Chapter Twenty-Six: Different Paths to the Same End

Following.

The sky was bright, and the sound of orders sounded outside the barracks, and the war drums and the shouts of the soldiers shook the heavens and the earth, even in the central area, they were still clearly audible:

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

"Kill—kill—"

……

Inside the tent, the Night Terror Hall put on its robes, stretched out its arms, and the tiredness of the day completely faded at this moment.

In front of him, the two board beds that were originally separated have been put together, and Qing He is very well-behaved lying on his side on the left side, with a seductive blush on his cheeks, because the blanket is only covered under his arm, and the probe can see the infinite spring light under his neck.

Shui'er was lying on the right hand, sleeping in a upright position, with a bit of rejection between his eyebrows, it seemed that it was because he deceived his teacher and destroyed his ancestors yesterday, and he didn't know how to use the magic weapon to descend the fox demon, and he didn't want to deal with him.

Night Terror came to the front and looked carefully for a moment, and saw that both of them were relatively sleepy, and did not wake up loudly, but lightly plucked their foreheads, and then left the tent.

The men and horses of the various departments of the West Sea arrived last night, and today they have all changed their armor and ordnance.

Although all the units can be called strong and strong, because they have been scattered in the past 20 years, they have not experienced large corps operations at all, and they obviously cannot directly pull them into the battlefield at present.

At this time, all the soldiers and horses, under the command of Yao Cishan, gathered in the vast wasteland; The generals of the Great Wei served as expatriate instructors, teaching the troops and horses how to arrange the troops.

The empress stood on the general platform outside the golden tent, holding a clairvoyant mirror to observe the scene of military training on the battlefield, and there were many officials of the Great Wei Dynasty next to her, discussing and evaluating each other.

The Night Terror Hall came to the side of the Dianjiang platform, and the courtiers above hurriedly bowed their hands.

The empress also put down her binoculars, and the matter of wronging Bara and begging for mercy last night seemed to be completely forgotten, leaving only the domineering above 10,000 people, and asked calmly:

"How is Ye Aiqing resting?"

"Thanks to the love of the Holy Lord, I have a good rest."

After the Night Terror Hall responded, he came to the front of the empress and accompanied him to observe the military training.

Finding that the courtiers on the left and right were looking into the distance, Yuhu didn't pay attention to him, Night Terror Hall thought about it, raised his hand quietly, and pinched it behind the dragon robe.

?!

The empress, who was looking at it with a clairvoyant mirror, was suddenly touched, her body shrank significantly, she looked left and right, and then looked at the rebellious night concubine, and her eyes were estimated to be - you are playing with fire, right?

After the night terror hall changed to two hands, it looked like nothing had happened.

Because there were all people around, the empress didn't bother with the night terrors, and said:

"When is Ye Aiqing going to Shazhou?"

"King Jing has been on the road for nearly a month, and according to the letter, he has already gone back to Shazhou City, and I can't help in the affairs of the army, so I can go over early, just enough to meet at Wangheya."

"Then ride my horse over, go early and return early, break the Beiliang City, you, the leader of the West Sea, you have to take the merit of 'ascending first', otherwise it will be difficult to write about what you did during the war in the future."

The night terror hall came over to prepare to say hello and set off, but if you don't take a bite before leaving, it is inevitable that you will be a little regretful, and you will stop at the moment.

How could the empress not understand the thoughts of the Night Terrors, turned around, and walked into the golden tent in the back:

"Night Terror, come here."

The Night Terror Hall made a posture of preparing to listen to the secret edict, and entered the Golden Tent in an orderly manner.

But as the curtain of the golden tent door closed, the night terror hall straightened its waist, hugged the tiger girl who was still condescending, and lowered her head to pat her ears and neck.

“?”

The empress leaned into the arms of the Night Terror, held the hand around her waist, tilted her head and said:

"You're pampered, aren't you? Do you really think I won't dare to cure you? ”

"Shh~"

Night Terror Hall signaled not to make a sound, and his hand was not subtle at all, slid into the dragon robe, holding the fat dragon dragon of good size, but he bullied the king of a country.

