Hibiscus Flower West Moon Splendid

Chapter 153: Spring Grace and Yellow Two (2)
Mingyue seems to be playing hide-and-seek with Lansheng, hiding under the dense dark clouds for a long time.This small street, which has been walked thousands of times, suddenly grows longer.Along the way, everything was silent, and before they got close, there was a strange burning smell. Lan Sheng raised his head, but saw a wisp of black smoke rising in the distance under the faint moonlight, which was barely visible in the night, and there were several horrible sounds. The barking of the dog spread, and several lights in the town came on.

Feeling bad, Lan Sheng ran quickly, and when he came to the door of Jiao Da's broken shed, he saw that it had already turned into a piece of scorched earth.

Lan Sheng covered his mouth, terrified, and was about to rush in, but there were figures flickering in the scorched earth, the leader with a pair of purple pupils was exceptionally bright in the dark night, like a demon in the world.Lan Sheng climbed to the side and stretched out his head to see that it was the purple-eyed lady of the inn. She slightly parted her vermilion lips and said in the most beautiful and coldest voice in the world: "She is not here, we have fallen into a trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain." .”

Qiao Wan's voice came with some doubts, "Only two catties of rice wine and half a pot of salt can be effective. Our dark men have checked here for two years, and it is indeed correct."

"Idiot. This Jiao Daming knew that he would be tortured to extract a confession, so he set himself on fire and died. It can be seen that he is going to cut off all the clues, so that we can't continue to investigate." She snorted coldly, and her purple pupils shone brightly in the moonlight. Since people in the world buy rice wine and salt to hide her, then the rice wine and salt workshop can't hide people?"

"It's still the master who is thoughtful, and the villain will go now."

"It's late." The lady with purple pupils shook her head lightly, and sighed, "Don't forget, that guy mentioned that Jiao Da raised a very obedient black dog, and now Jiao Da's family was burned, but the black dog didn't know I think it was the first moment we arrived, so we reported it. It’s not like you don’t know that nobleman in Xiying, who is good at taming wild animals.”

Then Qiao Wan asked: "Master, what should we do now?"

The lady with purple pupils said coldly: "Are you only asking me now?"

"The villain deserves to die." Qiao Wan was frightened and panicked, "I have checked, and the wine and salt in the inn are all purchased from a grocery store called Hanxiang. I will send someone there ..."

The lady with purple pupils waved her hand, and Qiao Wan was knocked to the ground, with five fingers on his face and bleeding from the corners of his mouth.All the slaves also knelt down in panic.

"Idiot. There is a grocery store in such a barren place with such an elegant name? How is this unobtrusive?! Thinking about this road, it is so peaceful, and there is no ambush. I am afraid that it is what led me to wait here. A trap." She thought for a moment, looked at Qiao Wan, and said coldly: "The flames are soaring here, but no one in the whole Huangliang Town comes, don't you think it's strange?"

Qiao Wan stood up, promised again and again, and his eyes became alert.At this time, a man in black covered in blood flew from a distance, fell to the ground, and exclaimed: "Master, hurry up, all the brothers outside are dead." .

Everyone's face turned serious, but the lady with purple pupils did not change her expression. She just pulled out a silk handkerchief from her lapel, covered her nose gracefully, and raised her fingers coldly. The servant immediately led a tall white horse Come.

"The dog servant in Xiying must have transferred her to another place." Qiao Wan helped the purple-eyed lady onto the horse, and said respectfully: "Madam, hurry to Fengzhou, the son has sent someone to meet him, and the villain is here to die." , so as to give those dog slaves a little color."

"Don't underestimate the enemy," the lady's purple pupils squinted slightly, and she was even more charming, almost three points more charming than the legendary fox fairy. "This place must not be entangled for a long time, and we will meet at Qingshui Temple in Fengzhou."

Just as Qiao Wan was about to speak, there was a scream in the night sky, but he saw thousands of flaming sharp arrows shooting from the sky, as if to tear the night apart.With a roar, Qiao Wan flew forward, swung his sword to fend off sharp arrows, and taking this opportunity, the lady covered her cloak and whipped fiercely, and the horse under her seat rushed forward with a hiss and a low growl. Dozens of house slaves in black clothes disappeared into the night.

