Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Parting

After waiting for a while, Di Chun brought a group of soldiers back. It turned out that before Di Renjie entered Snake Ferry, he ordered all the soldiers to stay in the canyon below Ziwu Ridge, and the Palace of the Queen Mother was built on the mountainside, so the distance was not very far. The soldier saw Di Renjie and reported back: "My lord, we were ordered to search the villa and the mine, but we didn't see anyone. I heard from an old miner who stayed nearby that everyone in the mine had been dismissed long ago. The work was stopped, and it seemed that a large group of black-clothed men entered the mine last night, but when the old miner woke up in the middle of the night, he saw what seemed to be a group of soldiers dressed as officers and soldiers, and escorted all the black-clothed men away. I found this thing in a dark room in the villa." After speaking, he presented a package to Di Renjie.

Di Renjie took the package and told the soldier to leave the horse and go back first.When I opened it, it was the gilded green Tara bronze statue. Under the sunlight, the golden Buddha statue and the treasures inlaid on it were shining brightly. Di Renjie still put away the Buddha statue, turned around and asked Di Chun to look for Linyue, but he hadn't seen him for a long time. Lin Yue and Hei San, knowing that they must have left quietly, sighed secretly, and only said: "Forget it." For a while, he looked at Ayu again, with a half-smile on his face. Ayu rolled her eyes, bowed lightly earlier, and said in her mouth: "My lord, don't blame me, the men who escorted King Yue away are indeed the inner guards of the palace, and I——is one of them."

Di Chun was listening and was very surprised. Ayu smiled slightly, with color on his face, but he caught a glimpse of Li Yuanfang's calm expression and suddenly felt a little nervous. He said honestly: "Actually, a few months ago, The inner guard had learned that the kings of the clan, headed by King Han and King Yue, had wrong intentions, so he was ordered to investigate secretly. He saw that King Yue and others opened a mine in Qingyang Mountain in Ningzhou, purchased a manor, secretly monitored, and intercepted several secret letters. , I learned something about the treasure in the Tara Buddha statue, so I came to Ningzhou.——I was an orphan without father and mother, and was adopted by my master since I was a child. Arranged next to Duan Jiu." Ayu lowered his head and thought for a while, then said: "Your Excellency and Brother Li already know what happened later, so I won't say more about Yu'er, it's just Linyue, I don't know her identity. When we met outside the city, I paid more attention to her because I heard that she was related to Yang Ju. After returning to Beijing, Yu'er will never mention it again."

Di Renjie nodded, handed the statue of Tara to Ayu, and ordered Di Chun to take out the Linghua copper box, open the package of the Buddha statue, still gently put it under the lotus seat, and said in a deep voice: "You should take this Buddha statue back to Chang'an." .” Ayu took it in response, recalling the scene in the cave just now, dazed. Li Yuanfang sighed: "When Yuan Tiangang was ordered to build this treasure, he didn't want to see the sun, so he buried it in Qingyang Mountain for a long time. After several years, when people worshiped the Buddha statue, they probably didn't know that there was such a treasure hidden under the Buddha statue. A story." For a while, everyone was relatively speechless.

After a while, Ayu whispered: "My lord, Brother Li, Brother Di Chun, something has happened here, and Yu'er will return to Beijing to return to her life." Di Renjie nodded, remembering the days of getting along with each other, and the life and death together last night, even Di Chun also Reluctantly get up. Ayu said again: "When you arrive in the capital someday, you must remember to come to me!" Looking at Li Yuanfang, she only hoped that he would say a few words to her, but she couldn't bear to hear the words of farewell really come from Li Yuanfang's mouth. Her beautiful eyes glistened instantly, and Ayu quickly lowered her head, turned around, and said softly, "My lord, Brother Li, if you don't come to me, I will definitely go to you." Tears slapped down into the dust.

Li Yuanfang was silent for a long while, then said in a shy voice: "You are now an adult and a dignified internal guard, don't cry anymore." Ayu didn't want to look back, so she took the Buddha statue and ran out. Li Yuanfang lowered her eyes when she saw her back pass through the gates of several pavilions and gradually disappeared. After a while, a flute sounded from the bottom of the mountain, echoing in the jungle. Ayu was riding on a horse, and saw a person running on the mountain road in the distance, she was overjoyed, put down the piccolo in her hand, and waited for the person to approach, only to see that it was Di Chun panting, feeling slightly disappointed, only to hear Di Chun shout: " Miss Ayu, the master wants me to tell you that I can't come to see you off because I want to detoxify General Li."

A Yu was disappointed for a while, and then Di Chun gasped and said: "General Li wants me to bring you a few words." A Yu was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Say it quickly." Di Chun said with a smile: "General Li said, next time you meet a beggar, you should do good deeds, as long as you don't talk too much - if that person wasn't your subordinate that day, he might have sent you away. If you meet someone with a bad temper, you will have to scold him." Ayu was still listening in a daze, but now she couldn't help but burst out laughing.