treacherous world

"Is it easy to find a monk?" Bai Yutang felt quite curious, "Cat, you have a way."

"That's right." Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and patted his chest, "Here is the local snake!"

"It's more or less the same as a local cat." Bai Yutang shook his head, and followed Zhan Zhao out.

After going around, Zhan Zhao took Bai Yutang to the gate of the largest temple in Kaifeng Prefecture - Qingshan Temple.

The old monk Bai Yutang of Qingshan Temple is also familiar with it.When a young monk sweeping the floor at the door saw Zhan Zhao coming, he was immediately overjoyed and ran up, "Amitabha, Lord Zhan, Lord Bai."

Zhan Zhao patted him on the shoulder, "Xiao Jingcheng, is your Master of Disciplining Anger here?"

The little monk named Jingcheng shook his head, with a look of helplessness on his face, "Master Zhan, do you still need to ask? The insane monk is probably drinking and eating meat in the backyard right now."

Bai Yutang sounded fresh, so he couldn't help asking Zhan Zhao, "Can monks still eat meat and drink wine?"

Zhan Zhao winked at him, "So it's a mad monk." After finishing speaking, he walked back.

The backyard of Qingshan Temple is a vegetable field, and behind the vegetable field is a melon field.On weekdays, there are young monks from Qingshan Temple planting farms in the vegetable field, but there are no people walking around in the melon field behind.A hut was built, and a person who looked after the melon fields lived in... This was the most idle job in the whole Qingshan Temple.The monk watching the melon field is refraining from anger, the wine and meat monk is crazy, and behaves mischievously all day long.

All the monks in Qingshan Temple don't know how to get rid of anger.He suddenly appeared in the temple seven years ago.At that time, he was seriously injured, and it was still raining heavily. He lay at the door as if he was dead, crying, as if he had experienced some great misfortune.The abbot of Qingshan Temple rescued him, and when he woke up after being in a coma for four days, he became lonely and silent, his eyes were lifeless, so he stayed here and became a monk.

The abbot said that he had depression in his heart, and asked all the monks not to interfere in his life, and let him figure it out slowly.It's a pity that after so many years, he still didn't figure it out.

Since that day, no one has mentioned his name, identity, or past.He doesn't talk, doesn't socialize with anyone, and goes his own way every day, drinking, drinking and eating meat.

The only advantage is that his melons are really well grown, sweet and delicious, big and full of water.

There used to be a few young monks who wanted to trouble him, but they didn't even know how they flew out of the melon shed in the end.After being here, no one came in to steal melons and eat them. Until five years ago, a young man who had just come to Kaifeng came to eat melons in the melon field and told him to catch him.

Jie An came out to catch the young man, but unexpectedly he was as smart as a cat, he didn't catch him for a while, and watched him finish eating a melon, in front of his own face.

Jie Chen was furious, but the young man even leaned over to him, wiped his watermelon-stained hands with his sleeve, and clicked his tongue, "Monk, it's time to change your clothes. Dressed in felt."

Jie Chen stared at him, raised his hand and punched again.

The young man was hiding here and there, picking melons by the way, "Which one is better? I will pick two more."

"You arrogant little thief!" Jie Chen could be considered to have spoken, maybe because he hadn't spoken for a long time, he was suddenly forced to hold back a sentence, his voice was hoarse.

"Oh! So you think I'm a thief." The young man stretched out his hand to stop him, "I'm a guest of the abbot, and he's playing chess with Mr. Bao. He told me that the melons here are sweet. If I eat them, I'll pick them again." Two go to the well to freeze."

Jie An was slightly taken aback, "The abbot asked you to come?"

"That's not it." The boy looked depressed, "Hey, the old monk lied to me that there is a fun kid here, and asked me to come and tease him, kid?"

Jie Chen stared at the young man for a long time, the man had a bright smile on his face, when he saw him, he felt puzzled, why?Why in this world, some people are so happy, and they are so happy that it is natural, while some people are always depressed, and the depression is endless.

"What are you laughing at!" Jie Chen growled as he watched him laugh more and more unhappy.

The boy blinked, and stretched out two fingers to poke the corners of his mouth, "My mother said that I was born with a natural smile, and I always look like this!"

"Fart!" Jie Chen pointed at him, "Don't laugh!"

The young man seemed to be quite naughty by nature, and he gritted his teeth at him, "Smiling half-smile, cry if you are not convinced!"

"Stinky boy!" Jie An kicked over, and the young boy stepped on his knees and stepped over the top of his head like climbing stairs, landed on a melon and continued to bark his teeth at him, "Just laugh!"

Jie Chen has already seen that this young man's kung fu is extremely high, so he didn't want to play the most temper tantrum with him, he took out the knife from the melon shed, and wanted to fight him.

