The banquet lasted all day and did not disperse until the evening.

Xiao Sui left in the middle of the banquet, she said that she was too strong to drink, and left the emperor to rejoice with everyone instead of herself, and she returned to the palace by herself. She asked Kang Yanxin to be brought in, and asked Shangshan Xiaodi to prepare a table of Bianzhou-style snacks.

After Kang Yanxin came, Xiao Sui asked her to go to the prisoner camp to invite Wang Jizhong to the palace as a guest.

Kang Yanxin was surprised: "The Queen Mother invited the captives to come to the palace as guests? Why? ”

Xiao Sui said, "What? Do I have any more reasons for a treat? ”

Kang Yanxin was speechless for a moment, so he had to bow his head and go to the prisoner camp. Along the way, I wondered how the Queen Mother was so good to a captive. Isn't that Wang Jizhong like that, she has also seen it, there is nothing special, and she is a little thin. Plain crepe, not like a general who charges into battle. She also heard that his temper was not small, and the queen mother and the emperor invited him to a banquet, but he couldn't refuse, he was really a camel that died in the desert - a stinky shelf. Since, he will not be able to refrain from such a big celebration banquet, so why did he come to the Queen Mother's Palace?

But Wang Jizhong happily followed Kang Yanxin, saw the Queen Mother, and hurriedly kowtowed.

Xiao Xuan smiled: "The general's illness has been cured? ”

Wang Jizhong said: "Thank you for the Queen Mother's concern, Wang Jizhong was born in the army, and his cheap body occasionally feels slightly ill, and he is not enough to worry about." ”

Xiao Xuan said: "In the end, it is a person who marches and fights, and a little illness can't help you." ”

Wang Jizhong said: "Wang Jizhong also inherited the care of the Queen Mother, and sent a capable person to take care of the villain, and the villain was grateful. ”

Xiao Sui didn't remember when he sent someone to take care of Wang Jizhong, and said, "Who did I send to take care of you?" ”

Wang Jizhong thought that maybe Xiao Sui didn't mean to supervise him at all, and at that time he randomly assigned Zhao Zongyuan to take care of him, and he didn't specifically order Zhao Zongyuan's generals, so he said: "His name is Zhao Zongyuan, and he is also a prisoner, but he is a very careful person, and the sinners have to take care of him along the way, so that they will not starve and freeze." ”

After that, Wang Jizhong pointed to the short jacket he was wearing and said, "This is what he sewed for sinners." ”

Xiao Xuan looked at the short jacket on Wang Jizhong's body and said, "What kind of person is this?" This hand of needlework has beaten women. You Song people are so interesting! ”

Kang Yanxin looked at the short jacket for a while and shouted, "The captive can't be a woman, right?" ”

Xiao Xuan smiled: "How can it be a woman?" How could a female prisoner end up in a male prisoner of war camp? ”

Kang Yanxin said: "But this needlework - how can a man make such a good needlework? ”

Xiao Sui looked at Wang Jizhong and said, "General Wang thinks that Zhao Zongyuan is male or female?" ”

Wang Jizhong shook his head and said, "The sinner didn't see it. ”

Xiao Sui guessed that Wang Jizhong already knew that Zhao Zongyuan was a woman, but he didn't want to say it.

Xiao Xuan glanced at Kang Yanxin and said, "This is easy to do, you go and call Zhao Zongyuan over, and you will understand at a glance." ”

Wang Jizhong watched Kang Yanxin go out of the palace gate, turned around and asked: "If Zhao Zongyuan is really a woman, how will the Queen Mother deal with it?" ”

Xiao Sui asked rhetorically, "What do you want me to do?" ”

Wang Jizhong said: "Please forgive the queen mother for the sinner's worries, the sinner thought at first that she was the queen mother deliberately placed by the sinner's side, and did not have a good impression of her, and later, the sinner thought that the queen mother was magnanimous and would never send someone to spy on the sinner." Indeed, he was a prisoner like a sinner. The sinner cannot tell whether she is male or female, but the sinner does receive her care along the way. She is definitely not a bad person, if she is really a woman dressed as a man, she has to have a last resort, please be merciful to the Queen Mother. ”

Xiao Xuan smiled: "So you already know that she is a woman?" ”

Wang Jizhong bowed his head and was silent.

