A hundred flavors of life

Under the night, there were people walking in the market in twos and threes. Hua Twelve, Lu Zhishen, and Yang Zhi were walking among the crowd carrying weapons, especially Rudana's water-milled Zen staff. Avoid.

This situation naturally alarmed the patrolling soldiers of the Wucheng Army and Horse Division. However, when they saw that the three of them were all wearing official clothes, especially the leader Hua Twelve, who was wearing the clothes of a third-grade dragon forbidden officer, they immediately bowed and retreated. Open, don’t dare to ask again.

When Lu Zhishen arrived at Tiekan Temple, he was about to rush in. He was kicked out of Daxiangguo Temple and had nowhere to go. Hua Twelve not only arranged food and lodging for him, but also allowed him to enter the Palace Commander's Mansion as a Yuhou. I am grateful, but I am worried that I can't repay him. I will do something for this good brother today, and he plans to get a jackpot.

However, Hua Twelve grabbed Lu Zhishen and said, "Senior brother, please stay here. There are many houses in Tiejian Temple, and I don't know which room the demon monk is hiding in. Don't scare the snake, find someone to ask about the situation first!"

He took Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi and did not go through the main entrance. He chose a remote place and climbed in through the courtyard wall. He entered a Zen room at random and gently pushed the door. The door was not locked. He just pushed it open. As soon as he opened it, the room was dark, but Hua Twelve could see clearly that a monk had fallen asleep inside.

He walked directly in, followed by Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi, and gently opened the door.

Hua Twelve pulled out his sword, put the back of the sword on the monk's neck, and slapped his bald head. The monk was sleeping soundly, but when he was hit like this, he suddenly let out an "ah" sound and was about to get up in shock.

But when the cry of "ah" reached his throat, it was pushed back by the back of the knife. He didn't get up, and his throat hurt from the strangulation. Just now, when he was twelve years old, he wanted to use the blade of the knife. At this time, the monk was already afraid that he had a different head. Got it.

Hua Twelve said softly: "Master, please don't shout, otherwise your life will be lost!"

The monk nodded repeatedly, and Hua Twelve said again: "Who are you in this temple? If you can have your own Zen room, your status should not be low!"

The monk said with a trembling voice: "The young monk is the supervisor of this temple."

Hua Twelve nodded: "Don't be afraid, we are not bad people!"

The monk looked like I was an idiot. How could a good person enter someone else's room with a knife in the middle of the night?

After understanding the monk's eyes, Hua Twelve rolled his eyelids:

"Look at our clothes. We are official servants, and we are handling a case to arrest a gangster. Someone saw a monk coming to your Tiejian Temple to hang out orders. The monk was barefoot and the Taoist priest was lame. Is this the case?"

At this time, the moonlight was strong, shining on the window paper. With the faint light, the monk saw that Hua Twelve was indeed wearing official clothes. He felt relieved and said:

"Yes, yes, the monk's name is Master Mangmang, and the Taoist's name is Master Miaomiao. They are friends of the host, and they live in the Zen room in the backyard!"

Hua Twelve raised his sword and ordered: "Take us there, but you must not make any noise. If the thief leaves, you will be his accomplice!"

The monk nodded repeatedly, got up and put on a monk's robe, then led a few people out of the Zen room and walked back.

Very few monks walked around the temple at night, and when they encountered them, they were ordered to leave quickly by the prison and not to make any noise.

At this time, in a Zen room in the backyard of Tiekan Temple, the mangy-headed monk who was sitting in lotus position suddenly opened his eyes and said:

"Why does this poor monk feel like he's having heart palpitations!"

The lame Taoist who was practicing Qi on the side was startled when he heard the words: "My fellow Taoist has a feeling when he enters concentration, there must be a reason for it, let me figure it out!"

After talking about the hand-knotting technique and calculating, after a while, the Taoist priest's eyes suddenly shrank:

"No, I'm afraid there will be a bloody disaster today!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the meditation room was kicked open, and a man came in with a steel knife:

"You guessed it right!"

The leper-headed monk stood up suddenly when he saw it: "Lin Chong, listen to the poor monk's explanation." It seemed that he had met Hua Twelve before.

Hua Twelve smiled coldly: "You know me? It seems that you are really good at it. I will listen to your explanation!"

