Chapter 114 – A Cylinder

The first year of Xiang Fu. Early winter.

Approaching Liangzhou City, a thinly clothed, clean-cut young girl and a teenage monk with tattered robes were traveling together.

“Stupid North and South, this is almost to Liangzhou, why am I getting nervous? Almost as nervous as being able to have a first peek at a love letter written to my father by a vixen under the mountain!”

“Close to home, I’m shy. Anyway, Xu Fenian’s home is also considered half of your home.”

“A monk speaking of love, you are not afraid that the Lord Buddha who lives in the Western Heaven will sneeze and drown you?”

“The master and the master’s wife, and I don’t see the master afraid of wind, rain and thunder.”

“Stupid north and south, you say we have not half a copper coin to buy pretty rouge and water powder this trip, he will not think that I am a big girl, the more I grow, the harder I look?”

“No way!”

“This is what you promised, if it’s not like this by then, I’ll beat you up without discussion ah.”

“Amitabha Buddha ……”

“Stupid north and south, test you a question, you Buddhist ……”

“Stop stop stop, Li Zi, your home is my home ah, what do you mean ‘your Buddhist family’, I was picked up by the master and brought to the mountain, or the master’s wife to help me shave my hair, the master’s wife said that I cried at that time, look at me, I was only how old, and already know that I don’t like to be a monk. ”

“Okay, okay, just answer me directly why the Buddhist sects say that a mind without abiding is all prajna, so are those bodhisattvas who make big wishes considered a kind of obsession? If so, how can one still hope to become a Buddha ah?”

“This ah …… Li Zi, why don’t you wait for me to become a Buddha and burn out the relics, then I’ll come back to answer you?”

“Is this how you used to preach the Dharma to those big and small bald heads? No wonder the old abbot always likes to default on the copper money, mother let me go to urge, the old abbot every time bitterly haggle like eating bad stomach. It must be that the old abbot resented the fact that your Dharma preaching was a mess.”

“……”

“Huh? Stupid North and South, why are you crying? You have a little bit of talent, okay, the old abbot is a Buddha, not dead!”

“Cry when you cry, laugh when you laugh, eat when you eat, sleep when you sleep, recite when you recite, when the wooden fish rings I am the Buddha, this is what my master taught me ah.”

“Come on, how stupid you are, you can’t even realize the Buddha’s teachings, in case even you become a Buddha, who will still want to believe in Buddha in the future na!”

“Hey ……”

“By the way, stupid north and south, speaking of wooden fish, how come I haven’t seen my father let you knock over?”

“We don’t have one in our house either.”

“Also right, but our that cheapskate neighbor, Huineng big bald head is hiding a thief expensive wooden fish, listen to my mother said is the western Sichuan sycamore carved from, make a strong knock, dozens of miles away can be heard. You say really fake ah?”

“Of course it is false, once the master’s wife to buy a set of clothes to see on the mountain for a long time, coincidentally, the master does not have money on hand, pull me to run out to hide from the master’s wife, and Abbot Huineng secretly meet to drink, Abbot Huineng drink drink and drink happy, sitting on the ground holding that wooden fish shot for half the night, I was standing outside the door to them to look out, and did not think that the sound of the wooden fish have much sound ah, so it is. I was just standing outside the door looking out for them. In fact, the teacher mother is thinking that the wooden fish is worth money miles, there back to the teacher mother to see me washing clothes when the leakage, she said that in the future must be this wooden fish home, and then give you as a dowry, grand!”

“My mother grin …… No wonder some years ago every time my mother saw Hui Neng big bald head, asked how old that big bald head. Alas, fortunately, my mother only in the foothills of the town around, never can not walk the rivers, otherwise which young warrior high man happy to take care of her.”

“Anyway, there is a master who is close to the master’s wife, the master’s wife is not happy to go to the rivers and lakes. Besides, my mother always said that the women under the mountain are either tigresses that eat people without spitting out bones, or vixens that grow skin but not brain, especially that Tai’an City, full of unashamed and immodest women, which has always been a forbidden place for my master. Where is the master’s wife assured master, otherwise this trip master to the capital, the master’s wife will not follow, right?”

“Wu Nan Bei! Believe it or not I will tell my mother to go!”

“Amitabha Buddha …… Master, no wonder you don’t talk back every time you’re reprimanded by Master’s mother, saying more is more wrong, adding more trouble to your mouth. I kind of get it.”

“Stupid north and south, what did you mutter?”

