When the dim light of dawn began to emerge, the surrounding light seemed even dimmer.Light and darkness seem to be in a final duel, and the silent surroundings are accumulating a power that will explode at any time in the silent stalemate. This kind of silence is close to dead silence, and the air is filled with the atmosphere of chaos. Riwobuji was the first to wake up from a faint dream, and the heart-warming coolness from the ground gave him a jolt.When I opened my eyes, my eyes were dark, and I didn't quite get used to this situation for a while, my mind was also ignorant, and my reaction seemed to be half a beat late, I couldn't figure out where I was lying now.

He sat up from the cold ground, and saw a person sitting upright a meter or two away.The figure was vague and motionless.Riwobuji was full of surprises.He patted his drowsy forehead vigorously with his hands, and his mind became a little brighter, and the previous things came to mind. Beside him, Battalion Commander Shi and Guard Cui were still lying on the ground, and Battalion Commander Shi was even snoring symmetrically. Riwobuji still didn't understand how the three of them were lying on the cold ground, and still fast asleep. Who could that be sitting in the dark air? Riwobuji was so curious that he didn't have time to wake up Battalion Commander Shi and Guard Cui.He stood up and walked towards the figure.

When he approached the figure, Riwobuji couldn't help being surprised, it turned out that it was the old monk Jingyuan who was meditating on the spot.At this time, the eyes of the old monk Jingyuan were slightly closed, and Riwobuji could clearly feel that the cool breath was seeping out from the old monk Jingyuan's body. Riwobuji was taken aback, he put his fingers under the old monk Jingyuan's nose, and the breath of the old monk Jingyuan seemed to stop. Could it be that the old monk passed away like this? The shock of Riwobuji was no small matter, he turned around and walked quickly to the side of Commander Shi and Guard Cui who were lying on the ground, shook them awake from their stupor, and shouted: "Get up quickly! Get up quickly! Something happened! Something happened! "

Battalion Commander Shi and Guard Cui, who were in a dreamy dream, woke up suddenly as if cold water had been poured on them.The professionalism of professional soldiers puts their nervous reflexes on alert at any time. Battalion Commander Shi, who stood up first, asked loudly, "What happened?" Guard Cui also got up almost at the same time as Battalion Commander Shi, and he looked around vigilantly with bright eyes. "Master Jingyuan has an accident." Riwobuji said.At this time, Ying Zhang Shi and Guard Cui also saw the old monk Jingyuan sitting not far away, and the three of them walked over together.

"Why do you meditate here? Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?" said Battalion Commander Shi. Riwobuji said, "I'm afraid it's not Zen meditation. I'm worried that the teacher and father have passed away." "Passed away? You mean he died?" Battalion Commander Shi and Guard Cui opened their eyes wide at the same time. "I have no breath, and my whole body is as cold as ice." Riwobuji said. "How could this happen?" Yingchang Shi said as he stretched out his hand to check the breath of the old monk in Jingyuan. As expected, there was no breath at all, and his whole body was cold.

"What happened?" Shi Battalion Commander asked. Both Riwobuji and Guard Cui shook their heads in a daze. "What time is it?" Riwobuji asked. Battalion Commander Shi raised his hand to look at his watch and said, "It's five o'clock." Riwobuji looked at the dark sky and said, "It will be dawn in two or three hours. How could we lie in this wilderness and fall asleep?" Battalion Commander Shi scratched the back of his head and said, "I was thinking about this too, it shouldn't have happened!" "Something must have happened here when we fell asleep," Riwobuji said.

"What can happen? Isn't there nothing going on these days? It's quiet all around, it looks very peaceful!" "No. I feel that the surrounding environment is a bit weird." At this time, Guard Cui said loudly: "Oops, I forgot who we kidnapped." Hearing Guard Cui's reminder, Battalion Commander Shi and Riwobuji remembered the two young men who were gagged, tied up and thrown in the bushes. "Hurry over and have a look, don't freeze to death." Battalion Commander Shi immediately said loudly.Guard Cui has already walked over there quickly.

