48 Taka Akira's Hope
"So, you sealed this place to prevent others from finding the Dead Leaf Temple here?"
"Yes."
Ever since He Mullan had carved a path with his innate powers, the woodcutter knew that it was impossible to hide it. Originally, I thought that although the stone was broken, the horse would not be able to enter, and these people should choose to take a detour.
But he did a lot of calculations, but he didn't expect that these people were very good at riding, and the horses stepped on the gravel as if they were dancing through the mountain wall. Among them, the strong man's horse will actually lower his head and go around all kinds of edges and corners, which is simply not like an ordinary horse.
In the eyes of ordinary people, such a group of people are like immortals in the sky. The woodcutter seemed to be collecting firewood here, but in fact he was still paying attention to the movement of the mountain wall here, and seeing that the secret could not be hidden, he could only jump out and beg them to take a detour.
"But I don't understand, since it's just a Buddhist temple, why do you want to seal it up with great fanfare?" Shan Zhuo didn't understand the reasoning of this, "It takes a lot of effort to move these big stones and build them, right?" And if you seal this road, won't the monks inside starve to death?"
His eyes widened at the thought of something terrible.
"Or are you trying to kill for money!"
"Oh, my little ancestor! Several of these masters rely on us for support on weekdays, so what is there to make money and kill people! The woodcutter smiled bitterly. Although the first road closure is very hard, we usually just open a small opening on the far side to send some food, oil and salt in, who can move mountains like this strong man! "
"In that case, you don't have to stop us." Tuoba shook his hands together and recited the Buddha's name. The kid also believes in Buddhism, so he won't disturb a few masters."
The woodcutter looked at them suspiciously, and his heart was still up and down.
In his eyes, the group of people in front of him was really strange.
This strange man in a fresh leather coat is the leader of everyone at a glance, and the beautiful bearded man in a big coat next to him is obviously a woman, probably for the convenience of travel, so he dressed up as a man, but at first glance, the disguise was unsuccessful, as long as he is not blind, he knows his gender.
If it was only them, and then he brought his entourage, he would naturally see them as Xianbei adults who went south to visit relatives or friends, and went out with their beautiful concubines.
But the problem is that this Xianbei Lord is accompanied by two teenagers, and they are not their children at first glance.
The two teenagers are black and white, one looks like a full Han Chinese, and the other looks like a fierce teenager who will burst out and kill at any moment.
Whether it's black or white, you can't find the shadow of a man and a woman in your appearance.
The rest of the entourage is also weird, with a lean air that ordinary people don't have.
The woodcutter was worried that if these people were officials, then the Withered Leaves Temple would not be protected.
So he gritted his teeth and fell to his knees.
"A few adults, to tell each other the truth, there is an old monk who is blind and a stammering little monk living in this withered leaf temple. A few years ago, an adult from the county came down to give an order, saying that the monks in ten miles and eight townships should return to the world, and all the villagers were not allowed to support the temple, otherwise the family property would be confiscated. But these two monks, one old and one young, would rather die than return to the world, and we couldn't bear to suffer from them, so we closed the road and let them continue their cultivation in the mountains."
"It's just that although this road is remote, there are still many people who know it, so we often wander around here, and if anyone comes, we lead them to other places."
He looked at Ah Luhuan and the others with expressionless faces, and knocked his head to the ground.
"The masters in this Withered Leaf Temple are all good people, and I hope that a few of them will go the other way, as if nothing happened today."
"We're just passing by. What's more, since the imperial court has issued a strict order, you should obey it. Otherwise, everyone will be like you, and the decree of the imperial court will become a joke! Di Yefei coldly rebuked the woodcutter.
He had been in the army for so long that when he spoke, the woodcutter trembled.
This woman can make a man's voice! ’
The woodcutter knelt on the ground and trembled for a long time.
'It can't be a youkai! ’
I heard that some monsters are specially caught by high-ranking monks to increase their mana!
This woman must be like that.
That's why she can confuse this man like a mountain god to open the way for her!
Thinking of how this woman dressed as a man just now commanded the Xianbei man to push away the rocks, he couldn't help but feel more and more reasonable that his guess was reasonable.
"Don't scare him."
Seeing that the woodcutter looked very scared, but still wanted them to change the route, He Mulan felt a little unbearable in his heart, and stopped Di Yefei with a voice. We're going to reroute! "
"General Flower!"
"There's a shortcut here!"
"That's it, you've even opened the way!"
The woodcutter trembled even more when he heard someone call her "General".
Joe ...... Uncle Joe ...... "A young voice suddenly rang out." I, I, Master, and Father said yes, and a distinguished guest arrived. Please, invite them to the temple for a while."
A small monk in a brown robe walked from behind them, he was short and thin, wearing a wide and ill-fitting monk's robe as if it would be blown away by a gust of wind, and when he spoke, he kept his head down from beginning to end, and only the ring scar on the top of his head could be seen, and his head could not be seen.
He Mullan was shocked. The same is true for Di Yefei.
The two of them looked at each other, and their eyes were full of surprise.
Mulan and Di. [,! Ye Fei was all killed from the battlefield, and the five senses of his body had been trained extremely sensitive, especially to murderous aura.