On the road, the young girl puffed out her cheeks and clenched her fists while walking as if knocking on a wooden fish.

The young monk quietly turned his head away and snickered.

It was a warm sunny day.

As the North Mang South Dynasty hub of the Xijing City, the original name of the good son-in-law city, was once just a modest city, with the influx of the flood of the north run scholar, and gradually have a deep secluded Jiangnan courtyard, with the rich black tiles and white walls of the Dunben respect for the ancestors of the wind, there is a private bookstore of the family of the cultivation and reading, there is a strange sound of reading, there is a suave and elegant crowns, and there is a good woman dragged in the ground of the brocade skirt, there is the The local people were dazzled by the various colors of food. Jia son-in-law city day by day full, until it became the capital of Beimang, with the continuous expansion, more local Longguan aristocrats and foreign new scholars each accounted for half of the dynastic court, there are three provinces and six ministries system, talented people, azure deep show.

This city, with the passage of more than twenty years, is like from a thin little girl grew into a beautiful woman with a plump body.

Then in this slightly cooler than usual on the imperial road, there is a line of people walking slowly, the leader is an old crone, the old woman’s age, naturally, is not comparable to the new Western Capital.

Draped in an old fox fur son of the old crone followed by an elderly Confucian, more back, followed by a sword wearing middle-aged swordsman and a fifty-year-old stout man, side by side.

The old crone suddenly laughed softly, “I heard that our Military God met that family of three in Hui Mountain, and just couldn’t get into a fight.”

The green-shirted old man gave a hmmm.

The old woman lamented, “Do flowers blossom inside the walls? Why are the two people I admire so much both traveling to Liyang? One dares to single-handedly kill at the foot of the Imperial Capital’s walls to look at me, and there is that one, one person is a clan. If I remember correctly, this clan with only one person’s name is still above the Princess Tomb and your Chess Sword and Music House, right? If they are willing to stay in North Mang …… forget it, don’t talk about it.”

Chess sword music house at its peak sat on the four great masters, although among the martial arts evaluation of Huang Baozhu or the devil Luo Yang has already rebelled out of the North Mang, but Hong Jingyan has been the Zojiran iron rider co-owner, the sword qi near and the bronze ancestor is also a handful of top masters in the North Mang.

Who in the world dares to underestimate the chess sword music house?

The poor old Confucian-looking old man laughed, “If not, wouldn’t the jianghu be a lot less fun?”

The old woman turned her head to look at the sword-wearing middle-aged man, “Huang Qing, against that man, do you have a chance of victory?”

She was not asking about the chances of winning, but rather, “can you have a chance of winning”!

The person being asked nodded.

Although this answer was not a surprise, it was at least not a big disappointment to the old woman.

Huang Qing, real name Sun Shao Park. His real name is Sun Shaopu, and he is also the master of Hong Jingyan, whose name is “Sword Qi Close”. Because of his resentment towards the Liyang Dynasty for ridiculing the North Mang Sword Forest’s lack of talent, some people even threatened to say that no one in the entire North Mang Jianghu could talk about the Way of the Sword.

He therefore changed his name to Huang Qing.

The identity of the old woman who could make Sword Qi nearly take on the role of an escort was obvious.

This day late female eagle, flying in the prairie all male eagles higher sky years, has been too long too long.

The group of four kept walking into the Western Capital Palace City, and then under the careful guidance of the eunuch in charge of the Secretary’s Office, only Empress Murong and that Order of the Peace eventually walked into a secluded attic building.

Inside the building there is a gray and black gray and black carved chi dragon cylinder of unknown material, the cylinder is only half a person high, but it is especially huge, occupying most of the position of the entire attic hall.

Empress Murong put her hands on the cool, rounded rim of the cylinder, narrowed her eyes and looked down at the cylinder of clear water.

This vat is called “Sting Sleep”, she only usurped the throne as emperor and sat on the dragon chair, before someone quietly entered the palace and reported to her, there is a dragon hibernating and sleeping at the bottom of the vat.

At a glance, there is no scaly dragon can not be seen, but the sight of the picture has been treacherous enough.

There was no wind or waves, and the water was obviously still, but it was uneven everywhere.

If one were to identify it carefully, one could vaguely see that there were many small carp of different colors suspended in the water within the tank not swimming.