After a while, Guard Cui ran back quickly. "How are you?" Battalion Commander Shi asked. Guard Cui shook his head and said, "It's gone, none of them are gone." "It's strange! It's so strange! Something strange happened here while we were sleeping," Riwobuji said. "Now is not the time to discuss what happened. Our top priority now is to recite this old monk first. We will deal with the matter here at dawn," said Battalion Commander Shi. Riwobuji didn't have a better idea at this time, so he had to follow Battalion Commander Shi.Battalion Commander Shi ordered Guard Cui to be responsible for carrying the old monk Jingyuan.When the old monk Jingyuan was supported on Guard Cui, the body of the old monk Jingyuan was like a stone statue, his limbs were stiff, and his meditation posture was firmly fixed, and he couldn't separate him no matter what.

"Could it be that the body is already dead?" Battalion Commander Shi asked. "Maybe it's frozen like this," Riwobuji said. "Then what do you do? How do you carry this posture?" Riwobuji also felt extremely embarrassed. "Whatever, let's lift it onto Xiao Cui's back first. Let's hold him up from behind." So the old monk Jingyuan was carried on Guard Cui's back. Guard Cui had never carried anyone in this position before, so it was extremely awkward. Fortunately, Battalion Commander Shi and Riwobuji were behind him to assist.The three of them stumbling towards the outside of the Bamboo Forest.

There was the sound of a rooster crowing in the open country, followed by the barking of a dog, echoing sporadically in adjacent yards. The three returned to the ancestral hall with the old monk Jingyuan on their backs. They were already panting and sweating profusely. Battalion Commander Shi went up and knocked on the handrail on the gate of the ancestral hall. Uncle Jiang inside seemed to be waiting behind the door. The two heavy gates "creaked" and a crack was exposed. Before Uncle Jiang's head came out of the door, Stretching out from the crack, Battalion Commander Shi had squeezed his body into the threshold, and at the same time pushed the door open at once.

