Nightfall Chapter 169: The dead master

Volume Two, Winter Lake, Chapter 169, The Dead Master

In the early morning of the end of winter, Chang'an City, in addition to the lively places, there are many quiet and unmanned places, such as the alleys that cross the streets and cities are very quiet.

Ning Que and Chen Pipi walked in the narrow alley, and there was no one to speak for a long time. Chen Pipi glanced at him, his eyes were a bit complicated, it was difficult to describe the complexity in words.

"If you want to ask, just ask."

Ning Que rubbed his pale cheeks to disperse the fatigue in his body a little.

Chen Pipi shook his head.

Ning Que suddenly asked: "You don't want to know what that screen character actually means?"

Chen Pipi shrugged and said, "The black hand behind the scenes? Anyway, I don't care about this."

Ning Que suddenly stopped and looked up at the gray sky that was cut into pieces by winter tree branches. Chen Pipi had a slightly different expression. He looked up to the sky, but he didn't see anything strange.

After looking at the sky in silence for a long time, Ning Que suddenly laughed, looked at Chen Pipi and said, "I'm in a demon."

Chen Pipi did not look into his eyes, but still looked at the sky, and said sarcastically: "This joke is not funny."

Ning Que looked at his round face and said seriously: "You know this is not a joke."

Chen Pipi said: "But I still think this is a joke."

Ning Que didn't mean to shrink at all, staring at him and asked: "If this is not a joke, what are you going to do with me?"

To this day, only Sangsang is the only person who knows that Ning Que practiced in the Demon Sect Mountain Gate of the Wasteland and fell into the magic way. The master of the academy may have known it vaguely, but he has never identified it.

In the past, Ning Que had discussed the magic way with Chen Pipi once. In that discussion, Chen Pipi unabashedly expressed his dislike and even spurn towards the magic sect.

But Ning Que confessed to him under this winter sky, because Chen Pipi treated him very well before he became his twelve brother. He was the only one in the Changan city team except Sangsang. The closest companion outside, after the other party had vaguely guessed the truth, he really couldn't continue to hide this matter, and he really wanted to know how Chen Pipi would treat himself.

For this matter, Chen Pipi’s response is very simple. After a moment of silence, he really couldn’t continue to play stupid. He started to froze: "I didn't hear what you were saying."

Ning Que leaned into his ear and shouted: "I'm in a demon!"

Chen Pipi bluffed, and hurriedly took his hand to cover his mouth, looked nervously back and forth, and scolded: "It's not a glorious thing. You shout so loudly that you want the whole city of Chang'an to hear ?"

Ning Que said: "I mainly want to make sure you can hear clearly."

Chen Pipi took out his ears and said with annoyance: "The blood from the monk's laparotomy just now entered my ears. My ears are a little uncomfortable, so I can't hear clearly today."

Ning Que walked up to him and began to draw a series of pictures to tell the story of the little brother's demon.

Where can Chen Pipi look at his lips and hands, closed his eyes, frowning extremely sad.

Ning Que reached out and lifted his eyes.

Chen Pipi was finally driven mad by him, and roared like thunder: "Let me know what this happened! Isn't it great if you don't say I don't know anything? Don't you have to let me slap you to death? ?"

Ning Que said with a shy face, "Brother, how willing?"

The two stared at each other, then couldn't help laughing.

Both knew in each other's hearts that this incident was really over.

Walking out of the side alley, there is a teahouse beside the street. Ning Que ran for a night with hunger and thirst. He was already exhausted, and he suffered extremely badly from the battle with the middle-aged monk. His spirit was on the verge of collapse. The big teapot outside the teahouse, sniffing the dim sum from inside, could no longer walk.

Sitting at the table next to the railing on the second floor of the tea house, Ning Que, the wind and the remnants of the clouds and the stormy waves, beat the shore to clean up all the food and tea on the table, and began to look at the early morning Chang'an City through the window in a daze, like this day and night He often does that.

