Hot as China, cold as snow

After offering three incense sticks, worship and worship in one furnace, which is the so-called "one furnace for ten thousand Buddhas".Then the two passed through each Buddhist hall one at a time, joined hands and bowed three times, entered through the side door, left and right.Mr. Liu worshiped the Buddha differently. He put away his usual gentle face and bowed solemnly one by one. During the period, he did not say a word. He walked up the steps in a regular manner. Next, stop on the forehead, mouth, and chest respectively.

Leng Xuanren asked: "Have you made a wish?"

Mr. Liu didn't answer the question: "Even if you don't believe it, it's good to purify your mind here. There are some things, if you believe it, it works, if you don't believe it, it doesn't work."

"Then, do you believe it?"

Mr. Liu shook his head: "I just came here to observe. It is rare to come to Fantan City for a famous temple in the whole country. It would be too bad not to come here. The main purpose of coming here is to purify your soul. The purpose of worshiping Buddha is to see if you are sincere enough and have a heart. .”

Leng Xuanyan naturally didn't believe his words, and he knew from his pious appearance that he worshiped the Buddha.

On the futon in front of the Buddha statue, apart from the two of them, there was a mother and daughter kneeling piously to make a wish, and there were attendants standing beside them. They must be the lady and wife of a wealthy family, and the lady was just what I had seen before.

The novice leading the way was in front of him, clasped his hands together and said: "Amitabha Buddha." He sent two safety symbols with both hands, and pointed the way: "Almsgiver, you can wander around before the temple closes. You can ask for lottery over there, and the other tree is for blessings." The tree can be hung with blessings. Please donate as you like." After speaking, he bowed and left.

Mr. Liu led the way and pulled Leng Xuanren to ask for a blessing, hung it on the tree, and called it: "It's rare to come here, and it's not in vain if you do it all." There is a square pool under the tree, and the water below the pool is clear. Swimming fish, some coins at the bottom of the pool reflected the light of the sun, not far away there was an old monk untwisting the lottery, saying that he was unscrambling the lottery very accurately, and there were many people around.Seeing the mother and daughter crowded in the crowd, and the maid who followed beside her stuffed something for the young lady, the young lady beamed with joy.

Mr. Liu turned around and asked: "Are you interested?" Before Leng Xuanyan could answer, he asked himself and answered: "Forget it, I know you won't be interested."

"If you want to beg, then beg." Leng Xuanyan said simply, don't get me behind the implication.

Mr. Liu took two steps forward, looked at the crowd, and then at the sky: "Forget it, let's go back. We still have to hurry tomorrow."

He was about to leave, but he saw an old monk in yellow robes and white eyebrows smiling kindly at the two of them on the side road, and he nodded to the two of them. Mr. Liu clasped his hands together and saluted, but Leng Xuanyan turned a blind eye.

The two walked around again, and found their way out of the temple.The sun has set and the sky is dim. I walked out of the red copper gate and stood in front of the temple, listening to the heavy and profound sound of the bell ringing.There were still a lot of people going down the mountain. I ran into a rich mother and daughter whom I had seen before. The mother held the hand of the daughter who had not left the cabinet and talked about something, but the young lady listened impatiently. On the contrary, the maid next to him raised her head and noticed Mr. Liu and Mrs. Liu, and sighed vaguely, but this sigh was boundless Buddha's spirit.

Shining snorted loudly and shook his head. Mr. Liu reached out and took out a bag of white sugar wrapped in oiled paper, and fed it intimately. With the other hand, he combed Shining's flowing brown hair. Chi Dan next to him was originally lying on his side lazily on the ground, but at this moment he also got up, as if he had found something delicious, he also turned his head to squeeze away Shining Ting.Shan Ting naturally refused to do it, so he neighed at it and squeezed Chi Dan away with his body.Mr. Liu smiled, divided the white sugar in his hand into two parts, and put them in front of the two horses' heads respectively.Chi Dan seemed satisfied, but Shining neighed in dissatisfaction, and rubbed his broad head against Young Master Liu, squinted at Chi Dan, and proudly showed off his rights to Chi Dan.Chi Dan snorted and ignored it, eating his share of white sugar with peace of mind.

