This villain is a bit cowardly

In the Temple of Mercy and Grace, the bells are solemn and the pilgrims are continuous.

A handsome young man with a rich god, accompanied by the abbot Master Yuanhui, entered the main hall together to offer incense to his deceased relatives.

The little novice on the side handed the lit incense to Ouyang Xiu, Ouyang Xiu took it, bowed three times, and then looked at it before getting up.

"I haven't seen him for a year, the little prince has seen a lot of loss, the old man has gone, the little prince should still take care. Master Yuan Hui was the first to speak.

"Thank you Master for your concern," Ouyang Xiu replied: "Today is the second anniversary of the death of the family immortal, so I poured incense to express my longing." "

Ouyang Xiu had always been low-key, and only brought a personal guard with him to enter the Temple of Mercy and Grace as an ordinary pilgrim.

Master Yuan Hui met Ouyang Xiu two years ago, Ouyang Xiu would come here every year to offer incense, and occasionally come to him for tea and chat, and the two were also teachers and friends.

After Ouyang Xiu finished the incense, Master Yuanhui opened his mouth and invited: "The old man has already set up refreshments in the meditation room, I haven't seen him for a long time, and the little prince can have time to go to the meditation room to talk." "

"That's exactly what it means."

"Please".

"Please".

The two of them left the main hall one after the other and came to a relatively secluded backyard, where only a few small novices were cleaning.

In the meditation room, sandalwood is curling, and the smell makes people calm.

After taking his seat, Master Yuan Hui lifted the teapot and filled the teacup in front of Ouyang Xiu.

"Compared with when I first met two years ago, the little prince looks much calmer this time than before. "

Ouyang Xiu smiled slightly and said, "People always have to grow up. "

The past was brought up, and Ouyang Xiu's thoughts returned to two years ago in an instant.

At that time, the sixteen-year-old Ouyang Xiu was the eldest son of the king of Pingxi, and his father was Ouyang Yi, the general of the Zhenguo in Qingfeng. When he was young, he fought in the south and the north, and made great achievements, and the emperor was specially named the king of Pingxi. There is no shortage of talented people under his command, Ouyang Xiu has been exposed to it since he was a child, learned the strengths of various families, and became the best among Ouyang Yi's many children, and Ouyang Yi also has high hopes.

However, the sky is unpredictable.

Suddenly, one day, the emperor was seriously ill, and Shen Ke was difficult to get up, so he was changed to the crown prince to supervise the country. But the prince's virtue is not right, and Ouyang Yi has a lot of complaints about this, so the prince has a grudge, colludes with the first cult on the rivers and lakes, and kills people with a knife, so that there was the fire in Pingxi Palace.

The entire Pingxi Royal Mansion was in flames, and more than 200 people in the palace died overnight. Fortunately, Ouyang Xiu traveled abroad and was spared.

The prince was grieved and personally led people to find out the truth, but the case was closed on the grounds that the palace was running out of water and could not be rescued. Ouyang Xiu had seen the corpse in private, and it looked like it was poisoned. But the prince turned a blind eye and insisted on going his own way. Ouyang Xiu's strength is weak, and it is difficult to compete with it, so he can only let the prince do things hastily.

As soon as Ouyang Yi died, all the voices against the prince came to an abrupt end, and the prince watched all this with satisfaction. It's just that Ouyang Xiu, a fish that slipped through the net, doesn't know how to deal with it. If you can't kill openly, you can only assassinate.

In order to appease the people and cover up the truth, the prince specially allowed Ouyang Xiuzi to inherit his father's position, and showed the emperor's grace with a chapter. Tiandu City, as a fiefdom, was also given. seems to be promoted, but in fact it is a captivity. With a holy decree, the prince drove Ouyang Xiu, who had the name of the prince, out of Shangjing. The crown prince finally cleared the biggest stumbling block in front of him and took a step closer to his ascension to the throne.

"Little Prince" Master Yuanhui's sentence of the little prince pulled Ouyang Xiu back from two years ago.

Master Yuan Hui looked at Ouyang Xiu, who was a little distracted, and deliberately said: "The little prince is in a high position, he wants the wind to be windy, and he wants the rain to be rainy, why do you still look preoccupied?"

Ouyang Xiu smiled bitterly and said: "The master doesn't want to make fun of me, others don't know, how can the master not know? Two years ago, knowing that his parents were killed, he was powerless to take revenge, and he has survived until now. Master, do you think I'm wrong? I shouldn't have been silent back then, I should have fought for it on the basis of reason, and I should have done justice to my parents and exposed their filthy behavior to the world. "

Master Yuan Hui shook his head and said with a smile: "Back then, if you fought with reason, not only could you not get the truth you wanted, but also took your life, presumably the old prince in the spirit of heaven did not want to see such a result." Knowing that not asking is cultivation, and seeing through without saying is wisdom. The little prince judged the situation back then, and it was great wisdom to help himself escape the catastrophe. Master Yuan Hui tried to help Ouyang Xiu untie the knot.

"Master, what should I do next?

"In his place, he will do his job. They fight for their country, and the old man reads his own scriptures, walks the road in front of him, and cherishes the people in front of him, and if he harms others for his own selfishness, what is the difference between this and a murderer?"

As a son of man, he is

indifferent in the face of a deep hatred in the sea of blood, and only covets his own pleasure, how can he have the face to see his father after a hundred years. "

"Amitabha" Master Yuan Hui recited a Buddha name:

"All thoughts are causes, and what is received at the moment is the effect

One thought is

attached to all kinds of suffering, and one thought is let go and reborn. "

Master Yuan Hui sighed helplessly: "For things that can't be done, then let it be, if you have something to do, then go with the flow." "

Ouyang Xiu pondered for a long time before he said, "I understand, thank you for the advice." It's just that now that the prince is in power, the court situation is unstable, and the prince is narrow-minded and cruelty, if he becomes the emperor, I really don't know if it is a blessing or a curse for the people of Qingfeng. "

"It's a blessing or a curse, it's not something you and I can control. The prince finally came to visit, don't talk about these unhappy things, try my newly brewed tea, can it be as delicious as your palace?".

