Nanfeng had been in a coma for a long time, and was not very conscious at all. Hearing the fat man's words, his thoughts became even more confused. He felt that the method of inviting gods had happened just a moment ago, but the fat man had no need to lie to him. The cave where the two of them were currently located was also clear. It shows that the fat man is telling the truth.
"Three months?" Nanfeng muttered to himself. Although three months is not long, it is certainly not short. Judging from Fatty's condition, a lot of things should have happened during his coma.
"Yes, I have thought about it. I will wait for you for a hundred days. If you don't wake up by then, I will bury you." The fat man said with joy.
Nanfeng had no intention of joking with the fat man. He was extremely weak at this time and it was very difficult to speak. However, he was eager to know what happened during his coma, so he insisted on asking, "What happened? How did we end up here?" here?"
The fat man laughed twice, with a bitterness in his smile, "I can't tell for a while, but you just lie down for now and I'll get you something to eat."
After the fat man finished speaking, he stood up and left.
Nanfeng struggled to stand up and looked at the situation in the cave. The cave the two of them were in was very small, no more than a dozen steps square. There was a fire pit near the entrance of the cave. A bonfire was burning in the fire pit. There was a jar hanging on the bonfire. There were some fire pits around it. The dilapidated living utensils. Judging from the situation in the cave, the fat man has been staying here for a long time.
The fat man was stirring the jar hanging on the fire with a stick. Lao Bai squatted next to him and watched him work.
Although he was very weak, Nanfeng was not sleepy. He wanted to speak but lacked the strength, so he could only squint his eyes and watch the fat man busy beside the fire pit.
From time to time, the fat man would pick up the stick and look at the thick black juice on the stick. I didn't know what the thick juice was. It was pitch black and very sticky.
After a while, the fat man took the jar off the fire, tilted his head and found Nanfeng looking at him, so he walked over with the jar in his hand, "Here, have a taste."
"What is this?" Nanfeng asked weakly.
"Black rice porridge." The fat man smiled.
"This is not black rice." Nanfeng looked at the jar suspiciously. The contents in the jar had an earthy smell, not like rice porridge.
"It's okay, I'm not sleeping." The fat man put the jar aside, "This is the dye for dyeing cloth."
After the fat man finished speaking, he picked up a pottery urn from the corner, poured some rough corn into it, and stewed the rice porridge in another pot.
Nanfeng wanted to speak, but he really didn't have the strength to speak at this time. He needed to breathe for a long time before he could say anything. There were too many things he wanted to ask, so he could only pick the most important thing to ask first, "After I fainted, What happened?"
"Oh." Fatty took a long breath, "So many things have happened, I don't even know how to tell you."
Nanfeng was unable to answer, but fortunately the fat man didn't expect him to answer. After sighing, he told what happened in the past three months. The fat man was not good at explaining, and what he said was not clear, and sometimes he was confused. Fortunately, Nan Feng was not good at explaining. Feng was already familiar with his narrating habits, so he understood it well.
After he fainted, Xiong Ba lowered the thunder from the sky and killed the wolf demon who showed his true form. There were two thunders in total. The first one struck him dead, and the second struck him to pieces. After Xiong Ba killed the wolf demon, he returned to heaven with Puhua Tianzun.
The fat man was not good at dealing with the aftermath, so he asked Tian Xunzi for advice. After asking several times, Tian Xunzi just shut up and didn't answer. When the fat man was puzzled, Tian Xunzi spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground.
The fat man panicked and summoned the county magistrate Cui Zhen and the county captain Zhang Zhong. He never thought that both of them had lost their lives in the previous fight.
With no one to help him, the fat man could only deal with it by himself. He supported the injured, carried the dead alive, and retreated in despair.
In the previous battle, nearly a thousand soldiers and warriors participated in the battle. More than 80 people died and hundreds were injured. After such a big thing happened, the aftermath had to be dealt with. The only thing the fat man could think of was to show mercy to the victims, that is, to give them compensation for the dead and injured. People's relatives have a lot of money.
