This is what happened before I left Lin'an.

In the gloomy room, Qin Hui was holding a candlestick, bending over, looking for something in the room, the corner of the wall was full of cobwebs, a mouse hit my foot, I turned sideways to make way for it.

"The princess is not strange, this was originally the firewood house of the Qin Mansion, and later the emperor allowed the ministers to expand the Prime Minister's Mansion, but it was too remote, so the ministers abandoned it."

He was talking with his back to me, and in his voice, I could tell he was laughing.

In the middle of the room, there is a large table, and all around it are stacked with old boxes or cabinets, which are the old furniture that was replaced during the expansion of the Prime Minister's Mansion, although there is a lot of dust on it, but it can still be seen that it is very valuable.

Now that the Great Song Dynasty treasury is empty, and he, Qin Hui, is so extravagant, his father will not know all this, but is he too indulgent to the Qin family?

"Whew, I found it."

Qin Hui put the candlestick on the ground, and then, with all his might, pulled open a rusty box, took out a huge map from it, and spread it on the table.

The map is densely packed, and he holds a candlestick in his left hand to illuminate it, and his right hand points and strokes on the map. I didn't understand what he meant, and sneered: "Xiangguo brought this palace here just to find a map?" Could it be that I asked the palace to take a look at how vast the original territory of my Great Song Dynasty was? ”

He heard my words, hidden in his talk and mowing the ground, but he only laughed a few times.

"This map, when the minister was in the city of the five countries, the second prince of the Jin State did not give it, the map is detailed, drawing all the countries in the world, four years ago after the peace, the minister abandoned it here, I don't want to re-exhibit this map tonight."

In his words, he did not hide that he had been in the Jin camp and worked for the Jin country, as if telling me that he, Qin Hui, would go down the road of peace and discussion.

Four years ago, Song had compromised with Jin, but two years ago, Jin Wushu, the fourth prince of Jin, tore up the contract and attacked Song again. is in a safe corner, and he is very compromised, like his father after ascending the throne.

"The princess's honor team is starting from Lin'an and arriving at the place where the Jin army is stationed, passing through large and small towns, among them, there will inevitably be encounters with the rebel general Diao Min who opposes the peace, these people all want to put Her Royal Highness the princess to death to prevent negotiations with Jin, so that the chance of the princess reaching the Jin country safely is less than half."

He was talking, but his eyes were on the map.

"So, are you still forty percent sure? This is also higher than Hongu's expectations. ”

"Back to Her Royal Highness the Princess, what the minister said is less than half of it."

I was amused by his serious words: "Lord Qin, you have been talking for a long time, and you have come to such a conclusion for this palace, even if this palace has said a lot of things to your father and emperor on weekdays that offended Qin Xiang, it will not be so painstakingly to take the life of this palace!" ”

"The minister is terrified." He quickly knelt down and kowtowed.

"Xiangguo doesn't have to be like this, seven days later, the palace left Lin'an, and arrived in the Jin country in the future, I'm afraid it will be the same as the fate of the royal sisters who were taken captive back then, what the palace is looking forward to now is to be able to get a touch of the blessings of the Xiangguo, and you can have a foothold in the Jin country like you."

Qin Hui said: "The minister got the news today, the princess and her relatives are not the Jin King of Jin, but the King of Lu, I heard that he is a mediocre person, according to the old minister, the princess may not be bullied." ”

"If it's really sticky, it's okay, he's the marshal of Dajin, but what kind of thing is he slandering Liduo, and he is also worthy of being a concubine in this palace, even his name is unheard of in this palace!"

"This ...... Princess, as far as the minister knows, King Nalu has not yet married a wife. ”

"That's even more strange, isn't there something unspeakable?" I sneered.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, if you are close to Jinguo, this person is your husband, and you are so hostile to him, it will do you a hundred harms and no good!"

"This palace is still in the Great Song Dynasty, can't you even get addicted to it!" I slapped the table and said, getting the dust on my hand.

"The princess is angry, forgive the minister."

I took a breath and said, "Well, this palace is not here to ask about sins today, but to ask Xiangguo how to reach Jin Guo alive." ”

"Princess Xie, the minister does have a law."

He stood up, clicked on the location of Lin'an on the map with his hand, and then pressed his hand on the location of Luzhou, but did not lift it, but on the map, he continued to slide forward along the location of Luzhou, until he reached the boundary of Jinguo.

