"Lord Wang, you have to be arrogant!"

"It's too low-key, it's not in line with your identity and status."

"Lord Wang, momentum, momentum, can't be lost!"

Successfully entered Youzhou, Li Kui began to conduct special training for Li Bingqian. When he arrived at this place, Li Kui was no longer suitable for taking the lead, and Li Bingqian had to stand in front of people in everything. Youzhou is an important town in the south of Western Xia, and it is an important fortress in Western Xia to defend the direction of the Northern Song Dynasty and Suide. In fact, because the Northern Song Dynasty's strategy against Western Xia has been in a long-term defensive state, Youzhou has become an important transshipment town for Western Xia to the south. It belongs to the jurisdiction of the Jianing Military Division, and it can be said that this place is a military control area, and any caravan traveling to and from Youzhou will be subjected to the strictest inspection.

Fortunately, with Li Bingqian's palace token, Li Kui and his party were able to enter Youzhou City safely.

Unlike a small place like Longzhou, a military town like Youzhou is definitely impossible for dozens of people to subvert.

Once there is a conflict, no matter how high Li Kui's martial arts are, he can only choose to run away.

Fight, definitely can't beat. Unless Li Kui also comes over with thousands of troops.

It is also the gap fortress of the Great Wall of Qin, and to the east is Xiazhou. It is also the land of Longxing of the Li royal family of Western Xia, and to the north is the plain and desert. After Youzhou, that is, the defense area of the Jianing Military Division, the army can go straight to Xingqing and Xiangqing Mansion in Western Xia, and directly insert into the most core area of Western Xia.

Of course, the small Youzhou, the Great Song Dynasty never seems to have stepped over.

Although Li Kui is a big person, he is not the kind of person who does not know life and death.

After entering Youzhou, he kept a low profile a lot, and almost everything asked Li Bingqian to come forward, which gave Li Bingqian a great hint to restore his self-confidence.

Of course, there is another reason, the stationing of a large number of troops has made the Han people in Youzhou City much less.

This also leads to very few opportunities to fish in troubled waters.

In addition, he has to contact the monks, and with his appearance, if he is here to demolish the temple, many people will believe it. But if you want to say that you came to repair the temple, you don't believe it if you kill the monk. Coupled with a Da Song accent, it is even more difficult to make a difference in Youzhou City. Unexpectedly, after Li Bingqian was valued for a few days, he began to tremble, and he was quite dissatisfied with Li Kui's reprimand: "A certain is the prince." ”

"That's right, of course you are the prince, or the prince with a good reputation." Li Kui clamped the gun with a stick.

When Li Bingqian heard this, his momentum suddenly wilted, and his desire to dominate everything was extinguished again. As far as the black materials in Li Kui's hands are concerned, wanting to ruin Li Bingqian's reputation is just a matter of words. He wanted to rebel unless he ascended the throne and became the lord of Western Xia.

Otherwise, he wouldn't want to be tough in front of Li Kui in his life.

Li Kui didn't mean to humiliate Li Bingqian, after all, he was a prince, and he couldn't learn the arrogant momentum, so there was no way. Some people will ask, the prince is not arrogant, is he still a qualified prince?

This is to ask Li Bingqian's identity.

He is the uncle of the current lord of the Western Xia Kingdom, the younger brother of Emperor Yizong, and his mother is a concubine who is not taken much seriously in the Western Xia Palace.

As for why Li Bingqian is obviously a member of the Western Xia royal family, he likes Confucian culture?

Don't be confused, Emperor Yizong is a staunch supporter of Confucianism, and even this guy plans to give the land of Henan to the Song State to show his benevolence. Of course, all this annoyed the Empress Dowager Liang, so the general Li Qing who offered advice was killed, and the emperor was imprisoned. With such a woman on top of their heads, the royal family of Western Xia couldn't do it if they wanted to.

At this moment and that time, what Li Kui wants now is Li Bingqian's momentum, the momentum of the prince. Impressed by the powerful aura of the monk leader in Youzhou City.

If there were no such bonuses, Li Bingqian would have sacrificed thousands of taels of gold to curry favor with the temple, and he would have been treated like a fool.

"Lord Wang, let's come again?"

Li Bingqian grew up under the female authority of an old woman, and he really didn't have much contact with such a mysterious thing as momentum. He has a deep memory of Empress Dowager Liang's momentum, but the problem is that he is a man, and learning from a woman's momentum always feels nondescript and embarrassing.