As he spoke, he stepped forward and went down the mountain like a fierce tiger. He slashed out two swords, one on the left and one on the right, towards the scabby monk and the lame Taoist priest respectively.

The monk took out a wooden fish from his sleeve and held it in front of him. With a clang, the sword struck the wooden fish. The wooden fish was made of an unknown material, but it was intact. However, the wooden fish blocked it, but the monk could not stand steadily. Take a few steps back.

The Taoist priest turned his hand and struck out a palm. A bolt of thunder out of thin air collided with the sword energy attacking him. With a bang, the thunder energy and sword energy exploded in all directions. It turned out to be a thunder in the palm of his hand.

"Come on!"

The monks and Taoist priests tried to escape through the explosion caused by the collision between the sword energy and the palm thunder, but Hua Twelve directly threw the waist knife out, and the strong wind roared and killed them behind. If the two people still jumped The window was bound to be hit by a flying steel knife.

The leper-headed monk and the lame man said, shrinking down at the same time, they heard a thud above their heads. The waist knife flew over their heads and struck the window frame horizontally, making the window buzz.

Seeing that Hua Twelve did not have a steel knife in his hand, the two looked at each other and understood each other's intentions. They actually gave up on escaping and came towards Hua Twelve at the same time.

Hua Twelve had a sneer on his lips. He waved his hands and slashed with two invisible swords. I can create swords even without a sword.

The leper-headed monk and Lame Dao quickly responded with the same methods as before. The former used wooden fish to block, and the latter used palm thunder to counterattack.

But as soon as the two parties' methods came into contact, the monk's wooden fish exploded with a bang. After a sword blast smashed the wooden fish into pieces, it was directly chopped on the chest, blood spattered, and the injuries were deep enough to see the bones.

If the wooden fish hadn't blocked him, he would have killed the mangy monk on the spot.

The Taoist priest didn't have a hard time either. The thunder from his palm hit the sword and exploded, but the sword was not destroyed. It just changed its direction slightly and hit the Taoist priest's left shoulder, directly damaging the shoulder bone. After splitting it halfway, his left hand suddenly dropped softly.

At this time, the monks realized that the sword energy that Hua Twelve struck with his bare hands was more than ten times more powerful than the sword energy that he slashed with a steel sword in his hand.

How could the two of them dare to fight like this? However, although they were seriously injured, it did not affect their movements. At the same time, they turned around and broke open the window to escape.

Hua Twelve sneered, moved his hand, and used the Dragon Capturing Skill to catch back the steel knife that had been chopped on the window frame, and then chased him out.

The reason why he was not in a hurry was because Yang Zhi and Lu Zhishen were guarding outside. How could they let these two people escape easily.

Sure enough, I heard Yang Zhi shout softly: "Where are the thieves?"

And Lu Zhishen yelled: "Eat the Sajia Zen Staff!"

Hua Twelve jumped out and saw that Lu Da and Yang Zhi were already fighting with the leprous monk and Lame Daozhu outside.

He reminded: "Senior brother, Yang Zhi, be careful these two people know magic!"

Seeing Hua Twelve come out, the leprosy-headed monk and the lame Taoist suddenly became anxious. They saw the Taoist priest's left arm was squeaking, and he used only one right hand to frequently send thunder from his palm. Yang Zhi didn't know how powerful he was, so he blocked the horizontal sword and flashed the lightning. , the palms were numb, and the Lingbao Sword almost dropped.

Just when Yang Zhi was suffering a loss, Lu Zhishen slapped the mangy monk on the back with his stick. The sixty-two-pound water-milled Zen staff had the power of a thousand kilograms when swung. Coupled with the blessing of Luda's divine power, I'm afraid it would A hole must be made in a wall.

But when he hit the mangy monk on the back, there was a pop, and it was like a defeat. At the same time that the monk was knocked away, a lot of green juice burst out from his back, and it fell to the ground and smoked.

Hua Twelve quickly reminded: "Poisonous!"

Lu Zhishen was not afraid. He swept away the flying juice with a sweep of his Zen staff, and then strode forward to take the leper's life.

But at this moment, the Taoist suddenly threw out a ray of green light from his sleeves and headed straight for Lu Zhishen.

Yang Zhi and Hua Twelve shouted at the same time: "Brother, be careful!"

