After the beautiful woman saw Jiang Tian, who was shouting and hugging her, her eyes suddenly became brighter. Then he desperately got up and threw himself at Jiang Tian's feet; then he clung to his thigh with a full heart and said in a pitiful and moving voice:
"Please have mercy, sir, I am really innocent!"
"These thieves suddenly broke in and held them hostage..."
The next moment, in the midst of strange and incomprehensible eyes, she pulled out the hairpin knife hidden in her temples, and suddenly stabbed Jiang Tian's lower abdomen; then her slender wrist was pinched by someone, and then twisted hard. After a few laps, the whine suddenly turned into a string of twists.
"Madam, you did a great job. Now I don't even need to cross-examine you."
Jiang Tian then said to the beautiful woman who was in so much pain that she couldn't speak and could only lay on the ground and whine: Then he easily twisted off her other hand; now her nose and tears were flowing together, letting Jiao The good faces were distorted into evil spirits.
"You...you...how dare..."
The only remaining servant girl suddenly wanted to rush up and scratch Jiang Tian, but she was kicked over by him and hit the corner. She fainted immediately.
"Why don't you dare? It's not a pity to support a family of sinners who support a cult. It's not a pity to die, let alone this little suffering." Jiang Tian said coldly, and then said to the other Jinwu disciples: "What are you still doing? Hurry up and put away these evidences that were intended to be destroyed; then conduct a thorough search inside and outside to see if there are any missing clues and incriminating evidence."
"yes!"
Lin Jiulang finally came to his senses and quickly dispatched and urged his men to spread out and do their own thing.
These Jinwu disciples were obviously experts in cooperating with the public; some of them cleaned and inspected the big cauldron, and found that the corners of documents and letterheads were burned; some tied up the only maids and servants left in the building, and used local materials to tie them up one by one. ; There were also three or five groups stomping upstairs to search.
So, amid the sounds of ping-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pang-pong-pang-pang-pang-pong-smashing, someone shouted again:
"We found a secret room."
"They are all vessels and tools."
"careful……"
"So many poisons..."
"There's still something alive..."
"Catch it quickly, don't run away from it..."
At this time, there was a commotion outside; but the few servants who had escaped attracted a group of armed men who were obviously nursing homes and carrying various equipment and hurried over. The leading generals even wore half-leather armor and rushed to the front with swords that shone with cold light.
"Protect the home."
"Rescue Madam."
Then the leading generals were knocked down to the ground one after another by the crossbow bolts fired from the air. The others couldn't help but were shocked, but they scrambled back a dozen steps with a loud roar; only these were left struggling on the ground. The bleeding general. I saw someone in the remaining nursing home yelling:
"What's the point of raising trash like you with our generous food and clothing?"
"Even the mistress can't protect her. When the feudal lord comes back, you weak relatives and family members will not be able to think about it."
So, under the coercion and inducement of this scolding, the nursing staff plucked up their courage again and formed a simple formation. After encouraging each other a few times again, they suddenly rushed forward in a swarm.
However, this time, when they were about to reach the range of the crossbow, they suddenly scattered into several groups and surrounded them from both sides. He immediately dodged it successfully, and most of the crossbow bolts were fired again, but only one unlucky guy was hit by an arrow in his calf and fell to the ground.
And when Jiang Tian, who was watching in the middle, was waiting for an opportunity to kill, there was again the sound of a large group of people running outside, and the sound of the door being slammed open; and those who had rushed to the courtyard near the atrium building were shocked. , but they couldn't help showing confusion and fear, and stopped one after another.
The next moment, a green flag with gold tiger stripes appeared behind the high wall in the distance. Lin Jiulang, who was standing in front of Jiang Tian and preparing to face the enemy, couldn't help but said with joy when he saw this: "It's our Jinwu Guard's backup who is here."
As if to confirm his words, amidst the rustling sound of large armor leaves from far to near; a group of armored soldiers, whose whole body was covered with only their faces exposed, trotted in a row holding spears at one end. Upon entering, the panicked guards were instantly surrounded.
However, Lin Jiulang exclaimed on the spot: Gu
"Unexpectedly, Zhonglang Mansion mobilized soldiers stationed outside the capital!"
These Jinwu warriors, who looked majestic and majestic, were somewhat different from the Jinwu disciples around Lin Jiulang who were somewhat tainted with the atmosphere of the city and the fireworks of life. There was also a man wearing a golden round armor and a winged lantern on his head. The general, who had his forehead wiped with scarlet red, clenched his fists to his chest and said:
"Li Fang, the school captain of the Fourth Regiment of the Sixth Battalion of Jinwu, stationed in Shayuan Supervisor, led 348 athletes from his headquarters and was ordered to come to listen to the results. Now, I dare to ask who is Jiang Pandian."
"I am."
Upon seeing this, Jiang Tian stepped forward without hesitation and said:
Then he saw the school captain Li Fang. He knelt down and knocked on his chest and said, "According to the order of General Li Zhonglang of Jinwu's office, all the following matters will be ordered by the judge."
"Okay!" Jiang Gao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he did not refuse and immediately said: "You will lead people to search every inch of this place carefully, and no living thing is allowed to escape; at the same time, we will ask people to keep a distance of five steps. , dig three feet underground in the courtyard; especially the key points where there are many rockeries, flowers, rocks and pools, pay attention to possible tunnels and secret rooms."
"Get the order"
Captain Li Fang paused heavily and said: Then he waved his hand, and among the hundreds of Jinwu soldiers who entered the courtyard, more than a dozen military officers rushed forward and assigned their respective troops one by one in front of Jiang Tian. The task is coming.
