Da Suining

Chapter 187 Fake Monk
Xiang Suining insisted on going to the living room, Lan Tui had no choice but to follow her.

living room.

The imperial guards formed a circle and surrounded a living room.

Perhaps because of such indecent incidents in the Huguo Temple, the abbot asked the incense congregants who came to burn incense and worship the Buddha to disperse first, and then let the monks go back to their rooms, and then rushed over with a little novice who was close to him.

There were crying, cursing and begging for mercy in the living room.

"Please don't kill here." The abbot clasped his palms together and silently twirled the beads in his hand: "Buddhism is a pure place, so we can discuss anything."

An impatient member of the imperial guard pointed to the living room and said, "Don't the abbot know about what they did in the cemetery? Or is he covering up? There is a monk in the living room who is full of Amitabha, but he just refuses to come out to subdue the Dharma. How did the abbot teach his disciples, why don't you call him out quickly?"

The abbot was dubious, pushed open the door of the living room, and saw a strong man wearing a mask and a monk's robe, sitting alone on a chair by the window, kicking on the chair, cursing: "If you don't look at me For the sake of the Bodhisattva, I have already cut down all of you scumbags, what are you doing blocking the door now? Let me go, Amitabha."

The abbot shook his head and sighed.

Guo Cheng took a pear and threw it into the abbot's arms: "Why are you sighing? Why are you shaking your head? Aren't you the head of the family here? Let me go quickly."

The abbot shook his head again, closed the door again, and backed out.

"Why, isn't it your monk?" the Imperial Guard asked.

The abbot clasped his hands together: "The monks in Huguo Temple don't dare to be so unruly. There must be no monks in this living room."

In this case, the imperial guards are not polite.

Those in the living room, those who are obedient, let it go, the one wearing the mask should be the first to hit.

He is chubby, wears a mask to pretend to be a ghost, pretends to be a monk, talks to the Imperial Guards, and is so fierce, if he doesn't punish him severely, he will be sorry for the name of the Imperial Guards.

It happened that Lan Tui brought Xiang Suining to the living room.

A guard hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Master Lan, the abbot has already seen them just now. These people are not from the monastery, they are probably outsiders."

"You still won't come out?"

"Yes, I refused to come out. I just wanted to pull it out by force. The people in the room jumped up and down. They even threw a tea bowl and injured one of our colleagues." Mentioning this, the Imperial Guard became angry. It's fine if they don't bully more than others, but those crooked melons in the room dare to strike first.

intolerable.

"The second girl said she recognized the people in the living room, did she really recognize them?"

"It can be recognized even when turned into ashes."

"The second girl will follow me in and meet him for a while." Lan Tui said, pushing open the door of the living room.

After a while, Mr. Zhao, Liu Ping'an, Mrs. Lan and several other wives, as well as the servants and maidservants, all faded away from their previous appearance. They all looked like eggplants beaten by frost, sitting around under the bed. , one by one, like steaming sweet potatoes in a pot.

They were no longer so honest, they all lowered their heads, not daring to look around.

Really obedient.

It's just that when Xiang Suining, who smelled like fireworks, entered the living room, she frightened Mrs. Lan. She rubbed her eyes and shouted, "Damn it, damn it, this is a ghost... There is a ghost..."

"Stop bluffing, didn't you see her shadow? How could it be a ghost?" Mr. Zhao was a little impatient. He couldn't get rid of Mrs. Lan at ordinary times. He didn't expect to be stuck in this narrow living room and had to listen to her. She was startled, and Mr. Zhao said angrily; "I can understand, this... madam... is here to catch us, right? The government sent you here? You are really good, a woman He dared to go down into the cave and almost lost his life."

"Are you okay?" Liu Pingan asked stupidly: "Just now I thought Master killed you, so it turns out that you have such a life, so you didn't die."

"No wonder the master wanted to take her life when he saw her. It turned out that the master was a master and knew that she was here to spoil our good deeds. It's just a pity that the master was not ruthless and didn't kill this woman. Now She brought the imperial guards to steal our good place, it was God's will, God's will, if I had known..." Mr. Zhao glared at Xiang Suining angrily: "If I had known, I should have strangled you first, we It won’t end up like this, anyway, now that it’s in your hands, just say what you want.”

