The heavens start with Buddhist disciples

Chapter 25 Meteor Pavilion

The next day, after morning class, Hongye found Ji Ran who had just finished practicing boxing.

Hongye said: "Uncle, I have two opinions about yesterday's letter. First, uncle said yesterday that information that is critical and can affect your decision must be confirmed through credible channels, so the so-called Meteor Pavilion The information about the location in Luoyang is actually worthy of discussion. "

Hong Ye paused and said, "The second thing is that maybe Jiang Manhong discovered something after meeting Luoyang Ling, or maybe she didn't discover anything."

Ji Ran glanced at Hongye and said, "You don't have to be taboo about anything if I let you talk about your ideas. You can find problems, how come a person as smart as Jiang Manhong can't find them?"

Hearing this, Hongye said: "Combined the two letters and related them. Both of them have something they want from Uncle Master. The disciple simply compared the paper and ink of the two letters. The paper was different but the ink was the same." It's a fine Hui ink with a similar fragrance, so it should come from the same ink shop."

Ji Ran nodded and said, "What else did you see?"

Hongye shook her head.

"Uncle Master will teach you another lesson today. Do you think Jiang Manhong wrote this letter before meeting Luoyang Ling, or after?" Ji Ran asked.

"Of course it was later. If it was before, how could he be sure that Meteor Pavilion would be located in Luoyang, and how could he happen to use the same Hui ink as Luoyang Ling. The so-called one or two Hui ink and one tael of gold, Luoyang Ling was not rich enough to buy Hui ink for daily use. ." Hongye replied.

"So do you think Shaolin generally refers to Southern Shaolin or Northern Shaolin?" Ji Ran continued to ask.

"Although both North and South Shaolin are Shaolin, when it comes to Shaolin in the world, Northern Shaolin is generally more prestigious. So what Uncle Master means is that if Jiang Manhong simply wants to take advantage of the power of Shaolin, she should write or visit Northern Shaolin instead of sending a letter Come to Southern Shaolin." Hongye said.

Ji Ran said: "If she wants to lure Shaolin to the north, she must visit in person, because with her status, she is not qualified to kill Abbot Sanzang with just one letter. We have not received any news, and there are no relevant rumors in the world, so then It means she didn’t meet Abbot Sanzang.”

Ji Ran continued to ask: "So, if you are Jiang Manhong, why did you write this letter and specially sent Qin Ge to deliver it to me?"

Hongye shook his head this time, saying that he hadn't figured it out yet.

Ji Ran said: "This woman is very scheming. This letter actually contains a threat in the secret."

Hongye was shocked when he heard the words. He didn't think about the threat just now, but only thought about what Jiang Manhong wanted to do with the relationship between Luoyang Ling and his uncle, but he never thought it was a threat.

Ji Ran said again: "Do you think the threat is all? If I don't confirm Lao Bedbug's attitude myself and agree with Jiang Manhong, but it happens that Lao Bedbug doesn't agree with her, what do you think will happen?"

"If the old bug agrees for some reason, but doesn't want us to participate, what do you think would happen if we agreed in this situation?"

"What if the old bug agrees willingly, but we don't?"

Hongye was already sweating profusely, this was clearly another attempt to sow discord.A simple letter kills three birds with one stone. Regardless of whether we agree or not, it seems that Jiang Manhong has no loss at all, but we are the only ones who are hurt.

Ji Ran continued: "She can assign Qin Ge to deliver the letter. On the one hand, she wants to prove or imply that we, the old bed bug, have agreed. On the other hand, she also wants to use Qin Ge to threaten me or the old bed bug. In the past few years, I often took him with me when I traveled around the world. , this may have caused Jiang Manhong to misunderstand something."

Finally, Ji Ran said: "So, you still have a lot to learn."

Ji Ran said quietly: "Ignore Jiang Manhong, contact the seven major sects of Jianghu, including Huashan, Emei, Wudang, Shenshuigong, etc., and say that our Shaolin, no matter north or south, is just a Buddhist temple."

"Also, don't fall behind in your martial arts. Let me see how your kung fu is going. There are also North and South Shaolin Zen seminars in five years. You can go this time."

For the next week, Ji Ran was pointing and teaching Hongye. Although Hongye had a master, Master Wuyan, Hongye's master, was also happy for Ji Ran to teach his disciples.After all, Ji Ran is the number one master in the temple and a ranked master in the world.

Hongye found that his master uncle had changed, whether he taught him how to deal with Jiang Manhong last time or the guidance he gave him recently.

The most important thing is that last time I asked myself to participate in a Zen seminar, if before, my uncle would have said: "Hongye, my uncle has discovered something interesting and meaningful and plans to let you do it. What do you think?"