"Hey!" The boy picked two melons at this time, squatted on one of them, with a sword stuck in his waist, "Is it still worth the money? Don't act recklessly!"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Jie Chen drew his knife and slashed, the boy dodged left and right, and kicked away the watermelon that might be damaged or kicked by Jie Chen.Jie Chen beat him for a while, and finally he was so tired that he sat down in the melon field and decided not to beat him.That young man is the reincarnation of Mao'er, and he has a high lightness skill. It is estimated that he will not be able to catch a hair of him after a day of chasing him.Looking at the hand again, there is already a mountain of melons piled up.Looking back... Good guy!The melons in the entire melon field have been collected.The melons piled together are not messy, not broken, and each one is round.

The young man just squatted on top of the melon pile, like a piece of feather, the melon has not changed at all—Jie Chen has never seen such a strong lightness kung fu, and he can't help feeling, is it really the waves behind the Yangtze River pushing the waves ahead?This boy is only about seventeen or eighteen years old, where did he come from such good skills?

Jie Chen was stunned in place, unable to move. He has lived to this age, and he feels more and more that the sky now is different from the sky when he was a child, and the people now are also different from the people in the past. The world has become How fast, he has been away from the rivers and lakes for too long, and he is already old.

He was in a daze when someone slapped the back of his head.

Jie Chen turned his head, the young man had arrived behind him at some point, and looked at him with a smile, "You are too stingy, the melons will rot if you don't pick them up when they are ripe, I will just eat one of your melons, at worst, I will invite you to drink next time. "

Jie Chen opened his mouth.

"Don't be so sad." The boy smiled.

Jie Chen pointed at his forehead, "I'm a monk, what kind of wine do I drink?"

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes and pointed to the half-eaten roast chicken in his shed, with a look of contempt on his face, "Stop doing this!"

Jie Chen stared at him for a long time, and finally laughed.

Since then, every year when the melons are ripe, people will come to pick the melons and drink a few cups with Jie Chen.And that young man back then was none other than Zhan Zhao, and because of this, everyone in Kaifeng Mansion could eat the best watermelon in Kaifeng every year.

In addition, in addition to growing melons, Jiechen also has the ability to not be a hostage...

"Great monk." Zhan Zhao led Bai Yutang into the melon shed, and when he saw no one, he walked towards the small courtyard.

As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw a bucket of chopsticks thrown out together with the chopsticks facing him. The chopsticks scattered and hit Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, tilted his head, reached out to pick up the chopsticks bucket, took the chopsticks back and put them back, and followed Zhan Zhao into the courtyard.

Putting the chopstick bucket on the table, Zhan Zhao looked around, "Great monk, I brought you good wine."

As soon as Zhan Zhao finished speaking, the door of a room in the small courtyard was opened, and a burly monk was lying by the window with a displeased expression on his face, "Didn't I tell you that you are not allowed to bring other people here?" what?"

Zhan Zhao put his hand on Bai Yutang's shoulder, "This is my family member, not someone else!"

Bai Yutang was speechless, but just for a moment...he somehow felt that this great monk looked familiar.

The great monk leaned against the window edge and looked at Bai Yutang, seeing that he was frowning slightly as if he was thinking about something, and suddenly laughed, "Oh! So it's you, you've grown up, so you're really a boy. That virtue, I still think that this girl has such a bad temper, no one will want her in the future!"

"Pfft." Zhan Zhao covered his mouth, but at the same time he realized something, and turned around to ask Bai Yutang, "Do you know each other?"

Bai Yutang was also a little puzzled, feeling that this person was indeed familiar, if he had met him when he was a child...

Bai Yutang suddenly thought of someone, looked carefully at that monk, if he had hair and a beard...

"Are you the drunk that Fifth Aunt brought back to Sunken Island from the inn?" Bai Yutang suddenly remembered that Fifth Aunt took him to Songjiang when he was a child.When the two of them passed by an inn, they happened to encounter a drunk man making trouble. The fifth aunt who had never had friends saw him, and Science rushed to stop him, as if he was a friend he hadn't seen for many years.In the end, the two of them dragged the drunk back to Sunken Island to take care of him, locked him in the water prison for half a month, and gave him abstinence from alcohol.

"Haha." Jie Chen laughed loudly, "You were the one who smashed a wine jar on me at that time, you two really match the pot with the lid, you two are a perfect match."

Bai Yutang was originally very angry when he heard that he looked like a girl when he was a child, but after hearing that he and Zhan Zhao were a perfect match, he lost all anger.In addition, he also remembered that at that time, this man was drunk and crazy, and the fifth aunt couldn't catch him, so she couldn't wait, so she picked up a wine jar from the table and smashed it on top of his head, knocking him out .Because Fifth Aunt dragged him hard, so Bai Yutang took him by one foot and dragged him back to Xingkong Island.Jie Chen suffered a lot at that time, his back was worn out and he hit his bag.After he recovered from his insanity, he had Bai Yutang teach him a few lessons, so he kept a respectful distance from the child.At that time, Bai Yutang was already very famous in the area of ​​Songjiang Mansion. He was extremely beautiful, but the fact that he was kicked out was extremely frightening.

"I remember Fifth Aunt calling you Lao Cen." Bai Yutang gave him a good face very much.

