(PS: Regarding the title of the book, is it not okay for my book to be called Jiangming?) Is it someone else's patent? Is it just because someone else is famous? ）

"An Zhi, if you deceive Aunt Red Buddha and Xiao Di like this, will they be sad?"

Ou Siqingqing rode a horse and walked beside Li Xian, and asked with some concern.

Li Xian shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Do you really think I can deceive my aunt?" ”

He glanced back at the direction of the camp and said, "Auntie knows that she can't hide it from me, and I will definitely return to Yanshan when Grandpa is in danger." In fact, my aunt was willing to promise Grandpa to leave Yanshan to look for me, in addition to taking Xiao Di away so that Grandpa would have no worries, deep down in my heart, why didn't I go back to help Grandpa? My aunt wouldn't tell me because she was conflicted. ”

"She's worried about Grandpa's accident, and she's worried about me, so she's very embarrassed, don't look at my aunt's smile so brightly when they meet, in fact, the sadness in her eyes can't be hidden."

Li Xian paused for a moment and said, "At least you can't hide it from me." ”

"Actually, she knew that I was going back to Yanshan, but she just pretended to be deceived by me. She's worried about me and doesn't want me to know she's worried about me...... It's hard for my aunt. ”

"In that case......

Ou Siqingqing was a little puzzled: "Why do you have to lie to her?" You can tell her directly that you go back to Yanshan and let your aunt take good care of Xiao Di. In this way, she should feel less uncomfortable, right? At least there won't be guilt, right? ”

She looked at Li Xian's side face and asked seriously,

Li Xian also turned his head sideways to look at her eyes and replied seriously: "I didn't lie to my aunt." ”

"What?"

Ou Siqingqing didn't understand for a while, and when she suddenly understood what Li Xian meant, her face immediately turned pale. Because she thought of Li Xian's answer, her heart felt as if she had suddenly been blocked with a big stone. In an instant, she was a little out of breath. She looked at Li Xian in panic, her mouth slightly open, and the expression on her face was distressing.

"Let's go......"

Li Xian patted Ou Siqingqing's war horse on the buttocks: "I'll send you home." ”

"I don't!"

Ou Siqingqing didn't keep up with Li Xian, she shouted two words loudly behind Li Xian.

"I don't want to go back!"

She froze in place, letting the tears run down her cheeks.

Li Xian stopped, turned around, and said in a flat tone: "Go back to your father, they are the ones who love you the most." They won't let you get hurt at all. And, if you don't go back today, you'll regret it in the future. I'm sure if your parents were with you, they wouldn't have agreed to you following me. Rather than regretting the pain in the future, it is better to simply separate now. ”

This tone is very familiar to Ou Si Qingqing, as if he touched it on a small building by Qingniu Lake that day.

"Anzhi!"

Ou Siqing shook his head stubbornly: "I already regret it once, don't let me regret it again." My mother once said that if one day I meet a man who makes me cry for him, laugh for him, and regret what he does, go with him! Ann ...... Don't leave me behind. ”

She shook her hand and stretched out her hand to Li Xian, looking so helpless in the night.

"You said, eat together until you get old, play until you get old, how can you regret it?"

Her tears flowed into her mouth, wetting her lips, but it was her heart that suffered.

Li Xian took a deep breath and asked Ou Siqingqing seriously: "It will be very dangerous to go back with me, you don't know how many enemies I have in the Central Plains, and the enemies are stronger than you can imagine." If you really want to go with me, you must be prepared to die with me, you ...... You ready? ”

He asked, are you ready to die with me?

Ou Siqingqing nodded vigorously: "As long as you don't leave me alone." ”

Her tears were crystal clear in the moonlight, as pure as the stars in the sky.

"If you can't eat until you get old and play until you get old, we'll die together."

She said so in the moonlight.

Li Xian rubbed his sour nose, stretched out his hand, and grinned: "Then what are you waiting for?" ”

Ou Siqingqing cried and laughed, smiling so beautifully. She slapped her war horse and chased after her and grabbed Li Xian's hand, clenching it so tightly.

I don't know who was the first to let out a cheer, and then all the blood cavalry lined up in a neat line, drew their horizontal swords and stood erect on their chests, witnessing a joy with a standard military salute. They are all the best soldiers, so they are even more reluctant to see parting and sadness.

