In April, the general Wei Qing led everyone, together with the newly joined captain Zhang Qian, who was familiar with the situation in the Western Regions, and Huo Quai, the newly named captain of Yao, from Dingxiang and continued to embark on the journey to the Xiongnu. Zhang Qian knew about the water and grassland in the desert area, so that the Han army had no shortage of drinking water.

Wei Qing's Chinese army encountered the Xiongnu army and beheaded more than 10,000 people.

On the left flank, Su Jian, Zhao Xin led more than 3,000 horsemen, encountered the Xiongnu Shan Yu main force on the grassland, fought fiercely for half a day, and more than half of the casualties were killed. Changxin Hou Liu, Zhonglang killed Li Guang from the left and right, the three armies met, and there was a heavy crossbow in hand, Su Jian, Zhao Xin's spirit was greatly boosted, and Shan Yu was defeated by the army, and Shan Yu led the army away, beheading nearly 10,000 prisoners.

Captain Yao Huo Qu led 800 light cavalry troops to attack the enemy camp, inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, and captured many Xiongnu nobles.

When the news reached Chang'an, Emperor Wu was overjoyed, and all were rewarded, Zhang Qian was the Marquis of Bowang, and Huo Qubing was the champion Marquis.

Li Guang was also named Marquis of Zhenyuan for his military exploits, and finally broke the fate of "Li Guang is difficult to seal" in history.

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April

A horse-drawn carriage slowly marched into Jimo, the capital of Jiaodong (now Pingdu County, Shandong).

Chen Yansheng slowly blew the flute, "Finally arrived in a big city." She laughed, "You can have a good meal and take a break." ”

"It's not your perverted way of pathing." Guo Xie poured cold water on her, she had never seen such a decision on the destination, to a fork in the road, throw a three-plant coin (the five-baht coin was minted in the fifth year of Yuan Hunt, and the front was still wrong. and go from wherever you point.

"That's what confuses people." Chen Yansheng didn't care, "Even we don't know where we're going, so no one will guess." ”

Guo Xie looked at her, half loud, and couldn't help but shout, "What's the use of that?" What should be embellished in the back is still embellished, and what is to be robbed and killed in front is still robbed. Count for yourself, how many times have we been robbed along the way? ”

"Gee, why bother?" She stroked his eyebrows and said with a flattering smile, "Don't we have you?" Those little thieves can be sent away casually. ”

All the way from Chang'an, they encountered a total of three robberies. Each time is more and more difficult, the first time, she still has the leisure to teach Chen Mo to manipulate the bow and crossbow to shoot the enemy in the car, and the second time, she didn't dare to hold it up like this. The third time, even he had to go down.

"Mother." Chen Mo poked his head out of the car, "Where are we staying today?" ”

"Find an inn to stay in." Chen Yansheng smiled, lifted the curtain and said, "Godmother, little tiger, come out." ”

Shen Hu helped Aunt Shen get out of the car, and looked at Chen Yansheng with a little confused. Chen Yansheng was keenly aware, "What's wrong?" She asked with a smile.

"Sister,......" Shen Hu felt that his mouth was a little dry, "Are you really ......?" He didn't dare to say the rest of the words.

"Fool," Chen Yansheng couldn't help but knock him on the head, "No matter who I am, I'm your sister," she raised her head and looked at her godmother, "It's also a good daughter of your godmother." ”

"Yan'er," Aunt Shen shouted movingly, "But," she looked at her hesitantly, and then at Chen Mo, "Are we really okay like this?" ”

"Nothing bad." Chen Yansheng chuckled, "After staying in Chang'an for so long, my godmother doesn't want to come out to take a look?" She glared at Chen Mo, "It's also considered that this kid is interesting, and he knows to go home and pick you up first." ”

Chen Mo smiled, shrank back, and patted his chest, "That's good, I'm still afraid that my mother will kill me." ”

Chen Yansheng couldn't help it, stretched out his hand and flicked his son's head, and said angrily, "Little slippery head." "Otherwise, I'm really worried about you." ”

