The two of them spoke like needles, which made Qin Xiao even more embarrassed.
"General Qin, I won't hide it from you. We are taking you back to Bohai not to avenge Yuan Gai Wushuang, nor to obtain a bounty." Da Pan looked at Qin Xiao and reached out to take the one handed over by Yan Yan.
Roasted Legs, smiled calmly and said: "To be honest, if we just want to obtain gold and silver treasures, we don't have to go all the way to the Tang Dynasty to earn bounties."
Qin Xiao quite agreed with this statement.
These two people are both Zhongtian realm masters, one is good at disguise and the other is good at using medicine. When these two people join forces, they will even fall into their hands. If they want to obtain gold and silver treasures, it is completely impossible in Bohai Kingdom.
can do.
"In this case, what is the purpose of taking me back?" Qin Xiao was a little confused: "It's not for revenge, nor for money. You just said that I might not even be as good as a dog in the eyes of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so of course it won't
To use me to propose some conditions to the Tang Dynasty. After thinking about it, are you doing it to repay your kindness? Could it be that Mr. Molizhi has a great kindness to you, and you want to take me back for him in order to repay your kindness?
?”
Da Pan stretched out his hand and patted Qin Xiao's shoulder gently, saying: "Why are you so troubled and thinking so much about what to do? Just eat and drink." He opened his mouth and took a bite, and was about to praise, but saw Yanyan suddenly turned her head, originally calm.
Her pretty face instantly turned cold and stern.
Da Pan was startled and immediately followed Yanyan's gaze, only to see a figure walking towards her not far away.
Da Pan's face darkened. Yanyan's slender, gloved hand had already been put into a leather bag hanging on her waist. Qin Xiao glanced at it and knew that there must be some kind of poison in the leather bag.
I was intoxicated by powdered medicine at the Animal Husbandry Supervision Office, maybe it was a bag of poisonous powder.
However, someone suddenly came over, and Qin Xiao was a little surprised.
This place is obviously a very remote place. Da Pan and his two men drove the mule cart deep into the woods, so even if they lit a fire in the forest, they were not afraid of being discovered. So late at night, someone suddenly came to the depths of this remote forest.
Naturally, the two assassins would be alert.
When the figure came closer, Qin Xiao realized that the figure was wearing a black cloak, covering him from head to toe. Only his face was exposed, which looked quite old. He was over sixty years old and had a white beard.
Neither Da Pan nor Yanyan acted rashly, but they were fully alert.
The old man in the cloak walked to the bonfire, raised his arms, and pulled back the cloak covering his head. Under the firelight, his bare head was exposed. Then the old man clasped his hands together and said in a calm voice: "Amitabha, it's freezing.
, can the old monk borrow a fire to warm himself up here?"
Qin Xiao was startled. He didn't expect that the person coming here in the middle of the night would be an old monk.
"Please take a seat." Da Pan was quite polite and said with a smile: "Master, it's so late, how could you come to such a remote place?"
The old monk in black clothes sat cross-legged, ignoring the snow on the ground, and said with a smile: "Wandering around the world, eating in the wind and sleeping in the open, the thirty-two dharma signs of the Buddha can be found in the six universes. The old monk has the Buddha Dharma in his heart, so he naturally wants to imitate the Buddha and travel through the three thousand universes.
."
"Master, are you comparing yourself to Buddha?" Da Pan said with a smile.
The old monk in black said calmly: "Everyone is a Buddha!"
However, Yanyan stared at the old monk in black with extreme caution and asked, "Where are you from? What is your Buddhist name?"
"It doesn't matter where the poor monk came from, and it doesn't matter where he goes." The old monk in black kept a kind smile from beginning to end, and said warmly: "In addition to warming himself by the fire, the old monk also came here to ask for alms, and he also wanted to see two people.
Don’t refuse.”
"You want to eat meat?" Yanyan pointed at the roasted deer and said with a hint of ridicule: "Don't monks abstain from eating meat? If you want to eat meat as alms, I will cut a piece for you."
The old monk in black shook his head and said with a smile: "Don't eat meat, don't eat meat."
"If you don't eat meat, what's the reason for becoming a master?" Da Pan asked with a smile: "We only have meat to eat, and we have nothing else to give to the master."
The old monk in black looked at Qin Xiao and said calmly: "Can you two hand over Qin's benefactor to the old monk?"
Da Pan and Yanyan looked at each other with stern expressions in their eyes.
The old monk in black directly wanted to take Qin Xiao away, obviously he knew Qin Xiao's identity very well.
The old monk suddenly appeared tonight, and he came directly to Qin Xiao. However, the two of them did not know the identity of the old monk, but it seemed that the old monk came to rescue Qin Xiao. The two of them spent a lot of effort to save Qin Xiao.
If Qin Xiao is captured, how can he be easily taken away by an old monk?
Qin Xiao also looked at the old monk in black calmly.
There was no impression of this old monk in his mind, and he was certain that he had never seen this old monk before tonight.
The old monk asked the two assassins for himself. What was his purpose?
Friend or foe?
There must be no such person in Long Rui's army. It had only been two days since he fell into the hands of assassins. Qin Xiao himself was not sure whether Long Rui's army had organized manpower to search for and rescue him.
Even if Jiang Xiaochun and others wake up and find that they are missing, they immediately return to Guangning City to meet up with Yu Wen Chengchao and then organize the manpower, which will take a lot of time. Gu Baiyi, who is far away in Montenegro, can do it in this short period of time.
