The so-called Qiuwan Temple is not so much a Buddhist temple as it is a broken temple. Although Yucheng is a Zhongxian county with less than 10,000 households, there are also many temples, but most of them are due to Tuoba Tao's "returning monks and returning to secular life".
This Qiuwan Temple was originally located in a remote place, and the incense was not very strong. When the "resignation order" from the governor of the state, a few monks ran away, and the Buddha's gift that was not prosperous suddenly turned into a deserted temple. , has become a place for rangers, beggars, and various refugees to hide here.
But now, this place is being occupied by a group of Lushuihus, and the idlers in the Qiuwan Temple in the past are also running cleanly, just like the owner in front of this temple.
In the dilapidated meditation room in the backyard, there was a rich young man tied up. Although he didn't seem to have good wine or food to offer, he was not subjected to the imagined abuse.
Cui Lin has thought of many ways to escape in the past few days, but the result was rejected by herself.
These people clearly came for him. After they tied him, they immediately retreated here very neatly. While delivering letters to Cui Cui of Pingcheng and the county government here, they were waiting for someone here.
What he cared about was what they were waiting for.
This group of Lushuihu people who kidnapped him in the suburbs of Yucheng was not many, only about fifty people. But these fifty people were all cavalry, and his family would immediately lose the upper hand when they confronted them. What's more, they successfully robbed him and left, and the two-legged man couldn't catch up with the four-legged man, and even more so.
He clearly arrived in Yucheng in disguise from Jane in disguise, but he was still caught by these people. Obviously, they have been staring at him since Pingcheng. Intentional calculation or not, he planted not lightly this time.
"It's useless for you to arrest me. My grandfather's personality is known to everyone in the Great Wei Dynasty. If you force me to fight, at most he will let me commit suicide by myself, and he will never exchange Shayuanjia and Tanyuan for me. "
Cui Lin spoke to the young leader of the group in fluent Xianbei. He knew that the leader with curly hair and long braids could speak Xianbei, as did the few companions next to him.
Gai Wu cut the wood carving with a knife without saying a word. These days, he has been guarding Cui Lin himself, never leaving him half a step apart from going to the toilet.
Outside the Qiuyuan Temple, officers and soldiers confronted the Lushui Hu people in the temple, but Yucheng could only mobilize a few hundred county soldiers, so they had to be surrounded. This Gai Wu was not impatient at all, and the one who became impatient became Cui Lin.
"I've never seen you so eager to seek death. If you're useless, we should kill you." A young man beside Gai Wu said cruelly, "Would you like to gouge out your heart or dig your brain? We all satisfy you."
"If you gouge out your heart and mind, my grandfather and His Majesty will not do what you want. I am such a small person..."
"Aren't you going to marry the princess soon, how can you be considered a small person!"
"White horse!" Gai Wu stopped the young man in Xiongnu words. "This Han man is telling you what to say, don't say it anymore."
Bai Ma was taken aback and stared at Cui Lin for a moment, before taking a few steps to slap him.
"White horse!" A black-faced man next to Gai Wu grabbed the young man's hand and continued to persuade him in the Xiongnu language, "It was you who was careless, he just forced you to anger, and you just ignored him."
He held the boy down, rummaged around the room, took out a pair of dusty ragged monk trousers, tore off a leg of the trousers and stuffed it into Cui Lin's mouth.
This Han man was very peaceful a few days ago, but today the officers and soldiers began to surround the temple, and he became dishonest.
Cui Lin's mouth was stuffed with a stinky and dusty thing, and countless dust entered her throat. He wanted to cough violently, and his stomach couldn't help but gag, but his mouth was blocked, so he could only cough like a retching.
For this high school disciple who had never suffered since childhood, this kind of treatment was even more humiliating than the physical torture. The boy named White Horse immediately laughed happily when he saw him being treated like this, and no longer wanted to slap him a few times.
Cui Lin glared at Gai Wu humiliatingly, he knew that the most difficult thing to deal with was this barbarian who didn't talk much.
