Monument Yangmen

Chapter 539 The Old Taoist

"Those five things?"

Zen Master Guangde asked in a low voice.

Yang Qile laughed and said, "I haven't thought about it yet, I'll tell you when I think about it."

It is also thanks to Zen master Guangde who has practiced Zen skills for decades, otherwise he would have died of anger.

Yang Qi didn't care whether Zen Master Guangde was angry or not, he said to himself: "It's fine to preach in my territory, but I hope you abide by my rules.

Within a prefecture, there should be no more than five temples, no more than 100 mu of land, and no more than [-] monks.I will not interfere with the rest, but I will strictly send people to supervise the above three points. "

Zen Master Guangde's face darkened, and he said in a blunt tone, "Don't Master Yang feel that it is a bit difficult to force others? Your respected mother also believes in my Buddha."

Yang Qi put his hands behind his back and said calmly: "In my territory, what I say is the iron law. No one can speak well."

After leaving this sentence, Yang Qi has already left.

Because he saw that She Saihua had come out of the Daxiong Hall.

After She Saihua left the main hall, she went straight to another hall.

She Saihua didn't seem to see Yang Qi.

Yang Qi frowned slowly after watching She Saihua enter the treasure hall.

Zen Master Guangde stood behind Yang Qi calmly, and said in a low voice: "It seems that Honored Mother has a heart of thinking about her son."

Yang Qi said indifferently: "I know."

Zen Master Guangde said in surprise: "Benefactor Yang knows my Buddhism very well."

Yang Qi sighed, and said: "Empress Heli, one of the twenty gods who protect the teaching...also known as Aizimu...my mother misses my fourth brother..."

Zen Master Guangde said with a smile: "Buddhism is vast, and it can help Master Yang."

Yang Qi waved his hand and said calmly: "No need."

After bidding farewell to Zen Master Guangde, Yang Qi greeted She Saihua who came out of the Emperor Mother Hall.

"Mom, do you miss my fourth brother again?"

Yang Qi asked in a low voice.

She Saihua said with bright red eyes: "It's been a year since I left last winter, and you still haven't heard from your fourth brother. Being a mother always feels bad.

A few days ago, I went to see your fourth sister-in-law for my mother, and found your fourth sister-in-law hiding in the room and crying softly.

My mother felt even more uncomfortable. "

Yang Qi comforted She Saihua, saying: "Mother, don't worry, I have already found out the whereabouts of the fourth brother, and I will go to bring the fourth brother back in a few days."

"really?"

She Saihua who was still sad, after hearing Yang Qi's words, asked Yang Qi's arm in surprise.

Yang Qi nodded solemnly.

Afterwards, Yang Qi accompanied She Saihua to finish the Buddhist meeting in Datong Temple.

After returning to the mansion, Yang Qi sent people to collect information about the Liao Kingdom.

Cao Lin rushed to Yang Qi's study after learning that Yang Qi was collecting information on the Liao Kingdom.

"Your Majesty wants to attack the Liao Kingdom?"

Yang Qi was summarizing the map of Liao Kingdom on the desk, when he heard Cao Lin's question, he was slightly taken aback, and said in astonishment, "Who said that?"

Cao Lin walked to the desk and said in a low voice, "You sent people to search for information on the Liao Kingdom. Don't you want to attack the Liao Kingdom?"

Yang Qi shook his head, put down his pen and ink, and said softly: "Fourth brother has been missing for more than a year. Mother and fourth sister-in-law are burning like a fire every day. I don't want to see them continue to suffer. So I'm going to Let’s go to the Liao Kingdom and find the fourth brother.”

Cao Lin's face changed, and she said anxiously: "You want to go by yourself? Isn't that very dangerous. Just leave this kind of thing to your subordinates."

Yang Qi shook his head and said, "I don't worry about leaving it to other people. It's safer for me to go to Liao Kingdom myself."

"How many troops are you going to lead?"

"one person……"

"No."

When Cao Lin heard that Yang Qi was planning to go to Liao alone, she immediately refused loudly.

Yang Qi comforted the irritable Cao Lin and sat down, saying: "One person, the target is small, and it is not easy to be exposed. When there are many people, the target is too large, and it is easy to be exposed. In comparison, it is safer to be alone.

Besides, with my current martial arts skills, even if I was alone in the Liao Kingdom, few people would be able to catch me.Bring more people, but it is cumbersome. "

Cao Lin said with a bitter face: "But this is too dangerous..."

Yang Qi smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will go and return safely."

Cao Lin tugged on Yang Qi's sleeve, her face livid, and said, "My father said, a son of a thousand gold can't sit still. You are no longer alone. Behind you, there are our mother and son, as well as the younger sister who has just woken up. , and the tens of thousands of people in Nanguo, Datong Mansion, and Fuxing Mansion. Do you have to take risks?"

