Chapter 83: Grassland Flowers
Liu Wuzhou stopped them. He grabbed Song Jingang's horse bridle and shouted: "King Song, what are you going to do?"
"Bring Ruolan back!"
"Are you crazy?" Liu Wuzhou said with wide eyes, "The Turks have millions of strong soldiers, and the guards at the beginning and end alone have tens of thousands of people. If you take these dozens of people to break into the tent, aren't you going to die? These
Your brothers have come all the way to the grassland with you, can you bear to let them die in a foreign land?"
"Then what should we do?" Song Jingang shouted, "I can't just abandon Ruolan, right?"
"Calm down first, let's go back to the tent and talk slowly." Liu Wuzhou persuaded Song Jingang to go back.
In fact, Liu Wuzhou had just gone to the Yazhang. He asked to see him, but he avoided seeing him at first. Later, he met a familiar Teller. Teller was a descendant of the Turkic Khan clan, and was served by the Ashina family. He was quite
The prince of the Central Plains Dynasty, Teller told him that the Khan wanted to marry his sister.
Of course Liu Wuzhou could not tell his brother-in-law this news. After returning to the tent and the two of them sat down, Liu Wuzhou said: "I went to the tent just now. Ruolan is fine. The Turks did not make things difficult for her. She will be back in a few days."
of."
"Really?" Song Jingang stared at his brother-in-law dubiously.
"I don't need to lie to you."
Two days later, Shibi came to Liu Ruolan and asked her how she was thinking about it. Liu Ruolan was silent for a moment and said, "I can promise you, but I have a condition."
"What conditions?"
"You canonize me as Ke Dun. In the Central Plains, I am the queen." Liu Ruolan said, "The wedding of the emperor and the queen must be held in a tall palace. But there is no palace here, so a colorful building must be built, five feet long.
, four feet wide and three feet high. You summon all the high-ranking officials in the Khan's court and canonize me as Ketun in public."
He pondered for a moment and said: "The Turks have strong financial resources, so this is not difficult to do. It will be an auspicious day in three days, how about holding a canonization ceremony?"
"Can."
Three days later, the canonization ceremony was going to be held. According to the rules of the Turks, Liu Ruolan had to wear a ceremonial robe. However, the robe was white and looked like mourning clothes, so she refused to wear it. She said to Shi Bi
: "According to our Han customs, we must wear red clothes for weddings. I have a set of wedding clothes, which is in the camp. You can send someone to get it."
The wedding dress was bought when she married Song Jingang. She had kept it carefully and brought it with her this time. She had no choice but to send someone to find Liu Wuzhou and get the wedding dress back.
The colorful building was erected on a flat grassland in front of the tent. The wooden pillars were wrapped in silk and covered with various flags. Among them were two large white banners with golden wolf heads painted on them.
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the colorful building, all nobles and high-ranking officials of the Turkic Khan clan, and thousands of Turkic warriors were at the scene to maintain order.
Although Liu Wubei repeatedly concealed it, Song Jinjiang still heard the news. He insisted on going to the scene, but Liu Wuzhou could not dissuade him, so he had to accompany him. The Turkic soldiers guarding the gate were afraid that they would cause trouble and would not let them in until the two surrendered.
After carrying the weapons with them, they were allowed in.
At three o'clock in the morning, the ceremony officially began. Liu Ruolan and Shi Bi sat side by side on a high-wheeled cart, surrounded by many guards of honor, and came to the side of the colorful building. After the two got off the car, according to the custom of the Turks, they walked in front of each other.
They knelt down in the east and worshiped the sun. Then they climbed up the wooden ladder to the colorful building.
Liu Ruolan was dressed in a bright red wedding dress, with a thin layer of makeup on her face. She has an apricot face and peach cheeks. She is beautiful, her eyes are like autumn water, and her eyebrows are like distant daisy. Standing on a tall colorful building, she looks like a fairy banishing herself to the dust. She looked towards the audience
Looking down, it was completely dark. Suddenly, she was in the crowd.
She saw her brother and husband. Song Jinjiang looked at her without blinking, with an expression of indescribable pain on his face. Liu Ruolan looked at him, her eyes as moving as the morning stars filled with tears,
There was a forced smile on his face.
The canonization ceremony was presided over by a shamanic wizard. Many red, yellow, and green cloth strips were hung on the wizard's body. He wore a round hat with several wild goose feathers on the top of the hat, and many black tassels hanging along the brim of the hat.
The network completely covered his face, so no one could see his face clearly.
The shaman held a shaman drum in his hand. While beating the shaman drum, he sang and danced, and then babbled a lot of incantations. He kept tossing for a while before he was done.
After the wizard left, Liu Ruolan said to Shibi who was wearing auspicious clothes: "Khan, I am a woman from the Han family. I cannot commit myself to Dihu. Please forgive me!" After saying this, he took a few steps to the balcony and jumped up.
As he went down, everyone at the scene screamed in surprise.
Liu Ruolan fell heavily to the ground. Song Jingang and Liu Wuzhou rushed forward like crazy. Song Jingang rushed to his wife's side, hugged her tightly with both hands, and called over and over again. After a while,
Liu Ruolan just woke up. Her face turned pale, she coughed violently several times, and red blood spit out from her mouth. Because she was too seriously injured,
Her eyes were blurred, and after seeing Song Jingang clearly, she weakly said: "Husband, Ruolan can't accompany you anymore, you have to live well..." Then, her eyes turned to Liu Wuzhou's face again, and her voice was weak:
"Brother, even if my little sister dies, she has not... lost... the... dignity of a woman of the Han family..." Liu Ruolan's breath weakened and she finally closed her eyes.