Li Bingqian nodded helplessly and said, "Li Kui, this king really can't learn, or maybe he will get it?" ”

"No, Lord Wang, you will be a big man who is going to ascend to the temple, how can you settle? Now that this step has been taken, it will be a sea and a wide sky. If you can't get out, wouldn't it make the Liang family prepared, and your Li family can still have a peaceful day? ”

Li Bingqian's expression became solemn, and he nodded seriously to Li Kui and said, "I still have to practice." ”

"The key is the last sentence, to suppress the old monk in momentum, to make the monks feel that you are their savior, saving their benefactor."

"By the way, Ruda, you pretend to be a monk."

"My lord, why me?" Ruda is still not happy, where does he look like a monk? He just received the favor of the old monk Zhiqing and learned a set of sword techniques. Luda was very emotional about Li Kuiqiang's identity on his head: "My lord, I have had dealings with monks, but you also know that I have learned a set of knife techniques with monks, and it is a murderous business, not to be an apprentice to a monk!" ”

"The Buddha has the standing Buddhahood, and there is also the wrath of Vajra, that's right, it's you!" Li Kui didn't care about Ruda's emotions. He wanted to give Li Bingqian more opportunities to persuade the monks in the city, and he had done everything he could. "We have a relationship between you and the Buddha, apart from you, do you think you want Ruan Xiaoer to pretend to be a monk?"

Ruda was indignant, muttering curses that no one could hear.

Li Bingqian is not a good actor, and Li Kui is not a good director. But in the face of doing big things, we must be fully prepared in order to get twice the result with half the effort.

Several days passed.

A bubble grew at the corner of Li Bingqian's mouth, which was probably in a hurry.

Fei Ting, a crony beside him, was not happy to hear Doro, and while cooking tea for his own prince, he slandered: "Lord, the villain thinks that these people are unreliable, especially that Li Kui, who speaks lightly and heavily. Such a person does things for the prince, not only can not help the prince, but may even do bad things. ”

said that Li Kui was a stunned young man, Li Bingqian absolutely agreed.

But the problem is that Li Kui is a stunned young man who can't be provoked by anyone, at least he Li Bingqian can't be provoked.

The dignified prince, Li Bingqian could only sigh and say, "Bear with me." "I probably think that talking like this is too unimposing, and I have lost the face of my own palace. Li Bingqian added: "No way, who let the money be in their hands?" ”

Fei Tingduoluo frowned when he heard this, and always felt that the relationship between the prince and Li Kui was quite strange, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

Jueming Temple.

It is the only large temple in Youzhou City that has a place in the Merit Division.

Western Xia was a Buddhist country, and on the surface, the merit division did not seem to be much different from the merit box. However, in the Western Xia, this is a subordinate yamen to the three provinces.

The Merit Division has jurisdiction over many temple monks in the territory of Western Xia, and they have a very high status in both officialdom and the people.

Li Bingqian, who had been practicing hard for many days, finally came out of the retreat, and he opened his legs and walked towards the temple built on the hill. Standing at the foot of the mound, the standing Buddha on the top of the mound makes the believers walking in front of the mountain gate have an urge to worship, as if under the gaze of the Buddha statue, the whole person's soul is cleansed. Although the mound is not high, only thirty or forty meters, it can accommodate a large temple very well.

"Master, I'm not going to wait hundreds of miles to come here to worship the Buddha!"

Li Bingqian showed a strong self-confidence in his gestures, and although he spoke politely, he gave people a powerful aura that could not be questioned.

The monk is very puzzled, you go to the abbot to put it on the score! Why are you tempted in me?

Fortunately, it is a Buddhist resort, and the monks here have almost consumed their anger on weekdays, and they clasped their hands together and said to Li Bingqian: "Distinguished guests, please!" ”

When Li Kui and the others were about to follow, they were stopped by the monk and said, "The guards can't go up." ”

Li Kui has not been despised once or twice, but this time, he must go up and follow Li Bingqian. In case, if Li Bingqian took advantage of his absence to play tricks, wouldn't he let him be blind?