The empress struggled twice, but to no avail, she could only stand honestly, let Ye Aiqing be light, and asked softly:

"Didn't you send Miss Hua back? Why did you bring it back again? ”

Night Terror dangled around Yuhu and responded:

"When Sect Master Xue left, he left a letter to his family, saying that Miss Hua had eloped with her family. Now that the news has spread, it is not good for Miss Hua to go back, so she can only wait for later. ”

"Hmph, it's ...... later"

The empress is not stupid, and when she saw Hua Qingzhi going and returning, she knew that this scholarly lady couldn't escape.

Although she was a defeated general under Hua Qingzhi, the empress was very literary and had a sense of sympathy for Hua Qingzhi's one-sided 'hero sees hero', and she had no opinion on this matter, so she asked:

"Does Hua Qingzhi have an opinion on Xue Baijin?"

"Uh...... How do you know? ”

"I happened to pass by in the morning, and I wanted to go in and talk about two lines of poetry, but I heard the maid persuading Hua Qingzhi to look away, so as not to get beaten when Xue Baijin came back......"

Night Terror felt that Yuhu should not have passed by by accident, but ran over to pinch the iron persimmon. He shook his head and smiled:

"It's just talking, Sect Leader Xue is also acting according to my arrangement, this is a resentment of her......"

"And explain it to her. Before she entered the door, she wanted to bring you back Miss Abduction, no wonder you spoiled her so much. ”

“……”

Night Terror opened his mouth, speechless.

After the empress was touched for a while, she found that her hands had touched the tiger's head, and she was afraid that she would be pressed on the chair and stabbed by the curtain, so she twisted her shoulders and pushed the night terror hall away:

"Alright, let's go and get back quickly."

Night Terror Hall laughed, took two more sips, and then stopped with satisfaction, and said respectfully:

"Wechen retires!"

The Empress rolled her eyes, kicked her terror on the calf, and then straightened her clothes and walked out with a majestic demeanor......

——

Leaving the Golden Horde, the sun has risen in the east.

The Night Terror Hall changed into the costume of ordinary Jianghu people, and brought Yuhu's baby horse, and after hanging up the weapons and water bladders, he came to Hua Qingzhi's tent, ready to say hello and set off.

Hua Qingzhi is not bullied at night, she must go to bed early and get up early, and she has been awake for a long time at this time.

At this time, the tent was set up with paper, pen and ink, Hua Qingzhi sat on the ground and held a paintbrush, painting portraits of birds, the painting style is freehand, the lines are concise, the features are highlighted and the details are blank.

Bird Bird was originally very happy, but at this time he squatted next to the small case, tilted his head and stared at the portrait on the paper, obviously with a little deep thought and doubt - this is freehand? It's a ball......

The door curtain was opened, Hua Qingzhi stopped her paintbrush, raised her eyes to look, and found that Night Terror Hall had changed into a Jianghu costume, and she was still carrying a hat on her back, and asked:

"Childe is leaving now?"

Night Terror hooked his hand and asked the bird who pretended not to know him to come over:

"I won't be arranging troops, rather than being idle here, it's better to go early and get things done."

"Oh......"

Hua Qingzhi originally wanted to get up to say goodbye, but after a little consideration, she asked again:

"The stone tablet left by the first emperor must also be written in ancient Liang script, even if the son finds it, if he is illiterate......"

“……”

When Night Terror heard this, he suddenly remembered that he was illiterate, and he didn't know Gu Liangwen at all, if he found the stone tablet, and the first emperor also wrote a lot of things, wouldn't he have to be caught blind on the spot?

It's definitely too late for the night terror hall to learn, and now he said:

"King Jing is erudite and talented, and he should understand it."

