Chapter 42 Who Killed Xuan Mi
Chang Henjiang rode a fast horse to Anming Town. He dismounted in the town, went to a restaurant, slapped a ingot of silver on the table, and shouted loudly:
"Here comes a bowl of wine!"
When the waiter saw this man who was dusty with a lot of work, a knife hanging on his waist, and a fierce look on his face, he knew that he was not easy to deal with, so he immediately nodded and bowed in agreement. , then went to the back to get a full bowl of wine and brought it to the table.
After Chang Henjiang took three mouthfuls, he felt a lot of relief.
He took over the task from King Kang in the evening yesterday and rushed to Qingzhou without stopping. He didn't have time to rest until now. Even his strong body felt tired now.
But this matter is urgent!
Nowadays, the world is in chaos. The feudal kings are in their own camps. Everyone controls a piece of land, but no one wants to live here.
Everyone can see that this is a good time to compete in the world!
So the vassal princes requisitioned land for war, bought horses and recruited troops. Some were royalists, some were self-proclaimed emperors, and some were settling in one side. They were making such a fuss that they almost blew each other's brains out. Typed out.
Xuzhou and Qingzhou are adjacent, and they happen to belong to the territories of King Kang and King Shou. King Shou was supposed to stick to the wealthy Qingzhou honestly, filling his pockets with money, but he has made some small moves recently.
The big lake in his territory began to be filled with evil energy today, evil spirits were threatening people, and there were even ghosts at the border.
Kang Wang’s masters were practicing the method of opening the altar. It took seven days before they finally discovered that King Shou was using the entire Qingzhou territory to make a big deal and build the altar.
What’s so great about this?
How powerful the altar built from the land of a state is. If others don't know, how can he, King Kang, not know?
So King Kang hurriedly sent monk Xuanmi to enter Qingzhou to collect information.
Things had been normal up to this point, but the strange thing was that Xuan Mi was dead!
Each of King Kang's disciples has a soul lamp. When a person dies, the lamp goes out. Birds send messages slowly, and sound and fragrance need to be ignited. Both of them need some time to send the message to King Kang. Only This soul lamp is extinguished as soon as it is extinguished.
The most important thing is that when his soul lamp goes out, it is not just extinguished.
According to the man who was guarding the warehouse tonight, a breeze blew from the mourning hall where the soul lamp was placed, and grass grew around the entire mourning hall. When the man went in to check, he found that Genmi’s soul lamp was out. .
After hearing this, King Kang waved his hand and asked Chang Henjiang to come over and find out who killed Xuanmi.
After a bowl of wine, Chang Henjiang planned to order some beef, but there were no dead cows nearby, so the store couldn't cut them out, so he asked him to bring some dried salted fish and steamed them. Eat it together with the finished rice.
After eating eight fish and three bowls of wine, Chang Henjiang just picked up the knife and left without checking whether the money slapped on the table was enough.
How could the waiter dare to stop him? He waited until he was far away before calling the shopkeeper and weighing him with a small scale.
It’s half a penny short.
When Chang Henjiang went out, he caught a man selling candied haws on a stick next to him and asked:
"Do you have any wealthy temples here?"
The man selling candied haws on a stick was raped by him. The fierce man was startled, and he pointed tremblingly at Shan'anming Temple not far away. He didn't say anything nonsense, left the person behind and walked towards the mountain.
Chang Henjiang didn’t have a close relationship with Xuan Mi, but he also knew that he liked to go to wealthy temples to deceive him. Maybe Xuan Mi’s method was discovered when he was stealing, and the monks were angry and beat him up. dead.
Climbing up the 666 steps from the bottom of the mountain, Chang Henjiang finally arrived at the gate of Anming Temple. As soon as he arrived here, he saw that the Anming Temple was dejected and the monks all looked bad. It was a huge bullying.
As soon as he saw this situation, he knew that Xuan Mi had definitely arrived.
So he entered the door directly and asked loudly:
"Where is your abbot and abbot?"
The monks in the temple were startled by this uninvited guest, and first looked at each other, Finally, a clever man ran to the inner courtyard and called An Yi and An Er.
There was not much time, and An Yi and An Er walked out with a face full of resentment.
They looked Chang Henjiang up and down and said unhappily:
“Donor, what are you doing here? We don’t accept people as vicious as you in this temple.”
“ Has Xuanmi been here before?" Hearing Chang Henjiang's question, An Yi suddenly became energetic.
“What is your relationship with him?”
"He is a retainer, and I also work for King Kang. That's the relationship."
When he came up, he grabbed Chang Henjiang's collar and cursed:
"Okay! You and that I know the smelly monk! He stole all the money from our temple! If you don’t give me an explanation, don’t even think about going down the mountain today!”
At this point, Chang Hen Jiang Yi was about to be caught. Got it!
But suddenly a cold light appeared. An felt a chill on his neck, and his vision began to spin. Then he fell to the ground and rolled around several times.
With just one face-to-face meeting, An Yi tried to grab Chang Henjiang's collared hand and his bare head, and was chopped off at the same time!
An Yi, whose head was beheaded, seemed to have not yet reacted, flickering on the ground and blinking twice.
Only then did I realize that I was dead, big tears slid down the corners of my eyes, and there was no longer any life left.
"Senior Brother!"
An Er screamed, crawling and kneeling in front of his headless senior brother. For a moment, he could neither cry nor scream, only The lower body was trembling continuously.
Before he had time to cry out his condolences, he suddenly felt something being placed around his neck.
"Who did Xuan Mi associate with before he died?"
Chang Henjiang's voice was cold, and An Er's face turned pale with fright, and the area between the two thighs began to become wet quickly. Even the ground was wet, mixed with An Yi's blood.
"No...no." An Er's tears fell down.
“Think quickly!” Chang Hen Jiang Li shouted: “Or I will chop off your head!”
An'er's head was about to smoke, and then he stammered:
"I... a young monk in my temple said that Master Xuanmi heard someone coming to the door. A woman hurried out later."
Taoist?
Woman?
It is possible that Xuan Mi saw the woman running out quietly, but what happened to this person?
"What do these two people look like? Where are they going now?"
"I don't know. The young monk in our temple was kicked to death by the master!" An Er begged for mercy: "Grandpa, please spare your life. , Grandpa, please forgive me, that’s all I know!”
“Tsk.”
Seeing that the clue was broken, Chang Henjiang felt unhappy, and when he saw An Er crying, he immediately twitched. The knife also chopped off An Er's head.
The monks nearby were also scared out of their wits. Some huddled together, and some knelt on the ground and kowtowed towards Chang Henjiang.
But Changhen Jiang sneered and said:
"Xuanmi is dead, and now we can't catch the murderer. Someone has to bear the consequences. It just so happens that this sword of ours needs to cultivate its fierceness, so it's just right for you to sacrifice it!"
He walked to the courtyard, closed the courtyard door, hung up the door latch, and sealed the door.
For a time, screams broke out in Anming Temple, and blood flowed out along the threshold.
There was murderous intent and blood in the sky. Everyone in the town seemed to see the blood mist rising up.
Half an hour later, the door was pushed open again, and Chang Henjiang walked out of it wearing a bloody suit and holding a big knife.
"Taoist priests and women, where can we find this horse?"
He muttered to himself.
(End of this chapter)