Chapter 447: Burning

In the second half of the night, He came in panting and said, "Sisters, okay, okay, the thief is bald and dead." ”

Zhang Luanchui rolled over and asked, "How did you die?" Could it be that he died of his injuries? ”

"No, no." He raised his hand and wiped the black ash on his face, "He was burned alive, I went out to inquire in his room before, and Fayun of Wutai Mountain was drawing talismans in the outhouse, who knew that he was chanting a spell and holding a talisman to burn on the candle, and suddenly his feet were unstable and he took a step forward, and his sleeves dragged the wax table down, and the fire burned his clothes." Fayun hurriedly shook his body, but the fire shook more and more, and the robe burned into more than a dozen sections, flying and dancing, burning wherever it touched. ”

Speaking of this, He Shi said a little strangely: "Somehow a beam fell from his head, which happened to hit Fayun, who was like a burning man, and when he screamed and fell, a piece of fire happened to fly out, and it fell on the gauze tent of Song'an, leading to the top of the bed, and the tent was burned on all sides, and a Song'an was wrapped in it and screamed, and it was burned alive, and that Fayun was lying on the ground, and it had become a charcoal.

At that time, two bald asses cried out to death, and a fire broke out in the house, and it was red on all sides. I waited until the fire penetrated the house, and then I called people everywhere, who knew that in the meditation room in the east and west, those monks were like dead people, and they couldn't wake up anymore. ”

Liu's sister-in-law was overjoyed, and repeatedly scolded that these thieves and monks deserved to be burned to death, while Zhang Luanchui and Li Su'e tacitly glanced at each other, and both said that this was the style of the governor who did not drag the mud and water in everything, and there was no doubt how many colleagues secretly put down the monks, and it was no less than Ling Chi for these wicked people to be burned to death.

It is also to cover up the ugliness of the imperial court, after all, Songan and Fayun are both so-called Taoist monks canonized by the saints, in fact, even if the crime is exposed as a monk, it is impossible to be executed by Ling Chi.

The fire outside is getting stronger and stronger, and more than a dozen meditation rooms in the west are burning, and seeing that it is about to burn over the wall to the main hall, there are people in the distance around. People in the vicinity came to put out the fire, and some officers and soldiers pushed the water dragon on the island to put out the fire, but the problem was that the wooden structure of the building was difficult to extinguish once the fire started.

The monks on patrol disappeared without a trace, and Sister-in-law Liu and Li Su'e stepped out of the door together, looking up, the red light in the sky and the fire on the wall reflected each other, like the sunset after the rain, bright and dazzling, sparks sprayed everywhere, and thick smoke billowed out.

In the southeast corner, there are people fighting up and down. The crowd was dumbfounded, and several women came out of the cellar and screamed in fright.

He hurriedly stopped and shouted, "What time is this, is it interesting to watch if you don't want to run for your life?" ”

The wind outside roared angrily, the fire became tighter, and a tongue of fire soared high, frightening the women to retreat back to the house in a hurry, and Sister-in-law Liu walked at the rear. Suddenly, I saw a figure outside the wall, flying to and fro, galloping on the roof.

Several women looked up together, and the man was holding a long dick in one hand. In one hand he carried a sword.

I heard a bang on the roof, Gege shook, and then the curtain was pierced by the sword, and it was torn apart in an instant. It fell straight to the table in the middle, and with a few clicks, the teacup fell to the ground and shattered.

The man jumped in. Zhang Luanchui saw the appearance of the person who came clearly, and shouted, "My cousin is here." ”

The person who came was really Xu Hao, and he breathed a sigh of relief and said to them: "Get out quickly, now there is only a passage left in the northeast."

When all the women came out together, Xu Hao followed the second daughter into the cellar and released the locked woman, braving the fire on both sides and stumbling to the outer wall.

Xu Hao shot open the lock on the corner door, and the women rushed out one after another, and they couldn't help but laugh for the rest of their lives.

The fire will soon burn the temple to the ground, and people are running around to put out the fire, and Liu's sister-in-law said, "Everyone go home with me first." ”

Taking advantage of the chaos, a group of women ran to the shore and found a painting boat that I don't know whose house, most of the women in Jiangnan knew how to operate the boat, and sailed to the other side with all hands and feet.