When Hua Qingzhi heard this, the arrogance of Yanjing's first talented woman was revealed again, and she responded:

"King Jing's calligraphy and painting are unique, and he is powerful in terms of skills and knowledge, and he may not be called omniscient. For example...... For example, those miscellaneous books that can't be put on the table, can King Jing read them? ”

"Uh......"

Night Terror Hall is not very easy to answer this question, after all, he was very simple before, and it was very incredible to see him watching "Tears of a Heroine", and he was ashamed; In the end, he was taken to the bottom and began to look at those works of art......

"King Jing has been strictly controlled since he was a child, and he shouldn't have read those miscellaneous books before, but the history books ......"

"Gu Liang Wen is not a history book, but a historic site."

Hua Qingzhi shook her head, like a female master who was teaching step by step, and explained softly:

"The royal family of the Northern Dynasty considers themselves to be the descendants of the relatives of the emperor of the Great Liang Dynasty, so the first ancestor temple is dedicated to the first emperor, and the country name is also 'Liang'. As the script of the ancestors, even if the 'ancient Liang script' has long been abandoned, the imperial court will still reward the students who learn these words, so that no one will even know the words of the ancestors after hundreds of years. ”

"And the Southern Dynasty is recognized as a sinner, the ancestor has nothing to do with the first emperor, and he will not be able to write ancient Liang from the beginning; Even if Yun'an has a great Confucian understanding, it is also to study the ancient slips dug up from Shazhou, and normally will not give special lectures, and the Dongfang clan royal family will not be interested in these useless knowledge, I estimate that King Jing should not know ......"

After listening for a while, Night Terror nodded slightly, walked into the tent, pulled up Hua Qingzhi, who was still sitting on the blanket and analyzed seriously, and hugged her in his arms:

"That makes sense, then you have to bring a translator."

"Huh?"

Hua Qingzhi was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect that she could still be smart but was mistaken by being smart, and her cheeks suddenly turned red;

"Yegongzi, you...... I say this to make you think through. There are so many strategists in the barracks, since they have come to fight in the West Sea, there must be someone who understands Gu Liang Wen, why don't you just take one with you......"

Night Terror Hall estimated that there was really such a capable person in the barracks, but the translator around him didn't need it, he ran to poach strangers from the staff group of the imperial court, isn't this a reluctance to seek the near and far? He shook his head and said:

"Miss Hua has recommended herself, if I look for someone else, won't I look down on your knowledge? Besides, you said that you wanted to be my staff, and now you want to enjoy the happiness and not do anything? ”

Hua Qingzhi did say that she was a think tank, but it was not easy to refute it at the moment, and she looked left and right:

"Sister Lu, what about them?"

"I can ride a holy BMW, and I can sit two people. It's been running around for so long, so they can rest too. ”

"I don't have to rest?!"

"I'll take you with me, and I don't need you to run away and fight, just rest on the horse."

As he spoke, he put Hua Qingzhi on the horse's back and sat on his side, and then turned over and got on the horse:

"Drive-"

Hua Qingzhi is a weak young lady, and her legs and feet are inconvenient, and in the face of this kind of behavior like robbing people's daughters, there is no room for resistance at all.

Finding that the fierce horse rushed directly outside the camp, and there were patrol soldiers around it, Hua Qingzhi hurriedly covered her face:

"Yegongzi, you're really ......"

"Huh? What about birds? ”

Night Terror ran a few steps, and suddenly found that the bird was gone, and when he looked back, he found that the little broken bird was secretly squatting outside the tent, looking up at the sky with his back to him, looking like he didn't want to go to work.

Seeing this, Night Terror Hall didn't urge, but just said to Hua Qingzhi:

"The roasted hump over there in Shazhou is a must, this time I just took you to taste it......"

"Tss

The bird was shocked, immediately turned around and chased after him, flew to the front in an instant, and began to lead the way with hard work......

——

At the same time, deep in the desert.

In the middle of summer in June, the desert is like a furnace that can burn all things in heaven and earth, the air is so hot that even the distant sand dunes are distorted and deformed, there is hardly any living creature in the sea of yellow sand, and even the original small oasis has dried up under the scorching sun, leaving only the poplar trees that stand tall.

