Chapter 40 Chapter Forty

How did Zhang San recognize that the old man was Iron Fan Dongting?It turned out that Zhang San vaguely saw the face of Dongting during the night battle at the Wantong Bodyguard Agency in Baoding Prefecture, and just now he saw someone hit the cattail fan with a dart, but it did not penetrate, indicating that there were iron pieces in the fan, so he recognized that the old man was an iron fan. Fan Dongting. At this time, a young man hurriedly came up from the stairs of the restaurant. The young man was wearing a green shirt and a cap with melon skin. He had fair skin and clear eyebrows.The young man came to Wang Jinting quickly and shouted: "Father, there is poison on the iron fan!" Wang Jinting stared at it, and it was his daughter Wang Yuanwen. "You... why are you here?" Wang Jinting said in surprise.Wang Yuanwen frowned and said: "Father travels thousands of miles and daughter is worried. My daughter is afraid that Daddy might make a mistake on the way, so she followed me all the way..."

It turned out that after her father and Zhang San left Beijing, Wang Yuanwen secretly brought a package and followed them in disguise all the way.That night at Wantong Escort Bureau in Baoding Prefecture, she saw that Tie Fanzi was acting suspiciously in Dongting, so she followed him to an alley. She hid in the room and listened to the conspiracy of Wantong Escort Bureau.Then he first went to the room of Wantong Escort Bureau and threw a asking stone.After a while, Dongting led more than 20 guards to surround the escort agency.When Guo Yunshen was fighting with Dongting, and Zhang San was fighting with Yu Chanyi, Wang Yuanwen sneaked out of the room and walked into Wang Jinting and Zhang San's house.Seeing that her father was sleeping soundly, she couldn't bear to wake him up, and kept guarding beside her.Later, when she saw that Zhang San and Yu Chanyi were in an inextricable fight, she leaned against the window, lit a candle, picked a needle under the candle, and tore Yu Chanyi's dress.Xie Tiefu came to help Yu Chanyi, Yu Chanyi took the opportunity to escape, slipped into Wang Jinting's room, and fought with Wang Yuanwen.During the scuffle, Yu Chanyi knocked Wang Jinting unconscious with a single palm. Seeing the critical situation, Wang Yuanwen carried her father on her back and jumped out of the back window. Yu Chanyi also jumped out of the back window and gave chase.

Wang Yuanwen ran for a distance with her father on her back, panting delicately, Yu Chanyi chased him more and more anxiously.It happened that Wang Xiangzhai, Zhang Zhankui, and Han Muxia came flying horses. Wang Yuanwen met Wang Xiangzhai along the way and knew that he was Guo Yunshen's disciple. Therefore, when Wang Xiangzhai rode his horse to chase Wang Yuanwen, Wang Yuanwen let Wang Xiangzhai snatch his unconscious father away.In Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province, Wang Yuanwen secretly followed Wang Jinting and Zhang San to visit Daming Lake and various springs. She secretly saw the jade cicada's wings contacting the Panlong on the bank of Daming Lake, and listened to their conversation.In Heihu Spring, Wang Yuanwen saw Yu Chanyi pretending to be a prostitute and beating her father into the moat. In desperation, she threw herself into the Heihu Spring, swam all the way to rescue her father, and escaped secretly.In Yunju Building, Wang Yuanwen threw stones on the house to break the poison bowl of the "fake Liu E" Panlong, and then threw darts on the tree to leave poems, exposing Panlong's tricks.Wang Yuanwen followed her father and Zhang San to the city of Nanjing. Just now she had been watching the movement near the Confucius Temple on the Qinhuai River, and she recognized Dongting in the crowd dressed as a poor old man.In the Lehe Garden, when Wang Yuanwen saw Zhang San from the stairs performing the stunt of returning tea to the pot by sticking a pillar, he found that Dongting secretly took out the ointment from his arms and wiped it on the big cattail fan, knowing that he had put poison on the fan.While waving a fan in Dongting, Wang Yuanwen quickly sent out a dart.Wang Jinting didn't know the details, so he reached out his hand to touch the fan, and was poisoned by the fan. Seeing that the plot had succeeded, Dongting fled by jumping out of the window and falling into the water.

