Chapter 5 chapter Five

"Wow! Monster! Terrible!" Xiao Ke wailed in fear.When he cried, his mouth opened wide, his eyes closed tightly, childish and helpless. This is the Peony Building in Shengyefang. After entering the wine room, enter the brothel. In front of Xiao Ke are several inexplicable women. As usual, they put on heavy makeup to attract attention.Not only are the thrushes thick and thick, but also pasted colored glossy paper, mica sheets, and flower tinsel on the face, shining like dozens of pairs of eyes. Brothels are also fashionable to "fight flowers".Everyone scrambles to wear exotic flowers, big and small, until they can't bear it, and the winner is king.

These women are clustered in clusters of bright red, lazy and charming, they will soften their bodies and lean on them when they see people, and grin their mouths like blood... Xiao Ke had never seen such a "thing", and was overly frightened. "Wow wow wow!" The prostitutes were also startled: "mother--" Here comes the madam.I thought something big happened, but it turned out that the little monk was crying. At that moment, he hugged him half-narrowly and half-motherly, pitying the little monk, twitching.She smiled: "Whoa! Scared? Come on, mother--"

Xu Niang pulled the front of her skirt, and a white and precarious breast popped out. She coaxed him: "Give you a taste of mother's love." Xiao Ke rolled and ran, running desperately. Shi Yansheng hurriedly chased him out. But he has disappeared. The madam is puzzled: "What? Haven't even had milk?" He giggled again, and stuffed the breasts back into the placket with one hand. These men, smelling the smell of meat, are obsessed with sex, and don't know where the world is. Hong E reached out and grabbed Shi Yansheng: "Don't worry, he won't run far, and I have to ask you to take him back to the monastery."

Everyone laughed wildly: "Hahaha! Temple? I won't go back even if I kill you!" "What about you?" Red Calyx asked. "——" Shi Yansheng raised his head, "Here comes the wine!" And said: "All living beings are suffering, and bad wine is even more bitter. Good wine!" A calm Zen mind is only made of flesh and blood, so how can it withstand worldly pleasures?Men and women who eat and drink are drunk today... The considerate women scalded the wine to an appropriate temperature and delivered it to the mouth of the guests. Lighting the incense burner, the whole room is full of smoke, the wine is hot and the ears are hot, and you feel drunk. You just feel that you have stepped into another world of bliss, and the Sanskrit sounds in your memories become enchanting and swaying.

They clapped, played, and laughed.In a moment of extravagance and decadence, one of them, in love with a prostitute, stalks her.But he is a little worried: "You...would you look down on monks who prostitute?" The half-drunk prostitute said: "No. What about you? Do you look down on prostitutes who even come to monks?" "Of course not!" He said loudly, "Actually we—" Shi Yansheng was alert, he threw a cup and he was hit.It hurts so much, stop talking. There was a moment of silence in the glorious room. Soon everyone returned to normal and continued to have fun.

The prostitute stopped abruptly with the guest's words, feeling displeased: "Hey, don't look down on people! For money, we only sell ourselves, never betray our brothers and friends." She paused for a moment, then babbled like announcing the world: "Compared to men, women are much more noble!" Shi Yansheng hurriedly said: "Sorry, that's not what I meant." Everyone take the plane: "Well, neither of us will leave today!" Several people have their own interests.Only Guo Dun, who was the most drunk, was lying on the mat, muttering to himself, and the questions that had troubled him for a long time came out again.He has never had the heart of Buddha, but he has entered the Buddhist sect. He muttered in confusion:

"Hey, Guanyin...is he male or female? I can't figure it out. Why is color not color, but color is emptiness? I can't figure it out. A woman's body is so plump, and it's all flesh, how can it be 'empty'? It's better to be color first and then be empty, anyway. and also……" Shi Yansheng shouted loudly: "You guys, don't think about it if you can't figure it out——" Red Calyx leaned against him, counting: "Life is only seventy. Except for ten years of ignorance and ten years of old and weak, there are only fifty...The fifty middle school, divided into days and nights, only twenty-five... When it is windy and rainy, sick , danger, running around, how many good days are left?..."

She looked at him. ——It's better to laugh in front of your eyes. Shi Yansheng drank the wine with his back: "Wine tastes good when I drink with you." She pressed: "What's a good way to drink?" He thought hard, looking for a metaphor. "It's as relaxing as—drinking with the family." "Oh?" She deliberately picks and holds grudges, "is it 'brothers and sisters'?" Women always remember the words of rejection. He is in a hurry: "No--" When he looked up, the person had disappeared.Shi Yansheng was startled, stood up and stumbled after him.

