Chang Huanxi

In the Daxiong Palace, there are not only pilgrims coming and going, but also Huitong sitting in the town and more than a dozen monks coming and going to welcome guests, sweeping and chanting sutras.

Now is not a good time to do it.

What Qi Yuan and Shen Yanhuan wanted to do could only be done when there was no one in the hall.

Nothing special, they just wanted to see what secrets were hidden under the censer that Huiming was talking about.

It's time to hold the lights...

After a busy day, the monks went to the back of the hall to have their fast, and the bustling pilgrims also dispersed.

In the Daxiong Hall, there are only two monks staying at night to clean up the dust brought by people walking in the daytime and wipe the golden body of the Buddha statue.

A gust of wind blew in front of the door, and suddenly extinguished the not-so-bright lamp in front of the door.

The two monks exchanged a few words in a low voice, one of them put down the rag in his hand and went out to check the situation, but just as he reached the door, the other light was also turned off, and something came out of the darkness, directly in front of him As the door approached, the monk waved his hand to block it, and a small stone fell to the ground. He was about to step forward to check, but he felt someone poke his back lightly from behind him. When he turned around, he saw Shen Yanhuan rushing towards him. She smiled kindly, then looked at his neck with a knife in her hand without hesitation.Before he could make a sound, the two dragged him into the grass and hid him.

Seeing that his companion had not returned for a long time, the monk who stayed in the house was suspicious of what happened outside, so he took a wooden stick and stepped out of the door very vigilantly.

Unexpectedly, he only saw a young man with a tired face standing in front of the door. He didn't carry any weapons on his body, and he looked innocent and harmless. This made the monk let down his vigilance a little. Why did the little boy visit late at night? He was kicked in the abdomen and then his neck hurt, and he inevitably passed out. Before losing consciousness, he heard the little boy say:

"I'm sorry, it seems to be a bit heavy..."

"It's okay, I can't die." Qi Yuan sniffed the two people's breaths, it was true that they just passed out, but it's hard to say whether they will be sore and unbearable after waking up.

The two walked into the main hall, and the censer was placed in the center upright.Whether it is monks or pilgrims who come here, they all have 12 respects for the Buddha statues enshrined in this store, and no one dares to touch this thing casually.But Qi Yuan and the two of them flipped the incense burner without any psychological burden.

Things look even worse than they thought.

"What is this?" Shen Yanhuan asked.

Qi Yuan stopped him, and went forward to pick up some powdery things in the deep pit exposed after removing the incense burner, put them in front of his nose and sniffed them, his brows furrowed tightly.

"It's gunpowder..."

But the first thing to figure out is how much gunpowder do they have and where are they hidden?

"This taste..." Shen Yanhuan frowned and thought for a while, in order to avoid being identified by others, he did not bring Linyan with him this time, he took out the small copper piece that Qi Yuan gave him from his bosom, "噗" Pulling out the thin and long sword, he walked around the largest Buddha statue in the center of the Daxiong Hall, and then with a force in his hand, he stabbed the sharp sword point into the body of the Buddha statue.

Qi Yuan: Mother hello!

The tragic image of the sword body breaking as he thought did not appear, but the seemingly unbreakable golden statue was directly pierced.

Shen Yanhuan faced him with a blank expression and slowly drew the sword straight out. The smooth sword was covered with something like the bottom of the incense burner.

The Buddha statue was hollowed out and filled with gunpowder.Shen Yanhuan tried the rest of the Buddha statues one after another, and found several Buddha statues that were also replaced with gunpowder containers.

With such a large scale, once it ignites, the entire mountain will be blown away.

Where did they get so much gunpowder? The king of Liang sent people to make this thing. Because they were afraid of causing war, private manufacture was strictly prohibited. Even government-made gunpowder had very clear restrictions.It is even more impossible for Di Jing to have...

"Qi Yuan." Shen Yanhuan called him suddenly, and Qi Yuan followed the prestige, only to see Shen Yanhuan asking with an uneasy face: "In the past, when Xing'an Temple held temple fairs and opened its doors to the common people in the New Year, there would be members of the royal family coming. Come here?"

"Yes, the elder brother always came to host the celebration, but this year I was here, so the old man let him stay in the palace." Qi Yuan said, "What's wrong?"

"I thought of something bad. Of course, this is just my personal guess. If saying this will have a bad impact on you, then I apologize first."

Shen Yanhuan has always said whatever comes to his mind and doesn't care about others, but what he said today was very careful, if it wasn't for Qi Yuan's self-indulgent sentimentality, then it could only be related to him.

"Perhaps, their real purpose is to kill the prince?" The second prince was killed first, so that he could not be the heir, and there was Su Lan beside the third prince.

