Xue Yuan felt like a hungry wolf or a mad dog when he spoke in his ear.
Danger and a fishy odor rushed towards his mind, and Gu Yuanbai looked down to see several wounds on Xue Yuan's hands.
Ordinary people who were dragged like this would have died long ago, Xue Yuan was strong and fit, and his grip on the reins was now so strong that it was scary, and except for the smell of blood and wounds, he was no different from anyone else.
Gu Yuanbai's face was expressionless.
He had just really felt the urge to kill Xue Yuan, to kill this man who constantly offended him and would replace his regime in the future. As he dragged Xue Yuan along, Gu Yuanbai even felt a few moments of pleasure.
How good it was that Xue Yuan was dead, so that he could kill the future Regent.
But reason returned, and it became clear that this would be unkillable, and ordinary techniques would not kill it.
Xue Yuan's whole body was tense, he gathered the little emperor in his arms, his hostility was deep, the fishy smell and pain angered him, the madness hidden in the depths surfaced, his expression was horrifying, he was still tense and didn't do anything to hurt the little emperor.
Grimly, he sneered, "Is the old man right?"
"Old son?" Gu Yuanbai's demeanor was calm and composed as he glanced sideways at Xue Yuan and smiled faintly, "So that horse was actually injured by Servant Xue."
He backtracked without haste, "Destroying one of my good horses and spoiling a few of my good blankets, although it doesn't help, I'm still going to punish Servant Xue with three months' salary as a warning to others."
Xue Yuan laughed out coldly, raising his hand and raising his horse whip, the entire horse flew out like an arrow off the string.
"Your Holiness!"
The guards behind him launched into an alarmed cry and shouted angrily, "Xue Yuan stop!"
The scenery flew backward, the horses lurched and dizzied, and Gu Yuanbai reached out to tug on the reins, but they were held in Xue Yuan's hand so tightly that Gu Yuanbai couldn't snatch them away.
Damn it.
Gu Yuanbai's organs were turned upside down, and he shouted angrily, "Xue Yuan!"
Xue Yuan exclaimed, "Your Holiness, I was watching how fast you just ran and thought that Your Holiness was trying to gallop, wasn't it?"
Gu Yuanbai: "--Stop it for me!"
Xue Yuan pulled the reins hard, the steed raised its front hooves, its entire body leaned back, and Gu Yuanbai planted himself in Xue Yuan's arms with his back, Xue Yuan's chest and abdomen were hard, and his back was aching after this.
What hurt more than the back was the root of the leg, and Gu Yuanbai slowed down for a while, suddenly letting out a cold laugh.
That's good. That's good.
Mad dogs really don't know pain that easily.
Anger and another kind of desire for conquest rose strongly. Gu Yuanbai had an adventurous spirit, but this body couldn't provide him with conditions in which he could take risks.
But the process of taming Xue Yuan seemed to be a different kind of adventure in itself.
Killing is not exciting enough to be considered a successful adventure. Making him obedient, making him prostrate himself at the Emperor's feet is only considered a success.
Seeing his angry face, Xue Yuan smiled instead, and he adjusted his position with one arm around the little emperor, letting him stay comfortably in his arms, himself acting as a backrest for the emperor. The horses slowed down, all a bit like they were taking a walk.
"Your Holiness," Xue Yuan has a business, "today you also have to accompany Mrs. Wan to visit the temple, it is really not appropriate to gallop, your body is soft, it would not be good if you wear out your skin."
Gu Yuanbai: "Heh."
"I naturally want to consider for His Majesty," Xue Yuan pulled up his sleeve, letting Gu Yuanbai look at the abrasion under his sleeve after being dragged dozens of meters, this abrasion was all over the entire arm, the skin and flesh oozing blood, looking at it, one could feel just how much it hurts, "Look, I have such wounds all over my body, and the blood on the back is still sticking to the The blood on my back has even stuck to my clothes, and when I bandage it up, it will hurt a lot more. Your majesty treats me like that, and I only took your majesty on horseback for a few breaths of time, is this not enough for your majesty to think about?"
The saint hooked his lips and said in a slow voice, "I punished you once, and you remembered to retaliate back, but you are really my good guard."
"Your Holiness is joking again," Xue Yuan slowly said, "It's like just now I thought that Your Holiness was going to kill me, now what revenge or not, it's all because Your Holiness thought wrong. Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, the Lord of Daheng, how could I dare?"
Next to the grass fluttering in the middle of many white butterflies and insects, spring when the first to appear the most common is the white butterfly, Gu Yuanbai glanced at the white butterfly, heart, you pinched the butterfly, because no one to see, you naturally want to say how to say how to say.
