Jia Cong led his men to demolish a Taoist temple. There was a Taoist priest missing from the temple. Jia Cong felt strange and asked Qiu Liang, "Why don't any of the strong men we hired leave?"
Qiu Liang said: "No, the soldiers are surrounding us."
Jia Cong then ordered all the strong men to line up and come to him and Qiu Liang one by one, so as to remember their appearance and avoid getting the wrong person when they hand out money tomorrow.
He smiled and said: "Taoist Master, even if you change the clothes of the common people, your appearance will still be remembered by the lower officials."
Jia Cong looked at it and said, "It's really the Taoist priest who opened the door."
The Taoist priest smiled flatteringly and said, "I have nothing to do with this."
Jia Cong said: "Oh, since you have nothing to do, you must be able to tell the truth. Is there anything you want to tell me?"
The Taoist priest immediately said: "Brother Zhenyuan... I don't know Lord Fang Xiong."
Jia Cong suddenly narrowed his eyes: "Don't you know me?"
The Taoist priest pointed at the injured Taoist priest and said with a wry smile: "This Taoist brother Xuancheng is the one who worships Mr. Fang. He has been in our temple for less than a month. Brother Zhenyuan just ran so fast. If he can't save it, Mr. Jia will probably be killed."
Western fire and gun shooting. He said several times that practicing martial arts for a lifetime may not be as good as fire and gun shooting."
Jia Cong was stunned. He first thought about how to exchange hostages with Zhenyuan without Zhenyuan in his hand, and then thought about it, wrong! "Why don't he and Fang Xiong want to steal my woman as brothers?"
The Taoist priest said: "This matter was originally instigated by Taoist brother Xuancheng."
Jia Cong frowned, looked at the pile of rubble in front of him, and said: "Your Taoist temple is small and shabby, and Zhenyuan is a capable person. It is obvious that he has no intention of being born, so he should not be a person who is easily persuaded." He looked at it.
Glancing at Ding Wangji, he asked, "Mr. Ding, what do you think?"
Ding Wangji was dumbfounded at this moment and said hurriedly: "I don't know! He said personally that he is Fang Xiong's sworn brother! He also..." He suddenly shut up. Jia Cong glanced at him. Ding Wangji looked at
Look at Qiu Liang.
Jia Cong said: "Mr. Ding, your son is still in my hands."
Ding Wangji looked at Qiu Liang again and said, "Master Zhenyuan asked me to wait for an opportunity to test Mr. Jia's self-reliance." Jia Cong's back moved and his eyes turned cold. Ding Wangji hurriedly said,
"I have told Master Zhenyuan about Mr. Jia's words and deeds at my home and Zhaojue Temple today. Master Zhenyuan is indeed a man with a proven track record. It is rare for young people to understand him clearly."
"Huh? What does he mean?"
Ding Wangji said: "Mr. Jia's beacon fire play on the princes and Fan Li's two classics."
Jia Cong said, "It's not like he was instigated by Xuancheng. Why did he kidnap my woman?" Ding Wangji shook his head. Jia Cong looked at the Taoist priest again, and the Taoist priest told him everything he knew.
His Taoist name is Qingxiao, and he originally practiced in another Taoist temple in Qingcheng Mountain. He was expelled from the Taoist temple eight years ago because he offended the great benefactor, and no other place dared to take him in. Only this small Taoist temple that does not even have a name is called Wuming Temple by others.
, there lived an old Taoist priest Zhenyuan, who was not interested in the benefactor. Zhenyuan said: "If you want to live in this temple, you have to do farm work with the poor Taoist." Qingxiao agreed repeatedly and stayed here.
In the past eight years, they were the only Taoist priests in the Taoist temple, and they seldom interacted with other people. Zhenyuan usually did not only practice martial arts, but also study and cultivate.
At the end of the old year, someone suddenly sent a letter to Zhenyuan. After Zhenyuan read it, he burned it to ashes with a candle in front of the Sanqing Hall. A few days ago, the King of Shu killed Fang Xiong, and the Taoist priest went to the foot of the mountain to buy salt and rice.
