"Junior Sister Tian, do you really want to convert this child into our Jinghu Cult?"
In a spacious and bright house in Chong'an County, many people in soap robes and blue boots gathered together. Each of them held a lit stick high above their head, letting the scented wax oil continue to drip from it.
It fell, melted and re-condensed on the green bricks of the hall.
The church members stood in two directions. The originally honest and honest master brother Qiu Jiuzhang, now surrounded by everyone, seemed to have gained a little more majesty and arrogance, and his words were sonorous and powerful.
I saw him staring at Tian Qingwen with open eyes, without a trace of a smile on his face. This slight glance made Tian Qingwen, a Jin-haired mink who had been walking around the world for a long time, feel a hint of uneasiness in his heart. He always felt that the other party had guessed it.
own intentions.
Tian Qingwen only felt that his throat was slightly tight and his breath was not smooth. In order to avoid being noticed by others, he quickly turned his eyes and nodded, pretending to point at the small stone standing aside.
"Senior Brother, this child's senior brother has extraordinary martial arts. He has also practiced Boy Kung Fu since he was a child. If he is introduced to our Jingji Sect, it will definitely be of great help..."
As everyone's eyes turned to Xiao Shitou, they saw him staring at the bench where others were sitting firmly, and suddenly moved his palms like wind across the wooden board.
There was just a clang sound, and before the person sitting there could react, he fell to the ground, and the originally strong bench broke and fell into many small wooden pieces.
When Qiu Jiuzhang heard the sound, he almost stopped holding the token in his hand. The second senior brother, pork guy Chen Henggui, was amazed. He told the people next to him that he had enough strength to chop it off with one knife. He had never seen it so clean and neat. The only exception was the eighth senior brother Zhu Min, who was not in charge of accounting.
Xiu looked embarrassed, sighed, opened the account book, and crossed out the stool from the Jingli Sect's account book.
"Bad, bad, bad!"
"It's okay! If you join your sect, we will become brothers. The scriptures say: "The giant gate of Ziwu has jade hidden in the stone." After going through many hardships, it becomes a small instrument. From now on, let's call it "jade in the stone" in the sect."
Qiu Jiuzhang only thought that deep in the hall were the statues of religious gods used for worship in the past, some wooden and clay sculptures with gold paint peeling off over time, but he could only see them if he stood where the big rocks were. On both sides of the small hall,
On the bottom of the curtain, there are standing in a row a row of human figures with Eguan and Bo belts, phoenix crowns and Xiapei, gold helmets and armor, and gorgeous clothes.
"Ahem, big brother, since he has no intention of joining your Jingji sect, you, Qiu, as your junior senior brother, are naturally willing to recruit disciples on your behalf and bring such help to your sect."
Hu Shihai brought the topic to some details, and it seemed that he was not interested in doing the matter, but he just found a worse way, but Erguan Zhao said it in a very cryptic way.
"Look up, what's his last name?"
Qiu Jiuzhang looked at the crowd with emotion. All the seven land gates in Chong'an County were guarded by officers and soldiers, and the original water gate did not have a flood garrison. It strangled the access road to the Jingji Sect and implicated merchants in seven provinces.
Contacts with Chong'an County.
At this time, Erguan Zhao finally put on a serious expression and returned to his original appearance as the pharmacy boy. He spoke warmly as if he had a clear understanding of what he had seen and heard before.
"Brother, the county magistrate has been reluctant to give instructions, so what can you do? If we destroy the city walls without authorization, this is a serious crime of being exiled and exiled. The county magistrate is probably waiting for us to show our flaws."
And in front of us are the mikoshi, which are tailor-made for us. One of them can embed us in it just right, and carry us through the streets and alleys, and traverse the streets.
It’s the corpse stench that emanates from under our bodies...
Second Officer Zhao lowered his token in his hand, and saw that the lower part of the dough was covered with some words like a bunch of flowers. He slapped it hard on the top of the big stone's head, and spoke loudly without words.
Da Shitou turned around and glanced at Qiu Jiuzhang. Seeing that the other party did not give any hint, he nodded calmly and contentedly.
Under the burning firewood that everyone held down, the fragrant wax continued to drip down, but among the lingering fragrance, there was always a strange smell that made the tip of the nose twitch.
Second official Zhao nodded hurriedly: "That's right. Your Jingji sect has connected with the gentry's families. It has been several months since you published the book, and it has been widely read so far. I'm afraid the county magistrate didn't intend to delay it, and it will be helpful for you to be on guard against the sect."
, I’m afraid it won’t be appropriate to go up like that.”
"Look up and look at Patriarch Zhang, I'm waving to him..."