You got back at me with a vengeance because no one saw it, and now the talk of a mouthful of loyalty and honor is just making people laugh.
Gu Yuanbai had no regrets about wanting to kill Xue Yuan, he was angry because of Xue Yuan's temper. He dared to be so bold with the emperor, and when pushed to jump over the wall, he dared to do so in the open, so what else did he not dare to do?
The guards in the back chased after them, looking relieved that Gu Yuanbai was fine, the head guard glared angrily at Xue Yuan for a few moments and said stiffly, "Don't try to be strong if Squire Xue can't ride a horse."
Xue Yuan is in a bad mood, sniffing the corner of his lips hooked, seemingly smiling and not laughing: "None of your business?"
The head guard reddened with anger, "You--"
"Enough," Gu Yuanbai, "all shut up."
No one dared to speak, Gu Yuanbai's face was expressionless and straight back, the atmosphere was depressing and odd, so he traveled all the way to the outskirts of the capital outside the manor.
*
Mrs. Wan has been looking forward to today for a long time, and today the weather is good and the old man is in good spirits.
Gu Yuanbai supported Mrs. Wan and slowly and leisurely walked towards the temple.
Royal temple called Chengbao Temple, covers an area of great size, but also has a pagoda tens of meters high. The road is winding and quiet, and the temple is hidden in the grass and trees, which has a Zen atmosphere.
"Your Majesty," Mrs. Wan couldn't walk anymore after walking for a while, she was helped to sit in a pavilion on the side and looked at Gu Yuanbai with a smile, "I can't walk anymore either, Your Majesty go up first, and incidentally burn an extra incense for me."
Gu Yuanbai laughed, "Then I'll go up first?"
Consort Wan nodded in relief as she watched His Holiness' back disappear into the jungle before wiping the sweat from her head with a smile on her face.
Chengbao Temple was built halfway up the mountain, and the abbot and many monks on the mountain had already been informed in advance about the arrival of His Holiness and Mrs. Wan. When Gu Yuanbai finally arrived in the middle of the temple, what he saw was a temple full of bald monks.
These monks were dressed in uniform monastic clothing, led by the abbot who bowed towards Gu Yuanbai, who warmly told them to get up and swept through the monks in the temple.
Estimates have to be 2,000 upwards.
Gu Yuanbai narrowed his eyes and said nothing as he was led around the temple by the abbot.
The abbot sighed, "When the late emperor was here, he had also brought the saint to come and worship the Buddha. Only at that time the Emperor was still young and should not remember."
Gu Yuanbai laughed and said good-naturedly, "The abbot lives between the beauty of the mountains and water all the time, the wild mountain jungle is far away from the world's noises, and in the abbot's opinion, I'm afraid that the time back then is right in front of my eyes."
The abbot smiled and said, "What Your Holiness said is very true. Now I see you again, Your Holiness, Your Holiness is protected by a true dragon, even if I seldom go out of the temple, I know that the world must be more prosperous under the governance of Your Holiness."
Between the words, the party has walked to the pavilion standing high on the side of the mountain, the wild wind in the mountain blowing the holy clothes drumming, the abbot is still talking about some wonderful things, pieces of interesting, also contains the Buddhist doctrine.
It was just that he kept talking, and the saint was only listening with a smile on his face. After speaking for a while the abbot's mouth became dry and he couldn't help but follow the saint's gaze down the mountain and asked, "What is the saint looking at?"
"I am looking at this Great Treasure Temple." His Holiness said.
The abbot couldn't help but smile, "If Your Holiness wishes to view the scenery, there is a viewing platform ahead, where the scenery is even more beautiful, making people linger."
"I'm not looking at the scenery."
When these words came out, not only did the abbot sense the strangeness, but the guards following behind him couldn't help but feel puzzled as well.
Xue Yuan, who had fallen at the end of the crowd, dusted off the last bit of dirt from his robes, and when he sniffed and looked up, he saw the small half of His Holiness's side face.
The green silk flowed with the wind, occasionally a few strands drifted to the side face, Xue Yuan looked at it for a while and withdrew his eyes. After a while moved over again, this will not want to retract, just brightly look.
Speaking with a smile, the corners of the lips slightly up, looking at the good skin to let people put down their guard. Lip color is also light, look at the appearance, should not have eaten a woman's rouge it?
Clean and dry. People are so ruthless, but their skins are fragile.
Needless to say, Xue Yuan intuited that the little emperor was going to do something that would scare the shit out of people again.
Gu Yuanbai took the initiative and asked, "Does the abbot want to know what I'm looking at?"
The abbot respectfully said, "I also ask for your holiness' guidance."