Although the two of them are not legendary chivalrous ink writers, it is very difficult to say that they suddenly and silently let a person touch their side.
Where did this little monk come from?
There were seven of them, and none of them noticed that this little monk was approaching!
"Little Master Withered Bamboo, why did you come out!" The woodcutter looked nervously, and he couldn't even care about the fear he had just had.
"Division...... Master called me here."
"In that case." Tuoba Huang frowned.
"Aunt Hua, I want to go to the temple over there."
Tuoba Huang wants to go to the Dry Leaf Temple to have a look, because according to Ah Luhuan, the temple is still a certain distance from this entrance, but this little monk said that "a distinguished guest has arrived to greet him".
Now his father's favored Kou Qianzhi Kou Tianshi is an out-and-out "master", he rarely gives people orders, and even fewer predictions, but as long as he says what he says, he makes predictions, he has never made a mistake.
And he has a cautious personality, and if he really wants to give people any warning, it must be about to happen.
Tuoba Huang has always suspected that this Kou Daoist is only polite to him, because he has long seen his fate of "not long", so he is unwilling to spend a lot of effort on himself.
Even later, Cui Situ's attitude towards him changed greatly, from the beginning of his full assistance to the frequent friction with him later, and even punished the subordinate officials in the East Palace several times, there is no reason why this Kou Tianshi and his friend Cui Hao have said something.
Tuoba Huang believed in Buddhism, so he believed in such things as fate and cause and effect. After learning that Kou Qianzhi had criticized him with the numerology of "not becoming a king, dying young", he also found many Buddhist monks to show him, but all he got was the answer of "There is nothing wrong with His Royal Highness".
He genuinely hoped that Kou Qianzhi's prophecy was wrong, so he ran away. Running to one of his father's most concerned subordinates of the old days, hoping to fight for a glimmer of life.
Now, in such a place deep in the mountains and forests, a blind old monk and a stammering little monk actually have different magical powers, how can he not be excited?!.
What Hermulan actually wants to do most is to take a detour or take a shortcut to get through here. She was worried about the subordinate who was still in prison, and naturally she didn't want to waste any time.
But Taka Akira is resolute, and she can't help it.
Only then did He Mullan realize how annoying he was with so many tails on his back. If she was alone, she would have rushed to Xiang County a long time ago.
Tuoba Huang followed the little monk named Withered Leaf without hesitation, and at the same time there was also the woodcutter surnamed Qiao. A few egrets stayed in place to look at He Mulan and then look at Tuoba Huang, but in the end they didn't dare to let the prince do anything wrong and followed the prince.
"Aunt Hua, what should we do?"
Shan Zhuo looked at He Mulan and then at Tuoba Huang, who was leading the horse behind the little monk, and muttered in his heart, he felt that this new friend's brain must be broken.
No matter how you look at it, it's safer on Aunt Hua's side.
Is there really nothing wrong with just following a person who doesn't know where to go?
"Otherwise, let's go first." Di Yefei opened his mouth with some hesitation. Let's go one step ahead. With them, there must be a lot of people who protect them in secret, let's go and settle the matter of Xiang Cheng first, and then come back to pick him up."
"......" He Mullan looked at the resolute Tuoba, who looked like a moth that saw the last ray of light and wanted to pounce on it.
"…… Let's go."
He Mulan gritted his teeth.
Ah Luhuan said that he walked through the temple and walked all the way to the border between Chen County and Liang County. Since we don't need someone to lead the way, let's hurry up."
"Is that nice?"
Shan Zhuo felt faintly uneasy in his heart.
"He Guang has hands and feet, and an entourage. Chen Jie is still in prison, and he still has his wife and children at home, so he can't delay for a moment. Don't ink here, let's go! "
Hermulan took the lead and galloped away.
Ah Danzhuo and Di Yefei had already left everything to He Mulan, and seeing that she had already made a choice, they naturally followed on horseback.
The three of them and the three horses quickly overtook the prince and the white heron who were walking slowly with the little monk, and the little monk saw that He Mulan had run away, and hurriedly shouted:
"That, that, the road over there, the road ......"
Before he finished the word "road", He Mulan and the others had already ridden to a place where there was no shadow to be seen.
"Master Withered Bamboo, what's wrong with the road over there?"
Tuoba Huang saw that He Mulan left him and left first, and he was also a little sad in his heart. But he himself chose to delay time here, but Mulan was in a hurry to save people, and it would be clear who was light and who was heavy.
He has been the crown prince in Beijing for so many years, and he is used to it, and suddenly meets someone who doesn't take him seriously, and the kind of loss can be imagined.
It's just that Mulan is a hero he respects after all, and he always doesn't want her to hate him.
"The road over there has long been cut off by us."
Withered bamboo is a stammer, so the answer for him is the woodcutter who has been following up.
"Since you want to hide the Buddhist temple, where is the reason to block only one end?!"
Hermulan and Di. [,! Ye Fei and the others quickly crossed a flat mountain road and began to enter a somewhat rugged place. They slowed down, and after a while, all the trees that blocked the view on either side of the road disappeared in an instant, and in their place was a rushing river.
"See...... Damn it! "
He Mulan looked at the broken wooden bridge with an ugly face.
"That monk originally wanted to say this!"
He can't just say it's neat!