Liu Qiong'er was just about to fall asleep at dawn. She was awakened by strange noises in her chaotic sleep. She looked out the window and saw that it was already bright.
Hearing a "crash" sound in Xu Huai's room next door, as if a table had been kicked over and knocked over, Liu Qiong'er put on her coat and opened the door, and saw Niu Er faithfully guarding the yard on duty. Xu Huai
The bedroom window was open, and the tables and cabinets in the room were chopped to the ground. They were in a mess. A long straight-spine knife was cut into two pieces with too much force. Xu Huai was sitting in front of the bed with the broken knife in his hand.
His face tightened, and he stared at the courtyard sullenly.
Liu Qiong'er walked in and wanted to clean it up but couldn't do it. She said in a sweet voice: "What kind of monster are you doing again?"
"I had a nightmare, and I can't get rid of the resentment in my heart." Xu Huai threw the broken knife aside, lying on the bedside with his hands on the back of his head, staring at the curtain, and asked Liu Qiong'er, "Have you ever heard of the Red Huren?"
The matter of leading sheep?"
"I heard that capturing prisoners naked and wearing sheepskins and tying ropes around their necks to make them walk like sheep was a way for barbarians to humiliate prisoners of war - why did you suddenly mention this? Does it have anything to do with your nightmare?" Liu Qiong'er sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed.
Come, grab Xu Huai's hand and ask softly.
"I dreamed in the morning that the Chihu people's cavalry marched southward in large numbers, and the city of Bianjing fell without a fight. Thousands of the kings, ministers, concubines, concubines, and nobles of Dayue were escorted to King Chihu's tent. Thousands of people eked out an ignoble existence, but were stripped of their robes.
Wear a sheepskin around your neck and put a rope around your neck, and do the sheep's knee walk in front of the red warriors who are laughing wantonly!" Xu Huai felt his chest was tight when he said these words, and he gasped.
"..." Liu Qiong'er couldn't imagine how depressing the scene was. She sighed quietly, pulled Xu Huai's arm away, curled up, and lay down against Xu Huai's arm, leaning against him, and slowly
Xu said, "It seems a little early for you to reveal your identity at this time. There will be many unpredictable consequences, but I am willing to believe that you are urgent and necessary to make all decisions. What we have to do now is to avoid as many unpredictable consequences as possible.
The consequences will be fine!”
"You say it, I'll listen!" Xu Huai said.
"Once Yue Hailou has doubts about your life experience, all the things that confused them in the past will confirm this guess. Now it is difficult to use any means to confuse them. And they will definitely believe that Tong
All the actions of the people in Baishan during the bandit rebellion, as well as the deployment of forces since the establishment of Zhufengtang, were all done against the Cai Clan. Therefore, within the Cai Clan, no matter how many enemies they had in the past, we must have become their most powerful enemies this time.
"We are desperate to get away with it quickly, and we must be very alert to deal with all the sinister and sinister tricks they may use," Liu Qiong'er said, "They don't dare to directly open up the old cases, but
There are rumors in both the government and the public about Jiao Zhao and the murder of your mother for Cai Zheng. Now they only need to secretly release the news. In addition to the generals who were involved in Jiao Zhao, they will be more vigilant about you, and those self-proclaimed noble officials will also be wary of you.
Most of them will be inclined to think that we have ulterior motives, and it is not even ruled out that Mr. Wang Fanlang has such an idea!"
"Why didn't you mention Mr. Wang?" Xu Huai asked.
"Ms. Wang and Mr. Lu, maybe they have already had doubts about your life experience, right?" Liu Qiong'er said, "Ms. Wang, Mr. Zhu Kang is far more generous and generous than ordinary ministers. All our actions
They can also feel it first hand and hard work, but Wang Fanlang is not familiar with us, and we are always separated by a layer. If he knows your true life experience, it is difficult for me to imagine that he does not have some thoughts in his heart!"
"Okay, what you said makes sense, but if Mr. Wang Fanlang really has any thoughts about us, this is something we can't change!" Xu Huai said.
"I told you to take down that little girl Wang Xuan's film and make her a son-in-law with Wang Fanlang. Wouldn't this problem be gone? After this step, evil people like Yue Hailou will spread evil words again. Wang Fanlang
You will only be biased towards you. This is human nature, but you just don't listen to me. If you still want to ask Wang Fan to recognize you as your son-in-law at this time, it will probably be more difficult than escaping from Datong City with so many soldiers.
Here you go!" Liu Qiong'er said.
"Why are you bringing this up again?" Xu Huai asked with a wry smile.
"I heard that Xiao Yanhan's skin is as white as snow. Her appearance is not as gentle and delicate as that of Jiangnan women, but she is surprisingly beautiful and bright, and her temperament is fierce and bold. I think it must be to your liking?" Liu Qiong'er turned sideways and held up her hand.
Looking at Xu Huai's face, he asked seriously and calmly, "Have you ever had any thoughts about her?"
"Where does this go?" Xu Huai asked.
"I have been thinking about it. Yue Hailou met with Ge Boyi yesterday and talked secretly for an hour. If he told Ge Boyi about your life experience, what purpose would he want to achieve?"
Liu Qiong'er said,
"Logically speaking, Cai's men will never take the initiative to uncover the old cases, but Ge Boyi is a man who is about to drown. Now that he is given the last chance to shirk his guilt, what scruples will he have? Ge Boyi is now.
Stand up and expose your life experience, and use it to accuse us of harboring a grudge against the past, and not hesitate to secretly collude with the enemy to seek revenge on Cai Qing and those involved in the past. This is to question whether Zhu Hang can lead the remnants of Tianxiong's army.
