Ma Xiaoquan said: "If he is here, I would like to meet him."
Batu suddenly sighed and shook his head: "It's useless for you to see him."
"What? Something happened to Magatu?"
Batu said: "How could something happen to my brother? But after what happened a few years ago, he became helpless."
Ma Xiaoquan said: "Can't get up after a fall? Well, for a Jurchen to be able to say this word, you are considered very powerful. It is much better than Magatu."
"Shut up, you are not allowed to talk about my brother. You are from the Central Plains. If I can't kill you with a knife, I can burn you to death."
"Wait~~" Ma Xiaoquan said, "I'm just passing by. Do you need to torture me like this? I've already told you that I know your brother. I should be considered your brother's friend. How do you treat you?
My brother’s friend.”
Batu said: "We Jurchens have no friends from the Central Plains."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, that's what's wrong with you. Since Maga'atu is your brother, you can let me meet him once, and then burn me to death, right?"
Batu shook his head and was about to refuse again when suddenly, a burst of gongs and drums came from not far away.
Batu was stunned for a moment, then quickly bowed his body and stopped talking.
Ma Xiaoquan turned around and saw a young man walking out from the Jurchen soldiers. This young man was wearing armor, tall and had a heroic spirit between his brows.
The young man stepped forward slowly, looked at Ma Xiaoquan, turned to Batu and said a few words in his ethnic language, and Batu quickly and respectfully replied in his ethnic language.
When the young man asked, Batu would answer. After the master and servant talked for a while, the young man turned to Ma Xiaoquan and asked: "Are you looking for Magatu?"
Ma Xiaoquan was stunned. This young man spoke Chinese better than Batu, and his tone was quite polite.
Ma Xiaoquan cupped his hands at the young man and said, "I am a passerby who was arrested for no reason. Speaking of Magatu, I must have met him before."
The young man thought for a while and asked again: "But I don't think you are just a passerby. You look like a spy of the Ming army."
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "If I am a Ming army spy, why should I come so arrogantly?"
"Well, okay, then what is your purpose?" the young man said.
Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "Smart, to be honest, I traveled all over the country just to find some strange places to explore. I have been here before and found a strange place, but now, it seems that it is guarded by you Jurchens.
Let me see it."
The young man was stunned and asked: "Have you been here before? Then have you ever gone in..."
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "No."
"Well, if I let you in, would you dare?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said: "What are you afraid of? I am a traveler. The more adventurous the place, the more interested I am."
"Okay!" The young man clapped his hands and laughed, "Since you dare, I'll let you in."
"What? Aren't you going in?"
The young man shook his head: "What kind of strange place are you talking about? We call it, well, it should be called a secret place by the Han people who guarded it before. In the past, no one could enter the entrance of the secret place. Later, we could go in, but after entering
None of them can come out."
"Can't get out? I don't understand what you mean."
The young man said: "Yes, once you go in, you can't get out."
Ma Xiaoquan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It seems that I have taken a road of no return."
The young man said: "Why, are you afraid?"
"Afraid? Haha, I'm afraid I won't come. Well, since you let me in, why don't you prepare some water and dry food for me?"
The young man thought for a moment and said, "We don't have dry food, but we have dried meat, is that okay?"
"Okay, jerky is better."
The young man nodded and said, "I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Aixinjueluo Huang Taiji."
"Huang Taiji? Are you Huang Taiji?" Ma Xiaoquan was stunned and shocked. This guy is the real founder of the Qing Dynasty.
Batu shouted: "Presumptuous!"
Huang Taiji nodded, stretched out his hand to Batu, and said with a smile: "Yes, I am the eighth son of Father Khan. Why, do you know me?"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head.
"Oh, okay~" Huang Taiji smiled slightly and ordered Batu, "Go and prepare water and dried meat."
"yes!"
...
In the camp, the emperor's wife took a glass of wine, presented it to Ma Xiaoquan, and said politely: "I haven't asked you your name yet."
"Haha, my name is Ma Quan." Ma Xiaoquan concealed the word "filial piety" in his name.
"Ma Quan? Okay, Brother Ma, we have prepared water and dried meat for you here. I think it's not too late to finish the glass of wine and leave immediately."
Ma Xiaoquan is also eager to release it as soon as possible.
"Well, okay~"
...
Somewhere on the mountainside of Guangming Mountain, a group of Jurchen soldiers were quietly guarding a path in front of them.
It's said to be a path, but it's actually just a wide gap that emerges from the mountainside.
Occasionally there will be a flash of blue light in the gap, giving it a layer of mystery.
Ma Xiaoquan followed the Jurchen army to the gap and happened to see the blue light passing through the gap. He couldn't help but admired: "When I came here for the first time, I didn't have these at all and couldn't get in. I didn't expect that such a big thing happened here.
The changes are magical, really magical.”
Huang Taiji came up and said: "After we seized this place from the Han people, we sent people in, but there was no news after entering."
"Don't you tie ropes to people who go in? If there is a problem, just pull them back." Ma Xiaoquan said.
Huang Taiji shook his head: "We have used this method a long time ago, but it is useless. When we pull it back, it will be empty."
"Oh, okay, then if you let me in, what do you need me to do?"
Huang Taiji thought for a while and said: "I want to know what is here. With so many people in my unit and so much effort spent guarding this place, is there anything worth missing for us?"
"Then if I come out and tell you, will you let me go?" Ma Xiaoquan asked again.
Huang Taiji nodded: "Of course."
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "I don't believe you!"
Huang Taiji smiled and said: "Actually, I don't believe you either, but you have no choice." After saying that, Huang Taiji pushed Ma Xiaoquan to the crack very rudely, and pushed Ma Xiaoquan into the crack with all his strength.
"Ah~~" Ma Xiaoquan screamed, and his whole body sank into the crack instantly.
...
"Papa~~" Huang Taiji clapped his hands and shook his head disdainfully.
Batu walked forward and asked worriedly: "Brother Eighth, are you okay?"
"It's okay. By the way, send people to keep watching here. If the horses don't come out in one day, take people to evacuate from here."
"Eighth elder brother, this..."
Huang Taiji rolled his eyes at Batu: "This is not an important place, and there is no point in guarding it. Besides, when those Han people fled, they mentioned a secret location. I think it was their trick. They wanted us to guard it.
