I dare not

Gu Qiao leaned over to the door and looked outside. Four peasant-looking people with sticks in their hands formed a nondescript patrol team and were passing by the entrance of the Buddha Hall.

He turned his head and whispered to Fazhang, "I'm afraid no one will take care of me now. I want to see that person. Can I go through the secret passage?"

Fazhang heard the footsteps outside gradually going away, nodded, "Follow me."

Inside the dark passage, they couldn't see their fingers. The two walked forward in the dark and cramped passage by touching the uneven stone wall.

After about a cup of tea time, a faint voice came from above.

"Ah!" Accompanied by a yell, was the crashing sound of tables and chairs falling to the ground.

"It's that boy's voice!" Gu Qiao grabbed Fazhang's hand and said in a low voice, "They must be using that weird method again."

Fazhang shook his palm to signal him not to be restless, and the two walked to the end of the passage, their voices were already clearly audible.

"Is it still not working?" It was the voice of the goatee.

After a while, the black and thin man replied in a slightly anxious voice, "It's been almost a month since I haven't connected, if you continue like this, you will die!"

"Baci can't die. His physique is rare. It's still useful for me to keep it. You take him back to live and recuperate."

"Yes." The thin black man's voice was very respectful.

"Add twice the dose to the third child." Goatee ordered again.

"Twice? But he has..."

Goatee interrupted and said sharply: "There is no time, Jingli has already sent someone to look for it, if it doesn't work, we can only kill him!"

"Yes! Du Gong!" The black and thin man replied.

In the room, the boy fell to the ground, his body twitched in pain, and he gasped in his throat.

Huang Qi carried Baci, who had fainted, on his shoulder, and took him out.

If Gu Qiao could see the situation in the room at this time, he would see that Barci's head, which was not wrapped in a red scarf, was full of thin and long silver needles.

After Huang Qi went out with Baci, the goatee squatted down and looked at the idiot boy who was struggling in pain for a while, and said mockingly to himself: "It's such a strong willpower, it's worthy of being a member of the Xiang family, it's a pity."

He took out a silver needle as thin as a hair and put it in the palm of his hand. Soon a thin layer of frost slowly formed on the palm, and the slender silver needle was frozen straight.

He slowly inserted the silver needle from the boy's temple into his head!

The silver needles were all submerged, leaving only a little trace of blood on the skin, which disappeared without a trace in the sweat.The fool stopped twitching and struggling, and gradually fell into a deep sleep.

Gu Qiao and Fazhang didn't see what happened in the room, they just waited quietly for the room to quiet down.

After a stick of incense, Fazhang put his ears on the wooden board at the top of the passage. He has practiced for many years and cultivated his mind in meditation. Although he is over half a hundred years old, his eyesight and hearing are far beyond ordinary people.

"It's gone, there is only one person in the room now, let's go up."

Fazhang gently pushed the wooden board away, and the light in the room immediately poured down. Gu Qiao's eyes, which had already adapted to the darkness, could not open for a while.

Outside the wooden plank is the low couch in the meditation room, and only very thin people can climb out from there.

However, both Gu Qiao and Fazhang were thin and thin, they crawled out from under the low couch, and saw the little fool lying on the ground covered in cold sweat and fell asleep.

Fazhang stretched out his hand to examine his pulse for a moment, with a serious expression on his face.

"How is it?" Gu Qiao asked.

Fazhang made a gesture of invitation, "Come and see, do you still remember what I taught you ten years ago?"

"When is this, and I still have to test my homework?"

Gu Qiao put her finger on the boy's wrist.

"I didn't see any problems. I also tested his pulse before. His pulse was steady and strong, not empty or floating, and he seemed to be asleep."

"A person who has just suffered severe pain is still covered with cold sweat. Why does he have a steady and strong pulse and fall asleep without futility?"

"This..." Gu Qiao was stunned, not knowing how to explain.

"You said they used needles, so maybe it has something to do with that, and the decoction he takes every day should also be checked."

"I want to save him," Gu Qiao looked at Fazhang firmly, "and ask Master to help me!"

"It's natural, little benefactor Gu doesn't need to say much, the poor monk will try to save him. But this is not a place to talk, you go back the same way first."

"how about you?"

"I will find an opportunity to get out from here, don't worry, I will ask my third apprentice Chang Ling to find you at night."

Gu Qiao climbed into the secret passage again from under the low couch, and followed the secret passage back to the back of the Buddha statue in the main hall.

Someone outside knocked loudly on the door. It turned out that it was past You hour, and the food delivery person came.

He heard the people outside say: "There is no one inside! Go to Baci and get the key to open the door!"

Gu Qiao walked over unhurriedly, and said through the crack of the door, "I'm here, I'm asleep."

The man scolded: "Damn, you can't hear you shouting so loudly, have you fallen asleep!"

Gu Qiao was not angry either, she reached out to take the bowl that the man handed over, and asked him, "Where's the man in the red scarf?"

"Then how would I know," the man replied, "it was my second boss who asked me to come here!"

"When will Baci come?" Gu Qiao asked again.

The man was a little impatient, "I didn't know after I told you, it was his business, and I came when the second boss asked me to come, why do you have so many questions!"