Yang Qichang sighed, "That's my own brother, I must go. Besides, other people may not know where he is."

Yang Qi has decided to go.

No matter what Cao Lin tried to stop her, she could only help Yang Qi pack his bags.

Before leaving, Cao Lin was so obsessed with each other that she even dragged the shy Chu Xing to sleep together.

Yang Qi happily enjoyed the blessing of Qi Ren once.

Then, in the expectant eyes of the family, they went straight to Yanmen Pass alone under the moonlight.

Datong Mansion is the closest to Yanmen Pass.

As for Yanmen Pass, it is also passable on weekdays, so it is easier for Yang Qi to exit from here.

When Yang Qi arrived at Yanmen Pass, it was already dawn, and the city gate of Yanmen Pass was also opened.

The soldiers of the imperial army stood in a row on the top of the city.

Merchants crossing the border at the gate of the city lined up one by one to be interrogated one by one.

In order to deceive others, Yang Qi deliberately dressed up in disguise.

After dressing up, Yang Qi looked more like a gangster.

He has messy hair with a little dry grass in it, is wearing a gray linen dress, a horizontal knife hanging from his waist, a bamboo hat on his head, and an old horse with a bald tail on his crotch.

When Yang Qi passed the customs, he was in charge of interrogating the soldiers of the imperial army, and strictly guarded him.

Treat him like a dangerous person.

"what is this?"

The soldiers of the Imperial Army dug out a lot of food that Cao Lin had prepared for Yang Qi in Yang Qi's bag, as well as some scattered silver taels.

At the same time, there is a small packet of refined salt.

Refined salt, in this era, is a rare commodity no matter where it is.

Even the officially sold salt is coarse salt.

Those who are not local wealthy or aristocratic families cannot afford refined salt at all.

These soldiers of the imperial army did not want to investigate Yang Qi's origin, they mainly wanted to find an excuse to swallow the refined salt and silver taels in Yang Qi's hands.

It has almost become an unwritten rule to pass the level and scrape one layer.

Even when Lao Yang was guarding Yanmen Pass, this kind of thing happened frequently.

What's more, the people stationed at Yanmen Pass are the imperial guards who are known as the elite of the Song Dynasty.

As we all know, the imperial guards are always the most greedy and the hardest to serve.

Yang Qi could not understand this kind of unhealthy tendencies.

However, Yang Qi was even more unwilling to reveal his identity.

Therefore, he can only let others plunder the refined salt and silver on him.

When he entered the Guancheng, all the gold and silver on his body was looted. If someone didn't stop him, even the horizontal knife and old horse on Yang Qi's waist would have been left behind.

"Little junior, is it your first time to go out?"

An old man over fifty years old appeared in front of Yang Qi with a smile.

Looking at his attire, he looked like a master hired by a merchant when he went out of business.

Yang Qi threw the disturbed clothes on the horse's back, pretended to be simple and honest, and said: "It's really the first time, I didn't expect the soldiers at the border to be so fierce."

"Hehehe~"

The old man laughed happily and said: "The group of dogs like to pick on you individual pedestrians to bully. In their eyes, you are actually dead people. They will not be polite to dead people."

"Why do you say that?"

The old master stuck his hands into his sleeves, and said leisurely: "Outside the pass, it's not like our Central Plains, it's in chaos. Horse thieves are rampant outside the pass, and there are more black shops. I have never seen the old man come back alive when he left the pass alone.

Many unscrupulous shops outside the pass, the favorite is the human meat buns.

Especially for a single-handed person like you who was killed and boiled.Someone wants to avenge you, but there is nowhere to be found. "

The old man paused and said: "The old man looks at you, you should be a ranger. There is still a seat in the old man's caravan for you. If you follow the old man, you won't lose your life." .”

Yang Qi was stunned when he heard the words, and only then did he understand the old man's purpose.

He looked around and saw many single-handed, knight-errant characters being pulled into caravans one after another.

He understood that at least [-]% of what the old man said was true.

As for the remaining [-]%, the old man seemed to be helping Yang Qi with good intentions, but he was actually just trying to get a free bodyguard for the caravan.

Yang Qi cupped his fists and said with a smile: "No need, I can do it by myself."

After saying this, Yang Qi led the horse and prepared to leave the city.

The old master was stunned, looked at Yang Qi's back, and spat, "You little bastard who doesn't know what's good, just wait to be eaten."

After cursing this sentence, the old man went to look for the target again.

Yang Qi led the horse, and when he left the pass city, he saw soldiers of the Imperial Army clearing the way.