The hallway is gone, and the doors of the wing rooms are closed.I don't know which room she is in.Shi Yansheng felt lost and stood in the empty courtyard. After a while, he walked over and pushed open one door after another, regardless of whether there was a person or not, whether there was a sound or not.Other guests and prostitutes hurl insults, or make fun of them. This time, she must be brought back. He understood, the more you don't want to be sentimental, the more you will get into it - because you care.Many things can be restrained, but this is impossible, and there is nothing one can do.

He finally pushed open a door. Then he froze. The red calyx's long hair has been shaken off, and then tied into a loose bun. In front of her is the five sons' dowry and the bronze mirror stand. First use your hands to smudge the rouge in the palm of your hand. The rouge is made of red juice after killing the flowers, evenly spread on the cheeks, and the face is full of peach blossoms. The thrush uses smoky branches, thick.The blue, red, black and white are very distinct from the flower tins attached between the cheeks and eyebrows.Then apply yellow on the forehead, and use a thin hairpin to pick up a little rose cream to decorate the lips.

Look carefully at the costumes. Shi Yansheng had never seen a woman dress up in front of him, it was like a painting, and the people in the painting looked like clouds coming out of Xiu.Her hair was half up in a bun, unable to support a single red peony.Jinbu couldn't shake himself because he was drunk. His heart was moved, and he looked at her, deeply impressed. Red Calyx deliberately ignored: "Remember this. A man is not always pretty." Shi Yansheng couldn't hold back, he grabbed the silk powder puff she was holding, it was stained with powder, it turned out to be on the face, but also on the neck, chest, arms, back... The powder was scattered all over the ground. He whispered: "Don't be so careful, it will get blurred in a while." Hong'e's face flushed, and she jumped up.He didn't let her go and chased her out. When she danced, it was a "hu xuan", spinning rapidly like the wind, I don't know how many circles, it seemed that she would not stop, he wanted to see her face, but she always faced her back.The movements are exquisite and laissez-faire, without restraint. He also danced along.It's not a dance, but I haven't forgotten the moves of martial arts. I'm agile, my waist and legs are steady, and everyone is overwhelmed with joy.Suddenly without identity, it is equivalent to hooligans and prostitutes. Of course I remember that his identity is a monk. He is a self-deceiving, half-knowledgeable Buddhist chant.The most effective way to resist temptation is just to close your eyes, and then make yourself empty, "nothing". But alas, all living beings, who is not tossed by the five desires? There is a hot spring in the backyard. In the dark night, the water vapor is dense. They jumped into the hot spring. I don't know if it's the temperature of the water, or the gurgling of the blood, but the heartbeat is extremely fast. like burning.The water boiled.It hurts a lot. It is clearly stated in the scriptures.It's like wild dogs biting dead bones, like wild birds grabbing carrion, like carrying a torch in the headwind and burning yourself back... Fingers wandered fiercely on the opponent's body, like a thick rope that was getting tighter and tighter.I'm afraid that as soon as I let go, both of them will become illusions, and they will disappear in the water in an instant. Angrily, he frantically kissed the woman he had admired for a long time.The two of them have nothing to worry about and think about nothing... Yes. All the desires are not actually obtained, but it is also like a good dream, like a golden stone colliding with sparks, like touching a piece of smooth and cool silk. Like a man finds his way out. He was a little impatient.Just want to conquer. Panting is almost submerged in water. Just as she was tearing off her long skirt, suddenly a small black figure rushed towards her and shouted: "Jing Yi! Jing Yi!" Almost stumbled into the hot springs. The two couldn't stop. Xiaoke's tears are still wet: "Come and see, is this you?" Shi Yansheng, who was all wet, carried the portrait under the lamp and looked at it carefully. This is him! Everyone else heard it. When Guo Dun saw the words "wanted" and "reward", he immediately pushed the prostitute away. Seven people, including Wan Lecheng and Zhao Yihu, saw "10,000 taels of gold". They all looked at each other. The situation was serious, and for a while, he lost interest and returned to reality.It's really too late. The fire of lust and joy was extinguished alive.Fun is short lived. "Xiao Ke, where did you get it?" "It's all pasted on the wall." Xiao Ke didn't know what to look for, and compared the portrait with Shi Yansheng, "The painting really looks like it!" Shi Yansheng was shocked and angry, he did not expect to become the number one criminal and the leader of