"What do you mean, Princess, Chai Shao and I didn't know each other before, and we didn't have any grudges, if it wasn't for him hitting me and beating someone, how could I beat him in turn, could it be that in the eyes of the princess, I am the one who likes to cause trouble so much?" When Li Xiu heard Princess Pingyang's final question, he immediately showed an extremely aggrieved expression.

"Really?" Princess Pingyang was obviously still a little skeptical, she always felt that Li Xiu was not completely telling the truth.

"Of course it's true!" Li Xiu nodded firmly, and then he seemed to understand something, and immediately said loudly with a sudden face, "I know, princess, do you think that I don't want to be an official, so I deliberately went to cause trouble, right?" But princess, you really wronged me this time, I was just angry before, how could I really go to the street to tease a woman, and it was a complete accident to meet Chai Shao, if it wasn't for him being so rude, I wouldn't have been able to conflict with him! ”

When it came to the end, Li Xiu showed an extremely wronged expression on his face, and there was a bit of despair in his eyes, as if he wanted to die, which made Princess Pingyang wonder if she was thinking too much for a while?

"Okay, I already know what happened, you don't care about the rest of the matter, I'll help you deal with it!" Princess Pingyang pondered for a long time, and finally spoke, although Li Xiu beat Chai Shao and caused a big disaster, it was not his fault, and he was his own savior, so she would not let Li Xiu be questioned for this anyway.

"Thank you, princess!" Li Xiu also bowed to Princess Pingyang with gratitude at this time, and at the same time finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, some things should be buried in his heart forever, for example, when he beat Chai Shao, in addition to revenge, he did have the idea of causing trouble, but he didn't expect Chai Shao's origin to be so big.

At that moment, Li Xiu said goodbye and left, and as soon as he got out of the princess's room, he was pulled aside by Ma Ye, who was guarding outside, and asked: "You kid is so bold that even Chai Shao dares to beat him, although I have always wanted to do this, but I haven't been able to do it for so many years, but now I have been preempted by you, I have to say admiration to you!" ”

"Uncle Ma, don't make fun of me, if I knew in advance that he was Chai Shao, I would ......"

"How are you, is it because he is Chai Shao, you confessed after taking a kick, this is not like the Li Xiu I know?" Before Li Xiu finished speaking, Ma Ye interrupted him with a glare, he heard all the conversations between Li Xiu and the princess just now, and of course he was the only one in the entire post house who dared to eavesdrop on the princess's conversation.

"Of course I won't admit it, but I'll secretly give him a stick from behind, and then run away after the fight, anyway, he doesn't know me." Li Xiu said with a natural face, if the light is not good, the dark will come, and if the dark is not good, he will come to the yin, he is familiar with the trend of history, and he has more than a thousand years of knowledge than the Tang people, he doesn't believe that there is any enemy that he can't handle.

"Haha, that's a good point, you know that your kid has bad water in his stomach!" Ma Ye couldn't help laughing when he heard Li Xiu's words, he was a military general, he only talked about the result on the battlefield and not the process, no matter what means as long as he could overturn the enemy, so Li Xiu's words were also quite to his liking, not to mention that the person Li Xiu had to deal with was still Chai Shao, whom he hated the most.

"Uncle Ma, I can also see that the princess and you both hate Chai Shao very much, and now I have offended Chai Shao, we are also people on the same front, can you tell me, why do you and the princess hate Chai Shao so much, isn't he the princess's husband?" At this time, Li Xiu finally asked this question that had puzzled him for a long time.

When Ma Ye heard Li Xiu ask about this, he couldn't help but show a resentful expression, and after a while, he sighed and said: "This matter is a long story, this is also the biggest pain in the princess's heart, not many people know about it, and even if they do, few people dare to say it, usually even I don't want to mention it, for fear that the princess will be sad after hearing it, it doesn't hurt to tell you now." ”

With Ma Ye's narration, a long-sealed historical mystery was finally revealed, Princess Pingyang and Chai Shao were indeed husband and wife, and their marriage was personally set by Li Yuan. When Li Yuan raised his army, Chai Shao and Princess Pingyang were just preparing to marry in Chang'an, but with the news of Li Yuan's army, the Great Sui Imperial Court also began to arrest Li Yuan's family members everywhere, Princess Pingyang, as Li Yuan's favorite daughter, was only after Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin on the list of arrests.

Fortunately, Li Yuan had already sent someone to inform Princess Pingyang and Chai Shao in advance, so before the arrival of their captors, they had secretly left Chang'an, but even if they left Chang'an City, there were still people who captured them outside, so Princess Pingyang, Ma Ye and others did not have the confidence to return to Taiyuan.

However, what they didn't expect was that on the first night they left Chang'an, Chai Shao actually took a few henchmen to say goodbye, as for the reason, you don't have to think about it to know, because Princess Pingyang is the main target of the Great Sui Imperial Court, so Chai Shao and Princess Pingyang must be very dangerous together, but if he leaves Princess Pingyang, the people who captured them will be attracted by Princess Pingyang, and his chances of escaping by himself will naturally be greatly increased.