Hearing about this, he told Zhenyuan, who then went to Chengdu. Later, Xuancheng came to surrender. Xuancheng obviously knew Zhenyuan, so he came over with a map. The Taoist priest listened to him
The meaning of the conversation between the two was that they had just met in Chengdu a few days ago. After that, before the 12th, Zhenyuan went out alone, then came back again and left again, and did not come back until noon today. He
Not long after he came back, Jia Cong led someone to knock on the door.
Jia Cong then turned around and took Ding Wangji aside and said: "Now that my woman is in Zhenyuan's hands and your son is in mine, we are just like grasshoppers on a rope. Just tell the truth. You and Guo Sanshui,
Is Fang Xiong in the same group?"
Ding Wangji smiled bitterly and said: "I really helped Guo Sanshui with some ideas, and it has nothing to do with Fang Xiong. However, I know that Fang Xiong has a sworn brother who is a Taoist priest and has excellent martial arts. A few days ago, he came to me from afar and said that he would
It's Fang Xiong's sworn brother. I heard that Mr. Jia had rescued the women and children of the family below, and that the lady from the other family was interested, so I asked if I could win Mr. Jia over."
"What did you come to see me for that day?"
"Talking about poetry with Mr. Jia." Ding Wangji said, "I accidentally picked up a poem." Jia Cong glanced at him sideways. Ding Wangji said, "I don't know who wrote the poem. Anyway, it's not Miss Fang.
This woman is not good at writing. But in the future someone will try to hint to Mr. Jia that it was Miss Fang. It's really a long way, if I can help him rescue the Fang family, he will assassinate the King of Shu for me and avenge my father."
Jia Cong rolled his eyes: "Was the King of Shu wronged? Guo Shu was clearly killed by your Majesty."
Ding Wangji turned a deaf ear: "That day, I saw that Mr. Jia was in love with him, so I told Zhenyuan that it would be impossible to seduce a woman with her looks, and told my mother. My mother then sent daughters and beauties to several families who wanted to give Mr. Jia a daughter.
Someone came up with an idea..."
"Let me tell you, how did your majesty get so much ability to get so many beautiful women?" Jia Cong shrugged, "She is using those families as a gun to test me? What will happen if she tests me?"
Ding Wangji said: "My mother had her own way of taking that girl away." Jia Cong raised one corner of his mouth, with "You are teasing me" written on his face.
"I didn't expect Master Zhenyuan to be more efficient and captured her directly. He said that he actually used more than sixty moves to capture the woman. It turned out to be true."
Jia Cong frowned: "He said that what he said was indeed true? Did you hear that right?"
Ding Wangji said: "It's just an ordinary sentence, how could I hear it wrong?"
Jia Cong suddenly felt a thunder explode above his head - no one outside knew about Chen Ruijin's kung fu! The person who spread the name for her was either a former Ouchi guard or someone from the Xiao Xiang Palace. It was just a person from the Xiao Xiang Palace.
If Jia Cong's background was leaked to Zhenyuan, why would Zhenyuan come to test whether he was willing to stand on his own? If it was the former Ouchi guard, how would they know that Chen Ruijin was following Jia Cong? Then he asked again: "He also told her about her
What?"
Ding Wangji said: "That Miss Chen is not injured or sick, and she is very knowledgeable about current affairs."
Jia Cong's eyes lit up: "Have you seen it?"
"No. Master Zhenyuan said that." Ding Wangji coughed twice and said, "Before Mr. Jia came to my house this morning, Master Zhenyuan was talking to me. Hearing Mr. Jia's arrival, he hid outside the window.
Liu Qianhu said he had arrested my son. I originally thought that Xu was a liar, but even if he was not a liar, Zhenyuan Zhenren was still there. Who knew that he left the word 'Huishan' on the wall and disappeared!"
"Tell me what he told you word for word!"
"He said: I used more than sixty moves on the little girl last night, and it turned out to be true. I haven't seen such a young man in a few years, and his talent is rare. It's a pity that she is a woman. I asked, that woman
What is the background of the bodyguard? He said, there is also a person with a background in the family. For some reason, he is willing to send her to learn martial arts. He said to himself, I have never heard of a Nanhai Shenni."
