Siwei showed a helpless smile and said, "Your Highness is better to speak straightforwardly than to be cleverly bullied. It's not like some Han people, duplicity. My ancestor Si Bang believed in the words of the Han officials, fought hard against the Burmese soldiers, but could not wait for the reinforcements of the Han soldiers, and finally died of defeat. ”

Zhu Yongxing nodded, expressing deep sympathy, then looked at Siwei and said, "Then look-"

"The oracle will not die easily." Siwei narrowed his eyes, "Your Highness must be a believer, and will do his best to help our clan and fulfill our wish for decades." For more details, please discuss with the Great Witch in detail. ”

Zhu Yongxing blinked, nodded very sincerely, and said, "Okay, as long as I still have breath, I will fight for this to the end." ”

Siwei hesitated for a moment, and asked a little tentatively, "Your Highness, what do you think of Ah Zhu?" She is the pearl of my palm, and she is also the most beautiful girl in the village. ”

"Azhu is indeed beautiful." Zhu Yongxing's train of thought hadn't turned around yet, just thinking about his next step when Shenzhou was about to sink.

"Can Your Highness take her out of Burma and into Yunnan?" Siwei saw Zhu Yongxing's perfunctory and was not satisfied, and his words were more straightforward.

"With Azhu?" Zhu Yongxing blinked, still a little confused, but vaguely guessed some of Siwei's meaning, but he was not quite sure, so he also asked tentatively: "In the future, my life will be very dangerous, I may be betrayed to the Qing army, or I may be killed." That, is it safer for Ah Zhu to stay in the village? ”

"The oracle will not die." Siwei repeated it very stubbornly, then sighed softly, and said slowly: "The Burmese Tusi is shameless, and there are many good girls in the village—" After a pause, he continued: "Although I have always intended to hide Ah Zhu, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and Ah Zhu must leave here to avoid bad luck. Ah Zhu is smart, virtuous, and proficient in Sinology, and will not annoy His Highness, and I hope His Highness will not be cold and ruthless, and bear her heart. ”

Zhu Yongxing lowered his eyelids, although he admired Mengzhu's beauty, but when he talked about marriage immediately, it was still a little sudden. Besides, his mind is now full of things about survival, growth, resistance to the Qing Dynasty, or how to run away after failure, and he immediately stuffs a beautiful woman over, which makes him not very comfortable.

"Well, it depends on what Azhu means, right? Who knows if she is willing to be born and die with me, wandering around? Zhu Yongxing said casually, wanting to drag it out so that he could think about it carefully.

"Ah Zhu bit you, and it's still very heavy, isn't it?" Siwei heard that Zhu Yongxing had no objection, and couldn't help but smile, his eyes swept over Zhu Yongxing's wrist, "The girl's thoughts, she has long been willing, but His Royal Highness has not given away the things of love, I guess I don't know the customs of my clan?" ”

"Stretch out your hand to bite my brother, the more I bite, the more I see the deep love of my sister, there are traces of immortality in the green mountains, and seeing the tooth marks is like seeing people." Biting hands is a unique way for this group of young men and women of the Miao ethnic group to express their love. If the girl bites lightly and politely, the young man will understand that the girl is refusing or implying that she has a crush; If the girl bites hard, even with blood marks, it means that the girl is very fond of him and is willing to accept the young man's love.

After the "biting hand" is loved, young men and women should each take out their favorite souvenirs, such as rings, earrings, bamboo hats, waist baskets and other gifts, and give them to each other as love objects to show lifelong companionship.

Zhu Yongxing blinked, feeling very strange and interesting about this custom. After a while, he grinned bitterly, didn't say anything more, got up and bowed, and said goodbye.

He also needs time to sober up, time to think hard, and a realistic plan. But he needed a lot of strength to get started, because he was a child of the clan who was not looked down upon. From the fact that Emperor Yongli led important people to take a boat, and he had to take the land route, he knew this. Even if he returns to Yunnan, who will obey his orders among those generals who have soldiers in their hands.

Although fate often leads to strange things, no one can predict them; Fate also often leads people into some kind of pathetic and ridiculous situation, so that people have no choice at all; More often than not, fate will bring together some people who simply cannot and should not be together, and let some people who should not be impossible to break up part.

It's just that those who really have courage will never give in to fate. They have long learned to endure in difficult situations, to endure in adversity, and whenever they have the opportunity, they will puff up their chests and continue to struggle. Zhu Yongxing will never admit that he is a person without courage.

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The small dock by the river was busy and chaotic. The river floated all kinds of dilapidated things thrown away by the officials of the Ming Dynasty, with the wind, the load floated and sank, looking down from the sky, like a tattered flower cloth.

Emperor Yongli sat in the cabin, staring out blankly through the window, his eyes unfocused, and he didn't know what he was looking at, or if he didn't see anything. But in his heart, he was thinking about leaving the ship as soon as possible, and the farther away from Yunnan Province was better, so as not to chase after the Qing soldiers.

Thousands of civil servants and military generals in the small court fled in panic, disarmed themselves in front of the Burmese Pass, and fled into Burma. On the 30th day, they traveled to the river (about eight mo, by the Irrawaddy River). On the second day of the second month of February, the king of Burma sent four passenger ships to meet him. Due to the small size of the boats, Emperor Yongli selected 646 officials to go south from the three palaces by the waterway, and some of them still hired ships to accompany them at their own expense; The remaining more than 900 people were protected by the general soldier Pan Shirong, and the prince of Min and the prince rode first and went to the city of Ava, the capital of Burma, by land.

Emperor Yongli has been frightened by the Qing army, the ship just arrived, in Ma Jixiang, Li Guotai under the support of the Burmese passenger ship, not only the entourage of civil and military officials but also many people The ship did not land, even the Queen Mother and the East Palace were not cooked, and the Yongli Emperor was going to take the ship to anchor and set off.

The queen mother was furious when she saw this, and scolded: "The emperor has not come to the top at this time, that is, he does not care about his mother? Only then did Zhu Youlang order the ship to stop, temporarily anchor on the shore, and anxiously wait for all the land and water personnel to be arranged, so that the ship could sail south and continue to flee for his life.

The passenger ship shook slightly, and Emperor Yongli's blank and dull gaze turned slightly, showing some anger, and asked the eunuch next to him: "Go and see, let the civil and military officials be faster, so slowly, when can they set off for the south?" ”

Before the eunuch could go out, the curtain of the cabin was lifted, and Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo, and Zai Fuma Jixiang led two officials over, saluted like a ceremony, and said: "Your Majesty, the general soldier Pan Shirong sent the political envoy Zhu Yunjin and the Chinese army Jiang Chengde to come to play, and the prince of Minwang entered the Yimin cottage halfway and refused to go south......"