Lan Sheng's terrified screams were drowned out by the successive screams and arrows, and a strong man was shot through his body, and fell beside Lan Sheng with blood all over his body.In extreme fright, Lan Sheng lost consciousness.

When Lan Sheng woke up, he saw blood all around him. He shook his head, only then remembered the cause and effect.He stood up unsteadily, stumbled all the way back to the inn, shouting for help, someone in the inn had already picked him up, asking questions in panic.

Early the next morning, a group of brave townspeople followed Lan Sheng to Jiaoda's dilapidated shed, and found Jiaoda's remains in the scorched earth, but his sick wife was nowhere to be found.

When everyone was collecting the large remains, they were surprised to find that there was a black plum blossom mark on the third rib on the left side of the remains.

At that time, Lan Sheng didn't realize that the strange purple-eyed lady would completely change his life, and he was still spitting, repeating, and non-stop narrating what he saw on the north slope among the curious crowd. I heard, until one day the little grandson of the neighbor Grandma Wang’s family heard Lan Sheng’s story, and began to have nightmares at night, convulsing continuously, and died of fright for no reason three days later.Grandma Wang cursed Lan Sheng in tears.

So, I don't know where it started. It is said that Lan Sheng has possessed the evil spirit of the purple-eyed goblin, and that evil spirit has passed on to Grandma Wang's little grandson. Anyone who gets close to Lan Sheng will be unlucky, and they can only practice in the temple. Get rid of bad luck and bad luck.

People began to be afraid of Lan Sheng, and no one dared to talk to him. In the end, the shopkeeper resigned him, and no one in the town dared to invite him.Desperate, Lan Sheng had to dig out his savings for several years with tears in his eyes, including the four taels of silver given by the terrible "purple-eyed goblin", and embarked on a long journey of wandering.

Only five miles out of the town, Lan Sheng experienced the hardships of troubled times.First of all, the little donkey under the seat was taken away by the wolf, and then four ragged, skinny refugees and beggars robbed Lan Sheng. Clothes, tied him naked to a tree, and then carefully took out a human hand from the rag bag in front of him, put it on the fire, and chopped it into four pieces to eat.

Just when Lan Sheng was hanging on the tree, Zhao Ada, a well-known local horse thief, discovered the invasion of this group of cannibals and beggars, so he sent someone to wipe them out, and then smiled under the tree. After studying the naked Lan Sheng for a long time, he was released.

Lan Sheng mobilized his three-inch tongue, and successfully persuaded the horse thief leader Zhao Ada, who was barely enough to "help the poor and steal the rich", to stay with him as a cook, so Lan Sheng not only found a stable place to stay. , and successfully realized the dream of being a cook for many years.

However, the rumors of the purple demon seem to be true, and Lan Sheng's good times are very, very short-lived.When the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, Xi Ting and Dong Ting fight in Suzhou, blood staining the sandbar.Pan Zhengyue, the famous general of the East Court, General Pinglu, used only [-] soldiers and horses to defeat the [-] troops led by King Zhongxian of the West Court, that is, Yuan Feiqing, the eldest son of the Yuan clan.The first thing that General Pinlu did when he occupied Suzhou was to flatten the horse bandit gang that Lan Sheng belonged to, and used all the stolen goods and counterfeit supplies of the horse bandit gang in the past few years as military pay. Ping Lujun narrowly saved his life, and the heads of those leaders, including Zhao Ada, were hung in a nearby town together with the notice of Anmin, and Zhao Ada's three pretty ladies were in Zhao Ada. On the night of Fa-rectification, he was sent to General Pinlu's camp.

That night, Lan Sheng's eardrums were filled with suffocating women's screams and cries.Early the next morning, three female corpses were brought out of General Pinlu's tent.Lan Sheng never expected that the three Yazhai wives were already bruised and bleeding, and died before General Pinglu distributed the rewards to his subordinates.