Xu Hao looked at the young woman who gave orders, her face was very gorgeous and dignified, and her appearance was not slightly worse than Zhang Luanchui and Li Su'e, although other women also had a bit of beauty, there was undoubtedly a world of difference compared to these three.

Liu's family is located on the street, and the women who have survived the robbery after entering the house are sitting around eating tea, and Liu's sister-in-law and He are busy fetching water to entertain everyone.

When it came to the wax platform, a woman said: "This is strange, the wax table weighs more than 40 pounds, how can you lift it?" ”

Xu Hao was taken aback, he had never heard of Jinyiwei's martial arts so magical! How can it be?

Zhang Luan couldn't stop laughing and said: "Who cared about the severity at that time, anyway, as soon as the death force was thrown, he flew out, just poking the thief's bald head into a big hole, and the blood flowed away like a rat. ”

Xu Hao secretly said that you are really fierce! I've heard of this kind of thing, and people can often realize their great potential in times of emergency.

Sister-in-law Liu brought a big teapot and a large plate of rice cakes, and said, "It's leftover during the day, and the ladies will use some indiscriminately, and they will get some to eat when their husbands come back." Look at the fire in the temple, it has not been extinguished by this time, and I don't know how many people have burned. ”

Xu Hao picked up a piece of cake and took a bite, walked to the window and looked over, Zhang Luanchui walked over and whispered, "But the adult ordered it?" ”

Xu Hao smiled and acquiesced, and said later: "The damned are all dead, and the unworthy ones are not dead, it depends on the next creation, let's wait and see what happens." ”

Zhang Luanchui looked a little listless, although he found the imprisoned woman, but this credit is really watery, in the end, even if he doesn't have himself, the governor can still save people.

Xu Hao knows his subordinates very well, and the two of them are his descendants, both of whom were born in the Qinglou of Qinhuai River, and said: "Without the two of you to guide the way, it would not be so smooth, and I will make a contribution!" ”

dealt with the loyal subordinates, Xu Hao didn't say that in addition to the two of them, dozens of secret butterflies were used successively, some pretended to be pilgrims, some pretended to sell vegetables, etc., and inquired about secret news in the circle of noble women, as well as plundered monks to torture to extract confessions, so many prongs, in a short period of time, Zhaoqing Temple was investigated, and the two daughters actually only played a role in attracting the attention of Song'an

Someone knocked on the door outside, He went over to open it, Liu Dalang walked in with half wet and half burnt clothes, and saw a group of women crowded at home, somehow.

Liu's sister-in-law ran out and stopped him crying, Liu Dalang was pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly asked where he had been these days?

Sister-in-law Liu recounted the headless and brainless mixture of the before and after, and He helped her swear to death. Several times I wanted to find a short view, and I said that I was defending day and night.

Xu Hao watched coldly from the side, seeing that Liu Dalang trusted his wife very much, and his neighbor He testified, his suspicions seemed to be gone.

Liu Dalang is burly about twenty-three or four years old, his face looks very much like an ancient knight, and standing with his wife gives people the feeling that he is a talented woman, and when he heard his wife say that Xu Hao saved his life, he rushed over and knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Zhang Luanchui and Li Su'e looked at each other and smiled, feeling the kindness of Liu's sister-in-law. I also appreciate Liu Dalang's generosity towards his wife, and he said that the couple made a living by selling cakes, and this time they came to help him and his wife say some good things.

Xu Hao sensed their thoughts and praised: "What a talent, it goes without saying that people are strong and strong, but can they be martial arts?" ”

Liu Dalang said: "The villain's family is poor and thin. Where is the money to practice martial arts. ”

Xu Hao said: "Meeting is fate, wait for me to recommend you to go to the military academy, learn the art of martial arts, and contribute to the country in the future." It's not difficult for a cute son to become a wife. ”

Liu Dalang didn't know his details, and said suspiciously: "Meng Xianggong is wrong to love!" The villain has no such blessings, everyone rests for the time being, and I will go and clean up the meal. ”

After saying that, he ran to the kitchen and washed the rice clean. Liu's sister-in-law lit a fire to burn firewood, and the couple cooked the rice and stir-fried together.

Xu Hao walked out of the house and saw that there were two entrances before and after Liu's house. As soon as the first person entered the east room, there was an empty small door to enter and exit, the front east half of the room was placed with a stone case for making cakes, a steamer was neatly stacked on a stove, the north was the main entrance, the outside was a pastry shop, and the back half of the east room was placed with a stone mill, and some bricks and lime were piled on the ground.

