Chapter 30: Rescuing Emperor Xia

After dinner the next morning, Han Xiaoyao was about to say goodbye, Princess Yuzhu looked sad and said, "Xiaoyao, don't you want to say something to me?" ”

She pulled Han Xiaoyao to a stream, the two sat together, Princess Yuzhu hugged Han Xiaoyao's arm, rested her head on his shoulder, and said: "My father and mother died when my brother and I were young, and the queen mother has been in charge of the government, my brother is in his twenties, and she does not return to politics, so she put my brother under house arrest, and told the ministers that my brother is seriously ill and cannot go to court, and she is also wary of me, so I have been staying in Moon Villa, and she also said that she will marry me to the chief of Tubo in two years, an old man in his fifties. ”

Princess Yuzhu sat up straight and said, "Xiaoyao, you take me away, I don't want to marry that old man, you can go anywhere!" ”

She cried, threw herself into Han Xiaoyao's arms, and said, "I'm so lonely and scared in this villa alone, you take me away." ”

Han Xiaoyao's heart was also sour, hugged her and said, "Okay, I'll take you away." ”

Princess Yuzhu said, "You can't lie to me, we'll leave now." ”

Han Xiaoyao said: "Don't lie to you, I'll take you with me when I finish things." ”

Princess Yuzhu sat up, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and exclaimed, "You lied to me, what is the matter with you?" ”

Han Xiaoyao said: "I came to Moon Mountain Villa to save a good brother of mine, he is a general of the Song Kingdom, he was captured to Moon Mountain Villa, I must rescue him." ”

Princess Yuzhu said: "He must have been locked up in the camp of the Queen Mother, which was heavily guarded, and it was impossible for you to rescue him." ”

Han Xiaoyao slapped his thigh and sighed: "Alas, I'm so incompetent, I can't even save my good brother!" ”

Princess Yuzhu said to herself: "It would be nice if my brother was in charge of the government." ”

Han Xiaoyao's eyes lit up and said, "If I help your brother come out to take charge, then my brother will be saved." ”

Princess Yuzhu said, "You have to count when you speak, come with me." ”

She pulled Han Xiaoyao and ran, and the two came to a garden overgrown with panicked grass, and ran to a barren well, the mouth of the well was embedded with a finger-thick iron net, and Princess Yuzhu squatted down and shouted: "Brother, I called someone to save you." ”

After a while, a young man's voice came from the well: "Sister, what did you say?" ”

Princess Yuzhu said, "I called someone to save you, you wait." ”

Princess Yuzhu said to Han Xiaoyao: "The person below is my emperor's brother Li Qianshun, who has been locked up in the well by the Queen Mother for more than ten years. ”

Han Xiaoyao was a little embarrassed and said, "I'll try." ”

He clasped the iron net with both hands and pulled hard, once or twice, the iron net did not move, Li Qianshun shouted: "This method does not work, I was brought down through a cave, and you can see the entrance of the cave when you walk up the hill from the garden, there is a black bear in the cave, you have to be careful." ”

Han Xiaoyao said to Princess Yuzhu: "It's easy, a bear, I can stab you to death with a sword." ”

The two of them walked up the hill and turned a corner to a cave whose entrance was surrounded by a stone wall more than a foot high. Han Xiaoyao jumped on the stone wall, and saw that there was a small piece of flat ground in front of the cave, and the entrance of the cave was wide, he stretched out his hand to pull Princess Yuzhu up the wall, and said, "You sit here, see how I clean up this bear." ”

Princess Yuzhu said, "You have to be careful! ”

Han Xiaoyao jumped off the wall, drew his sword and slowly walked into the cave. Princess Yuzhu stared at the entrance of the cave, not knowing what would happen.

After a while, there was a "whoosh" sound from the cave, and I saw Han Xiaoyao running out and screaming "ahhh

Han Xiaoyao looked back at the black bear, turned around and raised his sword to slash, the black bear didn't know how to dodge, this sword didn't hurt a single hair of it, its thick fur was natural armor, and it was protected from head to toe. Han Xiaoyao circled with it, one sword on the left and one sword on the right, and the black bear screamed, but it couldn't hurt it, it was just tickling it. Han Xiaoyao only hated that he was not good at learning, and when he saw that he had no chance to kill the black bear, he jumped out of the wall and hugged Princess Yuzhu down.

Princess Yuzhu hugged Han Xiaoyao and said, "Xiaoyao, I'm so scared, I'm afraid that you will be killed, I'm afraid of losing you!" ”

Han Xiaoyao stroked his hair and said, "Don't be afraid, although I can't kill the black bear, it can't hurt me." ”

Princess Yuzhu was relieved and asked, "What should I do now?" ”

Han Xiaoyao said: "It's just that I don't like to practice martial arts, my Han family's Xiaoyao swordsmanship is famous, and I can only kill this black bear by practicing the last style of 'one sword piercing the heart'." ”

The two returned to the bamboo forest, and Han Xiaoyao practiced the swordsmanship hard. Princess Yuzhu accompanied him by the side, and gave him different supplements to eat every meal. The last style of the Easy Sword Technique, "a sword piercing the heart", is to use external force to integrate the strength of the whole body to stab desperately and knock down the enemy.