"Speaking of worry," Aunt Shen looked sad, "I don't know how to do it early?" She was so young and alone in the capital. ”

Chen Yansheng's eyes turned red, "No." She blurted out, as if convincing herself, "With me, my mother, I'll be fine sooner." Besides," she said slowly, "the master will take care of it." As the saying goes, tiger poison does not eat children. I didn't get bad news, that's — that's enough. ”

"Mother," Chen Mo tugged at the corner of her clothes, "I miss my sister so much." ”

"Mo'er," Chen Yansheng squatted down and looked directly at his son, "We'll go back." She reassured, "One day, we will go back and bring it back early." ”

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Only by walking on the streets of Jimo can you truly understand the pulse of this city.

The slight smell of yellow sand blew on his face, and even though he was separated by a veil, Chen Yansheng still felt a little dry. "Jimo, Jimo, isn't it loneliness?" She had a playful name in her mouth. Liu Ji, the lord of Jiaodong Kingdom, is her old acquaintance, the twelfth son of Emperor Jing Liu Heng, Liu Che's half-brother, and her cousin, who has often been in Weiyang Palace since childhood. The friendship is not deep, nor can it be considered shallow. In my impression, Gillian in her girlhood is arrogant and arrogant, relying on the favor of her mother and uncle, and the identity of the future crown princess, even if she is a prince, she may not be able to see it. There were also some skirmishes with Liu Ji, although it was not a holiday, but now that she is in exile, although she is not afraid, she still has to be careful to restrain herself.

Jimo City is not lonely, although it does not have the prosperity of the imperial capital Chang'an, but it has a unique simplicity and the heaviness of loess.

"Mother," Mo'er nibbled on Jiaodong's unique baked cakes, holding a sugar ball in each hand, and shouted vaguely, "It's very fragrant, do you want to eat a little?" ”

Chen Yansheng lowered his head funny, wiped the sesame seeds on the corner of Mo'er's mouth, and said softly, "It's good that Mo'er likes to eat, and my mother doesn't need it." ”

Mo'er looked ahead, a group of people in front of him were crowded, and they erupted in loud cheers, which was very lively. Chen Mo looked at his mother flatteringly, "Mother, let's go and have a look." ”

Chen Yansheng smiled and nodded slowly.

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It turned out to be the most old-fashioned street performer. An old man held a flower gun in his hand and played it once, holding a silver dragon with a gun and a cluster of flowers. The crowd applauded, the old man smiled slightly, and his companion took out a bamboo plate and said, "Please also cheer." ”

Suddenly, the field was cold, most of the people secretly retreated, and the rest of the people dropped their money sparsely. Chen Yansheng smiled slightly, and was about to take out some three baht coins, when he suddenly heard a crisp shout, "That old man, just your little effort, also come to Jimo to perform?" A girl in green came out of the crowd, and without seeing how to behave, she fluttered to the ground.

A ruffian who came to collect protection money? Chen Yansheng's first reaction was like this, but he was stunned when he saw this girl clearly, the girl was thin and thin, with a delicate face, although she was a little fierce, she didn't see a ruffian, she really didn't look like a bad person. What really made Chen Yansheng stunned was the imposing face of this girl, which made her feel familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere inadvertently, but she couldn't find it after a wipe.

Are you here to smash the field?

After being stunned for a few seconds, the surrounding erupted in applause that was twice as enthusiastic as before. The people of Jimo, who wanted to disperse, immediately surrounded them again.

"This girl," the old man was stunned, he had seen the world in the end, he smiled kindly on his dark face, squinted his eyes and secretly looked at the girl in green, made a gesture to the two accomplices, and said kindly, "Dare to ask the girl?" ”

"This girl doesn't change her surname, she doesn't change her name, she calls her Yijiang." Yi Jiang smiled and looked forward to the light. Raising his eyebrows, he was full of life, "Are you going to fight or not?" ”

"If you are out of the house, let's" Before the old man finished speaking, a willow leaf scimitar had already slashed towards his front door, he was shocked into a cold sweat, took a quick step back, and took a gun, "bell", sparks flew everywhere.

