Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 123 Private
After this beautiful woman saw Jiang Tian, ​​who was yelling and embracing, her eyes suddenly brightened.Then he desperately got up and threw himself at Jiang Tian's feet; he clinged to his thigh with his full chest, and said in a pitiful and moving voice:
"Please be merciful, the lady is innocent!"

"All these thieves who broke in suddenly, hijacked..."

The next moment, in the midst of strange and inexplicable eyes, she pulled out the hairpin knife hidden in her temples, and was about to stab Jiang Tian's lower abdomen; then someone pinched her slender wrist and twisted it hard After a few laps, the moans turned into a string of twists.

"Madam, you have done a good job. Now I don't even have to ask questions."

Only then did Jiang Tian say to the beautiful woman who was already so painful that she couldn't speak, and she just whimpered on the ground: Then he wringed off her other hand; now her nose and tears flowed together, making Jiao The good faces are distorted into evil spirits.

"You...you...how dare..."

The only remaining servant woman suddenly wanted to rush up and grab Jiang Tian, ​​but was kicked by him and fell into the corner of the wall, and she passed out immediately.

"Why don't you dare, the family of sinners who feed the cult, ten thousand deaths are not a pity, let alone this mere suffering." Jiang Tian said coldly, and then said to the other Jinwu disciples: "What are you still standing around for? Hurry up and pack up these evidences that were intended to be destroyed; then thoroughly search inside and outside to see if there are any missing clues and criminal evidence."

"Yes!"

Only then did Lin Jiulang come back to his senses, and quickly dispatched and urged his subordinates to disperse and do their own thing.

These Jinwu disciples are obviously also veterans in cooperating with the Gongmen; some cleaned up and inspected the burnt corners of the documents and letterheads in the cauldron; ; There are groups of three or five who went upstairs to search.

So, amidst the sound of smashing and smashing in the upstairs, someone shouted again:

"Found a secret room."

"It's all utensils and tools."

"Be careful……"

"A lot of poison..."

"There are still alive..."

"Catch it, don't run away..."

At this time, there was a commotion from outside; it was the escaped domestic servants who attracted a group of armed men who were obviously guards and armed with various equipment to rush over.The leading generals, even with half-body leather hoods, rushed to the front with flashing swords in their hands.

"Protect the home."

"Rescue Madam."

Then the leading generals were knocked to the ground one after another by the crossbow arrows shot in the air; the others couldn't help being startled, but they rushed back a dozen steps with a loud bang; only these were left struggling on the ground Bleeding generals.I saw someone in the rest of the nursing home repeatedly scolding:

"What's the use of raising these wastes of yours with good food and clothing?"

"You can't even protect the mistress. When the feudal lord returns, you soft-boned relatives and family members will not be able to think about it."

So, under the coercion and lure of this cursing, those guards unexpectedly regained their courage and formed a simple formation; after encouraging each other a few times, they rushed forward in a swarm.

But this time, when they were about to reach the range of the hand crossbow, they suddenly dispersed into several groups, and then surrounded them on both sides.It was successfully dodged immediately, and most of the crossbows fired again, only one unlucky guy was hit by an arrow in his calf and fell to the ground.

And when Jiang Tian, ​​who was watching from the center, was about to wait for the opportunity to make a big killing; there was the sound of a large group of people running outside again, and the sound of the door being smashed open; and those who had rushed to the courtyard near the atrium building , but couldn't help showing confusion and fear, and stopped one after another.

The next moment, I saw a green flag painted with golden tiger patterns appearing behind the high wall in the distance.Lin Jiulang, who was standing in front of Jiang Tian and was about to face the enemy, couldn't help being overjoyed when he saw this, and said, "It's the backup of our Jinwu Guard."

As if confirming his words, amidst the rustling sound of the large armor leaves from far and near; a group of armored soldiers with only their faces exposed, neatly running in a row with spears at one end As soon as he entered, he immediately surrounded those panic-stricken nurses.

However, Lin Jiulang exclaimed on the spot:

"The Zhonglang Mansion actually mobilized soldiers stationed outside Beijing!"

These look majestic and awe-inspiring, and are quite different from the Jinwu disciples around Lin Jiulang, who are more or less contaminated with the city and the atmosphere of life and fireworks; among the Jinwu soldiers, there is also a bright light armor wearing a golden round guard, wearing a winged luan The general who pocketed and rubbed his forehead with scarlet, clenched his fist and said:

"Li Fang, Lieutenant of the Fourth Regiment of the Sixth Battalion of Bo Youjinwu, the supervisor of Shayuan, led 340 and eight members of the headquarters, and was ordered to come to listen to the current situation. May I ask who is Jiang Pandian?"

"I am."

Seeing this, Jiang Tian stepped forward without hesitation and said:
Immediately after seeing the school lieutenant Li Fang, he half-kneeled and knocked on his chest and said: "By the order of General Li Zhonglang of Jinwu's office, all subsequent matters will be ordered by the judge."

"Okay!" Jiang Tian was stunned when he heard the words, but he didn't refuse and immediately said: "Lead someone to search every inch of this place carefully, and don't allow any living thing to escape; , dig three feet underground in the courtyard; especially focus on the rockery, flower stones and pools, and pay attention to possible tunnels and secret rooms."

"Decree"

Li Fang, the school lieutenant, paused heavily and said: Then he waved his hand, and among the hundreds of Jinwu soldiers who entered the courtyard, more than a dozen military academies rushed forward and assigned their respective troops one by one in front of Jiang Tian. Here comes the task.

