Chapter Sixty-Seven: A Belated Spring
readx; A few Jurchen women with disheveled hair carried bags made of birch bark, swept away the snow and ice under the trees with pine branches, and struggled to find the missing pine nuts from the pine needles. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
A woman suddenly saw a tree hole, not far from the branch, so she jumped up happily, a woman squatted under the tree, the woman who found the squirrel hole stood up impatiently, after the woman got up, her hand reached the squirrel hole, the squirrel hole was very small, the woman took out a small knife and kept cutting the squirrel hole, not far from the branch, there were two squirrels who kept jumping, wanting to come and defend their food, but they didn't dare, they could only jump up and down in a hurry.
When the woman saw that the hole had been dug open, she happily took out a large handful of chestnuts from the hole in the tree and put them in her pocket, and the squirrel had so much food that she was about to fill her pocket, and finally took out a few complete pine towers from the hole in the tree, and shook it ostentatiously at the female companion under the tree, and proudly put it into her pocket, her arm had reached to the innermost part, and there seemed to be food there, but the pine tree was too big, and they could not get all the squirrel's food, so they only retracted their arms in disappointment, and prepared to come down from the shoulders of their companions.
At this moment, she saw that there seemed to be a man lying behind the pine tree not far away, so she screamed, and the women below her immediately ran away, throwing her off it, and the group of women ran away in the distance.
After running a long way, the man did not come after him, so the women shrank their heads and looked in that direction, and saw no one but a pair of buckskin boots.
The women approached quietly, and one of them stoned the man in the leg, but the man did not move.
"This man could be dead!" The women finally came to an agreement, and you pushed me and slowly came to the back of the tree.
Gao Yue was lying behind the tree, and he heard the voices of the women and wanted to move. He was very sore and weak, and when he saw the women coming, he weakly cried to them for help.
"Save me, I will give your people endless food in the future!"
The women couldn't understand what he was saying, they just stared at the strange person in front of them, the birth girl had never seen such a beautiful man, in fact, Gao Yue couldn't talk about being beautiful at all now. There were many tiny cuts on his face that had been cut by the cold wind, and his ears were red and swollen like a pair of ears. Chapped lips can't match beauty in any way.
"Help me, I will give you a lot of food and cloth."
A Jurchen woman curiously touched Gao Yue's lips with her dark fingers, and said a long list of words to the other Jurchen women at a very fast pace, and Gao Yue could see infinite joy in her eyes.
These people understood their words? Gao Yue was very happy.
The woman in the lead put her hand into his chest, probably because of the fever, his body was so hot that one of the women screamed in surprise, and the rest of the women immediately put their hands into Gao Yue's arms, and two of them even put their hands into his pants......
Gao Yue, who had been stripped of his clothes, shuddered. Trying to open his eyes, he didn't understand what these women were going to do, could they not do something they wanted to do? Even in the high heat, a chill rose from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
"Save me, I'll give food!"
A woman took off Gao Yue's tattered fur.
"Don't take off my clothes, I'll give you gold!"
Another woman took off her shoes and immediately put them on her feet.
"I'm going to freeze to death......"
A woman took off his pants with a fervent smile. Quickly slipped on her slippery legs under her leather robe......
When Gao Yue's calf-nosed shorts were put on his head as a hat by a woman, Gao Yue** was like a newborn baby, he curled up his body with all his might, and those women stroked and wandered around his smooth body with rough hands, looking at the male symbol under his crotch with curious eyes, and from time to time made a giggling sound.
Gao Yue finally understood one thing. The women had no intention of saving him, they only looked at his clothes.
Seeing that it was getting dark, a tall woman shouted, and the women reluctantly left Gaoyue.
In the days to come, the women would often come to the pine tree to see the beautiful man who had been frozen into ice, and at first it was very beautiful, and the beautiful man's eyes were wide open. The mouth was also wide open, the snow-white teeth were very beautiful, and there were even two tears in the corners of the eyes that were frozen into ice droplets, and then they were not beautiful, because his eyes did not know what birds pecked at, and later, there were only a few broken bones left in that place, so those women felt very bored, and they did not come, after all, in this pine forest, there are still many squirrel holes waiting for them to dig, and the beautiful men here are just a scenery in the forest.
When Di Qing saw the pair of envoys Zhang Shiyu and Zheng Bin, he was very sad, especially when he saw the old man and the young man trembling and eating heavily.
Due to the lack of customs clearance documents, the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty suffered unprecedented blackmail, except for the section held in Zhang Shiyu's arms, the entire envoy group was already poor.
Zhang Shiyu's pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were replaced with baked cakes, the gems on Zheng Bin's hat were used to bribe the Liao border guards, and the war horses and carriages of the envoys and even the armor and blades of Yu Hou Hu Laosan were also given as gifts to the greedy Liao guards.
