The feeling of Xue Yuan talking in his ear was like a hungry wolf and a mad dog.
Danger and fishy smell rushed into his mind, Gu Yuanbai looked down and saw several wounds on Xue Yuan's hand.
Ordinary people would have died long ago after being dragged like this. Xue Yuan was strong and healthy. Now he was holding the reins with terrifying strength. Except for the smell of blood and wounds, he was no different from other people.
Gu Yuanbai was expressionless.
He really had the urge to kill Xue Yuan just now, to kill this man who constantly offended him and would replace his regime in the future. While dragging Xue Yuan, Gu Yuanbai felt a little more relaxed.
It would be great if Xue Yuan died, so that he could kill the future regent.
But if you return to the cage rationally, you will know if this will kill you, nor can you kill it with ordinary methods.
Xue Yuan's whole body was tense. He held the little emperor in his arms. He was very violent. The fishy smell and pain angered him. The madness hidden in the depths emerged. His expression was terrifying. Emperor's business.
With a gloomy sneer: "Is I right?"
"Lao?" Gu Yuanbai's expression was calm and composed, he glanced sideways at Xue Yuan, and smiled slightly, "It turns out that the horse was actually injured by Xue Guard."
He slapped back in a hurry: "I ruined one of my good horses and some of my good blankets. Although it is useless, I still want to punish Xue's guard for three months' salary as an example."
Xue Yuan sneered, raised his hand and whipped his whip, and the whole horse flew out like an arrow from the string.
"Holy!"
The guards behind him exclaimed and shouted angrily, "Xue Yuan, stop!"
The scenery quickly retreated, the horses were jolted and dizzy, and Gu Yuanbai reached out to grab the reins, but the reins were tightly held in Xue Yuan's hands, and Gu Yuanbai couldn't grab them.
damn it.
Gu Yuanbai's internal organs were feeling uncomfortable, he shouted angrily: "Xue Yuan!"
Xue Yuan said loudly, "Your Majesty, this minister is watching you run so fast just now, thinking that Your Majesty is going to gallop your horse, isn't it?"
Gu Yuanbai: "—Stop for me!"
Xue Yuan pulled the reins hard, the horse raised its front hooves and leaned back, Gu Yuanbai fell into Xue Yuan's arms with his back on his back, Xue Yuan's chest and abdomen were hard, and after this blow, his back Pain.
What hurts more than the back is the base of the legs. Gu Yuanbai slowed down for a while, then sneered suddenly.
very good.
It's not so easy for a mad dog to know pain.
Anger and another desire for conquest arose strongly. Gu Yuanbai has an adventurous spirit, but this body cannot provide him with the conditions to take risks.
But the process of taming Xue Yuan seemed to be another kind of adventure in itself.
Killing is not exciting enough, and it is not considered a successful adventure. Let him be obedient and let him crawl obediently at the feet of the emperor to be considered a success.
Seeing his anger, Xue Yuan smiled instead. He adjusted the position around the little emperor with one hand, letting him stay comfortably in his arms, and backing himself up to the emperor. The horses slowed down, as if they were walking.
"Your Majesty," Xue Yuan said in a negotiated manner, "Today, you are going to accompany Concubine Wan to visit the temple.
Gu Yuanbai: "Huh."
"It's natural for me to think about the saint," Xue Yuan pulled up his sleeves and let Gu Yuanbai see the scratches under his sleeves after being dragged for dozens of meters. You can feel how painful it is, "Look, I have wounds like this all over my body, and the blood on my back is sticking to my clothes, and it hurts to death when I bandage it. The sage treats the minister like that, and the minister only takes the sage to ride the horse. After only a few breaths of time, is this not enough for the saints to consider?"
The saint hooked his lips and said slowly: "Once I punish you, you remember to take revenge and come back. You are really a good guard."
"The sage is joking again," Xue Yuan said slowly, "It's like the minister thought that the sage was going to kill the minister just now. Now any revenge or no revenge is the sage's fault. The sage is the son of the emperor, and he is the ruler of Daheng. Lord, how dare you?"
There are many white butterflies and small insects flying in the grass next to it. In the spring, the most common one is the white butterfly. Gu Yuanbai saw this white butterfly and thought, you killed the butterfly, because no one is watching. Come on, you can say what you want to say.
You came back to me with revenge, because no one saw it, and the loyalty and integrity you are talking about now makes people laugh.