Gu Qiao confirmed that the Baci they had just heard in the secret passage was the red turban.

What method did they use to connect the red turban Baci with the boy, and use Baci to control him, but for some reason they couldn't completely control him.

What is their purpose?How to prevent this connection?

This is probably the first thing to figure out.

Their second boss should be that black and thin man Huang Qi, then the boss is a goatee, and Huang Qi calls him... Duke Du?

What is the identity of the little fool?

Why do they call him the third child?

These mysteries enveloped Gu Qiao, making him feel like he was walking in a thick fog without any clue.

He looked down at the broken bowl in his hand, a few leaves of grass were floating on top of the clear rice soup, and a few grains of boiled rice settled at the bottom of the bowl.If you smell it carefully, there seems to be a little meaty smell.

He put the broken bowl aside, found a futon under the altar, and sat cross-legged.

Who is that idiot boy?Gu Qiao felt that the matter must not be as simple as kidnapping for money.

Goat nonsense said that someone from Beijing came to look for him, and if he couldn't do it, he would be killed.

It seems that Goatee is quite afraid of "people from Beijing", it would be great if he could contact those people who came to look for him...

Gu Qiao sat on the futon with her eyes closed until night.

It was already dark.

There was a slight noise from the leaky roof. Gu Qiao thought it was a mouse. When he looked up, a black shadow fell from above.

"Ouch!"

A child fell on all fours in front of Gu Qiao.

Gu Qiao was taken aback, "Are you okay?"

The child stood up and rubbed his buttocks, "It's all right, I'll get used to it after falling too much."

Gu Qiao remembered that Fazhang said that Chang Ling would come to him, so it must be this child.

It's just that I didn't expect it to be a child. Judging by her stature, she might not be more than eleven or twelve years old, but by hearing her voice... she was still a girl.

"Chang Ling?"

"Well, you are Gu Qiao, right?" Chang Ling took out a bread from his bosom, "Here."

"Thanks."

Gu Qiao took the bread, "Has your brother come back?"

"Which senior brother are you talking about?" Chang Ling's voice was crisp, unique to a girl of that age, and it sounded particularly festive, "My second senior brother came back with me, and he is now playing with his herbs. Eldest brother, he has gone to do something important, and I am afraid he will not come back in a few days."

"How long have you been with your master?"

"It's been more than three years. Do you want to study the Fa with my master? You can be my junior brother."

Gu Qiao smiled, "I don't have spiritual roots, your master doesn't want me."

"No, Master said that your intelligence is different from ordinary people."

"Oh," Gu Qiao raised her eyebrows, "Your master praises me so much?"

"Well, the master also said that you are the number one scholar, are you the number one scholar?"

"Yes."

"Then you are really powerful. My elder brother also said that you are very smart before."

"Your elder brother told me?" Gu Qiao was a little surprised. Chang Feng seldom took the initiative to talk to him when he was boarding at Da Ci'en Temple ten years ago, but he always followed Chang Feng like a follower.

In order to get rid of him, Chang Feng often climbed to the roof to practice kung fu. Perhaps Chang Feng's great success in light kung fu is also due to Gu Qiao's credit.

"Eldest brother said that you are very good at memorizing scriptures."

Oh, it turned out to be this.

At that time, Fazhang sat beside Chang Feng every day when he lectured on scriptures. He always answered Fazhang's questions before Chang Feng did, and Chang Feng was scolded a lot for this.

Thinking of childhood, Gu Qiao couldn't help but smile knowingly. Chang Feng, who was thirteen or fourteen years old, always looked like a little adult with a cold face. Ten years have passed, and he doesn't know what he looks like now.

Gu Qiao ate the noodles in a few mouthfuls, "Are you afraid of being discovered after staying here for a long time?"

"It's okay," Chang Ling shook his head, "Now everyone is listening to Master's lecture in the backyard, and I sneaked out."

"Bandits still like to listen to Buddhist scriptures?"

"Actually, everyone is pretty good, but those two people are a little bit bad." Chang Ling pouted and said dissatisfiedly, "When we came, the temple was full of people who had fled. We lived together and spent the day in the temple. Looking for a living on the mountain, I come back to sleep at night and listen to Master’s lectures. It’s a joy. Since those people came, it has become like this.”

"Is that the one named Duke?"

"Well, there is also his subordinate Huang Qi. They forced those people to go out to steal people's money, and those who didn't go would be beaten. Later, they recruited other bad guys from this mountain to live here, and it gradually became like this. "

"Does the government not care?"

"Now the famine is so serious at the foot of the mountain, how does the government manage it?" Chang Ling said with a proud look, "Thanks to my senior brother, he is the one who quietly saves people every time. You are unlucky, my senior brother happened to Go out to do errands, otherwise you won't be arrested."

"Well," Gu Qiao smiled, "but I won't know you, what a pity."

"Of course, my master said, let me cover you, don't worry."

"Then thank you little Master Chang Ling."

Chang Ling straightened her chest, feeling very imposing.

"I'm leaving first, and I'll come to see you tomorrow when I have morning class." After she finished speaking, she stood on the beam and went out through the hole in the roof.