The Korean leader of the team was anxious, and gestured to plead with the man, saying that if he wanted to leave, he would go together, and I also helped and begged, but the man was dizzy due to our strange Central Plains Mandarin: "If you don't leave, then we will all Leave Smecta behind!"
We still looked like we were not giving up, chatting around the man. At this time, the queue behind us was getting longer and longer, and more people became impatient and shouted. Originally, the Celestial Dynasty and Goryeo had been at war for many years, and the people of the Central Plains were quite rude to the Goryeo people, but now they are even more cynical, saying that the Goryeo people are the most noisy and unruly.
Those Goryeo businessmen were so red-faced that they wanted to fight. Seeing that these people were about to fight, the captain was afraid that something big would happen, and even more that there would be more and more people blocking the place, so he waved his hand quickly: "The two Koreans I mentioned just now are not allowed to leave the city, the others are not allowed to leave the city. Blast it out!"
A group of us and a horse team were blasted out of the city gate, and the two Korean merchants were left helpless in the city. I felt so guilty, but the team leader quietly pulled my sleeve and reached out to me.
I didn't understand what he meant, so the team leader twisted his beard and laughed, using the unfamiliar Zhongyuan words: "Give me the money!"
I was greatly surprised: "Didn't Milo give you money?"
The Goryeo who led the team smiled slyly: "Two people, in the city, add money."
I thought that two of their companions were detained in the city, so I ordered A'Du to give him a golden leaf.
Later I regretted my generosity.
The Goryeo saw the golden leaves, and his eyes almost didn't light up. Later, along the way, the Koreans always made excuses everywhere, asking us to pay when eating, and asking us to pay when staying in an inn. Although I'm not very smart, I've been hanging out with A'Du on the streets of Shangjing almost every day for the past three years. I still know how much it costs to buy something. Ordinarily, two golden leaves can buy a house, but the Goryeo people want us to have a golden leaf for every meal, and they take us as a slaughter. I think that all the money belonged to Li Chengyin anyway, so it didn’t hurt at all to spend it, and besides, they did have their companions blocked in the city, and it was nothing to let those Koreans take advantage of it, so I just pretended not to understand Market price only. Although those Koreans were greedy, they were extremely hard-working. They got up before dawn every day and didn't rest until sunset. I have to walk for eight or nine hours a day. I haven't been riding a horse for such a long time in three years. My bones hurt. Every night when I get to the inn where I rest, I can fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.
I slept soundly that night, when A'Du suddenly woke me up. She held a knife in one hand, and I saw the light in her eyes in the dark. I quickly got up and asked in a low voice, "Is Li Chengyin's people catching up?"
A'Du shook his head, and he didn't know if she didn't know, or if she didn't guess.
We were silently waiting in the dark, and suddenly we heard a soft sound of "chi". If we didn't pay attention, we couldn't hear it at all. I saw a thin bamboo tube pierced the window paper and stretched in. A'Du and I looked at each other. White smoke suddenly came out of the thin bamboo tube. As soon as I smelled the smell, I felt my hands and feet softened, and I couldn't stand any longer. It turned out that the white smoke that was blown in turned out to be incense. A'Du took a step forward, blocked the bamboo tube with his thumb, pinched the tube, and suddenly poked it hard.
I just heard a low whistle, and there was a "coo dong" outside, as if a heavy object fell to the ground. I was dizzy, A'Du opened the window, the fresh wind made me awake a little bit, and she fed me some water, and then I felt that the medicinal power of the incense was gradually dissipating. A'Du opened the door, and there was a person lying down in the corridor. It turned out to be the Korean who was leading the team. He was stabbed in the key by the fragrant straw, and now he was sitting there stiffly with his mouth open. A'Du took out the knife and put it on his neck, then looked at me.
Fearing that there was another secret, I said to A'Du, "Drag him in, and we'll try it first."
A'Du dragged him in and closed the door again. I kicked the man and asked, "Who the hell are you?"
The man was very stubborn: "If you want to kill, you will kill. The man walks the rivers and lakes. Since he missed, why ask again."
"Oh, so it's a good man to use such a trivial trick as Mixiang?"
