Chapter 49: Plotting Against the Four Evils

After a brief shock, Su Xinghe found a coffin from a side room of the thatched hut.

"It seems that Master and the others were well prepared!"

Looking at the coffin, which was as bright as new but clearly had some age, Zhang Jie sighed.

Zhang Jie used the knowledge shared from Zhang Jie of the Water Margin,

and together with Su Xinghe and Xue Muhua, they laid Wuyazi to rest, and then used yellow paper,

bamboo taken directly from the scene, and incense candles to build a simple mourning hall.

"Sect Leader Uncle, should I go and recall the other fellow disciples?"

After finishing the urgent matters, Xue Muhua asked Zhang Jie for instructions.

"Go."

Zhang Jie, who had offered three sticks of incense to Wuyazi, said.

He and Su Xinghe had to keep vigil for Wuyazi and could not go down the mountain for the time being.

"Junior Nephew, wait a moment."

Just as Xue Muhua was about to go down the mountain, Zhang Jie called him.

"Uncle, what else do you have to order?"

Xue Muhua asked.

"After you go down the mountain, use your connections to help me pass a message."

Zhang Jie, with a flash of essence in his eyes, said slowly.

"May I ask Uncle, where and to whom should I pass it?"

Xue Muhua thought Zhang Jie was asking him to deliver a letter, so he asked.

"I don't know where, and I don't know to whom."

Zhang Jie replied.

"This..."

Xue Muhua was a bit confused.

Not knowing where, and not knowing to whom, what message should be passed?

At this time, Su Xinghe, who had not spoken much, spoke:

"Since your Uncle ordered it this way, he naturally has his reasons, you just need to do as he says."

He knew that his junior brother was extremely mysterious and seemed to know many unknown secrets.

But what of it?

No matter what Zhang Jie was in the past, he is now the third-generation sect leader of their Xiaoyao Sect.

As members of the Xiaoyao Sect, they naturally have to stand firmly on Zhang Jie's side.

"Yes."

Xue Muhua respectfully agreed.

Zhang Jie, watching this scene, sighed: compared to him who had only become the sect leader for a few hours,

Xue Muhua was clearly more convinced by Su Xinghe, who was like a master and father.

However, Zhang Jie was not angry; he was a parachuted leader,

and it was already very good for Xue Muhua to be obedient just now.

As for the future, once he showed his talent, he would naturally be able to make Xue Muhua and others follow his lead.

And what talent did Zhang Jie have?

In the Jianghu, having a big enough fist is the most outstanding talent!

"Muhua, I want you to pass a message for me throughout the Jianghu:

Outside the Heavenly Dragon Temple, under the Patriarch Patriarch Puti tree, the beggar is sloppy, the Guanyin has long hair."

Zhang Jie told Xue Muhua the words he wanted to pass.

"Heavenly Dragon Temple?

Could it be that this matter is related to the Duan family of Dali?"

Xue Muhua guessed in his heart upon hearing this.

He was not an ordinary person who knew nothing about Jianghu affairs.

On the contrary, as a divine physician, he knew all the Jianghu forces like the back of his hand.

The Heavenly Dragon Temple is the family temple of the Duan family of the Dali royal family,

and several Dali emperors have become monks in the Dali Temple.

The Duan family of Dali could stand firm under the covetous eyes of powerful families like Yang and Gao, and the ethnic conflicts of the Bai, Han,

and Tu tribes, and the role of the Heavenly Dragon Temple could not be underestimated.

Not to mention anything else, the current abbot of the Heavenly Dragon Temple, Master Ku Rong, is a famous first-class expert in the Jianghu.

If he were to put down his compassion and decide to assassinate the king,

all parties in Dali would be like a fishbone in their throats, unable to eat.

And like other big temples, the Heavenly Dragon Temple has a tradition of raising martial monks to protect the temple.

Those monks in the Heavenly Dragon Temple, although they eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha's name on weekdays, at critical moments,

hundreds of monk soldiers comparable to elite soldiers can turn into angry-eyed Vajras to protect the Duan family.

And given the relationship between the Heavenly Dragon Temple and the Duan family, Xue Muhua wouldn't be surprised if there were hundreds of sets of armor and crossbows hidden in the Heavenly Dragon Temple.

"Go."

Zhang Jie had no intention of clearing up Xue Muhua's confusion and waved his hand to let him go.

"Yes."

Xue Muhua received the order and left.

"Duan Yanqing, obediently come into my bowl."

Zhang Jie looked at Xue Muhua's distant back, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

Xue Muhua's guess was right, the person he was targeting was related to the Heavenly Dragon Temple.

To be precise, it was related to the former master of the Heavenly Dragon Temple, Duan Yanqing.

Duan Yanqing was originally the Crown Prince of the Dali Kingdom, but after the civil strife in Dali, he was exiled after the treacherous official Yang Yizhen usurped the country.

Because of his status, he was hunted by many parties, and finally suffered several stabs,

although he saved his life, his face was destroyed, his legs were disabled, and he could only communicate through ventriloquism.

After practicing his family's martial arts, he finally became a top-tier expert in the Xixia First Class Hall with a disabled body.

After practicing martial arts, he began to take crazy revenge on those who hunted him down back then,

and because of his cruel methods, he got the nickname "Evil-Doing to the Full."

Later, he met the other three evils: "Evil-Doing in Every Way" Ye Erniang,

"Fierce God and Evil Spirit" Yue Laosan, and "Extremely Evil" Yun Zhonghe,

and with his strength, he unified the three, becoming the head of the Four Evils.

