However, the people of Hequ are not worried, Yang Yanzhao, who led the Song army to the alliance, is the ancestral home of Hequ, and he knows that Hequ's father has suffered from military disasters for a long time, not only deliberately restraining his subordinates not to disturb the people, but also faintly monitoring the Liao soldiers.

According to the content of the peace treaty, Song Liao and Xia were about to be brothers, Song was the brother, Liao was the second, and Xia was the last. If there are those who wantonly stir up military revolution, the other two countries will raise troops to attack them. This alliance established a decades-long peace between the Song, Liao, and Xia dynasties, and the people in the border areas were all rejoicing.

After the peace ceremony, it was a feast, Wu Yingying sat in the center with the dignity of the emperor of the Xia State, on the left was Wang Yu, the prime minister of the Song State, and on the right was Han Derang, the prime minister of the Liao State.

Before the official banquet, the waiter first brought up the chilled river meander sour porridge, the delicacy of this place, after the improvement and preparation of the Xia Imperial Kitchen, it was actually extremely appetizing to relieve the heat, Han Derang and Wang Yu both claimed to be the abbot who had nowhere to eat before the meal, and they actually drank a bowl.

Wu Yingying said with a smile: "Hequ gourmet sour porridge, sour rice, sour gruvel, known as three acids, but there is a story." ”

Wang Yu glanced at him, and said in his heart that this person has been the emperor for ten years, and the habit of showmanship has not been changed, I really don't know where those clever poems were copied from, if not, it is the heavenly Qu Xingjun who is blind.

He has been the prime minister for ten years, and in the past ten years, he has worked hard all night, and has vigorously implemented law reforms, so that the Great Song Dynasty has all kinds of industries in the country, the treasury is full, the implementation of the horse protection law, and the selection of the forbidden army has exceeded 400,000, and the Song State has faintly recovered from the embarrassment of being attacked by Liaoxia ten years ago, and the emperor Zhao Dezhao and Wang Yunian are less than fifty, and they actually have a little white hair.

Rao is like this, seeing Wu Yingying, an old friend, Wang Yu's heart still swells up with a rare relief, even easier than facing Song Emperor Zhao Dezhao, although he slandered, he still joked: "I don't know what's the reason?"

Wu Yingying smiled slightly, and said: "The river meandering is located in the land of four wars, every time the soldiers cross the river to fight the grass valley, the people don't even have time to clean up the pot stove, so they hurriedly fled to escape, and returned home a few days later, the rice soaked in the pot has become sour, and the people are reluctant to discard, and the right to cook porridge to satisfy hunger, but unexpectedly, the sour rice is actually fragrant after it is done, so there is this delicacy." ”

Han Derang and Wang Yu listened, their faces were a little embarrassed, it was the Liao soldiers who fought the grass valley, and it was the Song Dynasty that could not protect the people, and Yang Yanzhao, who was sitting under Wang Yu, already knew the origin of this sour rice, and looked at Wu Yingying's eyes, and there was a little more understanding.

At the end of the banquet, according to the weekly ceremony, "kiss the clan brothers with the gift of food, kiss the old friends with the gift of the guest shooting, and kiss the guests from all over the world with the gift of the swallow." "Xia, Song and Liao performed the salute of swallow shooting in the school field.

Wang Yu smiled and said: "My emperor heard that the Xia Kingdom and the Liao Kingdom are still martial, so he specially sent dozens of good bows to the warriors of the two countries. He waved his hand and asked the guards to send the two strong bows that had been prepared a long time ago, and gave way to Wu Yingying and Han De respectively, "This is the weapon that the crossbowmen of the forbidden army in front of the palace like to use, and the warriors of your country can try to open the bow during the banquet to see if it is suitable." ”

Han Derang his brave general Guo Taibao was ordered to try the bow, and he used the strength of his whole body, his face was red and his ears were red, and he was only half-opened, Wu Yingying's guards and dragontooth troops were all hussars, and they were not known for their strength, and there were no archers who specialized in opening a hard bow in the battalions guarding the river meander, so he smiled and said: "The warriors who can pull such a hard bow in our country are not here, so let's take it back and try again." ”

Wang Yu smiled and said, "In this case, I will order the warriors under my command to try this strong bow for Your Majesty first." This time, he brought twenty crossbowmen with great strength in front of the palace, and they stepped forward one by one to test the bow, and each of them could pull the hard bow like a full moon.

Han Derang and Wu Yingying glanced at each other, knowing that this was the Song State with the intention to show off its strength, and the population of the Song State was more than that of the Liaoxia and Xia countries combined.