But this time, the uncle used a commanding tone directly, and since the uncle Tianfeng left, the uncle has not smiled.

One month later, Luoyang.Recently, a ranger came to Luoyang City.Carrying a long sword on his back, he is carefree and carefree, and loves drinking and painting.

However, this knight-errant was not very good at martial arts or painting, but he went to Luoyang Academy to learn painting from the teachers there every day.She also often shamelessly drags her husband to drink, which annoys the gentlemen very much.

You asked this knight-errant what his name was, and he said his name was Linghu Chong. He was a hermit at Hengshan Mountain in the North Mountains, but his hometown was from Shengjing, outside the Pass.

That's right, this "Linghu Chong" was Ji Ran's disguise after she shrank her bones.Ever since Ji Ran's indestructible physique and spiritual skills were perfected, his energy and spirit were restrained, even if he was an innate master, he might not be able to see Ji Ran's details.

Everyone in the world knows that Ji Ran is not good with swords and doesn't like wine, but he insists on using a sword and drinking alcohol.

No one will think about what you "like" because of what you don't like the most.Just such a second-rate alcoholic swordsman settled in Luoyang City.

Linghu Chong rented a small yard next to Luoyang Academy. He raised many chickens. In addition to domestic chickens, there were also several pheasants he caught from the mountains and forests outside the city.It should be said that this pheasant does look a bit like the legendary phoenix.

Linghu Chong took the chicken he painted to the academy every day to ask his teacher for advice on how to draw a good image and how to draw well.

Ji Ran was also helpless. White Peacock Golden Old Lady said that the caravan would need to go to the sea or Dali to have a chance to meet him.

Blue peacocks are very easy, how about getting two blue peacocks for Ji Ran first.Ji Ran thought about it and decided to forget it. Anyway, it was just for the sake of filling up the Xiantian Qi in the future, which would be used when practicing totem exterior scenes.

Now he is still far away from the half-step master realm where he is full of innate true energy.Let’s practice painting skills first.

In addition to not doing morning and evening classes, he practiced boxing and sword every day, painted and raised chickens, and went to the backyard of the county government every seven days to give two old people to sort out the meridians and warm up the body.The days passed were comfortable and leisurely.

But one thing that makes Ji Ran a little unhappy is that the Temple of Duke Zhou in the city that Ji Ran used to go to is gone.

The Zhougong Temple was given to Jiang Manhong by the county magistrate. Jiang Manhong got a batch of silver from somewhere and changed the Zhougong Temple into Meteor Pavilion. The former Wenchang Pavilion also had three gilded characters "Meteor Pavilion" on it. It is said that it is still the same today. The emperor's imperial pen.

There are gradually more and more people on the street, but fights and the use of force to violate the ban are becoming less and less. It seems that the establishment of Meteor Pavilion has played a great role in the stability of the place.

Unfortunately, secretly, in the villages around Luoyang, there have been more casual affairs recently, and many of them are girls who have not yet been married, and the cause of death is the same, they died of illness.

Ji Ran clearly remembered that in Jinjia Village outside the city, there was a girl named Jinyuan. She sang well and played the piano well. She was also very beautiful and had a sweet smile.It is known as one of the two flowers of Jinjiacun.

It is said that the ancestor of the Jin family was a court musician, and he lived here because of party disputes.

But last time Ji Ran went to the mountains to catch pheasants and stayed overnight in Jinjia Village, he was told that Miss Jinyuan was dead.If you get sick, you will die in a few days.

Ban Yue Ji Ran has been living in Jinjia Village since then, pretending to go hunting in the mountains during the day, but actually hiding in secret to see if any strangers or suspicious people enter Jinjia Village.

Sure enough, at night, a swordsman with extraordinary skills sneaked into the home of Jinlian, another flower in Jinjia Village.It turns out that it is such a simple thing to cause a woman to die suddenly.A tube of cigarettes, a bottle of aphrodisiacs, and a lustful man who knows kung fu.

Ji Ran did not use all her strength to act like Linghu Chong.So Ji Ran threw a stone into Jinlian's courtyard, startling the flower picker and interrupting his "casting" progress.

Then he quickly approached with his sword.

The flower picker shouted: "Look at the knife!" He slashed at Ji Ran with his knife.

Ji Ran dodged sideways and stabbed him with the sword.As soon as the sword was released, there was a steady flow of follow-up, and the sword technique was light and agile. Some of the moves used were from the soul-stirring Dajiu style, and some were learned from the juniors from the Zhongyuan Escort Agency.

