The Chronicles of Longevity on Liaozhai Road

It seems that the master really has no hope for the next battle, and at the same time, he already has the will to die.

Xiao Er firmly grasped the command flag in his hand, looked at his master, then knelt down on the ground, knocking his head several times.

"Master, Xiao Er will not be able to serve Master in the future, I hope Master will take care of you."

Xu Hongru looked at Xiao Er who was kneeling there, sighed, then waved his hands and said, "Hurry up, don't tell me where you are going, I'm afraid I won't be able to bear the pain if I'm captured."

After listening to Xu Hongru's words, Xiaoer kowtowed again, then stood up, hugged the command flag, and walked away with three steps.

Xu Hongru stood with his body behind his back for a long time, until he was sure that Xiao Er had disappeared, then he turned his head and glanced in the direction that Xiao Er left.

After that, Xu Hongru's expression suddenly became firm. He clenched his fists and took a hard look at the Buddha's mother's residence, then spat and left angrily.

When Xu Hongru returned to the front of the formation, he found that his army had been defeated again.

Although several of his apprentices tried their best to gather people together, the result was not ideal.

Among the many White Lotus believers, apart from the impoverished residents, there are also many opportunists.

If the White Lotus Sect prospers, these speculators will naturally be the loyal ministers of the White Lotus Sect, but now that the White Lotus Sect is about to die, these people don't want to be buried with the White Lotus Sect.

And the defeat of the White Lotus Sect this time happened to be an opportunity for these people, so these people deserted.

Therefore, when Xu Hongru's apprentices gathered the defeated army, they were embarrassed to find that there were only more than 10,000 left in the original 2+ army.

When Xu Hongru came back, he saw this situation.

Xu Hongru's heart was half cold at that time.

In Xu Hongru's heart, his White Lotus Sect is much more united than the imperial army, so he believes that even if it is defeated, it will not damage the bones.

But he didn't expect a defeat. He thought that more than half of these believers who were loyal to the church ran away.

Li Shun saw that his master's face was not good, so he hurried up to persuade him: "Master, don't worry too much, those who escaped are half-hearted people, even if they went to the battlefield, they would not fight for my teaching. What’s left is our backbone.”

Xu Hongru's eyes lit up when he heard Li Shun's words, and he thought in his heart: This is also a reason, as long as these seeds are left behind, then he will recruit believers again and use these seeds as the backbone, and then he will be able to reunite with him again. The court dealt with it.

After Xu Hongru settled down, he said to the apprentices under his command: "Immediately retreat back to Jinan, and at the same time gather believers along the way. I want to fight the court to the death in Jinan City."

These apprentices of Xu Hongru got the master's words, as if they had found the backbone again and agreed together, and then they split up and prepared to go.

Next, Xu Hongru led the army to retreat overnight, and then kept recruiting followers of the White Lotus Sect on the road. When he returned to Jinan City, there were another 10 people.

After Xu Hongru came back, he knew that this time he was at the end of his rope. If he didn't defeat the imperial court, he might be in danger.

Therefore, he also got angry. When he captured Jinan City last time, he gave preferential treatment to the gentry in these cities. This time, he didn't care about other things because of the army's food and salary.

Therefore, the first order he came back was to order people to start raiding the house.

This time, the rich people in Jinan City suffered a disaster, and almost every house was copied.

However, Xu Hongru has no sympathy for these people, because he knows that when he is on the rise, these people may wait and see.

But now that I am at a disadvantage, these people will definitely communicate with the court secretly. When I defend the city, I will make trouble, and I will be stabbed in the back by these people, so it is better to deal with it now.

Therefore, Xu Hongru carried out a second purge of these wealthy households on the grounds of guarding against imperial spies.

This time is different from the last time asking for money, this time it is terrible.

Following Xu Hongru's order, the city of Jinan was full of cries, and those pampered gentlemen were dragged to Caishikou for questioning and beheading one by one.

After this general rectification, the rest in Jinan City are civilians.These people don't have the connections of those wealthy households, and they can communicate with the imperial court outside.

And more importantly, with the two purges of Xu Hongru, he got a huge amount of money and food, which can completely support the army under him to fight for a year.

Coupled with the food and grass he had hoarded in Jinan City, Xu Hongru can now be sure that as long as he can persist in staying in the court, he will definitely retreat due to lack of food and grass.

Only now did Xu Hongru heave a sigh of relief.

Besides, after Li Dugong defeated the army of the White Lotus Sect, the imperial court's reward came down soon.

But the strange thing is that all the lieutenant generals in the battalion were rewarded, but only two were left behind.

One of them is Dugong Lee as the coach.The other one is Yang Heng who made great efforts in this battle.

As the coach, Dugong Li won a great victory, but he is now in a high position, and he has another identity. It is justified if the court does not reward him.

