Later, Xue Shaojing came down and thought about it, what Princess Taiping said was not unreasonable. Even if he doesn't want to marry Xuan Yunzi, it is necessary to find her back and make everything she should say in person. Then go to Wu Zetian to negotiate together, which is the best way to deal with the problem.

Evasion will only complicate the problem.

At this point, Xue Shao has also made up his mind. But Guo An and the others are now participating in the military exercise in the Luoshui camp, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to get out of the way - then I have to go and find it myself?

If a big world wants to find a person, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. But Xue Shao thought about it carefully, Xuan Yunzi is not an ordinary person, she is temporarily missing, yes, but this disappearance is limited to me and Wu Zetian and others who don't know where she is. In other words, whether she intended to run away from the marriage and whether she really hid it is debatable. With her personality, the possibility of hiding without saying a word is actually very small.

It doesn't have to be that hard to find her.

The next day, Xue Shao took the left and right door gods and rode away from home, and went straight to the Xuanyun Temple of Zhongnan Mountain.

When he arrived here, Xue Shao was a little stunned - Xuanyun Temple had turned into a pile of ashes!

After a little inspection of the scene, Xue Shao found no signs of anyone being killed, nor did he find the remains of things such as the statue of Daojun and the magic table. In other words, it is not like a sudden fire or malicious arson, but like a fire that was set off after an orderly relocation.

Just as Xue Shao was looking around, a woodcutter passed by. Xue Shao took the initiative to ask him, what happened to this Taoist temple?

The woodcutter told Xue Shao that the place had been burned down by a fire about a month ago. At that time, the fire was very large, and monks and monks from many nearby Taoist temples and Buddhist temples came to put out the fire, but they were stopped outside by a group of people. Looking at the situation, that group of people looked like servants of some official family, and they were very arrogant.

"Did that kill anyone?" Xue Shao asked.

"Not really." The woodcutter replied, "I heard from the abbot master of Jing'an Temple that when the group set fire to the temple, they first blasted out the female crowns. After setting the fire, he took the female crowns away. At the same time, the statue of Daojun was also pulled away by car, more than a dozen cars! ”

Xue Shao nodded, "Thank you." ”

After the woodcutter left, Xue Shao still stayed where he was and pondered for a long time, pondering in his heart: Although Xuan Yunzi is not in the officialdom, the hidden power behind her cannot be ignored. If it was true that an official sent someone to burn her Xuanyun Temple and took away all the people and objects in the temple, then this person was either acting on Wu Zetian's orders, or he was Xuanyunzi's closest relative, so he was not afraid of causing trouble if he burned it.

- Wu Youning!

Xue Shaodouran remembered this person, he and Wu Youji were both Xuanyunzi's own brothers, and Xuanyunguan was originally built by Wu Youning for Xuanyunzi. Now he burned down Xuanyunguan and forced Xuanyunzi to live in the Shangqing Temple of the palace, so that Xuanyunzi could be very close to Wu Zetian, which was certainly a good thing for Wu Youning - indeed, it was not impossible!

Looking at the ashes of Xuanyun Temple, Xue Shao had a little headache - the clue was broken, where should he go to find someone now?

After thinking about it for a long time, Xue Shao's mind lit up - that day, Sima Chengzhen came to me and only gave me a piece of White Tiger Law Slip, saying that it was a commemorative thing that Sun Simiao, the Taibai Doctor Immortal, entrusted him to give me before he died. Since Sun Simiao is Xuan Yunzi's enlightenment teacher and has the grace of nurturing her, now that he has passed away, Xuan Yunzi will inevitably go to worship!

Xue Shao patted his head, "I'm really stupid - go, go to Taibai Mountain Doumu Peak!" ”

Traveling all the way, Xue Shao and his left and right door gods arrived at the foot of Doumu Peak at about noon the next day.

Looking at the stairs that meander up into the clouds of the middle of the sky, Xue Shao couldn't help but think of the last time he came here with Yuenu and asked Pei Xingjian for immortal medicine.

"When I come here again, Pei Gong is long gone, and the Medicine King has also gone to the immortal." Xue Shao couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Time, it's so fast!" ”

"Young marshal, what are you muttering?" Niu Ben said suddenly, "Why is this ladder so steep, there seems to be snow up there, I'm afraid it's still frozen." Isn't it possible that we have to climb up on all fours? ”

Xue Shao suddenly smiled, "Yes, you have to climb." ”

"Then I'll crawl!" Niu Ben fell to the ground without saying a word, and climbed up with a big buttocks.

Xue Shao and Duan Feng laughed.

"You—don't laugh!" Niu Ben said nervously, "As soon as I reached a high place, I panicked and my legs and stomach cramped, if you laugh again, I will have to fall down and turn into meat sauce when I am nervous!" ”

Acrophobia?

Xue Shao couldn't help laughing, "Forget it, you stay at the foot of the mountain to guard the horses and wait." I'll just go up with Duan Feng. ”

"Alright, alright, this is the best!" Niu Ben got up immediately, clapped his hands and took the reins of the horse, and said with a smile, "Then you go and go back quickly!" ”

"Let's go!"

Xue Shao called Duan Feng, and the two went up together. After walking for a long time, I went up to the peak when it was almost dark and saw the medicine house where Sun Simiao lived.