Mr. Liu smiled and felt that Chi Dan's performance was very similar to Leng Xuanren's pretended indifference, and he really was a master and a beast.

Leng Xuanren led Chi Dan behind him who was licking the white sugar, and said, "Let's go." Chi Dan shook his head in dissatisfaction, took a look at the delicious snacks, and left meekly.Mr. Liu put away the white sugar in his hand, smoothed Shuan Ting's hair intimately, and pulled it after him.

It's noisy outside, all the time.Inside the inn, I could faintly hear the noise outside. I thought it was just the bustle and bustle of a big city, but when I got out of the inn, I found that many people gathered in the city square, and the trend was getting worse.

In such a crowded and lively place, the horse seemed a little restless, Mr. Liu looked up and became interested for a while: "I'm afraid there is some rare event, if it is difficult to catch up with it once, why don't you go and see it. "

"Aren't you always in a hurry to go back to Lingzhou? How come you're idle?" Leng Xuanren put his arms around his shoulders, his tone raised.

Mr. Liu twitched his eyebrows, twitched habitually, slightly staggered his eyes and said, "I'm not in a hurry. I'm afraid there will be no chance in the future." Leng Xuanren was noncommittal, just leading the way to the square.

The people next to him were running and shouting, Mr. Liu felt strange, stopped him casually, and after asking, he realized that it was not what he thought: "Excuse me, what happened earlier."

"Go and see, people are going to be burned to death."

Under the broad daylight and bright sky, such a thing happened in the bustling city of the Chengtian Empire. Mr. Liu unconsciously became serious. Outside the crowd, he saw a tall platform built in the center of the square. Surrounded by a lot of firewood poured with kerosene, there was a woman on the platform, and beside the woman was a man in a coma.Mr. Liu recognized at the first sight that the woman was the maid next to the young lady he met in Zhaolu Temple yesterday.That woman looked so compassionate and wise that day, and she sighed deeply to see through life. The brilliance she emitted brought the figure of this unremarkable woman into Mr. Liu's eyes.But now the woman who was tied up on the high platform, the woman who was about to be thrown into the flames, the resolute eyes once again shocked Mr. Liu's heart, this woman is not simple.

Standing on the high platform was a man holding a torch. He held the torch aloft, made a look of extreme pain, and said with a gloomy face: "The family is unlucky, and the folks in the village judge our old Wang's family. In Fantan City Who doesn't know that the Wang family in the north of our city is passed down from our ancestors, our old Wang family has lived in Fantan City for nearly a hundred years, and now this incident happened, I am sorry for our ancestors." The man wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied He also pointed to the tied woman on the high platform: "This maid, Zi Zhu, unfortunately became an orphan since she was a child. Our old Wang's family raised her and gave her a bite to eat. She didn't know what to do in return, but she even destroyed her own lady's marriage and herself. Miss's future son-in-law flirts; not only shamelessly seduces men, but also slanders my daughter and the lady who has served her for many years as a sister. These two people were caught by us yesterday, folks, you say that this is not acceptable Is it an exaggeration to punish those ugly men and women by burning them at the stake?"

"It's not an exaggeration. In the old days, this kind of unfaithful and unrighteous woman was going to be immersed in a pig cage. Now, the people in Fantan City are all enlightened people and believe in Buddhism. Burning is cheap. Her." Some people below echoed.Some felt cruel and shook their heads; some even covered the eyes of the children around them, and dragged the children away.

Someone was throwing rubbish on it, and the old man surnamed Wang who was holding a torch on the platform saw that most of the people were standing by his side. To deal with this matter in front of everyone, I will ask the fathers and folks in Fantan City to be a witness."

