Li Mao has also been to many Buddhist temples in the capital, but none of them have shaken him like the Liangzhou Grottoes.

Most of the caves are dug in the middle of the mountain, and when you walk through the passage, you only feel that the gods and Buddhas are looking down on you. The generals put their knives against the back of the horse thief's heart and asked him to lead the way, and the horse thief did not struggle, and led them all the way through the grotto, straight to the front of a big Buddha, and pointed to this big Buddha.

"Here."

Master Jiang glanced at the half-carved Buddha and couldn't help but give the horse thief a crutch.

"Dare to love that your head is a great Buddha, and you are all Arhat King Kong, right?"

The horse thief took a mouthful of blood, spit out a tooth, glared at Master Jiang and said, "You can find it yourself, Lao Tzu won't play with you anymore!" After speaking, he stepped back, and his heart was poked cold.

Du Jin stepped forward and blocked the wound on the horse thief's chest with his hand. The horse thief gasped and laughed: "Don't block it, I've had enough of these days, you're an official, right?" It is also appropriate for the horse thief to die at the hands of the official. ”

He stared at the big Buddha above, laughed hesitantly, and swallowed his breath after a while.

Du Jin wiped his bloody hand on the horse thief's body, and glared at Master Jiang fiercely: "You rough man, we don't even know where the horse thief's nest is, you killed this horse thief, what are we looking for!" There are so many places in this grotto, and many of them have not been mined into stone Buddhas, you say......"

"Mr. Dongsheng, don't say any more. The horse thief wasn't lying. Li Rui looked at the big Buddha above his head. There should be something behind the Big Buddha, I'm afraid it can hide people. ”

"Behind the Big Buddha?" Du Jin looked up and looked up, but no matter how he looked, he didn't see anything like he could hide people. "I don't see anything."

"This horse thief brought us here with the intention of saving him or avenging him if he left an accomplice in his lair and saw that we had kidnapped him." Li Rui looked at the horse thief who was dead on the ground, "As soon as he arrived here, he couldn't help but look up, and looked left and right, obviously looking for something." As a result, he didn't find anything, and he was humiliated by Master Jiang again, and a resentment in his heart came out. ”

"He knew in his heart that he couldn't survive, if we didn't kill him, the government would kill him, I was afraid that he would die at the beginning, but he didn't have that kind of courage, Master Jiang knocked out his teeth, and he used that anger to break himself."

Du Jin didn't know what to say. He felt that all this was Li Rui's guess, and it was not necessarily correct, but after listening to his words, he felt in his heart that what he said should be right.

Du Jin felt that his and Qi Yao's teaching was too successful, and this kid already had a faint meaning of being blue.

Such a fact made Du Jin feel complacent and lost all of a sudden.

"Eldest Prince, what should we do now?" The leader of the family looked at the big Buddha, "What the hell, this grotto is so high, how do these horse thieves usually go up?" ”

Li Rui saw the shallow marks on the knees of the Buddha. "I guess I used a winch or a rope to go up and down. These horse thieves are really careful. However, if this is the case, there must still be people left in this big Buddha, so you must be careful when you go up. ”

"Up?" Du Jin glanced at the Big Buddha, and then looked at his Confucian shirt, and his face suddenly became ugly.

"Yes, let's climb up." Li Rui glanced at Mr. Dongsheng, and his face already showed an expression of "I rely on you to think that I, a scribe, can climb to such a high place like a monkey, if you dare to say it, I will fight with you".

Li Rui chuckled. The boy finally smiled his age again.

"It's us who climb, Mr. Du. Find a cave and hide it while we come down." ”

Du Jin breathed a sigh of relief.

I don't know how long this grotto has been built, at least a few hundred years. There were small holes and bumps in the walls that had been eroded by the wind, and if you had managed to climb them, the thieves would not have discovered the hiding place. It's just that if you encounter an attack in the process of climbing, you must be dead. Even if you don't get killed by the gangsters with arrows, you will fall to your death.

Because he didn't know if there were people on the road or how many there were, Li Rui asked the generals wearing the divine crossbow to climb first. As long as the spring is fastened, the trigger can be pulled by the mechanism of the middle finger in motion, and there is no need to free up the hand. If you really meet a horse thief above, it is not without a fight.