Gu Yuanbai had no regrets for wanting to kill Xue Yuan. He was angry because of Xue Yuan's temper. He dared to be so bold in the face of the emperor. He was so anxious that he knew to jump over the wall, and he dared to do it in an upright manner. What else could he dare not do
The guards at the back chased after him, and he was relieved when he saw that Gu Yuanbai was fine. The head guard glared at Xue Yuan a few times, and said abruptly, "If you don't know how to ride a horse, don't be brave."
Xue Yuan was in a bad mood. Hearing that, the corners of his lips twitched, and he said with a smile, "It's none of your business?"
The head guard blushed with anger, "You—"
"Enough," Gu Yuanbai, "Shut up for me."
No one dared to speak anymore, Gu Yuanbai straightened his back with no expression on his face, the atmosphere was depressing and weird, and he walked all the way to Zhuangzi outside the suburbs of Beijing.
*
Concubine Wan had been looking forward to today for a long time, the weather was good today, and the old man was very energetic.
Gu Yuanbai supported Concubine Wan and walked slowly towards the temple.
The royal temple, called Chengbao Temple, covers a huge area and has a pagoda that is tens of meters high. The winding roads lead to seclusion, the temple is hidden in the vegetation, and there is no Zen feeling.
"Your Majesty," Concubine Wan stopped walking after walking for a while. She was supported and sat in the pavilion beside her, smiling at Gu Yuanbai, "I can't walk anymore, Your Majesty, let's go up first, by the way. Burn an extra stick of incense for me too."
Gu Yuanbai smiled and said, "Then I'll go up first?"
Concubine Wan nodded in relief. After she watched the back of the saint disappear into the jungle, she wiped the sweat from her head with a smile.
Chengbao Temple was built halfway up the mountain, and the abbots and many monks on the mountain had already learned the news of the arrival of Shengshang and Concubine Wan in advance. When Gu Yuanbai finally arrived in the temple, all he saw was a temple full of bald monks.
These monks wore uniform monk clothes, and the abbot took the lead in salute to Gu Yuanbai. Gu Yuanbai asked them to get up and scanned the monks in the temple.
It is estimated that there must be 2,000 people up.
Gu Yuanbai squinted his eyes, said nothing, and was led by the abbot to hang out in the temple.
The abbot sighed: "When the late emperor was there, he also brought the sage up to worship the Buddha. It's just that the sage was still young at that time, so I shouldn't remember it."
Gu Yuanbai smiled and said with a good temper: "The abbot lives among the beautiful mountains and rivers all the year round. The wild mountains and jungles are far away from the noise of the world. From the abbot's point of view, I am afraid that the time is right in front of you."
The abbot smiled and said, "What the Sage said is very true. Now that I see the Sage again, the Sage has a real dragon to protect him. Even if the old man leaves the temple less often, he knows that the world must be more prosperous under the rule of the Sage."
During the conversation, the group had already reached the pavilion standing tall on the side of the mountain. The wild wind in the mountain was blowing the saint's clothes.
It's just that he kept talking, and the Holy One just listened with a smile. After talking for a while, the abbot's mouth became dry, and he couldn't help but follow the holy gaze to look down the mountain and asked, "What is the holy priest looking at?"
"I'm looking at this Dabao Temple." Sheng Shang said.
The abbot couldn't help laughing, "If the Holy Master wants to watch the scenery, there is a viewing platform in front of it, and the scenery there is more beautiful, which makes people linger."
"I'm not looking at the scenery."
As soon as these words came out, not only the abbot felt strange, but the guards who followed behind also felt puzzled.
Xue Yuan, who was at the end of the crowd, brushed off the last bit of soil on his robe, and when he heard this, he looked up and saw the little half of the saint's profile face.
The blue silk flowed with the wind, and occasionally a few fluttered to the side of his face. Xue Yuan watched for a while, then retracted his eyes. After a while, I moved it again. If I don't want to accept it, I will look at it in an open and honest way.
He still smiled when he spoke, the corners of his lips rose slightly, and he looked like a good skin that made people feel less wary. The color of her lips is also pale, and looking at her appearance, she must have never eaten a woman's rouge, right
Clean, people are so ruthless, but the skin is very fragile.
Needless to say, Xue Yuan intuited that the little emperor was going to do something else that would scare people into shit.
Gu Yuanbai took the initiative to ask: "The abbot wants to know what I am looking at?"
The abbot said respectfully: "I also ask the Holy One to teach me."
"Unlike the abbot, I am a layman," Gu Yuanbai said. "What I see in my eyes is not the scenery, but the dense fields at the foot of the mountain."
