daytime.

The Damen Temple is full of incense and the people are very lively.

at night.

The cold moonlight shines on the stone steps, reflecting the mottled red wall courtyard.

There were also a few black shadows on the big tree outside the temple gate, and it felt humid and cold in the hot autumn.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"

Mu Zhengyang opened the copper ring and knocked on the big wooden door. The sound spread far in the quiet night.

After two or three minutes, with the sound of "Yaya", the gate of the temple was opened.

A bare head poked out from the door, looking about twenty years old, wearing a wide gray monk's robe, a fat round face, and his eyes were almost slit. He looked at Mu Zhengyang and said, "Donor, this courtyard will not receive pilgrims at night. Please come again tomorrow!"

Mu Zhengyang shook his head and smiled slightly, "I am a friend of Master Yuantong. Just say that the old friend from Wangri Cliff in Tiannan Mountain is here!"

"Wangri Cliff in Tiannan Mountain? Are you that lay Buddhist Mu?" The monk's fat round face opened slightly, with a slit on his eyes.

"Yes," Mu Zhengyang nodded.

"Haha, the master came back from Tiannan Mountain that day and immediately took down the 'Star Book No. 1' hanging on the wall of the room, closed the door and tore it to pieces and then burned it to ashes in a fire!" The monk smiled, opened the big wooden door half of the temple, and opened his eyes a little longer, "These days, the master heard you chant you, but I didn't expect you to come to the door at night. Come in! My Dharma name is Mingle, I guess the master is about to finish reciting the scriptures, and I will take you to see him now!"

Damen Temple is the most famous temple in Xizhong County. After entering the gate is a yard made of bluestone, with a tall incense burner in the middle.

Mu Zhengyang walked in the yard, and could still smell the remaining incense from the daytime, and further forward was the Heavenly King Hall.

The temple enshrines Maitreya Buddha and a circle of candles are lit around.

Passing through the Heavenly King Hall is the Great Hall, a huge statue of the Eighteen Arhats of Sakyamuni Buddha is sitting in the center, still lingering incense at night.

Behind the Main Hall is the vegetarian hall, where monks from Damen Temple usually eat here.

Behind the dining hall is the monk's house, and there is a meditation room in the middle of the monk's house.

Mu Zhengyang faintly heard the sound of chanting scriptures coming from inside, but the sound was very weak.

Gradually stopped.

Mu Zhengyang's health care exercise entered the third floor, and he could clearly feel the movement within five hundred meters of the wind and grass. He heard someone standing up in the Zen room.

A tall monk wearing a yellow monk's robe pushed open the door of the meditation room, looked at Mu Zhengyang standing below with surprise, and said in surprise: "Mr. Mu? Why are you here at night?"

"I'm here to stay!" Mu Zhengyang said lightly.

"It is naturally welcome for Mr. Mu to come and stay. Mingle, go and clean up a house for Mr. Mu!" Monk Yuantong highly praised Mu Zhengyang's calligraphy. Logically speaking, he should have warmly entertained Mu Zhengyang, but his expression was very cold. He stepped back to the Zen room and before closing the door, he also specifically reminded him, "Mr. Mu, it's already very late, rest early, it's cold outside, and it's easy to catch a cold!"

After the monk Yuantong finished speaking, he returned to the meditation room and closed the door again.

Although at night, the two were separated by six or seven meters, Mu Zhengyang clearly saw the face of Monk Yuantong.

When he was in Tiannan Mountain, Monk Yuantong was full of energy, but now he has a tired face.

Mu Zhengyang did not make a sound, followed Mingle and went to a house in the south.

Mingle opened the door and said, "Mr. Mu, just live here!"

Mu Zhengyang suddenly asked Mingle when he was about to leave, "Do you often dream about it recently?"

Mingle's expression changed, his eyelids bounced up and down, and he shook his head and denied, "We monks are all empty, and have no desires and no desires, so how can we dream often?"

