Liu Wuzhou stopped them. He grabbed Song Jingang's horse bridle and shouted: "King Song, what are you going to do?"
"Bring Ruolan back!"
"Are you crazy?" Liu Wuzhou said with wide eyes, "The Turks have millions of strong soldiers, and the guards at the beginning and end alone have tens of thousands of people. If you take these dozens of people to break into the tent, aren't you going to die? These My brothers traveled thousands of miles to come to the grassland with you, can you bear to let them die in a foreign land?"
"Then what should we do?" Song Jingang shouted, "I can't just abandon Ruolan, can I?"
"Calm down first, let's go back to the tent and talk slowly." Liu Wuzhou persuaded Song Jingang to go back.
In fact, Liu Wuzhou just went to the dental tent. He asked to see him from beginning to end, but he avoided seeing her from beginning to end. Later, he met a familiar Teller. Teller is a descendant of the Turkic Khan clan, held by the Ashina clan, and is equivalent to the prince of the Central Plains dynasty. The teller told him that the Khan wanted to marry his sister.
Of course Liu Wuzhou could not tell his brother-in-law this news. Returning to the tent, after the two sat down, Liu Wuzhou said: "I went to the tent just now. Ruolan is fine. The Turks did not make things difficult for her. She will be back in a few days."
"Really?" Song Jingang stared at his brother-in-law dubiously.
"I don't have to lie to you."
Two days later, Shibi came to see Liu Ruolan and asked her how she was thinking about it. Liu Ruolan was silent for a moment and said, "I can promise you, but I have a condition."
"What conditions?"
"You canonize me as Ke Dun. In the Central Plains, I am the queen." Liu Ruolan said, "The wedding of the emperor and the queen must be held in a tall palace. But there is no palace here, so a colorful building must be built, five feet long. , four feet wide and three feet high. You summon all the high-ranking officials in the Khan's court and canonize me as Ketun in public."
He pondered for a moment and said: "The Turks have strong financial resources, so this is not difficult to do. It will be an auspicious day in three days, how about holding a canonization ceremony?"
"Can."
After three days, the canonization ceremony will be held. According to the rules of the Turks, Liu Ruolan must wear a robe. However, the crown dress was white and looked like mourning clothes, so she refused to wear it. She said to Shibi: "According to our Han customs, we must wear red clothes for weddings. I have a set of wedding clothes, which is in the camp. Send someone to get it."
The wedding dress was bought when she got married to Song Jingang. She had kept it carefully and brought it along with her this time. At first, he had no choice but to send someone to find Liu Wuzhou and get the wedding dress back.
The colorful building was erected on a flat grassland in front of the tent. The wooden pillars were wrapped in silk and covered with various flags. Among them were two large white banners with golden wolf heads painted on them.
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the colorful building, all nobles and senior officials of the Turkic Khan clan, and thousands of Turkic warriors were at the scene to maintain order.
Although Liu Wubei kept concealing it, Song Jingang still got wind of it. He insisted on going to the scene, but Liu Wuzhou could not dissuade him and had to accompany him. The Turkic soldiers guarding the gate were afraid that they would cause trouble and would not let them in. They did not let them in until they handed over the weapons they carried.
At three o'clock in the morning, the ceremony officially begins. Liu Ruolan and Shi Bi sat side by side on a high-wheeled cart, and came to the side of the colorful building surrounded by many guards of honor. After the two got off the bus, according to the custom of the Turks, they both knelt facing east to worship the sun. Then, they climbed up the wooden ladder to the colorful building.
Liu Ruolan was dressed in a bright red wedding dress, with a thin layer of makeup on her face. She has an apricot face and peach cheeks. Her beauty is full of beauty, her eyes are like autumn water, and her eyebrows are like distant daisy. Standing on a tall colorful building, she looks like a fairy banished to the dust. She looked down the stage, and it was completely dark below. Suddenly, she saw her brother and husband in the crowd. Song Jingang looked at her without blinking, with an expression of indescribable pain on his face. Liu Ruolan looked at him, her eyes as moving as the morning stars filled with tears, and she forced a smile on her face.
The canonization ceremony was presided over by a shamanic wizard, who had many red, yellow, and green cloth strips hanging on his body. He wore a round hat with several wild goose feathers stuck on the top of the hat, and many black tassels hanging from the brim, completely covering his face so that no one could see his face clearly.
The shaman holds a shamanic drum. He beat the shaman drum, sang and danced, and then babbled a lot of incantations. He kept struggling for a while before he was done.
After the wizard left, Liu Ruolan said to Shibi who was wearing auspicious clothes: "Khan, I am a woman from the Han family. I cannot commit myself to Dihu. Please forgive me, Khan!" After saying this, he took a few steps to the balcony and jumped up. As he went down, the people at the scene exclaimed.
Liu Ruolan fell heavily to the ground. Song Jingang and Liu Wuzhou rushed forward like crazy. Song Jingang rushed to his wife's side, hugged her tightly with both hands, and called her over and over again. After a while, Liu Ruolan woke up. Her face turned pale, she coughed violently several times, and red blood spat out from her mouth. Because she was too seriously injured, her eyes were blurred. After seeing Song Jingang clearly, she weakly said: "Husband, Ruolan can't accompany you anymore. You have to live well..." Then, her eyes turned to Liu Wuzhou's face. , said in a weak voice: "Brother, even if my little sister dies, she will not... lose... the... dignity of a Han family woman..." Liu Ruolan's breath weakened and she finally closed her eyes.