Two good climbers will go first. They were like two agile apes, moving on each of the narrowly spaced bulges, little by little closer to the body of the Buddha. When they arrived around the Big Buddha, the two generals looked at the back of the Big Buddha and nodded below.

There is another mystery in the back.

The two generals climbed up to the thighs of the Buddha and headed inside. One of them leaned against the edge of the Buddha's body, guarding with a crossbow machine, and the other went in to take a look, and came out and beckoned to the people below.

The generals began to climb, and some of them were not good at climbing, so they watched the wind below. Li Rui wanted to know the situation of the two people in the Dao, so he also buckled the spring of the crossbow machine and prepared to go up together.

Jiang Jingyi saw Li Rui's movements, frowned and pressed his shoulder.

"Your status is precious, a gentleman does not stand under the wall, you still wait here, I will bring those two people down."

Li Rui shook his head.

"If the thief comes back suddenly, I'll only be more dangerous down there. There's also the convenience of a high place on it. I want to see those two people earlier, and if I can't save them, I can ask them about it. ”

His instincts told him that there would be great discoveries in these two karma people.

Seeing that he insisted on going, and what he said made sense, Jiang Jingyi didn't stop him again.

Li Rui looked at the mountain wall next to the stone Buddha, silently calculated each point that could be stepped on, then stepped back a little, and then ran towards the mountain wall as quickly as an arrow off the string.

Li Rui's footsteps kicked the ground, his strength was extremely great, and the explosive force generated by his feet on the ground made him jump in the air, find a crack that was nearly three meters high, and then hang his hands on it. He relied on his brutal arm strength to lift his body directly, and then advanced towards the big Buddha on the right.

Du Jin and the rest of the family were worried about watching it below, for fear that he would accidentally fall off. However, Li Rui's stretched movements, terrifying arm strength, and his ability to remain calm in high places made him look like a vigorous beast jumping and moving on the mountain wall, and their hearts that were lifted high gradually returned to their chests, leaving only a sigh of admiration.

Li Rui quickly climbed on the legs of the Big Buddha, the back of the Big Buddha was pitch black, and there was obviously a passage to the belly of the mountain, but from the outside, it was just an ordinary Big Buddha.

I don't know if the hole behind the road was left by the craftsman who carved the Buddha, or if it was re-enlarged after the horse thieves discovered it. Such a cave is indeed very hidden. The Big Buddha was originally in mid-air, and there was no way to go up, so it naturally would not arouse the suspicion of others. If it weren't for his carefulness, even if the horse thief showed the way, I am afraid that he would miss it as Master Jiang generally thought that he was lying to them.

Li Rui carefully entered the cave under the protection of the generals. The cave on the wall of the mountain is not wide, and at first it can only accommodate two people, but the more you walk, the more open it becomes, and later it has reached a surprising width.

The people who built this big Buddha are definitely not so simple as worshipping the Buddha. This cave looks like a shelter for the sake of making Buddha statues, but in fact it is more like a cave or something like a cave.

"There's someone up ahead." The leader of the family said in a low voice, "Let's go and solve it first, eldest prince, you be careful." ”

Li Rui nodded in the dark.

There is no light in the interior of the Buddha, so it is easy to see people walking with torches. The enemy was in the dark, and the generals sneaked in and killed the horse thief silently.

Li Rui looked at it, this horse thief was almost forty years old. I'm afraid I'm old, so I was left to watch the family. It's just that I don't know what hole no one is venturing for, only this door is one.

Li Rui nodded at the generals, who rushed into the innermost cave.

In the darkness, first the muffled grunt of a certain general sounded, and then the sound of fists hitting flesh. Li Rui secretly said in his heart that it was not good, pulled the trigger, and took a few generals to dodge in.

There were torches on the mountain wall in the cave, so Li Rui could easily see the situation inside. His generals were beaten together with two Han people, and there were several Han Chinese with weapons in their hands lying on the ground. One of the Han Chinese had strangulation marks on his neck and looked like he had been strangled to death.

In another corner of the cave, several Han people, old and young, trembled and leaned together, obviously the ropes of their hands and feet had been untied, but none of them stood up.