Mrs. Lan lowered her head, and the veil on her face was rubbed off somewhere. She covered her face with her hands, but opened her fingers to reveal a small gap, secretly took a look at Xiang Suining, and then knelt down on the ground. He began to kowtow: "Madam, I know I was wrong, and all my mistakes are my fault. Please don't arrest me, otherwise our family will definitely send someone out to look for it, and my business will be covered by then." Can't stop..."

The more Mrs. Lan spoke, the more panicked she became, her shoulders trembled and her lips trembled: "It's all my fault, I shouldn't have come out behind my back...but I want to live a good life with my master, please, don't catch me..."

Xiang Suining had no intention of doing anything to Mrs. Lan.

All she cared about was Guo Cheng.

Looking around, where is the shadow of Guo Cheng?

Did he run away?
impossible.

A guard surrounded the living room like a cage. Guo Kai was a bird, and it was hard to fly.

Second, the abbot's helpless expression just now clearly recognized Guo Cheng.

Surely Guo Kai wouldn't turn into a puff of smoke and run away along the window?
The guards guarding the gate counted the number of people and found that one person was missing.

The fattest man, the fat man who sat on the chair so that the chair "squeaked" disappeared.

The master master they talked about disappeared.

"Where's the man, where's the master?" the Imperial Guard asked.

None of them spoke.All keep their mouths shut.

The imperial guards drew out their knives and put them on everyone's necks. First they put the knives on Mr. Zhao's neck, but Mr. Zhao remained indifferent, and then they put them on Liu Pingan's neck, but Liu Pingan didn't say a word. On the servant's neck, there was a shining knife, and the cold knife was placed on the neck like that. The servant was so frightened that he peed on his pants, whimpering and still arguing: "Don't kill me...I don't want to die yet...what am I? Do not know at all."

Most of the servants are eunuchs in the palace.

These people in the living room are usually favored by Guo Kai, and I am afraid that it is not the first day they know about Guo Kai's ruthlessness. Besides, their little tails are still pinched in Guo Kai's hands, and it is human nature not to dare to bite Guo Kai out. .

The Janissaries turned the living room upside down.

I searched under the bed, under the quilt, in the chest, behind the screen, even under the chair, behind the door, where a cat could hide, and looked in front of and behind the house, but found nothing.

One of the imperial guards was discouraged: "Master Lan, could it be that the younger ones were negligent for a moment and let him run away? I didn't see him run away."

Lan Fade also found it very strange.Could it be that a good person can fly?

The wall tiles are solid and cannot hide people, and the floor tiles are also solid and cannot hide people. It is impossible for him to have the ability to escape from the earth in such a fast time.

The hole leading to the tomb is just under the bed. It is usually covered with a board, so it will not be easily discovered.

Now that these few people are here, is it possible that the missing person went back along the hole?

Suddenly the board covering the hole moved, and an extra head appeared under the bed.

Wearing a black helmet, it is a Janissary.

"Report to Lord Lan, I have been ordered by the Lord to search from the cave where the fire was extinguished. Because the fire was so large, there was nothing left in the cave, and there was no one, only ashes were left." The Imperial Guard said, Like a bug, it twisted its body and got out of the hole.

It turned out that this is how they arranged the cave.

Really good skill.

One cave, two exits.

Even if people who don't know block one of the openings, they can quickly evacuate through the other opening.

But where did Guo Cheng evacuate?

A guard pulled out a rope to threaten them: "If you don't tell the truth and report the whereabouts of your accomplices, I will send you to the west now."

Hey.

These few people seem to have negotiated, and each of them is stricter than the other.

Like that boy, even though he was scared to death, he didn't dare to say a word.

It seems that he is afraid of Guo Cheng's identity.

If Guo Cheng is confessed, the end must be death, right?It would be worse than dying now.

If it is hard, it will not work.

Only outsmart.

Xiang Suining waved at Lan Tui, Lan Tui slightly bent his legs, turned his body to one side, and listened to her.

Xiang Suining said a few words, Lan Tui raised the corner of his mouth and nodded.

"Master Xiaolan, just now I really saw a man wearing a mask in the cave, and he is considered an old friend. I took off his mask and took a look. I have met him before. Master Xiaolan should look for it carefully. , he will not disappear for no reason."

"Second Miss, you have also seen that the imperial guards have surrounded this place impenetrably. As long as it is a living thing, it is impossible to slip away from our noses. Perhaps, it is Second Miss, you remembered the wrong person."