At this moment, Zhang San was both surprised and happy to see Wang Yuanwen. When she heard that Wang Jinting had been poisoned, he hurried over to visit her.Seeing that Wang Jinting's color remained unchanged, he smiled and said, "I'm not poisoned!" Wang Yuanwen said anxiously: "I clearly saw Dongting put poison on the fan." Zhang San wanted to touch Wang Jinting's right hand for touching the fan, but Wang Yuanwen said anxiously, "Master Zhang, don't touch Daddy's hand, it's very poisonous." Wang Jinting laughed even louder, and said, "Yuanwen, what nonsense are you talking about! I haven't blamed you yet, why didn't you listen to father's advice and come to Nanjing alone!"

Wang Yuanwen said seriously: "Father, what I said is true!" Seeing Wang Yuanwen's appearance of crying anxiously, Zhang San believed it a little, and said, "Master Wang, let's invite a doctor to take a look." Wang Yuanwen and Zhang San came to the inn. Zhang San asked Wang Yuanwen to serve Wang Jinting and went out to find the doctor.He asked several families, and they all said that there was a medicine shop on the East Street of Confucius Temple, and there was an old doctor there.Zhang San rushed to Fuzimiao East Street again. As he was walking, he bumped into a man. The man was a middle-aged man, dressed as a northerner, wearing a green coat, blue trousers, and leggings. His skin was pale. Loquat color, strong bones, bright eyebrows and eyes, exuding a sneering look.Zhang San looked up, and suddenly his eyebrows and eyes became a crack, and he shouted: "Brother Chuck!"

The middle-aged man was Chuck, the "arm saint".Chuck also recognized Zhang San, and laughed loudly: "It turned out to be Mr. Zhang, why did you get here? You and I are the same age, why are you a brother and I am a brother!" Chuck said, laughing heartily. Zhang San asked: "After a few years of absence, after the barbecue season party, where did you go?" Chuck sighed: "It's hard to say! Before the Eight-Nation Allied Forces attacked Beijing, I left Beijing and stayed outside. I have been to Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu, and then returned to my hometown Zhili Xianghe County. I was depressed in my hometown for a few years. Let’s take a stroll around Jiangnan and find some chores to do.”

Chuck asked: "Where have you been in the past few years? Do you always stay in Beijing?" Zhang San told about his experiences in the past few years, and how he went to Zhejiang as Wang Jinting's bodyguard to handle cases, encountered villains such as Dongting, and Wang Jinting was poisoned by touching a fan. Chuck said: "I have studied Chinese medicine for several years, and when I was studying martial arts, my master taught me how to identify wounds and prevent and treat them. You don't need to find a doctor, I will go and see!" Zhang San brought Chuck to the inn, and saw Wang Jinting's face was tea-white, like white paper, leaning on the kang, and Wang Yuanwen was crying anxiously.Chuck went over to feel Wang Jinting's pulse, and cold sweat gradually oozes from his face.

Zhang San asked: "What? It's dangerous." Zhang Huan said: "This is a very dangerous poisonous patch called palmetto poison. It is made of tin mineral water and palmetto from Mount Putuo, and it is applied along the nails. It can infiltrate into the body. When people are infected with this poison, they will feel nothing at the beginning. After the onset of the poison, the body will feel cold, ranging from 20 days to 10 days, and will slowly die of cold." Wang Yuanwen was so anxious that she shed tears and trembled Asked: "Sir, is there no antidote?" Chuck said: "It is said that the elder Fayu of Puji Temple in Mount Putuo has this antidote, called Baiguo Wan, and now I have to go to him." Zhang San pondered for a while Hui said: "Yuanwen stayed to take care of Mr. Wang. I thought that Hong Sheng's remaining party would not harass him again for a while. Brother Chuck and I went to Putuo Mountain and asked for Baiguowan to save Mr. Wang." Chuck said: " It is important to save lives, we will leave immediately."

