Li Jingheng felt that he was accusing himself in disguise, and said with a red face: "It's because of the poor guards, which makes the prime minister worried." ”

Lu Dongzan hurriedly explained, "I didn't mean to blame the prince, I just hated that I was too late to come down and failed to protect Her Royal Highness the princess side by side with the prince." ”

After confirming Li Yuntong's condition again, and knowing that she was completely fine, he was a lot more relieved, and asked, "Along the way, is it safe for Vice Minister Gongton to escort the princess?" ”

Thinking of the awkward appearance of Vice Minister Gongdun all the way that I didn't understand what you said, and I wasn't interested in listening to it, Li Jingheng's brothers and sisters frowned.

But in line with the idea that it is better to marry than to make enemies, without waiting for his sister to speak, Li Jingheng smiled and said: "There is nothing big about this way, Vice Minister Gongdun and they don't understand Tang dialect, and the princess Tubo has just learned, and there is not much communication between them, so it's okay." However, the Noamo general was very attentive along the way, and I heard that it was the prime minister who specially explained it before, and I would like to thank the prime minister here. ”

Lu Dongzan replied with a smile: "We are all for the princess, I should do these things, if there is negligence, it is also my dereliction of duty, I don't take care of it, and there are the princes of Laojun and the prince of Laojun bothering along the way......"

After a few words of greeting, Lu Dongzan asked, "Seeing that the princess is still in good spirits, I don't know when I plan to get up?" ”

Of course, Li Yuntong would like to stay in this Weizhou Mansion all the time, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and she is at ease, but she also knows the mission of her trip, and understands that Lu Dongzan is in a hurry, so she said: "Let's leave when I am ready to prepare for the next two days, after all, there are so many people here, there is no need for Li Tingshi to worry about food, clothing, and housing, and there will be chaos when there are many people, so let's leave early and make less trouble for others." ”

On the eighth day of the fourth month of the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, outside the gate of Li Yanzhi's courtyard in the Weizhou Mansion, dozens of carriages were ready to go, and they would go outside the city to join the large army of relatives.

Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia County, watched Chuncao and them serve Li Yuntong into the carriage, and advised: "The princess's injuries are not all healed, you must take good care of them." ”

Chuncao naturally agreed respectfully.

Thinking that his father saw himself injured before, he wanted to reprimand himself for running away disobediently, probably because he saw his pitiful and haggard appearance, and finally only said one sentence: Don't be so hasty in the future, be careful in everything...... Seeing his father, who has always been unsmiling, deliberately came over to explain Chuncao and them for her sake, Li Yuntong's heart warmed.

She sat upright and said delicately: "Father, don't worry, they are all used by my side, and they have always been very dedicated to taking care of me." ”

Li Daozong still glared at her in the end, "I don't have to worry about them, only you are a skin, and you have not been worrying since you were a child." ”

I probably felt that what I said to my daughter was too heavy, and he said: "However, I really impressed the princess this time, I thought that you had been worshiping the Buddha with your mother since you were a child, and the ants refused to step on it, for fear that you would be bullied when you went to Tubo, but I didn't expect you to dare to give a direct order and kill the demon Dao. ”

Li Yuntong said with a smile: "Father, have you forgotten the Bodhisattva's heart? If the bodhisattva will only blindly tolerate and be tolerant, how can he punish the evil and promote the good? When dealing with such people, you have to use a language that they can understand, so that they understand that they will pay for their actions, my father didn't teach me before, sometimes fists are more effective than reason, and my daughter always remembers it. ”

Thinking of what Li Yanzhi said before, these days from the mouths of those Taoist priests and Turkic dead soldiers, it was judged that "Yuan Tianshi" wanted to overthrow the dynasty and become a local emperor in Weizhou Mansion, Li Daozong couldn't help but sigh: "A little Taoist priest, because he has some ability, gradually swelled his ambitions, I don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, first greedy for money, then greedy for sex, and then greedy for power, and finally put his own life into it, this is really not enough greed to swallow elephants......"

Speaking of this, he warned Li Yuntong, "Your Royal Highness Princess, when you go to Tubo, you must not lose your sense of proportion because they are respectful to you and the favor of the King of Tubo to you, and forget that you are a Tang Dynasty, you must know that everything they do is because you are the princess of the Tang Dynasty. These days, because you have been injured and your trip has been delayed, there are quite complaints from the Tibetan side, and you must not be naughty next time. ”

He pointed to the road to the west with a horsewhip, "This goes, all the way to Tubo, in fact, from the day you leave Chang'an, you have no chance to turn back, this is a road of no return, you have embarked on this road, you can not regret it, and do not blindly remember the past, children and daughters are long." ”

After a pause, Li Daozong said: "What you have to do is to go down this road, go to the farthest and highest place, where you will belong, and let Tang Fan be friendly for generations, so that you will not leave your parents thousands of miles in vain." The people of the whole Datang are watching you, and the people of Tubo are still waiting for you, don't be reluctant to give up, let's go. ”

was assassinated that day, Li Yuntong also regretted it afterwards, after all, if she hadn't willfully insisted on going to Phoenix Mountain to see the scenery, she wouldn't have encountered those things, as long as she stayed in the other courtyard, even if the Turks had a plot and under the protection of her father and brother, nothing could go wrong.

