Chapter 33: The Cause of the Change
Ding Yu left Mingjiao in a rage, but he did not forget the purpose of his visit to Kunlun Mountain. Although he couldn't find two professionals to help find the leyline dragon's lair, he himself was not completely clueless.
When he and Li Chenghai were looking for the dragon point in Dajing Mountain before, he heard him say a few words about the general topography of the dragon vein and dragon lair, and more importantly, since Ding Yu entered Kunlun Mountain this time, he has always had an inexplicable feeling, this feeling is extremely subtle, and he can't put it into words, he guessed that it was because he had eaten a lot of snake gall of the golden-scaled clemat snake in the dragon lair of Dajing Mountain before, and indirectly absorbed the aura of heaven and earth, so he had some kind of induction of the aura in the big dragon vein of the Kunlun Mountains.
In order to test this conjecture, Ding Yuyun ran wildly in the mountains for several hours, wanting to see if his induction would increase or weaken.
However, Kunlun Mountain is too big, with a total length of more than 5,000 miles and a width of 3 or 400 miles.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, and there was nothing to gain if he turned around, Ding Yu had to find a mountain nest to shelter in: he raised a bonfire, picked a bunch of mushrooms nearby, skewered them with branches, and roasted them on the fire until they were half-cooked and half-burned.
He had just eaten a few when he heard a person in the forest in front of him: "The master roasted a fragrant mushroom, and the little woman has never used it, can you share a few of them?"
Ding Yu sighed and said, "Deputy Sect Leader Fang, your Mingjiao family has a great cause, and I can't afford to provoke monks, can't I even hide?"
As she spoke, a woman in a pure white filial piety dress stepped out of the woods and walked to the front of the fire. Look at Ding Yu across the fire. This person is the deputy sect leader of the Ming Sect who he met half a day ago-Fang Qinghua.
During the day, the two were too far apart, and Ding Yu was frightened and angry, so it was only at this time that he could really see the old man twenty years ago.
I saw a white flower on her sideburns, and her appearance was not only a little more weathered than back then, but also a deep scar on the left side of her face. Ding Yu remembered that Huo Wuxian had said that Fang Qinghua had cut his face and swore to kill Zhang Gang. It's just that I didn't expect this knife to be so heavy. However, although this knife made her face less colorful, it added a strange charm of cold slaughter.
Suddenly, Fang Qinghua's knees bent and he fell to the ground.
Ding Yu was startled, hurriedly got up and flashed to the side, and asked in surprise, "Deputy Sect Master Fang, what does this mean?"
Fang Qinghua bowed his head and said: "Qinghua kneels, firstly, to thank the master for avenging my husband except for the Han thief Zhang Gang, and secondly, to apologize to the master." Previously, in the Mingjiao Mountain, Qinghua Yi was the deputy leader, but the master was wronged. Please forgive me!"
Even if Ding Yu had a lot of resentment in his heart, he couldn't express it at this time, he stretched out his hand to help him, and sighed: "Deputy Sect Leader Fang doesn't have to be like this, I don't have a grudge against Mingjiao, now that my fate is over." Then they went their own ways, and they could not say that they would forgive their sins or not forgive their sins. ”
However, Fang Qinghua did not get up. She looked at Ding Yu with blazing eyes and said, "I was worried that the master would be disheartened by the Ming Sect, so I hurried here. As everyone knows, my Mingjiao is now in danger, Tsinghua is alone, and it has been almost exhausted these days, and I ask the master to come to the rescue!"
Ding Yu sighed in his heart. During the day, outside the Yongdao, he had already seen that there was a turbulent undercurrent in the Ming Sect, and he was most worried about this kind of thing, so he simply turned around and left, wanting to stay out of it. I didn't expect it to be able to hide. But since Fang Qinghua came to the door, he had no room to escape, who made him owe Mingjiao the cause and effect before?