In the western half of the room, a jumping table is placed against the wall, on which an oil lamp is lit, and a couplet is pasted on the wall.

In the middle, hang a painting of Danfeng Chaoyang, with four long windows and two short windows to the south. Outside the window, to the east is the stove room, planted with a few mulberry trees, the wellhead is full of water, and a carbon basket is pressed under the eaves of the short window; The ground to the west was covered with brick ash, and the lid of a sauce jar was broken, and it was a very ordinary people's house.

Xu Hao looked at it for a while and walked into the house, Zhang Luanchui quietly signaled to Sister-in-law Liu that it was a nobleman, Sister-in-law Liu wiped her hands clean, came in and handed out a chair, and said embarrassedly: "The family is poor, and all the guys have been sold, only this chair is left, son, please sit down, if the slave family is not rescued by the father-in-law, they will be burned to death by this fire." ”

Liu Dalang came in with food, and when he heard the words, he said: "The water dragon that caught fire in the official mansion before was useless, and the fire dragon on the shore couldn't be transported for a while, so the government ordered that if one person was rescued, five taels of silver would be rewarded, and the villain would follow him to save people."

Who wants to go in with the firefighters desperately to rescue, everyone pulls the house and tears the house, splashes water and cuts off the wind, there are women hidden everywhere in the temple, they are all burned out at night, and they are all naked in disheveled clothes.

Not to mention that Song'an died the worst, the strange thing is that forty or fifty monks and the abbot of the Miaoxiang Zen Master, were burned to death, only a sick old monk in his eighties and six or seven small novices ran out, the big guys all said that this was the will of heaven, and hated this group of thieves for harboring women, and they didn't have the strength to come out. ”

Sister-in-law Liu sighed: "It's good that a Zhaoqing Temple has turned into ashes, if all the temples in the world are like this, I really hope that God has eyes and burns them all clean." It's a pity that the temple must be rebuilt after it is burned down, and it will suffer these foolish men and foolish women again, and pay for these traitorous monks. ”

Xu Hao smiled, whether to build a temple or not is not something that the imperial court can lead, it can't be stopped for a while, and it probably can't overturn a boatload of people with a rod, Buddhism is the most prosperous in China, and there are the most villains who naturally hide dirt and dirt.

Generally speaking, the people need spiritual faith after all, and although most temples have the disadvantages of enclosing land and conniving at the people to become monks, they can abide by the law in the end, and they can be restrained for a long time.

It is impossible for China to ban all religions, and it is in charge of what the people believe. Therefore, it is enough to have scholars who criticize Buddhism from time to time, and the role of scholars in this regard is very great, and temples are often the source of all evil in their writings.

As long as the Chinese believe in their ancestors, it is impossible for the whole people to believe in a certain religion, which is the wisdom left by the ancestors to future generations, and it is also a civilization derived from the bones of the Chinese, which will never disappear because of various movements, as long as the majority of people remain calm.

There is a saying in China that a little cleverness also has great wisdom. Things in the world can't go to extremes, and if you go to extremes, it's easy to have chaos, Xu Hao agrees with the traditional golden mean.

Liu Dalang and his wife were very realistic, and took out all the ingredients at home, a plate of boiled chicken, a plate of fried eggs, a plate of salted vegetables, and a plate of clear sauce on each table.

Xu Hao had the heart to raise the couple, left a hundred taels of silver and instructed Liu Dalang to close the store for two days, ask the women for their addresses, and send them home separately.

Nowadays, many families inevitably see that women do not go home for many days, and they will definitely make trouble on the grounds of corrupting the door, and they will be forced to die at the least, so Xu Hao also made a plan, and homeless women will have a place to go. In the end, I honestly live on my hands, or choose to go to the land of fireworks to lie down comfortably to make money, then let it stay.

Two days later, Li Su'e came to urgently ask for a meeting, saying that something had happened to the Liu family, and when Xu Hao rode to Mochou Lake, he saw many people surrounding the door of Liu's house.

Walking to the door, the courtyard was also crowded with people, three or four officials in green clothes, locked the iron rope to Liu Dalang, and pulled it away.

Sister-in-law Liu cried and screamed in the back, shouting that my husband and wife were wronged, Xu Hao sneered in his heart, and motioned for Li Dong to greet him. (To be continued......)