He was really bored.
Because of the endless strife within the imperial court and the party struggles between the old and new courtiers.
The higher the official position and the greater the reputation, the more he can feel the suffocating depression and blood that fills the air.
His clever talent and innate skills allow him to wander among the best people who can be his fathers, but he actually does not enjoy this process.
The rebels are still wreaking havoc everywhere, more than half of the common people in the world are caught in the flames of war, and the emperor is hunting to the west. It sounds nice, but who doesn't know that this is actually fleeing to the west?
But even so, we still have to fight among ourselves for those little interests the size of sesame seeds and mung beans!
He sometimes thinks, if he had not married Wu Cuicui and was not bought by her with a piece of gold, what would his fate be like in the future?
Li Qiao could not deny the help that the Wu family had brought to him, but at the same time, he would also rationally think about another question -
If he hadn't married Wu Cuicui, if the Wu family hadn't been a springboard for him to rise too quickly, perhaps the trouble he was facing at this moment wouldn't be so difficult.
When the Wu family helped him to a high place, he may have encountered some current problems that he was unable to solve prematurely, and the wonderful thing about fate is that maybe this sequence Inverted and indirectly changed his original destiny...
However, there is no turning back when the bow is fired.
…
Li Shimin bid farewell to dozens of brothers, disguised himself, and entered Qingzhou City in a grand manner with a waist badge of a centurion in King Wei's army.
We had just experienced a war, and the area near the city gate was full of ruins. Occasionally, people in tattered clothes were passing by in a hurry on the street, and groups of refugees took advantage of the chaos to loot shops...
Li Shimin frowned slightly, and rode around Qingzhou City several times, but found no clues. Then he went back to the city gate, took out a piece of Wei Wang's army armor that could be seen from the dead body, and put it on. , and easily touched King Wei's army.
The King of Wei was already loose in his military management. The reason why he was able to win this battle was because Li Shimin helped him break the hard bones before. Qingzhou was purely a smooth battle. If this happened, the military discipline, which was already stretched, would inevitably be even worse. a bit.
Most of the people in the military camp were alone, so no one felt strange when Li Shimin suddenly appeared.
Not to mention that this person who sneaked in was so brave. Not only did he not hide from people, he also dared to take the initiative to jump into the crowd. After the attack, he even got close to the person: "Brother, you Which general is he under?"
He also looked into the opponent's pocket with a meaningful look: "After this battle is over, I can have a good year!"
The other person laughed loudly and actually started chatting with him, and soon they started calling him brother.
Li Shimin got what he wanted to know from him.
When the imperial capital fell, Xia Houling led his army to plunder. In addition to gold and silver treasures, many female relatives fell into his hands. The most outstanding ones were kept by the Xiahou family, and the rest were used for Reward the soldiers.
This time Qingzhou city was destroyed, these women fell into the hands of King Wei. At this time, they were all imprisoned in a side tent to await disposal.
After Li Shimin heard this, he couldn't help but glance at the side account. The soldier saw what he was thinking, and laughed and said: "Brother, stop looking, we have no business." !"
Then he lowered his voice and said: "Don't you think about it. Among the daughters of ordinary people, who have to feed pigs, raise dogs, starch and wash clothes, how many are of outstanding color? Most of the ones who can be kept are those. As a female member of a high-ranking official's family, you might as well expect that there are also relatives of the prince among you!"
"If you are lucky, you might be able to find your own family, but I don't know if your family is still willing to accept them!"
Li Shimin smiled and exchanged a few vague words with him, then said goodbye. He looked around and suddenly saw a burly young soldier. He couldn't help but praise in his heart, "What a man!" .
The distraction was only for a moment. He wanted to go to the side tent to find out what was going on. However, no matter how lax the king of Wei was in running the army, the big tent was not made of paper. It was loose on the outside and tight on the inside. The ring on the outside could make him It's easy to sneak in, but it won't work if you go in again.
Li Shimin was not afraid when he encountered difficulties. He looked around at the camping place. When his eyes stopped somewhere, his eyes suddenly lit up slightly.
He went to the stable to find the horse he had ridden, stole a pot of arrows from someone else, and followed the path to the high place he had just chosen.
