in2ebook Chapter 60: Compassion and Mercy
Chapter 60: Compassion and Mercy
When preparing to go back to the house with Shuiwa, Lin Ruojin saw from afar a man with long hair draped over his shoulders and wearing yellow clothes, holding a long sword, looking at her.
"Hey! Come here!" The man pointed in Lin Ruojin's direction.
Lin Ruojin looked left and right, then pointed at himself uncertainly, "Are you calling me?"
"Yes, it's you!" The man nodded with a sly smile.
Lin Ruojin asked Jinwa, Shuiwa and Fangsao to go back first, and she approached the man.
"My name is Liu Fufeng. I can see that you want to save this girl, right?"
"You...can tell that I want to save her?" Lin Ruojin waved his hand. "I'm not that compassionate or sympathetic. Brother, you've got the wrong person."
"Then are you willing to be a compassionate and kind person and help me rescue her?"
Lin Ruojin: "Why?"
"Because..." Liu Fufeng brushed a strand of hair from his forehead and said, "If you don't leave with me for a while, when those people come back, no one will be able to save you—"
Lin Ruojin, who was about to leave because she thought she had met a fool, stopped. She turned around and looked at him with puzzled eyes.
Liu Fufeng patiently explained: "Didn't you see the young monk leave? His behavior was strange, there must be something wrong. Some people in the village have long wanted to replace you with a saint. If it weren't for the village chief's son protecting you, you would have been sent to prison. What if someone suddenly said that one saint was not enough and wanted another one? Who do you think would be the best candidate?"
"I can see that you are not from the village either. How do you know they will want one more?"
"Because besides me who hides my aura, you are the only woman in this village who practices Qi. The thief monk kept sniffing around and it was you he was smelling! He has memorized your scent, so even if he doesn't come looking for you for a while, you will be caught by him in the future."
Lin Ruojin was shocked.
"How about it, do you want help? After all, we are both cultivators. How about you help me save people and I help you save your life?"
Lin Ruojin turned around and left without saying a word.
"Hey! Are you still leaving? Are you really not afraid of death?"
"Afraid!" Lin Ruojin said as he walked.
"Then why are you going back?"
"Pack your things and hide to see if what you said is right."
Liu Fufeng scratched his head.
Hi, this girl is quite cautious.
At midnight, the moon was only half full.
Lin Ruojin took his things and hid in a cowshed, slowing his breathing and using the knowledge he learned from books to block his breath.
The yellow dog in the village was still lying on the road, dozing off. Following a burst of hurried footsteps, the yellow dog suddenly jumped up and barked wildly.
The next second, the man in red kicked the dog away. The yellow dog rolled on the ground whimpering in pain, turned over and continued to bark at the man in red.
The man was about to raise his foot again, but the young monk walked out from behind him silently like a ghost and dissuaded him.
"The time is almost up, please ask the female donor to come over quickly!"
His voice was so gentle that it was hard to dislike him.
The man quickly responded and led the monk towards Sister Fang's house.
Under the moonlight, Lin Ruojin could barely see the true face of the man in red, and it turned out to be the village chief.
Sister Fang was called out, and when she learned that the girl living in her house was going to become a saint, her face showed surprise and sadness.
The whole family came out, but they couldn't find the unparalleled beautiful woman.
"Did you hide her?" asked the village chief.
"No, no, we didn't even know she was chosen, how could she hide?" Sister Fang shook her head repeatedly.
Jinwa and Shuiwa looked at each other, then ran to the side and shouted loudly:
"Sister, sister, please come out soon! You are going to be chosen as a saint!"
"Sister, sister, if you are nearby, please come out!"
The village chief raised his eyebrows and looked at Mrs. Fang and her husband, as if he didn't believe it. He went into the house, looked around, and then patrolled around the outside of the house before giving up.
"Elder, it seems that the girl was scared away by what happened today. Do you think we should change her?"
The monk was silent.
After a moment, he curled his lips and said, "Amitabha, if we are destined, we will meet again. Since the female donor is not here, Miss Shuanghua will enter the temple alone!"
After saying that, he turned and left, and the village chief quickly followed.
