Chapter 31: The Silver Angel
In the midst of thousands of mountains and ravines, on the vast grassland; Criss-crossed by rivers and dotted with bubble lakes, there are thousands of villages of all sizes distributed on this vast land, where the Jurchens have lived and multiplied for generations. Despite the beauty of the mountains and rivers and the abundance of products, the Jurchens were struggling to make a living, all because of the Liao Dynasty's brutal rule over the Jurchens.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitans on the grassland rose, and Yelu Abao established the Great Liao Empire after attacking and destroying the Sumire. The Great Liao dominated the north in the Shuo Desert and ruled and oppressed the Jurchens for a hundred years. The cruelty and humiliation of the Liao Dynasty provoked the Jurchens to constantly resist. When Tianzuo succeeded to the throne, the ninth emperor of the Liao State sat not on a stable dragon chair but on a volcano with magma surging.
Emperor Liao Tianzuo, surnamed Yelu Yanxi, the word Yanning, the small character Aguo, the grandson of the Taoist Yelu Hongji. Because the son of Taoism, Yelu Jun, was killed before he ascended the throne, so the emperor of Taoism, Sun Yanxi, was enthroned by the edict and was honored as Tianzuo.
Tianzuo has a slender body, a round face and big ears, oblique eyebrows and horizontal eyes, a short nose and a mustache, and a thin face. Good at riding and shooting, good at hunting.
Back in September of the fourth year of Liao Tianqing, the frost of late autumn stained the maple leaves all over the mountain, and the weeds in the mountains gradually withered
In Wuerzhai Village at the foot of Huang-Rufeng Mountain, a wooden fence divides mud and straw houses into courtyards of different sizes.
One day, the sky was covered with dark clouds and thunder, and a group of ragged Jurchen villagers gathered in the open field at the head of the village, some of whom were whispering from time to time, as if something big had happened.
On the opposite side of the crowd sat a Liao Dynasty Suoying man holding a sword and wearing a silver medal, the so-called "silver angel". The silver angel sat on the wooden bench with Erlang's legs crossed and looked arrogant. He wears a round purple velvet felt hat and a silver and white fox tail on his shoulders. Double earlobe rings, long triangular eyes, pointed mouth, and a black beard on the lips.
Several guards stood on the left and right with waist knives in their hands.
At this time, the centurion and two Liao soldiers walked over with a limp of a ragged garment and a bandage on one leg, and the audience was immediately solemn.
The centurion respectfully reported: "Lord Angel, the man has been arrested. A Liao soldier with a full face pushed hard and shouted, "Kneel!" The emaciated eagle presenter knelt before the silver angel, and the centurion took a few steps back.
The silver medal angel stood up and asked viciously, "You didn't hand over Hai Dongqing as scheduled, can you be guilty?" The eagle man touched the injured leg with a sad face and replied: "The villain is guilty." The silver angel laughed wickedly: "It's good to know the guilt, come on!" β
As soon as the words fell, the Liao soldiers came to the eagle presenter with a staff, and the eagle presenter begged bitterly: "Adults, villains, villains almost died in order to catch the eagles climbing the mountain and climbing the cliffs, look at the villain's legs are broken." β
The silver medal angel was angry: "Hmph, I didn't hand over the eagle on time, it's useless to say anything, call me!" "The Liao soldiers rained down like sticks, and the voices of the eagles screamed miserably, which was breathtaking. The silver angel looked at the crowd, and the eagle man who was beaten with his fingers shouted: "See? This is the end of disobedience! β
At this time, there was a commotion in the crowd. Suddenly, a young woman rushed out, knelt down in front of the silver angel, and cried: "Lord Angel, you can spare him, his leg has not healed since he broke in order to catch the eagle chicks, my lord!" β
The silver angel narrowed his eyes, approached the woman, and asked, "Who is he?" The woman replied tremblingly, "Hui Lord, he is the husband of the little woman." β
The silver angel touched his mouth with his hand and mumbled, "Get up." "The little girl doesn't dare!" The young woman muttered. At this time, the silver medal angel said with a wicked smile in a much softer tone, "This official asked you to get up, why don't you dare?" β
The woman slowly stood up, the silver angel took a step forward, squinted her eyes and looked at it, and a sentence popped out of her mouth: "The little lady looks good, she is really a phoenix in the chicken nest, and the lingzhi in the mountains, okay, for the sake of the lady, the official will spare him." β
The woman said gratefully, "Then thank you, thank you!" The silver medal angel's eyes narrowed, staring at the woman vigorously, and the woman lowered her head in shame.
The silver medalist said meaningfully: "It's okay to let him go, butβthere is one condition." The woman hurriedly asked, "My lord, as long as I spare him, I will agree to any conditions." The silver angel clasped his hands together and said, "That's good, the official will let him go now, the conditions-"
The little woman was impatient: "My lord, what conditions?" The silver angel said in a low voice: "It's to recommend a pillow for this official tonight." The woman looked up and pointed with her hand in surprise: "You-you!" The silver medal angel laughed: "It's your blessing to be able to sleep with this official!" β
The silver angel approached to touch the woman's face, the woman was frightened and retreated, and the silver angel pressed forward step by step, at this moment, a lightning and thunder exploded in the sky, and the Jurchen chief Wan Yan A bone beaten, accompanied by his fifth brother Wan Yan Xianye, led his own soldiers to guard the tiger step in.
A Guta - this gravedigger of the Great Liao Dynasty, he is burly, more than eight feet, he wears an old white felt hat, a white beard, eyes like copper bells, and a wide face and square mouth. Dressed in a short jacket of old crimson cloth, a pair of thin-soled animal leather boots, and holding a waist knife, he came to the silver medal angel.
Ah Guda loudly reprimanded: "A bold fanatic, dare to disregard human life and insult women in broad daylight!" β
This silver angel who didn't know what to do, when he saw Ah Gu slapping his face, he said arrogantly: "Ah-it turned out to be Chief Ah Guta." β
Xian was also furious: "Since you know that you are the chief, why don't you worship!" β
After hearing this, the silver angel laughed: "This official is an official of the imperial court, a dignified silver angel, why do you bow down to a barbarian tribe chief?" He also took a step forward and pointed sharply with his knife: "What a dignified silver angel, do you know whose territory this is!" β
The silver medal angel's eyes narrowed: "Eh, what a big breath, the official also told you, but you have to know whose world this is!" β
Oblique was also indignant, approaching step by step, pointing at the world and the ground with a knife, and then pointing at the tip of the silver angel's nose: "Dog officer, listen, this day is the Jurchen sky, the earth is the Jurchen land, and even the breath you gasp in is our Jurchen!" Whose world do you say? If you don't worship the chief today, I'll let you go and worship Hades! Did you hear me clearly? β
The silver angel was shocked and stepped back and roared, "You-who are you?" β
"I'm the fifth brother of the chief, Wanyan Xianye!" The silver medal angel saw that the other party was menacing, and he had the courage to scold loudly: "Wanyan Xianye, do you want to rebel?" β
"You're not bad at all!" Xian also reprimanded, "My Jurchen people have been vassals of the Great Liao Dynasty for generations, serving as servants, sending food money, and offering eagles and pillows!" I'm telling you today that if you want to rebel, let's start with you, a beast! The silver angel strode back in fright, and his own soldiers drew their swords out of their sheaths when they saw this.