CHAPTER XXII
The misunderstanding was resolved, everyone greeted one after another, and when they heard that the other more than 50 warriors had died tragically, they couldn't help but shed tears, facing the west and praying silently. The sound of his chanting was deep and distant, and it came far away in the open field, and it did not disperse for a long time.
After talking with everyone, Wu Shijiu learned that this young man known as Jueru, formerly known as Lingwen of Bully, was the descendant of the last Zampu "Dama" (Yalong King) of the Tubo Dynasty. After Dharma was killed, the clergy and lay forces rose in various places, and the four sides were divided.
Among them, Wen Puqi, the leader of the Hehuang Miaochuan region, and Li Lizun, a monk, dominated one side in Zongge City, and when they heard that the young man Jueru was a true descendant of Zampu, they sent troops to snatch him over and proclaim him as the king.
Arrow slave Ashina Wei is Jueru's attendant and is responsible for protecting his safety.
However, after a long time, Jueru and others gradually discovered that Wen Puqi and Li Lizun were just using the name of Zampu's descendants to give orders everywhere and win over power. Wen Puqi is greedy for money and lustful, and exploits the people, Li Lizun controls the government and politics, is ruthless, and excludes dissidents. Seeing through the truth, Jueru couldn't bear the mercy of the two, so he decided to run away and find another way out. I didn't want the final plan to be revealed, so I was chased and killed by the two.
Wu Shijiu saw that they treated each other with sincerity, did not hide it, and immediately told what happened to him. Knowing that he was tracking down Pan Luozhi and others, Jue Ru said: "As early as a few years ago, Li Lizun had led his troops to control the Six Valleys of Hexi, Pan Luozhi had already died in battle, and the remnants of his troops were defeated and kept secret, and he supported his twin brother Duo Du as the great leader. The Pan Luozhi that Wu Shaoxia saw must be his twin brother, but this person has always claimed that he is Pan Luozhi. ”
Wu Shijiu said: "I can't imagine that there are so many intertwined relationships, this Pan ...... The priest said that he was going to Luosa to complete the marriage, and it seems that the main purpose was to encircle the forces of the other tribes. The Yuwen Nine Bone, who claimed to be the descendants of the Yuwen family, also wanted to use their power to form his own regime. ”
Jueru said: "That's right, but if they want to go to Luosa, they will inevitably pass through the Hehuang region, and they will inevitably visit Wen Puqi." At present, in the entire Hehuang region, only they have the greatest power. If you want to save your sweetheart, you have to stop them there. It's just ......"
"Just what?"
Although Wen Puqi is the leader, the actual military power is in the hands of Li Lizun, he has tens of thousands of cavalry, and recently made friends with a group of Central Plains martial arts people, some of whom are very cruel. ”
Ashina Wei said: "These are not afraid, many of those Hehuang Iron Riders are like me, they were all slaves, and I can mix in with Jueru Zampu in disguise to persuade them." Li Lizun is brutal and unreasonable, and many of the brothers below have long been dissatisfied with him, if I can succeed, we should work together inside and outside, and fight him vigorously together, and help Jueru Zampu to unify Michuan!"
He said it so heroically that everyone else present raised their arms and shouted, "Help Jueru Zampu unify Miaochuan." Wu Shijiu saw that although Ashinawei was not very old, he was old and capable, and he was steady, and he was a rare talent who led the army to fight.
Jueru said: "Before my mother died, I told me that in this life and this life, there are two people who will always follow me, one is my arrow slave brother, the ancestor is the Tang Dynasty town army general Ashina Zhong, the world calls it the Tang Dynasty Jin Riyan, speaking of which is also a famous general. ”
Wu Shijiu remembered that he had read Tang history when he was in college, and knew that Ashina Zhong was a Turkic descendant, who had led an army to attack Goryeo, Dashi and other places, and was brave and good at fighting, and his reputation was far and wide. Unexpectedly, his descendants came to Tibet and became the guardian of Jueru Zanpu, it seems that he was chosen as the seventh spirit, and there is a providence in the underworld.
"Who's the other one?"
"This man's name is Assal, and he holds the secret of my origins, but unfortunately I haven't met him until now. My mother only said that he would definitely save me at a critical moment, perhaps because the time had not yet come. ”
"But anyway, at this juncture, we have to get through it. ”
Several people agreed that Jueru and Ashinawei would first enter the Hehuang Iron Cavalry Barracks to lobby, and Wu Shijiu would wait for an opportunity outside. Everyone marched all the way to the capital of the Michuan tribe in the Hehuang region, "Zongge City". On the way, talking about Wu Shijiu's kung fu, Ashina was full of praise, and he was also very curious about the identity of the peculiar psychic messenger.
At noon the next day, I came to Zongge City.