The abbot suddenly realized: "Now is the spring sowing season, and our temple is also busy."
"The land reclaimed at the foot of the mountain is all within the scope of Chengbao Temple," Gu Yuanbai said with a smile, "If you look at it from a height, you must have thousands of acres of land."
The abbot smiled without saying a word, his expression faintly proud.
Gu Yuanbai didn't say much. After worshipping the Buddha at Chengbao Temple, he had another vegetarian meal, and then led people down the mountain leisurely.
The abbot respectfully escorted the sage to leave, and when the figure of the sage and his group disappeared, he turned around and was about to dismiss the monks when something suddenly flashed in his mind, the whole person froze in place, and then his face changed greatly!
The saint saw the expressions of many monks, and the words that the saint said on the side of the mountain flashed in his mind one after another.
'What I see is not the scenery, but the dense fields at the foot of the mountain. '
'Moyo has hundreds of acres of land. '
Doudou's sweat fell from the abbot's forehead, and the abbot was short of breath, exclaiming: "Not good!"
There is no land tax for the fields in the temple, and the monks in the temple are exempted from corvée labor.
The cold sweat on the head of the abbot came out in layers, and he thought of the deeds of the three martial arts destroying the Buddha in an instant!
There are so many monks doing nothing in the temple, so many fields without paying taxes, the emperor turned a blind eye, because the emperor worshipped Buddha. But today's sage is not the first emperor. It's a shame that the sage made it so obvious, but he only reacted now!
No, Chengbao Temple cannot be the chicken that kills the chicken and warns the monkey!
"Quick," the abbot grabbed the person and said hurriedly with a trembling voice, "Quickly find out the number of the fields at the foot of the mountain, and donate them to the government! Go!"
Be sure to hurry up, hurry up and let the saint see their sincerity.
A fist from the saint fell, and none of them could hold it.
redundant monks... annihilation of buddhas...
The abbot shuddered, if it was what he thought, then this must be another tragedy for the monks. The sage is now hinting that it may be all in the face of the royal temple of Chengbao Temple.
There are more than 2,000 monks in the royal temples, and there are hundreds of large and small temples up and down Daheng. If you add them together, how many monks will there be
Gu Yuanbai, who was going down the mountain, was also thinking about this question.
But he didn't think about it for long when he heard the sound of a waterfall not far away.
"Let's go and have a look," Gu Yuanbai put his work aside and said with a smile, "It's rare to come to the mountains once, how can you do without looking at the mountains and rivers?"
The group walked towards the water. As soon as they got close to the water source, Gu Yuanbai heard some faint sounds. He was curious and took a few steps forward.
The water was gurgling, and in the bushes on the opposite side of the water, there was a lingering sound that made people feel warm. The face of the guards turned red at first, and then became ashen. The Sage is here, how can the Sage hear such filthy words
The head guard took a step forward with a dark face: "Your Majesty, this is where the royal temple is located, and there are people who are doing such a cowardly thing! The minister will go and arrest them!"
The people on the opposite side of the river also seemed to hear the sound here. A shirtless man raised his head and looked towards this side carelessly.
There was still a red apron wrapped around his wrist, Gu Yuanbai didn't look at it, he stepped back and turned sideways.
The jade pendant on his waist was caught by the branches and leaves on the side. Gu Yuanbai didn't notice it, and with this step back, the jade pendant was torn off.
Xue Yuan, who was standing by the side, bent down in time to catch it, and the warm and thin jade pendant fell in his hand, which was more comfortable to touch than fine satin.
Xue Yuan threw the jade pendant, kneaded and played with it twice, while thinking that the jade pendant was not even slippery with the little emperor's feet, he said, "Sir, your jade pendant has fallen off."
Gu Yuanbai looked sideways and stretched out his hand towards Xue Yuan.
The meaning was clear, but Xue Yuan held the little emperor's outstretched hand as if he didn't understand it, and kneaded it twice as habitually as he was playing with jade, and said, "The sage is cold, want the minister to come and cover the hand for the sage? "
The left hand holds the little emperor's jade pendant, and the right hand holds the little emperor's ice hand. Xue Yuan thought to himself, this jade pendant is not as easy to touch as the little emperor's hand.
Cold and cold, strange.
Just because of Xue Yuan's two kneading efforts, the skin on Gu Yuanbai's hand was half red again, and he pulled back his hand speechlessly, "What I want is a jade pendant."
What kind of mental retardation is Xue Jiuyao