"Hehe, this is nothing, as long as Yun Shuai has Hai Dongqing in his hands, it is nothing for the old man and the deputy envoy to suffer a little, I thought that this errand was an errand with a lost head, but I didn't expect to come back alive, it is nothing to suffer a loss, as long as the old man remembers Yelu Hongji's expression when he saw the list of gifts we sent him, he wants to drink three cups."
The old man Zhang Shiyu was full, chatting with Di Qing with a wine glass, and he had the pride of a scribe Zang denying the world.
"Have a good rest in the mud ancient village, you are old, and you have suffered so much, it is not too late to take care of your body and return to Tokyo!" Di Qing looked at Zheng Bin's rotten face cut by the cold wind and said to Zhang Shiyu with a smile.
Zhang Shiyu shook his head and said: "The reason why the old man is happy is because as soon as he came out of the Liao Kingdom, he saw Di Shuai, and saw the strong barriers on the mud ancient village, which shows that my Great Song Dynasty has made all preparations. ”
Di Qing said with a smile: "This is natural, since the old man came to Hejian Mansion, he has not stopped preparing, and now he finally has a little achievement, as long as the people of Liao dare to come, we will attack him head-on!" ”
Zhang Shiyu frowned and said: "The Song and Liao have been stable for more than fifty years, if we don't provoke the Liao, this situation will continue, what happened to make my Great Song Dynasty no longer willing to abide by the alliance of the Yuanyuan?" The old man was confused when he went out, but now that he is back, presumably everything has been settled, and he asked Di Shuai to tell the reason. ”
Di Qing glanced at Zheng Bin and frowned: "Your Majesty's mentality has changed, Your Majesty no longer wants to give Liao any coins, nor does he want to be a brotherly country with the Emperor of Liao, but also wants to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to comfort the ancestors of the Great Song Dynasty." ”
Zhang Shiyu suddenly stood up and said: "Soldiers, the country's major affairs, life and death must not be careless, the official family has always been merciful, why do you have to rush to war with the Liao State this time?" Has he forgotten the old story of Taizong's three failed Northern Expeditions? ”
Di Qing looked at the bearded old master in front of him and said with a smile: "How can the emperor's heart be something that our courtiers can speculate at will, as a courtier, just abide by our duties." ”
Zhang Shiyu said anxiously: "The matter of the New Year's Coin can naturally be discussed, but the alliance of the Yuanyuan is the basis of the exchanges between the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State, and the old man still thinks that His Majesty just wants to unilaterally depose the New Year's coin, and the old man will naturally take the lead in this matter, but judging from the current situation, the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State will go to war in an all-out manner, which is related to the well-being of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the old man must enter Beijing as soon as possible to prevent His Majesty from going to war!" ”
Di Qing shook his head and said to Zhang Shiyu: "It's irreparable, you may not know that at the same time as you sent an envoy to Liao, there was also an army in the Great Song Dynasty that was advancing towards the Duck River, according to the time, it should have been launched at this time, and the target was Yelu Hongji, the emperor of Liao!" ”
Zhang Shiyu's legs were weak, he sat down on the chair, and said to Di Qing tiredly after a long time: "The old man is tired, please arrange a quiet room for the old man to recuperate for a few days before returning to the capital!" ”
Di Qing nodded gloomily, he understood the old gentleman's mood very well, even he himself was one of the entire plans to start a war, he no longer had any position to advise the emperor to put all the people first, and not to go to war.
When Zheng Bin helped Zhang Shiyu out of the house, he couldn't help but ask: "Di Shuai, I don't know if our Great Song Army can succeed?" ”
Di Qing turned around and ignored it, Zheng Bin saw that Di Qing ignored him, and hurriedly helped Zhang Shiyu to leave, he was not surprised by this result, he should not ask about military affairs as a eunuch. Di Qing was not angry, he was already polite.
In March, the mud village is not too cold, the time for the southern geese to fly north has come, countless geese pass by the mud village, chirp happily, continue to fly to the north of themselves, and when they trek to the frozen land, spring should come.
The spring of the mud ancient village has arrived, the willow branches have turned goose yellow, the spring flowers are blooming, the buds have appeared on the apricot trees, and the lively apricot blossoms will open in a few days.
The mud ancient village did not look lively because of the arrival of spring, the ironclad foot soldiers walking on the city wall, the people who were working intensively under the city wall, constituted a dark picture of armor color, a team of scouts wandering, a team of messengers galloping in all directions, and the eight bull crossbows that had been erected in the watchtower told everyone here that spring was far from coming...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )
PS: Chapter 2