On the eighth day of the eighth month of the fifth year of Yongli, Tiantai County, Taizhou Prefecture.

Tiantai County is located in the northwest of Taizhou Prefecture. It is located in Ninghai in the east, Sanmen and two counties, Taizhou Prefecture in the south and Xianju County in the south, Dongyang County in Jinhua Prefecture in the west, and Xinchang County in the north. However, this place is surrounded by the Tiantai Mountains and the Dalei Mountains, and is not such a well-connected place.

Tiantai County is known for its source of Buddhism and its beautiful landscapes. The Tiantai Sect of Buddhism, the ancestral courtyard of Taoism, and the sixth largest Taoist cave in Chicheng Mountain, Yujing Cave. Because there are many temples and Taoism, when peace comes, the roads are crowded with people from all over the country who come to incense and seek Taoism. Even in the county town, there are many people who make a living by this.

However, since the Qing army headed south, the Eight Banners Green Camp plundered the people, merchants, and governments everywhere donated miscellaneous taxes, and corruption was rampant. In addition, the chaos, bandits, and even the rebels stationed in the mountains, making the road unstable, and fewer people came to incense and seek the way.

Tiantai County is located on the hilly plain between the Tiantai Mountains and the Dalei Mountains. Although it is adjacent to Tiantai Mountain and not far from the sphere of influence of the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain, there has always been a garrison here. In addition, the strength of the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain is not strong, even if there is an internal force in the past year, Yu Guowang's troops still cannot break the city, so it is still a safe place for the Qing officials.

Huang Yun, a native of Tiantai County, has been responsible for guarding the city gate for many years. When Tiantai thief Yu Guowang besieged the county two years ago, he led his men to retreat to the inner responders and bought time for the garrison Xu Shouxian to defeat Yu Guowang's troops.

After this battle, the magistrate of Tiantai County and the garrison Xu Shouxian, who was in charge of the place, all praised Huang Yun very much.

However, in his eyes, even without these praises and silver, he had no reason to let the Ming army on Tiantai Mountain break into the county town. This has nothing to do with the responsibility of duty and has nothing to do with national justice. Huang Yun worked so hard just because his family was in the county town. How could he let these bandits enter the city and rob?

After that battle, the bandits of Tiantai Mountain had no idea about this place. Xu Shouxian, the garrison who was defending, was also transferred to cooperate with the general of Jinhua, Ma Jinbao, to encircle Xu Shouping, the bandits of Dongyongshan, Jinhua Prefecture. Not long after, Yu Guowang, who was trying to break the city last time, also sent troops to besiege Xinchang County, and Tiantai County was also very calm for a while.

However, who thought that at the end of November last year, news came from the mountain that a Ming army who had visited Tiantai Mountain actually entered here again.

Although the base of this Ming army from Dalan Mountain is not close, Huang Yun has heard of it. He twice captured Shangyu County and defeated the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army several times. He even captured Hushan with Yu Guowang and then surrounded Xinchang County. It can be regarded as a battle-capture team.

But no matter how powerful the bandits can fight, they are still bandits, and they are no match for the Thibiao Battalion. In the battle of Siming Lake, the bandits and other bandits in Siming Mountain were wiped out, and even the head coach was captured.

Although I always feel sorry for my ancestors with such a rat tail, the Qing army is now in great power. Even if my ancestors accumulate virtue, how dare I take the risk of extermination of the clan to commit rebellion? Besides, life is not easy now, and this mission to guard the city gate is indispensable in daily life. It can always block my conscience.

But who could have imagined that in a few days, new news came. The remaining troops of this newly destroyed bandit defeated a part of the Tibiao Battalion in the southern part of Siming Mountain. Even Li Rong, the deputy general who led the guerrilla affairs of the Tibiao Battalion, was killed. The Ming army actually entered Tiantai Mountain, which they had visited a few years ago, and supported Yu Guowang.

The bandits who were able to defeat the main force of the Thunderbiao camp were not so fierce. Although according to the magistrate and the new garrison, Zhejiang Admiral Tian Xiong always claimed that Li Rong was besieged by bandits several times his own after the slums, no matter whether the news was true or false, Li Rong was indeed killed. It is said that there were thousands of Qing prisoners released under Xinchang City. It is conceivable what the Thunderbiao camp was beaten to the point.