Hua Twelve suddenly launched his attack to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao. The steel sword in his hand slashed out a two-foot-long sword and slashed towards the Taoist priest.

Unexpectedly, the Taoist priest ignored the danger and rushed towards the leprechaun on the ground. While catching the leper, the lame leg failed to dodge and was cut down by the sword energy.

Lu Zhishen shouted loudly: "Open!" He swung his Zen staff horizontally and hit the green light. He heard the sound of a sword, and the green light flew back towards the Taoist priest as if it was spiritual.

The lame Taoist broke off his foot, gritted his teeth and pinched out a hand move, pointed towards the ground, and a large white mist erupted on the ground, hiding him and the mangy-headed monk in the white mist, and the green light shot into the white mist. The fog disappeared.

Hua Twelve chased after him and when he used his sword energy to disperse the white mist, there was no trace of the monk.

Lu Zhi said with deep hatred: "This monster has a lot of evil tricks. It's a shame that he escaped!"

Hua Twelve sneered: "He was injured and couldn't escape far. Look what this is!"

After saying that, he pointed towards the ground and saw obvious blood stains on the ground. The three of them immediately followed the blood stains. The prisoner was so frightened just now that he quickly followed after seeing this. Some monks in the temple did not know why and heard Dongjing came out to check, but he dismissed them all. He was afraid that the three of them would kill each other and injure the monks in the temple.

The three of them followed the bloodstain to a side hall. Seeing that the bloodstain stopped there, Hua Twelve asked the prison court: "What place is this?"

The supervisor said: "Tiekan Temple is Ning Rong's family temple, and this is the place where the second Duke Ning Rong is enshrined in the temple!"

"Let's go in and have a look!" Hua Twelve greeted Lu Da and Yang Zhi and was about to go in. But at this moment, the door of the temple suddenly opened, and a middle-aged monk walked out. When he saw the stranger, he frowned. , asked:

"Who are you?"

The Supervisor quickly introduced Hua Twelve: "This is Master Se Kong, the host of our temple!"

After he finished speaking, he said to the host: "These donors are the messengers who came to capture Jiangyang's thieves, namely Master Mang Mang and Master Miao Miao."

Hua Twelve didn't wait for him to finish, and pointed towards the palace door: "We want to go in and take a look!"

Master Se Kong stepped aside and made a gesture of invitation: "You guys can check, but please don't make any noise, for fear of disturbing the spirit of Second Duke Ning Rong in heaven!"

Seeing that the host was so easy to talk to, Hua Twelve nodded and said: "Don't worry, master, we also respect the two princes very much, so we don't dare to disturb them!"

After saying that, he led Lu Da and Yang Zhi and stepped in. The three of them all held weapons and were on guard. The blue light emitted by the Taoist priest just now was obviously a flying sword. If Lu Zhishen hadn't reacted quickly, he would have suffered a big loss.

This side hall is very empty and can be seen at a glance. There is a shrine in the front, which enshrines two majestic generals in armor. They must be the Second Duke Ning Rong. There are incense burners and futons for people to worship under the shrine.

Yang Zhi and Lu Da did not need to be ordered to check whether there was anyone hiding under the shrine and behind the statue of the Second Duke Rong Ning.

Hua Twelve was attracted by the murals on the walls on both sides of the hall.

The murals on the walls on both sides are very exquisite, and the characters on them are lifelike. On the east wall, there are many goddesses walking among the clouds with scattered flowers. The fairies are holding various auspicious flowers in their hands. The auspicious clouds are stretched and the clothes are fluttering, showing the beauty of rhythm. .

On the right side of the mural, there are pavilions, pavilions, pavilions and ponds, among which there are naughty children playing and eminent monks giving lectures. The paintings are exquisite and lifelike.

Hua Twelve was watching intently, when suddenly the voice of Se Kong, the host, came from beside him: "It is said that the murals in the temple were left by the painting saint Wu Daozi, and they are the treasure of this temple!"

Hua Twelve came back to his senses and was a little surprised. Why did this monk come to him without a sound? Could he be a master?

I was thinking in my heart, but said: "That shouldn't be the case. This mural is brightly colored and cannot be passed down from the Tang Dynasty. The master may have been deceived!"

Se Kong just smiled and said nothing.

