The Sword of Smiling and Proud

Chapter 93 Gray Broken Jade
The crowd returned to the inn with Sangbu's body. At this time, the remaining frontier soldiers had tied up Sangbu's apprentice and the round-faced man.

The group of lamas are still on the ground, and the enlightenment party is not over yet.

Guan Yuan interrogated one of them and asked Xiao Er to wake him up.

"It's really not a villain hiding something. There is no antidote to this thing. In the past, we all, uh, they all woke up naturally the next day."

Guan Yuan was a little speechless, thinking, I still have to wait for their carnival to end.

Shen Lian pulled him aside, and said in a low voice, "There's something wrong with the round-faced man in the yellow letters."

Just now, the frontier army found the identification items specially used by Jin Yiwei's spies from the man's carry-on backpack. They are all daily necessities, but they are code words when combined.Combined with the fact that he wanted to run away repeatedly before, Shen Lian had a rough guess about his identity.

"He may be Ma Debiao."

"It's still possible, you haven't seen Ma Debiao?!" Guan Yuan asked Shen Lian.

"Before, it was my late father who met him. My plan for this rescue is also to rely on codes to recognize each other."

"Hehe, then we exposed our identity as Jin Yiwei in the lobby before. Instead of recognizing each other, this person wanted to run away. I'm afraid he has betrayed and felt guilty."

"There may be a story in it. If it's a rebellion, it shouldn't appear in this Hetao area at this time."

The two planned to cheat him.

The border army locked the man in the yellow letter room, and said that as long as he made up five times the horse money, he would be released.

The round-faced man covered up the joy in his eyes, and he was still evading by saying that he was a businessman, he still had a lot of IOUs that had not been collected, and he didn't have that much money, so he asked the military men to show their hands high.

"What kind of inn do you live in if you don't have money! Don't talk nonsense, you have to pay now, and if the adults of Jinyiwei pursue it, you will be stripped of a layer of skin."

"Mr. Jun, you have also searched through the luggage. You really have no money. Otherwise, you can take the things in the bag."

This guy is still trying.

"Who wants your pile of junk? Quickly find a way to raise money."

After saying that, the frontier army closed the door and left. Guan Yuan and the others lay on the roof and watched the situation in the room.

As expected of this man, he traveled all over the world, he observed the movement outside the door for a while, and then began to grope around himself.

After a while, he found a lot of gold leaves and pieces of silver from the locks of hair, under the soles of his boots, and even under his boots.He weighed the broken silver, took back some of the gold leaves, wrapped the rest of the gold and silver together, and handed it to the frontier soldier outside the door.

"Master Jun, please click." At the same time as handing it over, another gold leaf was passed under the wrist without any trace.

"You're smart, let's go, don't be seen by Mr. Jin Yiwei."

"Thank you, Mr. Jun, the villain will pack up and leave now."

I saw that the man thanked the sergeant and was about to leave with his bags.Guan Yuan and Shen Lian looked at each other and followed quietly behind.

I saw that the man didn't run away immediately when he got out of the inn, but stayed for a long time not far away, about three to five miles away, pacing back and forth, as if hesitating.

He put down his luggage, sneaked back again, walked around to the stables of the inn, and seemed to take out something from the hay pile, stuffed it into his arms in a hurry, bent over and ran away.

He didn't have a horse, so he probably planned to go east to the bank of the Yellow River to see if he could rent a boat and go down the river.

Just when the man arrived at the river, a small ferryboat stopped at the ferry where Guan Yuan and the others crossed the river, and an old boatman was cleaning the hull of the boat.

"Boater, you and I will have money and silver, how about transporting me to Shanxi."

The two parties negotiated the price, and just as the man was about to board the boat, he suddenly found that his right hand, which he stretched out to ask the boatman for help to board the boat, was tightly bound and could not move.

The boatman was naturally disguised by Shen Lian. His family has been a Jinyiwei for generations. Apart from martial arts, it can be said that he is proficient in everything in intelligence work.

Guan Yuan also came out from the hiding place, together they pressed the man to his acupuncture points and tied him up.

This matter involved Jin Yiwei's secrets, so the frontier soldiers were not involved, but the two of them intercepted each other by the river.

They picked up the man, dragged him to the boat, and began the interrogation.

"Say, why don't you meet up at the Chahar Department as planned!"

Shen Lian spoke directly.

The man saw that he had fallen into the hands of the two brocade guards in the inn, so he knew it was wrong, and saw that the other party was straight to the point, questioning himself why he didn't go to meet him, thinking that he had been exposed, so he simply broke the can.

"I'm going, it's because you didn't arrive after the delay, and you came to ask me instead!"

"Where is Shen Bing, I want to see him, and I can't talk to you two juniors."

"It really is you, Ma Debiao!"

At this time, Ma Debiao realized that he had been tricked, and became angry from embarrassment, "I escaped death in the desert all by myself, but in the end I was humiliated by you two juniors!"