Just as he was about to speak, Li Bingqian said: "The others stay, this is the protector of my family, and I can see the true Buddha." ”

The monk was helpless, glanced at the fragments on Li Kui's body, and said in a rather impatient tone: "People can go up, but they can't bring blades." The temple is a royal temple, and murder weapons are not allowed to enter. ”

All the people of Western Xia were soldiers, and it was impossible to ban blades in the country, not even bows and crossbows. Because most of the crossbows are trophies of soldiers on the battlefield, there is no reason to confiscate them. Moreover, the Western Xia was a war mode in which the whole people fought and the tribes provided their own. When fighting, even dry food must be prepared by oneself, and if there is no reason to seize it, it must be handed over. Besides, there is no way to be a loser like the Great Song Dynasty in Western Xia, spending a huge amount of money to make a bow and crossbow with huge lethality, and if it is not an established army, it will definitely not be able to form combat effectiveness, and it is useless to hand it in.

In the case of bows and arrows, the party, as a nation on horseback, naturally needs everyone to be good at it. If even bows and arrows were forbidden, and there was no common people's base, how could the Western Xia army's superiority in cavalry and archery be maintained?

I didn't expect a small Jueming Temple to put such a big score. Li Kui also knew that this was not the time to make a fuss, so he obediently left his weapon behind, and the others were waiting outside the mountain gate. He accompanied Li Bingqian into the Jueming Temple. Even Li Bingqian's attendant Fei Tingduo couldn't enter, which made this loyal minister's retainer very sad, and his eyes showed the sadness of being disgusted by his master.

It has to be said that there were many more monastic rules in the Western Xia than in the Great Song Dynasty.

The monks alone look like those of the Great Song Dynasty, after all, many of the monks of the Great Song Dynasty are thieves who commit crimes. In order to escape the criminal responsibility of the government, he chose to become a monk. And the Great Song Dynasty was commercialized everywhere, even the temples. One degree is worth 1,000 guan, and even two or three thousand guan are also bought. The Great Song Dynasty adopted strict management of monks and monasteries who did not pay taxes, in order to prevent the Great Song Dynasty from following in the footsteps of the Tang Dynasty.

The temples in the Western Xia are much simpler, and there are many monks who devote themselves to worshipping the Buddha.

I even heard that the royal family all became monks, and the number was still very large.

Before entering the meditation room, Li Kui hurriedly took a tray from the monk Zhike, put two golden cakes on it, and put it on the red cloth.

The old monk settled in the meditation room, and he didn't know if it was true or not, anyway, Li Kui felt that the old monk was kind and kind, and it looked like a thing.

"Master Zhiguang, you're here!"

Master Zhiguang opened his eyes at this time, maybe he didn't wake up, or maybe he had closed his eyes for too long, and he couldn't see anything clearly, and looked back and forth in the tray in the hands of Li Bingqian and Li Kui. Soon, Li Bingqian was ignored by him, and his eyes fell directly on the tray in Li Kui's hand, and the dazzling light, he estimated that it should be gold.

I couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva and rubbed my eyes with both hands. I can't wait to pounce in front of Li Kui, put the gold on the tray he is holding in his hand, bite it with my teeth, and try to see if it is real gold!

"Archmage, I wish for my deceased mother, and I wish to repay my vows in your temple, just a small courtesy, please don't dislike it!"

Bo Li?

It can't be a brass cake that looks like gold, right?

The old monk looked at Li Bingqian and thought this person, right? With a noble face, he doesn't look like such a tasteless person. Li Kui also placed the tray beside Master Zhiguang. The latter touched it without a trace.

The cold feel of the gold made the old monk can't help but want to exhale comfortably.

It's true.

I also weighed it with my hand, and I was even more sure.

Real gold without a doubt.

Master Zhiguang was excited, and said to the monk with trembling lips: "Don't serve tea soon." ”

"Good tea!"

"Eight Treasures Buddha Tea!"

Even if Buddhism is practiced in Western Xia, there are very few people who make merits to the temple and sell two catties of gold at once. After all, Xixia is very poor, and the monasteries are like fields that have been dry for a long time, and they have long been one piece by piece, looking forward to the arrival of nectar. Only the royal family would make such an aura, and the shot is so arrogant.

And the old monk still has a feeling that the golden cake in front of him seems to be just a small meaning. There are many more benefits waiting for him.

The monk hurriedly withdrew from the meditation room, and after a while, he commanded two monks to carry a food table into the meditation room. The 'Eight Treasures Buddha Tea', which was full of various nut fragrances, appeared in the meditation room, and the embarrassing thing was that the monk had it, and Li Bingqian also had a share, but Li Kui did not.