Hua Twelve was distracted by this and lost interest in looking at the painting. He asked Se Kong, "I heard that the leprous monk and the lame Taoist priest are your friends, master?"

Se Kong said: "Those two are good friends who took over the post of host. The poor monk entertained them in the temple because of this love. If they have done any evil things, it has nothing to do with this temple, please be careful!"

Hua Twelve looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze, but Se Kong's expression was calm, showing no signs of nervousness.

At this time, both Yang Zhi and Lu Zhishen came over and shook their heads at Hua Twelve, indicating that they had not noticed anything.

Hua Twelve nodded with the host, and then clasped his fists at the second Duke Ning Rong on the shrine: "We are waiting to capture Xiao Xiao, so please don't blame me for disturbing me!"

After saying that, he, Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi left the side hall and went to look elsewhere.

As a result, the clues were lost after leaving this side hall, and no new blood stains were found. So I had to go back to the place where the previous fight took place, and found that the broken leg was gone, but there was something more than a foot long that looked like a fish tail on the ground.

The three of them thought it was strange, but they didn't pay much attention. They just thought it was some greedy monk in the temple who secretly ate fish without cleaning it.

Hua Twelve thought for a while and said:

"The monk was hacked by me and hit with a Zen stick by my senior brother. He may not be able to survive. I disabled the arm of the Taoist priest and cut off one of his feet. It can be regarded as a bad breath for today, so that's it!"

He immediately asked the two of them to leave.

Went outside to the open wine shop, bought some food and wine, took them home and had a happy drink with my father-in-law, Coach Zhang, Lu Da and Yang Zhi.

Let’s talk about the host Se Kong. When he received the report that Hua Twelve and others had completely left, he walked to the mural on the right and sighed:

"How could these two fellow Taoists be so careless and let Lin Chongxun come here!"

As soon as he said this, he saw a toad jumping out from behind the willow tree next to the pond in the painting. The toad jumped out of the mural and spit out a mouthful of blood when it landed on the ground.

Then, another carp with a bald tail jumped out of the pond, landed on the ground and turned into a one-legged Taoist.

The Taoist said bitterly: "I didn't expect Lin Chong to be so fierce and unreasonable. He didn't say a word. He broke in and wanted to take our lives!"

As he spoke, he took out two pills, fed one to the mangy monk's mouth, and drank one himself.

Time flies by like a white horse, and the New Year is passed in a blink of an eye, and a few months are here again.

A lot of things have happened in the past few months. First of all, Hua Twelve was finally recommended by Gao Qiu to join the Beijing Camp and led the only battalion among the Twelve Regiment Camps.

But unfortunately, after he took office, Wang Xifeng's uncle Wang Ziteng opened up the line between heaven and earth, took the Cai Jingmen Road, was promoted to the governor of the Beijing Camp, and became Hua Twelve's immediate boss, and then kept giving him little shoes. , I feel uncomfortable looking for him.

I don't blame the prince for trying to deal with him, it was mainly because there was a reason for it.

Wang Xifeng was deceived so badly that her entire family fortune in Rongguo Mansion was deceived. She and Mrs. Wang were almost given divorce letters directly from Jia Zheng and Jia Lian's uncle and nephew.

It was the good news of Wang Ziteng's promotion that made Jia's mother change her mind and leave the two girls in the house.

But the situation of Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng was not as good as before. Mrs. Wang went directly to the Buddhist temple and was imprisoned. This old woman cheated and squandered hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from her parents' family. In this situation, any husband's family would be furious.

If it hadn't been for Wang Ziteng's promotion, Mrs. Wang's death would have been considered a minor incident.

Wang Xifeng was also deprived of her rights as a housekeeper, and was kicked by Jia Lian for pledging treasures from the public treasury and borrowing money from the Lai family. She vomited a mouthful of blood at that time and is currently bedridden.

Feng Lazi failed to win the lawsuit. Jia Rong and Jia Qiang from Dongfu refused to admit that they cheated her, and the slave seed of the Lai family came to collect debts.

This made the Ning Rong family almost fall out, especially when Jia Rong and Jia Qiang said that Aunt Lian had slandered her nephew whenever they met. When Feng Lazi heard this, she was so angry that she vomited blood.