"Xiangguo means that a friendly team will be formed in Luzhou, and when Lin'an's friendly team leaves Lin'an, they will be disbanded, so that the palace will secretly arrive in Luzhou and join the friendly team?"

"The princess is wise."

Zhou Gong was afraid of rumors, Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp, Xiang Xiang died at the beginning, who knows the truth of his life?

Who would have thought that Zhao Hanyi in the past also had such a side.

The candle flame on the desk burned quietly, and suddenly there was a "crackling" sound, I rubbed my eyes, and found that I didn't know when, I actually fell asleep at the desk, it should be that Liuyun was worried that I would catch a cold from the wind, so he put on a dress for me.

I walked to the tent door and lifted the curtain in a corner, and it was already three watches, but the number of soldiers watching me outside the door had not diminished.

"You're awake."

I turned around and realized that it was Liuyun talking to me.

"Standing at the door is easy to get typhoid fever."

"Why haven't you slept, do you feel uncomfortable living here?" I lowered the curtain and sat back down.

"Slaves can't sleep." As she spoke, she lit a few more candles.

"Flowing clouds." I call her.

"What?"

"Just now I was in a dream, and I dreamed of the scene before I left Lin'an, and I ...... I still dreamed of you. ”

She lowered her head, fiddled with the candle flame, and ignored me.

"Drive-drive-call."

I slowed down the horse, and to the surprise of Liuyun, she hurriedly grabbed the reins, and the horse was frightened and leaned back, and she lost her balance in an instant, and rolled and fell into the snow, wetting her men's clothes.

I hurriedly dismounted and helped her up, "Are you okay?" ”

"Also...... can't die, why did the princess suddenly rein in the horse? ”

I made a gesture to silence her, and asked her to carefully observe the sporadic red light in the distance, and the wind whistling in her ears was mixed with the sound of weapons colliding and fighting from the front.

"Princess, who are they?" Liuyun asked me.

Who are they? Want to make peace with the Great Song Dynasty Jin people? The Mongols who had been at odds with Jin and wanted to stop the Song-Jin truce? Or is it the Xixia people who are friendly with Jin on the surface, but in fact they are watching the fire from the other side?

I leaned down to sort out the parcels dropped by the flowing clouds, but just as I was about to tie the baggage to the knot, I found that there seemed to be something in the snow beside me.

The bright moon is cold, the cold snow is silent, the angular eagle carving, passing through my fingertips, makes me marvel at the ingenuity of the craftsman, the jade pendant is decorated with gold around the fine lines, the eagle feathers are denser than the tip of a needle, in the eagle's sharp and lightning eyes, clearly reflecting my face.

"What is this?" Liuyun asked.

"It should be a rich kid who fled at this time and had no intention of losing it." I replied.

And then, none of us paid any attention to it.

Although the first sage said, "If it is not for your own benefit, do not take advantage of it, and if it is not for your own benefit, you will not take any measure." "But I'm not a sage, and I can't be like Guan Ning, turning a blind eye to the gold on the ground, not to mention, I was still in the realm of the Great Song Dynasty at that time, as a princess, I took it for granted and didn't do anything wrong with picking up the objects that appeared in my country.

And in the future, the reason why I will be in prison is because I didn't take this jade pendant seriously, and even at the moment when Jin Wushu questioned me, I didn't immediately remember that this thing was originally picked up by me, and now that I think about it, the look on Liuyun's face at that time was obviously to remind me, but unfortunately, I didn't pay attention.

However, even if I immediately denied it at the time, it would not dispel their suspicions, and they would have used other reasons against me as well.

We didn't dare to move forward on the road ahead, but there were less than two days left before the date agreed between Song and Jin, so we went our separate ways, and if she was one step ahead of me, she could delay me for some time.

Liuyun and I got on the horse, and the red light in the distance and the noise in my ears were left behind me and gradually disappeared, but what I didn't expect was that after walking a distance, I actually went around again, but from another direction, to a place I didn't want to come to.

The ground under his feet was uneven, and the red and white snow was still scattered with weapons and armor, and the dilapidated house in front of him was crumbling under the heavy snow.

