Duan Tiande was an ordinary military attache in Lin'an Prefecture nine years ago. On a snowy night, he received an order from his superiors to accompany an important person from the country to capture thieves in the villages around Lin'an Prefecture. On the way, he

Only then did he realize that this important person from the Shang Kingdom was actually the Sixth Prince of the Kingdom of Jin.

This is a great opportunity to make meritorious deeds, and he must seize this opportunity firmly.

So Duan Tiande led a group of soldiers into the homes of Guo Xiaotian and Yang Tiexin in Niujia Village, arrested Guo and Yang in the name of catching rebels, and finally killed Guo Xiaotian. This was the Niujia Village tragedy.

Same people but different fates.

In this incident, Wanyan Honglie took advantage of the chaos to rescue Bao Xiruo, and finally brought the beauty home. However, Duan Tiande was chased by Qiu Chuji. Fortunately, he kidnapped Guo Xiaotian's wife Li Ping as a hostage and escaped all the way to the north.

During the trip, he was captured by the Jin people, and was eventually separated from Li Ping in Mobei.

After wandering around Mobei for a while, Duan Tiande found an opportunity to return to Lin'an. Because of his contribution in the Niujiacun incident, his official position was promoted to one level. Nine years have passed. At this time, Duan Tiande is no longer the man who was ordered to do anything at will.

He became an ordinary military attache and became the deputy envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty mission.

A formal mission is generally composed of envoys, deputy envoys, officials, translators, scouts, charioteers and other personnel. It can be roughly divided into three categories: the person in charge of the mission, attendants and service personnel.

In this mission, the envoy was responsible for contacting Wanyan Honglie, while Duan Tiande was responsible for security work.

The Song Dynasty was a dynasty that valued civil service over military affairs. It was a common practice for civilian officials to control military attachés. This may be the reason why the military strength of the late Song Dynasty was so weak. Although Duan Tiande was the deputy envoy of the mission, he had no other rights except to protect the safety of the mission.

Because he had an acquaintance with Wanyan Honglie, he also wanted to set up a friendship, but at this time, Wanyan Honglie was no longer the idle prince before, but had become a powerful minister of the Jin Kingdom who was in charge of the government. This kind of identity and rank

The gap made Duan Tiande dare not easily visit Wanyan Honglie, not to mention that it would also cause criticism if a deputy envoy of the mission paid a private visit to the prince of the Kingdom of Jin.

Two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, the delegation from the Southern Song Dynasty came to Kaifeng City and stayed in the post house.

The envoy of the mission went to visit Wanyan Honglie. Duan Tiande had nothing to do, so he took a few of his men to wander around Kaifeng City to appreciate the scenery of this imperial city of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Kaifeng City was a shame to most officials in the Southern Song Dynasty, but Duan Tiande did not feel this way. He visited it with great interest. Kaifeng City was as prosperous as Lin'an. In two days, it will be the Dragon Boat Festival, and the streets and alleys are full of people.

It is full of peach branches, and every house is exuding the fragrance of mugwort leaves.

The Dragon Boat Festival in this era is not only to commemorate Qu Yuan, but also to get rid of the evil spirits of plague.

So on this day, every household will plant calamus and moxa leaves to drive away ghosts, smoke atractylodes and angelica and drink realgar wine to ward off epidemics. Although the customs are different in the south and north of the Yangtze River, eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival is a common custom.

At this time, Mu Nianci was making rice dumplings at home, and the whole courtyard was filled with the fragrance of mugwort leaves and glutinous rice.

She learned how to make rice dumplings from the aunt next door. She was not very neat about how to make rice dumplings, so she could barely read them. The old lady taught her step by step. In order to save money, poor people usually make rice dumplings from several families together, so that mugwort leaves and glutinous rice can be used together.

There will be no waste, everyone will talk and laugh together, it will be a Dragon Boat Festival.

"Nianci, pack up. Daddy will take you to Beicheng." Yang Tiexin came back from outside and said to his daughter.

During the two days of holidays, there were a lot more merchants looking for Yang Tiexin to work, but today he came back early because he wanted to take his daughter to go shopping in Beicheng and buy some toys and food that girls like.

Amid the neighbor's kind laughter, Mu Nianci put on a new red dress and followed Yang Tiexin towards the prosperous world. Although Mu Nianci had always been diligent in taking care of the family, the eight-year-old girl had already understood

In order to dress themselves up, they also like those colorful clothes and beautiful accessories. Everyone has a yearning for beautiful things.

South City and North City are two different worlds.

Yang Tiexin and Mu Nianci were walking on the wide street, smelling the fragrant flowers in the air, and looking at the dazzling array of goods, they were a little dazzled. However, everything was so expensive, enough to cover their expenses for a month.

Mu Nianci held this one and looked at that one, feeling a little reluctant and a little lost.

Just take a look, the girl reminded herself in her mind, the ones at the Chengnan Market are cheaper, they all look the same anyway, there is no difference.

While the father and daughter were shopping, the deputy envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty, Mr. Duan Tiande, was drinking heavily in a restaurant. His soldiers were constantly flattering the man. Several of them spoke in loud voices with obvious Jiangnan accents, attracting attention.

Other guests looked askance.

When Duan Tiande finished a glass of wine and turned to look at the scenery outside the restaurant, he saw someone he didn't expect. This person overlapped with the reckless man in his memory who was wielding a spear and rushing around. That night, the sky

Although it was dark, he remembered it clearly because he almost died under that spear.

Yang Tiexin, he is still alive!

For a while, Duan Tiande was mostly awake from the wine and stared blankly at the backs of the father and daughter. It wasn't until Yang Tiexin and Mu Nianci were about to disappear into the crowd that he realized what he was doing. He didn't care about his soldiers and hurriedly

Went downstairs and followed him up.

He felt that this might be another great achievement. He knew that Yang Tiexin was highly skilled in martial arts and did not dare to follow too closely. He just watched from a distance. Yang Tiexin and Mu Nianci were just shopping and did not notice anyone following them.

In this way, Duan Tiande followed him from Beicheng to Nancheng until he reached Yang Tiexin's residence.

The deputy envoy looked around and determined that this was Yang Tiexin's hiding place, but what should he do next? Does the Sixth Prince of Jin know that Yang Tiexin lives here?

Duan Tiande only knew that Wanyan Honglie originally arrested the Guo and Yang families for the sake of Yang Tiexin's wife, Bao. He also didn't know that Bao, who once begged him to let her husband go, was now Princess Zhao. He felt that a prince was playing tricks on her.

A common woman would fall into chaos and end up abandoning her. He was not sure if the current Sixth Prince of the Jin Kingdom still remembered that common man named Yang Tiexin.

Finally, Duan Tiande decided to go to Prince Zhao's Mansion and report the matter to Wanyan Honglie. If he could satisfy the prince and put in a good word for himself, he would probably be promoted again after returning to Lin'an.

At this time, Yang Tiexin and Mu Nianci returned to the small courtyard. The rice dumplings had been wrapped. Mu Nianci put the fragrant rice dumplings into the steamer and started to light a fire. Yang Tiexin was chatting aside, and the father and daughter were enjoying themselves.

Ten miles away, Yang Kang was talking to Bao Xiruo. Bao Xiruo was used to doing things by herself. She made rice dumplings by herself every Dragon Boat Festival. Of course, the maids would prepare all the ingredients in advance, while Yang Kang was messing around.

Not only did he not pack well, he also left things everywhere, which made Bao Xiruo angry.
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