Chapter 106: The Cycle of Cause and Effect
Fate is wonderful because the seemingly impossible happens in a way that feels natural to you.
For example, Li Yi and Mu Linyan met at the moment, these two seemingly unrelated people met twice in five or six days.
And this encounter is more or less a bit of a sabre-rattling.
"So, my people are now going to arrest the remnants of those two Buddhist families?"
Mu Linyan looked around but didn't find He Qiu and the others, so he asked Li Yi.
"Just now, two people rushed down from the mountain, and your people thought that we were the remnants of the Buddhist family, so they were confronting me at that time, which gave those two people a chance."
Li Yi didn't hide it, he retold the previous incident one by one.
"Your Highness! I think ······"
Gonggong Chen, who was on the side, immediately stepped forward and wanted to say something.
But Mu Linyan waved his hand and signaled Gonggong Chen not to speak.
"In that case, I believe what the little brother said."
Mu Linyan said directly despite the surprised gazes of others.
"Then Li Yi is here to thank Brother Tai for his trust, and I won't disturb Brother Tai when I have to hurry."
Li Yi said that, he turned over and got on the horse, then sat on the saddle and clasped his fists with both hands and said.
"Then I wish Little Brother Li a smooth journey!"
Mu Linyi also clenched his fist towards Li Yi and said.
Then Li Yi and the others beat their horses and headed south.
It wasn't until Li Yi and the others walked away that Gonggong Chen, who was beside Mu Linyan, came forward again.
"Your Highness, this person is likely to be the remnants of the Buddhist family, why did you just let them go?"
As soon as Gonggong Chen's words were finished, Jiang Feng on the side opened his mouth.
"Gonggong Chen, you may not have seen it, this group of people is all full of killing energy, at first glance, it is a ruthless person who has just retreated from the side plug, especially the tall man I looked at the two long knives on the side of his saddle, he is definitely a master of killing people on the battlefield."
Jiang Feng is the staff of the Ministry of War, although his main function is to arrange troops and plan strategies, but he also came up from the lowest level of the Ministry of War in his early years, so he still knows the situation in the army very well.
"Lord Jiang is right, not only the tall man, but also the middle-aged man with the boring and the young man with the strange long knife should be masters."
Lu Jianzhong, the director of the Ministry of Officials, added that although he was an official of the Ministry of Officials, their Department of Honors mainly faced meritorious generals.
Comparing the temperament of Li Yi and others, Lu Jianzhong found that these guys were the same as those brave generals on the battlefield.
"So what, even if several of them are masters, they should only be honest in the face of His Royal Highness King Luo, is it possible that these guys still dare not give His Royal Highness King Luo."
Gonggong Chen still didn't think so, he also thought that even if Li Yi and the others were really masters, they were just lowly martial artists, and as subjects of the Dayu Dynasty, they should be in awe of Mu Linyi.
"You old thing, if one day you are transferred to another vassal king, you will definitely not live for half a year."
Mu Linyan pinched Chen's face with his hand and said with a smile.
"Your Highness is laughing!"
Gonggong Chen's face showed some embarrassed expressions.
"Lord Jiang, Lord Lu, what do you think of the martial arts of the kid who talked to me just now?"
Mu Linyan did not continue to pursue Gonggong Chen, and he suddenly raised this issue to Jiang Feng and Lu Jianzhong.
"Back to His Royal Highness, I see that the young man surnamed Li is holding a spear, and he has some momentum in his gestures, he should also be a master of using a gun, but he is not very old, and his body is slightly thin, so he should not be as good as the big man who immediately hangs the knife and the middle-aged man who holds a boring."
Jiang Feng gave his opinion after thinking for a moment.
"What does Lord Lu think?"
Mu Linyi did not make any comment on Jiang Feng's statement, and he continued to ask Lu Jianzhong.
"Back to His Royal Highness, I saw that the kid was still carrying a gun on his back, I guessed that this kid is likely to use two guns, if this is the case, his strength is likely to be a few points stronger than Lord Jiang's guess, but I also agree with Lord Jiang's later guess, this kid is not very old, and his body is thin and his strength should still be lacking."
Lu Jianzhong, as the head of the Si Xun Division, was much stronger than Jiang Feng in terms of observing people, and he just saw that Li Yi was carrying another spear on his back.
"Maybe he's better than you believe!"
After hearing this, Mu Linyi smiled slightly and said softly.