The wind pierced through the mountains and forests, like a fierce ghost roaring, I carefully pushed open the door that was hidden, and the strong smell of blood immediately hit my nose, impacting my nerves, and the scene I saw in front of me made me gasp, under the faint night light, more than 20 corpses, lined up in front of me, broken hands, stump arms, heads, scattered around the corpses, those bloodstained blades, messily placed in a pool of blood, glowing with bursts of blood.

At that moment, my stomach swelled, but I was very glad that Liuyun had not seen this scene, such a bloody scene would definitely evoke the painful memories that she had been reluctant to mention for seven years, and I didn't want the wound on her heart that had already frozen and condensed to crack again.

I stepped back again and again, trying to get on my horse and leave, but I tripped over something under my feet, and I was so frightened that I couldn't help jumping.

When I looked down, I saw a man with scattered black hair and deep blood marks, lying in front of my eyes, the snow under him was dyed a dark red by him, and his face was also very pale due to excessive blood loss.

I put my hand in front of his nose, felt the faint heat coming from my fingertips, and helped him to the side, doing what I could.

Memories pull to reality.

"I never asked you, what happened to you after we separated?" Liuyun asked me.

"Hongu got lost, returned to that place, met a man who still had breath, thought he knew the way, and saved him."

"Who are you?" The man struggled twice, but the rope on his body was too tight.

"I don't have any extra abrasive belts and medicines on me, and if I break the wound, you can wait for death." I deliberately replied in a very rough voice, nonchalantly.

"You...... Also sent by Lee In-hyo? ”

"Lee In-hyo? Isn't that the emperor of Western Xia, the person you offended is really not small. ”

He kept looking at me, but seeing that I was slow to react, he finally calmed down, and he asked me again, calmly: "What is your purpose?" ”

"For what purpose? I'm just lost. ”

"So what?"

"That's why I saved you, and I hope you can take me out."

"Why should I do that?"

"You have to do it."

The atmosphere was silent for a while, and he said, "You let me go." ”

"Not now, wait until you take me out."

"You're tying me up like this, how can I go!" He laughed.

"I'm sorry, but I have to guard against someone who wants to kill me."

"Did the little brother misunderstand me?"

He wanted to explain, but I stopped him, and I pointed to the severed arm corpses around me: "Don't tell me, you and they are actually in the same group, but you didn't get killed." ”

I looked at him, and then said: "I don't care if you have any grievances with Xixia, whether you are innocent or not, I don't want to hear it, but if you treat me as a child, then I will have to reason with you, do you really think I don't know, why did you fall behind me?" Isn't it because you're going to kill me, but I'm already too injured and overdrawn? ”

"So...... Are you taking revenge? He acknowledged that fact.

"No, I said it, I just want to get out of here, but my eyes don't know the way at night, I need to arrive in Luzhou within two days, I hope you can recognize your situation, I can let you live, or let you die."

"That's all?"

"That's all."

"That's the realm where the Jin soldiers are stationed, what are you going to do there?"

"Don't you think you're talking too much!"

I was so distraught that I knocked on the pieces repeatedly, and finally, I put the whole chess box on the table.

"And I have never heard you mention such things." Liuyundao.

"Oh, I've long forgotten about it, not to mention this thing, what is there to mention about this thing that confirms my name as a 'road idiot'! I shouldn't have been separated from you in the first place, even if I was a few days late with you, what if Jin Guo could refuse to let me deposit because of this little thing, he would never make such a big move in Lin'an in order to make me reconcile. ”

"And then?"

"Later...... It's nothing, he left before I arrived in Luzhou, and I don't even know his last name. ”

"Why don't you get on the horse?" The man tied up on horseback said to me.

"I don't need to." I pulled the reins and replied coldly.

"It is said that Western Xia sent a large number of people to assassinate the King of Liang of the Jin Kingdom, could it be that you are also one of them?"

"You're talking about the Golden Vulture?"

"He's in Luzhou now, if you didn't kill him, I really wouldn't have thought of what you would do in Luzhou alone in light clothes."

I glanced at my men's clothes and said, "So, you think you have what it takes to complete the task alone, so you kill the killers who are with you." ”

He smiled and said nothing.

"You are really a cruel person, you even cost your life for the sake of inviting merit, if Li Renxiao knew your behavior, it is estimated that his hair would stand up, and I don't know, what else is in this world, you can't let go."

This sentence seemed to speak to his heart, and his expression froze suddenly, and then his eyes darkened.

"I said casually, you don't have to care, everyone has their own choice."