The woman on the stage, Zizhu, was furious, her eyes sparkled but she didn't shed a single tear, she just shouted loudly: "I was wronged. I never seduced that man. I was wronged, and I never slandered Miss. , I have never done anything indecent to hurt the head of the family. If there is a half-truth, the sky will be struck by thunder. It is the young lady who can't be stimulated in courtship, so she has an affair with the servant, but it turns out. The master is afraid of scandal, so I blame thing. I was wronged."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Someone stopped her. Folks, she knew she was about to die and didn't know how to repent. She framed our Wang family and my innocent daughter. Unforgivable, someone set fire to her." A servant, holding a torch, was about to light the firewood under the high platform.

But I saw the blue clothes fluttering, flying over the crowd to the front of the people and said: "Master Wang, he kept saying that he would invite the people in the city to come and see it for the sake of justice, but I think it would be against the original intention of Mr. Wang if he just set fire to this girl to death." , is unfair."

"Boy from there, you don't know the rules. You look like an outsider. Outsiders don't care about the affairs of our Fantan City, they should go back there." Master Wang pulled his face down and stretched out his hand to chase Mr. Liu .

Mr. Liu was very unhappy when he heard this: "Since we met, it is fate, and you keep saying that you want to be fair and just. No matter how you look at it now, you are trying to hide it. The woman above just now obviously disagrees with your rhetoric. It's different, but you don't explain and investigate, what's the matter, what are you trying to cover up?" Mr. Liu raised his voice, and said to the crowd: "Everyone has seen it, and there is something wrong with this matter. For the sake of fairness, everyone Everyone in Tancheng believes in Buddha, and Zhaolu Temple is the most famous in the city. Why not invite the director of Zhaolu Temple to come here to comment. It is said that saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, and the director will definitely not let it go of."

"Okay, I'll invite the host." There are really good people below who should help.

Master Wang on the high platform seemed to be a little panicked, and he didn't care much about etiquette. He shouted: "Buddhist monks have always been detached from everything, purify the six senses, and get rid of the seven emotions. How can they care about such things. What's more, the host is an eminent monk who has attained the Tao. I don’t know how old he is, so why bother him. The matter has already been found out, and it is the servant girl Zizhu who is framing our Wang family. Come and light the fire.” As soon as the words fell to the ground, Master Wang took out the torch in his hand, and the torch will catch fire when it meets dry wood. It was still wood stained with kerosene, and the fire stood up.The servants who were scattered all over also obeyed the orders and lit the dry logs all over the high platform.

Mr. Liu didn't put his guard up, and when he saw it clearly, the fire around Zizhu was already on fire.Before he had time to say anything, he flew into the high platform, and the blue clothes flew up with the wind, and he sacrificed his personal weapon, the soul-binding hundred chains, to sweep away the dry wood not far away.Naihe didn't know how much oil was poured on the fire, but he couldn't stop the fire.

Leng Xuanren didn't intend to intervene, thinking that Mr. Liu would be able to handle it, but in fact it was true, but the spread of the fire was beyond imagination, and after only a short delay, one of the wooden pillars on the high platform was broken, and the high platform was half tilted.Leng Xuanren narrowed his eyes, raised his brows, picked up the stones on the ground, slightly moved his index finger and hit the servants who were in charge of lighting the fire, and each servant fell to the ground unconscious.Then he got up, so fast that he almost teleported. With only two long legs, he kicked away most of the wood under the high platform, and rescued the comatose servant who was injured all over his body.

Mr. Liu flew down from the sloping platform with Zizhu, lifted the sleeve of Zizhu's half arm and asked coldly: "Is this the so-called no lynching? En." Asked clearly, pointing to the ground Lying unconscious man.Standing beside Young Master Liu, Leng Xuanren took a look at the dust that was accidentally stained on his face, and the pure blue clothes were not clean, then unconsciously narrowed his eyes dangerously, and raised his beautiful brows , but pursed his thin lips tightly and didn't say a word, just stood beside him.

"Amitabha." The white-browed old man and the old monk in yellow robes stood not far from the fire scene.The voice was neither loud nor small, but it was clearly heard by everyone in the square. The voice was slow but powerful, and the words were thick and warm but clear.

Mr. Liu and Leng Xuanren looked sideways, this person is the old monk who accidentally saw smiling at them on the path in Zhaolu Temple.