Li Xian ran to the front of the queue and said loudly, "Let's go home!" ”

The bloody cavalry, who had wandered on the steppe for several years, struck the cavalry shield on his left arm with his horizontal knife and shouted in unison: "Go home!" ”

At this moment, a sense of pride arose spontaneously in Li Xian's heart.

He looked at the world's sharp blood cavalry, looked at Ou Si Qingqing, who was obsessed with him not far away, and suddenly wanted to shout. It's time to go back, no matter what the road ahead looks like, what should be faced must be faced. I have never been alone, there was Zhang Zhongjian before, there was Red Buddha, there was Xiao Di, and there were brothers of Tiefutu, and now, there are more blood riders, and there is also a girl who is willing to accompany her to eat and play until she is old, and to die with herself.

He and Ou Siqingqing ran forward hand in hand, laughing.

It was soon dawning, and it was out of the east.

After a short rest, the Blood Rider continued on the road, heading south, unstoppable.

Under the morning sun, there is a black dot hovering back and forth in the sky. When the black dot gradually cleared up and slowly landed on a big tree, Li Xian saw that it was an eagle that was still immature but could already fly high. It was already able to soar through the skies and fly back to its home.

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……

Huaiyuan Town

"It's getting dark!"

A middle-aged man with a kind face and a tall and thin figure stood on the earthen wall, looking at the Goguryeo army camp looming across the Liao River in the extreme distance, and muttered.

He was thin, so the cloak draped over his shoulders looked empty. He wore the official uniform of a Great Sui general, but there was no sword hanging around his waist. Looking at the flowing water in the distance, the middle-aged man frowned. It was the afternoon when the sun was shining, but he whispered nonsense like it was getting dark. And the few people standing behind him nodded even more incomprehensibly, and seemed to agree with the middle-aged man's nonsense.

"It's really getting dark"

A man about forty years old with gray hair echoed: "Tang Gong, let's prepare early." ”

The middle-aged man slowly waved his hand and said: "Zhaoren, I have said many times, I will do my best for the ministers of the Great Sui, if you don't want to cause my Li family to be ruined, then don't mention what you said before." ”

The man sighed and said no more.

His name is Liu Wenjing, and his name is Zhaoren.

Naturally, being called the Duke of Tang by Liu Wenjing is Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang who was the capital of the army in Huaiyuan. Just now, Li Yuan and his advisers were discussing that since the beginning of the year, there have been several big thieves in the northern land who have rebelled against Sui, and Liu Wenjing took the opportunity to persuade Li Yuan to also make a plot. Li Yuan just shook his head and refused to allow it, and everyone was not good at talking.

"Sun Anzu, Zhang Jincheng, Wang Bo ......"

Li Yuan sighed and said, "They can't make a big deal." ”

In the seventh year of the Great Cause, Sun Anzu, a native of Qinghe County, was unwilling to starve his wife to death and was forced to serve, so he killed the county commander in anger. Under the funding of Dou Jiande, he recruited people to rebel, led the army into Gaojibo, and called himself a sheep. In just a few months, he has attacked several county towns in a row, although they have not been conquered, but they have already made the people of nearby states and counties panic.

Not long after, Sun Anzu's Qinghe fellow villager Zhang Jinshu also raised his flag to rebel. Occupy Juluze, harass the county and plunders the people everywhere. He echoed Sun Anzu in Juluze, one south and one north, and the momentum gradually became huge.

Compared with Sun Anzu and Zhang Jin, Wang Bo, a native of Qi County, is more famous. He and his fellow villager Meng Rang rebelled together after consultation, occupied Changbai Mountain, and developed into a powerful armed force of tens of thousands in just a few months. He called himself Zhishilang, and made a song about the death of Mo Xiang Liaodong that spread far and wide in a short period of time. (Note 1)

"Hongji, I heard that you have something to do with that Sun Anzu?"

Li Yuan turned his head sideways and asked a burly young military attache standing behind him.

This person is about 1.9 meters tall, with a tiger's back and an ape waist, wearing a lieutenant's uniform of the sixth grade of the Great Sui Dynasty, with his hand on the horizontal knife on his waist, his eyebrows are handsome, and his instrument is lofty.

"He was a veteran of my father's command, and I met him a few times when I was younger."