Zongge City is located in the largest basin of the Huangshui Valley - Xining Basin, the terrain is flat, the water runs through, and the soil is fertile, suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry. As early as the Tang Dynasty, the border general Heiya Changzhi had been cultivated here in Tuntian, and the annual harvest of more than 5 million stone grains and grains was called a treasure land of feng shui.
In recent years, Wen Puqi and Li Li have followed Zampu's orders to Zhufan, which once became the center of political and cultural exchanges in the Hehuang region. Every day, Song, Liao, Western Xia, and Uighur merchants came and went, and there was an endless flow of goods. Wu Shijiu and the others changed into local clothes, put on fur hats, painted their faces black, and dressed up as dusty foot merchants, and a group of dozens of people blended into the city.
In order to conceal their whereabouts, everyone did not go to the post station, but scattered to find a few inns to stay in, and agreed to act at night.
The sky was about to darken, and the last touch of sunset was gone, and Zongge City gradually returned to calm. Ashina Wei found a hundred household chief's clothes for Jueru to wear out of nowhere, and he and a few followers dressed up as sergeants, preparing to go to the barracks of the Hehuang Iron Cavalry to rebel against the sergeants.
Before leaving, Wu Shijiu told that in case of an accident, he would sound the arrow as a signal and rush to support immediately. After they left, they changed into their night clothes and went to the palace alone.
Don't look at Zongge City, which was built not long ago, but the palace was built extremely luxuriously, with hundreds of large and small palaces. Judging from the local production level, Wen Puqi, Li Lizun and others can be regarded as poor and luxurious.
Wu Shijiu avoided the sergeants on the night patrol and came to the main hall with light skills. I listened to the sound of the orchestra and bamboo, and there was the noisy sound of shouting five drinks and six guessing boxing wine, thinking that the palace was holding a feast. He jumped lightly on the roof, lifted a few tiles and looked down, and saw Wen Puqi sitting in the center of the main hall, Li Lizun on the left, and Pan Luozhi's twin brother Tutu on the right.
Look below, there is a dance floor, several dancing girls are dancing, on the left side of the dance floor, Yuwen Jiugu, Hei Yueming, Hu Jinjin and others are seated in turn, these people Wu Shijiu all know, and then look at the right side, I can't help but secretly gasp. It turned out that on this side sat Yin Wuyang and the Four Ungood People.
These people are all the psychological shadows of Wu Shijiu's first foray into the rivers and lakes. In the Tengger Desert, the four unkind people hit Shuangxi and the night, and the four of them almost ate him for the sake of a willow snake gall. Now that I think about it, I still have lingering palpitations, and I don't know how these people got mixed up with Li Lizun and others. Among the people present today, there are two of the three masters, plus the four bad people, the strength is too strong.
He lay on the roof and didn't even dare to come out, but fortunately, the vocal music in the hall was noisy, although there were many top masters, but their attention was attracted by singing, dancing, wine and meat. Wu Shijiu carefully looked at the environment in the hall, but did not find Mrs. Shili and Shuangxixi, thinking that it was probably not suitable for female guests to participate in this kind of flowery and drunken occasion.
Wen Puqi held a huge yak bone in his left hand, gnawed his mouth full of oil, held the wine glass in the other hand, held it high above the top and said: "Today, the heavy blow to bully Nanling Wen, the senior monk has made great contributions." Since then, the descendants of Zampu have been discredited, I don't know what the senior monk plans to do in the future?"
Li Lizun said with a smile: "The so-called Jueru Zampu is just a false name, we say he is, he is, if we say he is not ......"
As he spoke, he waved his hand at the samurai below, and two samurai entered the main hall with a young monk. The young man took three steps and made two steps to climb to the front of the steps and knelt down, kowtowing repeatedly: "Say hello to the big chief, say hello to the holy monk, I wish the big leader and the holy monk good health and eternal life, and always be the overlord of the river." ”
Wu Shijiu saw it really clearly, the young man's body and appearance were eight or nine points similar to Jueru, but his expression was smooth and obscene, and his temperament was far from Jueru.
Li Lizun picked up a piece of meat on the table with a knife and handed it forward: "Reward you." ”
The young man was ecstatic, climbed up the steps with his hands and feet, opened his mouth to bite the piece of meat, Li Lizun deliberately picked up, the young man bit into the air, and then stretched his neck to bite the meat, Li Lizun took the knife and shook it left and right, teasing enough, and then fed the meat to his mouth.
"I ask you, who are you?"
The young man hurriedly swallowed the piece of meat, stood up and cleared his throat, imitating Jueru's tone and said, "I am the descendant of the last Zampu and Yalong King Dama in Tubo, bullying Nanling Wen. ”
Wen Puqi squirted out a sip of wine, and smiled backwards: "Okay, good, it's really like it, I will make a credit to you today, come here, give him this plate of meat on my table, and take a pot of good wine." ”
The young man hurriedly bowed down, knocked his head three times, kept flattering words in his mouth, slapped a sycophant, and trotted out of the hall with wine and meat in his arms, Li Lizun and the others laughed wildly.