Princess Pingyang never thought that Chai Shao, who she thought she could entrust for life, would be such a person, and even her wife could be given up for her own safety, and this blow almost made Princess Pingyang collapse.

But Princess Pingyang is not an ordinary woman after all, in fact, she is very similar to her mother Queen Dou, both of them are soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, after Chai Shao fled alone, Princess Pingyang quickly cheered up and continued to flee north with people, but what's worse is that most of the people around her at that time were Chai Shao's people, these people saw Chai Shao leave, their hearts were scattered, and they all ran away in just a few days, and in the end only Ma Ye and a few other henchmen who married from the Li family were left, and the chasing soldiers behind them also seemed to have found their traces, It's about to catch up.

In that case, Princess Pingyang has almost fallen into a desperate situation, and even the tenacious Ma Ye feels a little desperate, for which he has prepared weapons and poisons, as long as the chasing soldiers are killed, he will poison Princess Pingyang first, so as not to humiliate her, and then fight to death, which can be regarded as worthy of the Li family.

However, what Ma Ye didn't expect was that Princess Pingyang broke out with amazing tenacity in this desperate situation, when they just arrived at a Li family manor in Shaanxi, so Princess Pingyang cut off her long hair to dress up in men's clothes, called herself Li Gongzi, and then scattered all the family wealth in the manor, and even her dowry was exchanged for money and food to help the victims, and recruited a team of hundreds of people from the victims, and then based on this team, it finally developed into a women's army of tens of thousands of people.

"At the peak of our women's army, the number reached an astonishing 70,000 people, and a vast land was laid in Guanzhong, even the famous general Qu Tutong of the Great Sui at that time was defeated by the princess several times, if the princess was a man, maybe he could take this opportunity to sweep the world, so as to determine the Central Plains in one fell swoop!" When Ma Ye talked about Princess Pingyang's feat of going from a desperate situation to supporting tens of thousands of soldiers, his face was also full of pride.

"It's unlikely, at that time, Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande both had tens of thousands of troops, which can be called a hegemon, although the princess's 70,000 troops are a lot, but they are still much worse than Wang Shichong and others." Li Xiu heard this, but he disagreed, he was still familiar with the distribution of forces at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

"Do you know a fart, do you know how many troops Your Majesty and King Qin had when they raised troops in Taiyuan? Twenty thousand! Not even one-third of our women's army, and later the princess took the initiative to hand over the military power, which made the strength of His Majesty's hands increase to 100,000 all of a sudden, and it is with this 100,000 army that His Majesty can take Chang'an, thus laying the foundation of my Tang Dynasty! Ma Ye was very angry at Li Xiu's questioning of the strength of the Women's Army, and said very angrily at the moment.

"Haha, don't be angry, Uncle Ma, I'm young and ignorant, I understand when you say this, it turns out that His Majesty and the crown prince, King Qin, father and son are not as weak as a weak woman like the princess, so what Your Majesty and King Qin can do, the princess can definitely do!" Li Xiu hurriedly followed Ma Ye's words, after all, he also knew that Ma Ye had a deep affection for the Women's Army, so there was no need for him to raise the bar.

"That...... Well, it's good to know in your heart, don't go out and talk nonsense! Ma Ye seems to like Li Xiu's words to belittle others and elevate the princess, but it is His Majesty and his two sons who are belittled, so this kind of thing is still not easy to say.

"Huh? Isn't that right? Li Xiu suddenly thought of something at this time, and asked Ma Ye with doubts, "Uncle Ma, I seem to have heard rumors from the outside world that when the princess and Chai Shao were in Chang'an, it was the princess who took the initiative to let Chai Shao leave by herself, how is it different from what you said?" ”

"How many rumors can be believed? What's more, the princess and Chai Shao have special identities, not many people know about it, and when His Majesty raised the army, Chai Shao also made a lot of contributions, so after His Majesty was angry, he didn't blame Chai Shao anymore, but always wanted to reconcile them, but the princess already hated Chai Shao very much, let alone reconciled, she usually refused to see him even when she saw him! When Ma Ye said the end, he also showed a dissatisfied look on his face, and he didn't know if he was dissatisfied with Chai Shao or Li Yuan?

After listening to Ma Ye's words, Li Xiu showed a contemplative expression, he felt that there were some problems with Ma Ye's last words, such as since Li Yuan loved Princess Pingyang the most, but Chai Shao was not cut by Li Yuan after abandoning Princess Pingyang and running away alone, if it is explained by merit, it is a little too far-fetched, after all, among the generals, Chai Shao's credit is not very prominent, and it cannot be compared with Princess Pingyang.

In addition, what is even more interesting is that Li Yuan is about to rebel, but he sent his favorite princess Pingyang to Chang'an to marry Chai Shao, this matter is unreasonable, so there must be some secrets that are not known to outsiders, and I don't know if Ma Ye really doesn't know, or did he deliberately hide it?