When he looked back halfway, he saw several servants who had met King Wei before, coming this way with a few maids.
After the servants gave the order, someone went to disperse the nearby soldiers and open up a road to the remote place in the east, but the maids went to the side tent.
Li Shimin's heart skipped a beat, and then he realized what was about to happen. He quickly turned his eyes around, bypassed the current hillside, and headed to the east front first.
Not long after, I heard movement in front of me. Several maids I had seen before led the way, leading a group of haggard-looking young women to an open space not far away. The leader, Sheng Sheng, He had an oval face, but his cheeks were not as plump as he remembered, and even the dimple on his right cheek seemed to have become more eye-catching.
Among a group of girls who looked anxious and anxious, she was the only one who stood at the front with a calm expression, a magnanimous look, and no fear.
Several maids led them over, and then quietly retreated. After waiting for a while, the gloomy figure of King Wei appeared in front of everyone.
Although it was a great victory, even though it was a reunion after a long absence, for the King of Wei, this reunion was more important than nothing!
He came in front of many girls with a cold expression, and his eyes swept over them one by one, and finally settled on the girl standing in the front with a careless face.
"Okay, that's great. I never expected that I would see you here!"
Among this group of girls, King Wei didn't know many, but he still tried his best to point out the ones he had met and who could match their faces with their identities: "The daughter of Liu Yingwen, the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the deceased The daughter of the Duke, the right servant of Shangshu, the niece of Jiang Cheng, and you—"
He pointed his fingertips at the person standing at the front and said bitterly: "My good niece, Xiao Mingze!"
"Without exception, you are all noble and high-ranking officials. There are even some who have the blood of the imperial family. With such a noble background, and receiving all kinds of favors from the family, in the end, you have no shame. Thinking about the family's reputation, I bent down to serve as a thief - I have read so many sages' books, don't you even know how to write the word shame?!"
After hearing this, all the girls couldn't help but have red eyes. They either lowered their heads or turned away to wipe away their tears. Only Xiao Mingze looked at King Wei calmly, his face as usual.
"Ants are still trying to survive, but people are bowing their heads in order to survive. What is there to be ashamed of?"
King Wei was furious: "Shut up! Now, you can still say such shameless words!"
Xiao Mingze then asked him sternly: "What is the crime of bending down to serve a thief?"
King Wei said angrily: "You actually have the nerve to ask me what my crime is? You have simply disgraced the Xiao family and your mother!"
A trace of ridicule appeared on Xiao Mingze's face, and he asked again: "In this case, the country's millions of troops were still unable to resist the rebels, so that the emperor fled westward in a hurry, abandoned his ancestral property, visited the ancestral mausoleum in vain, and the imperial capital fell. What crime should the emperor do if the common people are in ruins?"
"Uncle, as a descendant of the Li family, you did not shed the last drop of your blood for the sake of the Li family. Instead, you took away your property and fled in a hurry. Where did you leave your ancestors and the foundation of the Li family?"
"Now that the country has become like this, the country is in turmoil and the people are suffering. The emperor and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty do not reflect on themselves, but they want to use this to blame us, weak women?!"
"In that case, please kill the Emperor first!"
Chapter 122
King Wei didn't expect that she would say such a thing, and he didn't expect that she would be so bold and dare to openly accuse the emperor!
And the few questions before "please kill the emperor" made him speechless on the spot, and he was speechless for a moment.
After he came back to his senses, King Wei was embarrassed and became angry: "I originally wanted to save your life for the sake of you calling me uncle, but now you are talking nonsense, but... I’m leaving you alone. No one can come!”
King Wei sternly said: "Pull this crazy woman down and kill her!"
Xiao Mingze didn't panic when he heard this, and the sarcasm on his face became more intense: "How could my uncle want to save my life? He clearly wants the world, but he doesn't want to completely break up with the emperor, so he wants to Are you going to leave a group of us behind and cover up our past as Xiahou’s wives and concubines, so as to tie up our family and leave a way out for ourselves?”
The king of Wei was speechless again.
It was clear that he was in a high position and could easily kill others, and he was clearly the one with the upper hand. However, King Wei did not dare to speak to him. He only urged his attendants loudly: "Hurry up and take her down!"
