Chapter Seventy-Nine: An Extra Man
Early in the morning of the second day, Xu Han and everyone came to the bull head tomb mentioned in the nineteen mouths.
He picked up the weeds in front of the tombstone at the top of the mountain, looked at the torn handwriting on the tombstone, and asked, "Is this it?"
Xiao Nineteen lowered his head a little absent-mindedly, and did not answer Xu Han's question at the first time. And Zhou Yuan on the side didn't dare to snub Xu Han, and when he saw that he didn't say anything, he hurriedly said with a smile on his face: "We came here that day to look for it, and we also asked many people around us, and they all said that they had never heard of a Niutou village near here. Later, I met a hunter and found it here. ”
And according to what he said, he had seen a little girl and a little monk come here a few months ago, and listening to his description, his appearance seemed to be very similar to the person Xu Ge Lord was looking for, and the time of appearance also coincided. ”
"Hmm. Xu Han nodded when he heard this, but he was noncommittal.
Immediately, he stretched out his hand to wipe the dust off the tombstone, and then he saw the handwriting on the tombstone clearly: Princess Jingyuan of Great Chu, the tomb of his beloved wife Fang Qingqing - the foolish man Li Dongjunli.
"Li Dongjun!?" Seeing those last few words, Xu Han couldn't help but be shocked.
"It's the Li Dongjun you think. At this time, a soft voice sounded in Xu Han's ears, Xu Han looked back, but saw Ye Hongjian carrying a thick ancient book, looking at him with heavy eyes.
Ye Hongjian's expression was calm, and she didn't seem to be abnormal at all, but in fact, the more calm she was, the more uneasy Xu Han became.
But Ye Hongjian didn't seem to feel this, she walked to Xu Han's side, and the ancient book in her hand was stuffed into Xu Han's arms by her at that time, and then she turned her eyes to look at the tombstone in front of her, and said: "After hearing about this yesterday, I went to Yanxia City and found this city record in the Yamen of Taishou. ”
Saying that, Ye Hongjian also reached out and gently pinched some weathered stone chips from the edge of the tombstone, and put them in the palm of his hand to look at them carefully.
Xu Han was stunned again, he subconsciously looked at the book in his hand, but saw that the somewhat yellowed title page had a few big characters written on it.
He hurriedly opened the city chronicle, and one of the pages was intentionally folded at the footer, Xu Han's heart warmed, and he also guessed that this must be Ye Hongjian's so-called, he can probably imagine that last night, after hearing about this, Ye Hongjian went to Yanxia City alone to get this thing, and stayed up all night looking for clues. But he quickly suppressed the throbbing in his heart and looked down at the words on the page.
The city chronicle was obviously a little old, the pages were yellowed, and the handwriting on it was a little blurry, and Xu Han had to spend a lot of effort to understand what was said above.
In the third year of the Great Zhou calendar, the remnants of the dead Chu were entrenched in Niutou Mountain, and the general Liu Zhuang was ordered to suppress the enemy.
Three thousand soldiers surrounded Niutou Mountain for 67 days, cutting off their way to heaven and cutting off their gate to escape, and the thieves were terrified, and on the evening of the 67th day, they all decided to go to Niutou Mountain.
After Xu Han finished reading this, he was still a little confused, but before he could ask questions, Ye Hongjian, who looked down at the stone chips in his hand, said again without raising his head: "Look back." ”
Xu Han was stunned for a moment, only to find that there was another page in this book whose footer was also folded up by Ye Hongjian.
He didn't doubt him, and hurriedly looked down again.
The remnants of the Great Zhou Dynasty were ambushed, and hundreds of dead bodies were piled up, and no one was buried. The people in the vicinity often say that there are often women's wailing voices at night here, as if the souls of the dead are not gone, and Ren Taishou did not dare to bury himself because of the identity of the remnants.
In July of the same year, a high-ranking monk returned to this place, and practiced in front of the bones for 100 days, and finally reduced the karma of the dead soul, buried it, and Niutou Village was renamed Niutou Tomb.
After reading this article, Xu Han raised his head again, looked at Ye Hongjian and asked, "But the city chronicle does not say the identity of the high monk..."
Ye Hongjian also seemed to finish looking at the stone chips in her hand at this time, and her jade hand was gently raised, and the stone chips in her hand were blown up under the cold wind at that time, turning into dust and sand.