the rebel party.He calls: "Go back to me! You, you go!" Hong E was very disappointed and persisted for no reason: "I do not go!" He chased her again: "Walk!" "Don't go! What is this? I want to go with you!" "But I've already implicated you, maybe your life is in danger too. Whoever kills his brother, why not kill another sister?" "I'm not afraid of—" "You are mine. At this moment, I command you not to act willfully!" In desperation, he couldn't leave her alone: "Let's go - I will marry you later." She was startled: "what?" He asked again: "Say it again!" Shi Yansheng turned around: "Don't say much. It's a deal!" Hurry from the way down the mountain. The leaves of ancient locust trees along the way have dewdrops.The soft dawn in the east gradually appeared, and the newly formed water droplets from last night became invisible behind them. Arriving at the gate of the mountain, the gray and purple sky has become white. Outside the gate of the temple, there were already monks guarding them, blocking them and not allowing them to enter. "According to the order of the abbot of this temple, you broke the precepts and went down the mountain. You violated the rules and cannot be accommodated." Master Deyuan scolded them angrily: "My place is a solemn and sacred Taoist place, a place of pure incense for a hundred years, how can I tolerate your filth? Protect the temple with sincerity, and don't make mistakes. Goodness, goodness!" Shi Yansheng hurriedly said: "Please calm down, this is a temporary laissez-faire—" Guo Dun was in a hurry, and desperately explained: "We were just starving, so we went down the mountain to buy some Hubing." As the abbot of a temple, Master Deyuan has always been meticulous and strict in his control. When these few people came, there was a disturbance, which was not what they wanted, and: "Hmph! I smell alcohol! What are the 'five precepts' I told you that day?" At first glance, there was a sneaky figure who joined the group behind.It's all about success. The abbot caught this man and asked: "Didn't you sneak down the mountain together? Why did you leave the team alone and return late?" Everyone looked at him, leaving the team and returning late? - a little puzzled. The abbot glanced behind the monk, and there was a strange woman there. Because everyone turned around, she couldn't hide the map.The abbot became even angrier and continued to teach him a lesson.Long story earnestly: "The eight of you are still ganging up with women to commit adultery! Since you are determined to practice, you should abide by the precepts to be wise. Sin, sin... Ah! Xiao Ke, are you there?" Xiao Ke only felt that ten years of Taoism had been lost in one day, and cried bitterly: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" The temple door slammed shut with a bang. "Master! Master!" Amidst the crying, there were slight ringing sounds. Based on the sergeant's vigilance, they immediately realized that layers of officers and soldiers were rapidly surrounding them. The other party did not act rashly until the temple gate was closed. "Oh no!" Frightened. The four were on guard, and the four slapped the temple gate: "Please open the door and let us in!" The officers and soldiers continued to cover up silently, full of murderous intent. Xiao Ke yelled again in horror: "Master! Master!" ——He is the flower in the greenhouse, the Buddha in the temple, and the snail in the shell.In the past ten years, with predestination, desire, enlightenment, kindness and helplessness, how to face the storm? All theories can't suppress the murderous intent. At this time, Hong'e came out in front of the crowd, propped up her waist, and shouted arrogantly: "Don't you see who I am?" The leader of the officers and soldiers smiled: "The princess has already left the palace, she is like a commoner." Her face was red and white.It turned out that she had no power, power, or room to speak. No wonder the world yearns for it so much. Shi Yansheng decided not to escape.He is a manly man, and it is his duty to fight. Immediately, he grabbed the immature and mature Xiao Ke, the little teacher who spared no effort to "guidance" him in the short days of his life.He doesn't ask for anything in return and has no selfishness, like a small flower blooming in the wild, contributing its fragrance unconditionally, he admires Xiao Ke—but, he wants to say goodbye to him! After grabbing him, he leapt and climbed the branches of a big tree at the gate of the temple. With a kick, he threw the child up and let him hold on to the eaves. He wanted to throw him back into the temple and return to him world to go. After he heard the big move that could not be delayed, Xiao Ke fell into the temple and took over the hustle and bustle with the monks.Xiao Ke is safe, he breathed a sigh of relief.Your own peril has only just begun. "Goodbye, Xiaoke! Don't open the door! Take care!" They no longer pleaded with the abbot, and gave up this magnificent refuge.It's a blessing, not a curse, and it's a disaster