Zhao Erguan took the cinnabar pen, compared it with the colorful words on the token in my hand, and finally sketched it in circles on the chest of the big stone. From bottom to top, he drew "Slow Shou", "Exorcise Evil", and "Xiao Ji"
There are eight flower characters in the figure. Then he grasped the big stone and placed his hands knowing where to place them. He made a familiar posture with the backs of his hands facing each other and holding them flat behind his back. He also patted the eight in the same way.
Hu Shihai chuckled and said to you with bright eyes: "Junior sister, please be patient. You have been planning for so long, so there is no reason to do that. He also said just now that if we destroy the city wall, it will be a small crime, but if we
If the county magistrate destroys his own good, what crime should he be guilty of..."
"Junior sister Tian, you brothers and sisters have gathered today and there is not a small matter to discuss. Does he know about the newly built water gate in Chong'an County?"
Big Stone suddenly noticed a sharp energy, which seemed to be heading towards my head. However, before hastily dodging, I saw something outside my field of vision. I could only scratch my head in confusion and turned around again.
Zhao Erguan held Xiaoxi in his palm and said to the gathered Jingji disciples, "At the beginning, you asserted that Junior Sister Tian, despite being young, was able to travel around the lakes and seas. She would have been of little use in the past, but you didn't expect that she would be useless now.
It can relieve the anxiety!"
Erguan Zhao looked at Qiu Jiuzhang with confusion, but Qiu Jiuzhang could only answer bravely.
"...Eight senior brothers, since this matter has not been decided yet, why don't you come to see my eldest sister and have no instructions?"
"The child also has a nickname, I think it's Shi."
I saw the curtain in the hall suddenly opened, revealing a magnificent shrine covered with gold and jade. Below it sat a skinny old man in brocade robes, looking up at the big stone with a smile, his eyes deep and mysterious.
Turn, the kite shoulders and neck are trimmed. It is quite ugly in the dry cut, but it reveals the ethereal fairy spirit before the bones are preserved and the flesh is removed.
"Senior Sister, the reason why the Zhao family joined your Jinghu Sect is because they have no roots outside. Let's not do that for today, let's save the person he brought here first."
In order to find another way, the original leader of the Jingji Sect, Zhang, had not planned to open another sect for a long time, and transferred it to the internal affairs of the Jingji Sect. However, the procrastination has continued to this day, and there is no way to implement it.
The matter that Hu Shihai entrusted to the two of them was more like an idle job than an important task. However, Hu Shihai also felt uneasy about what would happen tomorrow night.
An extremely mysterious sound came from the caisson in the empty hall. Everyone seemed to see the old man in robes twisting his body in a trance, moving anxiously under his seat, or sitting still in the same place.
The dust under the clothes has not changed, there are all kinds of colors, life and death are difficult to describe.
So the big stone opened the cloth bag expressively, and a sound like a thunder drum came from it. Several small toads with obvious kiss edges, purple skin and flesh, and white cone-horned thorns on their lips.
He jumped out from outside, and soon he was sitting on the knees and shoulders of the big stone, looking fierce and weird.
I saw the figure under the shrine staggering and squirming, as if trying to get closer to the big stone, until there was an unsettling disturbance, the old man in brocade suddenly twitched violently like he was about to die, and his hands and feet twisted together strangely.
The complicated air in the hall was dissolved by the heat, and at the same time, the bridge of the old man's skinny nose suddenly collapsed, making people convinced that I had indeed been dead for a long time...
"Your name is Big Stone."
"To join your Jingji sect, you must first respect heaven and respect people, seventhly, be close to the righteous way, eighthly, uphold the precepts, and seventhly, be sincere as brothers. If you can fulfill those oaths, the ancestors will rain down thunder and destroy them all. He
Do you know?"
Erguan Zhao nodded happily and threw a cloth bag into Qiu Jiuzhang's arms. Qiu Jiuzhang only felt that it was soft and slippery in his hands. When he looked up, his soul suddenly flew into the sky. He suddenly threw the cloth bag open and accidentally dropped it.
Behind the big stone.
You look up at the hall. There should have been a plaque hanging under the light beams, but now there is only a uniform color difference due to exposure. Maybe there should be an ancestral hall outside?
Hu Shihai's eyes were filled with strange expressions, and he nodded quite contentedly. At this moment, it seemed as if every word that came out of my mouth was filled with the divine nature of golden words and jade words, and the initiation of dragon chapter and phoenix seal.
In order to avoid suspicion among others, Qiu Jiuzhang brought Da Shitou and Tian Qingwen with him that time. He also used the rhetoric that he was still a child and had someone to rely on. He wanted to introduce us into the sect to receive some protection.
It's worse than living alone.
"Brother Shi, don't be afraid. Since he made a divination in front of the ancestor and made an oath, he will become one of our own this time. Even though there are no lost methods in the Jingji Sect, the mantras and flowery characters can save you."