"This tombstone is two hundred years old, and the time can be matched. Ye Hongjian obviously intended to embarrass Xu Han, she didn't look back at Xu Han at all, so she said to herself at that time: "According to the records of Great Xia, in the fifth year of the Later Chu Dynasty, that is, in the spring of the fourth year of the Great Zhou calendar, Li Dongjun returned from his westward journey. It is because of this that Li Han's soldiers at that time were able to take the initiative to unify the princes in the north in just three years, and established the Great Xia Dynasty that could compete with the Great Zhou. ”
This history is not a secret, and Li Dongjun was able to be respected as a national teacher by the Great Xia Royal Court to a large extent because it was because of his bridge that Longyin Temple fell to the Great Xia lineage.
It's just that Xu Han was still puzzled, so he asked: "But Rao is like this, and he can't be sure that this Li Dongjun is that Li Dongjun." ”
Although Xu Han has great doubts about Li Dongjun's life and death, and even good and evil, the other party is a world-famous holy monk after all, and Xu Han does not dare to speculate on such a thing that goes against the way of Buddhism.
Ye Hongjian, who heard that she was covering up, couldn't help but glance at Xu Han fiercely, but she seemed to feel that this move was inappropriate, and quickly withdrew her gaze.
The inadvertent flow of all kinds of style, the cautiousness after the sudden awakening. The two are intertwined, and when they fall on the proud girl, it can't help but feel particularly distressed.
"There are a large number of documents recorded in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Longyin Temple Li Dongjun's life, which is true and false, but most of the records of the first half of his life have mentioned a woman, some people say that this woman is the princess of Dachu, some people say that it is the general, and some people say that it is the grandson of the immortal, although the rhetoric is different, but without exception, the identity of this woman is extremely noble. ”
It was said in the book that after Li Dongjun graduated from middle school in Longyin Temple, he went to Chang'an, the capital of the Great Chu State at that time, to open an altar to teach Buddhism, but it was the last year of the Great Chu at that time, and the Chu Emperor was almost unable to extricate himself from the superstitious half-demon law, and he was disdainful of Buddhism, and even quite hateful. ”
Therefore, after hearing that Li Dongjun opened the altar to teach the Fa under his nose, he was extremely angry, and ordered the army to arrest Li Dongjun, and it was this woman who took action to keep Li Dongjun safe. But judging from the situation of Da Chu at that time, it seems that only the princess's daughter can do this, and it is rumored that after Li Dongjun returned to Longyin Temple, the woman admired Li Dongjun and rushed all the way to Longyin Temple to seek Buddhism in Longyin Temple. Even when Li Dongjun decided to go west to Kunlun to pay homage to the Mahayana Buddhism of the sages, the woman also appeared in the procession to see him off..."
"And after the fall of Great Chu, there is a recorded descendant of the Great Chu royal family that has a line of royal daughters who tried to fight against the four princes with the remnants after the fall of Great Chu, but after several defeats, the record of the whereabouts of that remnant has become blurred, and the last time it appeared was near Qingzhou in the second year after Chu, and the title of the daughter of the royal family at that time was the word Jingyuan!"
Ye Hongjian's tirade made everyone present stunned for a while, and after a long while, they reacted.
"But this... What does it have to do with our events today? Zhou Yuan saw that the atmosphere was silent, so he suddenly asked cautiously after a moment of hesitation.
"Yes, Aunt Hongjian, what are you talking about, aren't we looking for the little monk named Guanglin Ghost? What does it have to do with Li Dongjun?" Nineteen on the side also came back to his senses from the frustration that he didn't find his master yesterday, and he knocked on Zhou Yuan and didn't respond today, and then looked at Ye Hongjian with a strange expression, and the expression on his face was quite puzzled.
Ye Hongjian, who has only passed her twentieth year this year, is called an aunt, which is naturally an extremely unhappy thing, and there are faint green muscles bulging around her temples on her pretty face.
She glanced at Xu Han on the side seemingly casually, and then said faintly: "It's just a sigh, people live for a lifetime, but for decades, birth, old age, sickness and death are fleeting, I think when Li Dongjun sets up such a tombstone, he must regret it in the bottom of his heart." So..."
Speaking of this, she glanced at Xu Han intentionally or unintentionally, and then said meaningfully: "So Rao is a saint, and he also has such distress, the lessons of the past are still there, and we shouldn't... Live up to this time. ”
Nineteen naturally couldn't understand this, but Xu Han and Qin Keqing changed their faces at that time, and their expressions were inexplicable.