that can't be avoided. It's just that the general of the officers and soldiers said righteously: "Under the order of the new crown prince to eliminate the rebel party and to rectify the law and discipline!" Both sides feel that they are and the other is not.So angry. Is this the battlefield? Shi Yansheng raised his arms and called out: "Brothers! Let's get rid of it, so as not to hurt the monks!" Fight to the death and start a killing spree. Haven't fought for a long time.In a head-on confrontation, the soldiers stored up their hostility and waited for an opportunity to vent it. Unknowingly, he went to a dead end.Only killing will bleed a way. My eyes are red... At this time, Wan Le succeeded in dodging and avoiding this battle.Shi Yansheng guessed well.The informer must be him! In the melee, he grabbed a sword and slashed Wan Lecheng behind the tree from the top of his head to his chest. He couldn't dodge it. A shallow line of blood was drawn, and gold rolled out from the skirt of his clothes. This was only his share. bounty. Among the eight people who advanced and retreated together, three were killed, one was injured, and they were outnumbered.Shi Yansheng pierced the heart of "brother" with a sword, and he said angrily: "You betrayed us!" Blood spurted out and stained him all over, but the man fell to the ground and said at the end of his life: "...Aren't you...the betrayer...?" Shi Yansheng was startled.The wounded Guo Dun, in such a critical situation, did not forget to stab Wan Lecheng's body with a knife.He poked down hard. "Insiders", the ones who know how to betray you best are often more effective than anyone else. Before Guo Dun raised his knife, the officers and soldiers' sharp knives arrived. Guo Dun had no choice but to let go, but two fingers were cut off. Shi Yansheng pushed Guo Dun and knocked Honge down.At this juncture of life and death, it is better to drive away.He keeps asking her to go: "you go first!" This push distracted him, an officer and soldier attacked from behind, Shi Yansheng gritted his teeth to block and suffered this knife wound in order to protect Hong'e.Another raid came again. Hong Calyx didn't have time to agree, so without thinking, she accepted it logically. She was so close, without any preparations, that she suffered this knife in front of him, and her heart was sliced ​​open! No one is "ready" for anything to happen.Always unexpected and unprepared. When there is joy, sorrow comes from it. After reaching the peak, he stumbled again. A burst of dizziness, everything spins.Blood gushes out from the heart. Her body is very light, as if flying.Indefinite life, dance over and dance over.The sun was shining on my face, my eyes were dry, I wanted to say a lot... opened my mouth with difficulty... She went limp.Very unwilling. "Red calyx!" Shi Yansheng yelled mournfully. But she has fallen like petals. "I am cold……" She died without even finishing a word.Not even a sigh or a moan.When he died, he was a common man, an ordinary commoner.She just wants to follow the man she likes and loves. Shi Yansheng was in pain as if his heart had been gouged out by a wild beast.He became enraged, completely lost his mind, the flames rushed to his limbs and bones, surrounded by beasts, his eyes crackled, he raised his sword in his hand, slashed wildly, and killed anyone he saw, throwing away all his cultivation rear. He did it for his life. When fighting, every enemy fell, and he was full of sweetness and very ferocious.Power seems to be multiplied. revenge! Kill anyone you see!No mercy. Until the entire army of officers and soldiers ran out of ink, he still couldn't stop himself, gasping for breath, waving sharp weapons in the air - even for a moment he forgot why he killed... Reinforcements have arrived. The situation was wrong, Shi Yansheng was dragged by the two people, half madly, he ran away looking for a place. He has no chance to turn back. The moon is very round. It's almost Mid-Autumn Festival.There are exquisite painting boats roaming slowly on the water, and silk and bamboo orchestras are accompaniment to the literati's elegance.A group of children by the river are lighting lanterns.The lights and moonlight make five colors. The reunion festival, the bustling world is outside the bamboo forest. The three fleeing, Shi Yansheng, Guo Dun, and Zhao Yihu, after two days of running around day and night, were haggard and exhausted. Who said this? ——When all the crabs are walking sideways and one is going straight, there is no way to go... The bamboo shadows on a moonlit night, with branches and leaves, look like a group of wild ghosts with disheveled hair from a distance, but they are limp hands, women's hands, dead women. Death after death made him feel cold. Looking at the bright mirror in the night sky, I was sad and silent. But the silence is too long, enough to make people lose the ability to control themselves.Once again cornered. Zhao Yihu said in a muffled and rough voice: "Damn