Song Jinjiang hugged Liu Ruolan and cried bitterly. After crying for a while, he wiped away his tears, raised his head, and looked up the colorful building with a pair of eyes burning with anger.
Shibi stood at the edge of the colorful building with a livid face, staring down fiercely. After a moment, he turned around and walked away angrily.
The Turks at the scene slowly dispersed. After hearing the news, the guards from the camp rushed over. Several people carried the body onto a carriage, transported it back to the camp, built a coffin for burial, and then set up a mourning hall to pay homage.
Three days later, everyone found a slope near the camp near the mountains and rivers, and buried Liu Ruolan. The grass was dew on the original land, and the white mandarin duck flew away without its companion. Song Jingang burned incense and worshiped in front of the tomb, crying while
Said: "Ruolan, my husband is incompetent, so I let you stay in the grassland forever. May you be like a pure white orchid, blooming forever on this grassland..."
After Song Jingang finished the first seven weeks for his wife, he came back from the cemetery and immediately ordered his soldiers to pack their bags. He took out a saddle from the tent, put it on the horse's back, and lowered his head to buckle the belt around the horse's belly. Liu Wuzhou
When he came back from outside, he saw them busy at work and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "King Song, what are you doing?" Song Jingang said without raising his head, "Leave here and go back to the Central Plains."
"Why?"
"Ruolan was killed by the Turks. I want to go back to my hometown to raise a team and avenge her!"
Liu Wuzhou glanced around and lowered his voice: "Are you stupid? You were found by the Turks while walking in broad daylight. Can you still walk?" Song Jinjiang listened and said nothing.
"I don't want to stay here anymore. I plan to go back to Mayi." Liu Wuzhou said, "Let's go together tonight at the second watch."
Upon hearing this, Song Jingang raised his head to look at him, thought for a while, and nodded.
After the second watch that night, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang left the camp with dozens of soldiers and horses. They came to an open area, mounted their horses, galloped wildly, and galloped southward.
After dawn, they had galloped seventy or eighty miles. Everyone dismounted and rested for a while, ate some dry food they had brought with them, and led the horses to the river to drink water and eat grass. Then everyone remounted their horses. By afternoon, they had already
One hundred and fifty sixty miles away from the Khan's court, just as Liu Wuzhou was secretly congratulating himself for escaping from the clutches of the Turks, suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves behind him, like a violent wind and rain.
Liu Wuzhou turned around and saw hundreds of cavalry appearing behind him. He was so frightened that he exclaimed: "No, the Turks are coming. Run!" After saying this, he whipped his horse desperately and led all his men to flee desperately.
However, the Turks' horses were faster, and the distance between the two sides became closer and closer. Finally, the Turks' cavalry galloped to the front, and then turned around to intercept them. The leader was Pei Luo, who was a high-ranking Turkic official.
Governor Yu Pei Luole stopped his horse and sneered: "Want to run away? It's not that easy."
Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were both captured and brought back to the Turkic Khan's court. Shibi concluded that they were defectors and ordered them to be beheaded.
The executioner was Ye Hu. Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were tied up and escorted to the execution ground. They were surrounded by Turkic soldiers holding weapons. Leading clouds hung low, the north wind whimpered, and there was a murderous atmosphere between heaven and earth.
There is a waist chopping machine. The waist chopping machine is a machine like a door frame.
Device, there is a huge wrought iron chopping ax placed on the upper part of the door frame, which is tightened and fixed with hemp rope. There is a groove in the lower part of the door frame, and the prisoner lies on the groove. As long as the hemp rope is cut,
Iron axes weighing hundreds of kilograms will fall along the chutes on both sides, cutting the prisoner in two.
Liu Wuzhou was beheaded first. Then, Song Jingang was carried by two Turkic soldiers and placed on the waist chopper. His lower back was close to the hidden groove. Eight or nine feet above his eyes, there was the sharp blade shining
The cold light of the axe. Song Jingang had no fear in his heart. He just closed his eyes slightly and said silently in his heart: "Ruolan, wait for me, my husband is here..."
Ye Hu waved his hand, and a soldier cut off the rope with a knife. The huge ax whizzed down and cut Song Jingang in half.
Sadly, two heroes who rebelled in the late Sui Dynasty died at the hands of the Turks.
Jinyang City, the residence where Li Zhiyun temporarily lived. As soon as Li Zhiyun came out of the hall, he saw Cai Hu and Scarface walking in from the outer door. As soon as Scarface saw him, he shouted: "King Chu, King Qin Ming
There is going to be a victory celebration party tonight, and I heard that they even asked people to rehearse a play, what is it called..."
"The king of Qin is happy when he breaks the formation." Cai Hu said.
"Yes, yes, it's the King of Qin's Breaking Formation Music." Scarface said, "It will be performed at the Victory Celebration Party tomorrow night."
"The music of King Qin breaking the formation?" Li Zhiyun recited silently and said, "Does it look good?"
Cai Hu nodded and said: "I went to see the rehearsal, it was pretty good." Li Zhiyun thought for a while and said, "What's the point? Let's also rehearse it and call it 'King of Chu's Broadsword Music'."
Chapter completed!