Chapter 15 The Hijacking Incident of the Zoroastrian Temple Demon
Zhang Xiaojing ignored him and stood up from the flower garden and walked lightly to the main hall of the Zoroastrian Temple. After Zoroastrianism was introduced to the Central Plains, although it did not promote Buddhism or preach, there were many Hu people who believed in it. Influenced by the culture of the Tang Dynasty, the architecture was also
Xieshan style. The corridor columns are arranged under the balcony, supported by cornices and brackets. On the tile ridges are squatting fire-breathing beasts and burning fire wheels. This is the only symbol that can symbolize the Zoroastrian Temple.
Li Siye followed closely and stood at the edge of the pillar with Zhang Xiaojing. When they heard the quarrel coming from the front, the two looked at each other and stepped forward to see what was going on.
After passing through a front corridor, I saw dozens of believers dressed in white blocking the door of the inner temple. These people held long sticks in their hands and surrounded the closed vermilion door, arguing and discussing something with each other.
The two groups of people had different opinions. One party said that they should wait for the government to rescue Dashabao. The other party disagreed, saying that the demons in the temple were driven into the Zoroastrian Temple by the government, so the government was unreliable. Moreover, the Tang Code clearly stated that "the hostage-takers"
, fighting with the hostages, if the government messes up, Dashabao will easily lose his life.
Li Siye felt his scalp numb when he heard it from a distance. Anything that involves religious beliefs must be very difficult. The believers are crazy and irrational.
Zhang Xiaojing waved to Li Siye and told him to retreat to the courtyard first, then walked around to the side and rear of the main hall, and found that many believers were also surrounding the back door.
Zhang Xiaojing led him to avoid the believers and walked around the pillars to the window sash of the side hall. He reached out and pushed the sash, but it was already bolted shut inside.
Zhang Xiaojing stretched out his hand towards him: "Give me the knife."
Li Siye didn't understand what he was going to do, so he handed the barrier knife over with both hands. Zhang Xiaojing reached out to take it, pierced the blade of the knife into the bottom of the window sash, pushed it horizontally, and the wooden latch at the bottom of the window sash broke into two pieces.
He smiled and praised it himself: "What a good knife."
After handing the knife back to Li Siye, Zhang Xiaojing pushed open the window sash, turned over and jumped in. Li Siye followed closely behind, and their footsteps made a squeaking sound on the solid wood floor.
Zhang Xiaojing instinctively slowed down his pace, his steps were as light as a cat, but Li Siye couldn't do this. He took off his straw sandals, held them in his hands, and walked barefoot on the ground.
The two walked through the dim palace. All the windows were sealed and light-proof. Only the torches inserted on the walls to symbolize sacred objects could provide a source of light. They groped for a distance among the pillars, and the light suddenly became bright in front of their eyes.
, walked out of the bamboo curtain behind the door and saw the courtyard surrounded by palaces on all sides.
There is a round tower in the center of the courtyard, with a spiral staircase leading to the top of the tower. There are blood stains on the tower wall, giving people a gloomy feeling.
There was a strange chirping sound above his head, and Li Siye looked up suddenly, only to find that there were bird cages hanging under the railings on the second floors of the surrounding buildings, with large birds with black wings fluttering inside. These birds sensed the arrival of strangers and were frightened.
They all made sharp screams and struggled and fluttered in the birdcage.
Li Siye suddenly felt horrified, tightly grasped the knife in his hand, and unconsciously moved closer to Zhang Xiaojing.
Zhang Xiaojing, however, was very calm. He put his hands on his back and looked up at the sky, and re-identified the direction. Then he said to Li Siye who was standing aside in fear: "This is the sky burial platform used by Zoroastrianism to hold sky burial ceremonies. Let's go to the right. That's where it is."
The main hall.”
Li Siye knew something about sky burial. This custom is to expose the corpses of believers in the wild and let vultures peck at them. In this way, the soul of the deceased can return to heaven. The funeral ritual of Zoroastrianism is sky burial. Unexpectedly, there is actually something hidden in Chang'an City.
Such a sky burial place.
The stomachs of these scavenging vultures are filled with... Li Siye felt nauseous just thinking about it, so he quickly took two steps and followed Zhang Xiaojing into the palace.
They marched to the front hall, and Zhang Xiaojing suddenly stopped. Behind them was a tightly closed door, and the shouts of believers could be faintly heard outside the door. The relationship went through such a big circle just to enter this door.
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Zhang Xiaojing and Li Siye squatted behind the pillars, taking advantage of the difference in sight to observe the demon in the palace.
The inner hall is more than ten feet deep, and the supports inside are no longer pillars, but stone walls with the characteristics of the Western Regions. The walls are engraved with murals of Hu people performing sacrificial activities. There are three-legged pillars on both sides of the center of the hall.
