Chapter 40: The Zifeiyi (1)
PS, three shifts today and tomorrow, two shifts at 17 o'clock, ask for collection, order and push
Na Yu's skills are outstanding, and his riding skills are also really good. Lai Xing'er chased her horse out of more than ten miles before she could go hand in hand with her. The two horses galloped, bypassing several mountain beams, and turned into the official road leading to the Nonggeyi.
"How do you have such a good skill?" Seeing that Nayu had been ignoring herself, Lai Xing'er finally couldn't help but ask.
Nayu grabbed the reins of the horse, and did not answer Lai Xing'er, but pointed forward with the horsewhip and said, "Look, Fengyan! ”
Lai Xing'er looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, under the blue sky, a stream of beacon smoke rose straight up, as if a cloud ladder had been built between heaven and earth.
"What, is there a war ahead?"
Nayu nodded: "This is a warning to the city. It seems that as soon as the eldest princess dies, the border between the two countries will be unstable again. ”
"Let's go, will your brother kill Lord Lin and Father-in-law Shang?" Lai Xing'er still felt guilty in his heart for not saying goodbye.
"Probably not." Na Yu replied coldly, "Na Simo wants to detain your Royal Highness King Mu, and only you, the eldest son of the emperor, have enough weight in his eyes. ”
Lai Xing'er heard that her tone was wrong, and asked in surprise, "Doesn't Nasimo know that I, the King of Harmony, am a fake?" Who are you, and why do you keep helping me? ”
"Didn't Master Kampot already say it, and the message from Gangneung was suppressed by him. Nasimo may be suspicious of you, but I believe that he has not yet confirmed your true identity. So, as long as you don't get caught by them, everyone in the mission is safe. Na Yubian rode his horse. He said. "Nasimo is my brother. But he was also the enemy who caused my father to die, and Nazhu would never have gone to Luo to join him if he had not been given the strict orders of the concubine. ”
"What's going on? Can you tell me about it? Lai Xing'er recalled that night in Nafuzhong, when she saw that their brother and sister were clearly like a family, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously.
"It's okay to walk, and it's okay for you to hear it. My father, Nabro, was the founder of the Scorpion Army in the Kingdom of Linyi. Twenty years ago, my father escorted the daughter of the great chief of Linyi, who is now the concubine, to Chang'an to make peace with the then prince. Because of his admiration for the etiquette and civilization of Middle-earth, he stayed in Chang'an as a captain and did not return to Linyi.
Later, there was a big rebellion in the north, and my father went with the army to quell the rebellion, because of his strong martial arts, brave combat, and repeated military exploits, he became the commander of the five soldiers and horses in less than a year, and led the army to garrison Henan. At this time, Tubo took advantage of the emptiness of the imperial court in the Helong area and invaded on a large scale. Its main force is the Scorpio Army created by his father, and the leading commander is Nasimo. The court learned that Nasimo was his father's nephew. After the news that the Scorpion Army was created by his father, he sent his father to the camp of Nasimo to persuade him to retire. I didn't want Nasimo to be very respectful to my father on the surface, so he promised to withdraw immediately, but taking advantage of the peace talks, the official army was lax and suddenly sent troops to capture two state cities one after another. In a fit of anger, my father took the initiative to ask the court for help, and was willing to lead a group of soldiers and horses to expel the Tubo army from the country. Helplessly, at that time, the elite of the imperial court had been transferred to Hebei to quell the rebellion, and his father led most of the old and weak soldiers, and the difference in combat strength between the two sides was huge, and he was repeatedly defeated under the hands of Nasimo, and the court was angry with his father because of the unfavorable war, and he was condemned to death together with those rebels who were rebellious when Chang'an fell, and was beheaded under the single willow tree.
After my father died, thanks to the care of the concubine's mother and son, Nazhu and I survived......"
Nazhu recalled the past of his father's unjust death, and couldn't help himself, and he couldn't stop sighing for a while.
Lai Xing'er never thought that she and herself had a very similar life experience, just the so-called sympathy for the same fate, thinking of her father who was beheaded under the single willow tree and her mother who has not been heard from so far, she couldn't help but shed a few lines of tears with her.
The two walked out of more than ten miles side by side, and seeing that Nayu's expression gradually eased, Lai Xing'er asked softly again: "Is there any news about the person I asked you to inquire about?" ”
Nayu shook her head: "I asked Nazhu and Danba respectively, and both of them said that the Han women in Nasimo Mansion were all forcibly robbed from the Helong area, and they had never paid for a maid and maid from a merchant in the past. ”
Lai Xing'er was like a slap on the head, and the whole person suddenly lost his spirit. Ever since he returned to the building from Nauvoo that night, he had a sense of foreboding that he might not find his mother on this trip. Even so, he still has a glimmer of fantasy these days, hoping that Nayu can bring him an unexpected surprise. Now disillusioned, Lai Xing'er feels utterly lost and sad.
"Let's talk first, I'll send you across the Xingsuchuan Pass, and then you go back to Chang'an, and I'll go to Jiangling, and we don't owe each other from now on, okay?" Na Yu didn't notice that Xing'er looked depressed, and discussed with him.
"You still refuse to go back to Chang'an with me?" Lai Xing'er asked absentmindedly.
Na Yu replied vaguely: "It's enough for you to report to the emperor, what should I do?" ”
Lai Xing'er was still immersed in the loss and melancholy of not being able to find her mother, and did not ask any more. The two of them continued to walk in the direction of Nonggeyi.
"No, there is a situation." Na Yu suddenly turned over and dismounted, lay on the ground, listened attentively with her left ear on the ground for a moment, and shouted to Lai Xing'er, "There is a large group of cavalry chasing here. ”
Lai Xing'er snorted, looked back behind him, and asked puzzledly, "Why can't I see it?" ”
Na Yu pulled Xing'er off his horse and said, "Listening to the sound, it is still more than twenty miles away from here, so you naturally can't see it." Sooner or later, we will be caught up by them when we walk the main road, so we can only walk on foot, can you do it? ”
"How do you know they're coming to us?" Lai Xing'er glanced at the two horses beside him nostalgically and asked.
"Have you ever heard of the Tibetan Bird Envoy? They can transmit information no less than six hundred miles of post. Na Yu whipped twice at the back buttocks of the two horses, and the two horses let out a long neighing at the same time, and galloped away in the direction of Nonggeyi, "Besides, our dress, even if the cavalry behind us is not coming at us, sooner or later our whereabouts will be exposed, and it will be very difficult to get out of Tubo from the official road." ”
Lai Xing'er looked at Na Yu twice, and then looked down at her body, only then did she remember that the two of them were still wearing women's makeup, and the two young girls galloped along the official road, which was naturally very easy to attract people's attention, and couldn't help but smile and said: "The girl is right." Although I haven't walked the mountain road, it is still a hundred times stronger than in the water, as long as the girl does not deliberately throw me down like the dragon head canal, I can walk back to Chang'an even if I wear out the soles of my feet. (To be continued.) )