fifth form

After seeing the performance of Kong Zhong and others in Yangling, Zhang Xuezhou felt that he should not have too much confidence in this group of people.

Kong Anguo and Du Wencai failed to rescue them, but instead helped themselves in. This may even involve Rong Tianding and Yi Yan.

"There are monks here in Yangling performing rituals to drive away evil spirits. What are Shen Peigong and his gang doing here?"

Under normal circumstances, Zhang Xuezhou felt that Shen Peigong should have dug a secret tunnel in Chang'an City, and then led to the location where he needed to attack and kill his opponent by surprise.

But Shen Peigong and others did not cause trouble in Chang'an City. Instead, they ran to the village next to Yangling.

Zhang Xuezhou felt that Yangling was a high-risk area and it was not suitable to stay in such a place for a long time, let alone dig holes.

It's just that nothing Zhang Xuezhou said could change the decisions of others. If he was asked to fish out Rong Tianding and others, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't do it.

His Yang soul drifted away from the thatched cottage where Shen Peigong was.

Having been discovered once in the Confucius Temple, Zhang Xuezhou already knew how to keep a certain safe distance from great practitioners like Shen Peigong.

His yang soul was floating, and he followed Rong Tianding into the thatched kitchen in the distance.

"Cousin, how did you end up here?"

Rong Tianding can eat, but Rong Tianding can also cook.

Coming from a family of butchers, Rong Tianding is good at butchering pigs and making good butchered dishes.

Zhang Xuezhou had been providing food to Zhang Xuezhou, but Zhang Xuezhou did not expect that Rong Tianding would still do this after he was captured.

"The acupuncture woman said she would take me to a good place to fish for treasures, but I didn't expect it to be such a good place!"

Suddenly hearing Zhang Xuezhou's voice, Rong Tianding did not show any surprise. He slapped the spatula loudly and quickly communicated in a low voice.

"I'm a cook now, and the acupuncture woman is helping old Master Shen recuperate over there. We're not being abused, but if we want to leave, we can't. There are people guarding us over there to prevent us from passing through," Rong Tianding said.

"I can't lure you away now, I'll look for another chance at night!"

Zhang Xuezhou's ability to fight hard is very weak, but he is quite capable in escaping.

As long as he can locate Rong Tianding, he can quickly abduct people after using his demon wings.

But Zhang Xuezhou's ability was somewhat shady, so he could only wait until dark.

He whispered several times, and there were already inquiries coming from outside the kitchen.

"I'm in the Shaguo. Only when the Shaguo is clean can we make good pork. You can eat it comfortably in this cold weather!"

Rong Tianding replied to the previous sentence, and was told to keep his voice down again, so the questioning voice faded away.

"Cousin?"

When Rong Tianding shouted again, but there was no response from Zhang Xuezhou, he knew that Zhang Xuezhou had already run away quickly.

He shook the pot and started cooking with peace of mind.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Rong Tianding heard a hand holding a porcelain bottle coming from the window of the thatched cottage, and Zhang Xuezhou's voice came over in a low voice.

"Add this to the meal tonight and give them all a drink!"

As soon as the small porcelain bottle fell into Rong Tianding's hand, the hand had quickly dimmed.

"That one whose name likes to have children, is our food ready?"

“I’ll be right soon!”

Rong Tianding quickly stuffed the porcelain bottle into his clothes and replied outside.

"Hurry up, it's too cold to work in this weather. You need to eat more!"

The complaining voice was made by Ye Siqian.

A large group of people gathered here, everyone wanted to eat and drink, and Rong Tianding almost never stopped while cutting meat and cooking fire.

When Rong Tianding came out of the thatched house carrying a basin of meat, he saw Ye Siqian running over.

"It's so cold down there that I'm shivering, and it's extremely difficult to dig. It's almost like digging through rocks. Setting up traps in the imperial mausoleum has never been so hard in the past!" "There's nothing we can do if we hit the frozen soil, and we're digging The big hole is not the small hole we walked through. If we go through it early and find the previous trap hole, we have completed the task!"

