Due to the lack of clear vision at night, Wen Yuan had no choice but to return to Qili Temple with two strong men, at this time, a fierce battle was nearing the end, five Maitreya murderers were captured alive, and another eight committed suicide or died of blood loss.

At first, a large wave of ignorant villagers who listened to the lecture were scared away and disappeared without a trace, and then the attendants of the king of Chu dispersed the remaining small part, who would have thought that there would be a small number of stubborn people who would not leave!

When Wen Yuan, who was full of evil spirits, stepped into the temple gate, he saw at a glance that although several elderly people were trembling and huddled together, they still endured horror and shouted at everyone: "Who are you?" Breaking into the temple gate to arrest and kill people is simply against the way of heaven and blasphemy against the Buddha! ”

"Shut up, why should you question the government's handling of the case?!" A certain guard stepped forward and kicked it, and raised the hilt of his knife to knock people, but was persuaded by Wen Yuan.

Seeing the old man's shabby clothes, white skin, and wrinkled faces, he suddenly felt compassion, pointed to the captured Maitreya disciples, picked up the kitchen knives they had used, shook his head and sighed: "Heavenly Dao? This is doing the right thing for heaven. Do you think they are good people? How could a lay person who truly believed in Buddhism bring weapons into the temple without permission? How can you not hesitate to fight us? ”

After a series of words, I saw several old men showing suspicious looks.

Wen Yuan simply struck while the iron was hot and persuaded him with Zen as an example: "What's more, don't talk about killing people, what about killing Buddhas?" Have you ever heard of "Quotations of Zen Master Rinzai Huizhao"? Inside and out, kill every Buddha, kill Buddha, kill ancestors...... When relatives kill relatives, they can be liberated. ”

There were also people who believed in Buddhism among the strong men who listened to Wen Yuan's explanation. This sentence was originally intended to encourage believers to boldly question the elders and the powerful, but I did not expect that it would be appropriate to use it in a different context.

After Wen Yuan persuaded the old man to faint in three or five words, he immediately drove them out, and then closed the temple door and began to whip, beat and torture the Maitreya disciples.

I want to know if they have other bases, if they have night talks in other states and counties, how many people are in □□the organization, and so on.

It's a pity that those people have a distorted firm faith, and they would rather die than give in, and they didn't get much useful information until dawn.

Wen Yuan already hated the group of heretics who disturbed his wife, but now he saw them delaying time, and seeing that he couldn't send most of them into the water to find fun after dawn, he was even more furious.

"You're not afraid of fighting, are you? Okay, let's change the way we play. It's you, how can you grow your hair as a Buddhist? Wen Yuan stood in the corridor, looked down at the scarred people with a cold face, and pointed out the two most unruly among them.

He then had his attendants wrap the former in a curtain torn from the main hall, while the latter shaved his head.

"Tie the pillar and go up, pour the oil of the lamp in front of the Buddha on him, and light it from under his feet." Wen Yuan pointed to the man wrapped in the tent curtain all over his body and gave an order, causing everyone to be terrified.

His face was calm or indifferent, and he looked at the latter and said slowly: "See, this is called lighting a sky lantern, right?" In fact, there is a kind of punishment in the Northland barbarians, which is also called lighting sky lanterns, but the method is completely different. ”

After that, he looked at the three plain men who were tied to the side, they were already watching their companions being burned at this moment, listening to his painful screams and roars, and seeing Wen Yuan looking at them, they were so frightened that they almost urinated.

Just as he was hesitating whether to confess, he heard the man with a neat and upright face point to the second person with great interest and continued: "Oh, drill a hole in the top of his head, pour lamp oil and light it. They are all burned to death in pain, one from the bottom up, the other from the top down, but I don't know who will ascend to Bliss first? ”

“…… I'm recruiting! I'm recruiting! Move! ”

The man whose fire had burned to the knee in an indescribable place still looked awe-inspiring with his head held high, but the one who was about to be bitten in the brain, and the cowardly who was so frightened, rushed to confess, lest he would be slow to suffer.

At this time, seeing that the sky was getting brighter, Wen Yuan left a small half of the people to record the confession, and took another thirty people to the cliff to search for his wife and brother, but unfortunately he did not find Xingxuan.

I rummaged through the mountains and fields, and only found some remnants of the large hemp net, and the traces of footsteps that could not distinguish the direction after covering up, presumably this was a designed escape route.

In desperation, Chinese Yuan had to lead the team back to Jiangdu City, reported to the King of Chu, and then handed over the matter to Yangzhou Thorn History.

The case of Maitreya's demonic delusion was not his part of the Dali Temple, and it was only because he shouldered the responsibility of supervising the imperial history that he intervened on his behalf, and after sorting out the context, it should be returned to the local officials for handling.