When she went out, she brought few people, and when she went down the mountain, she didn't join Li Yanzhi's brigade because she stayed on the mountain for a while, so that the Turkic dead soldiers had a chance to take advantage of it...... In case she loses her life, not to mention Tang Fan's friendship and friendship, her parents and family should be so sad!

In the days of healing, Li Yuntong has already figured out that no matter how good Datang is, she can only put this concern in her heart, this time, the purpose of her going to Tubo is for the peace of the country, the peace of the people, and the integration of the two peoples, for this, she must let go of the past.

Therefore, in the face of her father's blame, Li Yuntong was not the slightest annoyed, let alone refute her current identity, she replied solemnly, "Father, rest assured, your teachings and daughters will always be remembered and will not act arbitrarily." ”

Li Jingheng listened to his distressed sister on the side, and said: "It's because I didn't protect the princess, my father will punish me if he wants to punish me, if my sister can't go anywhere at will under our escort, when she arrives in Tubo, won't it be even more difficult to move an inch?" Father rest assured, I will take care of Her Royal Highness the princess more carefully in the future, and whoever dares to give her grievances, I will beat him all over the ground to find teeth. ”

Seeing his son change his usual calm appearance, Li Daozong glared at him angrily and said, "Let's go to see off relatives, you give me the rules, don't do anything with people at every turn, if you make trouble again, I will skin you." ”

Li Jingheng said solemnly: "Father, don't worry, I just said that I would take a good look at Her Royal Highness the princess, outside, I have always behaved and will not easily fight with others." ”

Because of this matter, Li Daozong had already reprimanded Li Jingheng before, and he didn't want to say much outside this time, so he only glared at him, "What are you talking about, the time has come, and you don't want to leave yet?" ”

At the same time, Li Yuntong and his entourage left Weizhou Mansion.

Looking at the people and horses moving far away on the official road, Li Yanzhi wiped the sweat that didn't exist on his head.

His cronie Captain Ma smiled: "Finally gone, we don't even dare to sleep these days, for fear that there will be a case, and we can make up for a few sleeps now." ”

Li Yanzhi glared at him, "What nonsense are you talking about, I wish Her Royal Highness the princess would stay in Weizhou Mansion for a few more days, if it weren't for her, the Turks would have mixed up on Phoenix Mountain, and the demon road, we have to hang up and eat, those things will be fatal, if it weren't for Her Royal Highness the princess to immediately cut off the demon road, I'm afraid that Weizhou will be in chaos!" ”

Seeing that the boss was angry, Captain Ma hurriedly changed his tone and said with a smile: "It's all the incompetence of the subordinates, and they didn't find out those ghostly people, and they brought Her Royal Highness the princess to injury, but fortunately, the prince was wise enough to catch those Turks and help us make meritorious contributions in front of the imperial court." ”

Li Yanzhi sighed: "It's not, if you tell them to get away that day, don't say that I can't do this assassination, I have been stripped of the skin in the prison up and down, fortunately, the princess has been calm in Weizhou Mansion in the past few days, and now that she can go on the road safely, we can rest assured......"

Although this is said tactfully, it is actually the same as what Captain Ma said before, in short, Li Yuntong and his party left safely, and Weizhou Mansion can breathe a sigh of relief.

In fact, not only the Weizhou Mansion breathed a sigh of relief, but the Tubo people's welcoming team also had a kind of ease of finally getting on the road, compared with the Datang family sending team there was a sense of farther and farther away from their hometown, and they were closer to Tubo, the happier they were, and their hearts were like arrows.

Thousands of people ate and slept in the open, all the way west, and when they arrived at the border of the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo people almost danced. Regardless of the ban, when camping at night, some people secretly took out wine and drank it.

After drinking two bowls of wine, a Tubo warrior pointed to the other side of the border pass and muttered, "I want that Tuyuhun to beat us to the ground, lose our armor, and even can't keep the royal city, just like that, the princess of the Tang Dynasty still wants to visit them, is it possible that she still wants to make friends with that Tuyuhun?" She is about to marry me in Tibet, and be the praise of my Tibet, but her heart is towards outsiders, how can this work? ”

Some drunk Tubo people echoed him loudly, and some were still sober, and he was not allowed to talk nonsense, "Our camp tent is not far from the Tang Dynasty, don't you dare to criticize the princess's words, lest the words spread by the Tang Dynasty, you still have to be beaten with military sticks?" Say a few words, come on, let's drink. ”

The Tibetan warrior drank the wine, but he didn't stop, and even stood up and said to the camp tent on the Tang side: "What are you afraid of him doing?" In the past, in the realm of Datang, we still had to converge a little, but now we are about to leave Datang, and we are getting closer and closer to Tubo, and this aggrieved day has finally come to an end. ”

He burped and said triumphantly: "Vice Minister Gongton has said that Zampu married the princess of the Tang Dynasty for the power of the Tang Dynasty, and when he marries, how to treat it is our business." The dog has an owner, and the iron has tongs, let's respect her, she is a princess, disrespectful, she is similar to the Dau in Zampu's tooth tent. ”