Wang Xifeng was not the one who suffered. After losing the lawsuit, the matter could not be settled, so he asked Ping'er to ask Wang Ziteng to investigate. The latter searched here and there, but there were no clues. He just vaguely felt that it was related to Gao Qiu, because that shopkeeper Cui was Gao Qiu's people.

When Gao Qiu recommended Hua Twelve to lead the battalion alone, Wang Xifeng suddenly realized that shopkeeper Cui was Gao Qiu's man, and Lin Chong was also Gao Qiu's man. They were in the same group, and she had issues with Lin Chong. She didn't want any evidence and immediately concluded that it was Lin Chong who was the one responsible for the harm, which was why Mr. Wang Ziteng put on Hua Twelve's shoes.

I have to say that women’s intuition is sometimes so accurate.

Yang Zhi and Lu Zhishen were also transferred to Hua Twelve's account at this time. Seeing their brothers and elder brothers being made things difficult by Wang Ziteng, Lu Zhishen wanted to kill Wang Ziteng in the middle of the night.

However, Hua Twelve stopped him because he knew that Wang Ziteng would not end well, and he did not have to dirty his own people's hands. More importantly, there were crouching tigers and hidden dragons in Bianliang City. He was afraid that if he killed a high-ranking official like Wang Ziteng, Because I couldn't hide it, I ruined a good situation for nothing.

In the Ningguo Mansion, the reason why Jia Rong and Jia Qiang were so confident in making trouble with the Rongguo Mansion was because Jia Zhen suddenly got a strange disease, and the Ningguo Mansion was now headed by Jia Rong.

Speaking of Jia Zhen's illness, it was Jia Rong who begged Hua Twelve, saying that he was afraid of being beaten to death by his father and begging him to find a solution.

Hua Twelve agreed immediately after thinking about it. Because he wanted to cause trouble for Jing Huan, he planned to change Qin Keqing's fate. He simply gave Jia Rong Baotei Yijin Pills and asked him to put it in the wine for Jia Zhen to drink. Medication stimulates the effect of Baotai Yijin Pills to occur in advance.

The effects of Baotai Yijin Pills vary from person to person and from time to time, and the effect is different every time. After Jia Zhen's medicine took effect, her body began to age faster. In one month, she seemed to have aged a lot. Like ten years old, he was paralyzed on the bed, unable to move, and had to rely on others to take care of him.

Jia Mu asked an imperial doctor to be called, but the Baotai Yijin Pills were actually tonics, not poisons, so the imperial doctors couldn't tell what was going on and could only call it a 'strange disease'.

Hua Twelve asked Qing Qing that Jia Rong had no relationship with Qin Keqing and had never even had a relationship. He simply asked her to reconcile with him and keep Qin Keqing away from Ning Rong's second mansion. This could be regarded as changing her destiny. Look at the Jinghuan fairy. Vomiting but not blood.

This wasn't over yet, he also encouraged Yang Zhi and Lu Da to propose marriage, but Master Lu didn't have a woman in his heart, so he took advantage of the green-faced beast.

Qin Keqing was Heli's wife. Seeing that Yang Zhi's betrothal gift was generous and that he didn't fault the birthmark of the green-faced beast, he agreed. One month after he and Jia Rongheli married, she married Yang Zhi.

Hua Twelve spent money to organize a wedding for Yang Zhi, and asked several master chefs from Shucuilou to go to the previous small courtyard to prepare more than a dozen tables, and invited friends from the army. Wei didn't smile much because his pocket hurt.

In May of the fifth year of Zhenghe.

Hua Twelve received a letter from Lin Ruhai's family in Yangzhou. The letter stated that she was seriously ill and wanted Lin Daiyu to return to Yangzhou to take care of her illness. He guessed that his distant uncle felt that his health was not good and wanted to see his daughter for the last time.

Hua Twelve planned to escort Lin Daiyu back to Yangzhou in person, and take a look at what disease Lin Ruhai had, and whether he was poisoned as some people said in later generations. If he was poisoned, then the distant uncle with Liuchi would not die. In this way, Lin Daiyu would not be sad, and it would save the Jia family from having any sinister plans to exterminate the family.

Thanks to: 08a, Brother Xiao Xiaohu in the Demon World for the reward, and thanks to the brothers who voted for monthly votes and recommendation votes, thank you very much.