"Oh? Your Highness, did you discover something that we didn't observe? ”
Jiang Feng and Lu Jianzhong both looked at Mu Linyun in confusion.
"You may have only paid attention to their weapons, but you have not noticed that these people are looking at this boy with the head of a horse, and when this boy came out to talk to me, none of his people came out to interrupt him."
"But this doesn't mean that the kid is a master, maybe this kid's status is relatively high?"
Jiang Feng has a different opinion, in his opinion, Li Yi is very likely to have the same special identity as Mu Linyi.
"I think what His Highness said seems to have some truth, I also observed it just now, when that kid jumped off the war horse, the people around him were still sitting on the back of the horse indifferently, if he is really a special guy, those people behind him should jump out to protect him as soon as possible."
Xiang Shixun, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke.
His words made both Jiang Feng and Lu Jianzhong fall into deep thought.
"But even if we can't stop them, Your Highness doesn't need to pay them a gentle blow!"
Gonggong Chen was still indignant that Mu Linyan let Li Yi go so easily.
"Such characters are either masters in the army of the feudal town and the army of the feudal king, or ruthless people who have been tempered and killed decisively on the battlefield, no matter what kind of highness they are, they should be polite, so that they can not only gain the favor of the other party, but also use this to make friends with the forces behind them."
Lu Jianzhong rolled his eyes disdainfully as he explained.
In Lu Jianzhong's opinion, the Chen Gonggong who was photographed by the North Division had an arrogant attitude, and he had no city government, and at first glance, he was a dead eunuch who didn't know the height of the sky.
However, he didn't dare to have a head-on conflict with this Chen Gonggong, after all, he was sent by Beisi.
Looking at Mu Linyan's attitude towards him recently, Lu Jianzhong even suspected that this Gonggong Chen was sent by His Majesty to King Luo to monitor His Royal Highness King Luo's words and deeds.
Otherwise, with Gonggong Chen's arrogant and domineering attitude, Mu Linyan should directly teach him a lesson.
But the fact is that although anyone with a discerning eye can see that Mu Linyan is very disgusted with this old eunuch Chen, he shows that he doesn't care about it on the surface.
Just when everyone on Mu Linyan's side was discussing Li Yi and his party, Li Yi and the others had already sped up their horses and moved away from the Luozhou Grottoes.
"Childe, those two escapees just now are the medicine pickers we saw a few days ago!"
Because the two people who escaped just now passed by in a flash, An Su didn't look at the faces of the two people carefully, but recalled that the figures of the two people seemed to be one of the three so-called medicine pickers they saw a few days ago.
"Yes, it's the same two, and the man I saw in the shackles was one of those three."
Because he quietly kicked down the Buddha statue just now, causing smoke and dust, and he himself was also disgraced, only Li Yi, who stepped forward to negotiate with Mu Linyan, saw his face clearly.
"In this way, these three people are really survivors of the Buddhist family!"
Jingzizheng couldn't help but sigh with emotion, he didn't have a good impression of these three people, but he didn't have any bad feelings, but he felt that there were already fewer survivors of the Buddhist family, and now there were three less, which was really a pity.
"Those people just called that young man His Royal Highness, it seems that that person is your Dayu vassal king?"
Hai Yin deliberately observed Mu Linyun when Li Yi was talking to Mu Linyun just now, but he could clearly hear the shrill old man calling Mu Linyan His Highness.
"It shouldn't be wrong, that white-faced and bearded old guy must be a dead eunuch."
Qi Chao had a very bad impression of the eunuch, and in his opinion, his uncle had been wiped out by the Pengzhou army, and the Northern Division was mainly responsible.
"However, although the Buddhist family was wiped out by the imperial court, there is no need for these survivors of the Buddhist family to do anything to a vassal king, this is a bit evil!"
Ansu didn't understand why the three Buddhist survivors would do something to a vassal king.
"It's not simple, maybe this guy is the one who is responsible for destroying the Buddhist family!"
Qi Ning peeked out of the carriage and said.
"Impossible, this young man is at most a teenager, and he will not be more than ten years old at most when the imperial court issues the order to destroy the Buddha."
Jing Zizheng directly denied Qi Ning's opinion.
"Maybe his father presided over the destruction of the Buddha!"
Qi Ning rolled his eyes and argued.
"His father presided over the destruction of the Buddha?"
Keiko was reminiscing in his heart, when suddenly a name flashed in his head.
Next to him, Li Yi noticed that his expression had changed slightly.
"Senior brother, did you think of something?"