He may not have received the news that he was arrested. How did the old monk know about it? Who was he sent by?
He was able to follow him into this remote forest. Qin Xiao concluded that he could never appear suddenly. He might have been secretly keeping an eye on the two assassins in Bohai. However, Qin Xiao could not be sure when he started keeping an eye on them.
The origin of this man is really strange.
"So, Master knows who he is?" Da Pan remained calm, even with a smile on his face.
The old monk in black nodded and said: "Qin Xiao, the Zhongwu Zhonglang of the Tang Dynasty, is the commander-in-chief of the Long Rui Army!"
"Master indeed knows." Da Pan smiled faintly and said: "Master asked us for alms to take away the General of the Tang Dynasty. Shouldn't we know the origin of Master and why you took him away?"
"He is a general of the Tang Dynasty. Of course he cannot be taken back to Bohai by you." The old monk in black said calmly: "Since the old monk already knows that it was the two who kidnapped General Qin, sooner or later this matter will become known to the whole world.
.Old monks have all heard what the two of you said just now. Are you saying that even if the Tang Dynasty knew that it was the Bohai Kingdom that kidnapped or even killed the Tang generals, they would not dare to send troops to Bohai? Are you really so confident in your words?"
Opan smiled and asked: "Master, do you think what I said is wrong?"
"A skinny camel is bigger than a horse." The old monk in black sighed softly: "Although the Tang Dynasty is not at its peak, if we use all our strength to deal with any surrounding force, we can completely destroy it.
Don’t you understand such a simple truth? Bohai kidnapped and killed the Tang Dynasty’s general, and he was also a favorite of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. If the Tang Dynasty turned a deaf ear, would the Emperor’s throne still be secure?”
"If the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is really a wise lord, how can he watch the local princes becoming more and more powerful without daring to act rashly?" Yanyan said coldly: "There are vassal kings in the south of the Tang Dynasty who have treasonous intentions.
As we all know, the Liaodong Army in the Northeast is also a separatist force, and someone even claimed the throne in the northwest of the Tang Kingdom, but the Tang court was helpless. It couldn't even solve its own affairs, so why did it dare to use troops against the Bohai Sea?"
The old monk in black smiled softly and said: "The biggest mistake you make is that you don't understand the Tang Dynasty. The princes in the Tang Dynasty are so powerful that the court may be afraid to act rashly, but if even Bohai dares to disturb Tai Sui,
Even if the imperial court does not want to move, the people of the Tang Dynasty will not allow it. In the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty, Bohai is just a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. If it maintains harmony with the Tang Dynasty, it will naturally be a peaceful coexistence. However, a general from a vassal country who dares to harm the Tang Dynasty will
If the imperial court turns a blind eye, the emperor's prestige will be greatly affected, and no emperor in the Tang Dynasty would allow such a thing to happen."
Da Pan and Yanyan remained calm, but Qin Xiao nodded and said: "You two, the master is right. The emperor wants to save face. A vassal state of the Tang Dynasty murdered her favorite minister. Do you think she will let it go? You guys?
I have never met the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so I don’t know that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty values his reputation and face more than anything else. If Bohai dares to hit her in the face, she will dare to take Bohai’s life.”
"So what?" Da Pan said nonchalantly: "When Tang was at its most powerful, it took more than ten years to conquer Bohai. Now Tang's strength is far less than before. If Tang dares to send troops, Bohai may not be afraid!"
"The Tang Kingdom was not at its peak, so is Bohai now the most powerful?" Qin Xiao said with a smile: "As far as I know, before the current saint ascended the throne, the Bohai Kingdom was still divided into five, and there were five major princes in this small country.
, By the way, the forces including the leader of the Bohai Kingdom are actually six major forces. Yuan Gaijian took advantage of the restoration of the Tang Dynasty to conquer the Bohai Kingdom. Although he unified the Bohai Sea, the civil war for many years depleted the country's power.
You all know this in your mind. Yuan Gaijian is ambitious. Although he sends people to harass the border of the Tang Dynasty from time to time, he does not dare to invade the territory of the Tang Dynasty. In the final analysis, is it because he is afraid? Only when there is a real fight, you will understand
What a huge mistake we made today." He looked at the old monk in black and said, "Master, am I right?"
The old monk in black smiled slightly and said: "The old monk said this, he has no other meaning. He is just warning you two that only by handing General Qin to the old monk can you prevent the two countries from having a military disaster.
It will lead to the loss of life. The old monk is a monk, so I plead with you on behalf of the people of the two countries to hand over General Qin to the old monk." Xiang Qin Xiao said: "General Qin, are you willing to follow the old monk?"
Qin Xiao naturally had no idea about the origin of the old monk in black, and could not even tell whether he was an enemy or a friend.
However, he knew in his heart that if he was taken back to Bohai by Da Pan and Yanyan, he would definitely die, so he must not go on this road. Follow the old monk in black, and before the enemy or friend is unknown, at least there is still hope, so he nodded immediately
He said: "Since Master is here for me, I am naturally willing to go with Master." Xiang Dapan said earnestly: "Brother Dapan, I am very happy to meet you and Miss Yanyan. I really can't go with you this time. We will see you later."
...!" Before he finished speaking, he felt a strong wind suddenly rise. Da Pan, who had been sitting still, suddenly took action, his body floated up, his right hand turned into a claw, and he grabbed the old monk in black at the throat.