On the bleak northern grasslands, forty households and five squares of people were in a hurry, and they worked tirelessly to go to Wukubu under the instructions of a map. ☆→，

The journey to Ukube was long and fraught with danger, but the group was always looking forward to survival, even if there was danger ahead, and it was much safer to stay by Jelujing's side.

In the darkness of the night, the people of the forty households and the five squares began to stop their footsteps, and chose a hillside to rest, and after a few days, the slaves had a hole in their feet and blisters.

"Brother Tao, how far is it to go to Wukubu?"

Liu Tao said: "Elder Yang, I won't tell you anything, now that the two armies are fighting, the road is impassable, and there are many dangers, and I don't know if there is a place for us in the Wuku Department?" ”

Another child said: "Even if we reach the Ukubu, I'm afraid the war has already ended, and now I don't know where to go?" ”

"Brother Tao is right, our forty families now only ask for a place to live, and there is nothing else to ask for, for fear that there will be robbers on the way, and I am afraid that your lives will not be guaranteed. I have a copper coin here, and if Qian Wenyang is face up, he will go to the north; Conversely, if the yin side is facing up, it will go to the south. ”

The old man, who was called the old sheep by Liu Tao, trembled in the wind, and then took out a rusty copper coin from his arms, threw the copper coin into the air, and after a while, the copper coin fell directly on the grass.

"The dark side. Could it be that this is the path God has made us choose. ”

"Looks like we're going to have to go south."

"South, isn't that the Song Kingdom...... "The old man muttered, "the Central Plains, I haven't been back for eighteen years." You and I are both Han people in the Central Plains, if it weren't for the First Battle of Jin and Liao in the Central Plains, we became prisoners, and now we are living well in the Song Kingdom, how can we be in such a situation today. ”

"Elder Yang, do you want to go to the Song Kingdom?" Liu Tao said, "I'll call the other thirty-nine households over to discuss countermeasures." ”

Liu Tao gathered the people together, sat in the wild grass, and everyone formed a circle, covering the sky and the ground, and opened the conversation.

"It's just that the Song people will think that we are spies of the Liao State?"

"This ......"

There seemed to be movement around, and at this time suddenly a group of men and horses came from the grassland, rushing towards the forty households, but after a short time another group of men and horses also came, each holding torches.

The two teams began to fight.

After a person hiding in the distance saw it, he immediately hurried to the back of the hillside and said softly: "Oh no, there are two teams of people on the flat ground, and the two sides are fighting, and they don't know who the other party is for a while?" ”

Yang Lao reminded: "Two teams of people...... Wait, get down and don't make a sound. ”

Forty households in five lanes were all lying in place, with their backs to the hillside, and no one could find this place for a while. Waiting quietly, the two teams seemed to be coming towards each other, not knowing whether they were friends or foes at the moment.

An hour had passed, the air was filled with the smell of blood, and the battle was over, and the survivors were all veiled, as if they were not showing their true faces.

Yang Yi, who counted the personnel, came over and said, "Tell the deputy commander, our men and horses have died 300, 50 casualties, and the enemy has all died. ”

"Damn, have you found out the identities of those people?"

"It's Yelujing's bodyguard, and it's the elite of the elite."

"Huluduo, this is Yelujing's Jane selection of the world's elite, the Huluduo in the heart of the gathering, I didn't expect the other party to be killed by us, and they met us. By the way, how many people are there on the other side? ”

Yang Yiyi: "Back to the deputy commander, there are a total of 1,000 Luduo, all of which were wiped out by our people." ”

"There seem to be dozens of people around, did you notice?"

"Tell the deputy commander, and my subordinates will go and search around." As soon as Yang finished speaking, he immediately took ten servants to search around.

At night, behind the small hillside, forty households and five households hid behind, and when the surroundings calmed down, these people stuck out their heads and let out a long breath.

At this moment, the child standing guard on the hillside was suddenly caught from behind.

"Who are you?" The boy was horrified.

That Yang Yiyi: "Shhhh ”

Xiao'er glared and said uneasily, "I...... I'm only one person, don't you think ......"

"Be honest, say it quickly, or your life will be ruined."

"I, I, I...... Don't kill me, I say, I say. Under the threat, he was finally ceased to speak.

"It turned out that you went to the south to flee, but today you are fortunate to meet the deputy commander of my family, if you don't have so many chasing soldiers, you won't be able to escape."

"Are you here to save us?"

"My family, so to speak, ...... The young master of my family is from the Song Kingdom, so it is better to let your men and horses join our camp, and your safety will be settled. ”

Wufang Xiaoer immediately took these eleven people to the settlement of forty Wufang households behind the hillside.

When Yang Lao saw that Xiao Cao'er was followed by eleven people dressed in black, he was frightened: "Xiao Cao'er, who are the people behind you?" ”

"Elder Yang, these eleven people have no malicious intent, they just killed the Huluduo guards beside Yelu Jing......"

Elder Yang thought it was incredible, and he wondered, "Are you saying that all those Huluduo guards were killed by the people behind you?" ”

"You say that you underestimate the strength of my young master, he is ......"

Yang Yi, who was in the lead, scolded: "Shut up, there is no place for you to talk here." ”

The man realized that he was almost talking about it, so he immediately stopped talking.

"This old man, I'm really sorry, we have no malicious intentions, I just heard this little brother say that you are the Wufang household next to the sleeping king, and now you are going to the Song Kingdom, and our people can escort you to the Song Kingdom."

Liu Tao listened and said, "Really? ”

There were other people who also looked expectant, and these people appeared like saviors, freeing them from the sea of suffering.

