"You disappeared for so long, I thought you became a monk again and became a Taoist nun. Did you also hear about me?"
Liu Jinyan looked at Liang Chuan who looked embarrassed, and actually felt distressed.
"Do you know General Xia?"
Liang Chuan saluted Xia Shou'en, which was a bit awkward wearing a huge wooden shackle.
This huge shackle is extremely heavy and made of hardwood soaked in tung oil. Even a strong man like Takejiro cannot break free.
"My mother is Queen Mother Liu."
Liu Jinyan finally told the truth.
This sentence is very casual, but it has profound meaning.
Liang Chuan thought he heard wrongly: "Who? Who is your mother?"
"Queen Mother Liu."
"this...."
Liang Chuan's head went blank as if someone had hit it with a sledgehammer, and he couldn't react for a long time.
Liu Jinyan’s mother is Queen Mother Liu, so why is her surname Liu?
The Queen Mother's daughter is the sister of the current official family, which is at least the status of a princess, but Liu Jinyan doesn't look like it. However, Xia Shouen was there as a real person, just like a land prince, a dignified imperial guard of Zhao Guan's family, and he acted as her bodyguard.
But then, everything seems to make sense again!
Is it possible that he was not sent to the Suppressing Army because he offended Zhao Zong'e, but that he was targeted because he got too close to the daughter of the most noble person in the dynasty? Is that so?
Liang Chuan suddenly recalled that Qin Sang's skills were rare in the world. He met Liu Jinyan for the first time in Qingyuan. She came to Qingyuan to play. When something happened, the prefect Zhao Weixian was more nervous than if his own daughter died. He even personally blackmailed Wu Pu. The two families had an IOU of two million dollars.
There are only two people who can make Zhao Weixian afraid, one is Zhao Guan's family and the other is Queen Mother Liu!
Later, they met again. After returning to the capital, Liu Jinyan seemed to have disappeared from the world. He had also visited Bianjing, and even let Yelv Chongguang and his party go all over the capital to inquire about Liu Jinyan's whereabouts. Logically speaking, there are only a handful of big families named Liu. , but after searching several times, I never heard of a daughter named Liu Jinyan. It turned out that she was hiding in the palace.
Empress Dowager Liu must have thought that she wanted to eat her daughter's swan meat, so she wanted to kill herself. If her daughter was molested by a married man every day, she would also want to kill her, not to mention Empress Dowager Liu. This is The rhythm of shitting on their ancestral graves. . .
"I'm sorry, I should have told you earlier."
Liu Jinyan's face was full of grievances. Looking at the poor Liang Chuan, she had mixed feelings. This was not the result she wanted.
How could life be such a trick on people? He could even let himself touch the Liu family's precious daughter. Liang Chuan was fortunate that he had rescued Liu Jinyan when she fell into the water in Qingyuan. Otherwise, his family might be in trouble now. How many years old. .
"Hey, I've thought about your various identities. Even if I think about it, I don't dare to think that you are a member of the royal family. I really can't bear the big joke God has played."
"But that's the fact. It's my fate if it happens to me. What stupid things are you saying? It's a pity that we may have no chance to see each other again in the future. You should take care of yourself and avoid associating with people like me. We, all of us, are living on a knife's edge, and we're just afraid that we might be in trouble."
Liu Jinyan was strong after all, and she could hear the meaning behind Liang Chuan's words, but she was used to being stubborn, so she forced a smile and said, "Just wait for me."
What else is there to wait for? This girl Liu Jinyan is really the reincarnation of Fairy Zixia. She has an elf-like appearance and a temperament that is different from everyone else. She is used to the prosperity of the world, but she is not obsessed with it. There is no trace of fireworks in her body. , just like the fairies who have left the mortal world, they are really a breath of fresh air in the world. It doesn't matter if they don't make people fall in love with them. But the most terrible thing is that the identities of the two are there. If you can't figure it out, you are just making fun of your own head.
But Liang Chuan really couldn't figure it out. Isn't Queen Mother Liu's daughter named Zhao? Why is your surname also Liu?