Kong Zhong's voice came again, and then Du Wencai and others asked for something to eat.

"Ahem, as long as you clear the way to Yangling, this assignment will be completed!"

Shen Peigong coughed twice, obviously not satisfied with this cold place.

He pulled the charcoal in front of him and stretched out his hand to warm himself.

The great monk is very cold-resistant, but it was really uncomfortable to be so cold for more than ten days, and Shen Peigong felt that the land in Yangling seemed to be a little unusually cold, which made the coughing problem caused by his battle with Dong Zhongshu relapse.

The passage is about to be opened, and the new emperor, the empress dowager, the king of Huainan and others will appear at the Dharma assembly one after another. This is a good opportunity for him to take action.

Compared with breaking into the palace, this kind of regional fighting is undoubtedly safer and can also reduce the opponent's reliance on geographical factors.

He agreed to Kong Zhong's words and motioned to everyone to finish the matter quickly and it would be over.

"Of course I can trust Duke Shen's words!"

Kong Zhong muttered back, and he looked helplessly at Kong Anguo, who was sitting beside Shen Peigong.

If his son hadn't been here, he would have dug several holes and locked everyone in the underground passage after Shen Peigong and others entered.

He went to the palace to confess once, and Kong Zhong didn't mind confessing a second time.

After all, someone dug up His Majesty's ancestral grave last time, and this time they were driven to dig His Majesty's ancestral grave. This kind of thing would be beheading.

Kong Zhong is still more concerned about this aspect.

He had no choice but to eat meat to replenish his body's needs.

After two kilograms of pork and half a kilogram of millet cakes were eaten, Kong Zhong took another sip of hot soup, which prompted Ye Siqian and others to jump back not far behind Shen Peigong.

"Teacher, you are going against the grain at this time. Do you have to do this?"

Only Kong Aiguo, Yi Yan, and Shen Peigong were left in the thatched house. Thinking of his father's helpless eyes when he looked over, Kong Anguo inevitably asked boldly.

"What is rebellion?" Shen Peigong asked.

"To go against is to go against the rules of the court," Kong Anguo replied.

"Is it true that Liu Bang and Xiang Yu defeated Xianyang?" Shen Peigong asked again.

"Qin II is immoral, so what they do is certainly not disobedient," Kong Anguo replied with a blushing face.

"But in the eyes of the Qin Dynasty at that time, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were traitors." Shen Pei said: "That was the most orthodox court at that time. The court classified Liu Bang and Xiang Yu as rebellious officials and traitors, but why are they not recognized as traitors by you? You Think about it carefully, and then think about what this inversion is!"

Shen Peigong's few words made it difficult for Kong Anguo to refute.

In the education he received, any anti-dynasty behavior was rebellion.

But Shen Peigong's well-founded words made Kong Anguo unable to refute.

"Success is a king, failure is a bandit, and victory is justice!"

Shen Peigong thought silently in his heart.

For a monk with weak cultivation like Kong Anguo, everything is bigger than the king's law and axioms, and his cognition will be limited to a certain range.

But the higher the cultivation level, when one has the same power as those who enjoy power, there will be a conflict in cognition.

Why do others have it but we don’t? Why do they have to be controlled when others are superior? Why do they need to abide by their duties and be diligent and frugal while others enjoy luxury? Why do those people enjoy it but need countless people to shed their blood...

If you want to find reasons, Shen Peigong also has millions of them in his mind.

When you have enough reasons in your mind, everything you do will tend to be fair in your own mind.

This kind of fairness is no longer determined by the court, but measured in their own hearts.

Shen Peigong didn't want to rebel against anyone, he just wanted to have fairness between the Confucianists and the imperial court, instead of using them as pawns and dying in frustration like Zhao Wan and Wang Zang.