However, after a while, the Jinwu armored soldiers who searched the courtyard had found several large vats filled with small bones of various colors under the flower stones, and found a hollow secret room in the rockery; Some large and small bottles and jars came out.

It's just that in Jiang Tian's field of vision, the task progress reminder still appeared, but there was no progress at all; even if he went back to the building and interrogated the servants and maidservants, the woman who was in a coma woke up again. Under the swearing, he asked a lot of questions.

The next moment, Jiang Tian, ​​who was standing at the highest point of the pavilion and looking at the surrounding environment, suddenly pointed to a spire that was faintly exposed behind the high wall; someone called a trembling servant woman and asked, "What is there?" place?"

The servant woman didn't dare to raise her head in fear and said, "Back...back...for the officials, where, where...it's Lanruo (Futu Temple) where our family supports our ancestors."

The next moment, Jiang Tian took Lin Jiulang and a whole team of armored soldiers, cut off the bolts one after another, pushed open two back doors, and walked through an inconspicuous inner road with a double wall; Temple).

The so-called Lanruo originally refers to the original monastery and the place where monks practiced.However, since the Buddhism in Tianzhu has gradually declined in the past hundred years, and Buddhism has spread eastward, it has gradually become a collective name for wild temples and Zhaitangs that are not officially certified or granted by the imperial court, and worshiped by the people themselves.

In the Qianyuan and Taixing Great Western Expeditions more than 100 years ago, Duke Liang summoned Zhongtu Buddhism to donate property and dispatched monks, and also recruited various ethnic groups in Anxi to launch a coalition army to revive the ancestral court of Tianzhu Buddhism and the holy war of protecting the original source; The wild temples for worship are almost extinct.

On the contrary, this kind of private Lanruo (Futu Temple), which stood side by side with the ancestral hall and was used to worship the ancestors, blossomed everywhere among the feudal lords.Therefore, although the attached Lanruo only covers an area of ​​one mu, it can be regarded as a place where the sparrow is small and complete.

It's just that the only main building at the moment, there are only two and a half-sized Buddhist halls, all of which are quiet and empty; except for some faintly flickering ever-burning lights on the lamp wheel and oil tank, there is only one statue sitting in a solemn shape. The half-foot golden Buddha statue.

The entire Buddhist hall is not too big and is open on all sides. There is only a canopy of light gauze hanging around the Buddha statue, so you can see the inside at a glance, and there is no place to hide or hide.However, Jiang Tian slowly turned to the back of the Buddha statue without giving up, but he couldn't help but gasped.

Because, in the narrow wall behind the Buddha statue, there is another three-foot-high unknown cast iron statue.It's just that this black and blue god statue has three heads and eight arms, with a ferocious expression and an angry look, and there are several naked vajra goddesses hanging on his body.

However, this is not a particularly unusual thing; and because of the early expansion of foreign territories, although the beliefs of these princes and vassals are still respected by the Middle Earth, the worship images of various gods are inevitably received by the places where they are located. Influence has always been strange and inconsistent;

Whether it's the Nestorian's Great Sage Moving Mouse, the Twelve Dharma Kings; or the Zoroastrian Harpy God Ahura, and the Manichaeism's Great Mingshen/Bright Buddha.If it weren't for the imperial court's ban, there would even have been enshrining Wutong God from Fujian, or the Five Immortals from the old land of Nanzhao, in their own family temples.

In fact, even the most common Buddhist believers among feudal vassals have all kinds of strange private worship objects besides the traditional eight great sects and the two branches of Tang Mi.

Because in the last years of Taining, the reconstruction of the ancestral home of Buddhism in East Tianzhu, at the Unsheltered Conference of Nalanda Temple.Not only did Master Xuanzang be recognized as the revived patriarch of Tianzhu Buddhism (Jingri Dynasty) after the Bodhisattvas of Nagarjuna (Guishuang Dynasty) and Maming (Kanishega Dynasty); the only canon.

Because Master Xuanzang, who traveled westward to the five directions of Tianzhu, was certified by Nalanda Temple, the highest institution of learning, and the last generation of Sanzang Master; he was also the only one in the Sutra Discrimination Conference in Qunv City under the witness of the Lord of Hundred Nations and Thousand Cities in Tianzhu. It is revered as the legend of "Mahayana Heaven" and "Liberation Heaven" by Mahayana Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism.

At the same time, it was also announced that many Hinayana and Theravada Buddhist schools in foreign countries thought that they would rebuild the classics.As a result, in the South China Sea countries that generally believe in Theravada, Theravada and Brahmanism, to the land of southern Tianzhu, the Dharma protection/Dharma rectification war has been fought intermittently for nearly 100 years.

Therefore, when the vassal princes of the Tang Dynasty finally completed the great cause of protecting the Dharma in Tianzhu and rectifying the Dharma in foreign regions, they also naturally accepted the worship of all kinds of residual gods from the local area, and were tamed as Buddhists and heretics. Cheng Dharma protector.

It's just that these few Vajra Girls who are obviously embedded in this Dharma Protector are a little too delicate to be lifelike, right?So much so that Jiang Tian can see that there are faint traces of color difference that have been played with/rubbed on his exaggerated and treacherous shape.

The next moment, Jiang Tian couldn't help holding it up according to the traces, and when he pulled it hard, he heard a crackling sound of loosening; he saw the foot-long cast iron statue of the Vajra Girl, which was slowly pulled out just like that.

(End of this chapter)