"Miss Jin, the time has come, it's time to go back to the palace." Empress Dowager Liu couldn't resist her daughter. Xia Shou'en was ordered by Empress Dowager Liu to escort Liu Jinyan out of the palace to say goodbye. After saying goodbye, she had to make her return to the palace obediently and not go anywhere.
Xia Shouen despised Liang Chuan from the bottom of his heart, but this boy who emerged from nowhere, first had a romantic relationship with Ding Wei, and then had an ambiguous relationship with Empress Dowager Liu's precious girl. The wild boy who jumped out of nowhere has no foundation at all. What kind of magic does he have to have such great ability?
Liang Chuan turned around and said to everyone: "Everyone, please go back. The two eldest brothers from the Criminal Department are tired of waiting. The mountains are high and the rivers are long. We will meet again someday! Let's go, two eldest brothers!"
Sun Houpu took the initiative to invite Dong and Qian to the side, and winked at the waiter. The waiter handed over two money bags, and the sound of coins clanking was heard in the slightest.
"Two gentlemen, please use this money to buy some food and drinks on the road. If it's convenient, we, the third brother, can share it with you. I'm very grateful!"
This money was used to buy the road. Dong and Qian had been waiting for this money for a long time. As soon as the money was received, Dong and Qian immediately set off on the road. They turned around and saluted Zhao Yunrang, leading Liang Chuan and his party, and immediately set off to the northwest. Set off and leave.
I am not traveling for fun. With so many people following me, everyone will have to suffer together. I don’t know how many monsters and monsters are ahead. The northwest is not peaceful either. It would be unsafe if there are too many people.
Yeluhan followed Yelu Zhongguang and asked, "How do we go to the northwest now?"
"This road to the northwest is a road of no return. We must secretly protect our boss. We must secretly clean up those evil spirits and monsters. The ones we are most anxious about right now are those who want to harm our boss!"
"People from Xin'an County Prince's Palace!"
"That's right, let's go back to Zhuangzi to make arrangements. Brothers can't all go to the northwest. Zhuangzi leaves a few people behind. The Forbidden City is the owner's hard work and must be taken care of. The rest will be sent to Zhao Zong'e to watch him to death. As soon as there is any trouble, we will take action immediately, and we will fight to protect our boss even if they don’t spare their princes’ chickens and dogs!”
When Sun Houpu heard what Yelu Chongguang said, he came over and said: "This Forbidden City is the hard work of Brother Liang and I. It will need someone to take care of it for a while. Otherwise, the third brother will have to return to Bianjing in the future without even a place to stay. Then It's my fault. Third brother, I'll help you. If you need any money on the way, just come to me. I will also go to the northwest after all matters in Bianjing are stable. "
"Brother Pu, don't worry. I wrote back to Qingyuan early and told Mistress Yi Niang that we don't have to worry about the money. We just need to protect the safety of the host. Keep the host safe on the road and bring the host back to Qing safely." source."
"Old Ye, if you are going to the northwest, I will go with you." Little Heavenly Master Zhang Jixian's ears were very good. He heard the conversation between Yelu Chongguang and others, and immediately expressed that he wanted to follow.
The road to the northwest is not easy to walk. This road was opened to traffic only after the founding of New China with the strong support of the party and the government. In the early years, we had to rely on two legs to carry the burden step by step. The Three Kingdoms At that time, this road was the route taken by the eighteen princes. It was still a main road between Xijing and Luoyang, but after leaving Luoyang, the road became rugged.
When he was in Qingyuan Prison, Liang Chuan thought about it. Since he came to this world and left this world in such an inexplicable and strange way, he lived harder and more tired than anyone else. At the beginning, he hoped to let go of all this and live in the world. I went to walk around a corner. Now that I think about the journey, it was not my intention, but I still took half a circle around Da Song Zhan. .
I walked from the southeast and looked northwest. Where will I go next?
