Tibet

Li Ye found Zhang Xian, the chief registrar, and Zhang Xian enthusiastically invited Li Ye to sit down in the official office.

"We have all heard about the results of the battle at Bukhanna. We also reported it to Commander Gao. Commander Gao was also very excited and immediately led his troops to break the leaves. It is estimated that they will arrive in the next few days."

Li Ye nodded, "I just came to Suiye to find him!"

Zhang Xian glanced outside and asked with a smile: "Where are your men?"

"I left them at Bahan's place. The army still needs additional training. I am the only one who came to Suiye this time. The main reason is to meet the commander-in-chief."

"I understand, let's go! I'll arrange for you to stay and have a good rest for a few days."

Zhang Xian took Li Ye to the VIP Inn, "This is where officials who come to Suiye stay on business trips."

Yi Cheng came out and invited the two of them into the post house. Zhang Xian gave him a brief introduction, "This Mr. Li is a distinguished guest of the Jiedushi Envoy. In the next few days, he will have to ask Zhou Yi Cheng to take good care of him!"

"It should! It should!"

At this time, a subordinate came over and said a few words to Zhang Xian. Zhang Xian nodded and said apologetically to Li Ye: "There happens to be something urgent, so I have to go first."

Li Ye smiled and said, "Master Zhang, please feel free to do as you like!"

Zhang Xian explained a little more and left in a hurry.

"Master Li is from Chang'an, right?" Yi Cheng asked with a smile on his face.

Yi Cheng is a Han Chinese in his forties and looks very kind.

Li Ye smiled and said: "To be precise, I came from Bahan, but my home is in Chang'an. Where is Zhou Yicheng from?"

"My ancestral home is Jincheng County, Lanzhou, but I have never been to the Tang Dynasty. My grandfather brought my father to Suiye very early, so my grandfather named me Zhou Xiangdong. He hoped that I could visit the Tang Dynasty and return to my hometown to worship my ancestors. , Hey! I don’t know when I will have the opportunity.”

Li Ye nodded and asked: "Are there many Han people in Suiye? I feel like there are quite a few. I saw a lot of Han faces on the street."

"Many, most of them are military family members and their descendants, have settled here, such as me. There are also a group of Han people who escaped in the early Tang Dynasty. For example, a group of people came from the Li family in Longxi. The great poet Li Bai Even when Suiye was born, he was still my neighbor! But he returned to Datang when he was very young."

Speaking of the poet Li Ye, he smiled bitterly. He had met Wang Wei, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty. He had originally made an appointment to visit his Wangchuan villa in Lantian County in the autumn of the year before last, but he didn't go.

After a long journey, Li Ye was really a little tired, so he didn't go out after staying. He had lunch in the post house, took a quick hot bath, and fell asleep.

The posthouse was very quiet in the afternoon. Li Ye, who was sleeping soundly in the room, suddenly opened his eyes, sat up, took out the nameless dagger from under his pillow, and stared at the movement in the courtyard.

This is an additional effect that appeared in the later stages of Li Ye's Suzaku Kung Fu. He has a special ability that is almost a sixth sense. When the aura within three feet of the surrounding area changes drastically, he can feel it keenly, or have a low sense of breaking through the air. He could also feel the sound.

For example, just now, he felt a strong wind blowing outside the door. This kind of wind is often brought out by people.

"Meow-" A black cat appeared on the windowsill, jumped off the window sill and left.

Li Ye shook his head. He was awakened by the black cat. This was too inappropriate. Could it be that his Suzaku skill had begun to decline?

It has been almost half a year since last fall, and I have hardly practiced in the water. I took advantage of these two days to practice in the water.

At this time, Li Ye remembered something and took out a gold box from his horse bag. This was the Caliphate's Stone, also called the King's Stone. Li Ye later learned about its origins from King Murdo. These ten gems were originally The crown jewel of the Sassanid Persian emperor. After the Persian Empire was destroyed by the White Eclipse, the crown fell into the hands of the White Eclipse Caliph.

