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Chapter 39

Title: Capture Guo Bing

Summary: Enter my holy religion and enjoy my meals.God of Dionysus, heal all wounds

Sleeping in the woods for the night, Wei Yan and I specially slept far away from Liang Zeren and Shen Lian.At dawn, I shook Wei Yan: "Wei Yan, are you awake?"

He said, "Wake up."

I asked him in a low voice: "Is it really necessary to abolish martial arts to practice Tianyixin?"

"Yes," he said sincerely, "I abolished it."

So he abolished so many people's martial arts outside Chang'an City.I said, "But other people don't believe what you're telling is the truth."

He said, "Master's letter."

"Well, I believe." I smiled.The next question was a bit hesitant, "Based on your knowledge of martial arts, after Shen Lian screamed so long in the Wolf Valley, can you scream a second time?"

Wei Yan replied firmly: "He can."

"Then Shen Lian can save Shensheng?" I carefully confirmed.

"There are many ways." Wei Yan looked at me, "Not only Xiao." Shen Lian was either unable to save, or unwilling to save, watching Shen Sheng die.

A red star ladybug climbed onto Wei Yan's injured arm from the ground.The back of the ladybug is pitch black, with two white dots on the front back, and a bright red large round spot on the left and right sides of the elytra.I flicked the ladybug away, leaned over and kissed Wei Yan's eyes: "Sleep a little longer, it's not completely dawn yet."

So his eyelashes fluttered down to cover his eyes.

We walked for three days while asking the roadside. There were few restaurants on the road, and we often relied on Shen Lian to catch birds and animals to satisfy our hunger.On the evening of the fourth day, the majestic city walls of Yutan City, the capital of Wangzhou, appeared in the distance.The city wall is five feet high, and there is a pair of bows and arrows waiting on the top of the wall.Liang Zeren said with emotion: "Wangzhou Army Jiedu Wang Fengji sent so many soldiers to defend the city."

After approaching, standing or sitting or lying or leaning against the city wall is full of men, women and children.At a glance, there are six or seven thousand people under the city wall where we are.The refugees were yellow, emaciated, and ragged, and their voices were low.The four of us found an open space on a hill slightly away from the city wall, and sat on the ground, with me leaning on Wei Yan's shoulder.As night fell, the torches on the wall were lit one after another, and most of the refugees around were also sitting.Shen Lian said, "Would you like to take a look near the city wall?" I stood up and said, "Let's go and have a look."

He and I squeezed into the refugees under the city wall, and when we looked up, we saw bloodstains on the wall.Under the faint light of the fire, these bloodstains flickered on and off, like ghosts and monsters.

At this time, the crowd suddenly became noisy, and a fire dragon meandered from the hill where Wei Yan and Liang Zeren were.When I got closer, I found four rows of men in black, and there were hundreds of people.In the leftmost row, each person carries a large cloth bag on their shoulders; in the middle two rows, two people on the left and right work together to carry pots, firewood, tables, brackets, buckets, bowls and chopsticks;The fire dragon didn't stop until Shen Lian and I stood in front of it.

A man in a prayer robe came out and said, "Let's do it." So the torches were inserted into the ground, and these men in black methodically lit the fire, set up supports, hung five cauldrons, poured water, and opened cloth bags.Pour the yellowed old rice in the cloth bag into the pot.The bowls and chopsticks were placed on five wooden tables, amidst the aroma of porridge, twenty big men in black lined up and drew their bows, standing in front of the tables.The prayer stood in the very center, and chanted loudly: "Enter my holy religion, eat my food. Dionysus is above, heal all wounds." His palms were facing each other, his right wrists were staggered and folded on top of his left wrists.The six-petal flowers on the back of the hand are distinct.Then he turned his right hand upside down, so that the left and right wrists were together, and the left and right palms were separated.What he did was a hand gesture.

The big man in black who drew the bow followed suit and chanted: "Enter my holy religion, and enjoy my meals. God of Dionysus is above, heal all wounds."

The refugees gathered around.The prayer said sharply: "Line in a row, women and children in front." The big man in black pulled out an empty seat from the middle, and the refugees slowly formed a line, moving from beside the prayer to the dining table.The man prayed again: "The bowls and chopsticks are still on the rightmost table." A man squeezed in front of the women and children. He drew his bow and the big man in black immediately shot an arrow at his feet and said, "Women and children come first!" The man backed away. go back.

Every time a person moved to the table, the man in black beside the table gave away a bowl of porridge.The refugees made flower-turning gestures in a non-standard way, and prayed in their mouths: "God of Dionysus is above, heal all wounds." Under the light of the torches, these men in black had two petals of flowers in their mouths.

Shen Lian asked in a low voice: "Are you going to eat porridge? There are so many refugees and so little old rice. If you don't sit in the front row, you will have nothing to eat later." Rob. Let's go back first. I don't know how to get into the city tomorrow."

Shen Lian smiled slightly: "Let's talk about it tomorrow."

