Liu Wuzhou stopped them, he grabbed Song Jingang's horse halter and said loudly: "King Song, what are you going to do here?" ”

"Take Ruolan back!"

"Are you crazy?" Liu Wuzhou's eyes widened and said, "The Turks have a million strong soldiers, and there are tens of thousands of guards in Shibi alone. These brothers have come all the way to the grassland with you, can you bear to let them die in a foreign land? ”

"What then?" Song Jingang shouted, "I can't abandon Ruolan, right?" ”

"You calm down first, let's go back to the tent and talk slowly." Liu Wuzhou said something badly, so he persuaded Song Jingang to go back.

Actually, Liu Wuzhou went to the tooth tent just now. He asked to see Shibi, but Shibi avoided him. Later, he met a teller he knew. Teller is a descendant of the Turkic Khan, served by the Ashina clan, equivalent to the prince of the Central Plains Dynasty. The Teller told him that the Khan wanted to marry his sister.

Of course, Liu Wuzhou couldn't tell his brother-in-law the news. Back in the tent, after the two sat down, Liu Wuzhou said: "I went to the tooth tent just now, Ruolan is fine, and the Turks did not embarrass her." She'll be back in a few days. ”

"Really?" Song Jingang stared at his brother-in-law suspiciously.

"I don't have to lie to you."

Two days later, Shi Bi came to Liu Ruolan and asked her how she was thinking. Liu Ruolan was silent for a moment and said, "I can promise you, but I have one condition." ”

"On what terms?"

"You canonized me as Kedun, in the Central Plains, that is the queen." Liu Ruolan said, "The wedding of the emperor and the empress should be held in a tall palace. But there is no palace here, so it is necessary to build a colorful building, five zhang long, four zhang wide, and three zhang high. Gather all the high officials and nobles of the Khan's court, and canonize me as Kedun in public. ”

Shi Bi pondered for a moment and said, "The Turks have strong financial resources, so this is not difficult to do. Three days later is an auspicious day, how about a canonization ceremony? ”

"Yes."

Three days later, the canonization ceremony will take place. According to the rules of the Turks, Liu Ruolan must wear the crown of Kedun. However, the crown was white and looked like a mourning garment, and she refused to wear it. She said to Shi Bi: "According to the customs of our Han people, we must wear red clothes for weddings. I have a big wedding dress, it's in the camp, and you send someone to get it. ”

The big wedding dress was purchased when she and Song Jingang got married, and she kept it properly, and she also brought it with her this time. Shibi had no choice but to send someone to find Liu Wuzhou and take the wedding dress back.

The cailou is set up on a flat grass in front of the tooth tent, and the wooden pillars are wrapped in silk, and they are covered with various colored flags, among which there are two white dachas, on which are painted with golden wolf heads.

Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Cai Lou, all of them nobles and high-ranking officials of the Turkic Khanate, and thousands of Turkic warriors maintained order at the scene.

Despite Liu Wubei's repeated concealment, Song Jingang still heard the rumors. He insisted on going to the scene, but Liu Wuzhou couldn't dissuade him, so he had to accompany him. The Turkic soldiers guarding the gate were afraid that they would make trouble, so they did not let them in until they had handed over the weapons they had brought with them.

At three o'clock in the morning, the ceremony officially began. Liu Ruolan and Shi Bi sat side by side in a high-wheeled car, surrounded by many guards and honor guards, and came to the side of the Cai Lou. After the two got out of the car, according to the customs of the Turks, they knelt facing east and worshiped the sun. Then, they went up the wooden ladder to the color tower.

Liu Ruolan was dressed in a red wedding dress, with thin grease powder on her face, apricot face and peach cheeks, beautiful and beautiful, her eyes were like autumn water, and her eyebrows were like far away. She looked down the stage, and there was a black patch below. Suddenly, she saw her brother and her husband in the crowd. Song Jingang looked at her without blinking, and there was an indescribable expression of pain on his face. Liu Ruolan looked at him, her starry eyes were full of tears, and a smile barely squeezed out of her face.

The canonization ceremony is presided over by a shamanic shaman, who is covered with many strips of red, yellow, and green cloth. He wore a round hat with a few wild goose feathers stuck in it, and many black tassels hung down along the brim, completely obscuring his face, so that no one could see his face.

The shaman holds a shamanic drum. He sang and danced as he beat the shaman's drum, and then he uttered a large number of mantras and tossed and turned for a while before he was done.

After the wizard left, Liu Ruolan said to Shi Bi, who was wearing auspicious clothes on the side: "Khan, I am a woman of the Han family, I can't commit myself to Dihu, please forgive the Khan!" After saying that, he stepped to the side of the building and jumped down, and the people at the scene exclaimed.

Liu Ruolan fell heavily to the ground. Song Jingang and Liu Wuzhou rushed forward like crazy. Song Jingang suddenly threw himself next to his wife, hugged her tightly in his arms with both hands, and called over and over again. After half a ring, Liu Ruolan woke up. Her face turned pale, she coughed violently, and red blood spat out of her mouth. Because she was too seriously injured, her eyes were foggy, and after seeing Song Jingang clearly, she was weak: "Husband, Ruolan can't accompany you anymore, you have to live well...... Then, her eyes turned to Liu Wuzhou's face, and her voice was weak: "Brother, my little sister is dead, and she doesn't have ...... Lose...... Han Woman's ...... Dignity ......" Liu Ruolan's breath weakened, and she finally closed her eyes.