The fat man did this and achieved the desired effect. No one cried and embarrassed him. They all said that human life is priceless. In fact, human life still has a price. One thousand taels of silver can make the grieving family members accept their fate, and one hundred taels of silver is enough to hurt people. The soldiers were recovering from their injuries.
With just one move, Nan Feng emptied all the county inventory he had worked so hard to accumulate. As the saying goes, people are happy when money is gone, but sometimes people are not happy when money is gone. Although the people below are not pursuing this matter, the top people have heard about it. Send someone down to investigate.
When such a big thing happened, the commotion must have been loud and difficult to suppress. It didn't take long for the county government to send people down to investigate the matter. However, the person sent by the county government turned out to be an upright official who did not accept bribes. After verifying the matter, I went back to resume my life.
This matter has come to an end, let's go back to the ruined temple. Although the fat man is not very clever, he is not stupid either. He did not move the bronze bell, but sent someone to bury it with the ruins of earth, stone and bricks. When I got up, those stone statues were too huge and difficult to deal with, so they had to stay where they were.
Although he didn't explain the true situation of the ruined temple to the fat man at first, the fat man was still more thoughtful and brought back one of the bronze tripods. After returning, he opened the bronze tripod and asked Tian Xunzi to move the contents to a piece of jade.
This is Fatty's own statement, which is not very credible. The truth is that the idea of bringing back the bronze tripod came from Tian Xunzi. Tian Xunzi knew that this matter was of great importance, but he was unable to retain Han Xin's three souls and seven souls. Being able to seal one of them, leaving a way out for the two of them, is a sure-fire strategy.
Tian Xunzi's actions that day brought great harm to himself. After returning home, he stayed in bed for several days. When Fatty saw Tian Xunzi again, he found that Tian Xunzi was much older and his hair was completely white.
Let’s talk about the official sent by the county to investigate the matter. The official has been to the ruins of the ruined temple and also seen the bronze tripod in the county government office. What happened that day and the destruction of the temple must have been reported to the county and even the court. .
If the bribery fails, the fat man will know that things are going to get worse and he can no longer stay in Yu County and must run away.
But he was still lying on the kang, and he couldn't just leave. He had been unconscious since he came back. The fat man invited many doctors, and the results of the diagnosis were that the blood was receding and the heart orifices were blocked, but the decoction was poured down. No, he just won't wake up.
Tian Xunzi transferred Han Xin's soul a few days after he came back, and was carried there by his two nephews. The fat man asked Tian Xunzi to diagnose and treat him. Tian Xunzi didn't tell him what the problem was, nor how to cure it. It is said that if you take ginseng soup to die, if you don't wake up within a hundred days, you will never wake up.
After the officials sent by the county government returned, the fat man began to prepare to escape. The origin of his official status was unknown. If the superiors tracked him down, he would probably be imprisoned, not to mention his official status.
Just as he was preparing his carriage and horses, packing his belongings and preparing to escape, a group of people came and blocked him in the county government office.
The ones who came were not the police officers from the county government, but people from Momen. The purpose of coming was the same as before, to ask for Gongshu's essential skills.
He was in a coma, so he could only deal with it as a fat man. Fatty couldn't lie, and he would even beat him to death without admitting it. But the other party came here with great confidence this time. He was almost sure that the key technique of Gongshu was on him. The reason was simple. There were many people present when he used the Nine-turn Lotus that day. He passed it to ten, and then to a hundred, and finally it reached their ears. , the Nine-turn Lotus is not available to ordinary people, only dwarfs have it. When he uses the Nine-turn Lotus, it means that the dwarf was killed by his hand. Even if he was not killed by his hand, at least he searched the dwarf's body after his death, because the dwarf It is impossible to take the initiative to give such a domineering hidden weapon to others.
Fortunately, although they were confident, there was no direct evidence. Although the people from Momen blocked them in the county government office, they did not use torture and interrogation. Their attitude was quite friendly and they had all the good words. They only hoped that the fat man could hand over the key skills of public transport. .
