Although Yang Su led the army to successfully capture Huiji and almost completely annihilated the rebels on the southern route, he lost contact with Shi Wansui's troops who went south first, so he had to delay the squad to return to Guangling to meet Yang Guang, and anxiously sent many people to look for the whereabouts of Shi Wansui's troops.

However, more than ten days have passed, and none of the people sent out have found the slightest news of Shi Wansui's people, which can't help but Yang Su has an ominous premonition.

At this time, Yang Su reported to the county guard in Huiji City, saying that two monks, an old man and a young monk, had come from outside the yamen and wanted to meet him to report something important.

"Didn't the two monks say which monastery they were in to become monks?" Yang Su received the report and asked casually.

"They claim to be monks from Tiantai Temple on Tiantai Mountain." The sergeant who reported the news replied.

"Tiantai Mountain?" Yang Su faintly felt that this place name sounded quite familiar, but for a while he could not recall exactly when and where he had heard this place name, so he ordered the sergeant to bring the two monks into the council hall to meet them.

After a while, I saw two monks, an old man and a young man, walking into the council hall with the sergeant.

Yang Su looked at it: he saw that walking in front was an old monk about fifty years old, with a white face and no beard, square ears and big ears, wearing an earthy yellow monk's robe, twisting Buddha beads in his hand, and following him was a little monk about seventeen or eighteen years old, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and followed behind the old monk step by step.

"The two senior monks came to see Ben Shuai today, I don't know what to say?" Yang Su didn't wait for the two monks to stand still, and then asked.

The old monk raised his eyes and looked at Yang Su, and said with one palm: "The poor monk has long admired the name of Yue Guogong, and he knows that Yue Guogong is really a literary and martial genius in the world. ”

Yang Su couldn't help but feel unhappy when he heard this, and while politely inviting the old monk to sit down and talk, he asked, "May I ask what is the name of the high monk?" I came to see Ben Shuai today, why did I come here? ”

"Poor monk wisdom, this is the empowerment of the disciples. Initiation, present the thing you picked up by the river to the Duke of Yue. The old monk was not polite to Yang Su, and after sitting down according to his words, he instructed the little monk who followed him.

The empowerment took out a bamboo tube from the purse he was carrying, held it in both hands and presented it to Yang Su.

"What is this?" Yang Su was secretly surprised that the little monk's Dharma name was so strange, and he didn't reach out to the bamboo tube, staring at the old monk Zhi and asked.

"This is a drifting bottle that the empowerment picked up by the Fuchun River two days ago, and Yue Guogong only needs to look at the letter contained in the bottle to know the old monk's intention today." Zhiqi calmly explained to Yang Su.

Yang Su took the bamboo tube from the empowerment hand suspiciously, took it in his hand and weighed it, and then exerted force between his fingers to cut the bamboo tube in half, and sure enough, he saw a silk silk stuffed in the bamboo tube, but he was not in a hurry to unfold the silk to read the content of the letter, and asked in reverse: "Ben Shuai looks at this bamboo tube, it seems that someone has opened it, but I don't know what is written on this silk silk?" ”

"The thing that Yue Guogong is most worried about at this time." Zhiqi replied indifferently.

When Yang Su heard this, he was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly unfolded the silk to take a look, only to see a line of blood written on it: The person who found this bottle will report to the Duke of Yue Guo, and Shi Wansui will pause.

He couldn't help but stand up, clasped his fists at Zhizhi and said, "May I ask the monk, where did you find this drifting bottle?" Can you take Ben Shuai to that place? ”

Zhi Qi smiled slightly, and also stood up with Yang Su, returned the salute, and persuaded him: "Don't worry, the poor monk has already said that this is what the disciple found two days ago by the Fuchun River at the foot of the mountain. If the Duke of Yue wants to find out the whereabouts of this General Shi, he only needs to send someone up the river, and there is no need to be so anxious. ”

"That being the case, Ben Shuai immediately sent people to find the Taiping Gong, and asked this little master to be a guide." Yang Su bowed to the ground at Zhiqi and the empowerment master and apprentice, and pleaded.

"Empowerment, you just go for a trip. As a teacher, he is in the city and waiting for your good news with Yue Guogong. Zhi Qi stretched out his hands to stop Yang Su, turned around and commanded the empowerment.

After the empowerment took Yang Su's men out of the city to the banks of the Fuchun River to find the whereabouts of Shi Wansui's troops, the monk Zhiqi made another request to Yang Su that surprised him.

"Monks don't speak. The poor monk came to visit today, in addition to admiring the demeanor of Yue Guogong and informing the apprentices that they had found the drifting bottle, there was still one thing to ask for, and they hoped that Yue Guogong would be fulfilled. ”

"It's okay for a monk to speak, as long as it's something that can be done in the way, everything will obey his fate." Yang Su was in a good mood because he unexpectedly got the news that Shi Wansui was still alive, and blurted out.

"The poor monk has been a monk for many years, and he has traveled down the mountain for the first two years, and has not returned to Tiantai Mountain so far. The poor monk was afraid that he would be involved in the dispute between the north and the south and could not extricate himself, and wanted to ask the prince of Yue Guo to meet him one day, so he must persuade him to return to the mountain temple as soon as possible and meditate on his practice. Zhiqi earnestly pleaded with Yang Sudao.

Yang Su didn't hear much about it, and asked Zhi Qian in a deep voice: "Since this person has been a monk friend of a senior monk for many years, why would a senior monk suspect that he would be involved in earthly disputes and not extricate himself?" Please also ask the monk to clearly state the original reason, so that when he meets this person on the other day, he can persuade him to return to the rooftop as soon as possible and practice with peace of mind as the monk wishes. ”

Zhi Qi sighed slightly, and said to Yang Sujie: "It's really because this person accepted a lay disciple many years ago, and now he works for Nan Chen, and the poor monk is worried that he will be burdened by his disciples and become an enemy of the Great Sui, so he has this invitation." The poor monk's friend is named Dujing, who is the head of the monk's cultivation, and his apprentice was originally the queen of the Later Liang clan, named Xiao Rushui. ”

Yang Su had never heard of the name of Dujing Toutuo, but he was no stranger to the name Xiao Rushui. Not long ago, when Zhang Heng was ordered by Yang Guang to come to his army to inform him that Gao Qinglian, the leader of the Yanchao, the secret spy agency of Nanchen, was likely to be hiding among the rebels on the South Road, he mentioned the name Xiao Rushui to him, saying that he was the great protector of Yanchao, and had personally planned Xiao Yan's uncle and nephew to betray Sui and surrender to Chen, and was an important criminal strictly ordered by the imperial court.

"The senior monk is saying that this monk friend of yours, Dujing Toutuo, is Xiao Rushui's mentor?" Yang Su's eyes widened, looked at Zhi Qi and said, "If this is the case, I am grateful to the monk for coming to report the whereabouts of Shi Wansui today, and I want to advise the monk: the investigation of the remnants of the 'Wild Goose's Nest' is now presided over by His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and the monk wants to save the lives of the monks, so it is better to go to Guangling to ask His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and the Tao can also bring a message to the King of Jin on behalf of the monk, but it is inconvenient to make decisions without authorization, and this matter should be undertaken." Please forgive me. ”