Liu Hongji, whose father Liu Sheng was the assassin of Hezhou in the Great Sui Dynasty, had an old relationship with Li Yuan. After Liu Sheng's death, his family was in decay and very poor. Emperor Yang Guang of the Great Cause issued an order in Zhuo County in February to order the children of good families in the world to prepare their own horses, armor and weapons to assemble in Zhuo County, and Liu Hongji rushed to Zhuo County on foot because he was poor and could not afford to buy horses. On the way, because there was no travel fee, he partnered with a butcher to steal a ploughing cow and slaughter it for meat, and was sued by the government and imprisoned. happened to be learned by Li Yuan, and sent someone to ransom him out. Since then, he has been by Li Yuan's side, and Li Yuan has admired and trusted him when he sees his bravery. (Note 2)

"Don't talk about it again, don't tell anyone."

Li Yuan frowned and said, "Sun Anzu is a traitor, he is not a veteran from your family's mansion, you have nothing to do with him, you know?" ”

Liu Hongji glanced at Li Yuan gratefully, bowed down and said, "I wrote it down." ”

Li Yuan hummed and said: "In Pingyue, you walk around with Shimin more, he is good at martial arts, and you are very good at teaching him a lot." Just be half of his teacher, let him see more and save himself from pride. ”

Li Yuan's eldest son, Li Jiancheng, said: "With Brother Hongji teaching Shimin to practice martial arts, he will definitely be very happy." ”

Li Yuan glanced at his eldest son, surnamed Gwenhou, and sighed: "You are too accustomed to your younger brothers, the people of the world are better, and Yuanji is even more stubborn!" ”

Li Jiancheng owed a debt and said: "Father, Yuanji is still young, and it is the time to be naughty." If it's too strict, it's not good. ”

Li Yuan is most pleased that the relationship between his three sisters-in-law is very harmonious, and his brother is respectful. Especially the eldest son Jiancheng and the second son Shimin, the two are even closer. has been like this since he was a child, no matter what Li Jiancheng does, Li Shimin will follow him like a fart.

Li Yuan nodded and said: "Sub-period, there is one thing you need to remember, our family is not as good as the past now, you must remember not to publicize your actions, so as not to be truthful." ”

"The boy wrote it down."

Li Jiancheng respectfully agreed.

Li Yuan sighed and said, "It's going to be dark, and the world is going to be chaotic." Our Li family should be more careful, if we can keep the family from falling, your brothers and sisters will have no worries about food and clothing, and I will not have any other luxuries. ”

After speaking, he casually glanced at Liu Wenjing, his eyes were elusive.

Liu Wenjing panicked, so she had to find a topic to change the atmosphere: "Tang Gong, have you ever heard the old nun's proverbs before he died?" ”

"Zhaoren! Shut up! ”

Li Yuan's unprovoked anger startled everyone, he turned his head and looked at Liu Wenjing coldly and said, "No one is allowed to mention this matter again, if you still want my Li family to survive, it will be as if no one has heard of this matter." ”

His angry appearance made people shudder, and at this time, Li Yuan's strategists suddenly discovered that the middle-aged man in front of them, who was laughed at as Old Concubine Li, had a cold murderous intent.

Note 1: Because of the plot of this book, the time of the uprising of Wang Bo and others was slightly advanced. Wang Bo's anti-Sui was written in October of the seventh year of the Great Cause, not in this book. Another: The Changbai Mountain occupied by Wang Bo is in the territory of Zhangqiu, Shandong Province, not the Changbai Mountain in the northeast.

Note 2: None of the words about Liu Hongji, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and others have been found, so they are omitted or apocryphal in the book. In addition, the specific time when Liu Hongji and Liu Wenjing defected to Li Yuan should be after Emperor Yang of Sui's first expedition to Goguryeo, and it should be when Li Yuan stayed behind in Taiyuan. Liu Hongji did kill cows, but later after he was released from prison, he ran away to be a horse thief.

Attached is Wang Bo's song of Mo Xiang Liaodonglang's death.

Changbai Mountain's former Zhishilang, pure red Luo brocade crotch. The long sword invades the sky and a half, and the wheel knife shines brightly. Go up the mountain to eat roe deer, and go down the mountain to eat cattle and sheep. Suddenly, when he heard the arrival of the official army, he raised his knife and swung forward. For example, if Liaodong dies, what is the injury caused by beheading!

Finally, thank you for your questions. Regarding eunuchs, it was an official position established by Li Yuan, the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, and was held by eunuchs. Originally, I didn't think it was a big deal, but since I brought it up, I'll explain it. The reason why it is written like this is because it is popular. Jiang Ming is not a rigorous historical novel, I have said this sentence many times. If I really wrote according to the complete historical facts, I would definitely not have that level. Thanks again, don't change it, so be it.