Chapter 997: Speculation
"No, your guess is highly likely." Xiao Xiao rubbed his eyebrows regretfully at this time, and said tiredly, "It's my negligence, I only think that there are no outsiders on the mountain, and I have never suspected the monks of the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple, I can't imagine that it is in such an environment that the queen still has an accident." ”
"I can't blame you either, and I didn't expect an accident on such a dangerous mountain." Qin Yining looked around, and carefully looked for clues in the hall.
A short time later, there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall.
Xiao Xiao looked at the door with sharp eyes, and saw Xiao Shami leading an old monk with a long beard and kind eyes to walk in.
Years of battlefield battles have made Xiao Xiao awe-inspiring when he becomes serious, and idlers will feel a sense of urgency and fear under his gaze.
Although the old monk is an outsider, he also feels the same way, especially the noble figure like the queen is gone.
"Humble monk Xuanyun, I have seen the prince." Xuanyun clasped his palms together and bowed slightly.
He returned the salute and said in a deep voice: "The specific situation, Abbot Xuanyun should already know about it, right?" ”
"The humble monk already knows."
"The stakes are high. The queen mother worships the Buddha devoutly, but something happened in your temple, once it spreads, the holy thunder is angry, I am afraid that your temple is afraid that you will lose your life. It is the intention of this king, not to publicize it first, and to find people in private. ”
There was cold sweat oozing from Xuanyun's forehead, but he still calmed down in the end, and called the Buddha: "Amitabha, the humble monk thanks the prince for his magnanimity." ”
If he wants to clear up the relationship, he can actually arrest all the monks of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple now, crown them with a crime, and wait for the Son of Heaven to fall, so that he will not have to bear the consequences at all, and even if he wants to get rid of the crime completely, he can also put other charges on them.
But the owl didn't do this, but found him alone.
Xuan Yun was grateful, and his attitude was a little more submissive.
Seeing that Xuanyun was transparent, he said: "I heard that Abbot Yun's best friend is a high-ranking monk, and the queen's mother has benefited a lot from preaching with that high-ranking monk these days. I wonder where the monk is now? ”
Xuanyun said calmly: "Back to the prince, and Niangniang is actually a teacher, the law is the source, she is a humble monk more than ten years ago, I haven't seen it for many years, she traveled here, she was a guest in the temple, she is indeed proficient in Buddhism, and her character is also reliable, she is really a high monk." It's just that the day before yesterday afternoon, she had said goodbye to the clumsy monk and went down the mountain. ”
No one could have imagined that the senior monk was actually a teacher, and everyone in the hall was silent for a while.
Xiao Xiao and Qin Yining captured the latter sentence.
Qin Yining asked: "What does Abbot Yun mean that Master Tongyuan has already gone down the mountain in the afternoon of the day before yesterday?" ”
"Yes." The abbot of Xuanyun bowed his head.
Qin Yining looked at Xiao Xiao and said faintly: "It seems that I really guessed it." ”
"Although there is no evidence, it is not far from ten." I also asked Abbot Xuanyun to secretly investigate who was missing from the monks in the temple, or who had anything abnormal. ”
"I can't be sure when the queen mother will not see her. Grandma Sun said that the queen stayed in the Guanyin Hall yesterday and did not return to the meditation room. So the time when the queen disappeared was most likely the day before yesterday. If there is no abnormality among the monks in your temple, it is enough to show that the Tongyuan Shitai who left the day before yesterday is the one who kidnapped the queen. That's why she fled in a hurry. ”
Xiao Xiao showed the note he found under the futon to Abbot Xuanyun, "Although Karma Peak is a forbidden place in your temple, for the sake of the queen, it is necessary to offend." ”
Looking at the content on the note, Abbot Xuanyun's face became more and more ugly.
He understood what he meant.
If the other monks in the temple don't have anything else abnormal, it means that it is really Master Tongyuan who deceived him, took advantage of his relationship and waited here, and it was not good for the queen!
Monks can be so vicious!
If it weren't for the loyal prince who was kind and open-minded, I am afraid that the monks of the whole temple would have to be buried for the practice of Tongyuan Shitai!
"Lord Wang, please. In fact, the forbidden land is not a forbidden place, but it is the place where the Buddha retreats, and the mountain opposite is even more steep, and there are cliffs everywhere under the mountain, only one part of the top of the mountain has trees and vegetation, and there are natural caves and water sources. When the temple was first built, a suspension bridge was built, so that it was convenient for people to go to the opposite side to meditate and practice Buddhism when they were in retreat. However, the fog is really big these days, and I can't see the situation on the other side clearly. ”
"I see." "Most of the suspension bridge has been submerged in the mist, and this king really didn't notice what the situation was, and besides, he heard that the opposite side was the forbidden place of your temple, and he didn't have any curiosity.
Qin Yining's brows furrowed tightly, and he asked Abbot Xuanyun at the right time, "May I ask Abbot, is there really no other way up the mountain to the Karma Peak on the opposite side, so you can only go through the suspension bridge?" ”
Qin Yining was worried that there would be an ambush on the other side.