As soon as they saw a few more people coming in from the entrance of the cave, they hurriedly shouted in a panic: "It's not us, it's not us!" It's the rope that these two people unravel! Look for these two people! We waited for the family to pay the ransom and did not resist! ”

The two men looked back in disbelief, and even the movements of their hands paused.

As soon as Li Rui saw this scene, he probably guessed what was going on. The two men did not know how to untie the rope that bound them, and killed several Han guards in the cave, and were about to escape with the others, when they came in.

The horse thief who ran out in a panic at the door was afraid that he had escaped and wanted to report the news, and they killed him.

"Stop! It's a misunderstanding! Li Rui shouted, trying to stop them.

The generals quickly stopped, but the two people didn't know if Lu Dao couldn't understand Chinese or what, and continued to attack. Those generals are not stupid, how can they be beaten like this all the time, so they have to stretch out their arms to defend and dodge.

Li Rui saw that the people were unreasonable, so he raised his arm and shot a crossbow. The crossbow bolt grazed the face of a man and pierced directly into the mountain wall, sinking an inch deep.

"Stop, or next time my crossbow will be aimed at your head!"

Li Rui heard Mr. Qi talk about these people. They believe in "a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye", but they also admire the strong. If you don't let them see it, they won't listen to you.

The two men looked at the crossbow in Li Rui's hand, and then at the arrows on the mountain wall, and their movements became more intense.

They regarded Li Rui as the group that chased and killed Li Mao.

Li Rui didn't know what was wrong with what he said, and it would actually make the resistance of these people more intense. He glanced at the generals helplessly and ordered:

"Subdue them, tie them up and speak again. We don't have much time. ”

A moment later.

The people who had just broken free from the rope and were tied up glared viciously at Li Rui, as well as the Han people behind Li Rui who had not dared to speak.

They killed these horse thieves desperately, and they were stabbed several times, but they did not forget to let them go. As a result, when this group of wicked men came, not only did they not help in the fight, but they also offered the ropes that had bound them to bind them.

Bah! This kind of person deserves to be caught by horse thieves!

Li Rui saw that the two people still looked unwilling, and explained loudly:

"We are not horse thieves, but pedestrians passing by. On the way, we met a lone horse thief and learned that someone had been caught, so we came to the rescue. ”

"Don't think we're going to believe your nonsense! The crossbow in your hand is obviously something that only thieves in the Han people use! The sturdy young man retorted loudly in a stiff Chinese.

"Anti-thief?" Li Rui smiled, "This is a divine crossbow that can only be used by the elite of the regular army." In which thief's hands did you see this? ”

"In Fenzhou, we ...... What are you poking me for? ”

Hearing them talk about Fenzhou, Li Rui was overjoyed. What did the people of Fenzhou come to Liangzhou for?

Then contact them to ask the Han officials for money......

"Did you arrest a Han man, and the Han man told you that he was a big official and could exchange them for money?"

"What the hell are you kidding! We people never do anything to kidnap tickets! ”

"And where did you see this Divine Crossbow?"

"I ...... I...... What I see is what I see, where do you care where I see it? ”

Li Rui didn't want to talk nonsense with them anymore, so he simply showed his identity.

"I am the grandson of the founding prince of Great Chu and the nephew of the current Duke of Xinguo. You can trust me. ”

"What is the pot share?" The sturdy one asks the tall one.

"I don't know what kind of celebrity it looks like."

Li Rui was stunned. These people don't know the identity of Uncle Lu Dao?

"Have you ever seen a person, surnamed Li Mingmao, with a square face, a long beard, and very light eyebrows, and a small mole inside?" Li Rui was stunned when he saw the two people, and he knew that there was a drama in the road.

His heart was unspeakably happy. He traveled thousands of miles from the capital to Liangzhou, but before he could see his uncle in Wuwei, he had already found clues about his uncle.

After all, God is sheltering their family!

While loosening the ties of the two stunned people, he said:

"I am Li Mao's nephew, Li Rui. This time I came to Liangzhou, I came to move the rescue soldiers to find my uncle. ”

It is said that Li Rui stepped on the iron shoes and had nowhere to go, so it took no effort to get it, and finally successfully found the clues of his uncle Li Mao. On the other side, Gu Qing sat at home, looking at the family who ran back in a hurry, and almost fainted.