He was going to be about Princess Shang soon. Except for his grandfather, not many people in Beijing knew about it. These Lu Shuihu people pinpointed him as their target. Thinking about it, they saw this. From this information, it can be inferred that the messengers behind these Lu Shuihu people are powerful adults with high status in Beijing.
This is also true, because there are many Xianbei nobles in Pingcheng who believe in Buddhism. For His Majesty's suppression of Buddhism, many Xianbei nobles almost have to remonstrate with each other. At this time, they bought Lushuihu people to come up with some means to force him. Grandfather made concessions and taught grandfather a lesson by the way, which is in line with the means of these people.
What's more, the Lu Shuihu people also believe in Buddhism, and they believe that "killing to become a Buddha" is normal.
Cui Lin was very calm the past few days, because he didn't know whether these Lu Shuihu arrested him for money or something else. Today, when the officers and soldiers were shouting outside, he knew their purpose, and he felt a lot more relaxed all of a sudden.
As long as he is still useful, his life should be safe.
Just wanting to negotiate conditions with that majesty, it's not enough to just capture him as a bargaining chip, thinking about who or what they are waiting for is the key.
Thinking about this, he couldn't help itching his mouth, and he had to come up with a few words.
It's just that he didn't expect the black-faced man behind the leader to be so immoral. In order to prevent him from speaking, he actually blocked his mouth with such a dirty thing.
Pooh, he is afraid that he will not know the taste of meat in March!
Anyone who is familiar with Gai Wu knows that if he takes out the wood and starts to make wood carvings with his head down, there must be something in his heart.
It is difficult for the Lushuihu people to control their temper, which is probably related to their good wine and killing. The young Gai Wu was obviously an outlier among them, and he also made him the leader of many Lushui Hu people.
It is not that he has no temper, but that he has his own way of venting his emotions and calming them down.
Wood carving is one of them.
Gai Wu's subordinate "White Horse" is still a teenager, more unable to hide things than others. It has been two or three days since Gai Wudiao's wooden carvings can't see the faces of men and women. Baima has been fishing for several days without a heart. At this time, Cui Lin made it even more messy, and he couldn't help using the Xiongnu. Yu asked:
"Brother Gai Wu, what is going on in your heart? You carve wood all day long, making us feel depressed too!"
As soon as Hakuba's words came out, several warriors in the room looked over.
Gai Wu put down his knife and glared in the direction of the white horse. But as soon as the white horse finished speaking, he immediately covered his eyes with his hands, sticking out his tongue while laughing and saying, "I know you're going to stare at me, but I can't see it, so just stare at you! Hehehehe..."
Gai Wu was tricked by the rogue white horse and couldn't concentrate on carving wood. He took the wood carving into his arms and said, "I'm worried about what happened that night. A broken knife is a bad omen, and I met him in Yucheng again. A rare opponent, so my mind was a little scattered for a while."
The white horse pouted, he was there that night, but he was responsible for threatening the two rangers to open the lock.
He also saw that fight, but in his eyes, it seemed that the strange woman took advantage of the weapon and broke the leader's weapon. They still had big things to do and couldn't make any extras, so they gave in.
In fact, at that time, Gai Wu was reluctant to take the opportunity to steal Hua Mulan's property, but more than 50 of them came to this city of Yu. , just relying on the commission given by the customer is not enough, so under his strong pressure, Gai Wu agreed to give it a try.
The Han people say that a penny stifles the heroic Han. Although there is no need for "money" now, it is true that they will be driven to death.
"You said that these people in Wei Di are really strange. The women are outrageous, and the men are just like chickens and they are brought back..." Bai Ma looked at Cui Lin, who was tied up like a weak chicken with disdain. " If the person who asked us to tie up was that Hua Mulan, it would not be so simple today."