There was no guilt on the man's face, and he said loudly: "In order to win, do whatever it takes!"
I said, "Now you've lost!"
The man was still about to be stubborn, but A'Du lightly cut a knife on his leg, and the blood flowed like a stream. He screamed like killing a pig, and he was willing to say anything if he asked him anything. It turned out that this Korean man saw that we were so generous, and his jealousy grew even more, so he wanted to kill and steal money. He wanted to use the incense to fascinate me and A'Du. hole.
"It turned out to be a robber pretending to be a businessman!" I kicked him again, "Come on! How many people have you killed?"
The man burst into tears and begged for mercy, saying that he was really a legitimate businessman, but he was greedy for a while, so he was so confused. I have never harmed anyone before, and I have a seventy-year-old mother and a three-year-old son... Is everyone so greedy? This Goryeo wanted more money, officials wanted to be bigger officials, and the emperor always wanted bigger territory. So year after year, the war will never stop.
never satisfied.
I thought of Li Chengyin again, that little prince. After all, step by step, he got to where he is today. His father, the emperor, seduced him with the throne, and he took step by step to get to where he is today.
And I, in fact, just want someone to accompany me in Xiliang, herding horses and shepherding sheep. Such a simple desire, but there is no way to achieve it.
A'Du lightly tapped the hilt on the head of the Goryeo, and when he tilted his head, he fainted. A'Du and I tied him under the table and gagged his mouth. A'Du gestured and asked me if I wanted to kill him, and I shook my head: "This person doesn't dare to report to the officials when he wakes up. After all, he wants to make money and kill him first. Just tie him here, we can't follow them all the way. , just turn westbound."
We were afraid of revealing our tracks, so we left the inn before dawn. We rode for a long time before the sun came out. In the afternoon, we sold the horses at a market and bought an ox cart. A’Du and I disguised as peasants and peasant women, and we walked slowly to the place. Go west.
Naturally, there are still chasing troops. Many times, the troop of horses and horses are chasing them from behind. They don’t even look at our dilapidated bullock cart, and they pass by like lightning. Every time we went to a city, the interrogation became more stringent, but sometimes A’Du and I didn’t enter the city at all, and we walked around the country roads. It was naturally very hard to walk all the way, and I don't know how long it took, and finally came to Yumenguan.
Seeing the strong gate between the two mountains, I finally cheered up.
As long as he exits the border, it is the boundary of the countries in the Western Regions. Even if Li Chengyin is now the emperor, if he insists on sending his pursuers out of the border, he will probably make the Western Regions countries in an uproar, thinking that he is going to declare war, and then he will really fight. Fighting is not so easy. Because of this, the Yumen Pass also posted a sea arrest notice for the arrest of the criminals. A'Du and I dressed as men were drawn on the top, but the names were not ours.
To tell the truth, the painting is really like it, Li Chengyin has only seen me wearing men's clothes once, and it is difficult for him to order someone to paint it.
But now A'Du and I are both women's clothes, and the robber Jiang Yang wanted on the sea arrest notice is a man, so A'Du and I are in the queue to pass the customs. It's just that we don't have the ultimatum to pass the customs. How to get out of the customs is a difficult task.
I'm not nervous. I have a lot of gold and silver in my bag. A'Du's martial arts are extraordinary. If something really happens, let's fight first. If we can't win, we can buy it with money.
Unexpectedly, we could neither win nor buy it this time.
I looked at the closed general.
Pei photo.
I think Li Chengyin is really cunning. Even if I go around the world with him, I still have to get out of Yumenguan before I can go back to Xiliang. Now he sent Pei Zhao to guard the Yumen Pass and interrogated them one by one. Even if A’Du’s martial arts were outstanding and he tried to break through, there are tens of thousands of troops stationed in this Yumen Pass all year round. If a fight broke out, the army would be disturbed. Wings can't fly.
I smiled at Pei Zhao, and Pei Zhao also smiled at me.
I said, "General Pei, why are you here?"
Pei Zhao said: "The last commander was sent by His Highness to come here to hunt down the fugitives."