"Is your fifth aunt okay?" Jie Chen asked with a smile, "I haven't seen her for a long time."

Zhan Zhao touched his nose with his hand, and Bai Yutang was also a little embarrassed.

Seeing that their expressions were wrong, Jie Chen frowned slightly, "What's wrong with her?"

"Aunt Wu has passed away."

"What?!" Jie Chen was startled, and then became emotional, "How did she die? Was she killed by someone, or..."

"She was always in poor health, and later died of a serious illness." Bai Yutang said very flatly.

"Is that so..." Jie'an's expression also eased, and he walked out of the house and sat on the threshold in a daze, his tone of voice was a little silly and slow, "It's good, that's good."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, not understanding what he wanted to express, what does it mean to die in bed?

"Do you think someone wants to kill her?" Bai Yutang asked, "Didn't you be fine when you left Xingkong Island? Why are you here?"

"Hehe." Jie An touched his forehead, swept away the strange look on his face, and stood up, "It's a long story, anyway, I'm not motivated, by the way, how long ago did she leave?"

"It's been a long time." Bai Yutang replied.

Jie Chen nodded, as if pleased, "Okay."

Both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao frowned. The person they saw before who looked like Aunt Wu who appeared in the alley in the middle of the night, would he know something about quitting anger?

"How do you know each other?" Zhan Zhao asked curiously.

"I don't remember what happened when I was a child." Jie Chen seemed to want to say a word, but then changed the subject and asked Zhan Zhao, "You can't just come to me for a drink, right?"

"Oh." Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, "Recently a young monk came to Kaifeng Mansion, do you know who it is?"

"En." After thinking about it, Jie Chen nodded, "Are you talking about a young monk who is seventeen or eighteen years old and has good martial arts?"

"Yes." Zhan Zhao nodded.

Bai Yutang wondered, how would Jiechen know?

Seeing that Bai Yutang seemed to have doubts, Jie An explained, "I want to find someone, so there are many eyeliners on the streets of Kaifeng, and I will know who is new recently."

"His eyes are very good." Zhan Zhao pointed to Jie Chen's eyes, and then pointed to a pagoda in the middle of Qingshan Temple, "The Feiyu seven-story pagoda can see the location of Kaifeng City Gate, where Jie Chen often squats watching the passers-by." Jie An smiled slightly, "The little monk came a few days ago."

"Who are you looking for?" Bai Yutang asked tentatively.

"Ah, I remember that when you were a child, you couldn't make a dull fart with three sticks, and you always looked at people from the corner of your eyes. Why did you talk a lot when you grew up?" Jie Chen deliberately slapped his eyes, avoiding the topic again.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao could tell that he was trying his best to avoid talking about himself, or that he was hiding some secrets.

However, this was already considered an unexpected harvest. Zhan Zhao really did not expect to have such a relationship with this great monk who has known him for many years but has no known origin. Therefore, he may also provide clues for this case.

"He should live near the Yuelai Inn in the north." Jie An told Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "After this little monk arrived in Kaifeng, he didn't go for alms or burn incense and meditate. He ran out every day, as if he was looking for something, which was more suspicious. .”

After Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang made a note, they exchanged a few words with Jie An, then took their leave and left.

Before going out, I met the abbot of Qingshan Temple.Zhan Zhao asked him to watch Jie Chen a little bit these few days, because both he and Bai Yutang knew that if Jie Chen was related to this case, he was very likely to be in danger.

After leaving the temple gate, the two headed north.

Zhan Zhao then asked Bai Yutang, "Didn't Fifth Aunt tell you about Jie'an's background when he was in the empty island before?"

"I haven't mentioned it much. I only know that he was very depressed at the time. He was not only a drunkard but also a beggar. He lived in a broken pot." Bai Yutang shook his head slightly, "After talking with him for a few nights, Auntie Five, He got better, and when he left, he said to Aunt Wu, 'I will definitely get them back'"

"Who are you looking for?" Zhan Zhao wondered.

Bai Yutang shook his head.

"You said you are a person." Zhan Zhao was unhappy, "Why don't you ask, aren't you curious?"

Bai Yutang was funny, "People say that curiosity killed the cat. Have you ever heard that curiosity killed the white mouse? Besides, you also heard what Jie Chen said. When I was young, I couldn't make a dull fart with three sticks."

The corners of Zhan Zhao's mouth curled up, and just as he was about to say a few words, he saw a figure appearing in front of him.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and motioned Bai Yutang to look, "Little monk."

Bai Yutang also saw it, there was a young monk walking hurriedly in front of him, it was the person he saw in the temple that night.

At this time, the little monk just raised his head, and he saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang at a glance.

After the two sides exchanged glances, the monk was stunned for a moment, then turned around and ran away.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao frowned, split up and chased after him.So Bai Yutang walked, Zhan Zhao ran across the roof, followed the little monk into the streets of Kaifeng.

At the same time, all three of them heard a strange wind coming from above their heads...