Zhang San and Chuck traveled eastward, came to the beach, hired a fishing boat, and the husband rowed southward.The fishing boat sailed for three days and three nights. In the early morning of this day, I saw a beautiful island in front of me. The island has beautiful scenery, secluded caves, strange rocks, ancient temples and palaces, and clouds and smoke.The fisherman happily pointed to the island and said, "That's Mount Putuo. This is the land of the sea and sky Buddha, and it's the end of the world in the east." The fisherman docked the boat, and Zhang San hid the boat behind a huge reef. He took out a large handful of silver and handed it to the fisherman, saying, "You stay here for a while, we will go to Puji Temple, and we will be back in a while. Let's go back, and I'll give you silver taels then." The fisherman nodded, leaned against the foot of the reef, took out his pipe and pot, and started smoking.

Zhang San and Chuck came up the mountain.Mount Putuo, together with Mount Jiuhua in Anhui, Mount Emei in Sichuan, and Mount Wutai in Shanxi, is also known as the Four Famous Buddhist Mountains in China.In Mount Putuo, every room is a temple, and every person is a monk.Xu Ruhan's poem in the Ming Dynasty said: "There are hidden temples everywhere on the mountain, and when the road is poor, you meet monks." Puji Temple, Fayu Temple, and Huiji Temple are the three famous temples on Putuo Mountain. In addition, there are Mahayana Temple and Yueling Temple. , Yangzhi Temple, Zizhulin Temple and Meifu Temple, etc.Putuo Mountain has dangerous rock formations, strange stone walls, Chaoyin Cave, Fanyin Cave, Chaoyang Cave, Guanyin Cave, Lingyou Cave and other caves, which are particularly interesting.The strange rocks and rocks on the mountain have different postures. There are bears going up the mountain, cattle and sheep drinking streams and other stones.Someone once compared Mount Putuo with the West Lake: "If you combine mountains with lakes, you should push West Lake; if you combine mountains with seas, you should push Putuo."