"I ask you, why didn't you wait for the opportunity to converge, and instead ran west to come here!"

Guan Yuan searched out the bundle in the stable from his arms, but didn't open it, so he asked Ma Debiao, "What is this, it's worth going back and forth?"

When Ma Debiao saw this thing, he no longer felt the indignation just now, but was a little scared and helpless.Under Shen Lian's persecution, he told all the things that happened along the way.

It turned out that Ma Debiao pretended to be a merchant and collected military information among various tribes in the desert.That day, when the herdsmen near the Chahar tribe dug up this treasure from the ground and offered it to the Great Khan, he couldn't restrain his greed.

After snatching the treasure, he immediately sent a letter to Feige to ask for it, but during the waiting process, he really couldn't resist the temptation, so he evaded and hid himself.

What kind of treasure is it that made a decades-old Jin Yiwei abandon his mission and escape here.

Guan Yuan opened the package, but saw that it was a jade seal, four inches in diameter, with five jade dragons engraved on the back. Turn it over and see the front, engraved with eight seal characters of "Ordered by the sky, long life and eternal prosperity".

Shen Lian and Guan Yuan looked at each other, seeing inconceivable in each other's eyes, could this be the legendary Jade Seal? !
Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty and made a northern expedition to Dadu. This jade seal was brought back to the desert by the Mongols. Since then, there has been no news of it, and it will appear in the hands of a group of herdsmen.

This jade seal has always been a symbol of "auspicious omens". The emperors of all dynasties have searched for it many times, just to prove that their dynasty is the orthodox of China and the destiny belongs to it.

It's no wonder that Ma Debiao was unwilling to meet up and fled to the Hetao area by himself.If he dedicated the jade seal to the emperor himself, it would be a great fortune.Even if it is not given to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it is dedicated to the great sweat on the grassland, or it is traded to some ambitious people.

Ma Debiao also didn't trust Jin Yiwei, and was afraid of being murdered by the Shangguan, so he wanted to take it all by himself.Fleeing to this Longmen Inn, I didn't know what to do next, and I was in a dilemma, so I stayed for so long.

He thought that it would be safer to be in the gray area where no one cares about the border between the two countries, but he didn't expect that Guan Yuan and the others came here by mistake.

After finally escaping from the inn, he was met by lamas and planned to take him to the inn for interrogation, which was really unlucky.

"Where is Shen Bing, I want to see him. We went outside the pass to spy on the military situation together, and we have a life-threatening friendship."

At this time, Ma Debiao did not give up and wanted to find Shen Bing to protect him.

Shen Lian remained silent, Guan Yuan said, "Shen Bing is dead. On the way to rescue you, he encountered a Mongolian brigade cavalry and died of serious injuries."

"Dead, actually dead!" Ma Debiao was stunned when he heard this, and his waving arms stopped in mid-air.He couldn't accept it for a while, and he muttered words, after all, the two had been friends for more than ten years.

Just when he was still entangled in doubt and self-doubt, Guan Yuan added another sentence, pointing to Shen Lian and said, "Before Shen Bing died, he still thought about the love of robes, and sent his son, Shen Lian, to the desert. save you."

"For you, we traveled for more than a month, and we were all seriously injured."

"I also met the Mongolian National Division and fought several battles. If it wasn't for the help of the frontier army at the Longmen Inn, I'm afraid I would have fallen here in Mobei."

Because I have had private thoughts, I have harmed my old friends for many years. Now that the matter is exposed, even my family in the capital will suffer.

At this moment, Ma Debiao was sitting slumped on the ground, his eyes were empty, apparently he was speechless and lost his mind.

Shen Lian planned to escort Ma Debiao and Yuxi back to the capital and hand them over to Fusi Yamen in Beizhen, Jinyiwei.

The three of them returned to the inn. Now that Ma Debiao's matter had been resolved, they turned around to deal with those lamas.

There was no need to be polite to Monk Bang, Guan Yuan handcuffed the sober people together and forced him to ask for information.

He first took out the black plaster he found from Sangbu's body, and questioned these people. He dared not use anything he didn't ask clearly.

It turns out that this thing is a secret medicine brewed by the method of Tantric Buddhism, and it is called Black Jade Blood Ointment.

The main medicine inside is the blood of dozens of black turtles.This black water turtle grows in a large lake in the north of the grassland. Due to the cold climate, it grows slowly, and it takes almost a hundred years to reach a certain size.The tortoise blood is taken out and boiled together with the hem, and many precious herbs from Tibet are also added.This medicine is best for nourishing blood, cultivating the body, and can be taken internally or externally. It is combined with the Heart Sutra of Tantric Buddhism, which makes Sangbu recover so quickly.

Due to the cumbersome method, the whole Tantra was only in such a small jar, which was carried by Sangbu, and it fell into the hands of Guan Yuan.

With this item, Guan Yuan and Shen Lian's injuries will surely recover quickly.

