Sun Deyu took his two senior brothers back to Chongyang Temple, and a Taoist priest came face to face.
"Junior brother, is this Junior Brother Yu from Zhongnan Mountain? I heard that Senior Brother Yu has killed the evil thief Li Xia."
Sun Deyu said: "Yes, did Senior Brother Sun just hear about it?"
"Yesterday I was ordered by my master to send some of my uncles out of the city, and they just came back today... By the way, Junior Brother Yu, tell me how you killed Li Xia."
Yu Dechen turned his head slightly and said: "I went south from Zhongnan Mountain via Lizhou and arrived at Qingfu County, but it turned out that Li Xia had already gone south to Dali. I had to stay until last month, when Li Xia had made a sneak attack on Chengdu. I then sneaked into the county
Yamen, while he was sleeping, cut off his head."
"It's that simple?"
"It's that simple."
"And after that?"
Yu Dechen said: "Li Xia was training nearly 2,000 troops in Qingfu, and he chased me wildly. I was seriously injured and fled all the way to western Sichuan. Fortunately, I was rescued by Jun Bao."
"Have you ever returned to Zhongnan Mountain?"
"We have never." Yu Dechen said: "I am not sure whether the person I killed is Li Xia. I will bring the head to Kaifeng first and ask all senior brothers to confirm."
"If someone is killed by the county government, will there be any falsehood?"
Sun Deyu said: "That is, on the night of watching the fire on the Double Ninth Festival, Senior Brother Miao saw Li Xia when he was writing 'Unworthy Taoist Qiu Chuji' and identified him. Of course there is nothing wrong with him."
"Shut up, don't mention Changchun's real name."
"Oh." Sun Deyu rolled his eyes.
"Senior Brother Miao didn't see Li Xia clearly that night. Everyone was busy putting out the fire, so there was no time to take a closer look. Besides, the head was probably already rotten when it was brought over. Senior Brother Miao must have thought that it must be, so the more he looked at it, the more he looked like him.
"
Yu Dechen said: "What senior brother said is reasonable. It is indeed possible that the person I killed in the county government was someone else, because I have never seen Li Xia."
"Normally speaking, it should be Li Xia. When Junior Brother Yu came back from Lizhou, he didn't ask the defenders to identify him?"
Yu Dechen said calmly: "If I tell them, they will leave their heads to repay my merits. I am killing thieves for the Quanzhen Religion, not meritorious service for the officers and soldiers."
"Junior Brother Yu has a high character and is not greedy for worldly achievements. He has been taught... By the way, who is this Junior Brother Zhang Junbao?"
"He came to look for relatives." Yu Dechen said: "Jun Bao is from De'an. His uncle came to Beidi during the three years of Wokuotai Khan."
"Oh? The surname is Zhang. He is from Lu'an in the west of Jiangnan. Wokuotai Khan came to the north three years ago...could it be the real person Xuan Yi?"
The real person Xuan Yi was named Zhang Zhiqian. He was captured by the Mongolian army when he was young. More than a hundred people in the same village were brutally slaughtered. He was the only one who survived. After the Mongolian army returned to the Central Plains, Zhang Zhiqian was as tall as a tree, his heart was filled with despair, and he became heartless.
Enter the Tao.
Yu Dechen nodded and said: "I guess the same, but it's a pity that my uncle has gone north to Kaiping, otherwise we will know when we meet him."
Li Xia just stood aside with a polite smile.
The identity of "Zhang Junbao" was originally made up by him and Yu Dechen. It was precisely because Zhang Zhiqian was not in Kaifeng that they deliberately pretended to be family seekers.
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After saying goodbye to the Taoist priest, the three of them walked to a deserted place. Yu Dechen soon lost the feeling of a lonely moon in the sky and seemed a little anxious. He turned to Li Xia and whispered in a low voice: "What you said is that you only go to Kaifeng."
Come pick me up."
Li Xia said: "Yes, I only came to pick up people. But the person I wanted to pick up was caught, right?"
"Should I still save people for you?" Yu Deshen frowned deeply and said, "Don't push yourself too far."
"I see you did a good job and enjoyed it.":.
"No." Yu Dechen flatly denied, "I just want to return to Zhongnan Mountain to practice as soon as possible."
He took people to Kaifeng and falsely claimed that he had killed Li Xia... These things were eventually covered up afterwards. After all, he just wanted to be a quiet Taoist priest, not to join the Mongolian officialdom.
The matter was not difficult at first, but the person Li Xia wanted to pick up was in jail. So he went to investigate today, met Shi Zhang, and performed another scene.
Yu Dechen felt that he seemed to be sinking deeper and deeper.
"Why bother with me all the time? I won't lie or hide anything for you anymore." He emphasized solemnly, seeming a bit wordy.
Li Xia said: "Then you have made an agreement with Shi Zhangzhi."
"You...you think I don't dare?"
"You dare, go ahead and say it, I'm serious."
Yu Dechen fluttered his sleeves and turned away, feeling very unhappy. He took a few deep breaths before saying, "If you want to save someone, wouldn't it be easy to commit suicide and go to the cell?"
"Huh?" Li Xia said, "That's not how it works."
He walked to the window and looked at the Mongolian warrior statue in the distance through the sparse branches.
I remember that Liu Jinsuo clearly knocked it down and smashed it last year. As a result, more than a year later, the Quanzhen Sect built a new one.
"Some things cannot be solved with simple and crude methods..."
Sun Deyu tilted his head and interjected: "Senior Brother Yu, why do I think you were tricked by him? Why don't you charge more money? You won't be able to tell the difference anyway."