Chen Pipi learned the appearance of the senior brother, slowly picking up the marinated screw meat, looking at Ning Que's expression, can not help but feel a little worried, thinking that the younger brother’s Zhihai was not affected by the previous battle with the middle-aged monk. After being hit hard, was turned into a fool by the Buddha's meaning in the Lotus Pure Land?

"Brother, can you help me with something."

Ning Que retracted his gaze out of the window, and looked at Chen Pipi and asked seriously.

Chen Pipi was startled and asked: "What's the matter?"

"This thing is like this..."

"What art?"

"That's what it means."

"What and what?"

"Three points and seven points."

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While the two brothers from the academy were concentrating on their discussion, footsteps came from the stairwell of the tea house. The two silently shut their mouths and silently looked at the stairs.

He Mingchi walked up with a butter paper umbrella under his arm, crouching slightly, looking like a teacher holding a ruler and a scroll in a rural private school.

Two monks from Moon Wheel Kingdom died strangely on the streets in the early morning. This incident will naturally alarm the Datang officials. Chang'an Mansion has no clue about this matter, and doesn’t know who did it, but God It didn't take long for the hub to determine the situation at the time and find people.

Ning Que asked He Mingchi to sit down, poured him a cup of tea, and said: "I remember that Tang Luli always respected the opinions of both parties as much as possible about challenging things like this."

He Mingchi met Chen Pippi cautiously, and he hesitated for a while and said: "But Tang Lu has never allowed life and death duels, and duels need to be filed in the government."

Ning Que said: "Where is this kind of thing accurate? As for filing, can I file with you at this time?"

He Mingchi smiled bitterly and said: "When I go back, I will let the office prepare the records for this morning's duel."

Ning Que toasted him with a cup of tea instead of wine, and said with a smile: "Then what are you doing with us?"

He Mingchi put down his teacup, sighed and said, "The problem is that you are too cruel."

Ning Que calmly said: "If you don't be ruthless, it is me who will die now."

He Mingchi held the teacup in silence for a while and said: "But the middle-aged monk is not an ordinary person."

Ning Que and Chen Pipi were silent. They had guessed that the middle-aged monk came from an extraordinary origin. It is very likely that he came from the Xuankong Temple, but knowing and confirming are two different things.

"Dao Shi is indeed not well-known. Even Tianshu hasn't recorded much about him. After he entered Chang'an a few days ago, if it weren't for me, I was curious to check some old files and asked about some information from the Moon Kingdom. According to the news, he will probably only think that he is an unknown monk at the White Pagoda Temple."

He Mingchi looked at Ning Que and said, "Many years ago, the elder of Baita Temple picked an abandoned baby outside the temple. At that time, Tianshu felt this was a bit weird because the Baita Temple was too close to the palace. Wei Senyan, it is difficult for someone to put an abandoned baby in that place. That abandoned baby is Dao Shi."

"It is said that the Taoist stone monk is related to some nobles in the Moon Wheel Palace, and we have found that he has been studying and cultivating Buddha at the Xuankong Temple in the past few years. This also indirectly proves his life experience rumors-everyone is I know that although that aunt is disgusting, she has a very high status in the Buddhist sect and has always been secretly connected with the Xuankong Temple."

"Moreover, the Tao Shi monk and Aunt Qu Ni Madi's dispositions are not similar. Although they have only returned from the Xuankong Temple for a short time, they have already gained great respect in the Buddhism of the Moon Kingdom. This morning, Mr. Thirteen Not only did he kill him, but he also chopped off his head, I'm afraid it will anger the Moon Kingdom and the Buddha at the same time."

Ning Que said: "I have faced a very troublesome event in the past two days. That event involved the destruction or rebirth of my world. At this time, let alone that the middle-aged monk might be Qu Nima. Di's illegitimate son, even if the old lady Qu Ni Madi comes by herself, I will go to your mother."