The two looked at each other and smiled, and raised their glasses to drink.

"How is it?" Master Yuan Hui put down the teacup: "This tea is brewed from the spring water of Houshan Mountain, what does the prince taste like?"

"The master's tea is really unusual, and it is fragrant and refreshing after drinking. Ouyang Xiu pouted his tongue and continued: "Compared to the tea outside, there is less bloody copper smell. "

Master Yuan Hui laughed when he heard this, and said: "It is rare for the prince to be young, but he has such a feeling. Come on, come on, have another drink. "

When he wanted to pour it again, Ouyang Xiu pressed Master Yuanhui's hand and said vigilantly: "There seems to be something wrong with this tea." "

Master Yuan Hui put aside Ouyang Xiu's hand and said: "The prince is too worried, this is a place outside the square, and the old man has never had a grudge against anyone, presumably ......" Before he finished speaking, his face suddenly changed, and even if he spit blood in his mouth, he only said painfully: "The tea is poisonous" and he was unconscious.

Ouyang Xiu wanted to get up to check, only to feel that the qi and blood were surging, the pain in his abdomen was unbearable, and in an instant, a trace of fishy sweetness had overflowed from the corners of his mouth. Hurriedly reached out and connected several large acupoints on his chest to protect his heart. Use internal force to force the poison into the 'sea of qi' to stop the spread of the poison.

"Chengyi," Ouyang Xiu called anxiously.

Ouyang Xiu was worried that Master Yuan Hui would lack skills again, so he could only change his mind to come in.

Chengyi is Ouyang Xiu's personal guard, he was bought into the palace since he was a child, and he grew up with Ouyang Xiu, and he is like a brother.

This time on the incense, Cheng Yi followed his son to come, in order not to disturb the conversation between the son and the master, just followed from a distance, and did not wait closely, after the son and the master entered the meditation room, he waited outside the meditation room.

Chengyi suddenly heard Gongzi calling him, his tone was not usual, he hurriedly pushed the door in, looked at Master Yuanhui who fell to the ground, and knew that something was wrong. Hurriedly looked at Ouyang Xiu, whose face was not very good, and asked anxiously, "Childe, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, go see Master Yuanhui. "

Chengyi walked up to Master Yuanhui, sniffed, and said, "Childe, Master Yuanhui has gone." "

Ouyang Xiu had completely suppressed the poison at this time, and his life would not be in danger for the time being. It will take time to completely force the poison out, but people outside will not give him time.

Ouyang Xiu looked at Master Yuanhui's tragic situation, and his heart was gloomy: "It's so powerful, I don't even have a chance to save people." "

Chengyi didn't know what was going on, so he asked, "Childe, what happened?

Ouyang Xiu straightened Master Yuanhui's body, took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood from the corner of the master's mouth.

"Master Yuanhui has been practicing penance all his life and has no quarrel with the world, but in the end he was still affected by me. Master, Master, you just advised me to let go, to be free, and to be at ease, but how can some people let you live freely. Before the words fell, the door was slammed open by an external force, and then a little monk flew into the house, hit the wall, rolled twice, and died on the spot.

Ouyang Xiu snorted coldly, it was still here that it was time to come.

Cheng Yi jumped out of the door early and shouted coldly: "Who dares to assassinate the prince." "

There

were twenty or thirty assassins in the courtyard, and they spread out in a fan shape, surrounding the small courtyard.

The black-clothed man at the head didn't pay attention to his intentions, but only shouted to the house: "Ouyang Xiu, how does poinsettia taste? That's specially made for you, colorless and tasteless, and you can seal your throat when you see blood, even if you have martial arts to make the world, don't think of this courtyard today." "

The black-clothed man led by him was proud, only to see Ouyang Xiu calmly walking out of the house, standing side by side with sincerity.

"Are you the prince's man?"

The man in black led by Ouyang Xiu was also shocked when he saw that Ouyang Xiu was not affected by poinsettias. It seems that the other party has profound skills and is not easy to deal with, but with the large number of people, and the other party has been poisoned, no matter how powerful it is, how powerful can it be? Just as he was about to speak, he heard Ouyang Xiu say: "You want to kill me, even if you come, why do you need to kill innocents indiscriminately." ＂

"You mean the old monk?" The man in black led by him pulled his face towel and said disapprerovingly: "He has lived so long, I sent him to the Western Elysium, he should thank me!"

Chengyi couldn't listen anymore, pulled out the saber he was carrying, and said sharply: "I'll send you down and make amends to the master." "

"An entourage dares to be arrogant, today I will let you taste the power of my poisonous demon. The man in black said as he drew the broadsword behind his back.

Ou Yin Xiu stretched out his hand to block Chengyi, and whispered: It's not easy to stay here for a long time, let's go back first. "

"Yes" Chengyi comprehends, but it is not easy to entangle at this time.

The two of them flew up and quickly swept towards the foot of the mountain.

The man in black, who claims to be a poisonous demon, is a god for a while.

"If you are poisoned by a poinsettia, you can still perform light skills, I really underestimate you. Chase!".

When the poisonous demon and his party chased to the foot of the mountain, Ouyang Xiu's carriage had already disappeared.

"Lord Poison, are you still chasing?" asked the man in black on the side, cautiously.

"No, he can't run away. "