And in such an extreme environment, a team of more than ten people is slowly moving towards the south.

At the head of the team, there was a small leader of the Shatuo Department, who was originally one of the more than ten people who followed the clear space to meet the envoys of the Northern Liang, but the clear space was gone, and the Huang leader was gone.

At this time, Li Si has been found, everyone converges in the desert, and there are many familiar faces in the team of more than ten people, in addition to Hua Junchen, Xu Tianying, Li Si, who are difficult brothers and sisters, there are also a bunch of eunuchs such as Ziliang, Yin Lian, Gonggong Xu, Cao Aning, etc.

Ziliang's father-in-law brought all the main forces, originally preparing to encircle and suppress Huang Liansheng and suddenly appeared in the night terror hall of the Wuma Department, but now that the plan has failed and the people have arrived, he can only retreat to the second, and go to the Thousand Buddha Temple by the way to see if he can recruit some available people for Beiliang.

The situation in the cave is little known to the outside world, and Ziliang's father-in-law doesn't know why Huang Liansheng, who has such a hard tone, suddenly disappeared, and since the convergence in the early morning, he has been asking about the ins and outs.

Li Si rode on a camel, kept complaining about Huang Liansheng's 'ambition and talent' with Ziliang's father-in-law, and praised Hua Junchen and Xu Tianying for their loyalty and courage, and waited for the story before saying:

"Although the surprise attack on the rear of the West Sea was a mistake, the ordnance, grain and grass of our dynasty have not been delivered, and the manpower has not been damaged, only a pill has been wasted, which is generally not a nerve-wracking. If you can recruit a monk to calm Shenchen, raise troops from Shazhou and disrupt the rear plan of the Southern Dynasties, it will also work......"

Although Monk Shenchen is a monk, no matter his reputation or influence, he is worthy of the three words of 'King of Shazhou', if he takes the lead in stirring up trouble and rebellion, the deterrent power is much greater than that of Huang Liansheng, a desert barbarian.

But as the head of the twelve, Ziliang's father-in-law is not unaware of the strange people in the north and south, so he shook his head and said:

"Shenchen monks are both good and evil, and the national teachers can't see through it, so it's not so easy to recruit An."

Li Si frowned: "The Southern Dynasty respects Taoism, and only Shazhou can see temples everywhere in the twelve states, and my Daliang has opened the conditions for establishing Buddhism as the state religion, and I can't invite the Shenchen monk to move into the Northern Liang?" ”

Cao Aning, who followed behind, because he was the apprentice of Gonggong Cao, knew a lot about the affairs of Shenchen Monk, and answered:

"In fact, after the abolished emperor of the Southern Dynasty succeeded to the throne, he was afraid that he would not be able to sit on the throne, so he secretly sent someone to invite the monk Shenchen, and the condition was to make the 'two saints' become the real two saints, and the two national teachers were sealed, and Shenchen and Lu Taiqing were on an equal footing."

Li Si looked back: "What is the result?" How did the Shenchen monk reply? ”

Cao Aning said: "Monk Shenchen said that the abolished emperor took a fancy to his martial arts, not his Buddhism, and rejected the imperial court. ”

Li Si opened his mouth, speechless.

Ziliang's father-in-law answered:

"The Queen Mother believes in Buddhism since childhood, and the saint is respected by the three religions, if the Shenchen monk is a true holy monk, I will also invite you to move on the grounds of promoting Buddhism.

"But it's a pity that the really enlightened saint won't do anything to forcibly persuade people to take refuge in Buddhism.

"In the eyes of the national teacher, Shenchen doesn't seem to care whether he can become a Buddha or not, but more like an outsider who is in charge of the Buddhist family, and there is no Buddha in his heart, but he has to do his best to help the Buddhist family inherit the Dharma.

Li Si touched his chin and pondered:

"That doesn't sound like anything wrong."