The exiled army could not take a carriage or horse, so Sun Houpu gave the two of them a lot of money, otherwise it would be more comfortable to go there by carriage and horse. The three of them walked and walked. The early spring was not as hot as summer. The temperature was neither hot nor cold and comfortable. The pines and cypresses sprouted new buds on the road, and the scenery was not bad.
But Liang Chuan slowly discovered that the three of them had been walking for half a month, and the section from Kaifeng Mansion to Xijing was not bad. There were countless cottages on the roadside, and the people were busy with spring plowing. They were hungry and walked two or three miles to make wheat cakes. There are many stalls, tea shops, and small inns where you can stay. The people's lives are pretty good, and they all have smiles on their faces.
As soon as we left Tongguan, it was as if the world had changed. The fertile fields and beautiful houses turned into ruins, and even the sky became gloomy.
Both sides of the official road are full of homeless refugees. Compared with the sporadic refugees in Kanto, the refugees in Kansai are simply in groups. They all drag their families with their families and use wooden wheeled carts to drag the elderly with burdens on their shoulders and children. , there was no luster in his eyes, only deep despair.
A corpse can be seen every few miles. It is a homeless refugee who has traveled far away without being able to return to his hometown. There is no one who has even restrained his body after dying in a foreign land.
The houses on the roadside are all empty and dilapidated. The land is still barren. It's not that the people don't want to farm, it's just that all the strong laborers have gone to fight and never come back, and farming can't be done.
The land in the northwest is not as fertile as in the south. You can harvest rice seedlings when they are inserted into the soil, regardless of the arrival of autumn. The land here can only be planted once a year. The land cannot support such a large population, and there is no other way to survive. After autumn, it has become a common practice for people in the northwest to serve in the army as a thief.
There are white couplets posted on every house, which means that someone in this family has just died. After two battles with the Western bandits, countless Kansai families have held funerals. This is very common in families with military families, old men, women, and children, but you can't see any strong adult men here. They are all serving in the military. After the next battle, I'm afraid there will be more families like this.
Either escape or die, their fate was determined the moment they were born.
When Fan Dianyuan and Xilu's family tried their best to escape to the south, I'm afraid it was these scenes that gave them the motivation. Now it's better for me to be sent to this hellish place.
"Brothers, why don't we discuss it and come up with a way to find a dead body on the road and pretend to be me? Or you can go back and say that you met a homeless bandit and robbed me of property and chopped me up. I'll give you two Some gold and silver..."
There is no point in walking any further. Now that we are far away from Bianjing City, it is time to send Dong Qian away.
Unexpectedly, Dong and Qian were uncharacteristically unmoved when they heard the word Qian. They sighed and said: "If I had done this in the past, it wouldn't be the first time. It's just that you are different, brother. Mr. Du said, if you don't If you send it to the Zhenrong Army in exchange for the handover documents, it will be a dead end for the two of us if we go back. What's the point of asking for money?"
"Then you can't even say that I'm dead?"
"Master Du said that if you die suddenly on the road, you will take your head back. This is not the intention of the Ministry of Punishment, but the intention of the court."
Liang Chuan was so angry that he yelled, "Queen Mother Liu, you old witch, are you serious!"
As the mountains pass by, the water passes by, the wind changes and the snow changes, but there is no such sound in my hometown.
The road was bumpy and long, so Liang Chuan could only follow the two of them and continue northwestward. He didn't know how long he had been gone, but Liang Chuan only knew that the smell on his body could kill a living person. Not long after the three people left Tongguan, they passed by a wild pine forest without a tea shop. The dry food they brought with them was almost finished. Fortunately, they brought a lot of rice wine. After filling their bellies, the three people rested in the pine forest. The soft pine needles fell to the ground, as if a layer of mats were spread on the ground. The afternoon sun shone on my body, making me feel so comfortable!
Suddenly, Liang Chuan felt sleepy. Suddenly, the entire pine forest became quiet, not even a chirping of birds or insects. The surprising quietness made Liang Chuan alert. Then, the high-pitched neighing of war horses came deep into the pine forest, and a large group of people shouted. He shouted and drove his fast horse into the woods.