"Qi Ning's words just now reminded me that I have a reasonable guess about the young vassal king just now."
"Tell me what to guess."
An Su couldn't help but say curiously.
"Who do you say the people of the Buddhist family in the world hate the most?"
Keiko asked instead of answering.
"Cut! Then you don't have to ask, of course, it's the first emperor Shengwu Emperor! ”
Qi Chao replied disdainfully, he felt that Jing Zizheng's question was simply insulting them.
"But now these Buddhist survivors would rather risk their lives to assassinate the young vassal king, do you think this young vassal king could be the son of Emperor Shengwu?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone couldn't help but be stunned, they had never thought that the young vassal king just now might be the son of Emperor Shengwu.
"Shouldn't the son of Senior Brother Shengwu Emperor be feared by His Majesty today? Can he still run to this Los Angeles so comfortably? ”
Li Yi felt incredible, in the history books he had read, the struggle for the throne was extremely cruel.
Most uncles like Emperor Shengheng who inherited the throne from their nephews would clean up their nephews' heirs, and only then would they be able to sit firmly.
"Hey, it's really possible, my grandfather once served as a lecturer in the princes' "University" for a period of time when he was in the ministry, and according to my grandfather, among the princes who listened to the lecture at that time was the son of the first emperor Emperor Shengwu."
Qi Ning also remembered what his grandfather had told him about the professors and princes.
"In this way, the young prince just now may really be the son of Emperor Shengwu, according to the news from our grassland tribes, the eldest son of Emperor Shengwu was named King of Luo by Emperor Shengheng, and we are now in Luozhou, and it is reasonable for him to appear in Luozhou."
Hae-in also said what he knew.
It's just that at this time, Hai Yin's eyes were full of killing intent.
"I said, Lao Hai, you don't want to go back and kill that young vassal king, do you?"
Looking at Hai Yin's grim face and the fierce eyes full of murderous intent, An Su immediately spoke.
"Hmph, if that kid is really the son of the madman of Emperor Shengwu, I really want to kill that kid with all my life!"
Hae-in didn't shy away from his thoughts.
For the grassland tribes, Emperor Shengwu is simply a figure like a devil, and there are countless grassland tribes that died under Emperor Shengwu back then.
It can be said that Emperor Shengwu owes the grassland tribe a lot of blood debts, which is simply too much to write.
Even now, the name of Emperor Shengwu can still stop children crying at night on the grassland.
"Lao Hai, I know that you hate Emperor Shengwu, but you must know that there are not a few people in Dayu killed by your grassland tribe every year, and it is not clear how the blood account between your grassland tribe and Dayu is calculated."
Li Yi reminded Hai Yin, although they also get along well with Hai Yin these days, but Li Yi, as a Dayu person, still can't accept the annual raids of the grassland tribe.
Therefore, he still admires the matter of Emperor Shengwu sweeping the grassland with a large army.
"Don't worry, Childe, I just heard the name of Emperor Shengwu and couldn't control my emotions!"
When Hai Yin saw Li Yi's gaze, he immediately dispelled his unrealistic thoughts.
Although Li Yi's gaze was calm and without any emotion, Hai Yin could still feel the oppression of death.
He understood that if he really wanted to go his own way, even if he had Yu Zhenlei to protect him, his ending would probably not be much different from that of Murong Qinyou.
"Lao Hai, although you and I haven't been together for a long time, we can still talk, I was originally a bandit, you were originally a khan, although our identities are very different, but now we are also the same fallen people, you and I have to understand that we are no longer the same as in the past, I am no longer the leader of the bandits, and you are no longer the Xianbei Khan."
An Su saw Li Yi turn around, so he leaned over to Hai Yin's side and reminded in a whisper.
"I know about this, Brother An, don't worry!"
Hai Yin nodded and whispered.
"But even if that young vassal king is the son of Emperor Shengwu, it has nothing to do with us."
Keiko was looking back at the Nakju Grottoes, which were about to disappear from view.
"Yes, but the three Buddhist survivors are estimated to be in a catastrophe, but according to our previous inference, those officials who stepped on the stone road of the Buddha statue died in their hands, and these guys are also covered with blood."
Li Yi sighed.
"If they hadn't wanted to kill the young vassal king this time, they wouldn't have fallen to such a point, which really fulfilled the Buddhist saying: There is reincarnation in the way of heaven, and there is cause and effect in the world."
Keiko was looking up at the sky, as if there was a Buddha who controlled the cause and effect of the world.