The fat man was a cheat and swore that Gongshu Yashu was not in the hands of the two of them. In fact, the fat man did not lie. He had given the Gongshu Yashu to Yuan Anning.
Everyone in Momen didn't believe him and refused to leave. Some people even searched his body under the pretense of treating him.
When Momen came to the door, the county official had been back for several days. If he didn't leave, he would really not be able to leave until the county sent people down.
But Fatty was anxious, but Momen was not. The more anxious Fatty was to leave, the more they thought Fatty was trying to avoid them, and the more closely they watched.
Although the fat man complained endlessly, there was nothing he could do.
As the saying goes, misfortune never comes alone. It was originally caused by internal and external troubles, but unexpectedly something happened again. On the second night after Momen came, a group of monks came to find him.
These fat monks knew each other well. They were all eminent monks from Foguang Temple. Even the abbot, Master Yuankong, came in person.
The fat man felt guilty about being a thief. When he saw these monks, he was so scared that his legs were weak. Yuan Kong and others asked the fat man to go back to Foguang Temple to make an order. The fat man thought that the other party wanted to arrest him and bring him back for questioning, so he naturally refused to go.
Yuan Kong had no choice but to tell the truth to the fat man. It turned out that the monk who was secretly painting the fat man's portrait discovered by the rice shop owner some time ago was a monk from Foguang Temple. However, the painting he painted was not the fat man, but the white dog.
The reason why they sent people to paint the white dog was because they got the news and suspected that the fat man was the reincarnation of a Buddhist monk. The source of their news was the monk Wu Zhen who went to the valley with him and Tianmu Lao Tao to slay the demon that day. The monk became suspicious of the white dog and informed Foguang Temple of the matter.
If the fat man is really the reincarnation of a Buddhist monk, the abbot must come to greet him in person. If not, the abbot's trip cannot be in vain, so Foguang Temple sends people to paint it first. After the monk is reincarnated, the appearance will change, and there is nothing wrong with painting the person. Meaning, but the appearance of a psychic servant will not change. After identification by many eminent monks, it was confirmed that the white dog is the listening beast under Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is one of the four holy Bodhisattvas of Buddhism. He once made a great wish that he would not become a Buddha until hell is empty. He had the intention to experience hundreds of sufferings in the world and vowed to save thousands of ghosts in hell. In the eyes of Yuan Kong and others, the Western Region Ksitigarbha was reincarnated into the Middle Earth for the purpose of practicing cultivation again, and after attaining the throne, he settled in the Eastern underworld. They are willing to invite the fat man to be enthroned in Foguang Temple and use the strength of the whole temple to assist and make offerings.
Hearing Yuan Kong's words, the fat man was naturally overjoyed, but at the same time he was extremely troubled because he didn't want to be worshiped as a Bodhisattva. Although he had never tasted that feeling, he knew it would definitely be boring.
But in the end, the fat man agreed to the invitation of Foguang Temple. The reason was very simple. He wanted to leave here as soon as possible to avoid getting into a lawsuit. In addition, only Foguang Temple can save them from Momen.
So, Fatty took Nanfeng, Yuankong and others on the road. As expected, Momen did not quarrel with Foguang Temple. You must know that Foguang Temple is one of the four famous temples in China, and Momen did not want to confront them head-on.
On the eve of setting off on the road, Taoist Tianmu returned from the South. Hearing the news, he came to see him off and secretly slipped a letter to the fat man, telling him that if he wakes up, he would ask the fat man to give the letter to him.
The fat man originally planned to sneak away halfway, but Foguang Temple and others refused to leave, so he never found an opportunity. But the opportunity finally came. After traveling five hundred miles, another group of monks came. This group of monks were eminent monks from Baosheng Temple. Baosheng Temple is also one of the four famous temples. The temple is located in the Western Wei Dynasty. In their view, the fat man is the Western Wei Dynasty. Renshi, Foguang Temple is located in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, so it is not appropriate to invite people to make offerings, it should be made by them.
Baosheng Temple said guests from far and near, Foguang Temple said first come, first served. When the argument continued, the fat man found an opportunity, ran out with him on his back, and hid in the mountains...