"You are a Taoist, how can you talk about money?" Yu Dechen lowered his head and glanced at Sun Deyu, his tone sounded like a teacher.
"Isn't it okay to talk about money?" Sun Deyu said, "If you have the ability, you can tell me to my master."
Yu Dechen was stunned and said angrily: "You naughty boy..."
"We are all grasshoppers on the same rope. If my senior brother wants to sue me, I will reveal everything about him not killing Li Xia but also luring him into the country to kidnap people."
"What do you want?"
Sun Deyu spread his hands and said, "Senior brother, can you also give me some money?"
There was a soft "pop" sound, and Yu Deshen patted his hand and said: "You are so lost in consciousness that if you don't give up on wine, sex and wealth, you might as well return to the secular world and return home. Why have you been in love with Xuanmen for so long?"
"Sex comes first and life comes later." Sun Deyu was not annoyed and rubbed his hands, still smiling.
The reason why he hung out with Li Xia and Yu Dechen was because he recognized Li Xia as soon as he came and asked for hush money.
Then Li Xia asked him to lead the way and walked around the city to find out some news.
Sun Deyu, a young Taoist priest, probably didn't quite understand the consequences of doing this.
For example, the Chongyang Temple was burned. Although it was very serious, he had seen too many war disasters since he was a child. It was just fire. Who hadn't seen it?
Just think of it as karma in the human world...
"I am a layman, but senior brother, you are not involved in wine, sex and wealth, so why do you want to help Li Xia?"
Yu Dechen did not answer and looked to the horizon with some distress.
People of his generation experienced the annihilation of the Jin Kingdom at an early age and lived under the rule of the Mongolian Kingdom, but they spoke Chinese, studied Confucianism, and entered Taoism.
Ogedei Khan and Mengge Khan never made him feel like an emperor. His saints were always Laozi, Confucius, and Zhuangzi...
Life is too confusing.
The heartless Qing monks on Zhongnan Mountain just do their daily meditation, but the hot rice cakes in the small courtyard in Qingfu County can make people smell a little of the fireworks of the world...
"I promised him, and a gentleman keeps his promise." Yu Dechen couldn't figure it out, so he made an excuse for himself.
"We are Taoist priests, not gentlemen."
"Shi Zhang should be here soon. The little Taoist priest will help me deal with him." Li Xia suddenly said.
"I'm going? Where are you?"
"Let's just say that Zhang Junbao went north to find the real person Xuan Yi." Li Xia took out a small silver ingot from his sleeve, handed it to Sun Deyu, and said, "This is your reward."
"Okay!" Sun Deyu was overjoyed.
"The little Taoist priest is really a pure and helpful person."
"I think you are right..."
Shi Zhang squinted at the head in the box, slightly disappointed.
After traveling for more than twenty days from Qingfu to Kaifeng, the head was already somewhat rotten and difficult to identify.
"It's a pity that Yao Duanfu has gone to Luoyang, otherwise he could have come to identify him." Shi Zhang murmured, thinking of Yao Sui again.
"Erlang has never thought that this might not be Li Xia?" Sun Deyu suddenly stepped forward and asked, looking mysterious.
Shi Zhang said: "It's possible that Wang Xun killed a good person last year and used a fake corpse to fool him. By the way, where are your senior brother and Zhang Junbao?"
"Zhang Junbao said he was going north to look for his uncle, but he disappeared as soon as he turned around. Senior Brother Yu went to look for him, but it was so strange."
"What's weird?"
Sun Deyu looked like he was thinking hard and said: "Isn't that Zhang Junbao... not like the Li Xia Erlang just described?"
Shi Zhang was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly.
"You don't believe your senior brother?"
"Of course I believe in my senior brother, but is it possible that this is the case? Li Xia saw through that his senior brother was going to assassinate him, so he found a scapegoat and put it in the house for him to kill. Then his men seriously injured his senior brother, pretended to save him, and followed
Come to Kaifeng. Otherwise, why would you disappear in the blink of an eye?"
Shi Zhang squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "No."
"Why not?"
"You don't know something. Li Xia is now the county magistrate of the Song Dynasty. Not long ago, he made great contributions in the battle of Chengdu. I am afraid that his official position will be promoted again. A Song court civil servant must do things differently from the past. If he still insists on
It would be ridiculous to be obsessed with such narrow paths as going alone."
"Oh." Sun Deyu lowered his head, feeling disappointed.
Shi Zhang patted his shoulder and said: "Don't be downcast. It's very valuable that you can make such a guess at such a young age. But you must know that an official is a person who is superior to others, and he must be able to drive his subordinates."
Do things, rather than take risks yourself.”
"Is Erlang so sure that Zhang Junbao is not Li Xia?"
Shi Zhang smiled enigmatically, raised his hand and waved, saying: "Tell Master Qiyun to hand over Li Xia's head to the Gou Examination Bureau...I'm leaving."
Shi Zhang knew that Yang Guo had been in contact with Jia Sidao of the Song Dynasty in recent years. So, no matter what Li Xia wanted to do, he could just tell Jia Sidao, and there was no need to come to Kaifeng alone...
However, after Shi Zhang told Shi Tianze about the matter that day, Shi Tianze pondered for a while and said, "It's Li Xia who's here, and he deliberately exposed his flaws to let you know."
Shi Zhang was completely stunned and said in astonishment: "I don't know what this means, kid."
"I don't know what you mean? Li Xia is telling us that he is here. You claim to be smart, but you can't even hear this? You are not even as good as a little Taoist boy..." To provide you with the fastest update of the Song Dynasty, Chapter 365