Ji Ran understood the essence of swordsmanship in the eight words "Wandering through the clouds and flowing water, wherever you want" on Mount Hua. Although his swordsmanship is not as good as that of famous swordsmen such as Hua Zhenzhen and Gao Yanan, it is still top-notch.Otherwise, I wouldn’t be playing a sword-wielding charlatan this time.

Writhing and rolling, he fought with the flower-picking thief for more than a hundred moves.

Suddenly the flower picker shouted loudly and raised his knife to strike straight at him. Seeing that Ji Ran could not dodge, he shook his hand and pointed the long knife at his chest.

The flower picker cuts his sword back.There was a clang, and the swords met. The flower picker did not wait for Ji Ran to draw his sword, let go of his single sword, jumped forward, and grabbed Ji Ran's throat with both hands.

Ji Ran narrowly avoided this catch with an iron plate bridge, and at the same time lowered his waist, he raised his sword.The flower-picking thief couldn't use his strength in the air. When he saw the light of the sword, he twisted his waist and landed to the left while spinning.

After landing, he rolled twice and picked up the single sword and continued to confront Ji Ran.

At this time, Jin Lian's family had already been hiding in the room, shivering and not daring to make any sound.

This flower-picking thief's martial arts are not bad, he is at the top level in the world, and I don't know which sect he is from.Ji Ran was thinking about whether to interrogate him after capturing him or pretend to be injured.

Before he could speak, the flower-picking thief said: "I am Tian Er, the deputy master of Feng Hall, under the jurisdiction of the Four Halls of Wind, Thunder, Water and Fire under Lord Liuxing. Who are you? Why did you sneak into the villagers' homes late at night? Do you want to attack their daughters? ?”

Ji Ran narrowed her eyes. She wanted to spare his life and interrogate him carefully, but she didn't expect that not only would he reveal his true identity, but he would also beat him up.Forget it, just kill him if you encounter him.

After the flower picker reported his home, he found that Ji Ran had not moved for a long time. He thought that Ji Ran was afraid of Meteor Pavilion. Although he was proud, he did not relax his vigilance.

Unfortunately, no matter how vigilant he was, he only saw a flash of sword light, but his head was already separated.

Ji Ran picked up the body and head on the ground, turned around and entered the dense forest. After camouflaging the wounds, he threw the man directly into the forest.However, Ji Ran threw the head into Zhougong Temple, which is now the Meteor Pavilion.

Sure enough, on the second day, the atmosphere in Luoyang City became a lot more tense.The officers and soldiers patrolling the streets, as well as the usually affable people in the world, all became serious.The inspections entering and exiting the city are extremely strict.It is said that the county magistrate also arrested two traitors who were smuggling iron weapons.

But these have nothing to do with Ji Ran. After killing that shitty deputy hall master of Feng Hall, Ji Ran continued to practice swordsmanship and draw pheasants every day, and occasionally went to the tavern to buy two altars of Dukang.Du Kang is the only one who can relieve worries.

Unfortunately, on the third day after the death of the deputy head of Nafeng Hall, the county government tried the Jinlian family of Jinjia Village, and the charge turned out to be for assaulting and killing county soldiers.It turns out that all second-rate and above warriors in Meteor Pavilion were registered as soldiers by the Luoyang County Magistrate and Luoyang County Lieutenant.

One is to facilitate statistics and management.

Second, you can get some military pay from the imperial court.After all, Jianghu people don't understand that every soldier and the imperial court will issue Xiangyin regularly.

Seeing this scene, Ji Ran knew.The Luoyang county magistrate is already under Jiang Manhong's control. After all, Wei Xiang was once a good official praised by all the people, and he was also loved by the people when he came last time.

This kind of disregard for human life should not be his style now.Maybe he was being coerced, maybe he had changed.

This matter happened because of his own actions. Although his original intention was to protect the golden lotus, there was absolutely no reason for him to let others take the blame.

So Ji Ran pretended to be Linghu Chong and charged into Meteor Pavilion with his sword.

Later, storytellers in Luoyang restaurants often told another story: Linghu rushes into the meteor with his sword alone.

This story tells about a swordsman named Linghu Chong who broke into Meteor Pavilion with his sword alone. He first destroyed the four halls of Meteor Pavilion, including wind, thunder, water and fire, and then entered the main building of Meteor Pavilion. During this period, Linghu Chong was hit by 24 knives in total and never fell down.

Finally, it is said that Chu Liuxiang, the master of Meteor Pavilion, was moved by Linghu Chong's perseverance and personally diagnosed and treated him, and asked him the reason for breaking into the pavilion.