If they didn't realize that Su Lan was out of control, it would be very easy to kill Qi Mo.

The fourth prince had asked Kunlun since he was a child that he could not be the heir of Daliang because he ignored the government, so if the prince died and the royal family of Daliang had no successors, how could it be so easy to cultivate a new heir?

Once the government and the opposition were in turmoil, Di Jing took advantage of the situation and stepped in, making a good plan.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, are they really making troubles in Daliang just to promote feudal superstition?

In fact, they have achieved another point, which is to take the fourth prince away from the court, so that he has no time to get in touch with political affairs.

Their thinking was too simple. How could the people of Di Jing spend so much effort just to ruin a celebration? How could they just want to kill these helpless people?What they want to do is destroy the foundation of the girder.

"You're right, I'm afraid the authorities are delusional, we didn't think of these..." Qi Yuan murmured, "How can we believe that these are all coincidences..."

"I have a more terrifying idea." Shen Yanhuan held his hand, "Don't be angry, calm down and listen to me."

Qi Yuan smiled wryly, "How could I be angry with you?"

Shen Yanhuan hesitated again and again, but still said: "I'm afraid someone in the court is bewitched by them...People you are familiar with, especially I hope that one of you and Qi Mo will inherit the throne."

If someone else said this, Qi Yuan might have rushed to fight him, but the person who said this was Shen Yanhuan, he almost heard every word clearly, his mind was in a mess, Stretching out his hand to support his head, he said, "Wait, let me think about it."

In the first year of the capital, there are still people who engage in the prince's seizure of power?

But after thinking about it carefully, I have to say that what Shen Yanhuan said is very reasonable. The four of them were raised by the King of Liang since they were young, and their way of thinking about things is different from that of the real Daliang people.

Not to mention that Empress Yuan has passed away for many years. They are Fu Yueying's parents and sons, and King Liang loves them very much. People who care about them naturally think that they are more suitable than Qi Shu to be the next ruler of Daliang. Who would think about them?

"Someone is coming!" Relying on the warrior's excellent hearing, Shen Yanhuan heard about three or five people walking towards this side. They pushed the incense burner back to its original place and hid behind the tall Buddha statues near the wall.

The people who came were Huitong and several monks who were in charge of monitoring items on weekdays. They patrolled the hall, but they didn't seem to find the tiny holes left on the Buddha statues.

But I don't know if it was an illusion, Huitong seemed to glance at them intentionally or unintentionally, he let out a "huh" and was about to walk over when several monks at the door suddenly asked: "Where are the night watchmen? Tonight Are they the two junior brothers Hui Zhishan?"

Huitong smiled and said: "It's really cold tonight, the two junior brothers may have gone back first, let's go quickly."

All the monks said yes, and left quickly one after another, with Huitong staying at the end. The moment the door was closed, Shen Yanhuan really wanted to see him show a smile with an unknown meaning.

He was terrified by that smile, couldn't help shaking his body, secretly thinking whether he had stepped into some kind of trap again.

"What's wrong?" Qi Yuan asked.

"Ah, it's nothing..." Shen Yanhuan smiled at him, "Let's leave here first, and make plans when Master Kong Ming returns."

The two moved the two monks who were hiding in the grass into the main hall. It was so cold outside that when Shen Yanhuan touched their bodies, she thought they were completely cold. She didn't know the two until she saw their chests still heaving slightly. Not killed by them.

Five days later, the weather was getting warmer, there was not a single cloud in the clear sky, and the sun was not as shy as before, showing its face generously to shine on the world.

Everything looks like a good omen because of this grand ceremony.

The people who came here one after another in the past few days rushed out of the house, waiting to grab a seat near the front and dip in the incense in front of the Buddha, in order to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, in exchange for good luck for a year .

But this year there was an accident, not to mention that the main road up the mountain was blocked. If you blocked the main road, it would be a big deal for us to take the mountain forest path, but who knows that before halfway through the mountain forest, a group of robbers suddenly appeared. , there were almost thirty people, and these unarmed ordinary people were so frightened that they turned pale and cried and shouted everything, and I don't know which one in the crowd shouted, "Zili Daoist is here! I beg all the priests Save us!"

As soon as the words fell, the dead leaves in the forest rose up one after another, and three figures appeared among the flying sand and stones. The leader was wearing a sky-blue Taoist robe with the waist buckle of Kunlun Yuxu Palace on his waist, and a slender bamboo pole in his hand. Wearing a piece of white cloth, there are four large characters written on it: "Miao Shou Shen Shu".

Shen Yanhuan twitched her lips expressionlessly, God knows where he got this.

Behind this Taoist stood a cold-faced swordsman, the weapon in his hand made people feel cold, and on the other side stood a girl in red, who was much kinder in comparison.