Han Xiaoyao has been practicing hard for two days, in order to test whether he has practiced, he jumped up, stepped on the green bamboo, and pierced the thick trunk of the bowl with a sword, Princess Yuzhu jumped and clapped her hands and said: "Ah, it's amazing!" ”

Han Xiaoyao smiled: "I finally practiced!" ”

This morning, the two came to the mouth of the black bear cave again, Han Xiaoyao led the black bear to the outside of the cave, he jumped around on the black bear's head, the black bear finally stood up, he saw that the opportunity had come, flew up and kicked the wall, he shot out like an arrow off the string, a sword pierced the heart of the black bear, the black bear fell to the ground on its back, fluttered a few times and did not move.

Princess Yuzhu was so frightened that she covered her eyes with an "ah", Han Xiaoyao pulled out her sword to wipe off the bloodstains, and hugged Princess Yuzhu down.

The two entered the cave, the hole was not deep, and an iron door could be seen, Han Xiaoyao cut the door lock with a sword, Li Qianshun pushed the door out, and the brother and sister hugged their heads and cried.

Han Xiaoyao persuaded: "We have to get out of here quickly, we won't be able to leave if we are discovered." ”

The two stopped crying, and Princess Yuzhu said, "Brother, this is Han Xiaoyao, a friend I just met." ”

Li Qianshun said: "Thank you Brother Han, my uncle Wei Ming Ah Wu is in the provincial Weicheng City, there are 50,000 cavalry, let's go to him and ask him to help me eradicate the Hou Party." ”

The three of them were afraid of being discovered, so they jumped out of the wall directly through the bamboo forest, but they were still discovered by more than a dozen patrolmen not far away, and the three of them quickly ran forward, and Princess Yuzhu fell to the ground before they ran far.

Princess Yuzhu said, "Xiaoyao, I can't run." ”

Han Xiaoyao immediately picked her up and continued to run, the patrol soon caught up, Han Xiaoyao climbed a big tree, put Princess Yuzhu on the branch, and Li Qianshun also climbed another big tree.

Han Xiaoyao jumped off the tree to fight with these patrolmen, Han Xiaoyao also fought desperately, stabbing two people to death, and his other patrolmen still refused to retreat. As the saying goes, a good man can't stand a lot of people, and Han Xiaoyao gradually can't support it.

Princess Yuzhu was worried about Han Xiaoyao on the tree, and shouted: "Xiaoyao, you run away quickly, they don't dare to do anything to us, run away!" ”

Han Xiaoyao said: "I promised to save you out, I must do it." ”

At this moment, a caravan of more than ten people came to the front, and Han Xiaoyao recognized at a glance that the person at the head was Hu Shahu, so he had an idea.

He shouted as he fought: "Hu Shahu, I will give you fifty Xia Guo swords, and you can help me drive these people away." ”

Hu Shahu saw that it was Han Xiaoyao, and said with a smile: "You kid also have today, I want to see how you were chopped into meat sauce." ”

Han Xiaoyao shouted, "Do you want fifty Xia Guo swords or watch me die?" ”

Hu Shahu said: "How do you make me trust you? ”

Han Xiaoyao said: "My life is more expensive than these fifty Xia Guo swords, how could I joke with you?" ”

Hu Shahu knows that this Xia sword is the best sword in the world, only the generals of the Xia army are qualified to have it, and the people can't buy it at all.

Hu Shahu said: "Okay, I will believe you this time. ”

Hu Shahu waved his iron rod, and more than a dozen of his subordinates rushed over with him, and his subordinates were not ordinary servants, all of them were like wolves and tigers, and these patrolmen fled in embarrassment.

Li Qianshun and Princess Yuzhu climbed down from the tree.

Hu Shahu shouted: "Han Xiaoyao, hurry up and give me the sword." ”

Han Xiaoyao said: "Don't worry, the sword is in the provincial city, you have to go with me to get it." ”

Hu Shahu said to him: "Keep an eye on his two friends." ”

Han Xiaoyao said: "You have to give us three horses to ride, otherwise it will take a long time to reach the provincial city." ”

Hu Shahu said impatiently: "You kid said quite a lot. He ordered three horses to be led.

At dusk, the crowd rested in a wood, ready to spend the night.

Han Xiaoyao walked out of the woods, and saw some tents not far in front of him, under the banner of the Liao State, he walked over and chatted with a horse herder in Khitan dialect, it turned out that this team was sent by the Emperor of the Liao State to deliver the holy decree, and he had an idea.