"What do you mean you didn't find it? Is there no one in sight, or is the person missing? "If Li Rui also disappeared like his uncle, what is she still doing sitting here! Find a rope and hang yourself!

"Mrs., I didn't find it! Young Master Rui was probably afraid that we would catch up, so he chose the path where no one was there, and I had already chased him to Tongzhou, and I didn't see the shadow of Young Master Rui. And I talked to the doorman and the inn hall along the road, and no one said that I saw the trace of Young Master Rui and his party. "In order to find someone during this time, the skin on his legs has been grinded, and his mouth is also anxious to foam, but he just didn't find anyone, no way!

Gu Qing stared at the kneeling family and began to believe his words a little. His ears and hair were covered in dust, and he had apparently not washed properly in days. The shoes are also broken, the shoes in the house are not the kind of shoes bought outside, they are the most expensive shoes, and the soles are specially reinforced by the people in the needlework room, and they are the most sturdy.

Gu Qing covered her face weakly and didn't want to say anything.

If Li Rui's dead child didn't want to find her, a disciple would indeed not be able to find him. Li Rui has Mr. Du, who is familiar with the road, by his side, if he really walks from the path or shortcut, where can he find him?

She yelled at this family, which was nothing more than venting her anger.

She has only been in ancient times for two years, and she has already learned all the shelves of the old lady? When did she take the hard work of these subordinates for granted, and began to call out with peace of mind?

Thinking of this, Gu Qing really didn't have any mental strength to blame this family, and he couldn't shout the sentence "If you can't find someone, don't come back".

Mama Hua looked at Gu Qing worriedly, afraid that the head of the family would collapse all of a sudden.

If it is really a loss of husband and son, it is too cruel.

"Mrs. Tai, Jiren has his own natural appearance, and there are so many people around Young Master Rui, there should be no danger. What you should do now is take care of your body. If Young Master Rui comes back, but you fall, how much blame should he have? ”

"I know that you are all for my good, but ......" Gu Qing put down the hand covering his face and waved weakly at the family: "Go down, you have worked hard for so many days, Xiangyun, give him two taels of reward." ”

I believe that he was also worried and frightened for many days, and gave him two taels of silver because he was afraid that he would think too much, and it also showed that the master did not blame him. Gu Qing followed Mama Hua to learn housekeeping for many days, although she almost lost her soul for a while because of Li Rui's matter, but she still listened to what she should have listened to.

When the disciple heard this, not only was he not punished, but Mrs. Tai also rewarded her, and hurriedly knelt down to kowtow to Gu Qing to thank her, and she couldn't help but rejoice in her heart.

This is also their house, if it is any family, he will come back to report if he does not find anyone, I am afraid that he has been kicked out. Even if he knew the temperament of several masters in the Daoist Mansion, he was mentally prepared to be scolded by the rod.

Mrs. Tai will still care about whether he works hard or not, woo woo...... He must work hard to run errands in the future!

When the door went down, Gu Qing sat down on the Luohan bed, her heart was flustered, and all kinds of nonsense came to her heart, making her unable to think about anything.

Not only today, but in the days that Li Rui has lost contact, she has basically lived like this.

She doesn't even have a good rest. As soon as I closed my eyes, it was full of various scenes of "grandma help".

Mama Hua and Xiangyun looked at the old lady sitting in the room again and were stunned, and they didn't know how to persuade them. Not to mention Mrs. Qiu, even those of them who know the inside story of the Dao, they have been sitting on the edge of their seats these days.

Just as the room had fallen silent for a long time, the voice of the doorman appeared outside the house again.

"Mrs. Tai, Mrs. Tai!"

Gu Qing stood up and walked out excitedly. Isn't Li Rui back?

She lifted the curtain herself and looked at the door under the porch.

"What's wrong?"

The man hurriedly bent down. "Mrs. Tai, the queen mother of the palace summoned you to meet her, and the palace envoy waited at the door, saying that there was no need to change clothes, and Mrs. Tai just took a car into the palace."

Gu Qing sighed in his heart. The palace urgently announced, could it be that Li Mao had an accident?

She suddenly felt dizzy, and the string that had been stretched for a long time seemed to be about to break all at once, and her body shook a few times, but she couldn't stand.

