Chapter 244: Hongmen Banquet
The sky was slightly bright, Li Junche got up in advance, and Wei Jingshu took a while to follow.
At this time, it was cool, Wei Jingshu wore a man's cloth clothes, and said while bunching Li Junche's hair: "According to the schedule, we have to travel for a few days to catch up with the Four Books and Five Classics." ”
The Four Books and Five Classics went to Shu first with the stand-in, because of Wei Jingshu, Li Junche was delayed here for several days, and this time he wanted to catch up, so he had to hurry up for a few days.
Li Junche saw Wei Jingshu's soft eyebrows and eyes through the yellowed bronze mirror, and smiled lightly: "If it's two or three days, it's fine, if it's slow, maybe it's four or five days." ”
It's just that it's okay for him to say it alone, but it's harder, and he can't catch up day and night, but I'm afraid that Wei Jingshu's body won't be able to stand it.
Wei Jingshu didn't know what he meant, glared at him through the bronze mirror, and combed her hair tightly.
The horses and dry food and water have been prepared, Wang Jingshuo, Zhao Errong, and Zhu Qiye have been waiting in the courtyard, and when they saw that the two of them were out of the house, they were busy coming forward to salute.
Things have been arranged, Li Junche said a few words to Wang Jingshuo and Zhu Qiye, Zhao Errong pulled Wei Jingshu and said: "This farewell, he doesn't know when he will be able to see each other again." ”
Wei Jingshu smiled lightly: "There will always be a time to meet again." ”
After a short time, the husband and wife turned over and got on their horses one after the other, and the same few people nodded and rode away.
Wei Jingshu has liked to ride and shoot since she was a child, and her riding skills on horses are not bad.
Li Junche was afraid that she wouldn't be able to keep up at first, so she deliberately walked slowly, which showed that she could keep up, so she sped up.
The sky was bright, and the sun was getting more and more dizzy, and the clothes were soaked with sweat, and it was extremely uncomfortable to stick to the body.
Li Junche turned his head to look at her and said with a smile: "Do you want to take a break?" ”
Wei Jingshu was afraid of dragging her legs, so she wiped the sweat on her forehead: "No need." ”
It wasn't until noon that Li Junche stopped at the beginning, hastily found a place with shade, and settled an afternoon meal with dry food and water, and rested again.
Wei Jingshu had never suffered like this, even if she fled with him that year, she was just playing around, and the horse that ran all morning, although she felt a little tired, she could still stand it.
When the sun set in the afternoon, I felt that the calves and abdomen through the clothes were hot. You don't have to look at it to know that she must have not ridden a horse for too long, which caused her calves to be worn out by horse hair, although she was pampered in the past, but at this time she was not hypocritical, and she endured not saying a word, only following closely behind Li Junche.
After the sun set, the sky was a little cooler, and the two of them walked again, so they found a dry and open place to prepare for sleeping.
Li Junche looked at Wei Jingshu's horse, although he didn't say anything, he also felt that something was wrong, so he silently lit a fire, took out the dry food and baked it, and ate it with the stream water not far away.
Wei Jingshu was so tired that before she finished eating a piece of dry cake, she had already fallen asleep leaning on the stump, and the water bladder in her hand fell and sprinkled water all over the ground.
I don't know how long it took, when I was half-asleep and half-awake, I felt a chill on my legs, and my hazy sleepy eyes were half-open, and I saw Li Junche lowering his head and taking a wet handkerchief to clean the wounds on her legs.
The movements of her hands were as gentle as ever, for fear of making her feel half uncomfortable.
Wei Jingshu had a smile on her lips that she hadn't noticed, stretched out her hand and dragged Li Junche, and said seriously, "I can do it." ”
Li Junche pulled down the trouser leg for her, also smiled, rubbed her head, and said, "Sleep." ”
On the second day, Xu was the golden medicine from yesterday, and maybe he had tied an extra layer of cloth, Wei Jingshu obviously felt much better than yesterday.
The two of them rushed for another day, and they were still resting in the field at night, although they felt hard, but there was no accident along the way.
By the afternoon of the third day, he had already caught up with the four books and five classics.
Li Junche slowed down the speed and took Wei Jingshu to play while hurrying, and when the group settled down in the post house at night, he also took Wei Jingshu to settle down, and only then did he change with the stand-in at dawn.
On the second day, Wei Jingshu followed Li Junche brightly and went to Shu together.
The officers and soldiers of the East Battalion didn't recognize Wei Jingshu, and saw that she was dressed as a man, with a girlish attitude, and went in and out with Li Junche, just as she was not a serious person, but Li Junche couldn't bear the loneliness halfway, and picked up the dew halfway.
It's still a male pet.
Someone also said in private: It turns out that those rumors in Beijing in the early years are still true.
There were three people in the group of people in Dongdaying who were Empress Chen's people, but one fell to his death halfway, and another one was sick with dysentery on the way and rested in the post house in front of him.
There is also one person who is specially reserved to report to Empress Chen, and the rest are either Shi Houlin's friends of life and death, or they have not stood in line in the East Camp.
There was no hostility with Li Junche, so naturally he didn't care who he brought with him, he was only ordered to send people to Shu.
It was the fine work that Empress Chen had planted and secretly sent a letter to Kyoto.