However, after a while, the Jinwu armored soldiers who searched the bottom of the courtyard had successively dug up several large jars filled with various small bones under the flowers and rocks, and also found hollow secret rooms in the rockery; Some large and small bottles and cans came out.
However, in Jiang Tian's field of vision, the task progress reminder still appeared, but there was no progress at all; even if he went back to the building, interrogated the servants and slaves, and woke up the woman who had fainted from pain, in her He was yelled at and questioned hard.
The next moment, Jiang Tian, who was standing at the highest point of the pavilion and looking at the surrounding environment, suddenly pointed at the faintly exposed part of the tower spire behind the high wall; he called a frightened maid and asked: "What's over there?" place?"
The frightened servant woman did not dare to raise her head and said: "Hui...hui...what the official said, where, where...is the Lanruo (Buddha Temple) where my family supports our ancestors."
The next moment, Jiang Tian led Lin Jiulang and a whole team of armored soldiers, cut off the bolts one after another, pushed open the two back doors, and passed through an inconspicuous inner passage between the walls; they came to Lanruo (Buddha), which originally had an area of one acre. inside the temple).
The so-called Lanruo originally refers to the original monastery and the place where monks practiced. However, since Buddhism in Tianzhu has gradually declined in the past hundred years and Buddhism has spread eastward, it has gradually become a collective name for wild temples and halls worshiped by the people without official certification or imperial edict.
And during the Qianyuan and Taixing Great Western Expeditions more than a hundred years ago, Liang Gong summoned Buddhists from Central China to donate money and send monks, and also recruited all ethnic groups in Anxi to launch a coalition to revive the ancestral court of Tianzhu Buddhism and the dharma-protecting holy war of Zhengyuan Qingyuan; Wild temples for folk obscenity have almost disappeared.
On the contrary, this kind of private Lanruo (Buddha Temple), which stood side by side with the ancestral hall and was used to worship ancestors, blossomed everywhere among the feudal lords. Therefore, although this attached Lanruo occupies only one acre, it can be said to be a small but well-equipped place.
But at this moment, the only main building in the temple, which is only two and a half rooms in size, is quiet and empty. Except for a few faintly flickering lights on the lamp wheels and oil tanks, there is only a solemn figure sitting in the temple. half-foot golden Buddha statue.
The entire Buddhist hall is not very big and is spacious on all sides. There is only a gauze curtain covering the Buddha statue, so you can see inside at a glance, and there is no place to hide or hide. However, Jiang Tian did not give up and slowly turned behind the Buddha statue, but he couldn't help but let out a sigh.
Because, in the narrow wall behind the Buddha statue, there is an unknown cast iron statue three feet high. But this statue, covered in green and black, is actually a protector god with three heads and eight arms, a ferocious and angry expression, and a number of naked vajra girls hanging on his body.
However, this is not a particularly unusual thing; and because of the early expansion of foreign lands, although the beliefs of these princes and vassals are still centered on the Middle Kingdom, the worship images of various gods will inevitably be affected by the local customs. Influences have always been strange and inconsistent;
Whether it is the Monkey King of Nestorianism and the Twelve Dharma Kings; or the Harpy God Ahura of Zoroastrianism, or the Great Ming God/Lighting Buddha of Manichaeism. If it weren't for the imperial ban, there were even people who worshiped the Wutong God from Fujian or the Five Immortals from Nanzhao's hometown and enshrined them in their own family temples.
In fact, even the most common Buddhist believers among the feudal lords have all kinds of strange private worship objects in addition to the eight traditional sutras and Tang esoteric branches.
Because in the last years of Taining, when the ancestral palace of Buddhism in Eastern Tianzhu was rebuilt, there was an unobstructed meeting in Nalanda Temple. Not only did they posthumously recognize Master Xuanzang as the founder of Buddhism in India after the Bodhisattvas Nagarjuna (Kushan Dynasty) and Ma Ming (Kanishaka Dynasty), but they also regarded the Buddhist teachings transmitted from the East as the only canonical canon of the original Qingyuan.
Because Master Xuanzang, who traveled to the five directions of Tianzhu in the west, was certified by the Nalanda Temple, the highest academic institution, and was the last generation of Tripitaka masters. He was also the only one among the Qunücheng Sutra Debate Conference who was jointly revered as "" by Mahayana Buddhism and Hinayana Buddhism. The legend of Mahayana Heaven and Liberation Heaven.
At the same time, it was also announced that many Hinayana and Theravada Buddhist schools in foreign countries thought of rebuilding the classics. As a result, the Dharma-protection/Dharma-rectification wars have been fought intermittently for nearly a hundred years in the countries of the South China Sea, which generally believe in Hinayana, Theravada, and Brahmanism, and in the land of southern Tianzhu.
Therefore, when the vassal princes of the Tang Dynasty finally completed the great cause of protecting the Dharma and rectifying the Dharma in Tianzhu, they naturally accepted the worship of various residual gods from the local area, and tamed them as Buddhist heretics. The protector of the law.
However, these Vajra girls that are obviously embedded in the body of this protector are a bit too delicate and lifelike, right? Even Jiang Tian could see that there were faint traces of color difference from being played with/touched on his exaggerated and weird shape.
The next moment, Jiang Tian couldn't help but hold it up according to the traces. He pulled it out hard and heard a rattling sound. The foot-long cast iron Vajra statue was slowly pulled out.