Yang Lao immediately pulled Liu Tao aside and said softly: "These people have destroyed Huluduo, we people have no power to restrain the chicken, why do you treat us like this, be careful and deceitful." You stay for the first time, and if I can't come back, I'll take them with you at once. ”

Liu Tao touched his head and said, "What Elder Yang said makes sense. ”

Yang Yi understood what they meant, and he said: "Uncle, you don't have to guess like this, the deputy commander of my family is now in front, which of you wants to go and see it." ”

"I'm going to see your deputy commander." Elder Yang stepped forward.

"Uncle, please—"

Escorted by the man in black, Yang Lao went with the eleven.

When they got there, the man in black saw them coming with an old man, and Yang Yi himself chattered with the deputy commander.

The person who was called the deputy commander immediately said: "This old man, what my subordinates said is true, if the old man doesn't believe it, we won't make it difficult for you." ”

Yang Lao felt as if his words were hit on cotton, but he still didn't believe it.

He pointed to the deputy commander in front of him and asked, "Where are you from?" ”

"I'm from Yingzhou."

The old man was pleasantly surprised, because he hadn't heard anyone say the word Yingzhou for a long time, and today "You are from Yingzhou!" ”

"The old man is also from Yingzhou. I don't know who my father-in-law's surname is, and if there are any relatives in the family? ”

"The second in my family, there is an elder brother, surnamed Yang Mingkun [name failed to pass the exam], the brother has three sons, Xin, Kuang, and Zan, and he should be in his thirties today."

The man immediately blurted out and said in a lost voice: "Could it be that you are Yang Jue and Yang Yulang." ”

"How do you know, you are ......"

The black-clothed deputy commander immediately took off half of the mask, and the old sheep saw that this person looked similar to his brother, and it was his own nephew.

"Which of the three are you, Xin, Kuang, and Zan?" The old sheep became inexplicably excited.

"I'm the youngest Zan'er, uncle."

"Zan'er, I didn't expect that you haven't seen each other for eighteen years, you have grown so big, uncle is really happy." The old sheep's name is Yang Jue, and when he saw that his nephews were so old, he left tears of excitement.

"Uncle, since you were kidnapped by the Khitans, your family doesn't know your life and death, and they don't know how you've been doing in the past eighteen years?"

"Khitan dog thief, regard me Han people as pigs and dogs, like mustard, uncle and I followed the Jin Kingdom to the king of the country, all the way to the capital, to become a Wufang household. During Zhou Shizong's Northern Expedition, Yingzhou was recovered, and at that time, I was the happiest, because Yingzhou was no longer under the rule of the barbarians...... Later, the rebellion of Huoshendian, Yelu Jing sat on the throne, Yelu Jing was brutal, often killing people for fun, Wufang households often became the object of his killing for fun, we pigs and dogs are not as good as living every day, uncle and I If I were a scholar who had no power to tie the chicken, I am afraid that I would have committed suicide by throwing myself into the river, and I was still worried about this humiliation......" Yang Jue recalled the past while saying, revealing a hideous face.

"Uncle, the Khitans are bullying my Han people so much, sooner or later, my Han people will flee to justice for them one by one."

Yang Zan immediately told his uncle about his affairs in the capital, and Yang Jue felt that the descendants of the Yang family had a future while listening, and he fell in love with the high branches of His Royal Highness the King of Wei.

"By the way, Zan'er, there are still forty Wufang households over there, now that you and I have recognized each other, you might as well be a favor and help them." Yang Jue is also worried, after all, forty households is not a lot, Yang Zan may think that it is a burden, but he will leave them behind.

Yang Jue's life has been connected to the Wufang households, and today, he will naturally not leave them.

"Uncle, send the Buddha to the west, this is also what the young master told us to do, and the nephew immediately set off with his uncle to explain all this."

"That's good." Yang Jue nodded.

Yang Zan then went to the back of the hill with Yang Jue and explained all this.

The next day, Yang Zan led the forty households and embarked on the journey to the Song Kingdom, and this time their task was to escort these people to the Song Kingdom.

In order to let these people enter the Song Dynasty safely and not be discovered by the Liao, Zhao Zan let these people turn into exiles in batches and enter the territory of the Song Kingdom.

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More than 20 days later, in the city of Yingzhou.

"The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep...... Eighteen years, from a man in the prime of life to a gray-haired old man, I, Yang Yulang, finally returned to the Song Dynasty today. ”

Yang Zan sent a letter to Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Dezhao had also received it, and on the other hand, Yang Xin and Yang Si brothers received a letter from San Lang, and unexpectedly learned a message - the second uncle, who had been taken away by the Liao people for 18 years, has now returned to Yingzhou.

At this time, in Kaifeng City, the Han family disembarked at the Bianshui Ferry, and Zhao Dezhao also received a secret letter in advance, and the reception must be of a high standard.

What Han Kuangsi saw along the way was the most unforgettable thing in his life, the new look of the cities in the Song Dynasty, the spirit and pride contained in the hearts of the Song people, which could not be seen in the Liao people.

The cement road from Kaifeng to Dengzhou, he saw with his own eyes that the laborers were under construction, and he heard that the policies enjoyed by these laborers were also very rich, and he was familiar with the history books, and he actually found that the treatment of the laborers was the best in the past, and he could not see a face of oppression on their faces, as if they were willing, arbitrarily driven.

Now the Kaifeng City in front of him is probably the richest city in the world, and Han Kuangsi is very much looking forward to what will happen next.

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