"Little brother—"

I turned around, only to find that he had broken free of the rope at some point, and raised his knife head-on to slash at me, I subconsciously dodged, dodged, turned around and pulled out the hairpin, and plunged it into his wound.

He immediately fell to his knees in pain, and he had no power to parry, I put a hairpin against his face and let go of my original voice: "You can see clearly, this woman in front of you is the princess of Hanyi of the Great Song Dynasty and the pro-Jin Kingdom this time." ”

He covered his wounds and didn't speak, and I continued: "This palace doesn't matter if you are a party member or a traitor to the Jurchens, in short, you remember, if you can cut off the head of the golden vulture, it is your ability, and this palace will not stop you, but before the Great Song envoy leaves, if you dare to act rashly, this palace will definitely let you go to hell." ”

I took out a medicine bottle from my arms and poured out a strong one and stuffed it into his mouth: "The poison on this hairpin will not kill you, but if you want to detoxify, you need to take two antidotes. ”

"You ......," he spat blood.

"Hey, you're okay, don't die, the hairpin just pierced into it a little, you did it first......" I panicked all of a sudden, quickly helped him up, leaned him against the tree, picked up some dead branches and made a fire.

"Are you afraid that Lao Tzu will die, and you won't be able to go to Luzhou."

I put my hair back up and put it back together: "What are you going on in your head?" This palace saved you, you will take revenge, this palace is just going to Luzhou, how long can it delay you, and what will hinder you? ”

He closed his eyes and tilted his head: "You keep moving forward......"

"Keep going, and it will be there in less than half an hour."

"You know?"

"This palace already knew, the moment I walked out of the barren ridge, this palace already knew the direction of going to Luzhou, the reason why I took you away was just to let my medical officer of the Great Song Dynasty treat your injuries, who knew that you were so ignorant!"

He leaned back and leaned back: "Tell me, why are you willing to kiss?" ”

"Is it the turn of this palace to call the shots in this matter?"

"As far as I know, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is very fond of Princess Hanyi, and there are even rumors that he wants to pass on the throne to her, if you are not willing, this matter must not work, and besides, in order to avoid accidents, you went to the Jin Kingdom alone, at this moment, this scene, doesn't it prove this?"

I lowered my head and stopped talking, and he said coldly, "Say it, if you regret letting me know, you can kill me." ”

"There is nothing wrong with being pro-Jinguo."

"Yo, then you can tell me what's good, as far as I know, that golden vulture was "searching the mountains and checking the sea" to arrest your father and emperor, and when you go to the Jurchen in the future, you will inevitably meet him, can you calm down in your heart? ”

"Then I won't see it, this palace is married to King Lu."

"He? has no ambitions, does nothing, and is estimated to have a habit of dragon yang. ”

"You ......," I was speechless, but then smiled:

"These are not important, the palace leaves Lin'an, it is good for the Great Song Dynasty, the father and the emperor, and the Jin State, with the current strength of the Jin State, it is not beneficial to confront the Song Dynasty, not to mention the surrounding neighboring countries of Liao, Western Xia, and Mongolia, they are different from the Song, they are all nomadic hunting peoples, this is the real threat faced by the Jin State, if the palace is pro-Jin, it can not only make the Jin State feel at ease with the Song, but also bring peace to the Great Song Dynasty, the most unfortunate ......"

"What's the worst thing?"

"The worst...... If one day, the war between the Jin Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty resumes, at least, the palace can be the first to serve the country. ”

I stood up and turned to leave.

"Where are you going?"

"Luzhou is not far away, the palace walks by itself, this horse will be given to you, and the hairpin is not poisonous, what you eat is just a tonic, what grievances do you have with Jin Wushu, this palace doesn't care, to be honest, this palace is quite looking forward to his head being different, but if you give Jin Guo a reason to frame the Great Song Dynasty because of this, this palace will definitely not let you go, I believe in this palace, this palace has this ability."

He snorted, got up with difficulty, and rode away.

The golden soldiers in the distance, the torches they held on patrol, were moving back and forth, and although I felt that they were close to me, it still took me a long time to arrive.

A Jurchen general stood with his hands in his hands, and he looked at me quietly, and under the light of the fire, it made people feel that he was very haggard.

"I'm Zhao Hanyi."

"I know, princess of the Great Song, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"Dare to ask your Excellency ......"

"Golden Vulture Technique."