The target one hundred and fifty steps away was placed, Wu Yingying personally bent his bow and set up an arrow, and an arrow hit the bull's-eye as the opening, and the warriors of Song, Liao, and Xia who were good at shooting went down in turn, and the arrows hit the target.

Seeing that both the Song and Xia people were good at shooting, Han Derang frowned, and suddenly several rows of geese flew by in the distance, he smiled slightly, waved his hand and called Xiao Dilie, the commander of the palace, and said: "What's the use of shooting the target, shoot a few geese in the world to present to His Majesty the Emperor and Prime Minister Wang." When the palace troops heard the order, they bent their bows and shot each other with iron arrows, only to hear dozens of swishing sounds, flying arrows like lightning, and several geese fell from the sky.

Seeing this, Wang Yu also ordered the crossbowmen in front of the palace to shoot geese, however, one of the Song army crossbowmen to shoot the target is the main, not as accustomed to shooting live animals as the Liao people, the second is that the geese in the sky see that the momentum is not right, they have flapped their wings and fled, there is still a wild goose, perhaps because the partner was shot to death by humans, still in the air wailing and chirping, hovering can not go, but the end of the strong bow can not wear Lu Min, the arrow has not touched the body of the goose has fallen. Seeing Han Derang arching his hand to himself, Wang Yu could only turn a blind eye.

Seeing this, Wu Yingying said, "Take my crossbow." After a while, a special divine arm crossbow was presented, the Xia Kingdom divine arm crossbow has undergone ten years of improvement, and the power is far better than when it was first obtained from the Tuoba clan, in order to balance the strength of the shot, the crossbow is still shoulder support, Wu Yingying raised a good string, some heavy crossbow arrows, while the wild goose flew a little lower, pulled the trigger, the arrow shot into the belly of the wild goose like a meteor, the wild goose fell down with a wail, and there was no other prey in the sky. Wu Yingying handed over the divine arm crossbow to the guards next to him, and said to Han De: "This goose has lost its love, and it is impossible to be alone. The same is true of geese, how can people be worthy. Han Derang was stunned for a moment, and looked away with a complicated expression.

After the banquet was over, Yang Yanzhao escorted Prime Minister Wang Yu to leave first, and after Han Derang explained that he was guarding the left and right, he walked into Wu Yingying's tent with a guard.

Next to Wu Yingying stood a thin young man of thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a filial piety belt at the waist in a black Confucian suit, the two sword eyebrows and his age seemed quite incongruous, his face was expressionless, and when he saw Han Derang, he neither stepped forward to ask for peace, nor did he retreat.

"Chang'er," Han Derang unexpectedly spoke first, seeing that the young man was still staring at him stubbornly and not saying a word, he smiled a little helplessly, and said to Wu Yingying: "This kid, see it." Wu Yingying shook his head, did not comment on the family affairs of their father and son, Wen Yan said to Han Chang: "Chang'er, although your mother has a wish, but the fate of the boy should be chosen by himself, I ask you again, are you willing to go back to Liao?" When Han Chang's mother and son lived in Dunhuang, Wu Yingying treated him like a nephew, this son was both smart and diligent, and Wu Yingying was also quite praised.

Han Chang's eyes flickered slightly, he hung his head silently, and after a long time, he raised his head again, bowed respectfully to Wu Yingying, suppressed the ups and downs in his chest, and said: "Boy Han Chang, and on behalf of his deceased mother, thank your uncle...... His Majesty the Emperor has been caring for him for fourteen years. He was still a teenager after all, and his voice was a little choked up at this point.

Seeing this, Wu Yingying was no longer strong. Han Derang ordered the guards to take him back to the palace camp first.

Wu Yingying said slowly: "After learning that my brother wanted to take the mother and son back to Liao, my sister-in-law didn't want to be tired of the king, so she committed suicide with a hairpin. With that, he took out a hosta from his bosom and handed it to Han Derang.

Han Derang, as the prime minister and the privy envoy of the north and south, in order to avoid discussion from outsiders, Xiao Sui urged him many times to take the mother and son who had taken refuge in the Xia Kingdom back to the Liao Kingdom, who would have thought that in the end it would be like this. In the past ten years, he has become more and more authoritative, annexed Goryeo, subjugated Murwei and Jurchen, made all the heroes of the north bow down, and promoted the Han people in the country, rewarded farming, advocated Confucianism, and did a lot of work, but he always owed only a debt to the mother and son who were far away in the Xia Kingdom.