Chapter 144: Release the Arrow
For the safety of the child, Shen Yan did not hesitate to let people prepare everything according to Gu Yuan's requirements. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoSince the city of Gyeonggi, including Ning'an City and Yongju, has been controlled by Li Chengqi's army, Gu Yuan requested that the carriage be sent all the way to the city of Ganzhou, which was still controlled by Prince Liu Ji of Ying.
However, it also takes two days to get from Ning'an to Ganzhou City. Shen Yan was only afraid that Gu Yuan would suffer a lot if she was holding her child alone, so she said to Gu Yuan: "I am in the same carriage with you, child, I will take care of it." ā
Gu Yuan didn't agree, just afraid that she would play some tricks with her. Li Chengmao didn't agree, he didn't want Shen Yan to fall into Gu Yuan's hands, in case there was a good ...... So he will not allow it.
Shen Yan ignored his worries, and said to Gu Yuan: "Are you still afraid that I won't be able to do it?" ā
Gu Yuan hooked the corners of his lips and asked rhetorically with a "hum": "Are you an ordinary woman?" You think I don't know, you cut off Prime Minister Gu Cheng's head with a sword! In his voice, there was not the slightest sadness or resentment because of Gu Chongzhi's death. Although they are all surnamed Gu, there is no mercy between them.
What Shen Yan didn't expect was that the news that she had killed Gu Chongzhi with a sword in her hand would spread so quickly.
"Well, I'm willing to tie my feet. What do you think? She said so, but Gu Yuan still didn't agree. She couldn't help but be angry: "Gu Yuan, I just want to take care of my child!" This two-day trip to Ganzhou, if my child has three long and two short, I have to cut you with a thousand knives. ā
These words reminded Gu Yuan. He thought about it, thinking that he would let her into his car and take care of this furry child. It's also good. In his own hands, it can be said that there is an important hostage. Why wouldn't he do it? It's just that he has to tie her legs.
"Good. Bring a rope over here. ā
"Go find a rope." Shen Yan gave an order. So some people ran to prepare.
"Yan'er!" Li Chengmao was beside her, lowered his voice, and still advised, "You will be very dangerous in the past." ā
"That's my flesh and blood." Shen Yan looked at him, almost angry at his long-winded dissuasion, "Have you ever seen a mother who doesn't protect her son?" Even if I go up the knife mountain and get off the oil pot, I have to protect my children. ā
Li Chengmao frowned, and finally eased his tone. only whispered: "Then you must be careful, don't act rashly, I will protect your mother and son." ā
As soon as he said this, Shen Yan's nameless anger also went down. She nodded gently at him. With the rope in hand, she walked towards Gu Yuan's carriage. It didn't take much effort, she was tied to her legs and feet, and after Gu Yuan's repeated inspections, she finally got into the carriage and hugged her Han'er.
Li Han met his mother. stopped crying, and even showed a child's innocent smile.
A small team of people escorted Jiao Shi, Jiao Huaiyu and others to the capital, and a team of people followed Gu Yuan to Ganzhou. The team to Ganzhou can be described as a vast soup. It's just that the large group of people and horses are ten zhang away from the back of the carriage where Gu Yuan and his two loyal servants were, and Gu Yuan doesn't allow them to get too close.
Lee Seung-mao on horseback. Staring at the curtains of the carriage that were lifted by the wind from time to time, as long as you could see Shen Yan's calm face. He knew she was all right. His eyes, not blinking. Sight, dare not have a little wandering.
Inside the carriage, Shen Yan coaxed Li Han to fall asleep, and only then did she look back at Gu Yuan, who was staring at her with a strange smile. Gu Yuan also spoke, and he said strangely: "You woman, it's really not simple." I heard that the Great Zhou and Nanzhao were in urgent need of food and salary, but you planted most of the fertile fields of the Hou Mansion with fruit trees early in the spring ploughing. You are a woman, how did you expect that Da Zhou would go to war with Nan Zhao? ā
"Didn't you say I'm not simple, but how can I ask more about this?" Shen Yan sent it back with a word.
Gu Yuan laughed.
"I don't know anything." Shen Yan might as well ask him the doubts that both he and Li Chengqi have in their hearts, "You can't protect yourself, how can you use my family's life to blackmail us into letting Liu Zhuo go?" I really don't see that you are a man of fierce loyalty to the Lord. ā
She said this about Gu Yuan, and Gu Yuan didn't care. He even laughed and said, "Don't think that Ning Anhou can become the emperor if he occupies the capital." Don't forget, the main army transferred to the border pass is all from the emperor of the Great Zhou. As long as I bring the emperor to Ganzhou, there is still room for rearound. ā
"I'm afraid that far water can't quench the thirst of the near." The corners of Shen Yan's lips raised slightly, and she only said that. She didn't plan to tell him that as long as Huo Qing rescued the Tiger Talisman from the Nanzhao army, he could flank the remnants of the Liu clan with the army of Gyeonggi City, and even Liu Ji, the British prince of Ganzhou, could not let Liu Zhuo return to the ceremony.
However, after hearing Gu Yuan's words, Shen Yan knew that Gu Yuan had a vision of "recovering the country", so he took the risk to save Liu Zhuo. If everything is as he wishes, in the future, he can also be like Gu Chongzhi to find a high position above tens of thousands of people under one person. He is such a delusional person, it makes sense.