Returning was secretly manipulated by the enemy. How do you explain it? You arrived at Shuozhou City with 200 cavalry the night before, but Ge Boyi refused to accept you. The excuse he gave at that time was that you collaborated with the enemy to return. I was just thinking.
, if he really wants to know your life experience, apart from accusing us of collaborating with the enemy, there is no other way to get rid of their guilt, right? At this time, Cai Qing, Yue Hailou, Guo Zhongxiong and others will naturally deny it, but the problem
The bias of people's hearts will be formed at this moment, and we will be completely isolated. And even if Ge Boyi is ultimately defeated and executed, it will not change people's views, vigilance, and vigilance towards us. I didn't sleep all night
Okay, I was thinking, can we take the initiative and send someone to find Xiao Yan to ask for a letter from Xiao Linshi, and directly label Yue Hailou as a collaborator! Since we have to tell him, naturally
It’s better to give others a heads-up!”
"..." Xu Huai suddenly sat up.
"What's wrong with you? You're so frightened and so deceitful!" Liu Qiong'er was startled and asked.
Xu Huai leaned down, held Liu Qiong'er's charming face, kissed her lips hard twice, and said: "You are really my good Zhuge, you reminded me of something!"
"Hmm, you're not such a bully. What did I remind you?" Liu Qiong'er kicked her little hooves to kick Xu Huai off her body.
"Yue Hailou may be more vicious than we thought!" Xu Huai said, "I'm going to see Mr. Zhu Hang, and you send someone to find Fifth Uncle and others!"
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Fenshui flows from the Luliang Mountains, passes through the Taiyuan Basin and Linfen Basin in the middle reaches, and finally merges into the Yellow River.
The Taiyuan Basin borders the Xinzhou Basin to the north. Geographically, Taiyuan, Xinzhou and Daizhou to the north are sandwiched between the Luliang Mountains and the Taihang Mountains, making them closer to a whole, while Lanzhou is isolated in the west by the Luliang Mountains.
When Xu Huai escorted Wang Zhen to Lanzhou, he took the old Yangguang Road from the Tianmenguan ruins in the north of Taiyuan through the Luliang Mountains and entered Lanzhou.
Ge Boyi wanted to ride in a prison car with the generals from Lanzhou to Daizhou (Yanmen Pass) where the deputy envoys Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou were asked to plead guilty. It was a relatively convenient and safe way. He also took the old Yangguang Road to enter Taiyuan first, and then
Pass north through Xinzhou and head to Yanmen Pass.
According to Dai Viet regulations, the number of attendants for officials above the rank of governor, generals and ministers under observation should not exceed thirty-four; the number of attendants for generals and ministers below the rank of observation should be reduced by half, and the number of attendants should not exceed seventeen.
When Ge Boyi was in his prime, no one would use this rule to restrain him, but now he is taking a prison car to Daizhou to plead guilty. Even if it is just to pretend to be pitiful, he can no longer order more than a hundred personal guards to ride on horseback and hold armor.
The knife goes with you.
Nine prison cars and a carriage carrying Ge Huaicong's body and coffin, surrounded by a dozen Lanzhou soldiers and a dozen Qingyi swordsmen of the Ge family, meandered through the mountain roads of Lanzhou.
As the most central link between Lanzhou and Taiyuan, Xinzhou and other places, the pass is also busy at this moment.
The news that the Tianxiong Army was destroyed in Datong spread throughout Lanzhou in the past two days. Most of the poor people have become callous, but the big families and official families with a little more flexible minds can think of the disaster of the border war more than ten years ago.
Most people felt that Kelan City was far from safe. At this time, they hurriedly packed their bags and rushed to Taiyuan to avoid disaster, causing congestion on the narrow and winding Yangguang Old Road; several inns along the route were already overcrowded.
It was getting dark, and the prison car team had not gone dozens of miles into Luliang Mountain. It was still ten miles away from the most popular Heiyan Post. Although they could order the post to free up enough rooms, many carriages and horses in front had to stop.
Come down and rest, the narrow road is crowded.
Seeing that it was getting dark and the road ahead was difficult to navigate, the prison van team had to deviate from the narrow road and enter a canyon to temporarily camp.
The Ge family did not have the majesty of the past. In addition to the escort sent by Guo Zhongxiong, there were only a dozen Hakka generals accompanying them. I saw that many refugees also entered this relatively flat and wide canyon to shelter from the cold wind.
At night, they had no intention of driving them away with force. They just kept a certain distance to prevent these people from approaching.
The night soon got dark.
Piles of bonfires were still swaying in the cold wind, but the voices of people gradually faded away, leaving only the cold wind howling in the valley.
The rapid sound of horse hooves broke the silent night, and everyone woke up beside the campfire. They saw a group of cavalry galloping quickly on the narrow road in the distance, holding torches high.
If there were any obstacles along the way, the cavalry would cut them with swords and shoot arrows.
Most of the people staying on the roadside are fleeing people. Where there is no way to stop them, they can only run for their lives in a hurry and get out of the way.
"Khitan!"
Ge Yu slept in a prison car at night, with a wooden shackle still around his neck. He couldn't see the faces clearly, but this group of cavalry came towards the canyon. In addition to holding scimitars and sharp blades, they also wore Hu uniforms and fur robes. This small group
If the cavalry is not Khitan, what are they?
The Tianxiong army was completely defeated. There were gaps everywhere in Lanzhou's defense. It was normal for a small group of Khitan cavalry to leak in, burn, kill and loot. However, this group of Khitan cavalry was obviously coming towards them. Ge Boyi trembled.
Yelled:
"Xu Huai is a thief who wants to use the Khitans to kill us and silence us!"