Xiao Mingze laughed loudly, fearlessly, and allowed two soldiers to come closer and grab her arms, pushing her forward.
And the shocking change happened in an instant.
At that time, the King of Wei was still angry and had a gloomy face. He was about to order his attendants to escort the rest of his people down, but he heard a sharp sound of breaking through the air coming from not far away, followed by the muffled sound of an arrow entering the flesh and bones.
The King of Wei led his army outside. Although he had never been on the battlefield, he had always seen pigs running. He immediately reacted and shouted: "There are assassins!"
The surrounding attendants reacted quickly, and immediately protected King Wei and hid on the inside of the hillside, while blowing the porcelain whistle to warn the enemy of attack——
The group of girls who gathered here were frightened and couldn't help but let out a scream and fled in all directions. The attendants did not care about them at this time and only gathered in a circle to protect the king of Wei.
However, the assassin did not come for them. He fired another arrow and killed the man holding Xiao Mingze hostage. Then he drew his bow to full length, held several arrows in his hand, urged his horse forward, and at the same time fired arrows to suppress everyone.
This place is adjacent to the military camp. The attendants did not ride horses at all when they went out, and no one carried a crossbow. For a moment, it was really difficult to cope with it.
The porcelain whistle sounded all around, and the nearby soldiers moved upon hearing the sound. Amidst the messy and heavy footsteps, Li Shimin's eyes were quick and his hands were quick. He suddenly stretched out his arms to lift Xiao Mingze, who was stunned on the spot, onto his horse, and left without looking back. .
King Wei originally thought that the assassin was coming for him. At that moment, he was thinking a lot, such as what he would do if he died and left such a large foundation, and who sent this assassin?
He couldn't be his good nephew in the west!
If you dare to be in the first grade of junior high school, I will dare to be in the fifteenth grade. I will immediately pretend to be seriously injured in an assassination and suffer miserably in front of the world, saying that you, a little turtle grandson, are not honest in doing things——
Who would have thought that the assassin didn't even glance at him from the beginning to the end, and after suppressing the followers, he kidnapped the people and left. He had thought so much before, and he was just flirting with the blind man!
King Wei's posture changed from cautiously curling up to stretching, and then he roared in anger: "Such a thing happened in the military camp, why don't you go and catch the thief?!"
He also drew inferences from one instance: "Immediately order each department to count the number of people, and each centurion and tenth commander to check whether the soldiers under his command have any faces. If there are any, they must be carefully investigated and captured immediately!"
Take orders from left and right and obey them.
Li Shimin's situation at this time is really not good, for no other reason - this place is too close to King Wei's military camp!
As soon as the porcelain whistle blew, people gathered here and followed orders to catch up. Although the horse under him was not ordinary, it was ordinary after all, and it carried two more people...
But, well, the vote is worth it!
He finally rescued someone!
He thought happily: Li Erfeng, you are awesome!
Xiao Mingze was already prepared to die, but she didn't expect the change to happen so suddenly. She didn't even react. He was already on the horse, and he didn't even see his face or body. He was several meters away from where he was in an instant.
It was obviously an adult man. She sat in front of him, half leaning on his chest, and could feel that he was a burly man...
She didn't want to cry.
She did not cry when the imperial capital fell and was captured by the Xiahou clan.
The daughter of a princess and a queen of a noble family was forced to serve as a concubine and stooped to become a thief. She did not cry.
When she met her uncle, King Wei, and was scolded by him for being shameless, she did not cry.
Just now, even though she was about to be killed, she didn't cry.
But now, with a strange man on her back and running for her life on horseback, her eyes suddenly turned red.
This was the only warmth and protection she had received since the fall of the Imperial Capital.
"Who are you?" Xiao Mingze asked, choking, "Why did you come to save me?"
Li Shimin's hand holding the reins briefly relaxed, then he squeezed the back of her cold hand and said helplessly: "Don't cry."
After a pause, he said gently: "How could I ignore you?"
The tears that Xiao Mingze had been holding back for a long time finally fell at this moment.
she sobbed and cried.
How could you not feel aggrieved?
She is a human being, she has feelings, and her heart is also made of flesh!
But, but!
