I dare not

The red scarf let him go and closed the door, Gu Qiao heard the sound of iron chains locking the door.

He held his pinched neck and breathed heavily. Dust and air scrambled into his lungs, causing him to cough violently.

The Buddha statue watched all this quietly, neither angry nor happy.

The hall was dark, only a few beams of light leaked from the holes in the roof.

With this light, Gu Qiao saw that the color of the Buddha statue had peeled off, and a few fingers were broken from the raised palm.

In prison, even the Buddha is riddled with holes.

Gu Qiao finally coughed and sighed towards the Buddha statue: "Forget it, you can't even protect yourself, and I don't count on you anymore."

"Amitabha."

The Buddha statue spoke suddenly.

Gu Qiao was startled, this is too stingy, if you say you, you will appear?

In the dimness, I vaguely saw an old monk coming out from behind the Buddha statue.

"Amitabha, the Buddha does not cross people, only people cross themselves."

Gu Qiao saw the person clearly, her heart jumped wildly, and she asked in disbelief, "Yes... yes..."

The old monk stepped forward and said lovingly, "Little benefactor, come here and be safe."

Gu Qiao's voice was hoarse, "Master Fazhang..."

Fazhang held Gu Qiao's hand, "The little benefactor has a predestined relationship with my Buddha."

"Why is Master Fazhang here?"

"I saw them carrying someone in just now, and it turned out that the person carrying them was you. I'll come here first and wait for you."

"But isn't Master in Da Ci'en Temple?"

Fa Zhang let out a long sigh, "Three years ago, my master passed away...my elder brother Fa Qing succeeded as the abbot, and less than a year later, the entire back mountain of Da Ci'en Temple was handed over to the mine."

Hearing the word mine, Gu Qiao felt a pain in his heart, "Is there a mine in the back mountain of Da Ci'en Temple?"

"Yes."

The Chen Jinshan mine was surveyed by Gu Qiao's father himself.At that time, Gu Qiao was still young, and was entrusted by his father to Chen Jinshan's Daci'en Temple. He learned a lot from Fazhang, and he was regarded as a half-Buddhist disciple.

"The back mountain, isn't it the stupa of the masters of the past?"

"It is precisely because of this that several of my apprentices and I took the lead in rebelling. Unexpectedly, Faqing colluded with the mine and bought other people in the temple. Faqing moved the stupa with the support of everyone. I don't want to watch The temple and the mine go hand in hand, so I brought a few of my apprentices to this small temple."

"And then? Why is this place occupied by bandits again?"

Fazhang coughed in embarrassment, "When we came, this place was already occupied by bandits."

Gu Qiao was shocked by his extremely detached behavior, "So you brought your apprentice to join the bandits, won't the Buddha scold you when he knows?"

Fazhang recited Amitabha, "In fact, two years ago, this place was not a den of bandits. It was just some poor peasants who couldn't survive. After coming."

"Who are they?" Gu Qiao asked.

"Three people came last winter, and that person just now was one of them."

Gu Qiao hurriedly asked, "Is there another one with a goatee and one who is dark and thin?"

Fa Zhang nodded.

"Then there is one more." Gu Qiao thought about how to describe it, "One, my brain is not very good."

"That was brought back by those people from outside not long ago."

"Do you know who that man is?"

Fazhang shook his head, "I don't know, that man seems to be in poor health, and he rarely comes out in the room. I see people delivering medicine to him every day, and they all call him the third child, so he should be one of their own." .”

"no!"

"Not what?"

"That bad-headed person is not one of their own, but a hostage they kidnapped!"

"Why do you say that?" Fazhang didn't expect this level, and was a little surprised.

Gu Qiao told Fazhang exactly how he picked up that person on the mountain and how he was captured by them.

"Amitabha, I didn't expect such a thing to happen."

"You know how they do that, they stick a needle in the head, and then the other guy has a fit?"

Fazhang also found it strange, "The poor monk has never heard of it."

"If you don't even know, it will be difficult to save him."

"Amitabha, there are endless things in the world, and the things that the poor monk doesn't know are as numerous as the stars in the sky. But it depends on human effort. If you really want to save him, my Buddha's mercy will bless you to find a way. The poor monk will try his best to help you."

"But I'm locked up here now, can you get me out first?"

"I'm here to rescue you."

Gu Qiao was so moved that regardless of the pain in her body, she gave Fazhang a strong hug, "Master Fazhang, you are the Buddha."

"Amitabha, don't say these words indiscriminately."

Gu Qiao glanced at the locked door, "What should I do now?"

"There is a secret passage behind the Buddha statue, which was discovered by my apprentice, and I haven't told anyone about it yet."

"Where does that secret passage lead to?"

"It leads to a meditation room behind the Buddhist hall, which happens to be the residence of the young man you mentioned."

Fazhang took him to the back of the Buddha statue, lifted the base covered by the red cloth, tapped lightly on the wooden board of the base, and the wooden board slowly opened, revealing a hole that was only as wide as one person.

"There are guards over there during the day, and I can take you out at night."

"Can I take that boy with me?"

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult." Fazhang thought for a while, "Among them is a martial artist named Huang Qi who is very good at martial arts. I'm afraid even my eldest apprentice is not his opponent."

"Your big apprentice is Chang Feng?"

"Exactly."

Chang Feng has been by Fazhang's side for more than ten years. When Gu Qiao was in Da Ci'en Temple, he followed Chang Feng's buttocks all day long, and he had a little respect for that monk brother who was very skilled.

"That boy can also kung fu, how about they work together?"

"He knows kung fu?" Fazhang was a little surprised.

"He's good at it."

Gu Qiao told Fazhang about the boy catching snakes with slender branches, and Fazhang frowned and thought, "When I saw him, he didn't look like someone with kung fu, which is a little strange."

"When will Chang Feng come back?"

"This year, Lianzhou was flooded, and there was no harvest at the foot of the mountain, and starvation was everywhere. I asked Chang Feng to go back to Da Ci'en Temple to get some money, so that I could exchange it for food and help the people."

Gu Qiao smiled and said, "Is Changfeng Kung Fu already this good? Is it okay to go back to Da Ci'en Temple alone to steal things?"

Fazhang smiled and said nothing.

Gu Qiao asked again: "Then you have big apprentices and younger apprentices?"

Fazhang smiled gratifiedly, "The second apprentice knows some medical skills, and took the ineffective third apprentice outside the temple to treat the common people. When they come back later, I will introduce them to you."

Gu Qiao clasped his hands together: "The master taught his disciples well and benefited the people."

"Amitabha," Fazhang replied, "this is all their karma."