Lin Ruojin in the cowshed breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that everyone had left.
"You are so loyal that you even knew to inform you and let you hide..."
"Ah!" Lin Ruojin was startled by the sudden sound. She turned around and saw Liu Fufeng sitting on the cow's back in the dark cowshed, looking at her.
"You scared me to death. When did you come?" Lin Ruojin rolled her eyes at him in reproach.
"I was there when those two kids told you the news." Liu Fufeng jumped off the ox and laughed heartily: "Well, was I right? I'm telling you, he's got his eyes on you, and it's too late for you to run away by yourself now."
"Then tell me about your plan?"
"First, we have to catch up with them and replace the bride. Then you use my evil-repelling talisman to give them a head-on blow, and then I will finish them off with a single sword!"
Lin Ruojin nodded and then asked again.
"Where are you from? Why are you in the village?"
Liu Fufeng first laughed heartily, then lowered his voice and said:
"My family has fallen into poverty and we are suffering from lack of money."
……
It turns out that Liu Fufeng is still a wage earner...
At the back mountain of Hongxi Village, a group of people were carrying a sedan chair and walking on a not-so-wide mountain path, banging their heads.
Under the moonlight, the old monk's smile remained unchanged. He squinted his eyes and looked at the corner of the Holy Maiden Temple exposed on the top of the mountain, and his smile deepened.
Not far away, Lin Ruojin, who was carrying a package, glanced at Liu Fufeng, who was holding a grass root in his mouth, and said, "What should we do now?"
"When they get there, they will park the sedan at the Saint Maiden Temple, and then they will come out to listen to the old monk chanting outside the temple." He spat out the grass root in his mouth, put away his playful smile and continued: "When he chants, we will hide our aura and go in to replace the real master. But you must remember that your cultivation is low, you must cover your ears when he chants!"
Seeing Lin Ruojin nod, he picked up Lin Ruojin and chased after the sedan.
The Temple of the Holy Maiden is no different from ordinary temples, and is even a little smaller than ordinary temples.
Lin Ruojin and the other man watched as they stopped, dragged the struggling bride out of the sedan chair and stuffed her into the gate, leaving her screaming and crying inside.
"You said these two monks were the masterminds?"
"Well, they used this trick in other places before. At that time, they were quite numerous, and only a few were left after some cultivators chased them. I also learned about their tricks from the cultivators who participated in strangling them."
"So, what do they want the Saint to do?"
"Eat... should be eat..."
Lin Ruojin took a breath of cold air.
The sound of chanting sutras rang out the next moment.
Lin Ruojin quickly held her breath, covered her ears, and allowed Liu Fufeng to fly into the temple from behind with her in his arms.
After landing, Lin Ruojin looked around. Among the layers of prayer flags, a red figure was lying on the ground, trembling silently.
Frost Flower's eyes were dull and she had lost all hope of living.
She listened to the noises outside the door and felt only hatred in her heart. If she had not been impulsive at that time, she could have put a knife in her clothes and killed them all one by one.
Even if I can't kill them all, I'll drag a few of them to hell with me!
Just as I was thinking pessimistically, I suddenly felt a pair of soft and cold hands touching my wrists that were tied with ropes.
Is there anyone else in the temple?!
It’s over. Is this the reason why those two girls from the same village never came back?
Frost Flower opened her mouth to scream, but was covered tightly by a pair of large hands covered with thin calluses.
Frost Flower saw the cold and picturesque eyes of the man in front of her, and felt a wave of despair in her heart.
"Girl, if you listen to me, we will...ah——"
Lin Ruojin was busy untying the rope, but heard Liu Fufeng shouting in a low voice.
"What's your name? What's wrong?"
"Bastard..." Liu Fufeng still covered Shuanghua's mouth, but slowly lowered his legs that were half-kneeling at the beginning.
He knelt on the ground, his head lowered, his teeth clenched, and his cheeks flushed.
A closer look revealed that his body was still shaking slightly.
Looking at Frost Flower lying on her side, she was trembling with fear at first, but now she is not trembling anymore, and her eyes are even filled with joy.
in the end,
What's going on?