dust, "A few days ago, I gave a lesson in front of the Buddha. It's a trigram. Feng Shui and saving the sloppy are all signs in the Book of Changes, "The abbot dialed the wick of the ever-bright lamp in front of the Buddha." The wick fluttered in the wind. Almost blown out by the wind. "It can be seen that the catastrophe of this temple is just around the corner."

"What then? Abbot, you must have a way to save us, there are hundreds of people in our temple. The little novice pulled the abbot's sleeve. "You said to the Bodhisattva, isn't the Bodhisattva with great compassion and great compassion to help the suffering?" You said to the Bodhisattva, wouldn't it be enough to transport us all to Putuo Mountain in the South China Sea? ”

"Idiot," the abbot shook his head and stroked the little novice's green head, "now no one can save us, only we can save us, you listen, as the thirty-sixth presiding officer of Hanshan Temple, I order you to take my Du Mu and the title deed of Hanshan Temple, set off overnight, go to Songjiang, go to Shanghai, wait until Jiangnan is pacified, the rebellion is leveled by the troops of the imperial court, you find the opportunity to rebuild Hanshan Temple," the abbot took out a package from the case and handed it to Xiao Shami, "Go quickly!" ”

Xiao Shami knelt down and kowtowed with tears in his eyes, took the package in the abbot's hand, and rushed out of the Guanyin Hall without looking back, the everlasting lamp in front of the hall was finally blown out by the cold wind, and the hall was dark, the abbot took a long breath, walked out of the temple door, and said coldly to the panicked monks outside, "Take the stick, let's fight with those rebels." ”

"Abbot," a middle-aged monk said hesitantly.

"There are compassionate bodhisattvas who purify sentient beings, and there are also angry eyes that sweep away the evils, meditate and chant sutras all day long, eat vegetarian and do not kill, and now it is time to learn the ability of the Dharma Protector Vajra!" The abbot has changed from a drooping old man with low eyebrows and kind eyes to a heroic warrior, not weaker than ordinary generals, "Ring the bell, and the little novices of the whole temple will be sent out, let them ask for more blessings, we," his eyebrows raised, and he looked around at the monks, "Let's fight with the long-haired thief!" ”

The bell rang immediately, and all the monks in front of the hall chanted the Buddha's name, "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south!" ”

Li Xiucheng heard the bell in his sleep, turned over, woke up a little, rubbed his eyes, and called the soldiers, "Where did the bell come from?" ”

The soldiers went out for a while, and then came into the tent to report, at this time Li Xiucheng had already put on his armor, "Zhongwang Chitose, it is the bell from the direction of Hanshan Temple, General Li sent a team of brothers to investigate, and found that the Qing demon originally stationed in Hanshan Temple sneaked away at night, General Li asked Zhongwang to show down, do you want to continue chasing?" ”

Li Xiucheng smiled dumbly, it turned out that he was overly nervous, "That's it, Zhang Yuliang is already timid, he must not dare to play any counteroffensive, he can't see clearly at night, tell General Li to come back." Li Xiucheng unbuttoned it, "Now that the people outside the city are gone, the people in the city should also die and stop fighting against the kingdom of heaven," turned over and lay down, "You also go to rest, you will suffer here tonight for a night, and I will take you into Suzhou City tomorrow!" ”

"Yes."

Xu Youren's face was pale, and he sat down on the Taishi chair, the pro-soldiers on the ground were covered with sweat, the lone lamp in the room was like beans, and the bell of Hanshan Temple rang melodiously, making the governor of Jiangsu's heart beat faster and faster, and his blood became colder and colder.

The pro-soldier knelt on the ground and waited for Xu Youren to speak, and after a long time, Xu Youren sighed, "You go and ask Zhu Zhentai to come over." ”

After Zhu Jun arrived in a hurry, Xu Youren's demeanor had already returned to his original state, and when he saw that Zhu Jun had already put on his entire court dress, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised, and then he didn't ask questions, but just told Zhu Jun the bad news directly: "Zhang Yuliang left quietly!" ”

Zhu Jun was stunned, but he was not too surprised, "Xiaguan's mouth is really spiritual," Zhu Jun smiled bitterly at Xu Youren: "Then there are no reinforcements at the moment, so we can only rely on ourselves in Suzhou." ”

"That's right," Xu Youren nodded, "Please come over, I want to invite Zhentai to sit in the city, and I will personally go to the city to supervise the battle tomorrow." ”

"You should serve your life," Zhu Jun bowed his hand, and the bell outside the city finally stopped, "Anyway, I can't sleep at night, my lord took out the good wine brought from Huzhou's house and invited the officials to have a drink, you can't drink it in the past, but now you have to taste it." ”

"At this time, you are still in the mood to drink," Xu Youren smiled bitterly, and waved his hand to let the old servant arrange the wine and food, "But it's okay, after today, who knows when you will drink in the future." ”

The old servant sent three white wine and a plate of dried shrimp from Huzhou, the two of them touched a cup, Xu Youren drank all the wine in the cup, and sighed with satisfaction, "Huh, in the end, the wine in the hometown is the most satisfying," and asked Zhu Jun to use the dried white shrimp brought by Huzhou, the two drank a few glasses without a word, Xu Youren said again, "Brother, we are the feudal officials, a high-ranking official of a province, deeply favored by the emperor, naturally responsible for defending the land, and we want to die with the city, but our family, but we don't need to donate our lives to the country, pity my children, my daughter is only five years old now, hey"

Zhu Jun couldn't hold back any longer, turned his head, and two lines of tears slipped down his eyes. (To be continued......)