Chapter 971

When Qu Wentai heard the speech, he couldn't help looking stiff and glared at the visitor.

"Don't talk nonsense. How can something happen to the good Buddha? Come quickly!"

The person who came to tell the news was also pale at the moment, his body trembled like chaff, his tongue knotted, and he couldn't speak clearly for a long time: "my great king, such as, the Buddha statue of the Tathagata, it, it, it, it melted..."

"What?" Qu Wentai angrily came forward and grabbed the man's collar: "what are you talking about? The glazed Buddha is not made of ice. How can it melt?"

"Big, king, slave, slave dare not lie. When the king goes to the temple in person, he knows that slave, slave have no lie."

Qu Wentai didn't care to talk nonsense with others. After someone kicked him in the future, he hurried to the outside of the Palace door.

When Qu Wentai hurried to the temple on horses surrounded by a group of palace guards, there was a dark crowd gathered here, all kneeling down and kowtowing to the temple.

It rained heavily yesterday. Naturally, these believers in gaochangguo were like Qu Wentai, attributing the credit to the blessing of the Buddha. Therefore, early this morning, many people came to the temple to offer incense in front of the glazed Buddha statue.

But I didn't think about it. On the Golden Buddha platform in front of the main hall of the temple, the original crystal clear Buddha statue melted like ice soaked in water

This strange scene scared countless believers to scream, and everyone's face was filled with the word fear.

Before Qu Wentai arrived, many civil and military officials of Gaochang had also received the news and hurried to the temple. Even the Datang mission, which still resides in Gaochang City, came here at the moment.

Qu Wentai jumped off his horse and was welcomed into the temple by a group of dusty officials and monks.

When the Lord of Gaochang saw with his own eyes the remains of the Buddha statue on the Golden Buddha platform, his eyes suddenly darkened, his body suddenly shook and almost fell to the ground.

"Well, what's going on? Why did the Buddha look like this!" Qu Wentai burst out and shouted at the people around him after being held by the bodyguard.

There was silence everywhere, and no one could answer his questions.

The devil knows what's going on. How can a good glazed Buddha melt like ice?

If the glazed Buddha is cracked or broken, people can understand it, but it's too incredible that the glazed Buddha melts for no reason.

As for the monks in the temple, they knelt on the ground and dared not lift their heads.

Glazed Buddha statues are so precious that they were damaged in their temples for no reason. Who can bear such responsibility?

Seeing that no one was talking, Qu Wentai was even more angry: "go and find the abbot to Gu. Gu wants to ask him what's going on with the statue of Buddha!"

Immediately after receiving the order, a monk ran to find the abbot.

But before long, he saw the monk stumble back: "big, king, abbot, abbot, he hanged the beam and killed himself!"

"What?" when Qu Wentai heard this, his blood pressure soared upward, and his temples jumped suddenly.

Obviously, because the glazed Tathagata Buddha melted for no reason, the abbot of the temple felt guilty and had no face to face the people, so he simply chose to commit suicide.

The death of the temple host made the atmosphere of the scene more and more depressed.

When the people were speechless, they heard someone suddenly sneer and say, "hum, what a suicide! Your majesty, this is your attitude towards the state gift given by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty? The sage ordered us to travel thousands of miles to bring the glazed Buddha statue to Gaochang so that you can damage it so wantonly?"

Qu Wentai's eyelids suddenly jumped and looked up. It was the envoy of the Tang Dynasty to gaochangguo who spoke.

He then realized that compared with the destruction of the Buddha statue, what was more fatal was that the Buddha statue was a national gift given by the Tang Dynasty to Gao Changguo.

Now the Buddha statue is damaged for no reason, which is serious.

To put it mildly, Gao Changguo did not keep it properly; If it is more serious, it will damage the Tianwei of the Tang Dynasty and break the face of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty

"Tang Gong, there is a misunderstanding. How dare Xiao Wang destroy the Buddha. This Buddha, it, it..." Qu Wentai's words couldn't go on.

He is still confused about what happened to the Buddha statue.

Tang Gong in Qu Wentai's mouth is Tang Songling, Tang Jian's eldest son.

Tang Jian was named Minister of the Ministry of the people by Li Erjin because he said that he would surrender Turks and cooperate with General Li Jing to March and capture Jieli Khan alive.

However, his eldest son, Tang Songling, inherited the inheritance of Tang Jian as a "Diplomat" and now holds the post of waiter in the Ministry of rites. He was the chief envoy of the mission when he went to Gaochang this time.

Tang Songling snorted coldly, "misunderstanding? I have to ask the king why the glazed Tathagata Buddha has become like this?"

"This, this... Maybe it's hot..." Qu Wentai couldn't say any more. How could he know why the Buddha looked like this.

Not to mention the hot weather, the glazed Buddha will not melt, even if it is caused by the heat, but some time ago, the glazed Buddha was exposed to the sun every day and did not melt.

Moreover, it rained day and night yesterday, and there was no possibility of melting because of the heat.

Thinking of the rain, Qu Wentai couldn't help looking up at the already Miserable Buddha statue. He couldn't help jumping out of his heart with an absurd idea. Could it be that it was watered and melted by the rain?

Immediately, Qu Wentai himself denied this guess in his heart.

The Buddha statue is made of colored glass, which is absolutely not wrong. Including him, all the civil and military officials of gaochangguo have seen the Buddha with their own eyes and even studied it carefully.

As a transportation hub connecting the East and the west, gaochangguo's glassware transported from the west is not rare.

Even if Li Er's Taiji palace talks about glassware, it may not be as much as Qu Wentai's palace.

For glass, that is, colored glass, Qu Wentai and a group of Gaochang officials are too familiar, so there will be no doubt about the material of colored glass Buddha statues.

It is well known that glass is not afraid of water.

If he wanted to tell Tang Songling that the Buddha was watered and melted by rain, he would be insulting Tang Songling's IQ.

For a time, Qu Wentai was speechless.

Seeing that Qu Wentai was speechless, Tang Songling sneered again: "OK, OK, since Gao Changguo treats me like this, I won't accompany you! Someone, take down the Buddha statue and take it away. The mission will set out today and return to Chang'an! I'm sure Tang won't give up on this! If Gao Changguo can't give me a statement, don't blame me! Don't say anything! Farewell, king!"

Tang Songling said that, turned around and left without giving Gao Changguo a chance to explain.

The Tang craftsmen who came with the mission immediately ran to the Golden Buddha platform and began to lift and disassemble the melted and damaged Buddha statue.

Qu Wentai opened his mouth and tried to stop it, but he couldn't speak.

The glazed Buddha statue was damaged in the temple of gaochangguo. The Tang mission was angry, but it was reasonable. What reason did he take to stop it?

Qu Wentai sighed, shook his head and called the ministers back to the palace.

It's obvious that there will be a lot of trouble in the future. He needs to discuss with the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty how to calm the anger of the Tang Dynasty.

But Qu Wentai never thought that his previous absurd guess was the truth