It turned out that it was Tian Er, the deputy head of Nafeng Hall, who once sneaked into the house of Miss Jinlian in Jinjia Village at night and tried to pick flowers, but was caught by Linghu Chong.So Linghu Chong fought with Tian Er for [-] rounds, and finally killed Tian Er.

After learning Tian Er's identity, Linghu Chong threw Tian Er's head into Meteor Pavilion, intending to warn those criminals and the top management of Meteor Pavilion to pay attention to the illegal behavior of his subordinates.

It's a pity that the leader of Fengtang, Tian Da, threatens the county magistrate indiscriminately.Forcing Jin Lian's family to plead guilty to the law to demonstrate the majesty of Meteor Pavilion.

In the end, Chu Xiangshuai found out the truth, cleared Jinlian's family, and gave him a hundred taels of silver as compensation.

Because Master Linghu Chong had a blue belt with a thin waist at that time, the Law Enforcement Hall was later established in Meteor Pavilion. All the members of the Law Enforcement Hall were all blue belts with a thin waist, and some even called them the Blue Belt Army.

"What happened next? Did Mr. Linghu join the Meteor Pavilion and become the leader of the Blue Ribbon Army?" asked a young girl who was fascinated.

The storyteller said: "Yes, from then on, Chu Xiangshuai personally appointed Ling Huchong as the head of the Law Enforcement Hall and took charge of the Blue Ribbon Army."

After hearing this, the woman's eyes were filled with fascination and longing.She is the rescued Golden Lotus.Jin Lian's family was able to save their lives after hearing from people in the county government that a knight-errant named Linghu Chong helped find out the truth.Jin Lian always wanted to thank Linghu Chong in person for saving her family.

It's a pity that Jin Lian has always lived in Jinjia Village and rarely goes to the city.When I went to the city today and heard a storyteller telling the story of Linghu Chong, I realized that he actually saved me twice.

Although Ji Ran's behavior seems to be to maintain the operation of Meteor Pavilion and to protect the surrounding people from being disturbed by Jianghu.In fact, Ji Ran just relieved the pressure on the Luoyang County Magistrate, so that the two old people could live more smoothly in their later years.

If Ji Ran appeared in her original identity, many problems could indeed be solved easily, but Jiang Manhong's ambition may use Wei Xiang's family to gain more benefits from herself.

It is better to pay attention to Meteor Pavilion from Linghu Chong's perspective now.Since ancient times, this kind of balanced and coordinated organization has never been long-term.

Let’s watch him build a tall building, watch him entertain guests, and watch his building collapse.

In the second year of Liuxing Pavilion, Ji Ran is 55 years old.

There is a financial problem with Meteor Pavilion. Originally, Meteor Pavilion is similar to a public welfare organization, without its own industry and income.

They relied on the income earned by Jiang Manhong and his wife from fighting bandits, making friends, and recruiting disciples in the past few years under the name Heluo Heroes.

As well as Chu Liuxiang's face, the gifts received from many Jianghu gangs who were unwilling to participate.

Originally there was a so-called military salary, but unfortunately all the money was taken away by the Luoyang County Lieutenant.

Jiang Manhong was anxious, so Jiang Manhong thought of a "good idea".She wanted to use the influence of Meteor Pavilion to create a hero, a national hero.Then in the name of this hero, restaurants, inns, pawn shops, and escort agencies were opened in Luoyang City.

Undoubtedly, the commander of the Blue Ribbon Army, who symbolizes fairness and justice in the hearts of the people, is the most suitable to become this hero.

But Jiang Manhong didn't like Linghu Chong, because of Linghu Chong, Jiang Manhong lost two of his favorite generals, Tian Da and Tian Er.

So Jiang Manhong chose Qin Ge.Qin Ge also used a sword and admired Linghu Chong.So Qin Ge is now the deputy commander of the Blue Ribbon Army.

Why does the Deputy Pavilion Master Jiang Manhong seem to have the final say in everything in Meteor Pavilion?Because the team of Meteor Pavilion was carefully prepared by Jiang Manhong and his wife, both the leaders of the fourth hall and the three elders were Jiang Manhong's people.

Chu Liuxiang is just an honorary pavilion master.Ji Ran, as an outsider, could see things. How could Chu Liuxiang not know about it in Meteor Pavilion.

Chu Liuxiang also thought about inviting some friends to join, and at the same time writing to the court, inviting some official personnel to join, to form a three-way check and balance, so as to ensure that Meteor Pavilion will move forward according to his vision.

However, after observation, he found that Jiang Manhong and Yue Huanshan were extremely ambitious and unscrupulous.He felt that joining the Meteor Pavilion was a disaster rather than a blessing.

So inviting friends over is undoubtedly pushing them into the fire pit.

(End of this chapter)