It wasn't until after dusk the next day that Wen Yuan had to go back to the post house, he was really tired physically and mentally, he should have fallen asleep in bed, but because he knew that Yan Bing was worried about Xingxuan, he also said a few words to his wife, and briefly explained the passage of the night.

“…… Ran away?! You're not mistaken, are you? What does he mean by that? When Grandpa was seriously injured and he disappeared, the case was also unclear and unclear, everyone thought he was dead, and he didn't go home alive! I finally met this time, why didn't he go with you? Yan Bing was confused when she heard this, and she couldn't understand what Xingxuan was thinking, if she said that she had amnesia, it wouldn't be like it!

"I guess he may have been coerced into committing a big crime when he was alone, and he couldn't go back to his home." Wen Yuan was half-lying on the bed with his lotus arm in his arms, talking about his understanding.

Yan Bing's eyes kicked and exclaimed, "Kill?!" ”

"Well, I think he makes the knife very sharp, not like a raw hand." Wen Yuan couldn't help but yawn as he spoke.

"Hey, you're sleepy, aren't you? Sleep, sleep, let's talk about it tomorrow! Yan Bing pulled him to lie down, covered the thin quilt herself, and she herself lay down with her hair loose, and when she closed her eyes, she couldn't help but ask, "Xingxu can't think about this?" ”

Wen Yuan, who was already half-asleep and half-awake, replied casually: "Yes, make a great contribution to let the saint pardon." ”

"That's good, that's good!" A glimmer of hope rose in Yan Bing's heart.

To tell the truth, since Xingxuan disappeared, Aunt Pan's withered appearance is really distressing.

Although when she and Li Fang were-for-tat and were eviled, Yan Bing also gloated.

But then things reversed, it turned out that Li Fang was the real murderer, and the enemy of the enemy should be a friend, although the two never made peace on the surface, but Aunt Pan also silently helped her educate (xun) Yanqing, which can be regarded as having some friendship.

Now that she has learned the news that Xingxu is still alive, Yan Bing naturally hopes that he can live well in the future, and he must not be killed as soon as he comes out or be beheaded in prison, then Aunt Pan will be hit even harder.

What's more, Yan Bing also hopes that Xingxuan can tell her about her grandfather's injury at the beginning......

The next day, after Wen Yuan had recuperated and analyzed the Xingxu incident with Yan Bing in detail, he talked about his trip to Suzhou a few days ago.

It is said that in the process of handling the case, I asked the people around me by the way, and found the person who was suspected of being the parents of the mother, who was indeed a wealthy local family, and the reputation was also quite good.

"Some of the characteristics of the lady are comparable to his lost daughter, and I think she is also similar to the old man's appearance. The other party said, let the person be sent directly, even if it is not her, she is willing to be raised as her own daughter, and she doesn't mind her past. Speaking of this, Wen Yuan couldn't help but smile on his face.

Yan Bing was immediately upset, pouted and asked coldly, "What are you laughing at?" I sympathize with her, and I'm glad that she can be happy? ”

Although after Li Manman's incident, she did feel a little emotional, and she could sigh for Cardamom, but she couldn't stand her always introverted husband smiling so brightly when he talked about other women.

"Oh, I'm really wronged, I'm laughing and finally being able to get rid of my burden! Are you happy to have her at home? Even if we don't go back, it's like there's an extra hostess. Wen Yuan stretched out his hand and scraped the bridge of Yan Bing's nose, laughing at her little vinegar jar.

Then he hurriedly asked Yan Bing to polish the ink for himself, first wrote an official document, and then handed a letter to the general's mansion by the way, asking his father to send someone to send cardamom over.

Half a month later, before Wen Yuan received a reply from home, he suddenly received an official letter from the ministry.

The content is a great event, because of the merit of the case, he was immediately promoted to the Dali Temple, and jumped from the eight-grade official to the sixth-grade in one fell swoop!

Si Zhi is the top boss of the evaluator, and he also shoulders the duty of inspecting the prefectures and counties to correct unjust and wrongful cases. The official letter clearly ordered him to go to various counties along the way to investigate whether he had been wrongfully imprisoned - because the weather had been dry and rainless recently, he needed to solve the unjust case and pray for God's blessing.

Hearing this explanation, Yan Bing sneered, as slow as she noticed the cattiness in it, and pondered: "Hmm, in fact, this appointment ...... My father did it so that we could go back to Beijing slowly, right? ”

So as not to be in a hurry, I am more than three months pregnant, and I can just go on the road in the second trimester, and I spend 100 days to return to Beijing just in the third trimester to return home to raise the baby.

In any case, a promotion and salary increase are a good thing, and a bright and bright future lies ahead!