Xue Shao approached and looked around to see if it was cleaned up, and it was obvious that there were still people living there. So he asked in a loud voice, "Is anyone there?" ”

"Who is visiting?" Someone answered, and a boy in Tsing Yi came out.

Xue Shao recognized him, he met him last time he climbed the peak, Sun Simiao's medicine boy apprentice.

"Hey, is that you?" The boy obviously recognized Xue Shao as well, and hurriedly stepped forward to bow down, "Lang Jun is visiting again, I don't know what's going on?" ”

"Commander ......"

"The family teacher has been gone for a long time." Tong'er replied, "Don't you know Lang Jun? ”

"I know." Xue Shao said, "I'm here to worship, and I want to find someone." ”

"Who is Lang Jun looking for?"

"Xuanyunzi. You know, right? ”

The boy in Tsing Yi suddenly smiled, "Of course I recognize my senior sister." You want to find her and worship the master, and it just so happens that she has built a grass hut next to the grave of the master and lives in it, and she wants to guard the tomb of the master! ”

Xue Shao's heart suddenly lit up, "Where?" ”

"Wangwu Mountain, Temple of Heaven Peak." Tong'er replied, "Actually, since the last time Lang Jun invited the ancestor down the mountain, he didn't come back here because he thought that Doumu Peak was too high and steep, leaving Poor Dao to take care of the medicine here." The first master later went to Tiantan Peak to live in seclusion, and it was there that he became an immortal. ”

Xue Shao suddenly let out a long sigh, "Is it far away from here?" ”

"If there are horses, it doesn't seem too far, but the night is too deep and the mountain road is really difficult and dangerous." Tong'er replied, "Lang Jun might as well rest overnight in the medicine house for the time being, and then show you the way over tomorrow when the poor road is dawning?" ”

Xue Shao pondered for a moment, "Then it's a bother." ”

That night, Xue Shao and Duan Feng stayed in the medicine house. Niu Ben is a rough man, a marching army, fighting, eating and sleeping in the open is just a trivial matter, and now he is left alone at the foot of the mountain for the night, but there is no need for Xue Shao to worry about it.

At night, Xue Shao couldn't sleep, so he asked Tong'er to borrow books to read. Naturally, there are only medical books in the medicine house, and Tong'er gave him a copy of the "Dan Sutra". Xue Shao flipped through a few pages at random, and he was confused by chewing wax, but the effect of hypnosis was also achieved.

Just as he was about to put down his book and blow out the oil lamp to fall asleep, he inadvertently glanced at a line of words, and suddenly he was sleepy and full of energy.

"Sulfur and realgar saltpeter are combined with sulfur and densely burned...... That's a gunpowder recipe! Xue Shao couldn't help but exclaim, "Sun Simiao actually recorded the gunpowder formula in the Dan Sutra!" ”

This thing is certainly not a secret to Xue Shao, who was born in special forces, and it can even be said to be pediatric. In fact, Xue Shao has been leading his troops to fight for such a long time, and he has always had the idea of developing gunpowder for military use. But he also knows better than anyone that gunpowder was a murderous beast in the Tang Dynasty. Once you release it yourself, you have to have enough control over it. Otherwise, no one can imagine the consequences!

The imperial court of the Tang Dynasty has always been very close to "military materials", not to mention the huge innovation of using gunpowder for military purposes, even the purchase and disposal of one or two war horses also have a strict review system. Therefore, the "control" of gunpowder is not only limited to technology, but more importantly, Xue Shao himself must have enough capital and power to really control it.

In the past, Xue Shao didn't have the leisure and time even if he had ideas, and he lacked enough strength to control it. For example, as early as Pei Yan's era, even if he came up with this thing, he was likely to be slapped to death by Pei Yan and not executed, and he might even be burned to cause unnecessary trouble.

Right now...... It seems that all the conditions are met!

Thinking of this, Xue Shaodouran became extremely excited. He immediately put on his clothes and took advantage of the oil lamp to write more than twenty pages of text, all of which were related to the development of gunpowder and its military application.

By the time he put his pen away, it was already dawn.

When Tong'er yawned and pushed the door open, Xue Shao folded the notes and put them in his arms, got up and walked out of the room.

"Hey, Lang Jun got up so early?" Tong'er was a little surprised when she saw Xue Shao, "Didn't you sleep well last night?" ”

"Slept well." Xue Shao returned the "Dan Jing" to him and said with a smile, "This book is very good, return it to you." Remember to keep it well and don't lose it. ”

"The relics of the ancestors, of course, the poor road will never dare to lose them." Tong Er took back the book, found that Xue Shao's expression was different, and asked curiously, "Lang Jun, is there anything wrong with this book?" ”

"Actually, I don't know medical skills at all, but I just think that the medical books left by the Lingshi should be treasures. So, don't show it to others if it's okay, especially a layman like me. Xue Shao replied with a smile.

The boy in Tsing Yi smiled, "I definitely won't show him ordinary people, but Lang Jun, you are not an outsider!" ”

Xue Shao nodded and smiled, and said in his heart I don't want to tell you that there is actually a wild beast hidden in this Dan Sutra. And I'm about to subjugate it to my command, and use it as a weapon of war for me to destroy and kill people!