Come on - he takes off his lower clothes and exposes his chest."
Da Shitou looked at me in confusion. Zhao Erguan suddenly changed the topic to business matters and looked at Hu Shihai and Da Shitou seriously.
"Little Senior Brother, it would be bad if he refused. Today both of them are crossing. Did the Hu Shihai who came with you also retire from the Jingji Sect?"
"Today, when I enter your Jinghu Gate, I will seal my body in front of the Patriarch. I will bow my head when I see you in the Eight Mountains. There will be no god behind the Qiyue Temple. The flags and seals will come out together to make divination!"
Second official Zhao was also concerned about other things, he held up the token and muttered.
Following the order, the Seventh Senior Brother and the Eighth Senior Brother waved their magical weapons, and a pair of hexagram cards were suddenly thrown to the ground. Before Gululu spun around in a circle, Zhao Erguan withdrew his sleeves with lightning speed.
Inside, he turned around and ordered the big stone to face the hall in silence, and said to me seriously
But before you had time to question, everyone had not taken Tian Qingwen out of the hall. In the blink of an eye, they had not surrounded the big stone. It was not until Zhao Erguan made a sound to show his presence that the silence in the place became less anxious.
Qiu Jiuzhang squeezed the letter in his sleeve tightly and walked forward pretending to understand, only to find that the big stone now called Shi Zhongyu had run out of another corner of the hall knowingly.
Opening a corner of the curtain, it seemed as if I was staring at something incomprehensible.
The reason why Erguan Zhao responded a few months later and pushed hard at all costs was not because I had seen that the entire Jianning area was now fully equipped with troops, and even the entire Fujian area. In addition to the heavy troops hoarded in Zhangquan,
With the soldiers following the Jingnan Palace, their military strength has long been stretched thin. All it takes is a flaw in the "Water Gate" to let the waiting gentry decide where to go!
"Of course. We, the Jingji Sect, are all kind-hearted people, so we can naturally do things in accordance with the law. Today we gathered here because we just want to hold another 'Chaitou Meeting' tomorrow along the streets in the north and south.
After such a trip, the county magistrate will always intervene in such a big matter, right?"
Qiu Jiuzhang pretended to be scared out of his wits and hid in front of the pillar, trembling and said: "Brother, is this what my eldest sister is going to do? What's more, what is he doing by throwing those toads? Is it possible to break down the city wall?"
"
A thick layer of powder covered the exposed skin, but it covered up the scars that were wrinkled and haggard like bacon. His seven sense organs shrank into hollows, and he was looking at the big stone blankly.
A gust of dark wind drifted by, and Qiu Jiuzhang suddenly sensed the atmosphere of conspiracy. Do you know why those neighbors who were usually friendly and kind have become so bright and mysterious today? It was only then that you finally understood why Hong Wending was so different.
If you have to keep the big stone to join the religion, why would the other party say that the momentum is right and ask for help from Xiaowang Peak in Wuyi Mountain?
Hu Shihai frowned slightly and looked at Qizhou with emotion. He faintly noticed that the originally simple and honest citizens of Chong'an County in the hall now had a faint sparkle in their eyes, as if they were looking at acres and acres of harvested fields.
You can put it into your own pocket.
Qiu Jiuzhang smiled warmly in his heart. The "Chaitou Meeting" had just been held a few days ago. At that juncture, the commotion was caused. It was clearly not to attract the attention of Chong'an County Supervisor Sheng Jun. From that point of view, Zhao Erguan, Chen Henggui, and Zhu Minxiu
There are some clues that can be seen in the eyes that flicker with suspicion.
"Remember the Purifying Mantra: "The Patriarch is merciful, the Patriarch saves you"! If you encounter any evil spirits or evil masters in the past, you will recite the mantra and ask the Master for protection and support. With his foundation as a sealed boy, Someone hurt him."
The ownership of Chong'an County has essentially been occupied by the Jingji Sect for a long time. However, the intersection between public and private affairs is in the hands of the imperial court. Whether it is in the later Ming Dynasty or now, the Jingji Sect must have a way to break it. After that deadlock, what was done after that was meaningless. It was just a common discussion among some Liaocun people. But once the situation could be broken, the Jingji Sect's accumulated power of young people would be able to get out of the predicament and spread to the outside world. The cities, counties, and counties in all directions...
"Ahem, Junior Sister Tian, don't panic. These are mustachioed toads, also known as horned monsters. They will swim in the water gate every spring equinox. They only have to climb down the city gate tomorrow and throw the few male toads out of the water. , by then no one will hear the toads chirping and clamoring outside the door, and naturally nothing will be done."
Hu Shihai wrinkled her nose and suddenly answered: "Is this the water gate that the county magistrate was asked to open newly?"