Murong empress raised her head and looked around, in addition to the Taiping order by her side, there are only nine people in the room, among them there is the Nanming real person whose status is second only to the state master Yuan Qingshan within the Daode sect, there is also the most secretive identity of the North Mang but is the most adept at the wind angle to occupy the royal edicts of the first qi practitioners, and there are also generations of ancestors of the North Mang royal family prophecies of the astrological expert Yehlue Guangcandle. These nine deep living here for decades of the real hermits, is the last king of the south court of the south dynasty Huang Song Pu also did not see a side, as for the other south dynasty dignitaries will not have to hope, I am afraid that they are not aware of the city of Xijing there is such a strange attic, there is such a mouthful of inexplicable vat, gathered so many strange and exotic people.

Empress Murong softly asked, “That Liyang Heavenly Prince Zhao Dun, who said he was physically ill and would not attend the court meeting for the time being, where is he now?”

Nan Ming Zhen Zhen, who had a head full of crane hair but a face as tender as a child’s, carried a slender purple bamboo pole and walked over to Empress Murong, stretching out the long pole and gently drawing a small circle somewhere two feet above the water’s surface. Hundred years old Daode Zong old fairy even voice is like a child, said crisply: “Inferred by the location, Zhao Dun is indeed as the spider web spies said, has secretly patrolled the border of two Liao.”

Murong empress finger gently knocked the edge of the cylinder, sneered: “Only know the life of the age, to die in the front of me such an old woman, really pathetic.”

Silence all around, no one dared to answer.

She asked again, “Aside from the little thing symbolizing Chen Zhi Bao suddenly giving birth to a dragon’s claw, what else is worth mentioning about the situation?”

Nan Ming Zhen Zhen used his purple bamboo pole to point a few points further south than before, “That tail of Zhang Julu, it has dropped four feet down inside the tank and is about to sink to the bottom.”

The old woman laughed out loud, “What a Liyang Dynasty suicide of its deer.”

At this moment, the location pointed out by the bamboo pole in the old real person’s hand should be Tai’an City, no surprise.

This new Patriarch of the Daode Sect after the ascension of the Kirin Realist was expressionless as he moved the bamboo pole and pointed at the northwestern position, “Xu Fengyen is still lingering around Huaiyang Pass.”

Suddenly, a small black carp less than two inches long suddenly leapt out of the water, then instead of crashing back to its original position, it slightly shifted its position to the west.

Empress Murong frowned, “What is this?”

Nan Ming Zhen Zhen still said in that childish voice without haste, “It’s Xu Longxiang. Some martial artists who have not entered the Heavenly Elephant realm but are burdened with qi luck, unless their qi leaks out too much, even if they take up a position in the tank, their orientation will be blurred. Those qi practitioners who were good at restraining their qi were even more so. But once they leaked out, it would be hard to escape the legal net again. As for those characters who are close to land deities, their natal fish will even disturb the water in the tank.”

“For example?”

“Wudang Sect Leader Li Yu Axe, earlier this person had triggered the vibration of heavenly chances, causing the tank water to overflow.”

“Is there more?”

“There are. Huang Longshi, Tantai Calm, and Xie Feiye. The three who were originally the most vaguely clued in have been showing signs one after another.”

“Then Cao Changqing?”

“Since he became a Confucian saint, he has naturally jumped out of the tank.”

As the question and answer came to this point, Empress Murong pondered for a moment and said to herself, “Could it be that the main force of Liu Gui’s army has already met up with the Dragon Elephant Army?”

The Nan Ming Realist hesitated for a moment and shook his head, “That’s not right. It should be that Xu Longxiang went to a place west of Qingcang City and met that Qiang cavalry.”

The old woman’s face was gloomy and uncertain, but her expression soon relaxed, “Anyway, you have two sons.”

Order of the Peace guessed what was in Empress Murong’s mind, and calmly said, “Since we have revealed a break, then we can let Huang Qing and Bronze Man go and assassinate Xu Longxiang, such an opportunity will be hard to come by in the future.”

The old woman pressed her thumb slightly harder on the rim of the tank and asked, “In time?”

The old Confucian who was the Imperial Teacher of Northern Mang laughed, “Try to make them rush that way, after that it depends on the luck of both sides.”

The old woman laughed, “Let’s give it a try then.”

This Order of the Peace didn’t hesitate to turn around and walk out of the house, going to have a face-to-face meeting with Sword Qi Near Huang Qing.

The old woman asked herself, “If it comes to pass, will there still be a battle to be fought in Liuzhou where both sides have hooked up for so many rounds?”

“No!”