Not long after, I saw Li Zifeng, now promoted to a mighty general, riding a horse and leading a group of people, rushing in from outside the pass.

Beside Li Zifeng, he kept pretending to be a woman.

Seeing that the two of them were talking and laughing while riding their horses, they should have a good relationship.

Yang Qi glanced at it in surprise, and always felt that the figure of this well-dressed woman was very familiar, but he just didn't remember it for a while.

Yang Qi didn't think about it any more.

After the troops led by Li Zifeng left, the gates of the city were closed and traffic resumed.

Yang Qi led the horse out of Guancheng, and galloped all the way to the north.

Yang Qi rode his horse and galloped wildly for a quarter of an hour, when he came to the side of a narrow road, he stopped suddenly.

Yang Qi couldn't do without reining in his horse, because there was a dirty old Taoist lying on the narrow road.

The old Taoist seemed to be asleep, with a bulging belly, like a big toad lying down and sleeping.

When Yang Qi was hesitating whether to ride his horse and cross over, he heard the old Taoist who was sleeping soundly say something in his sleep.

"Don't go...there is an ambush ahead..."

Yang Qi was stunned for a moment, he rode his horse up to the old Taoist priest, lowered his head and said, "There is an ambush ahead? How do you know, maybe you are with them?"

The old Taoist didn't say a word, turned over and continued to sleep soundly.

Yang Qi frowned, rode his horse around the old Taoist priest, and continued to run forward.

He rushed out of the two places in one breath.

Suddenly, six thieves appeared from the grass on both sides.

Two people at the front and the back, each holding a tripping rope, blocked Yang Qi's way forward and back.

"There is really an ambush..."

Yang Qi narrowed his eyes, and drew out the horizontal knife at his waist.

"Boy, hand over your valuables, and call us grandpa three more times, and we will let you go."

The masked bandit headed by shouted loudly.

Sitting on the horseback, Yang Qiduan snorted coldly: "It's not right to be a good soldier, but to be a robber here. It's just courting death."

"hiss?"

The six thieves were taken aback for a moment, and one of them said in amazement: "How do you know that we are soldiers?"

The leading thief knocked the guy on the head and cursed, "You idiot..."

Yang Qi scanned the circle of the six people, and said in a deep voice: "The tying ropes and knotting techniques you use are the techniques used by the Imperial Army. The posture of holding the knife and the breath you walk are all unique to the Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty.

And the shoes under your feet are also military boots..."

"Since I have recognized the identities of the brothers, I cannot keep you."

"kill!"

In an instant, six thieves rushed towards Yang Qi.

Yang Qi swung his knife and chopped it out.

Two people were chopped off with a knife, and four people were blocked with a knife.

The six thieves dressed up as the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty are naturally easy to catch ordinary rangers, but they are not enough to look at in front of Yang Qi.

After Yang Qi wiped the horizontal knife clean, he continued to ride his horse forward.

At the place where Yang Qi killed the thief dressed up by the Imperial Guards of the Song Dynasty.

The old Taoist who had been lying on the side of the road to remind Yang Qi of an ambush just now appeared suddenly.

He sighed and said: "What's wrong, I have to find death. The old Taoist originally wanted to save your life, but it's a pity that the evil star will not let you go."

……

Yang Qi walked another three miles and came across a big tree.

An old Taoist priest was lying on a big tree and sleeping soundly.

It was the old Taoist who warned Yang Qi that there was an ambush before.

Yang Qi shrank his pupils and stared at the old Taoist priest without saying a word.

The old Taoist was hanging from the tree, as if he was about to fall down at any moment.

"Don't go...there is an ambush ahead..."

Yang Qi stared at the old Taoist priest, and said in a deep voice: "Who are you? You reminded me that there is an ambush ahead, not because you are afraid that I will be ambushed. You are afraid that those who ambushed me will be killed by me, right?"

The old Taoist said leisurely: "God has the virtue of good life."

Yang Qi said in a cold voice: "Whether or not God has the virtue to live well, God has the final say. Whether I have the virtue to live well, I have the final say."

The old Taoist opened his eyes, a gleam flashed in his eyes, he stared at Yang Qi, and said: "Don't you have any kindness in your heart?"

Yang Qi sternly said: "He who meets benevolence is benevolent, and he who meets evil is evil."

"Comparing the people of the world with a family, which one is more important?"

"Both are important."

"What if you have to give up one?"

"I won't give up on any of them."

"You are a scholar, you should understand that you can't have both."

"Gods block and kill gods, and Buddhas block and kill Buddhas."

"evil creature!"

"Old Ghost Chen!"

(End of this chapter)