I could still laugh: "General Pei is General Jin Wu, who leads the 3,000 Yulin Forest in the East Palace. I don't know what kind of fugitive he was, but he alerted the general and chased him all the way to Yumenguan."
Pei Zhao remained calm and said indifferently, "Of course it was ordered to commit a crime."
I laughed twice again: "I am ordered to commit..."
A'Du moved slightly, and behind the pheasant above the pass, countless armour appeared. They drew long bows and pointed at us with feather arrows in silence.
I sighed and said to Pei Zhao, "Anyway, I have to go out of the gate today anyway, if you want to stop me, shoot me with arrows under the gate, anyway, you don't just do this kind of thing. once."
But Pei Zhao said, "Prince Concubine misunderstood His Highness, His Highness treats Prince Concubine really infatuated."
I said: "What is infatuation or not, I will cut off my love with him, you don't need to mention him in front of me again."
Pei Zhao said: "The fire at Chengtianmen is not because the lamps and lanterns are running out of water."
I was slightly startled.
"Shangyuan, all the people are happy, there is really no way to close the city gate. His Highness is worried, lest the assassins take the crown princess out of the city, and it will be difficult to hunt down, so he gave an order, ordering people to secretly set fire to Chengtianmen." Pei Zhao's tone was still indifferent. , "His Royal Highness can do such a thing for the Crown Princess, why can't the Crown Princess be your Highness."
The news shocked me so much that I was speechless for a long time. Chengtianmen is a symbol of imperial power. Since the fire at Chengtianmen, there has been a lot of discussion in the court, and the emperor has also issued an edict for this, taking the responsibility for his immorality on himself. I never dreamed that it was not an accidental fire, it was actually set by Li Chengyin's order.
Pei Zhao said, "As the Crown Prince, Your Highness has all kinds of unavoidable circumstances. The assassin who shot the assassin and accidentally injured A'Du girl was the last commander who insisted on doing his own thing. If the Crown Princess wants to see the crime, the Commander will naturally accept it. The Crown Princess should not blame His Highness for this. "
Although I have no scheming, I am not a fool. I said, "You lied to me here, Hugh."
Pei Zhao said, "The last general will not dare."
I said coldly: "What do you dare not, isn't it impossible for you to violate your order? Without his order, you dare to mobilize the Yulin army to surround and destroy? Without his order, you dare to call someone to let arrows go? You take all these things to yourself. I just wanted to persuade me to go back. I will never be fooled by you again. Pei Zhao, I jumped on the cliff of Wangchuan three years ago. At that time, I thought I would never see you again. I have forgotten everything for the past three years. , but you probably never thought about it, and I would actually think about it again. I will never forgive Li Chengyin for the things he did. If you don't let me out today, I will forcefully break in, killing or slashing. It's up to you."
Pei Zhao looked at me with a shocking expression. He probably never dreamed that I would think of everything. He looked at me blankly, as if he wanted to see through my whole being with his eyes. I suddenly felt guilty, this person is not ordinary loyal to Li Cheng Yin, what will he do today
Pei Zhao was silent for a long time, and suddenly said, "No."
I felt inexplicable: "Why not?"
He raised his eyes and looked at me: "The Crown Princess asked that day, if the assassin grabs you, will the final commander also order someone to shoot you and the assassin together with random arrows? The final commander answers now, no."
I suddenly understood, I made a gesture to A'Du, A'Du drew the knife and put it in my neck.
I said, "Switch!"
Pei Zhao said loudly, "Assassins hold the Crown Princess, don't accidentally hurt the Crown Princess, switch quickly."
When the door was closed, it took dozens of people to push the heavy door one by one, and the dazzling and scorching sun from outside came in directly.
The sun outside Yumen Pass was so hot, I suppressed my ecstasy and ran towards the outside Yumen Pass.
Suddenly I heard the sound of hooves behind me, and a group of cavalry was galloping towards this side. The flags were fluttering in front of me. I saw the dragon pattern embroidered on the flag. I didn't have time to think about it. When I got closer, the dust from the horses' hooves came to cover my face. Only then did I find out that it was Li Chengyin who was at the head.