Mama Hua was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to hug Gu Qing, and asked Xiangyun to help Gu Qing to the bed first. She turned around and was about to ask Menzi to relay the news that the palace envoy Mrs. Tai's body suddenly felt unwell, and asked them to wait, but Gu Qing squeezed her hand.

Gu Qing closed his eyes and tried his best to overcome the dizziness. She whispered, "Mama Hua, pinch my people hard." Xiangyun, go and bring me the 'Baoxin Pill' prescribed by the Imperial Doctor. ”

"Mrs. Tai, why are you doing this? The body is everything, you should rest for a while before ......"

Gu Qing shook his head. "Mama Hua, let me lie on the bed and wait, I'm afraid I'll be sick. Now there is still a pillar to support me from falling, so I naturally have to go to the palace to see what news is. What if it's a good thing? ”

She just thought about it, if something happened to Li Mao, she was afraid that she would be the last one in the whole Great Chu. Whether it's for her body or her emotions, no one else will tell her this bad news. None of them knew that she was not Li Mao's mother, and they must all feel how important this widow was to her.

But in fact, she is most worried about Li Rui. If Li Mao hadn't done anything, Li Rui heard the news on the road, and maybe he would have turned back. So she had to go into the palace and figure out the current situation.

Mama Hua pinched Gu Qing a few times, and the sharp pain under her nose immediately made her spirit that was about to be dissipated gather. Xiangyun held the medicine and water to serve Gu Qing and took the medicine, Yanyun took the peppermint oil and wiped it on the tip of the old lady's nose and temples, and after a while, Gu Qing was already able to stand on his own.

"Prepare the car, let's enter the palace!"

It's still Kunyuan Palace, and it's still familiar people and things. Gu Qing looked at everything in the hall with mixed feelings.

At first, when she got the palace card, she thought it was just a kind word from the queen, so she politely said to the aunt downstairs who was not very familiar with it, "I don't have anything to do and often come to play".

And in the short time from the beginning of winter to today, she has entered the palace four times. She gradually began to understand how close the "Xinguo Mansion" was to the highest place in Dachu. If she always thought that if she became an old lady, she could call the wind and rain behind closed doors in the mansion and be a happy old woman, the reality had given her a vicious slap in the face, telling her the meaning of this "Xinguo Mansion", which was not at all like what she imagined, just a symbol, a grade that would make an "oh" sound when reading a book.

It is full of glory and honor, and behind this honor lurks great dangers.

Seeing Gu Qing's bruises in his people, Zhang Shaoguang, who had been in the harem for a long time, understood what was going on. She hurriedly summoned the old lady for fear of scaring the old lady. Zhang Shaoguang sighed in his heart, but a very happy smile appeared on his face:

"Old lady, Li Guogong has found it. It was true that an unknown person attacked them on the way, but he was rescued by the Qianren, and there were already officials in Fenzhou who had received a messenger sent by the Qianren and were setting off for the Qianren tribe to pick up Li Guogong. Zhang Shaoguang was asked by the emperor to appease the Xinguo Mansion, naturally to do her duty.

"You can rest assured now. At the same time, Li Guogong also sent a letter to the Western Army, and also brought a token, if someone really wanted to rebel, the Western Army would definitely send troops to suppress it. ”

Gu Qing listened to the queen's words, but grinned slightly, and didn't even squeeze out a smile.

"What's the matter, old lady, are you not feeling well?" Seeing that Gu Qing didn't have a happy look, the queen was worried for a while.

She took a few steps forward, wanting to see how she was doing, but Gu Qing smiled bitterly and said to her:

"Niangniang, the courtier's son was found, but the courtier's grandson lost one."

Zhang Shaoguang's forward foot stopped.

"Grandson? Be......? ”

Gu Qing had to kneel down again for the sake of the Xinguo Mansion and knock on the ground with his head.

"Niangniang, Li Rui, the grandson of the courtier, secretly went out of the house with a group of generals, wanting to save the second son of the courtier, but the courtiers sent the generals to chase after him, but he lost his trace. Please also ask the mother to be gracious and think of a way for the courtiers! ”

Zhang Shaoguang was so shocked that he took a step back, and he really couldn't say a word.