After laughing for a while, Wen Puqi said: "In recent years, the senior monk has led troops to pacify the Hehuang region, destroyed the Liugu Department, built Zongge City in this fertile and beautiful place, and unified Tibet in the future, so even if the Song Dynasty doesn't say it, he should admit our identity and status in his heart, right?"
The priest said busily: "What the great leader and the senior monk said is very true, and the Liugu Department is willing to obey the dispatch in the future. ”
Li Lizun smiled: "Are you just following the dispatch? I heard that during this trip to the Central Plains, Lao Pan asked the Song Court for a lot of benefits?"
The Duo Governor's face changed, he hurriedly got up and left his seat, and knelt down on one leg at Li Lizun and said: "In front of the senior monk, the Duo Governor no longer dares to call himself an elder brother, and the senior monk calls me by my name." As for the New Year's coins that were begged, the priest was willing to give them in full and pay homage to the great leaders and monks. ”
As soon as he said this, Li Lizun laughed and said happily: "Governor Hurry up, in the future, you and I will be single-minded, are you still worried that the various departments of Tubo are not unified?"
Wu Shijiu saw that the Duo Governor had changed his usual arrogance, and was as obedient as a kitten and a puppy in front of Li Lizun, thinking that these people would rather disregard their dignity and face for their own interests, and Yuwen Jiugu and those people were all the way. It's just that Yuwen Jiugu wants to cling to him this time, and it seems that he has miscalculated.
Sure enough, after listening to their conversation, Yuwen Jiugu looked displeased and lowered his head silently, estimating that he was quickly calculating in his mind how to climb Li Lizun's backer again.
At this time, the four unkind people suddenly shouted loudly, and a figure quickly stepped up the steps and went straight to Li Lizun. It turned out to be a dancer in the center of the dance floor, who was leading the dance, suddenly drew her short sword and was about to step forward to stab.
This blow happened suddenly, and the dancing girl was not slow, and it was too late for the samurai on both sides to stop it. Li Lizun didn't dodge or dodge, and looked at the dancing girl who rushed up with a sneer. Suddenly, a black shadow flashed, and the dancing girl was strangled by the neck and held high, and the short sword in her hand was also taken away. The person who made the shot was none other than yin and yang.
Li Lizun sneered: "Senior brother, if you let her down, I want to see what else she is capable of." ”
Wu Shijiu was lying on the roof, his vision was blocked, and he couldn't see the appearance of the dancing girl clearly, listening to Li Lizun call Yin Wuyang "senior brother", he thought to himself, it turned out that these two people were brothers in the same door, this is really who entered what door, it seems that their master is not a famous and decent person.
Yin Wuyang threw the dancing girl on the ground, and said lightly: "It's been a long time since I've been a water leopard to drive away corpses, and this little girl's skin is a good candidate." ”
With a faint sentence, Wu Shijiu couldn't help but get up when he heard it, and remembered the means of killing Niu Ling when he was yin and yang, when the Pingliang Biao cavalry camp was almost wiped out by him.
Li Lizun stood up, slowly walked to the side of the dancing girl, picked up the short sword and said with a smile: "Senior brother, why are you in a hurry to be a water leopard, this girl is the eldest princess of the Immobile Tribe, and she can be regarded as the best in the world, Senior Brother may as well enjoy it first tonight?" Hahahaha, I didn't move Zijin, I was chosen by my senior brother, that is your blessing." ”
He lay on the ground, his eyes were almost on fire, and he said hatefully: "Demon monk, you destroy my Liangzhou tribe and kill my brother and father, and today it will fall into your hands, if you want to kill it, you have to listen to it, even if I die, I have to pray to the immortal heaven, let me turn into a ghost, and drag you to the eightfold hell......"
Before she finished speaking, she was suddenly pinched by Li Lizun's face, and with a force of her hand, she dislocated her mandible, and in a flash of cold light, she actually cut off her tongue. Then he shot like the wind and clicked a few acupoints to prevent her from passing out. Then Li Lizun kicked her down the steps and rolled onto the dance floor. When the rest of the dancing girls saw it, they all knelt on the ground and trembled, how dare they step forward to help.
"Just because you also want to take revenge? It's really a big joke in the world, I, Li Lizun, swept the Liugu Department and washed Liangzhou City in blood, which one have you been afraid of? You are a small immobile tribe, crushing you is like crushing a group of ants. Someone, drag her down and clean it, and hand her over to my senior brother to send it down. ”
Zijin was kicked off the dance floor, lying on his back, blood kept flowing from his mouth, and all the people present laughed with Li Lizun, only one person secretly let out an exclamation, it was Wu Shijiu who was hiding on the top of the hall.
"Nalan Chunni, why is she here?"