Song Jingang held Liu Ruolan and cried bitterly. After crying for a while, he wiped away his tears, raised his head, and looked up at the colorful building with a pair of eyes burning with anger.
Shi Bi stood on the edge of the colorful building with a livid face, staring down fiercely. After a moment, he turned around and walked away angrily.
The Turks at the scene slowly dispersed. The guards in the camp came after hearing the news, and several people carried the body onto the carriage, transported it back to the camp, built a coffin for burial, and then set up a mourning hall to pay homage.
Three days later, everyone found a slope near the camp near mountains and rivers and buried Liu Ruolan. The grass is dew on the original land, and the white-headed mandarin ducks are flying without their companions. Song Jingang burned incense and worshiped in front of the tomb, crying and saying: "Ruolan, my husband is incompetent, so you stay in the grassland forever. May you be like a white orchid, blooming undefeated on this grassland..."
After Song Jingang finished the first seven days for his wife, he came back from the cemetery and immediately ordered his soldiers to pack their bags. He took out a saddle from the tent, placed it on the horse's back, and lowered his head to buckle the belt around the horse's belly. Liu Wuzhou came back from outside and saw them busy at work. He quickly stepped forward and said, "King Song, what are you doing?" Song Jinjiang said without raising his head, "Leave here and go back to the Central Plains."
"Why?"
"Ruolan was killed by the Turks. I want to go back to my hometown to form a team and avenge her!"
Liu Wuzhou glanced around and lowered his voice: "Are you stupid? You were discovered by the Turks while walking in broad daylight. Can you still walk?" Song Jingang listened and said nothing.
"I don't want to stay here anymore. I plan to go back to Mayi." Liu Wuzhou said, "Let's go together tonight at the second watch."
Upon hearing this, Song Jingang raised his head to look at him, thought for a while, and nodded.
After the second watch that night, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang left the camp with dozens of soldiers and horses. They came to an open area, mounted their horses, and galloped southward.
After daybreak, they had traveled seventy or eighty miles. Everyone dismounted and rested for a while, ate some dry food they had brought with them, and then led the horses to the river to drink water and eat grass. Then, everyone mounted their horses again. By afternoon, they had already left the Khan's court for one hundred and fifty sixty miles. Just as Liu Wuzhou was secretly congratulating himself for escaping from the clutches of the Turks, suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves behind him, sweeping in like a violent storm. .
Liu Wuzhou turned around and saw hundreds of cavalry appearing behind him. He was so frightened that he screamed: "No, the Turks are coming. Run!" After saying this, he whipped his horse desperately and led a group of his men to escape desperately.
However, the Turks' horses were faster, and the distance between the two sides became closer and closer. Finally, the Turkic cavalry galloped forward, then turned around and intercepted them. The leader was Pei Luo, a high-ranking Turkic official who was equivalent to the governor. Pei Luole stopped his horse and sneered: "Want to run away? It's not that easy."
Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were both captured and returned to the Turkic Khan's court. Shibi concluded that they were defectors and ordered them to be cut in half.
The supervisor is Ye Hu. Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were tied up and taken to the execution ground, surrounded by Turkic soldiers holding weapons. Lead clouds hung low, the north wind whined, and there was a murderous atmosphere between heaven and earth. A waist-cutting machine was placed on the execution ground. The waist chopping machine is a mechanical device like a door frame. There is a huge wrought iron chopping ax placed on the upper part of the door frame, which is tightened and fixed with hemp rope. There is a groove in the lower part of the door frame, and the prisoner lies on the groove. As long as the hemp rope is cut, an iron ax weighing hundreds of kilograms will fall along the chutes on both sides, cutting the prisoner in two.
Liu Wuzhou was beheaded first. Then, Song Jingang was carried by two Turkic soldiers and placed on the waist chopper, with his lower back pressed against the hidden groove. Eight or nine feet above his eyes was the cutting ax with a cold blade. Song Jingang had no fear in his heart. He just closed his eyes slightly and said silently in his heart: "Ruolan, wait for me, my husband is here..."
Ye Hu waved his hand, and a soldier cut off the rope with a knife. The huge ax whizzed down and cut Song Jingang in two.
Sadly, two heroes who rebelled in the late Sui Dynasty died at the hands of the Turks.
Jinyang City, the residence where Li Zhiyun temporarily lives. As soon as Li Zhiyun came out of the hall, he saw Cai Hu and Scarface walking in from the outer door. As soon as Scarface saw him, he shouted: "King Chu, King Qin is going to hold a victory ceremony tomorrow night. I heard that he also asked people to rehearse a play. What is it called..."
"The king of Qin is happy to break the formation." Cai Hu said.
"Yes, yes, it's the King of Qin's Breaking Formation Music." Scarface said, "It will be performed at the Victory Celebration Party tomorrow night."
"The music of King Qin breaking the formation?" Li Zhiyun recited silently and said, "Does it look good?"
Cai Hu nodded and said, "I went to see the rehearsal. It was pretty good." Li Zhiyun thought for a while and said, "What's the point? Let's also rehearse it and call it 'King of Chu's Broadsword Music'."
"This is not as simple as just talking," Scarface said, "We must first find someone who can write music."