Thinking of this, Shen Yan couldn't help laughing. In vain, she and Li Chengqi thought that he had any great intentions to save Liu Zhuo.
All the way, it can be described as hard. Children who have just turned one year old are always making a lot of noise because they are hungry and want to be respectful. This made Gu Yuan upset. Once, he actually pulled out a dagger and wanted to kill Li Han!
"If you dare to move, I will fight with you!"
What Shen Yan said when he glared angrily finally made him understand that his behavior was not calm. He put away the dagger, and no longer liked the baby's cry, but he had to endure it.
Seeing the dagger in his hand, Shen Yan was still very afraid. Shicai, that dagger almost stabbed Li Han's body. She coaxed Li Han and raised her vigilance at the same time.
At night, her eyelids were so sleepy that she fought, and she didn't dare to relax for a moment.
Another day passed. In the evening, the brigade finally stopped outside the city of Ganzhou.
Gu Yuan asked his people to shout to the people on the city tower, saying, "The saint is here, quickly call Prince Ying Liu Ji to greet him."
After about a quarter of an hour, a young and handsome figure appeared on the castle tower. That's Prince Ying Liu Ji. Although he was only fourteen years old, he was a tall man, and his immature face did not lose his steadyness, and he did not look like a young boy who had not yet performed the crown ceremony.
Speaking of which, the relationship between this Liu Ji and the second prince who was brutalized by Liu Zhuo is excellent. After Liu Zhuo became the crown prince, several of Emperor Wen's sons died and those who were exiled were exiled, but only this Liu Ji was young and got the idle title of Prince Ying, which can be regarded as escaping a catastrophe. This time, Li Chengqi usurped power and delayed letting people attack Ganzhou, because his imperial brother Liu Ji led the army and people to resist to the death, and he couldn't bear to hurt it.
"Prince Ying, the Holy One is here, quickly open the city gate and let us in." Gu Yuan held Shen Yan who was holding Li Han in his arms, pointed to the fake Liu Zhuo who was being escorted, and called out loudly to the figure on the city tower.
"You rebels, bring a fake royal brother, and you want to fool the king into opening the city gate, so can you break through Ganzhou City in one fell swoop?" Prince Ying Liu Ji was drinking.
Hearing this, Shen Yan, Li Chengmao and others were all shocked. This stinky Prince Ying, on such a high castle tower, can recognize Liu Zhuo as a fake? It can't be.
Gu Yuan glanced at Liu Zhuo, and hurriedly shouted to Liu Ji: "Prince Ying, they are rebels, I am not a rebel." I was originally Gu Yuan, the governor of Ning'an, and I used the lives of the Hou family of Ning'an as a threat to let them send the emperor to Ganzhou from the palace. ā
"Don't be verbose!" Liu Ji shouted, and ordered the generals around him: "Release the arrow!" These rebels, come and kill one by one! ā
More than a hundred arrows fell in unison, and Gu Yuan was the first to flee to the back of the carriage. Poor Shen Yan, who was tied to her legs and feet, fell to the ground with a single movement, and only out of instinct used her body to protect her child. The moment Prince Ying Liu Ji said that the arrow was released, she realized that even if Liu Zhuo really came, Liu Ji would not open the city gate for him.
"Yan'er ......"
She thought she was going to be killed by random arrows, but at the last moment, her body was beaten and hugged by Li Chengmao, and she soon hid behind the carriage.
Looking at the arrows that were falling one after another, and seeing that people were falling not far away, but she and her children were safe, she saw that Li Chengmao's mood had completely changed. He said he would take care of her and her children, and he didn't break his promise.
"Take the mother and the eldest prince first!" The general, Wu Mo, while blocking the arrows with the soldiers, said loudly to Li Chengmao.
"Don't go!" Gu Yuan pulled out a dagger and put it on Shen Yan's neck, he stared at Li Chengmao with terrifying eyes and said, "Take me with you!" Or I'll kill him!" ā
Li Chengmao stared at him, suddenly reached out and grabbed the dagger in his hand, and with a little force, he pressed the dagger to his neck. For a while, Gu Yuan's blood gushed out, and Li Chengmao's hands were also bloody.
"You're crazy!" His actions are too dangerous. Shen Yan looked at him with distress and resentment in her eyes.
Li Chengmao didn't make a sound, he only endured the pain in his hands, took the dagger of Gu Yuan, who quickly lost his breath, and cut the ropes that tied Shen Yan's legs and feet. Then he stretched out his left hand to her, "Follow me." ā
Shen Yan did not hesitate and hurriedly stood up.
Under the cover of Wu Mo and his soldiers, she held the child and quickly got into the carriage, and Li Chengmao also quickly jumped on it and fled under the city of Ganzhou in the carriage.
I don't know how far I walked, before Shen Yan poked her head out. The carriage walked on the cedar tree-lined avenue, and the surroundings were cold. Seeing that Li Chengmao's injured right hand was still bleeding, Shen Yan asked him to stop and bandage it first. But Li Chengmao said: "It's not safe here. ā
What puzzled Shen Yan was that this road, and even this direction, was not the direction leading to Ning'an City, let alone the direction leading to the capital, but contrary to these two directions.
"Where are you taking me?" Shen Yan suddenly had a premonition.
Li Chengmao didn't answer her words, and only drove the carriage faster. (To be continued.) )