Jia Cong was overjoyed: Nanhai Shenni was obviously Chen Ruijin's master, which showed that Zhenyuan didn't know Chen Ruijin's true identity.
Ding Wangji looked at Jia Cong and said, "Master Zhenyuan said that this Chen Siniang is not a simple person. She was also ordered by her family to win over Mr. Jia for another prince."
Jia Cong raised his eyebrows and said, "We know our affairs clearly and it's not anyone else's turn to gossip. Where are we?"
Ding Wangji said: "Master Zhenyuan never told me that because I had a meeting with him a few days ago to find the way, I didn't even enter the door. I thought I was hiding here."
Jia Cong then thought about it carefully. Chen Ruijin is a bodyguard, and people outside don't know that there is such a person at all, unless she occasionally shows up a few times. If it leaks out from Wu Guo, Chen Ruiwen and her third sister are not the same.
I don’t know that she studied martial arts in the palace. Furthermore, she fought Wan Zhang from Jinggang Mountain once, or joined forces with Uncle Yang. Wan Zhang’s cunning temperament does not seem like he would hook up with Zhenyuan. Chen Guo
Zhou Damei didn't have this kind of free time. Besides...he suddenly thought of someone.
Back then, he and Jarvis protected Lin Hai and passed by Nanchang on their way to Taiwan. Because Nanchang was Yang Song's hometown, they stayed there for a few days and met Yang Erbo. In the Tianning Temple in the south of Nanchang, Chen Ruijin had a fight with Yang Erbo.
There was a fight. Jia Cong couldn't see how the two of them were fighting, but the old Taoist priest in the temple could see it clearly. Later, Jia Cong casually named Chen Ruijin "Chen Siniang". The old Taoist priest in Tianning Temple happened to have a real Taoist name.
bright.
The two old Taoist priests Zhenming and Zhenyuan were about the same age, and the pseudonym "Chen Siniang" was only used once. Chen Ruijin obviously told Zhenyuan which family she came from, so there was no need to use a pseudonym. It can be seen that "Jia Cong had a person beside him"
The name of the beautiful female escort is Chen Siniang." Zhen Ming must have told Zhen Yuan about this.
It's just that it happened many years ago, but Zhenyuan received the letter at the end of the previous year. The person who sent the letter may not be Zhenyuan. Jia Cong turned around and looked at the pile of rubble. This Taoist temple didn't even have a name! And Zhenyuan was still worried about him.
Will he be able to stand on his own? He immediately thought of a monk from a temple who had it on his head. If these monks and Taoists were all related, what else could the late emperor have buried if he was not kept intact in the religious and green circles?
The matter comes back again: What did Zhenyuan arrest Chen Ruijin for?
It was almost dawn now. Jia Cong looked around, then turned back to Qiu Liang and said, "Your Majesty and I will be willful, but as long as it's not outrageous, I think Your Majesty will agree to it."
Qiu Liang said: "Sir, you just saved the lives of the prince and his family."
Jia Cong nodded: "Please Sir Qiu, please help me put out a notice offering a reward for his arrest." So he left a dozen people at the ruins to wait to see if Zhenyuan would come back, and they led the people back to Chengdu first.
At noon that day, Zhenyuan disappeared, and notices began to be posted in the city of Chengdu, and people were quickly sent to various places in the Shu Kingdom to draw shadows and pictures to capture the evil path Zhenyuan. The notice said that the nameless temple in Qingcheng Mountain, the evil path Zhenyuan, and his accomplice Qingxiao
, Xuancheng used his identity as a Taoist priest to engage in human trafficking. He was good at capturing children and young girls in various ways. The good ones were kept to make elixirs, while the less beautiful ones were sold to others. Now the king of Shu has sent heavenly soldiers to demolish this temple.
Killed the human trafficker Xidao Xuancheng on the spot, and captured the human trafficker Xidao Qingxiao alive. There is a trafficker leader Xidao Zhenyuan who is on the run and is wanted by the whole country. The figure of the painting was written by Qiu Liang himself, making it look like Zhenyuan. Jia Cong ordered the craftsman to immediately
Carve it into a seal and cover it one by one.