Soon, Kang Yanxin led Zhao Zongyuan to come. Zhao Zongyuan didn't know who the woman sitting on the top was, he only felt that she was extravagant, her eyes were peaceful and majestic, and her face was warm and cold. It's intimate, but it's intimidating. Zhao Zongyuan bowed down, but he couldn't speak.

Xiao Sui said: "You are Zhao Zongyuan? ”

Zhao Zongyuan repeatedly said yes.

"I see that you are slender and light, not like a man, and I say whether you are a man or a woman."

Zhao Zongyuan was originally scared, but when he saw that his identity was revealed, he somehow became bold and said, "You can see it, what else is there to ask?" ”

Xiao Sui said: "Why do you want to dress up as a man? ”

Zhao Zongyuan said: "I don't want to be bullied by those brutes. ”

Xiao Sui knew that she was scolding the Khitan soldiers who bullied the female captives, and it seemed that this Zhao Zongyuan was a little interesting, and he would even use women to disguise themselves as men. Xiao Sui had some good feelings for her in her heart. Pointing at Wang Jizhong, he said, "Then why do you want to get close to him?" ”

Zhao Zongyuan said: "General Wang is a good man, the captives listen to him, even you Khitans respect him, I follow him, no one will bully me." ”

Xiao Xuan said: "You are really calculating, how do you know that he will not hurt you?" ”

Zhao Zongyuan said: "The slave maid heard that Wang Jizhong used himself as a mortgage to be a prisoner in order to save the lives of the people in a city, and such a person and slave maid can be trusted." ”

Xiao Sui said: "You are really a clever person, from now on you will work in the Tailoring Bureau." ”

Zhao Zongyuan didn't know what the cutting bureau was, and turned his head to look at Wang Jizhong.

Wang Jizhong hurriedly said: "I don't thank the queen mother yet." ”

Only then did Zhao Zongyuan know that the woman was the queen mother, and hurriedly kowtowed: "The queen mother, the living bodhisattva, the slave maid can see the real bodhisattva." ”

Xiao Xuan smiled: "What is your name?" ”

Zhao Zongyuan said: "Living Bodhisattva, we southerners call you that. ”

Xiao Sui said: "Interesting, is it called a living Bodhisattva? ”

Zhao Zongyuan said: "The Queen Mother has a good heart, and she will let tens of thousands of people go home at a time, what is not a living Bodhisattva?" Slaves and maids come for the living bodhisattvas. ”

Xiao Sui was in a happy mood and said: "Be good, if you come, you will be safe, do things well, do well, I will be rewarded." ”

Zhao Zongyuan thanked him.

Xiao Sui asked Kang Yanxin to take Zhao Zongyuan to the Tailoring Bureau, and while ordering the wine and food to be put on the table, Wang Jizhong was invited to drink, and said that this was a Bianzhou snack that she had specially made, and asked Wang Jizhong to see if there was any Bianzhou flavor.

Wang Jizhong didn't expect Xiao Sui to be so kind to him, and he burst into tears for a while, he sobbed while eating hometown snacks, and swallowed his tears with food. He didn't know whether what he swallowed was the longing for his hometown or his gratitude to the Queen Mother.

Wang Jizhong ate, got up to say goodbye, Xiao Sui said: "I originally planned not to let Qing go back to the prisoner camp, but you are indispensable there, so I had to wronged Qing to suffer for a few more days, and when I arrived in Beijing, I arranged for Qing." ”

Wang Jizhong said: "Wang Jizhong was originally a prisoner, and the Empress Dowager did not give up, and entrusted him with the task of watching the prisoner, how dare he have other illusions." Besides, the sinners taking care of the captives are also for the sake of their comrades, so that they can be safe, and Jizhong is also at ease, worthy of them and their families. ”

Xiao Sui said: "I am relieved when Qing says this. ”