But Yang Heng, who made great efforts in the war, was defeated when the masters of all factions faced Xu Hongru. Only Yang Heng stood up and defeated Xu Hongru, which gave the imperial army possibility of entry.

If it was done according to the previous rules of the imperial court, Yang Heng would at least get a high mountain as the sect's residence, and at the same time, there would be no less training materials for rewards.

But this time the imperial court turned a blind eye to Yang Heng's achievements, which makes people a little puzzled?

Then Lu Peng still had an overall perspective. After knowing that the court did not award Yang Heng, he went to find Dugong Li overnight, and wanted to ask him to say a few words in the court.

But I don't know what they talked about. When Lu Peng came out of Dugong Li's tent, his face was already pale. Since then, he has never asked about this matter again.

And all of this was clearly seen by a pair of dark eyes. That night, a carrier pigeon left the barracks and headed straight for the capital.

Just a few days after the imperial army was stable, Dugong Li got the battle report and knew that Xu Hongru had already started to retreat with the White Lotus Sect army.

Li Dugong originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the retreat of the White Lotus Sect army, and send troops again, so as to wipe out all these people of the White Lotus Sect.

But when he was dispatching troops, a thick fog suddenly appeared in the sky, and he could hardly see his fingers, preventing his army from advancing.

Only then was it forced to stop the march temporarily, and the White Lotus Sect's army safely retreated back to Jinan City.

Chapter 312

In fact, this thick fog did not form naturally, it was a magic spell done by the Buddha Mother of the White Lotus Sect.

Although the Buddha Mother has made up her mind to give up the White Lotus Sect, but with so much painstaking efforts, coupled with the obedient disciples and grandchildren in the Sect, it would be a lie to say that she has no feelings.

That's why the Buddha Mother performed a spell for the last time to ensure that the White Lotus Sect can safely withdraw to Jinan!It can be regarded as a conclusion on the matter of the White Lotus Sect.

But when the mother of Buddha was about to evacuate that night when she finished her spell, suddenly he felt a chill.

The Buddha's mother was not afraid, she just frowned, and she came to the yard and shouted in mid-air: "Which friend is here, come out and meet."

Following the Buddha's mother's shout, there was a burst of shrill laughter in the air.

"Sure enough, you are worthy of being the mother of Buddha who stirred up the world. We just arrived at our house, and you discovered it."

Following the sound, an old man in fine clothes, with a white face and no beard, appeared on the courtyard wall.

The Buddha's mother fixed her eyes on the old man, but she didn't recognize him.

But she soon discovered that this old man was different from ordinary people. Judging from his attire and appearance, this old man was obviously a eunuch.

The Buddha's mother frowned, looked at the old man, and smiled softly.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

The old man looked down at the Buddha's mother, then pointed at her with an orchid, "You little girl is still the same as before, so rebellious."

When the Buddha mother heard the old man's words, it was obvious that she knew herself before, her heart trembled, and then her mind started to flash, thinking of the expert she knew before, but she still didn't find the shadow of the old man.

But listening to the old man's tone of voice, he seemed to be her senior, so the Buddha mother was not rude, she made a blessing gently, and then asked: "I don't know which senior this old man is, forgive me for my blindness, I didn't recognize it." come out."

"Little girl, have you forgotten how you escaped from the traffickers back then?"

Following this sentence to remind the Buddha mother, I immediately remembered the scene when I escaped from the human traffickers.

The escape back then was unbelievably smooth, almost without any danger.

Now that I think about it, there should be an expert behind him to help, could it be the eunuch in front of me?

However, the Buddha's mother quickly believed the old eunuch's words, because in her opinion, the old eunuch's skills were no worse than her own, and a character like him should be a little proud, and would not utter nonsense at all.

A few times of gratitude flashed in the eyes of the Buddha mother, and then she made a blessing and asked, "Could it be that the old man helped me back then?"

"That's right. Back then, I saw that you girl still had a bit of a temper. Under such circumstances, you never bowed your head, so I helped you out."

When the Buddha's mother heard this, a hint of danger flashed in her eyes.

The savior, who didn't come sooner or later, came to him at this time, but something was wrong, I'm afraid it was not a good thing.

However, the Buddha Mother still showed gratitude on the surface, and gave another blessing to the old man.

"That little girl, I would like to thank my benefactor for saving me."

"I don't want you to thank me either. As long as you promise me one thing, our previous grievances will be wiped out."

"I don't know what the benefactor has to do. As long as the little girl can do it, she will go all out."

"I want you to become an enshrinement of the imperial court, and together with me protect the Great Zhou, Jiangshan, forever."

After listening to the Buddha's mother, she sneered for a while.

This eunuch is too self-righteous, he even wants to make himself a slave of the imperial court by virtue of his kindness back then, if he agrees, what is the difference from living under the hands of human traffickers back then?

"Old man, I will never forget your kindness to me, but it is absolutely impossible for me to join the imperial court and become an eagle dog."