Puji Temple is located in the south of Baihuading, under Lingjiu Peak, and is the main temple dedicated to Guanyin in the mountain.Zhang San and Chuck walked through the Yubei Pavilion, Haiyin Pond and Bajiao Pavilion, etc., and walked three miles along the Zhuangyan Road. Before arriving at the Dayuantong Hall, a monk greeted him. Zhang San told him his intention and asked him Report to Elder Fayu.After a while, the monk came down and said: "The elder is in the scripture building, please go in." The three of them passed through the bell stalls and the Hall of Heavenly Kings, and came to the Sutra Library. They saw an old man in his 60s, wearing a fiery red cassock, holding a rosary in his hand, and chanting: "Just to explore the top, unexpectedly In the middle of the Taidian water. It is really lonely to know the coast, and it is also vague to look at Yingzhou in the distance. The cold wave in the stone cave sings Buddhist chant, and the bright moon in the bamboo forest shines round light. The whale wave washes away the smoke of the beacon, and looks up to see the clouds of kindness all over the world." The elder glanced at Zhang San After glancing at it, he chanted again: "Man said that one temple is red now, and Lingyun Pavilion is the same. The Nine Dragon Hall has grown old together with the mountain, and the Wufeng Gate is especially facing Haixiong. The ancient Buddha can still cast magic rain, but Sengqin rarely becomes a monk. Corridor There is no way to go back to the threshold, just listen to the bell ringing in the middle of the sky." Seeing the elder pause, Zhang San was just about to salute and speak, only to hear the elder cough, and slowly chanted: "Yuanyan, Dugu and Gully have their own burdens, and the green and strange circles are rewarding. Invincible. Sanskrit is passed on from Mingquan in Zhunei, and golden ropes of dew are left among the pines. There are hidden temples everywhere in the mountains, and when the road is poor, I meet monks. I even laughed and called the boy to help the two armpits, and went straight to the top of the wind." Fa Yu The elder chanted, coughed again, and asked, "You two have come from a long way, why are you here?" Zhang Sandao: "I have a friend who has been poisoned by palmetto, and his life is dying. I heard that you have ginkgo pills for detoxification, so I came here to ask for pills." "What's your friend's name?" Zhang Sandao: "Wang Jinting, the imperial envoy of Chaoyan, came to Zhejiang Province to investigate the crimes committed by Governor Hong Sheng. Mr. Wang Jinting is the current Hai Rui. He came here in disguise, but he didn't expect to fall into the trap of a man named 'Iron Fan' Dongting under Hong Sheng's account. Poison Fan, now bedridden, please, for the sake of the people in Zhejiang, please give me a ginkgo pill." Elder Fayu was slightly startled when he heard this, then laughed and said: "Buddhism is the duty of compassion, I can't just ignore death, but Baiguo Pill is a precious medicinal material in Mount Putuo, so I can only wait for tomorrow's ceremony. I give it to you in the face of the monks." Zhang Sandao: "Thank you, elder." Elder Fayu said to the monk standing next to him, "Take them to Yingsongzhai to rest quickly, and invite them to attend the Dharma assembly tomorrow morning. Don't neglect them." The monk took them to a monastery building at the back, and saw the three gold characters "Yingsong Zhai" written on it.The monk let Zhang San and Chuck inside, and asked Zhang San to live in the West Room and Chuck to live in the East Room.Zhang San saw that the interior of the house was neatly furnished, with golden mantles and emerald gauze, cotton fur and colored quilts, hardwood tables and chairs, calligraphy and paintings of famous people, etc., which were truly elegant.Chuck invited the fisherman up again, and he lived in the east room with the fisherman. On this day, the monk took Zhang San and Chuck to visit Fayu Temple, Huiji Temple, Duobao Pagoda, Zhengqu Pavilion, Yangzhi Temple, Mahayana Temple, Haitian Foguo Stone, Jinsha, Guanyin Jump and other places of interest according to the instructions of the master. The prepared lunch And dinner is very rich.It wasn't until very late that the three of them fell asleep. Zhang San lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep. He thought about the ups and downs, wind and rain that he encountered in the land of Yanzhao, the state of Qilu, and the hometown of Jinling emperors since he followed Wang Jinting to the south, and he had mixed feelings.Thinking of Wang Jinting being an upright gentleman who wholeheartedly served the country and didn't want to be plotted against by this, he couldn't help feeling sad.Zhang San thinks of Zhejiang's face struggling under Hong Sheng's lewd power. Some people are forced to leave their homes and beg on the street; The responsibility is heavy, and he couldn't help but secretly said: "Zhang San, Zhang San, you were born a strong man in Beijing, and you died as a ghost of Yanzhao. How could you fall into hardships and dangers..." Wang Jintingcang appeared again in front of his eyes. Bai's sad face, Wang Yuanwen's grief-stricken eyes.I can't help but feel deeply moved when I think of Chuck's brother's righteousness to save people and their heart and soul for their friends.Thinking, thinking, falling asleep. When he was sleeping, he felt his body sinking. He opened his eyes, only to feel that the bed was sinking, and his whole body was tied by ropes. He couldn't break free, and shouted: "Brother Chuck!" The bed sank In the underground cave, the ceiling below closed automatically again, and all I saw was pitch black, and I couldn't see my fingers. Zhang San knew he was caught in the trap, and complained in his heart. He wanted to get up several times, but he couldn't move. He cried out in pain: "Zhang San, Zhang San, I didn't expect you to have today! Mr. Wang died in Zhang San's hands! !” His voice hit the cave wall, sending out a loud echo. After the echo, Zhang San heard a faint cry in the distance...