After meeting with these people in Dongdaying, there was no ambush assassination or anything like that, Wei Jingshu followed for three or four days, and when he saw that he had reached the boundary of Shudi, he also asked Li Junche: "Why is this road so calm." ”
Li Junche raised the curtain of the car with the white jade fracture fan in his hand, and saw that he was about to go to Shu Road, and sneered: "The calmer the waves, the more dangerous it is." ”
The situation in Shu was not optimistic, and those rebels who did not know where to pretend to be from nowhere provoked the imperial court while capturing the city, asking the imperial court to take out 10 million taels of gold to ransom Zhao Deli.
Emperor Jingde did not act, the treasury was not abundant, although Zhao Deli took advantage of Emperor Jingde's serious illness, he raided the mansions of many officials and looted a large number of gold, silver and jewelry.
But he was generous to his subordinates, and he rewarded a lot, and Empress Chen was extravagant, and the treasury was even weaker than before.
Not to mention 10 million taels of gold, even 10 million taels of silver can't be taken out.
The difficulty of Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky.
Li Junche and his entourage did not travel long after entering the Shu Road, so they had to abandon the car and ride a horse, and occasionally they couldn't even ride a horse, so they had to be in front of them, and the horses were led behind.
The group traveled in Shu Road for two days, and then joined the imperial army that had been waiting for a long time.
The general who stayed in Shu to preside over the overall situation was so anxious that his beard turned white, and when he saw Li Junche coming, he was so excited that he almost knelt down and kowtowed in thanks.
But Li Junche didn't participate in the wind banquet that night because he was unwell, he only turned off the lights early, and Wei Jingshu didn't even go out of the door.
The general only regarded Li Junche as rumored, addicted to wine, and although he said that he had worked hard all the way and that it was appropriate to rest and rest, he secretly spat a few times with disdain.
Don't know, but these people understand very well, on the surface, they asked Li Junche to save Zhao Deli, but the real thing is just to ask him to exchange his life for his life.
The governor of Dacheng had already fled with his wife and children before the rebel army came, and now the governor of the state has called the general of the imperial court to live with the military division in front of the mansion, and the back is given to Li Junche.
Because they were not afraid that he would escape, they did not even have a guard.
In the middle of the night, there was a rhythmic sound of knocking tiles on the roof where Li Junche was resting, and after half a sound, Li Junche got up and opened the window.
Two black shadows jumped in from the window, and before they could see anyone, they heard a woman calling, "Yuan Yuan......"
As soon as Wei Jingshu heard this, she knew who it was, so she hurriedly got up from the bed, wrapped her soft-soled shoes, and said, "Isn't the third sister-in-law in the northwest?" ”
As soon as the masked face towel was pulled, it could be seen by the moonlight that it was Wei Shuqi and Zhao Yujiao.
Zhao Yujiao giggled, and Wei Jingshu should not be surprised, but said: "I heard that you have turned Kyoto upside down, but is there really such a thing?" ”
"Hehe......" Wei Jingshu laughed, didn't speak, only looked at Wei Shuqi, he hadn't seen him for more than half a year, he had lost a lot of weight, and he was becoming more and more stable.
Wei Shuqi nodded at Wei Jingshu with a solemn expression, and he didn't want to talk much about big things and small things, just talk to Li Junche about business.
"These days, those rebels who came out of nowhere have sent two big gifts to the imperial court."
Several people sat on the round table next to each other with marble, Wei Jingshu poured herbal tea one by one, and heard Zhao Yujiao sneer: "Who knows if it's true or not, it's just that one ear has the same amputated finger, and it's not easy to fake this thing." ”
Having said that, even if it is fake, the army of the imperial court is not lightly frightened, you must know that those "rebel army" are holding the life of the future prince in their hands.
Now that the three kings are no longer in the climate, and Emperor Jingde is seriously ill, maybe he will go west that day, if Zhao Deli also has a problem at this juncture, then who will they turn to?
Wei Jingshu has also heard a lot of things in the past few months, and naturally she knows everything about the fake "rebel army" and Zhao Deli in Shudi, and when she heard the words, she asked: "Do you know who those rebels are?" ”
Zhao Yujiao didn't speak, but Wei Shuqi glanced at Li Junche and said in a deep voice: "It's not certain yet." ”
It's not that I don't know, it's that I can't be sure.
Li Junche's expression did not move, he only took advantage of his calm eyes and didn't know what to think, his fingers tapped lightly on the desk, and only after a long time did he say, "I'm afraid I can't be good." ”
Zhao Yujiao and Wei Shuqi looked at Li Junche together, but they didn't speak, only Wei Jingshu was a little confused, and didn't understand the meaning of these words.
On the second day, General Wu came early in the morning to invite Li Junche to have breakfast together.
To put it bluntly, it's just a Hongmen banquet, and I have already rejected it once yesterday, but now this attitude is much tougher.
General Wu said: "Since the prince is under the emperor's order, it is easy to say whether he can stand the good of this general, but the matter must be done urgently." ”
Li Junche was holding the tea bowl in his hand, Wei Jingshu stood behind him and pinched his shoulder, he hooked his lips and smiled, then put the tea bowl aside and got up: "General Wu has already said this, and it is not easy for the master to shirk it, and I want to listen to how General Wu arranged it." ”