When I went back, I lay next to Wei Yan, Wei Yan suddenly said: "See you, master, I teach?" I said: "See you. The people of Tianyi Sect are helping the refugees, very good."

This night, the flames of the Tianyi Sect were flickering in the distance, and Wei Yan's eyes also flashed with joy.

When I woke up the next day, there was a faint orange light in the sky.I asked Shen Lian, "How to enter the city?" Shen Lian said, "We still use Wei Yan's method." I said, "But there are archers waiting on the wall, and if you lead people up, they will easily be shot. Shen Lian pondered, and then asked Liang Zeren: "What does Master Guo Bingguo look like, can Master Liang draw it?"

After Liang Zeren finished drawing Guo Bing on the ground, he asked, "Are you going to single-handedly catch Guo Bing?"

"Yes." Shen Lian, who was carrying Longquan on his back, said, "If I don't go, I will go to the mountain. If I want to make the mountain come out, I will be the one." "Borrow it and use it." Then he drew the bow fully and swished several times. Nine long arrows were nailed into the city wall. The first one was one foot above the ground, and the rest were exactly five feet apart.Shen Lian threw away his bow and pulled out Longquan. Arrows on the wall came towards him one after another, and his sword light formed a curtain, blocking all the arrows and flying out obliquely.He used the arrow as a ladder to climb the wall while blocking.

Two hours later, Shen Lian held a Longquan in his hand and grabbed a short and fat man down the arrow ladder on the city wall.When he came down, he said loudly twice: "Guo Bing, the governor of Wangzhou, is here." Guo Bing also shouted: "Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows." No more arrows were shot from the wall.

Shen Lian rose and fell back to the mountain bag, and put Guo Bing on the ground.The refugees around gathered around, Wei Yan and I stood up, Guo Bing shivered with his head down.Wei Yan picked up the gravel on the ground and smashed it next to the feet of the refugees who surrounded him, saying: "Get out of the way!" His head was still there, and the refugees said: "Can't you hear me?" In the end, we retreated ten feet under Wei Yan's stone throwing, leaving us to talk to Guo Bing.Liang Zeren said: "Guo Bing, you look up." Guo Bing raised his head in surprise: "Master Liang Zeren?" Liang Zeren sighed: "I want to find you, but Yutan City is sealed off and I can't get in, so I have to ask this knight Shen Lian to arrest you. The man in black is Wei Yan, a chivalrous man." Guo Bing asked, "What do you want me for?"

"When we were in Lizhou for disaster relief in the eighth year of Shenglin, there were 5 taels of disaster relief money allocated by the imperial court. Didn't you escort them to Yutan City?" Liang Zeren said, "I want to use this disaster relief money to make some profit. Store grain in the prefecture, go to Huangshui to divert Ezhu to save the famine."

"There is no 5 taels." Guo Bing was surprised, "Don't you know anything about Tongping Zhang?" Liang Zeren frowned, "What should I know?" Chang'an."

I am surprised.Liang Zeren shook his head and said, "When did this happen?" Guo Bing said, "Last year. In the spring of the first year of Yongxi, the first emperor was transferred away for the celebration of Empress Wei's birthday." Here comes Yin Zi to celebrate his birthday.

"Why haven't I seen that the imperial decree was really transferred by the late emperor?" Liang Zeren asked.

"The edict issued quietly by the first emperor is not an imperial decree. It has not been discussed by the Zhongshumen, so you don't know." Guo Bing stopped trembling and said clearly, "The edict was sealed by the emperor, and the person who came to transfer it was the forbidden palace. First, how can there be a fake?"

Liang Zeren covered his face with his hands, sat down slumped, and murmured: "How could the first emperor..." What does it feel like to have your faith completely collapsed?He spends half his life defending the absurd; he spends his life chasing the false.

I helped Liang Zeren to get up, and he sighed, "Women are misleading the country." Guo Bing nodded, "Then Empress Wei is really the reincarnation of a vixen. Disaster for the country and the people!"

Shen Lian suddenly said: "Mu Zong himself can't blame the woman for the stupid and absurd things he did. If he is determined not to transfer the relief money, ten empresses of the guards can't force him to transfer. The reasoning will also be adjusted. When Li Ping was young, he said the same in Weihou Mansion." He actually remembered.

Liang Zeren did not refute.I couldn't help but ask Guo Bing: "Master Guo, why did you seal Yutan City and prevent these refugees from entering?"

Guo Bing said: "The residents in Yutan City are unwilling. Once so many refugees are released, the city will be unstable."

Shen Lian said: "Now there are so many refugees outside the city, there should be food stored in the city from previous years, and we can open warehouses to help."

"Do you think I, the magistrate of Wangzhou, can really be the master?" Guo Bing smiled wryly, "I'm just a civil servant. The soldiers guarding the city are all Wang Fengji's people who saved Wang Fengji from the Wangzhou Army. To open a warehouse, Wang Fengji's approval is required. You can let it go. Did I go back?"

Remarks: Ah, there is another martial arts scene...