One hundred years ago, the third generation Caliph Osman was assassinated. His cousin and governor of Syria Muawiya was dissatisfied with the succession of Caliphate by Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet, which triggered a large-scale civil war. The crown was lost at that time.

Later, the crown was missing, but the ten gems on the crown were lost among the people. Fifty years ago, they were bought by a Bukhanna businessman and later presented to the Bukhanna King Hu'anli, who was Murdo's grandfather. Ten years ago, Murdo's father sealed the gold box with gold juice and never opened it again.

But the news spread about Murdo's sister, Alian of Princess Bukhanna. She was the most favored by her father. When she was a child, she had seen gems and stole a ruby. Her father discovered it and his father recovered the gem. He was furious. The gold box is melted into one piece.

Princess Alian later married the prince of Shiguo, who was Kundushi's father. She told her son Kundushi this secret, and Kundushi told the secret to Caliph Abbas, and finally brought it to Bahna war.

The gold box was not big, ten centimeters long and five centimeters high, just enough to grab. Li Ye put the gold box on the table and stared at the treasure box that the Caliph was determined to get. He was a little hesitant, should he cut it open?

Suddenly, he felt an extremely subtle sound of piercing the air behind him. He instinctively turned his head to the side, and a golden needle shot through his neck and was nailed to the wooden pillar opposite. Li Ye was so shocked that his scalp almost exploded. assassin!

He suddenly felt the sound of breaking through the air behind him again. Without thinking, he rolled over and moved away instantly. Three golden needles were nailed to the table. Li Ye already understood that he had been deceived by the black cat. He was awakened. Someone just sneaked in.

Li Ye reached for the flying knife at his elbow, but found nothing. Then he remembered that he took off the scabbard after taking a shower today.

Suddenly, a long whip flew in from the opposite back window, and just happened to wrap up the gold box on the table and take it away. Li Ye was shocked. The dagger in his hand shot out, and he rolled forward. The dagger was about to come out of the window just as the whip was about to come out. In an instant, the long whip was cut off, and the gold box fell, just in time to be caught by Li Ye.

He put the gold box into his arms, rolled it several times, pulled out the Qinglong Dao from the wall, waved it with a cold light, 'Ding Ding Dang Dang! ’ The Green Dragon Sword blocked three golden needles.

Li Ye jumped out of the back window. There was no one outside the back window. There was half a whip on the ground, and his nameless dagger was also missing.

He ran to the front yard again, but there was no sign of anyone in the front yard. When he turned around, he saw a note nailed to the door. He stepped forward and pulled off the note. There was only one line on it, "Gold Box for Horse, Dayun Temple" , written in Turkic script.

At this moment, Zhou Yicheng stumbled in and said in horror: "Master, your horse... your horse has been stolen!"

Li Ye asked calmly: "Are there any casualties at the station?"

"That's not true. The groom was knocked unconscious. He was not injured. He said that a young woman put a knife to his back and forced him to tell him about your horse. He had no choice but to say it, and then he was knocked unconscious."

Li Ye nodded. Since there was a note, it was obvious that the other party did not make a temporary decision. They were here for the gold box. However, the other party did not seem to know the importance of the gold box, otherwise they would not have offered the "gold box in exchange for a horse" condition.

Huoyunma really had no choice but to find it back. He still had Mojin, but his nameless dagger was also picked up by them.

Of course, Li Ye knew that the nameless dagger was not ordinary. It cuts iron like clay. How could the treasure collected by Feilong be ordinary? It’s just that he didn’t know its origin, so he named it the Nameless Dagger.

"Where is Dayun Temple?" Li Ye asked.

"Which Dayun Temple are you asking about?" Zhou Yicheng asked tremblingly.

Li Ye was startled, there was more than one Dayun Temple in Broken Leaf, "Is there any difference?"

"There is a difference. East Dayun Temple is dedicated to Maitreya and was built under the order of Wu Zetian. West Dayun Temple is a Zoroastrian temple with a history of hundreds of years."

Li Ye nodded. The other party left a message in Turkic characters, so it should be Xi Dayun Temple.