"Okay." There were loud cheers all around, and it was obvious that the girl's appearance was right for their spleen and stomach.

The old man said angrily, "You Nizi, why do you not understand the rules so much? ”

Yi Jiang sneered disdainfully, "Rules, what is that?" As soon as he finished speaking, he pushed the window to look at the moon, grabbed a few steps, and brushed the attack. The old man had no choice but to fight back, but he was guarding the door, and he couldn't see the defeat in a short time. Everyone watched it well, but they didn't notice that the other two people re-held the bamboo strips and put them down, and threw three baht coins into it.

"Mother," Chen Mo pulled Chen Yansheng's shirt and raised his head, with a puzzled look on his little face, "Why is this grandfather and sister fighting, so strange?" ”

Chen Yansheng smiled and said softly, "Because they know each other." ”

She has already seen that these three men and one woman are a group of people who deliberately let people make trouble, make some gimmicks, and raise the emotions of the audience. The knife and gun on the stage, one move and one style, piercing, blocking, picking, racking, pointing, twisting, throwing, the cooperation is excellent, as if each other is practicing moves, and the audience looks beautiful, but I don't know that between the two people on the stage step by step, they are like shallow water, and there is no danger at half.

"Mo'er," Chen Yansheng took his son's hand and said casually, "The things have also been eaten, and the excitement has also been seen, Granny Shen and Uncle Guo should be worried, let's go back." ”

She smiled and took her son's hand, and when she turned around, she clearly felt that the girl named Yi Jiang on the stage cast an inquiring gaze.

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"I guessed that someone would come tonight, but I never guessed that this person would be you?" Chen Yansheng looked at the person who came and said in surprise.

"It's my honor to be able to make Chen Gongzi unable to guess." In front of the case, Mei Yan said, I haven't seen her for a few months, today she is wearing a crow green feather cloak, her eyebrows and eyes are still charming and gratuitous, but there is a trace of fireworks, but she looks like a young lady, not stained with the slightest smell of wind and dust.

"Needless to say," Chen Yansheng played with the phoenix hairpin in his hand. The phoenix hairpin is extremely delicate and luxurious. The hairpin head is carved with a colorful phoenix, with a pearl in the mouth, biting the tail wing, head to tail, integrated into one, at first glance, like a brocade peony. What's even more rare is that the eyes of the phoenix, as well as the pearl of the title, are all black pearls that are hard to find in the world.

"Hairpin Phoenix." She sighed and threw Feng Hai on the case.

Meiyu looked at her free and easy behavior with some admiration, "I'm convinced today." She smiled and said, "If it weren't for Lord Weng to tell her, Mei Yu couldn't believe that Chen Gongzi actually had such a noble identity." Even if it is the one in the Jiaofang Hall now, he can't treat this phoenix hairpin so recklessly. ”

Since then, the phoenix is the representative of the mother's world. At the right time, Guo Xie came in and said that someone had taken this phoenix hairpin and asked to see her. This phoenix hairpin is the one that Gillian brought with her when she woke up at the beginning of the wild goose, and later left it on the dead man in black. It was when she married Liu Che, and the Empress Dowager personally inserted it into her bun. Later, he was abolished and handed over the queen's seal ribbon, but this phoenix hairpin was never handed over because it was given to her granddaughter Gillian by the empress dowager back then. The identity of the man in black back then, after integrating Gillian's memories, she thinks she knows it. But when she saw this phoenix hairpin in Jimo, she was a little unclear.

She sighed, and when she saw the girl named Yi Jiang, she knew that this matter would become a little troublesome. Unexpectedly, things were more troublesome than she expected.

"So," Chen Yansheng smiled, got up and looked at Meiyu, "Auntie is willing to tell me, who is the one who asked you to send this phoenix hairpin?" ”