Chapter 91 5. The murderer is Monk Sha

On the third day of June in the tenth year of Yuanhe, Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng went out to court. When he went out, he was riding on a horse, followed by a dozen followers, each carrying a lantern in his hand, walking on the dark street.While walking, I heard a few popping sounds, and all the lanterns went out at the same time. This is the assassin secretly breaking the lantern with a sharp weapon.But these subordinates are used to living a comfortable life, how do they know about the activities in the Jianghu?Just as he was screaming in surprise, there was another puffing sound next to his ears. This sound was the sound of body fluid and blood spurting out after a sharp weapon pierced the human body.Then, on the long street in the darkness, there was a sudden howl of misery.

When Wu Yuanheng heard the screams, he knew that the assassin was coming, and he yelled: "Bai Juyi, I don't fight Xue Tao with you, nor have I had a one-night stand with her, so you won't be so mad that you come to kill me?" While talking, Wu Yuanheng was about to jump off the horse, when suddenly there was a sharp wind in the darkness, and there was only a bang, Wu Yuanheng's right leg bone was smashed by a Luoyang shovel, causing him to scream loudly .Amidst the roar, there was a crackling sound, and a candle actually lit up. Someone brought the candle close to Wu Yuanheng's face and took a closer look.

Through the dim light, Wu Yuanheng saw the face of an old monk with benevolent eyebrows and silver beard and hair.It is conceivable that Wu Yuanheng must have felt extremely confused at that time: Amitabha, may I ask which mountain gate the master is practicing meditation at? Just listen to the old monk single-handedly in charge of etiquette: so good, so good, the poor monk is the last disciple of Master Xuanzang who went to the west to learn scriptures from the east, and people in the world call him the sand monk. Drifting Monk Sha... Poor Wu Yuanheng, he was dizzy after hearing this: Drifting Monk, why did you start killing people in the middle of the night if you didn't learn Buddhism from Tang Monk?

Monk Sha said with a smile: Donor, you always talk about studying Buddhism and Buddhism. Lao Sha, I am in the Buddhist gate. Eating is practicing, sleeping is practicing, and killing people is practicing. Now is the time for Lao Sha to practice. There is actually such a method of killing people in the world... Before Wu Yuanheng could finish his sentence, he saw Monk Sha's Luoyang shovel flying into the air.It was copied by Monk Sha, and it was copied in his hand. He lost the candle and disappeared. The horse carried Wu Yuanheng's headless body and continued walking towards the palace.But Monk Sha had already used his lightness kung fu and rushed to the outside of the west gate, just in time to intercept Yushi Zhongcheng Peidu who was on his way to court.It was repeated by Monk Sha, first using hidden weapons to destroy the lanterns of his followers, and then pounced on them in the dark, the Luoyang shovel waved, shoveling, and the shovel sent heads flying all over the sky.

Then Monk Sha rushed towards Pei Du, but Pei Du was more clever, he had already jumped off his horse and ran wildly.Monk Sha sneered: You run, no matter how fast you run, can you still outrun the monsters on the road to the West?Glancing at Pei Du's figure in the darkness, he raised the Luoyang shovel in his hand and was about to throw it.Don't want to think that a person suddenly rushed up from behind at this time, and suddenly hugged Monk Sha's neck. The person who rushed out suddenly and put his arms around Monk Sha's neck was Pei Du's old family member Wang Yi.Wang Yi brought up Pei Du from a young age, even though he was a servant, he treated Pei Du like his own son.So of course he would not allow someone to kill Pei Du in front of him, but instead hugged Monk Sha desperately regardless of his life.

When Monk Sha was stunned, Luoyang Shovel had already broken through the air, and Pei Du's screams sounded in the darkness, and then fell silent. Hearing the scream, Monk Sha smiled slightly and punched his elbow backward.The old loyal servant Wang Yi groaned indistinctly, and his body flew out like a kite with a broken string.Monk Sha sneered, walked forward following the sound, found his Luoyang shovel, held it in his hand, lit a candle, and lit a candle for a long time before finally finding Pei Du's body lying in a gutter.He was about to go forward to make up a shovel, but Wang Yi interrupted him so much. At this time, he heard lanterns and torches all around. Countless officers and soldiers had already arrived, and countless spear points were aimed at him.However, Monk Sha's body drifted forward in the direction the spear point came from, and disappeared into the darkness in an instant.

As the assassin left, the soldiers walked over in fear, looked into the gutter, and saw Pei Du raised his head and groaned in pain. It turned out that Pei Du was not dead, and he wasn't even seriously injured. Monk Sha's Luoyang shovel was pulled by Wang Yi, and ended up rubbing against Pei Du's scalp.Even so, the assassin appeared in the capital at night and calmly took away the head of Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng, but it was still the most sensational assassination case in Chinese history.As for Wu Yuanheng, he was also the only prime minister who was assassinated during his tenure, and he has since left his name in history.

At this time, Monk Sha had already gone back to the inn to rest, but the noise in the capital Chang'an was earth-shattering.The furious Xianzong ordered the arrest of the assassin, but no matter how strict the inn was, the search soldiers could not have imagined that an old man who was almost a hundred years old was the murderer.So Monk Sha stayed in Chang'an City, and he never came under suspicion, but was constantly harassed, which made him particularly annoying. Therefore, before leaving the capital, Monk Sha used the art of walking at night again, and posted a big-character poster at the gates of several yamen, and wrote eight big characters:

Don't rush to arrest me, I will kill you first! Monk Sha left, and a dozen soldiers from Li Shidao in the city fell ill. They were forced to believe that they were the murderers, and they were all killed after being tortured. The next unlucky person was Wu Yuanji who caused this mess.