"Impossible, I can see clearly."

"There was a fire in the cave just now, and the second girl was frightened again. It's not surprising that she recognized the wrong person and remembered things wrongly. According to me, there are probably only a few people in the cave. Now hand them over for trial. It's over, if you talk about people wearing masks again, wouldn't you be asking for trouble?"

"Okay, just listen to Master Xiaolan." Xiang Suining was a little reluctant, and the corners of his mouth sank.

"Thank you, Second Miss, for your cooperation. Second Miss was frightened, so go back to the house and rest quickly. I've asked someone to prepare the carriage, and I'm waiting outside."

"Lord Xie Xiaolan. I'm going back now." Xiang Suining blessed Lan Tuan as a salute, and then called Mingzhu: "I'm also tired, and I don't feel well, help me back to Xiangfu."

"Yes, girl." Mingzhu stepped on the brick floor deliberately with heavy steps, making a "da da da" sound.

Lan Tui commanded the imperial guards to tie up the few people who had escaped from the cave, like tying grasshoppers, and led them out of the door with the end of the rope.

There was no one in the waiting room, so Lan Tui turned around and locked the door of the living room.

Everything is quiet.

Everything was calm again.

Even, you can hear the sound of unknown birds calling on the treetops in the distance.

The wind blows through the living room windows.

The paper on the window "squeaked" as it was blown, as if turning the pages of a book.

When the fire was on fire just now, it was a mess. After the water was poured out and the scene was cleaned up, the Huguo Temple returned to its previous tranquility.

Suddenly, I heard a "squeak" in the living room.

Just that sound, no more movement.

Lan faded closed his eyes and waited for a while, but no second voice appeared.

He drew out his knife, opened the window, and flew in through the window.

Seeing him standing beside a pillar in the living room, Xiang Suining nodded.

This pillar is as thick as two people's waists, it's not surprising at all, it usually supports the beams of the house, and there is one in every living room, and there are about five or six pillars in each of the treasure halls outside.

The "squeak" just now came from the pillar.

Lan Tuo squatted down, checked around the pillar with a knife, and found nothing unusual.

Xiang Sui Ning thought about it.

On the long table in the living room, incense candles, incense burners and a handful of sandalwood are placed all year round, and portraits of Bodhisattvas are hung on the walls.

Xiang Suining told Mingzhu to go to the long table, lit the fire and brought a candlestick and lighted it with a handful of sandalwood.

After lighting the sandalwood, Xiang Suining lay down on the bed, and started to smoke at a small gap at the bottom of the pillar.

There is only a gap under the pillar, about half the size of a palm, and it is still hidden under the bed. If you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all.

Xiang Suining aimed the sandalwood at the gap and kept fanning the wind.

Lan Tui understood, went to the porch to find a few dead branches, put them on the candlestick and lit them: "It's very cold, light some dry firewood, the second girl warms up before leaving."

"Master Xiaolan is very considerate, thank you very much."

"No thanks, as long as the second girl doesn't think the smoke is too heavy."

"It's okay, just bear with it."

The two sang and chorused in harmony.

The dead branches burned, and the black smoke from the pillars rushed straight into the pillars. With the smell of sandalwood, after a while, the whole pillar began to smoke, and the smoke formed a circle for a while, and then formed a line The line is smoked for the whole column, surrounded by clouds and mists, as if in the palace of heaven.

Sure enough, after a while, I heard someone in the pillar start to cough: "cough cough cough... cough cough cough..."

"Who's coughing?"

"Cough cough cough..."

"Is anyone there?" Lan Fa asked intentionally.

"No, I didn't hear anything." Xiang Suining pretended not to.

"Cough cough cough...you gang...you slaves...you want to murder me...cough cough cough Amitabha... Bodhisattva will not forgive you."

"The abbot said that there are not a single monk missing in Huguo Temple. It seems that there is someone in this pillar pretending to be a monk." Xiang Suining suppressed a smile: "Master Xiaolan, what do you think should be done?"

"Huguo Temple is the temple of the Tian family. It is a very sacred place. Someone pretends to be a monk here? He is really brave." Lan Tuo smiled: "This person seems to be hidden in the pillar. It seems He doesn't want to come out."

"How about we sit with him for a while?"

"Okay, anyway, sitting and warming up by the fire, it's not a good feeling."

(End of this chapter)