He Mingchi sighed and said: "But his brother is Qi Nian."

Buddha Sect walks around the world, the first major disciple of Xuankong Temple lectures seven thoughts.

Chen Pipi was silent, because he had heard the name many times when he was a child, and the name was said from the proud Xiling brother, so he knew that Qi Nian was very strong.

Ning Que was also silent. The reason for his silence was relatively simple. Because Chen Pipi was silent, he remembered who Qi Nian was, and understood more specifically what level of opponent he ultimately angered when he killed Dao Shi.

"I am in a bad mood today."

Ning Que finally concluded: "He hit me on the edge of the knife, then he is bad luck."

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The streets of Chang'an.

Cold the head on the ground with one hand.

These hands are dark complexion, once holding a bowl, crawling in front of the Buddha, once touching a tree in silence, and holding an iron rod more often, walking around the world with the floating monk's clothes.

This hand belongs to an ordinary ascetic monk in Baita Temple.

The ascetic monk held the head with trembling hands and knelt in front of the headless monk's corpse in front of the bun shop. It took a long time to put the head and body together.

The body of the skinny monk has also been found. It was laid flat beside the middle-aged monk's cross-legged body. The intestines have been stuffed back into the abdomen, and the chest shot through by the talisman arrow looked extremely terrifying.

The ascetic monk is holding an iron rod, kneeling in front of the remains of the two monks, and slowly bowing his head.

On the street, more than ten ascetic monks from Moon Wheel Kingdom also knelt down and bowed their heads.

In the early winter, the wind rose from the other side of the street without any cause, blowing the monk's clothes fluttering, and the dark faces of more than a dozen ascetics showed grief and anger gradually.

The sound of chanting with the wind floats in the morning street.

Many people in Chang'an City watched on both sides of the long street, bowing their heads in response to the scriptures.

Snowflakes came down, covering the two monks outside the shop door, seeming to want to cover up the blood stains on their necks and bodies. This is the last snow in Chang'an this winter.

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For decades, the elder of the White Pagoda Temple of Moon Wheel Country pushed out the door in the morning and saw a baby on the road outside the temple. The elder leaned over and watched for a long time. He smiled and asked the baby where you came from. The lacquer, tranquility and softness, the tender lips slightly opened and responded softly to where I came from, the elder was shocked, and gently waved the monk's sleeve to hug the baby into the temple.

The elder gave the boy a name for the Taoist stone, in order to have the wisdom of the Buddha, and later set it as the great virtue of Buddhism. Unexpectedly, as the age grows, the boy becomes mediocre and gradually becomes unknown, but he often wins the palace. Shining.

The Taoist stone monk practiced diligently. He left the temple at the age of twelve and returned to the capital at the age of sixteen. From the slums in the city, he looked at the imperial city in the distance, and gradually entered the lotus pure land, but he was still unknown.

One year later, the Taoist and Stone Buddhist Scriptures nobles pointed out that he resolutely went to the wasteland and entered the Xuankong Temple, where he read the scriptures and practiced the Buddha under the first lecture. However, he was still unknown in the world.

In another year, the Taoist and Stone Monk heard about something, the Zen heart moved slightly, returned from the Hanging Temple to the Moon Kingdom, traveled through 480 temples in the mist and rain, and his fame began to be heard in the Buddhist sect.

Since the world outside the Xuankong Temple, it belongs to the great virtue of the earthly Buddha. A few decades ago, there was Master Liansheng, and more than ten years ago, there was Master Huang Yang, the imperial brother of Tang Dynasty. Today, Yuelun Kingdom finally has a Taoist master.

One day, the master went to Chang'an City because of something in the wasteland, a thought in the red dust, and a word in Buddhism.

Meeting Ning Que, Mr. Thirteen of the Academy, on the bank of Changjie, passed away.

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(Hmm, the last paragraph I wrote is very cool. It is probably my evil taste to kill the great masters in history when they were not named?)

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