"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."
It dawned on the abbot, "It is now the time for spring sowing, and we will be busy among the temples."
"The land reclaimed at the foot of the mountain is all within the boundaries of the Chengbao Temple," Gu Yuanbai laughed, "Standing high up and taking a look at it, there must be about a thousand or a hundred acres of land, I guess."
The abbot smiled without saying anything, his expression vaguely proud.
Gu Yuanbai then did not say much, after saluting the Buddha in Chengbao Temple, and then used a vegetarian meal, after which he brought people leisurely down the mountain.
The abbot respectfully escorted His Holiness to leave, and when the figure of His Holiness and his party disappeared, he turned around and was about to dismiss the monks when something suddenly flashed through his mind, and his entire body froze in place, followed by a drastic change in his face!
The look on His Holiness' face when he saw the many monks, and the words His Holiness said on the mountainside flashed through his mind one after another.
''What I am looking at is not the scenery, but the dense fields at the foot of the mountain.''
'Mo must be about a thousand acres.'
Bean-sized sweat slid down the corners of the abbot's forehead, and the abbot, breathing heavily, exclaimed, "Not good!"
There is no tax on the fields in the temples, and the monks in the temples are also exempt from corvée service. The meaning of His Majesty's words is clearly an allusion to the intention of redundant monks!
Cold sweat cascaded from the top of the abbot's head as he instantly thought of the three martial arts destroying the Buddha!
There are so many idle monks in the temples, so many fields that don't need to pay taxes, and the late emperor turned a blind eye to this because the late emperor worshiped Buddha. But today's saint is not the late emperor, hate the saint has said so obvious, but he only reacted now!
No, Seongbulsa can't be the chicken that makes an example of us!
"Quickly," the abbot pulled back, his voice trembling with urgency, "quickly check the number of those fields at the foot of the mountain and donate them to the government! Go!"
It must be quick. Quickly, let His Holiness see their sincerity.
Not a single one of them could carry one of His Holiness' fists down.
Redundant Monks ...... Exterminating the Buddha ......
The abbot winced, if it was really what he thought, then this must be another tragic case for the monks. His Holiness hinted at it now, perhaps all for the sake of the royal temple of Chengbao Temple.
There were more than 2,000 monks in the royal temples, and how many monks would there be in the hundreds of temples, large and small, up and down Daheng, added together?
Gu Yuanbai, who was descending the mountain, was also thinking about this.
But before he could ever think on it for long, he heard the sound of a waterfall coming from not far away.
"Let's go and have a look," Gu Yuanbai put his work aside and smiled, "It's rare to come to the mountains once in a while, how can we not see the landscape?"
The group walked towards the water's edge, and just as they approached the water source, Gu Yuanbai heard a few faint sounds, and with curiosity in his heart, he took a few steps forward, and a bright light opened up in front of him.
The water flowed gurgling, and in the bush on the bank opposite the water flow, a sound of entwined voices that made people's ears hot resounded. The guards' faces first flushed, then turned iron blue, the saint is right here, how can the saint hear this kind of filth?
The chief of guards stepped forward with a black face and said, "Your Majesty, this is where the royal temple is located, and there are even people who are doing such a treacherous thing here! I will go and arrest them!"
The people across the river also seemed to have heard the noise on this side, and a bare-chested man poked his head up and looked this way with a big grin.
He still had a red bellyband wrapped around his wrist, and Gu Yuanbai didn't have the eyes to see it, stepping back and sidestepping.
The jade pendant at his waist was hung by a branch or leaf, and Gu Yuanbai hadn't paid attention, and this step backward tore the pendant off.
Xue Yuan, who was standing on the side, bent down in time to catch it, and the warm and fine jade pendant fell into his hand, which was more comfortable to touch than good satin.
Xue Yuan tossed the jade pendant, kneaded it and played with it twice, thinking that this jade pendant was not as slippery as the little emperor's feet, while saying, "Your Holiness, your jade pendant has fallen off."
Gu Yuanbai glanced sideways and extended his hand towards Xue Yuan.
The meaning was very 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 did with the jade, saying, "The saint's hands are cold, do you want the minister to come and cover your hands for the saint?"
His left hand held the little emperor's jade pendant, and his right hand held the little emperor's icy hand. Xue Yuan thought to himself, this jade pendant is surprisingly not as good as the little emperor's hand to touch.
Ice cold, oddly enough.
Just because of Xue Yuan's efforts to knead these two times, the skin on Gu Yuanbai's hands reddened by half again, and he breathlessly drew back his hand, "What I want is the jade pendant."
What breed of retard is this Xue Jiuyao?