"Ms. sir, you're back!"
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 muttered, then took off her socks and started mending them in a clumsy yet familiar way.
Wearing a military robe, she looked capable, tight 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 torn, just make another pair. It'll 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 majestic and attacked the county town. She never expected that she would be kidnapped and forcibly married to herself.
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, soldiers, and barracks broke into each other's embankments, 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 judge and a subordinate of Emperor Chongzhen.
Immediately, the generals swelled and tortured hundreds of officials and wealthy households, robbed the people, and obeyed the king's willfulness and refused to listen to dissuasion.
The style of "accepting people's kindness" 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 are so many rebels in history, but they are all pioneers of 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 handed it directly into his hands.
"Yes!" Li Yan woke up from his memories and continued with a smile: "Today I have told Your Majesty that I am willing to go back to Henan to recruit troops and then restore 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 discretion."
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 Fengfenghuohuo.
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, they are a considerable force now that they have been defeated and left the capital.
"Eating wine?"
Li Yan narrowed his eyes and felt 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, what others have told us is that there is 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, it was impossible to kill him, right?
The next day, Li Yan took his younger brother Li Nian to a banquet. Before leaving, he always had a bad premonition.
"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 can't 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. She was 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 take your wife from your hometown to remarry with you."
One hour, two hours...
The red lady was dressed in military uniform, 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.
The red lady's eyes were red, she gritted her teeth, and said word by word: "The whole army is ready, 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 four thousand troops suddenly broke away from King Chuang's team and headed south, as if they were going 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 been beheaded 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 went south without hesitation. 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."