Now that the information is in hand, what Guan Yuan means is that these lamas will be left useless and they will be killed on the spot.

One of the lamas was so scared that he peed his pants and hurriedly said that he had other information to explain.

He dug out a piece of broken jade the size of a thumb from Sangbu's bag, and handed it to Guan Yuan.

"Master of the Quanzhen Sect, this is the treasure that Sangbu has valued the most for many years. He always carries it with him and never asks me to wait for it."

When Guan Yuan took it into his hand, he saw that it was just a piece of average-looking broken jade, the size of a thumb, with one big end and the other small, showing a grayish white color.Just now they looked at the bag without paying attention, and put it aside casually.

"What is the use of this thing?"

"Uh," the lama was at a loss for words for a while, "Sangbu always took it out to study and play with it, but he hasn't found any results yet. But it is said that this is a treasure that was taken back from the Central Plains Taoism."

"Maybe it is from the Quanzhen sect. Now that the property is returned to its original owner, I hope that the Lord will spare me the life of a dog."

Guan Yuan looked at it for a long time and found nothing unusual, so he handed it to Shen Lian to have a look, but he didn't find any clues either.

In desperation, he had no choice but to put it in his arms, waiting to return to Huashan, and go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to see if there are any records.

As for this group of lamas, they will be handed over to the frontier soldiers. They will use them for military merit. Whether they live or die depends entirely on God's will. I hope their Bodhisattvas can bless them.

Immediately, Guan Yuan and Shen Lian discussed that since the lama's pursuit of soldiers had been resolved, they had to return to Xuanhua as soon as possible, otherwise there would be no news for a long time, and Gu An might mistakenly think that the two were dead.

Just when Guan Yuan and Shen Lian started to heal their wounds with black jade blood ointment, Ma Debiao, who was next to him, saw the terrible arrow wound on Shen Lian's back, and remembered that Shen Bing had boasted to himself before that his son inherited his father's career. Losing control of his emotions, he broke free from the restraints and slammed into the pillars in the inn lobby.

Guan Yuan had just taken the blood ointment orally, and was about to exercise his kung fu to test the effect, but it was too late to stop him.Ma Debiao wanted to die with all his heart, his head was bleeding and he lost his breath after the collision.

Shen Lian came over to sniff quickly, then shook his head slightly at Guan Yuan, it seemed that he couldn't be saved.

So far they still don't know what kind of brotherhood Shen Bing and Ma Debiao are like.Shen Bing's letter before his death was a business-like letter. It didn't mention anything about his past with Ma Debiao. After dying of serious injuries, he lost his mind.

Guan Yuan felt a little heavy for a while. Nine out of ten unsatisfactory things in the world, a momentary greed can have such big consequences, it is really alarming.

Conditions were limited, the two buried Ma Debiao hastily, and they were not in the mood to stay. They planned to return to Xuanhua early tomorrow morning.

That night, Guan Yuan used his innate skills to transfer Zhou Tian, ​​and the effect of the black jade blood ointment was really outstanding.The soreness in his dantian was relieved by half, and under the nourishment of strong blood energy, the thickness of his meridians and the capacity of his dantian had been greatly improved.

He estimated that in three days, he would be fully recovered.Can't help but marvel at the fact that there is a specialization in this technique, apart from other things in Tantric Buddhism, this unique skill in medicine is already first-class in the world.I don't know whether it is better than the legendary Jiuhua Yulu pills from Peach Blossom Island or the Black Jade Intermittent Ointment from the Western Regions.

Just when he got up and was going to stand in the courtyard to absorb the moonlight essence to practice, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, which made him unable to stand up.

It was as if someone had put a red-hot iron on his chest and pressed it hard again, the pain pierced his heart and lungs, and he almost went into cardiac arrest.

Guan Yuan bowed his waist and panted for a long time before he calmed down. His eyes were already red and his forehead was covered with sweat.

He hastily untied his collar to check, only to see that the skin on his chest was normal, there was no abnormality, the only difference was that the original silver imprint on his heart had dimmed, and it was not as strange as before with the faint moonlight shining through.

Guan Yuan could no longer perceive the existence of the imprint on the heart, nor the nourishing effect of the moonlight.

Goldfinger actually went offline without warning at this time?
I haven't researched where the imprint came from, and it disappeared inexplicably?
With a thought, Guan Yuan rummaged through the broken jade stuffed into his bosom before.Sure enough, the broken jade disappeared, and the bag that wrapped the broken jade seemed to have a small hole burnt out.

Guan Yuan was a little helpless, he got a piece of useless broken jade from Lama Sangbu, but lost the moonlight imprint that had been used for more than ten years, the gain outweighed the loss.

He didn't give up, and tried many times to use the kung fu, but there was still no response, so he had to give up, and continued to transfer the innate kung fu honestly, without any other abnormalities, and continued to heal his injuries.

(End of this chapter)