Seeing that Li Bingqian didn't seem to be very happy, Master Zhiguang glared angrily at the monk Zhike, but he was a little reluctant and said bitterly: "What you don't have the ability to see, don't hurry up and prepare it for this distinguished guest." ”

Drinking tea is not the goal.

Li Kui and Li Bingqian appeared in Jueming Temple, they came to throw money, but after a few words of conversation, Li Bingqian said that he wanted to look around. Master Zhiguang immediately said that he would personally take Li Bingqian around the monastery. The monk is no longer in line with the respect for the distinguished guests, and the abbot elder must come out to show the sincerity of the Jueming Temple.

Jueming Temple is built on the mountain, in fact, it is a bit exaggerated to say that the mountain is a small mound. The scale of the temple is acceptable, but if you really walk around, it is quite interesting. In particular, the Buddha statue at the top of the hill is the centerpiece of the entire temple. Without this standing Buddha statue, the momentum of the temple would have fallen by I don't know how much. This is Li Kui looking at this Buddha statue, a little weak, if it is according to his imagination, the gold is likely to be insufficient!

If he was in the Great Song Dynasty, it would be difficult for him, but now in Western Xia, Qiu Xuanhuai is not around, and it is not easy to raise money.

And Li Bingqian's guy doesn't look like a rich man.

This even the private money of Duan Wang Zhao Ji is pitted.

"This is the law of this temple, molded in the Tianbao years, it has been 300 years ago, this temple is the first Buddha statue, and then there is a temple."

Master Zhiguang led Li Kui and Li Bingqian to the top of the mountain, standing on the top of the mountain, overlooking the entire Youzhou City. At the same time, the entire city of Youzhou can also see the Buddha statues on the top of the mountain everywhere.

When Li Kui came, there was a Xixia man kneeling under the Buddha statue, crying sadly, as if the Buddha was complaining about his misfortune.

Li Kui said curiously: "Master, what is this?" ”

Master Zhiguang glanced at the man's outfit with disdain, and gave the other party a civilian evaluation in his heart. He is a monk, so he can't be too snobbish. Pretending to be kind, he stepped forward and asked, "Why is the donor sad?" ”

"My mother is seriously ill, please ask the Buddha to bless me."

The man also looked up and said to himself.

Although Venerable Zhiguang didn't like anyone to disturb the guests, he was still relieved: "Your mother will be protected by the Buddha, don't worry, hurry home!" ”

"But my mother died yesterday, and I came to ask the Buddha why he didn't protect his mother?"

There are many ways to scold the monk and ridicule the other party's appearance; Dig deep from each other's heels; Of course, for the monks, the most hated thing is probably that the true Buddha they worship is not spiritual.

Buddha, can it not be spiritual?

Even Master Zhiguang couldn't help the good temper he pretended, and asked the man: "How much merit have you given?" ”

"The family is poor, and there is only consistent merit."

As if he had found a basis, Master Zhiguang pointed at the man and said angrily: "I have always had not enough money to see a doctor and take medicine, how do you want the Buddha to help you?" Do you know that this move is not devout enough to the Buddha? ”

The man was annoyed and said: "I know that the money is a little less, but if my mother is really blessed by the Buddha, after she recovers from her illness, I am determined to always accompany the green lantern and worship the Buddha." ”

"What do you mean?" Master Zhiguang felt that there was something in the man's words, although he had a bad thought. But he still suppressed the anger in his heart and asked calmly.

The man said stupidly: "I am going to become a monk in Jueming Temple......"

Even a good-natured monk can't stand the toss of such scoundrels. Master Zhiguang pointed at the man and scolded angrily: "Where are you, that slippery soldier, I have to tell your commander that you will go to the battlefield to make more meritorious contributions." ”

These words are tantamount to letting the man go to death.

But it's not easy to be a monk! encountered a bastard who wanted to eat and drink in the temple, and the old monk's heart of cultivation for decades suddenly burst the embankment.

The man was terrified and was frightened away by Master Zhiguang's words.

Li Bingqian looked at Li Kui with a sense of déjà vu, "I am not devout enough to the Buddha!" Li Kui seemed to have said this to him. Could it be that this embryo killing is the destined person of the Buddha?

But Li Kui smelled the breath of a divine stick from Master Zhiguang's words, and he felt that it didn't seem too much trouble to bewitch this great monk.