In the middle of the night, he sneaked into the tent of the envoy of Liao, lit his sleeping hole, found the holy decree in a wooden box, opened it and looked through it, the main meaning of it was that the emperor of Liao reprimanded the Empress Dowager Liang for attacking the Song Dynasty for many years and sending troops for no reason, and the last sentence was to quickly and Song He. Han Xiaoyao took the pen and wrote two sentences in the blank space at the back, and then put the holy decree away.

He returned to the woods, just as Li Qianshun woke up, Li Qianshun asked, "Where have you been?" ”

Han Xiaoyao said mysteriously: "I went to do a big thing, you can wait for good news tomorrow!" After saying that, he fell asleep.

The next morning, Hu Shahu urged Han Xiaoyao to go on the road, and Han Xiaoyao said: "Don't worry, don't worry, I've already arranged for someone to transport the sword to the camp outside, you just wait patiently." ”

Hu Shahu said: "What the hell are you kidding, I think you are dying." ”

Han Xiaoyao shook the folding fan and smiled.

It was almost noon, a group of people came from outside the woods, and the word "Liang" was written on the flag, and Han Xiaoyao said to Hu Shahu: "Hu Shahu, the person who sent the sword is here, follow me to get the sword." ”

He said to Li Qianshun and Princess Yuzhu, "Follow me." ”

The three of them followed Han Xiaoyao and quietly hid behind a bush in front of the camp of the Liao State, and Li Qianshun recognized which team of men and horses was the Empress Dowager Liang, and the person next to him was his uncle Wei Ming Ah Wu.

It turned out that Empress Dowager Liang learned that Li Qianshun's brothers and sisters had escaped. This surprised her, thinking that the two brothers and sisters would definitely go to their uncle Wei Ming Ah Wu for help, she asked Wu to lead five hundred cavalry with her to chase the two brothers and sisters, and sent someone to order Wei Ming Ah Wu to come to her immediately to discuss the attack on the Song Dynasty.

Empress Dowager Liang walked not far away and received news that the envoys of the Liao State had come, so she immediately rushed to the Liao State camp.

Wei Ming Ah Wu was afraid that the Empress Dowager Liang would catch him, so she came overnight, and the Empress Dowager Liang was relieved when she saw him, guessing that the two brothers and sisters had not escaped to him, and she and Wei Ming Ah Wu came to the camp of the Liao envoys to receive the order.

After a while, the envoys of the Liao State came to the camp to read the holy decree, and finally read: "Quickly and Song He, return the government to the son, and do not disobey." ”

When Empress Dowager Liang heard this, she was like five thunderbolts, and the envoy of the Liao State asked, "Where is your emperor?" ”

Empress Dowager Liang immediately replied: "The emperor is seriously ill and cannot preside over the government, please take back your fate!" ”

Seeing that the time had come, Han Xiaoyao pulled Li Qianshun and ran to the envoys of the Liao State and said, "He is the Emperor of the Xia Kingdom." ”

Li Qianshun said: "I am Emperor Li Qianshun, I am very healthy, she is lying." ”

Empress Dowager Liang was taken aback.

Wei Ming Ah Wu said: "This is our emperor Li Qianshun. ”

Li Qianshun took the holy decree and said: "Empress Dowager Liang is reckless, the party is chaotic, and the people are now abolished as a concubine and live in Moon Villa forever." ”

Wei Ming Ah Wu ordered someone to take down the Empress Dowager Liang, and the surrounding Xia people cheered happily.

Li Qianshun said to Hu Shahu: "Hu Shahu, you have a meritorious service in saving me, and I will give you fifty Xia Guo swords." ”

Han Xiaoyao said: "Hu Shahu, what the eldest husband says counts, I didn't lie to you!" ”

Hu Shahu said: "You kid has a lot of ghost ideas, and I will look for you next time." ”

Li Qianshun asked, "Xiaoyao, what reward do you want?" ”

Han Xiaoyao said: "I just want the emperor to release my brother Yang Huaide and those Song army prisoners. ”

Li Qianshun said: "This is exactly what I want to do now, to comprehensively negotiate peace with Song, so that the people of the two countries can recuperate!" ”

Han Xiaoyao couldn't see in the crowd that he didn't hide the black wind, and said: "It's not good, he didn't hide the black wind and ran away, only he knows where my brother is being held." ”

Everyone immediately returned to Moon Mountain, someone came to report that Heifeng led more than 200 people to flee to Liao with the Song army prisoners, Han Xiaoyao was anxious and said: "I want to return to Liao immediately to save my brother." "Shoot the horse and go.

Princess Yuzhu shouted from behind: "Xiaoyao, you must come to me after rescuing your brother!" ”