Lord: Start with a book of Water Margin

Chapter 632: Benevolence and Revenge
After crossing a mountain range, Gongsun Sheng and his party arrived at the valley entrance early. They walked over and saw a temple in the pine forest. A section of yellow wall was exposed in the gap between the trees, and there were about seven or eight houses. A road led directly to the mountain gate.

At that moment Wu Song and Shi En were in the front, Gongsun Sheng, Wu Jiao and Dai Zong were in the middle, and behind them came Chai Fu and ten soldiers disguised as servants carrying loads.

As we approached the mountain gate, we saw a plaque in front of us with three big characters "Chun Yang Palace" written on it.

Leaving Shi En and Chai Fu waiting outside the gate, Wu Song and his three companions went straight into the mountain gate. When they reached the first room, they saw no one in sight, so they walked inward. When they reached the second room, they saw a hall. The hall was spacious, with smoke curling from the incense burner. Under the glass lamplight, there was a shrine in the middle, with a yellow curtain hanging low. No one knew what statue it was.

Still no one responded, Wu Song shouted, "Is anyone there?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a Taoist priest came out, saw the four people, bowed and asked, "Where are you from, Taoist priests?"

Gongsun Sheng stepped forward and bowed, saying, "We have heard that there are many precious medicines in the valley, so we have come here to buy them."

After hearing this, the Taoist monk Xiang Huo smiled and said, "Master, please wait a moment. I will go and invite the master to come."

After saying this, the Taoist turned around and walked back. After a while, he turned the corner door and said to Gongsun Sheng, "Masters, follow me. Master is waiting for you in the back."

After hearing this, Wu Song followed first, followed by Gongsun Sheng and the other two.

Walking out of the hall, under a osmanthus tree in the backyard, I saw a Taoist sitting on an altar. The altar was as tall as a person. The Taoist wore a yellow satin flat scarf, a black silk headband, a water-moon Taoist robe, a silk sash around his waist, and a pair of thin-soled cloud-climbing shoes. He had a purple-black complexion, a three-pronged face, wolf eyes, drooping eyebrows, an eagle-claw nose, and a thick mouth. He was nearly forty years old, with a strong build. He would be over eight feet tall when he stood up.

When he saw Gongsun Sheng and the others, the Taoist did not stand up, but asked, "How much Huangjing do you want?"

Gongsun Sheng asked, "I would also like to ask you, brother, how to sell Huang Jing in the temple. If it is suitable, I will buy it immediately."

"The Huangjing here is famous all over the world, so the price is naturally much higher than elsewhere. If you want to buy all the precious medicines in the temple, thirty or fifty thousand strings of cash may not be enough." The selfless Taoist sneered.

"As long as it's a precious medicine, I can buy it here." Gongsun Sheng said.

After hearing this, Wusi Daoist laughed and said, "Brother, you are also a monk. I wonder where you got all this gold and silver?"

Wu Song looked at the selfless Taoist sitting on the osmanthus tree altar and said, "Where the money comes from is none of your business. If you sell it, we will have money to give you."

The selfless Taoist sneered, "I have never seen a monk as impatient as you. I will sell you the Huang Jing. However, I will give you one thing, the string of beads on this brother's neck."

Wu Song heard this and scolded him, "My 108 beads are made from the center of the green fish bone. They are extremely rare. How can I give them away so easily?"

"I want it because it is rare. If I don't give you this string of beads, I can't sell you this precious medicine."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a commotion in front.

The selfless Taoist shouted, "Shenfeng, go see what the commotion is about."

After hearing this, the Taoist priest who led Gongsun Sheng and others here hurried to the front.

Wu Song shouted, "Not good, Brother Shi En is ahead."

As he said this, he followed the divine wind and chased forward. Gongsun Sheng and others saw this and hurriedly followed.

When he ran out of [Chun Yang Palace], he saw Shi En fighting with a Taoist outside the palace gate, shaking the Nine-Section Flower Python Whip in his hand.

When everyone saw them, they hurriedly separated the two men. Gongsun Sheng asked, "Brother, why did you start a fight?" Shi En said, "Master, this fellow is a famous thief in Jianghu, named Wang Liang, the Double Blade Pink Peony. Later, he got into trouble and was exiled to Mengzhou Prison. Because he was a flower thief, I humiliated him in the old city. I didn't expect that he escaped from the prison and became a Taoist priest. I met him here today and he wants to seek revenge on me."