The three hurriedly carried the old monk Jingyuan into the hall again. She Shiyun has been sitting on the threshold of the hall, dozing against the door frame, and opened her eyes when she heard the noise, confusedly not knowing what was going on, with a shocked expression on her face. The wicks of the two kerosene lamps in the room were pulled very long, and the strong flames illuminated the room very brightly, but there was still a vague and ethereal feeling. The three old pedants with glasses were still squatting next to the pile of broken rubble and carefully rummaging through them. They almost turned a deaf ear to Riwobuji and Battalion Commander Shi who came in, to the point of forgetting everything.They were completely mesmerized by this bunch of crap. Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng curled up in a corner of the room and were also awakened. Uncle Jiang, who followed closely behind, panted and asked loudly: "What happened? Why did you bring the old monk back?" But Battalion Commander Shi said, "Hurry up and find a big chair. Hurry up!" Uncle Jiang obliged, and hurriedly moved a large bamboo armchair. The atmosphere in the room suddenly became panicked and restless. Although Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng didn't understand what happened specifically, from the expressions of the few people who came in, they could feel that something must have gone wrong again.Seeing the old monk Jingyuan being carried in so awkwardly by three people, like carrying a meditating Bodhisattva, I was very surprised, and the two of them hurried up to help. The old monk Jingyuan was placed in the big armchair, still meditating, without any change in posture. Zhang Yaoye leaned over and took a closer look at the face of the old monk Jingyuan.At this time, the old monk Jingyuan looked extremely peaceful, but the chilly breath coming out of his body made Master Zhang Yao couldn't help shivering from the bottom of his heart. "What's the matter with this old monk? Why is he like a stone bodhisattva, and still cold?" Zhang Yaoye asked. Zhang Ziheng also leaned over, put his hand under the old monk Jingyuan's nose, gasped in shock, and said, "I'm out of breath! Are you dead?" Hearing what Zhang Ziheng said, Master Zhang Yao didn't believe it, so he put his hand under the old monk Jingyuan's nose, he froze there for a while, and said after a while: "You went out well, why did you come back like a dead person? Why is this old monk's life so fragile..." Before he finished speaking, his throat was choked. The people in the room seemed a little at a loss for a while. After a while, Uncle Jiang said: "What's going on? The old monk is dead, and he should have performed religious rituals and chanted sutras, but now he doesn't dare to do these things. What's the matter?" Battalion Commander Shi frowned, pacing around the room with his head buried.Encountering such a thing, he was a little helpless.Even Riwobuji looked very silent, his thick black eyebrows were tightly locked. The old monk Jingyuan, who was sitting cross-legged on the big armchair, looked more peaceful and serene under the swaying kerosene lamp.This detached demeanor and posture, it seems that he has already penetrated the ups and downs of the mundane world. This is a real state of forgetting both things and me! At this time, Zhang Yaoye suddenly said: "No, I remembered, this old monk is not dead. He is playing a joke on us!" Zhang Yaoye's words didn't attract the attention of Battalion Commander Shi and Riwobuji, but Zhang Ziheng replied, "Yaoye, what nonsense are you talking about? You're out of breath, and your whole body is stiff, and you're not dead yet?" But Zhang Yaoye said firmly: "You know a hammer. I said that the old monk is not dead, but he is not dead. He has closed the door and is sleeping soundly!" Zhang Ziheng's eyes were wide open, and he poked Yaoye Zhang's forehead with the back of his hand, and said, "Yaoye, you don't have a fever, do you? Why are you talking nonsense?" "I'm not talking nonsense. This old monk is really not dead. I know that there is only one person who can wake him up." Zhang Yaoye said. At this time, Battalion Commander Shi and Riwobuji began to pay attention to what Zhang Yaoye said, and they stared at Zhang Yaoye together. Master Zhang Yao continued to say to Zhang Ziheng: "Do you remember Master Tuo who drowned in the cow drinking pool a while ago?" Zhang Ziheng nodded, then his eyes lit up, and he said, "Master Yao, you mean that Xiaobai can bring this old monk back to life?" A smug smile appeared on Zhang Yaoye's face at this time, and he said: "Except for my daughter Xiaobai who has this ability, I'm afraid no one else in the world can do it anymore." "Xiaobai? Which Xiaobai?" Battalion Commander Shi asked Riwobuji in confusion. "A stubborn and mysterious woman," Riwobuji said. "The old man's words are trustworthy?" Battalion Commander Shi asked again in a low voice. Riwo Buji didn't reply to Commander Shi's words, but went to Zhang Yaoye's side and pulled Zhang Yaoye, saying: "Zhang Yaoye, let's take a step to talk." Riwobuji pulled Master Zhang Yao out of the hall and into the courtyard, and said, "Master Zhang Yao, are you sure you weren't talking nonsense just now?" At this time, Zhang Yaoye seemed to be full of confidence and said: "Do you think I look like a person who talks about it?" Riwobuji didn't answer Zhang Yaoye's words immediately, but stayed on Zhang Yaoye's face for a few seconds.In the dim light and shadow, the expression on Zhang Yaoye's face was not very clear, but Riwobuji could still see simplicity and sincerity from this