Father-in-law was in charge of the anti-theft office, and shook his head at this:

"Punishing evil and promoting good, but also pay attention to 'killing must be measured, good must have a ruler', pickpockets steal things, the most severe punishment is also to cut off your hands; if someone steals a few pennies from you, you directly punish people to hard labor and imprison them to death, which is obviously too harsh, and has nothing to do with punishing evil and promoting good.

"And the Shenchen monk is only divided into 'guilty and innocent', regardless of the size of the crime, and if he is caught, he will be a slave for life. This unreasonable behavior is considered a devil on the rivers and lakes, and the Night Terror Hall at least gives people a good time. ”

Li Si thought about it and commented:

"Actually, according to the Criminal Department, the guilty person regrets that he was caught, not that he regretted that he had done something bad; There is not necessarily one out of 10,000 people who can repent and repent of what they have done. Monk Shenchen may have known that they did not sincerely repent, so he did not let them go......"

"This is indeed the case, but 'the country cannot be established', what crime and what punishment must be strictly followed by the law; I think you are at fault, so you will be sentenced to life as a slave, and the emperor is a tyrannical king, and the monk Shenchen is just a monk, where did he come from such a great official authority?" ”

As the group talked, it turned into a debate.

Father-in-law Ziliang listened for a moment, and raised his hand to stop everyone's words:

Therefore, the Shenchen monk is both good and evil, and it is difficult to tell whether he is a saint or an evil person. I respect Buddhism as the state religion, and I may be able to invite real monks, but Shenchen monks are not necessarily. ”

Li Si knows the current situation of Beiliang, and the masters who take the shots are basically only the national teacher and the far Beiyunbian of the Emperor of the Mountain, if he can't dig down a character like Shenchen, the situation behind him is quite passive.

Just when the group was worried, Li Si had an idea, and suddenly remembered something:

"By the way, when I followed the soldiers of the Shatuo Department to go out of the cave, at the exit of the military road, I found the inscription left by the first emperor when he sent out the army, and it was written in ancient Liang script, 'Divine Nine Techniques, dedicated to Chuankou'.

"I guess these nine techniques are the Ming Dragon Diagram, if we find it, can the Nine Ming Dragon Diagram press the Death Night Terror?"

Ziliang's father-in-law and even the people behind him were stunned when they heard this.

Cao Aning said:

"Ninety-nine to one, can slash the gods and Buddhas with a sword, what is the Night Terror Hall? But the Minglong picture was left by Wu Taizu, the first emperor was born 800 years early, where did the Minglong picture come from at that time? ”

After speaking, Cao Aning looked back at his back quietly.

Li Si knew that the time was not right, but after thinking about it, he still said:

"Even if it's not a Minglong diagram, this 'Nine Techniques' can help the First Emperor dominate the world, and it is absolutely extraordinary, and something is better than nothing."

Gonggong Yin and the others thought about it, and interjected and asked:

"Where is Kawaguchi?"

As a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Li Si is responsible for diplomacy with Xihai, and knows history well:

"In the desert outside Shazhou Pass, it used to be the source of the Red River, but it has long been cut off, according to the research of the previous dynasty, it should be near Crescent Bay."

"Where is Crescent Bay?"

The guide, who was walking in front, turned back at this time;

"To the southwest, about 400 miles, I went with the leader once, except for a lake, there is no man's land all around, and there is nothing."

Li Si shook his head and said: "The things of two thousand years ago have long been buried deep in the ground, and I don't know how many zhang I can, where can I find things around." Why don't we take a look? ”

Father-in-law Ziliang pondered for a moment and asked:

"Can you stop by the Thousand Buddha Temple?"

"I'm going to go around it, but I can't go too far."

Seeing this, Ziliang's father-in-law didn't say much, raised his chin slightly, and followed the guide towards the southwest......

There is a little bit of Kavin, and only more than 5,000 words can be used with or2 if you write 10,000 words

(End of chapter)