The old eunuch saw that the Buddha's mother disagreed, sighed a long time, and said: "I thought I could do nothing, but it seems impossible."

But he immediately narrowed his eyes, looked at the Buddha mother opposite and said, "I don't need you to remember my kindness, I just need you to settle our grievances today."

The Buddhist mother now understands that the old eunuch is supposed to come to her to repay her kindness on the surface, but in fact it was sent by the imperial court to deal with her.

But this Buddha mother was also stubborn, I saw that she raised her left arm suddenly, and at some point there was a shining dagger in her right hand, and then she exerted force suddenly, and her left arm fell to the ground.

And the Buddha's mother didn't care about the blood flowing from her left arm, she still smiled and said without changing her face: "My arm is considered to repay the kindness of the year, I don't know what the old man thinks."

The old eunuch took a deep look at Buddha's mother, then nodded silently.

It seems that the old eunuch also understood the meaning of the Buddha's mother, because the next two battles are inevitable, even so, the Buddha's mother broke her own arm, which can be regarded as repaying the kindness of the year.

Seeing the old eunuch nodding, Buddha's mother also smiled slightly, and then wiped on her wound.

The arm that was bleeding profusely just now healed in an instant.

Then the parents gradually subtracted it with a smile on their faces, and then stared at the old eunuch with a gloomy face and said: "Old man, I have already reported my kindness, and I don't know what the old man's plan is next."

The old eunuch shook his head and sighed.

"Your ability is not small. I didn't want to fight you at first, but I have to obey the orders from above. Since this is the case, we'd better see each other."

After saying this, the old eunuch turned his head and took a step towards the sky, then turned into a stream of light and headed towards the suburbs.

Seeing the old eunuch's movements, Buddha's mother knew that the old eunuch didn't want to do anything in the city, and wanted her to stay in the suburbs for a while.

At this time, the two maids of the Buddha's mother came out of the house. They just glanced at the broken arm of the Buddha's mother, and they were shocked, but on the surface they said nothing happened, "Go back to the Buddha's mother, things are ready." Now, when shall we leave?"

Mother Buddha was startled when she heard these words, then turned her head suddenly, and saw a dangerous light flashed in the eyes of these two maidservants.

"A man came in the yard just now, didn't you see it?"

You must know that there was a lot of movement just now, and I cut off my arm with a dagger, and now that arm is still floating on the ground, could it be that these two maids didn't see it?

The two maids looked at each other, both a little puzzled.

"Returning to the Buddha's mother, we didn't find any strangers, but we don't know why the Buddha's mother cut off her left arm."

After hearing this, the Buddha mother let out a long breath, then closed her eyes and thought for a while, her face became even paler.

It seems that when the old eunuch came, he had completely isolated this space.

Let the two maids in the next room not notice anything unusual.

The old eunuch was able to cast spells without him being able to hide it. It seemed that his skills were superior to his own, so it would be a bit bad for him to fight in the suburbs for a while.

The Buddha mother wanted to leave the old eunuch and escape alone, but after thinking about it, since the old lady's spells were above her own, she might be under his surveillance, and even if she escaped, she would not be able to escape very far.

The Buddha's mother's heart has sunk now. You must know that she has stirred up wind and rain several times in the past few hundred years, and the court has been in turmoil.

Originally thought that he was already invincible in the world, but he did not expect that this old eunuch would appear in the end. It seemed that he really underestimated the people in the world.

The Buddha's mother frowned and sighed, and said to the two servant girls: "You go out of the city and wait for me first, I still have something to do, I will go find you after I finish."

These two maidservants have been following the Buddha's mother since they were born, and obeyed the Buddha's mother's words. Now that they listened to her orders, they didn't say anything else, and left the small courtyard with their packages on their backs.

Uncle Buddha sent the two men to bow their heads and think for a while, then rushed back to her room, came to the statue of the Bright Bodhisattva, knelt down on the ground, and kowtowed several times in succession.

Only then did he stand up, and carried the Guangming Bodhisattva behind him with a piece of red cloth.

Then she put on another loose dress, brought a few things, went out of the yard, and turned into a stream of light towards the direction the old eunuch was going.

The Buddha mother soon landed on the top of a mountain in the suburbs, and then she looked around, but did not find the old eunuch.

But the Buddha mother didn't think that the old eunuch was gone, it must be that his ability to hide and hide was too strong, and she couldn't find it.

Therefore, the Buddha mother could only shout loudly: "Old man, I have come, why don't you show up and see me?"

Following the shout of the Buddha mother, a figure slowly appeared ten feet away from her.

Seeing the appearance of the old eunuch, the Buddha's mother frowned. The old eunuch was so close to her, but she didn't notice it. If the old eunuch wanted to sneak attack on her at this distance, then she was not the one on the chopping board. Fish?