Back then, Duan Yanqing was hunted down, with no way to heaven and no way to earth,

and having become disabled, he became a beggar, hiding under a Patriarch Patriarch Puti tree in the Heavenly Dragon Temple.

At that time, Dao Dao Bai Feng, the princess of the Dali Southern Prince Duan Zhengchun, was angry at

Duan Zhengchun's endless philandering, hooking up with girls everywhere.

So, out of the revenge psychology of "Since you find women, then I will find men,"

Dao Dao Bai Feng deliberately had a one-night stand with Duan Yanqing, who had become a beggar.

This is the origin of "Outside the Heavenly Dragon Temple, under the Patriarch Patriarch Puti tree, the beggar is sloppy, the Guanyin has long hair."

Zhang Jie had the confidence to attract Duan Yanqing with this sentence.

Because for Duan Yanqing, that night's Dao Dao Bai Feng was his Guanyin Bodhisattva:

At that time, Duan Yanqing had almost lost the desire to survive and was preparing to die,

it was Dao Dao Bai Feng who activated his already dead heart.

All these years, Duan Yanqing had been looking for his "Guanyin Bodhisattva."

It's just that Dao Dao Bai Feng had the intention to hide, which made him find nothing for many years.

As long as Duan Yanqing gets this news, he will inevitably come to the door,

and Zhang Jie can take his decades of hard-earned One Yang Finger internal energy.

Duan Yanqing is evil to the full, and everyone in the Jianghu shouts to beat him,

Zhang Jie naturally has no psychological burden to take his internal energy.

Not to mention one Duan Yanqing, he can also get Ye Erniang, Yue Laosan, and Yun Zhonghe as a bonus!

Buy one get three, how cost-effective!

Of course, the premise of all this is to have enough strength to suppress the Four Evils.

Otherwise, if the fishing fails and he is killed by the fish, it would be funny.

At night, Zhang Jie, who was keeping vigil for Wuyazi, slipped away and quietly entered the shared space.

"Eh? Why are you alone? Where is Water Margin?"

As soon as Heavenly Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie entered the shared space, he found only Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber Zhang Jie, and Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie was not there.

"Oh. You mean Water Margin? He is taking the provincial examination recently.

He hasn't come for the past few days, saying he wants to rest well and try to conserve his energy."

Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber Zhang Jie, who was sitting cross-legged, replied.

"So that's it." Heavenly Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie nodded.

"Brothers are all here!"

At this time, Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie's voice entered the ears of Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber Zhang Jie and Heavenly Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie.

"Yo! Isn't this speaking of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arriving!"

Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber Zhang Jie said pleasantly surprised.

"Water Margin, is your provincial examination over?" Heavenly Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie asked.

"Yes. The provincial examination ended today, and I thought I'd come to see you guys."

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie looked relaxed.

Even for him, who had internal energy, he felt a bit mentally exhausted after taking a provincial examination.

"How did you do?"

Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber Zhang Jie asked a bit nervously.

How did that saying go?

Examination, examination, examination, the teacher's magic weapon; scores, scores, scores, the student's lifeblood.

This sentence is even more of a golden rule in the Great Song Dynasty.

Except for the imperial examination, which can allow one to "be a farmer in the morning and climb the emperor's hall in the evening. Generals and ministers have no seed,

men should strive for self-improvement," the Great Song had no other opportunity for class leap besides rebellion.

And compared to the imperial examination of studying hard, the cost of rebellion is very high, the kind that starts with the nine clans.

Although Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie doesn't have to follow only the path of the imperial examination like before,

the imperial examination was his life goal for the first ten years, so it would be best if he could achieve it.

"Relax, relax, everything went smoothly."

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie made an OK gesture.

The questions set by the chief examiner of this provincial examination were standard,

not too obscure, and were all relatively shallow contents from the Four Books and Five Classics.

With his photographic memory and active thinking, he felt like a spring flowing, and his writing was like a fountain.

"That's good." Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber Zhang Jie breathed a sigh of relief.

However, he felt it should be like this: although the importance of the provincial examination is also very high,

it is ultimately not as good as the metropolitan examination and the palace examination, so it is impossible to be too obscure.

"Heavenly Dragon, why aren't you talking?"

At this time, Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber Zhang Jie found that Heavenly Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie, who was originally very active, had not spoken, looking in a low mood.

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie, who was meticulous, saw the white cloth on Heavenly Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie's waist,

and he seemed to know what happened: "Wuyazi passed away?"

Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber Zhang Jie suddenly realized:

Wearing white cloth on the waist, white hat on the head, and hemp clothes on the body, collectively known as wearing mourning clothes,

is an outfit that only appears when a relative passes away.

And Heavenly Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie, who had been a beggar for ten years, was naturally the same as him, picking up the bowl is a reunion meal,

taking a selfie is a family photo, one person is full and the whole family is not hungry.

So the only relative that can count as Heavenly Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie's,

and can make him wear mourning clothes, is only Wuyazi, whom he had to worship as a master.

"Yes."

Heavenly Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie, who was still a bit sad, nodded.

"Forget it, let's share first!"

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie, who couldn't empathize, proposed this suggestion that would allow them to empathize.

Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber Zhang Jie and Heavenly Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie naturally had no objections.

The three of them shook hands and instantly completed the most basic and important thing in the shared space.

"Sigh!

Although I had expected it, when this day really came, it was still a bit uncomfortable."

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie sighed.

"Sigh~"

Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber Zhang Jie also sighed.

Feeling a bit sad, he even ignored the Northern Dark True Qi he valued most before.

The Zhang Jies, who were in a low mood, chose to end this meeting and returned to their respective worlds. ===== CHAPTER 50 =====