Only then did Lan Sheng understand what is meant by the saying that "talented men always have hidden diseases". The general Pinglu who swept the world with the name of "war demon" in front of him also had such a "special" hobby - he liked to torture women and listen to women's pain And the more beautiful the woman, the louder the voice, the more excited he is.And those soldiers who had followed General Pinlu for many years didn't change their expressions, but their eyes showed fear, and they kept looking for new beauties without stopping.There is no other reason, but if the general does not have a woman, he will secretly take prisoners or soldiers.

On the nineteenth day of the fourth lunar month, Ping'er was born, and the doves crowed and their feathers were brushed, and all the women in Huangliang Town were in danger.When the family with a daughter was about to flee to extinction, the Yuan family of the snow treading son Feibai, and Han Xiuzhu, the wise man of the world, took over from his brother and returned to Suzhou. They led [-] troops with the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams Formation to encircle the two towns of Huang and defeat them. Ping Lu army, Pan Zhengyue burned Suzhou in anger, took the looted property and the people retreated to Ganzhou.

Lan Sheng Jiumu, Young Master Treading Xue, was the first prisoner to jump out and ask for surrender.However, no one expected that some of Pan Zhengyue's soldiers took the opportunity to assassinate Young Master Xue. Although they failed, the remaining [-] soldiers were deposed as slaves, so Lan Sheng only saw Young Master Snow. The unrestrained figure of heaven and man was exiled on the sandbar to be a coolie and build a border city.

Just halfway through the journey to Shazhou, a strong sandstorm occurred. Except for Lan Sheng, who was familiar with the local climate, survived, the remaining [-] surrendered soldiers and the original soldiers who were escorted were all buried in the sand, and there was no trace to be found.

Lan Sheng has gone through untold hardships, begging all the way to Fengzhou, and he is already inhuman.

Twilight is approaching, and Lan Sheng, who has just been robbed of food by the local "beggar gang", is about to sleep on the street hungry, only to hear bursts of ethereal Buddha's voice from the distant night sky, as if in a lifetime, and just remembered that he had heard People have said that entering a temple to practice can wash away all disasters.Lan Sheng obsessively followed the Buddha's voice all the way to a majestic temple.

At that time, the moonlight in Fengzhou was clear, and the leaves of hibiscus sprouting quietly under the wall were slightly dewy and glowed with silver light.Lan Sheng looked at this clearly, but couldn't help but burst into tears. The name of the temple is Qingshui Temple.

Early the next morning, the little monk opened the gate of the temple and found a beggar in ragged clothes fainting from hunger.

By chance, Lan Sheng really escaped into Buddhism and became a Buddhist disciple. He became a head monk in the kitchen of Qingshui Temple and lived a peaceful life for a while.

Since King Wu'an, the former King of Qingjiang in Qingjiang, a branch of Xuanyuan's Fuyu family in Xi'an proclaimed himself emperor, the Yuan family transferred the Famen Temple and became the royal temple in Xiting today, which is dedicated to receiving royal dignitaries. The Yuan family moved to Qingquan The temple superdued the dead loyal bones of the Yuan family, and the descendants of the Yuan family would go to Qingshui Temple to offer incense and pay respects every first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year.Nearly one-third of the Xiting courtiers belonged to the Yuan clan, and most of the rest were unavoidably attached to the Yuan clan.In the final analysis, the lifeblood of Xiting is actually in the hands of the Yuan clan, and now the most famous member of the Yuan clan is the noble son-in-law of the Yuan clan, Song Minglei, Marquis of Haotian.He is handsome and graceful, talks and laughs smoothly, uses soldiers like a god, and is like Zhuge reincarnated. In the previous dynasty, he was given the title of Master Qingquan, and he became famous at a young age like the third son of the original family. A highly sought-after minister, the first-rank Haotianhou of Xining.Over the years, he has become more and more imposing than Mr. Snow Walker, and Qingquan Temple was renamed Qingshui Temple in the first year of Yuanqing just to avoid the honor of this nobleman. The prosperous temples are well-known even in the entire Xiting.

In April, the world looks for fragrance and beauty, and the peach blossoms in mountain temples bloom one by one.

Lan Sheng lived a life of asceticism in this famous Qingshui Temple, watching the interaction of golden wheels and silver plates under the peach blossom tree, listening to the words of the monks in the building, letting the passing years be like water, paying the clock to the clock and the drum to the evening.

(End of this chapter)