After this notice was posted, the whole city was in an uproar. How many days had it been since the forty-nine souls under the Prince of Shu's palace had been saved? The people already hated the word "human trafficker" and were as afraid as ghosts. All of a sudden, the whole city was implicated.
Taoist priests, many people have nothing to do, so they go to Taoist temples to insult Taoist priests to vent their anger, and some even throw excrement into Taoist temples.
Jia Cong hadn't closed his eyes for three days and two nights, but he just couldn't sleep. His mind was so busy that it was like clockwork. After lying down for a while, he turned over and got up and opened the window, hoping that Chen Ruijin would suddenly fly in from the outside. He lay down again.
After a while, I poked my head out and took a look around, but no one was there. Finally, I just sat cross-legged on the bed and counted the sheep one, two, three, four.
But at this moment, there were soldiers outside shouting, "What are you doing!" Jia Cong jumped down, stepped on his shoes and ran out. He saw a little beggar outside. He was so scared that he sat on the ground and did not dare to move. Jia Cong hurriedly went over and asked
"Little brother, what are you here for?" The little beggar shivered and raised a piece of paper in his hand. Jia Cong hurriedly took it and held his breath and leaned towards the lantern: there was a strange thing drawn on the paper.
The graphics looked familiar, but I couldn’t figure out what they were.
Then he asked the little beggar, and he said: "Someone gave me three steamed buns and asked me to deliver them in the middle of the night."
Jia Cong nodded and stared at the figure for a long time. A guarding soldier took a look at it and said, "Why does it look like a mask?"
Jia Cong suddenly clenched his fist and said: "Jinsha Mask!" This figure is quite similar to the mask from 3,000 years ago that was excavated from the Jinsha ruins three hundred years later. He immediately shouted: "Bring the horses, Qiu Liang's family will knock down the door!"
Half an hour later, Qiu Liang, who had caused Jia Cong to make a fuss, led three thousand soldiers to surround the Qingyang Palace. Regardless of what the Taoist priests inside said, he took them aside and searched the "No. 1 Taoist Temple in Western Sichuan" three times inside and out.
Chen Ruijin was not found.
Jia Cong walked up to the presiding Taoist priest with a smile and said: "Where are the cellars and tunnels? Taoist priest, please tell me honestly. I don't think Taoist priest looks like a bad person, just don't force me to do bad things. My surname is Jia
I'm usually easy to talk to, and when I'm unhappy, I kill people, dig graves and demolish houses without batting an eyelid. Priest, think about it, is it worth it to be a human trafficker?"
The old Taoist priest only said "Immeasurable Heavenly Lord."
Jia Cong walked past the Taoist priests again, and everyone else paid them back. A short Taoist priest winked at him. Jia Congnai said again: "Well, let's interrogate them separately first. No one has spoken until the sun comes out."
"Tear down this Taoist temple." He shrugged, "Once it's old, it's easy twice."
All the soldiers responded, and Jia Cong and Qiu Liang went to the Sanqing Hall to inquire about the case. They brought the Taoist priests in one by one for questioning. All the Taoist priests said they didn't know anything. When it was the short Taoist priest's turn, he immediately said: "Yuan Chen
Your Highness has a cellar."
Jia Cong said: "Take me there! Anyway, they are all in the front. No one can see us when we go out from the back." The Taoist priest hesitated for a moment and agreed.
The two hurried to Yuan Chen Hall. The Taoist priest moved a tribute table in the east corner and quickly opened a large underground cover, revealing a hole as big as a large water tank. Jia Cong's heart jumped into his throat.
, shaking slightly, he walked down holding a lantern: it was indeed a huge cellar. There was a woman sitting against the wall in the cellar, smiling: "You came so quickly."
Jia Cong walked over a few steps and raised a lantern to shine on her face. He gently put the lantern aside, hugged the woman tightly with both hands, and said: "Liu Qiu will be here in two days. I haven't seen you for a year and a half.