"When I was about the same age as you, I saw Hua Mulan from a distance. At that time, Hao Feng, the general of the Liang Kingdom, hired my uncle, and I was hired to help the Liang army defend against the Wei army..." Gai Wu recalled a few years ago, "That time, I watched Hua Mulan shoot an arrow from a distance..."
"Like this, whoosh..."
He raised his hand and made an archery look.
Gai Wu's tone was so serious that all the warriors in the room held their breath.
"Then, Hao Feng's entire head exploded, and the entire body of the horse was sprayed with red and white."
"At that time, Hao Feng was fleeing to the city gate, and our mercenary army was protecting him and retreating in the direction of the city gate. The arrow coming from behind him was so powerful that he died before he had time to scream. How strong is the head of a person, how can she be so majestic with an arrow separated by a few shots, how can such a scene not make everyone who sees it frightened?"
"Hao Feng died in battle and his morale was greatly defeated. When my uncle saw that his employer was dead, he took us away from the side road. But I have never forgotten the face of the Xianbei general named 'Hua Mulan'."
Gai Wu rarely speaks as much as he does now, and because of this, everyone in the room can feel his nervousness and prudence.
"That night, I wanted to eliminate the knot in my heart by fighting her, but I found that not only did the knot in my heart not disappear, but it became more chaotic." Gai Wu said this paragraph to warn his fellow clan not to see each other again. Looking for money, thinking of the idea of making Mulan things.
"She competed with me, but a random move has already shattered my machete. Think about it, if she used all her strength, could she crush the opponent's head with her bare hands?"
The inhalation sounds of the Lu Shuihu people continued.
Most of the Hu people, whether they are Di people, Qiang people, Jie people or Xiongnu Turks, have the legend of "God descends to earth". In legends, the heroes who descended to earth or killed or saved the world were all powerful and strange-looking warriors.
Although most of the Lushuihu people believe in Buddhism, it is because they kill too much, and the belief in Buddhism can best appease their hearts. But their most primitive beliefs still have a very important status.
Cui Lin pinched her back with the hands tied behind her back, so that she would not show a strange expression.
He was carefully taught by his grandfather since he was a child, and he is proficient in the languages of Xiongnu, Turkic, Xianbei, Gaoche and Qiangjie. These people thought he was a Han Chinese and knew the Xianbei language at most, so they talked in the Xiongnu language in front of him recklessly, but they didn't know that he could understand it!
This leader called Gai Wu had fought against Hua Mulan before and was defeated.
How could that cold-looking woman be so powerful? !
"Even so..." Bai Ma was a little unconvinced, "If we don't make water from the well, that woman can still come and beat us..."
"Where is Gai Wu!"
A few high-pitched voices began to sound, and it was the soldiers of the Yucheng government outside the temple shouting.
"What happened?!" Bai Ma couldn't sit still, jumped up and ran out to see.
When they kidnapped Cui Lin, they didn't report her name. The people here probably didn't know who the leader was.
"It's those two rangers." The black-faced man behind Gai Wu immediately thought of the possible reason, and gritted his teeth regretfully:
"Damn! They should have been killed!"
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Outside the door of Qiuwan Temple, He Mulan, dressed in a hunting suit, passed through the area surrounded by soldiers of Yucheng Prefecture, accompanied by the county magistrate Youke and Liang Junbing Cao.
As she quietly passed by these soldiers, the atmosphere suddenly became silent and solemn.
This tall Xianbei man with a dignified face has a strangely unmoving aura.
He Mulan pressed the "rock" with one hand, and came to the door alone in front of a few Lushuihu cavalrymen, asking from a distance of ten feet:
"Where is the leader of this place, Gai Wu?"
"Where is Gai Wu?! Where is Gai Wu?!"
Several Lu Shuihu people knew the Xianbei dialect, and they were a little at a loss when they heard He Mulan's words and the high shouting of the soldiers behind her, and they all looked at each other in dismay.
This scene seems rather pitiful.
He Mulan raised her voice slightly.
"Go and tell Gai Wu that Hua Mulan is here."