Wang Jizhong bowed and said, "The sinner has taken his leave." ”

Xiao Xuan said: "Don't bite a sinner, what are you guilty of?" Since it has been returned to my Khitan, I am my courtier, don't always think that you are still a Song person. ”

Wang Jizhong said: "Yes, the minister understands. ”

Sending Wang Jizhong away, Xiao Sui thought about what to do with those prisoners of war, and then thought of the female prisoners. Wang Jizhong had a female captive by his side. Xiao Hengde killed a female captive. Who are these female captives? This Zhao Zongyuan is too scheming. So, what kind of person is the female captive rescued by Xiao Hengde?

Thinking of this, Xiao Sui immediately asked Xiao Hengde to be called.

As soon as Xiao Hengde stood up, Xiao Xuan asked, "I heard that you killed someone today, right?" ”

Xiao Hengde bowed his head and said, "The minister killed a sergeant by mistake for a while. ”

Xiao Sui said, "Why did you kill him?" ”

Xiao Hengde's mouth moved, and finally said: "He wanted to rape women, but the minister couldn't see it, so he killed him on a whim." ”

Xiao Sui said: "What kind of woman makes you a hero to save beauty?" ”

Xiao Hengde didn't speak again, his head was lowered, his mouth was tight, and his eyes flashed with anger.

Intuition told Xiao Sui that the female captive was not simple, and she asked the female captive to be found. She was going to ask herself what the hell was going on?

When the female captive stood in front of Xiao Xuan, Xiao Xuan couldn't believe that she was a prisoner for a long time. In front of him is a very iconic figure, although he is wearing a captive costume, but his body is slender, and he has a posture of returning to the wind and dancing in the snow; The face is haggard, but the facial features are exquisite, the eyebrows are delicate, and the eyes are shining. The demeanor is dignified and the appearance is refined.

Xiao Xuan nodded and asked, "What's your name?" ”

The female captive said, "The slave's surname is Gao, and her name is Gao Shixian." ”

"Gao Shixian," Xiao Xuan said a few times, "this is not like a woman's name, nor is it like a name taken by ordinary people." ”

Gao Shixian said: "The slave maid was born in the house of the eunuch, but later the family fell in the middle of the road, and the father had no children under his knees, so he regarded the slave and maid as a man, and gave the slave and maid a man's name. ”

Xiao Xuan pointed at Xiao Hengde and said, "Do you know this person?" ”

Gao Shixian nodded and said, "The slave and maid recognize it." ”

Xiao Sui asked, "How did you meet?" ”

Gao Shixian was about to speak, Xiao Hengde hurriedly said: "Wechen went to Shanxi with the army last month, and the marshal asked Wechen to send a letter to Nanjing, but unexpectedly, surrounded by the Song army on the way, Wechen rushed out desperately, but he was injured in more than a dozen places, and passed out by a stream, and was later rescued by Miss Gao, and was injured in her house for a few days. ”

Xiao Sui said: "After a few days of injury, you brought her back to Khitan?" ”

Xiao Hengde hurriedly said: "No, Weichen raised her at home for a few days, and then went to Nanjing." Miss Gao was captured by Xiao Tzu Rin. ”

Xiao Sui said: "Since people saved your life, and you don't repay you for your kindness, how are you going to repay them?" ”

Xiao Hengde said: "It's all up to the Queen Mother." ”

Xiao Sui said: "Let her stay by my side and lay the paper for me to polish the ink, wash the pen and lay the paper, are you willing?" ”

Without waiting for Xiao Hengde to speak, Gao Shixian said: "The slave is willing, and the slave is willing to serve the Queen Mother." ”

Xiao Sui said: "Since you are willing to be a maid in the palace, then you have to change your name, from today on, you are not called Gao Shixian, just call Xianshi." ”

Gao Shixian kowtowed and said, "Thank you Queen Mother for the name." ”

Xiao Xuan didn't look at Gao Shixian, he kept staring at Xiao Hengde, his face looked calm, but his eyes sank into the dark whirlpool.