Mu Zhengyang closed the door. When he was on the top of Tieshan Mountain, he observed that the earth energy and spiritual power of the Jinchan Wangyue Fengshui Bureau of Damen Temple was disordered. People lived in this environment for a long time, and their brain waves were disturbed by the disturbed electromagnetic field, so they would frequently have various dreams. Moreover, when he said that, Mingle's expression was very unnatural, and what he said later might be concealing certain facts!

"What's wrong with this world?"

Mu Zhengyang couldn't figure it out for a moment, so he read "Mencius" for several hours in the room and continued to deduce "The Great Qi-raising Art of the Great Universe".

"I dare to ask the Master if he is not moved, and if he is not moved, can he hear from him? Gaozi said: "Don't ask about words, do not ask about the heart, do not ask about the heart, do not ask about the qi." "Don't ask about the heart, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi, do not ask about the qi," said Gaozi, a person who is determined by the qi, and the qi is full. The ambition is at its peak, so it is said that if he holds his ambition, he will not irritate his qi..."

The sound of reading echoes the sound of chanting scriptures in the Zen room.

midnight.

Mu Zhengyang lay on the bed and soon fell asleep.

"I am not willing to give up! I am not willing to give up!"

A powerful voice came from Mu Zhengyang's ear, with endless resentment and anger in his majesty, as if an active volcano was about to erupt in his chest.

The night is as dark as ink.

Mu Zhengyang looked along the sound and saw a blurry shadow.

The shadow is tall and mighty, but has no head. He holds a steel knife in his hand and roars in his mouth, "I am not willing to give up!".

Mu Zhengyang was shocked, this is...

The shadow seemed to have discovered Mu Zhengyang, and rushed towards Mu Zhengyang with the steel knife in his hand wildly.

Mu Zhengyang suddenly woke up, but he was still lying in the house of Damen Temple.

But the dream just now reappeared in his mind like a movie scene.

"I call myself the king, holding a steel knife and without a head... Could it be him?" Mu Zhengyang quickly remembered a historical figure.

King of Breaking Li Zicheng!

Li Zicheng was one of the leaders of the rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty. He rebelled in the second year of Chongzhen and later became a general under the rebellion king Gao Yingxiang.

He was brave, craftsman and strategic. During the Xingyang Conference, he proposed a plan to divide troops and attack four routes, which was approved by the leaders of various departments.

Gao Yingxiang was ambushed, defeated and captured and died.

Li Zicheng succeeded as the King of Chuang and proposed slogans such as "equal land and exemption from taxes", which was welcomed by the general public. The troops grew to one million people and became the main force of the uprising army.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen, he was called King Xinshun in Xiangyang, and annihilated the main force of Sun Chuanting, the governor of the Ming Dynasty and Shaanxi in Ruzhou, Henan, and then took advantage of the victory to occupy Xi'an.

The Dashun regime was established in the first month of the following year, and the year was Yongchang. Soon, Beijing conquered and overthrew the Ming Dynasty.

April.

Dorgon led the Eight Banners Army and the Ming general Wu Sangui to join forces to fight Li Zicheng inside and outside Shanhaiguan.

Li Zicheng was defeated and withdrew from Beijing, leading his army to fight in Henan and Shaanxi.

The second year of Shunzhi.

The Dashun Army was defeated one after another, and the retreat was cut off and fled to the foot of Tieshan Mountain in Xizhong County.

Li Zicheng led more than 20 light cavalrymen to climb the mountain to explore the road. He was killed by local militia armed forces Jiang Dayan, and his body was secretly buried.

Next to the Panshan Highway at the entrance of Tieshan Mountain, there is still a Li Zichengmu.

But in the historical community, Li Zicheng's death has always been a mystery. Some people say that Li Zicheng died in other places, and some even say that Li Zicheng became a monk.

"Could it be that Li Zicheng really died in Tieshan, Xizhong County?"
Chapter completed!