, there is a brazier supported on the top of the pillar, with a blazing flame burning inside. The fuel is the grease of an unknown animal, and the smell is particularly pungent.
The so-called demon is holding Sabao and leaning against the innermost stone wall, which is very easy to distinguish. The big Sabao is wearing white clothes, which symbolizes purity and light. The three demons are all wearing dark clothes and holding spears and forks in their hands.
Li Siye glanced at Zhang Xiaojing worriedly. There was no visual perspective in the inner hall. If the two of them wanted to get close to each other, they had to be exposed in front of them, or transform into Spider-Man and crawl over the caisson.
"How should I get there?"
He was waiting for Zhang Xiaojing's answer, but this man suddenly stood up and walked to the middle of the corridor in a swagger.
Li Siye was startled and waved to him in a low voice, but Zhang Xiaojing ignored him at all.
The demons on the opposite side have noticed each other and screamed in surprise and anger: "How did you get in!"
Zhang Xiaojing stood with his hands behind his back and said coldly: "I am Zhang Xiaojing, the bad commander of Wannian County in Chang'an City. I am here to catch you monsters with bad words and deeds on orders from the superior!"
Li Siye also walked out from behind the pillar, smacking his lips, somewhat disagreeing with Zhang Xiaojing's method of handling the case. The soldiers in Jingzhao Mansion asked to be captured alive, and the other party still had hostages in their hands. He should not speak softly to prevent the other party from doing so.
Did you do something extreme?
Zhang Xiaojing walked forward leisurely. The demon holding a short knife and holding Sabao shouted hysterically: "Don't come here! If you go further, I will kill the Zoroastrian Sabao!"
Zhang Xiaojing glared fiercely with his one eye, as if he didn't care about the life or death of the hostages at all, and his steps became faster and faster. Li Siye glanced back nervously. Fortunately, the Zoroastrian believers couldn't see what was happening inside the door, otherwise they would have rushed in first
The one who needs to be killed is Zhang Badanshuai.
"Plead your crime now and I will not embarrass you. If you let me do it myself, your end will be miserable."
The demon leader's face was violent and ferocious, and the blade in his hand was close to Sabao's neck. Sabao, who had white hair and beard, was covered in sweat, his Adam's apple squirmed slightly, and the cold blade left a thin red line on his skin.
Li Siye followed Zhang Xiaojing and walked forward, and found that these three monsters looked like a family. The one who kidnapped Sabao was a middle-aged man, and the one standing on the left holding a steel fork was a woman. Although she was wearing a man's linen shirt,
, but the bun on his head is very obvious. The person holding the short gun in his hand is a young man. He has not even grown a beard, which shows that he is very young.
These three people were trembling like frightened birds, just like ordinary people who were at a loss when faced with a desperate situation. Li Siye didn't believe that they were monsters.
The young man holding the short gun in both hands finally couldn't bear it anymore and launched an attack first. He held the gun flat and stabbed Zhang Xiaojing in the chest.
The woman screamed: "San'er, don't go there!"
Zhang Xiaojing's one eye suddenly shrank, and he turned sideways to avoid the head of San'er's gun, and bent it downward. The pewter rod of the short gun was very elastic, and was bent into a U-shape. The young man's face was flushed, and his whole body was concentrated.
It's in my hands, but I can't move forward one step.
"loose!"
Zhang Xiaojing suddenly let go, and the white wax pole was like a slingshot, hitting the young man on the forehead, causing his head to bleed, and he fell to the ground after losing his grip on the short spear.
Zhang Xiaojing stepped on the young man's shoulder, and the demon leader shouted angrily: "Lotus God above! Let go of him, or I will kill Dashabao!"
The bad handsome man was completely indifferent to such threats, and he stepped on the young man to the ground.
The woman screamed and rushed towards Zhang Xiaojing's back with the iron fork in her hand. Li Siye hurriedly pulled out his sword to block it. The blade of the blade was pressed against the iron fork. The tines were long and sharp, only three inches away from his neck.
Li Siye had just recovered from his shock. Fortunately, the woman's strength was not too strong, but Li Siye pushed the steel fork into the corner in her hand. At the critical moment, the woman suddenly withdrew the steel fork and stabbed Li Siye again.
Afraid of hurting the woman, he threw away the awkward knife, squatted forward, knocked the woman away from her waist, hit the wall with a plop, and slowly fell down against the wall.
After landing, the woman made no sound at all. This made Li Siye panic. Could it be that he had hit her to death?
The demon leader suddenly realized that the hostages in his hands were useless. Zhang Xiaojing and Li Siye went their own way and maimed his wife and son in front of him.
"The government is so stupid, I and you...!"
He suddenly picked up the tip of the knife. Instead of attacking Sabao, he pointed the tip of the knife toward his own neck.