He shook his head and said, "Anyway, kneeling is not like talking, please get up first, eat some roasted mushrooms at will, if you have anything to say, I just listen." ”
Fang Qinghua smiled, didn't get up, just knelt on his heels, took a bunch of roasted mushrooms, tore them and ate them in small pieces, and slowly explained the beginning and end of the crisis:
Twenty years ago, when Qiu Qianren first defected to Mingjiao, he was indeed grateful to Mingjiao. Although Fang Qingyu worshipped him as a teacher, he did not say a word about any Mingjiao affairs except for martial arts, and he either taught Fang Qingyu on weekdays, or combined with the martial arts collected by Mingjiao, and spared no effort to train the children of the sect. However, this loyal and conscientious protector changed his appearance during the battle between Mongolia and Song.
After the Mongol-Song alliance destroyed the Jin Kingdom, all the Song people were overjoyed and raised their eyebrows. Unexpectedly, within a year, Mongolia turned its fangs and bit the blood of its ally Great Song. Such a treacherous act, not to mention the Great Song people south of the Yangtze River, even the Ming Sect in the Western Regions was inexplicably angry. A large number of Ming disciples led by Fang Qinghua proposed to go out of the mountains to stop the Mongol rebels.
At that time, the Ming Sect had developed many followers in the Western Regions, Tibet, and even Sichuan and Shaanxi, and although they could not confront the Mongol army head-on, they had enough strength to cause trouble in the Mongolian rear. If it is launched with all its might, it can indeed share a lot of pressure for the Southern Song Dynasty.
However, this initiative was strongly opposed by Qiu Qianren. This is actually a matter of course, Qiu Qianren's master Shangguan Jiannan was killed by the Great Song Dynasty, he took refuge in the Jin Kingdom with the intention of taking revenge on the Great Song Dynasty, but was conspired by Ouyang Feng, Guo Jing, and Huang Rong on the way, and ended up being seriously injured and escaping.
And the reason why he defected to Mingjiao was because Zhong Xiang, the previous head of Mingjiao, raised troops against the Song Dynasty and was expelled from the Central Plains, which can be regarded as a natural anti-Song alliance with him. Now seeing that the Great Song Dynasty is about to be destroyed, his great revenge is about to be avenged, and his ally Mingjiao actually wants to raise troops to protect the Song Dynasty, which can't help but make him feel a strong feeling of betrayal. It's a pity that according to the canons of the Ming Sect, the Guardian King has no right to put aside the affairs of the Beak Sect, so Qiu Qianren's opposition was ignored.
Maybe it was unwilling, maybe it was revenge, anyway, since then, Qiu Qianren began to use his prestige in the church to meddle in the affairs of the Ming Sect. Compared with his decades of experience in managing and strengthening the Iron Palm Gang, Fang Qingyu and Fang Qinghua were too immature.
In the first few years, they didn't even notice the sign at all. An even more misguided move was that when the second elder Xiaoyao died, Fang Qingyu actually listened to Qiu Qianren's opinion and promoted the two junior disciples of the same sect, that is, Qiu Qianren's other two personal disciples, to the new Xiaoyao Second Envoy. By the time Fang Qinghua realized the threat, Qiu Qianren's prestige in the Ming Sect was unshakable.
However, Qiu Qianren did not stop there, he didn't know what method he used, and he actually let the sect leader Fang Qingyu, who had no intention of practicing martial arts, start to be obsessed with martial arts. At first, I spent most of the day practicing martial arts, and then I was in retreat for a long time. During the retreat, the affairs of the sect are said to be handled by the deputy sect leader and the two envoys, but the two envoys are basically Qiu Qianren's mouthpiece, and if most of the authority of the Ming Sect is sent to Qiu Qianren.
On the other hand, it was the Mingjiao that began to suffer repeated setbacks in the matter of resisting Mongolia, and the disciples sent out to carry out the mission were frequently killed and captured, and if you dig a little deeper into the reasons for the failure, you will find that the Mongols always get the news inexplicably early, before the assassination of Zhang Gang by Tianxin's master and apprentice, and before the killing of the White Elephant King Yan Wu. In the entire Ming Sect, there is only one person who can know all the confidential operation information, and has the motive to sabotage the operation. But he is in a high position, as if he is already the emperor of Mingjiao, if there is no real evidence, where can he be moved?
What worried Fang Qinghua the most was that Sect Leader Fang Qingyu had been in retreat for nearly a month this time, more than any before, and she couldn't help but wonder if Fang Qingyu had been imprisoned by Qiu Qianren, or even worse...... (To be continued.) )
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