The news came, and the magistrate was shocked for a moment and ordered the normal daily opening and closing time to be changed to only two hours a day for the goods and personnel entering and leaving the city, and to strictly inspect all personnel and materials entering and leaving the city.

Even without the order from the magistrate, Huang Yun would do his best to prevent spies from entering the city for the safety of his family. However, almost a year later, the bandits seemed to starve to death on Tiantai Mountain, and there was no movement at all.

A few days ago this month, I heard that the Dubiaoying had passed by Fucheng, Sanmen, Ninghai and other counties and entered the territory of Ningbo Prefecture. Since Shangguan received an order to strictly guard the cities in various places, the magistrate of Tiantai changed the time to open and close the gate for two hours to one hour, which can be regarded as a prevention of local bandits.

The time for opening the city gate at this hour is coming soon. Huang Yun, who has become a little tired during this strict investigation, yawning and preparing to speed up the inspection so that he can close the city gate at the specified time.

At this moment, several monks in monk's uniforms rushed over from a distance, greeting the men, women, young and old who had not yet entered the city, without competing or robbing, but were in the last line in line and followed the flow of people into the city.

Soon, when the time to close the city gate came, Huang Yun ordered the city gate to close it, just a single order. Like the people who had not yet entered the city, they rushed in as quickly as before, for fear of being left outside. Huang Yun knew that he was the most busy at this time, so he had accelerated the speed before, but today the number of people entering the city was indeed a little more than before, so until this time, dozens of people were stopped outside.

Suddenly, the strongest monks said the Buddha's name among the crowd, and then went out. There were many Buddhist temples in Taizhou, and most of the people believed in Buddha, and even more so in Tiantai County. The soldiers guarding the gate did not dare to stop them, so they brought the monks to Huang Yun.

"Disciple Huang Yun, may I ask about Master's virtue?"

Huang Yun's old mother believed in Buddhism and was very pious. Even if her mother was not present, Huang Yun did not dare to be rude at all. However, although the monk in front of him seemed to have a good status and lived a life of pampering in his early years, Huang Yun always felt something was wrong, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"Amitabha Buddha turned out to be the donor Huang. My monk's Dharma name was Xuzhu. He was a disciple of Master Xuanci of Wannian Temple. These were my monk's junior brothers."

Huang Yun of Wannian Temple knew that it was an ancient temple in Tiantai County, with its incense that was extremely popular. He had been with his parents in his early years, but there were many monks among them, but he had never heard of any monk named Xuanci.

"It turns out to be Master Xu Zhu." After glanced at the younger monks, Huang Yun finally figured out what was wrong. "I dare to ask Master Xu Zhu, why did you and your junior brothers only take the ordain but never take the precepts?"

Hearing this, the monk Xuzhu folded his hands together, recited the Buddha's name, and then replied: "These junior brothers of me have just entered the temple for more than a month, so they have not yet had time to take the precepts; as for me..." As he said that, the monk Xuzhu sighed, as if he was asked about something embarrassing. "The master said that my monk's relationship has not ended and he will eventually return to the world in the future, so I never let me take the precepts."

The worldly fate is not over?

It would be fine if one didn’t take the precepts, but it would be too fake if none of them had taken the precepts!

Hearing this answer, Huang Yun immediately smiled contemptuously for the rest of his life, and then shouted: "I think you are clearly pretending to be a bandit on Tiantai Mountain!"

As soon as this said, the Qing soldiers standing beside Huang Yun immediately rushed over with guns and surrounded the four monks.

Seeing that they were surrounded, one of the three young monks looked smart and looked quite scared, and the other was thin and just folded his hands together and recited the Buddha's name, while the last one looked angry, as if he was about to rush.

The spear blade was approaching, but the monk Xu Zhu seemed quite calm. He just put his hands together and looked at Huang Yun quietly. In his eyes, he felt that there was a pool of frozen lake water in his eyes, and there was no trace of ripples.
Chapter completed!