Wu Song heard this and shouted, "I heard from the villagers that this place is a tyrant, but I was a little skeptical. Now that I have seen this guy in action, I am sure what he said is true. Today is a good day to destroy this place of filth and corruption."

After hearing this, Kamikaze quickly turned around and ran back to the temple.

Gongsun Sheng came to purchase precious medicine and was unwilling to fight. As they were arguing, he saw Wusi Daoist twisting two steel knives, Shenfeng holding an iron shovel, followed by more than 20 big men, rushing out fiercely, shouting: "You thieves, I was wondering how you Taoists could accumulate so much gold and silver, it turns out you are the running dogs of the court."

Wu Song shouted, "How dare you, a robber who robbed the Taoist temple, killed people and set fire to the temple, to be so arrogant?"

"You are neither Taoist nor Buddhist. I have disliked you for a long time. Today I am going to get rid of you, a Taoist scum." The selfless Taoist pointed the steel knife in his hand at Wu Song and shouted.

After saying that, he raised his steel knife and chopped at Wu Song. His two disciples, Wang Liang and Shen Feng, also rushed over with steel knives and iron shovels. Wang Liang went straight to Shi En, while Dai Zong drew out his broadsword to catch Shen Feng. The six of them started fighting in front of the Chunyang Palace.

When the twenty or so big men who followed behind saw this, they also shouted and rushed over with their weapons.

On Gongsun Sheng's side, the people disguised as waiters also took out their carrying poles, formed two small formations of five, and rushed forward under the leadership of Gongsun Sheng and Wu Jiao.

Although the Chunyang Palace had many people, they were no match for Gongsun Sheng's soldiers. They knocked down seven or eight of them in a single encounter. Gongsun Sheng and Wu Jiao also killed three or five with their swords. The rest saw this and shouted, and scattered.

Gongsun Sheng stopped the soldiers who were about to chase and kill, and ordered them to surround the few people who were still fighting in the field.

The Wusihi Taoist had two steel knives, and Wu Song had two swords. They chopped up and stabbed down, dancing left and right. When the four knives intersected, it was like jade chips flying in the wind and snow scattering white flowers.

The two fought for more than ten rounds. Wu Song showed a flaw and used his left sword to force the Taoist's sword away. He then swiped his right sword forward and slashed the Taoist in the waist. The Taoist let out a loud roar and fell to the ground.

Wu Song jumped over and chopped off the Taoist Wusi's head with his sword. Facing the Taoist Wusi's body, Wu Song shouted, "With such little martial arts skills, you dare to be so arrogant."

In the other two places, Wang Liang and Shenfeng were fighting fiercely with Shi En and Dai Zong, but after only three or two rounds of fighting, they saw the mountain people who came to join them and asked them to kill them. Now their master also asked this big man with a Taoist bun, Taoist robe, rosary and sword to be killed, and they were already panicked.

Seeing the big man coming towards him with a pair of swords, Wang Liang hurriedly dodged to the side. In his haste, he not only revealed his flaws, but Shi En took advantage of him and shook the Nine-Section Python Whip in his hand violently. The whip head, like a python's head, pierced Wang Liang's chest. Wang Liang was unable to dodge, and the whip head pierced his chest, and he fell to the ground.

On the other side, there was also a good fight between Kamikaze's shovel and Dai Zongpu's sword.

Dai Zong was quick and agile, while Shenfeng was strong. The two fought back and forth for more than ten rounds.

When Shenfeng saw his master being killed, he was anxious to escape and asked Dai Zong to block him again and again.

Seeing Shi En killing Wang Liang, he became more anxious. Shi En whipped Shen Feng with the Nine-section Flower Python Whip. Shen Feng screamed and paused with the shovel in his hand. Dai Zongpu stabbed Shen Feng in the neck with his knife, and half of his head fell off.

Wu Jiao laughed and said, "I wanted to buy some medicinal herbs, and brought a lot of gold and silver, but I didn't expect to run into a den of thieves. It seems that I can save the money for buying medicine."

After saying this, he told everyone to search the temple.

Five soldiers were left to guard the property and prisoners, while everyone else entered Chunyang Palace to search.

(End of this chapter)