thin face. Zhang Yaoye said again: "But this matter has to be done quickly, otherwise if the time is missed, even if Xiaobai comes, he may not be able to come back to life. I heard Xiaobai tell me about Master Tuo last time, and I missed it." When waking him up, she has nothing to do." Riwobuji patted Zhang Yaoye on the shoulder in a friendly manner, and said, "I know what to do, thank you Zhang Yaoye." Then he turned around and entered the hall. The atmosphere in the hall still seemed very dull, but the flame of the kerosene lamp was burning extremely vigorously, but the flickering light made the whole hall even more illusory and blurred.Seeing Riwobuji walking in again, everyone looked at him helplessly. Riwobuji walked up to the old monk in Jingyuan, looked at it for a while, and then said to Uncle Jiang who was standing aside: "Uncle Jiang, can you find an empty house with a quiet back and put the teacher in first?" Uncle Jiang said puzzledly: "Put teacher and father in a quiet room? Didn't he pass away?" Riwobuji seemed a little impatient and said: "Stop rambling on, just ask if there is a quiet room." Uncle Jiang said: "There are, but they need to be cleaned up. The inside is full of rotten furniture and rotten firewood." "What else do you need to pack? It's fine if you can let go of this teacher and father." "However, it is necessary to have people guarding the teacher. The mice in that room are very big, fierce and hungry. I am afraid that if no one is guarding, the rats will take the teacher's body. Bitten. If the corpse is cheated, it will be even more inauspicious and scary!" Hearing Uncle Jiang's words, Riwobuji cast his eyes on Captain Shi, who was frowning all the time.Battalion Commander Shi was also listening to what Riwobuji and Uncle Jiang said. "Let's leave this matter to Guard Cui. Let the old master go to that room first," said Battalion Commander Shi. Under the guidance of Uncle Jiang, several people hurriedly got the old monk Jingyuan out of the main hall of the ancestral hall.Zhang Yaoye wanted to go up to help on his own, but was stayed by Battalion Commander Shi. Master Zhang Yao has become somewhat cautious towards Commander Shi.Country people, no matter whether they are high or small officials, always have such a distinction in their hearts.This is a restraint from the bottom of my heart, even in my bones. This restraint is like entering the genetic sequence, and it can no longer be erased from the root. Commander Shi asked Mr. Zhang Yao: "Is what you just said the truth? If you deceive the public with your lies, I have the right to arrest you." "Everything I said is true. Because I saw with my own eyes how my goddaughter Xiaobai rescued Master Tuo. Her technique is really clever." "Then where is your goddaughter Xiaobai now?" When Battalion Commander Shi asked such a question, Master Zhang Yao's expression immediately dimmed again, and there were tears in his eyes. "Could it be that something happened to your daughter-in-law?" asked Battalion Commander Shi. Zhang Yaoye picked up the cuff of the old cotton-padded jacket, wiped away his tears, choked up a bit, and said in a trembling voice: "My goddaughter was taken away by a gang of scoundrels." "Oh? Was taken away by a gang of bad guys?" "A bunch of scoundrels! A bunch of rotten troops from the Kuomintang came out of nowhere, arrested Xiaobai and the four children and took them away." "The rotten troops of the Kuomintang?" Battalion Commander Shi felt that something was a little strange. "Yes! It is said that it has been so many years since the liberation, and even the bandit Bang Er has been wiped out. I don't know where this group of rotten Kuomintang troops came from, all of them are carrying American-style weapons. The artillery fire was fierce and terrifying." "This Riwobuji, why hasn't he told me about this situation?" Battalion Commander Shi said to himself. At this time, Zhang Yaoye was looking at Commander Shi anxiously. Maybe now Commander Shi became the only hope in his heart to save Bai Xiaoyang. Battalion Commander Shi lowered his head and turned around on the spot a few times, pondered for a while, then raised his head, and his eyes met Zhang Yaoye's eagerly. Battalion Commander Shi went up and patted Zhang Yaoye on the shoulder, and said, "Old man, don't worry, we will find a way to get your goddaughter back." Master Zhang Yao kept nodding his head as if he had taken a reassurance: "With the words of the chief, I feel relieved." After a while, Riwobuji, Cui Jingwei and Zhang Ziheng returned to the main hall of the ancestral hall.Uncle Jiang did not come back with him, he was arranged by Riwobuji to guard the old monk Jingyuan in a small room. Battalion Commander Shi called Riwobuji to the courtyard outside, as if deliberately avoiding the people in the main hall, whispered for a long time in the dry and cold air, seemed to argue a few words, and then the two Individuals came in one after the other. She Shiyun has been looking at everyone half-understood, bewildered, her face is full of confusion. Battalion Commander Shi said to Guard Cui, "Xiao Cui, go and set that mid-size jeep on fire immediately. We have to go to Woniu Village as soon as possible. We have been delayed for most of the night, and there is no time to delay." Guard Cui answered yes, and trotted out. Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng heard that they were going to Woniu Village soon, their faces lit up with excitement.The two glanced at each other, with a long-lost smile on their faces. Woniu Village, for Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng, already had a long-lost feeling.