When Li Yan returned to his military tent, he saw a beautiful figure approaching him like an elegant figure. He helped him sit down, changed his leather boots, and exposed his long socks with holes.
"Why is it broken again!"
When the red lady saw it, she pouted and mumbled, then took off her socks and started mending them in a clumsy yet familiar way.
Wearing a military robe, she looked capable, tight-fitting, and heroic. But now she was squatting and mending, struggling with her socks. When Li Yan saw this, he was quite amused:
"Matchmaker, forget it. If it's broken, just make another pair. It will be troublesome to mend it."
"No, I must fix it!"
The red lady stood up and said stubbornly: "If your wife can do it, my side wife can do it too."
Hearing this, Li Yan was stunned and then fell silent.
Back then, when he saw local corruption, Li Zicheng broke through the cage and showed great bravery, so he changed his name from Li Xin to Li Yan and prepared to join the invasion army.
At that time, the red lady was so majestic that she attacked the county town. Unexpectedly, she was kidnapped and forcibly married to her.
By chance, he led his troops to join King Chuang.
But at this moment, he looked back with a hint of regret in his heart.
At that time, officers and soldiers broke into the camp and broke the embankments of each other, hoping to let the water of the Yellow River flow to each other, but this resulted in the tragic flooding of Kaifeng.
As the largest city in the north after Beijing, Kaifeng has a population of more than one million. In the end, only ten thousand people including the Prince of Zhou's Mansion fled.
Entering Xi'an again, he posthumously recognized Li Jiqian of Xixia as Taizu...
When he arrived in Beijing, he saw with his own eyes the corpse of Emperor Chongzhen left lying in the streets.
More than ten years of reading the Four Books and Five Classics, and Confucian teachings, left him with all his internal organs burned.
After all, he was a civil servant and a subordinate of Emperor Chongzhen.
Immediately, the military generals swelled up and arbitrarily tortured officials and wealthy households and robbed the people. They obeyed the king's willfulness and did not listen to dissuasion.
The style of "being able to accept people's kind words" and "everything is done by everyone" suddenly disappeared.
Are you satisfied?
"Li Zicheng has finally changed."
He is familiar with history books and naturally understands the changes in people's mentality, but in the end, he still underestimated the human heart.
No wonder there were so many rebels in history, but they were all pioneers for kings.
"Ms. sir, the sewing is done!"
The red lady straightened up, her waist was slender, her legs were straight, her eyes were bright, her voice was loud, and she was handed over directly into his hands.
"Yes!" Li Yan woke up from his memories and continued with a smile: "Today I have expressed to Your Majesty that I am willing to go back to Henan to recruit troops and regain Zhongzhou."
"Really?" The red lady was stunned, and then she was overjoyed: "We can go back to our hometown? It's great."
As she said that, she walked aside and caressed the red tassel gun on the weapon rack: "It's been a long time since I rode a horse and carried a sword, so majestic."
Immediately, the red lady turned her head and said with a serious expression: "Are you tired of being with me and miss your wife, Lady Tang?"
As she said that, she couldn't help but draw out the knife, with a look of jealousy on her face: "Let me tell you, even if I am the concubine, I am still married to the matchmaker, so you can't be partial."
Hearing this, Li Yan smiled, waved his hands and said, "I have my own sense of proportion."
He has become accustomed to the sudden changes in weather.
To be honest, he is a traditional literati, and he is quite unhappy with the matchmaker's public behavior. However, these are troubled times, and he will become more enlightened no matter how unaccustomed he is to it.
"Brother, His Majesty just ordered someone to send a message, saying that he would treat us to a drink tomorrow to discuss matters about returning to Henan."
Younger brother Li Nian ran over and said furiously.
Unlike other literati, Li Yan joined the army with the Red Lady's troops. He had his own troops and had a stronger say.
Although there are not many, only a few thousand people, led by the Red Lady and her younger brother Li Nian, but now they are defeated and leave the capital, they are a considerable force.
"Eating wine?"
Li Yan squinted his eyes, feeling something was wrong.
"Isn't King Chuang always drinking with his brothers?"
The red lady's pretty face was full of doubts: "How can you drink with us so quietly?"
The red lady is still called the King of Chuang, which is the habit of many old people.
"I don't know about that!" Li Nian shook his head and said, "Brother, sister-in-law, it's been conveyed to us. There's no way we won't go."
Li Yan was silent for a long time. There must be a monster when something goes wrong, but as a minister, how can there be any reason to refuse the king?
"Let's go and have a look tomorrow!"
Li Yan smiled in his heart, he couldn't possibly kill himself, right?
The next day, Li Yan took his younger brother Li Nian to a banquet. Before leaving, he always had a bad feeling.
"Red Lady, if I don't come back for a long time, don't hesitate to take your troops back to Henan."
The red lady was stunned for a moment, and she hurriedly said: "If anything happens to you, I will take revenge on you even if I don't care about my life."
"No, go back to Henan!"
Li Yan looked into her stubborn eyes and said, "My parents are in Henan, and my family is also in Henan. They cannot live without someone to protect them."
"Now, the only one I can rely on is you."
The red lady was stunned and glared at him, unconvinced and wanted to refute, but after looking at each other for a long time, she finally gave up:
"A gentleman's revenge is never too late in ten years. Don't worry. If you are gone, I will risk my whole life to take revenge."
Li Yan smiled, brushed the broken hair from his forehead, and said: "Red Lady, if something really happens to me, just find a man to marry!"
After saying that, he rode away.
The red lady looked at his back and shouted: "Li Yan, you piece of shit, if you don't come back, I will remarry, and I will take your wife back home to remarry with me."
One hour, two hours...
The red lady was dressed in military uniform, with her eyes closed, waiting for news.
Until dusk.
"No news yet?"
she asked in a deep voice.
"King Chuang said that Li Zhijun drank too much and rested there!" the soldier said, cupping his hands.
The red lady's eyes were red, she gritted her teeth, and said word by word: "The whole army is ready to march south——"
"Ah?" The soldier was stunned.
"Are you deaf? I asked you to deliver the order!"
"As you command!"
The red lady stood up, her straight legs covered under the armor, her chest protruding, holding a red tassel gun, her pretty face full of gloom and unwillingness:
"King Chuang, just wait!!!"
Hula la——
More than 4,000 troops suddenly broke away from King Chuang's team and headed south, seeming to cross the Yellow River and return to Henan.
Li Zicheng was shocked: "How did the Red Lady know?"
At this time, the drunken Li Yan and Li Nian had their heads chopped off and were lying on the ground. Niu Jinxing specially invited them to come.
Seeing this scene, he instantly regretted it.
Although Li Yan was stubborn and often contradicted him and disobeyed him, after all, he had been with him for three or four years and still had some feelings for him.
Niu Jinxing was very happy and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, it can be seen that Li Yan has wanted to rebel for a long time. You can see that his army did not hesitate to go south. It is obvious that he has been plotting for a long time."
"That's it!" Li Zicheng was also a little angry. Li Yan really wanted to betray him. Fortunately, he was killed early, and the regret in his heart disappeared.
After proclaiming himself emperor, he became even more disgusted with words that were disobedient to him. It would be better for an old man like Niu Jinxing!
"Send someone to chase him. If you can't catch him, come back immediately. It's more important to go back to Chang'an now."