However, before Xu Han and the others could digest Ye Hongjian's sudden exclamation, Ye Hongjian quickly said again: "Of course, in addition to the sigh, this Li Dongjun's identity does have a great deal to do with us. ”
Speaking of this, the expression on Ye Hongjian's face suddenly became solemn.
She said: "The Guanglin ghost once said that he came from a remote temple in Great Xia, but he couldn't tell what the name of the temple was, and he didn't even know the name of the old monk who had been with him day and night since he could remember. ”
"Let's ignore the weirdness of this for the time being, but after Liu Dingdang lost control and forcibly broke into Longyin Temple, there was a projection of a monk who claimed to be Li Dongjun gushing out of the body of Guanglin Ghost, which shows that there must be some connection between this little monk and the missing Li Dongjun. ”
Besides, the hall master of the Senluo Palace, who claimed to be the king of Jizo, also seemed to know about this matter, and he did not show too much discoloration when he saw Li Dongjun's appearance that day, and it was not difficult to see from his words at the time that he seemed to know Li Dongjun very well. ”
Xu Han listened to Ye Hongjian say this, and after groaning slightly, he also took over the conversation.
"From the first time I saw the Guanglin ghost in Linglong Pavilion, I noticed that this little monk was unusual, like a red note... What the girl said..."Xu Han said that there was a slight stagnation in this place, and it seemed that he could not get used to the change in title. However, it seemed that except for Ye Hongjian, the rest of the people who were concentrating on trying to figure out why this Niutou Village disappeared out of thin air did not notice Xu Han's brief pause.
"There are great doubts about the relationship between the Guanglin ghost and the Great Xia National Teacher Li Dongjun, but the strangest thing is... If Niutou Village really doesn't exist, then where did the Guanglin ghost go after the Battle of Linglong Pavilion?"
"Could it be that which Guanglin ghost deceived the uncle?" In line with the principle of treating others with himself, Nineteen raised his doubts.
"Probably not..."Xu Han frowned and said, he watched the Guanglin ghost for that Liu Dingdang, at that time Liu Dingdang was in danger, almost swallowed by the power of the half-demon in his body, fortunately Xu Han came to the rescue, and only then did he save Liu Dingdang's life with the emperor's essence blood.
Even if the Guanglin ghost is not grateful to Xu Han, but Liu Dingdang's situation is extremely unstable, I think it is for Liu Dingdang, and the Guanglin ghost should not deceive Xu Han on this matter.
"Besides, didn't you say that there was also a hunter who had seen the ghost of Guanglin and Liu Dingdang return here, and if they really wanted to deceive me, I should not have returned here myself, for if we came to find him, we would surely find their traces. I think it's more likely that maybe they think the same in their own hearts - Niutou Village exists..."
Such an inference cannot be said to be unreasonable, but there are still some bizarre and even inexplicable details.
Zhou Yuan frowned and thought for a while, and then said: "I probably understand what you mean, you mean that someone created an illusion, or used some kind of magic power to change the cognition of the two people in your mouth, and it is said that after the Guanglin ghost and Liu Dingdang were destroyed in Niutou Village, Liu Dingdang had a strange disease, and then the king of the land appeared, and Liu Dingdang was also transformed into a half-demon... In other words, it is likely that all of this was intentional on the part of King Jizo. But..."
Before Zhou Yuan's words were finished, Xu Han, who heard these words, suddenly shook his body, as if he had thought of something, a hand suddenly stretched out to block Zhou Yuan's words, frowned and said, "What did you just say?"
Zhou Yuan was stunned, but he didn't dare to disobey Xu Han, he was afraid that he had said something wrong and angered Xu Han, so he said cautiously: "I said that all this is related to the King of Jizo..."
"Not true. But this time, he also didn't have a chance to finish his words before he was interrupted by Xu Han again. "Again..."
Most of the people around him were also puzzled by Xu Han's strange attitude at the moment, so they all gave Xu Han a glance.
Zhou Yuan became more and more frightened, he carefully looked at Xu Han's face, and said tentatively again as if walking on thin ice: "It was the Guanglin Ghost and Liu Dingdang who were destroyed in Niutou Village..."
"That's right!" Xu Han patted his head a little nervously, and then he swept his calm gaze over everyone's bodies one by one, then lowered his head, raised his eyes, and asked in an extremely strange and gloomy tone.
"If Niutou Village hadn't existed in the first place..."
"Who is Liu Dingdang, who has been following the Guanglin ghost?"