Abbot Xuanyun said: "Amitabha, the monks don't speak, there is indeed no way to go up and down the mountain in the Cause Peak, because the terrain is too steep. The only way is the suspension bridge. ”
Qin Yining nodded, "Thank you Abbot for informing me." If you can find the queen. There will also be the credit of the abbot and the Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas. “
Abbot Xuanyun shook his head: "Don't ask for merit, but ask for no fault." ”
Xiao Xiao whispered to Abbot Xuanyun that on the one hand, he wanted to check on the monks, and on the other hand, he also secretly arranged for people to look around to see if the queen might be hidden.
At the same time, Xiao Xiao also asked Tang Xiu to lead people to search down the road down the mountain, so as not to take the queen away. See if they can find any clues.
But in an hour, Abbot Xuanyun and Tang Xiu both brought back news.
None of the monks were lost, and nothing suspicious was found on the way down.
Therefore, the emperor was really taken to the opposite karma peak by that Tongyuan is too much.
"It's really unreasonable, how could Master Tongyuan be a monk after all, how could he do such a thing." Qin Yining's face was full of anger, "She clearly put the safety of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple at risk!" ”
"It's a clumsy monk who doesn't know people clearly. Abbot Xuanyun closed his eyes, folded his hands and sighed.
Xiao Xiao's face was calm, and he was a little worried about the situation on this side of the mountain.
Although he had immediately arranged for the spirit tiger to guard the way up and down the mountain, he had learned a lesson, there were so many monks in the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple, he didn't know if there were one or two of them harboring evil intentions. He believed in these monks too much before, so he would lose the queen, if he was invited to go to the Karma Peak now, I don't know if there would be any danger here, and his sister Yi didn't know if he would be hurt.
Seeing that Xiao Xiao was silent, Qin Yining guessed the entanglement in his heart, and leaned close to Xiao Xiao and whispered: "Zhixi, now that the situation is urgent, you should order someone to take a look." If the queen has any accidents, don't say that the monks of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, even we can't live. ”
"But the other party asked me to go alone, if I send someone, I am afraid that the queen will be in danger." Xiao Xiao said in a deep voice, "I'm not afraid of danger, I'm worried about you." If I go away, if something happens here......" He was really frightened by Qin Yining's repeated accidents, and suddenly such a situation appeared, and the first thing he thought about was who wanted to hurt his daughter-in-law when he was leaving the mountain with the tiger.
Qin Yining, who understands it, knows that she is everything that is important to her, and her heart is warm.
"You're worried about me staying here, why shouldn't I worry about you? The suspension bridge looked dangerous, and there was a rushing water below, and it was so close to the waterfall that if it fell, it would be too late to save it, and it would be washed down the waterfall. I don't worry about you going to the Karma Peak alone. ”
The two looked at each other, and there was silence for a while.
Xiao Xiao shook his head, "I'm still going." ”
If something happens to the mother of a country, if he has a difficult choice between saving the queen and protecting his daughter-in-law, he will definitely be impeached. There is also a possibility that he will be detained in a basin and falsely accused him of being the culprit of kidnapping the queen.
Why didn't Qin Yining understand this truth?
"Okay, I'll go with you."
"Nope." Xiao Xiao vetoed, "If there is really anything, it will be inconvenient to take you with you." You're here waiting for me. ”
"It would be nice if Mu Gongzi was here. And if he follows you, he can have an extra layer of protection. The other side of the suspension bridge is now foggy, and we can't see anything clearly, and we haven't even seen the outline of the opposite karma peak in the past few days, and I'm really worried that someone above has done something wrong. ”
Xiao Xiao also sighed a little.
"It's all too much of a coincidence." He leaned close to Qin Yining's ear and whispered, "I suspect that this matter was premeditated. Including the queen will be here, including us coming here, including the wood will leave halfway, and the fog of the karma peak, all of them are counted. ”
"You feel that way, too?" Qin Yining said, "Let's think of going together." Who else in the world has the ability to do this? ”
Except for Tianjizi, Qin Yining couldn't think of a second one.
But what is Tianjizi doing this for?
Everything she did, she obviously had the intention of supporting Xiao Xiao, she planned to kill people, and she could kill anyone, including Xiao Xiao's wife and family, but she never had the intention of killing Xiao Xiao.
A person who was bent on returning Xiao Xiao, the Ziwei Emperor Star, to the right position, why would he deliberately tie up the queen to the Karma Peak, and force Xiao Xiao to go to save people alone?
Qin Yining was puzzled.
But guessing that the other party was Tianjizi, Qin Yining was at least able to be sure that Xiao Xiao's safety would not be threatened for the time being. As for the other traps, she can only take one step at a time. Thinking about it, now is the choice of whether to go or not, that is, to discuss with Xie Yue and Xu Weizhi, and the conclusion is still to let Xiao Xiao go.
Xiao Xiao wiped his face, and said helplessly and irritably: "Don't worry, since you don't know when the exact time of the person went to the Cause Peak, then there is no hurry." Let's discuss it with Mr. Xie and Mr. Xu, and I will also arrange things, and it will not be too late for me to go again. ”
When Qin Yining heard this, he also felt that this was reasonable. If the queen were to have an accident, she wouldn't be taken to the karma peak on the other side of the suspension bridge, wouldn't it be cleaner to retreat down the mountain and let her be washed down the waterfall?
So if it is really calculated by Tianjizi, her purpose is to let Xiao Xiao go to the Cause Peak!