Song Jingang hugged Liu Ruolan and cried bitterly. After crying for a long time, he wiped away his tears, raised his head, and looked at Cailou with a pair of eyes burning with anger.

Shi Bi stood on the edge of the color building with a blue face, staring fiercely below. Suddenly, he turned around and walked away angrily.

The Turks at the scene slowly dispersed. When the guards in the camp heard the news, several people carried the corpses into a carriage and transported them back to the camp, where they built coffins and decorated them, and then set up a mourning hall to pay respects.

Three days later, everyone found a slope near the camp and buried Liu Ruolan. The grass on the original is dewy and the white mandarin duck is lost. Song Jingang burned incense and worshiped in front of the tomb, crying and saying: "Ruolan, your husband is incompetent, so you will stay in the grassland forever." May you be like a white orchid, blooming forever on this grassland......"

After Song Jingang finished the first seven for his wife, he returned from the cemetery and immediately ordered his soldiers to pack their bags. He took a saddle out of the tent and placed it on the horse's back, buckling the belt in the belly of the horse with his head down. Liu Wuzhou came back from outside, and when he saw that they were busy working, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "King Song, what are you doing here?" Song Jingang didn't raise his head: "Get out of here and go back to the Central Plains." ”

"Why?"

"Ruolan was killed by the Turks, I want to go back to my hometown and pull up a team to avenge her!"

Liu Wuzhou glanced around, lowered his voice and said, "Are you stupid?" Walking in broad daylight, you were discovered by the Turks, can you still walk? Song Jingang listened and did not squeak.

"I don't want to stay here anymore, I'm going back to Mayi." Liu Wuzhou said, "In this way, tonight, on the second watch, let's go together." ”

When Song Jingang heard this, he raised his head and looked at him, thought about it, and nodded.

After the second watch that night, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang left the camp with dozens of personal soldiers and horses. They came to the open field, mounted their horses, galloped wildly, and galloped all the way south.

By daybreak, they had galloped seventy or eighty miles. The group dismounted and rested for a while, ate some dry food they had brought with them, and led the horses to the river to drink water and graze. Then the crowd got back on their horses. By the afternoon, they had already left the Khan's court for one hundred and fifty or sixty miles, and just as Liu Wuzhou was secretly rejoicing in escaping the clutches of the Turks, suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves behind them, which swept like a violent storm.

Liu Wuzhou turned his head and looked, and hundreds of cavalry appeared behind him. He was so frightened that he exclaimed: "It's not good, the Turks are coming, run!" With that, he whipped his horse desperately, and led his men to flee with all his might.

However, the Turks' horses were faster, and the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. Eventually, the Turkic horsemen galloped to the front, then turned around and intercepted them. The leader was a Pero, a high-ranking Turkic official equivalent to a governor. Pelole stopped his crotch and sneered: "Want to run? It's not that easy. ”

Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were both captured and returned to the Turkic Khan's court. Shibi decided that they had defected and ordered them to be beheaded.

The overseer is that Ye Hu. Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were taken to the execution ground, surrounded by Turkic soldiers armed with weapons. The lead clouds hung low, the north wind whimpered, and there was a murderous atmosphere between heaven and earth. There was a slashing machine on the execution ground. The Waist Cutter is a mechanical device like a door frame, and a large, wrought-iron chopping axe is placed on the upper part of the door frame, which is tightened and fastened with hemp rope. There was a groove in the lower part of the door frame on which the prisoner lay down. As long as the hemp rope is cut, hundreds of pounds of iron axes will fall down the chutes on both sides, cutting the prisoner in two.

Liu Wuzhou was beheaded first. Then, Song Jingang was carried by two Turkic soldiers and placed on the waist slasher, his back waist clinging to the dark groove. Eight or nine feet above his eyes was the blade of the axe, which shone with a cold light. Song Jingang had no fear in his heart, he just closed his eyes slightly, and said silently in his heart: "Ruolan, wait for me, I am here for my husband......"

With a wave of Ye Hu's hand, a soldier swung his knife and cut the rope, and the huge chopping axe fell with a roar, cutting Song Jingang's waist in two.

Sadly, two heroes who rebelled at the end of the Sui Dynasty died at the hands of the Turks.

Jinyang City, the house where Li Zhiyun temporarily lives. As soon as Li Zhiyun came out of the hall, he saw Cai Hu and Scarface walking in through the big outer door. As soon as Scarface saw him, he shouted: "King Chu, King Qin is going to hold a Zhujie meeting tomorrow night, I heard that he also asked someone to arrange a play, called, what is it called......"

"King Qin's Broken Array Music." Cai Hu said.

"Yes, yes, it's King Qin's Breaking Array." Scarface said, "I'm going to perform at the Zhujie Conference tomorrow night." ”

"King Qin's Broken Array?" Li Zhiyun read it silently and said, "Is it good-looking?" ”

Cai Hu nodded and said, "I went to see the rehearsal, and it was pretty good." Li Zhiyun thought for a while and said, "What's that?" Let's also rehearse it, and it's called 'King Chu's Great Knife Song'. ”

"It's not as simple as talking," Scarface said, "and we need to find someone who can write music first." ”