it's Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole city is busy celebrating the festival, only us, busy killing and being killed!" Guo Dun's bloody hand, which lost two fingers, only started to be in severe pain at this time: "I don't want to die! Poor me, I'm not married yet. My brother is still young, how can I support my father?" "Hmph! There's a lot of things we haven't done—we're doing well, aren't we?" Zhao Yihu said with a look of injustice: "It's none of our business at all!" "Who cares about the right and wrong of their brothers? Who is the good emperor? Who is the foolish emperor? In the end, two hands were bloodied." So he accused Shi Yansheng: "It's all you! One person does the work and the other is in charge. You cut off the head and let us take it away. At most, you will never mention the mutiny. Maybe you saved your life—" Before the words were finished, another slapped him: "Are you crazy? Knowing so much, can you still live?" Unable to distinguish between A and B, he or him, the two began to wrestle.They are all angry: "Who said that you can't stand it and you want to go down the mountain?" "Who is greedy for meat? Gluttony can cause disaster!" One stuck the opponent's head and pressed it down, and the other raised his fist and kicked and kicked vigorously. "Isn't it because Wan Lecheng has no loyalty? Isn't it the 10,000 taels of gold? Or..." While scolding and fighting, the shots are very heavy.The blood of each was spattered on the other.Desperately venting on the brink.Beat the opponent dizzy.Saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth, which was swollen and crooked. "stop!" Shi Yansheng couldn't bear it anymore, he jumped out, half persuading, half beating, he used some force to separate the two. All three were out of breath. Under the silver light of the full moon, there was blood and blood everywhere. Shi Yansheng drank violently: "Unexpectedly, we also came to kill each other!" They were all stunned. Desperately discouraged. Is this the year of cannibalism? Shi Yansheng was deeply moved: "We are all sergeants. It is our honor to die on the battlefield and die for our country. Now?—" He sat down slumped, with eyebrows raised, and wrinkles engraved on his forehead, which became a brand overnight. "History is not the truth. Whoever is powerful will have brilliant deeds." If there is no temptation that day and the meeting is fine, then follow Prince Jiancheng and enter the Xuanwu Gate, and maybe kill Li Shimin and others in one fell swoop... Strangely, when he conceived this way, he seemed to have figured it out, but he couldn't tell the reason. Guo Dun wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and suddenly wanted to ask again: "I... have another question in my mind, I have never dared to ask..." "Just ask." "I'm afraid people will laugh at me as childish." Zhao Yihu was very angry and shouted: "Damn it, ask! Are you still afraid that the old monk will fail?" He plucked up his courage, for fear of making a mistake: "Really, if the mutiny was instigated by our side—I mean, whoever wins will go to kill the grass..." Shi Yansheng continued: "In this way, the other party is a 'betrayer', and the responsibility for hunting down falls to our buddies." Thousands of homes will be destroyed and tens of thousands of people will die. When they were ordered to hunt down the "rebels", they must have been justified. Hasn't his master ever tried to kill someone? But the winner is the king, and the loser is the bandit. These three little grains of grain in the sea, if they are not pawns in the hands of politicians, they are witnesses who are finally wiped out-they will never be heroes, they are games of power struggle, and there is no way to avoid them. Those who yearn for power have not yet obtained it, will have it, and have already obtained it. Thinking of having more and more secure hands, the world is changing, and their destiny is also changing accordingly. How can there be a "self"? Who is truly great? The three sat quietly in the bamboo forest, thinking hard. The night is long.It's already August, no wonder the autumn mood hits people.I shivered, I don't know if it was because of the cold wind or the coldness of human feelings. When it was almost dawn, it suddenly rained. As the cool wind blows, the rain comes.Not big, but thin and dense, they fell on their bald heads like powder.Like a caressing hand. They didn't move an inch. The morning bell of the Buddhist monastery came from afar. I just feel that nothing is right or wrong.A fool, lose everything. Shi Yansheng squinted his eyes, the rain covered his head and face. He stood up. The two subordinates who used to go through life and death together also stood up and followed him.The former general ordered the two of them: "Let's go. Disfigure, change names, and go as ordinary people." The two didn't know where to go, and still didn't want to part ways. Shi Yansheng turned around and yelled: "Let's go!" He walked into the mountains alone. The mountain is like a mystery.