Li Yuanhao, who fought everywhere, always suffered a big loss in the battle with the Song army, which made him very annoyed, and at this time, he heard that the Song people had a strange book called "Wujing General Essentials", and it was rumored all over the world: "Those who get this book will win the world." ”

I also heard that most of the essence of the upper part of this strange book fell into the hands of the Khitans, and the other part was stolen by the Jurchens. Now, all forces, including the Song people, are trying their best to find these books that have been left behind, and he who wants to be the overlord of the Western Regions is naturally no exception, but he feels that he has no way to start for a while.

It just so happened that a year ago, when the prince of Tibet, Wangqinde, was on an envoy to Western Xia, he accidentally saw Ayimu, and just glanced at it from a distance, and he began to forget it. After returning to Tibet, the prince did not think about tea and dinner, was bedridden, and committed the disease of lovesickness. After several rounds, the king of Tubo personally wrote a letter to Li Yuanhao, in which he first mentioned the threat of the two powerful states of Liao and Song, and then put forward the crown of being willing to make friends with each other in order to enable Tubo and Western Xia to compete with the two great powers, and suggested that they should form a family with each other and jointly deal with the threat of Liao and Song.

Although Li Yuanhao is rough, his mind is extremely shrewd and delicate, and when he looks at this letter, he doesn't know what it means, knowing that the king of Tubo said it well, and what is joining forces to engage in the Liao and Song dynasties, these are all excuses, but he just wants to act as a matchmaker for Prince Wangqinde.

Thinking about sending the stunning woman he had captured to another country, he was a little reluctant in his heart. However, he thought about it again and again, and his desire to dominate the Western Regions quickly overcame his possession of beauty, besides, this Ayimu is simply an ice beauty, no matter how much he pleases her, he will only make himself touch a nose in the end, Li Yuanhao believes that even if he moves the sun in front of her, he can't bake her frozen heart. He was really disheartened, too.

Now that you have such an opportunity, why not take the opportunity to make some requests. So he proposed to the king of Tubo that it would not be difficult for the two countries to marry, and he only needed to use the twelve volumes of "Wujing General Essentials" that were currently in the hands of the Liao people as a dowry, and he could marry the "Xixia princess".

Li Yuanhao firmly believes that with the help of this strange book, even if he can't get the whole world, at least most of the world in the Western Regions will become his Li family's dynasty, and his Li Yuanhao's name will be forever recorded in history.

Ayimu was confined in the Xixia Palace for three years, and was never moved by Li Yuanhao's soft and hard coercion and temptation, and the dagger left by his father did not leave his body day and night, looking forward to one day killing his father's enemy, but although Li Yuanhao was absurd and cruel, after all, he was also strategic, martial, and brave, and there were many guards around him, so he had not found the slightest chance to take revenge in the past three years.

In fact, if she wants to pretend to be obedient and curry favor with Li Yuanhao, she will have the opportunity to get close to Li Yuanhao, and it is not impossible to wait for the opportunity to take revenge at that time, but Ayimu is strong by nature and refuses to make a flattering gesture of flattery and submission, so naturally she will not be able to find the slightest opportunity.

On this day, the palace maid who served her, Zina, suddenly came to tell her the news that she was about to come out, because the king of Western Xia had married her to the Tibetan prince Wang Qinde. In three months, the king of Western Xia will hold a grand banquet and marry her to Tibet.

When Ayimu heard the news, he didn't feel the slightest joy, but his heart became even heavier. Before his father's revenge was avenged, he was sold as an object. This is definitely not what she wants to see. On the contrary, she is confined in this Western Summer Palace, and one day she will have the opportunity to avenge her father's death.

After much deliberation, she finally came up with a plan. So from that day on, she began to eat well, dress herself carefully, and from time to time pick out some jewels, jade and agate, declaring that she would prepare well to be the crown princess of Tibet.

When Li Yuanhao saw her like this, he thought that she had changed her mind, and he was happy and hateful in his heart, and he was happy that this woman seemed to be finally moved by vanity, and in order to be the crown princess of Tibet, she was still attracted by these worldly treasures. What I hate is why I treated him like this at the beginning, but I was so cold to myself, and I forced him to die from time to time.

But the edict has been issued, and after three months, the "Western Xia Princess" Ayimu will become the crown princess of Tubo, and he naturally cannot take back his fate.

Only Zina, who specializes in serving the "Princess of Xixia", understands Ayimu's thoughts, because she is also a hard-working woman who was taken into the palace by Li Yuanhao's subordinates, and she became a slave because of her flexible hands and feet. Coincidentally, she was also from the Uighur tribe, and the sympathy for the same disease and the affection of the same tribe made the two quickly become like sisters.

Looking at the princess's depressed expression, Zina was also heartbroken. After three years of companionship day and night, the two of them have endless same-race affection and sisterhood, and this time, she finally made up her mind to do one thing for Ayimu, to complete an adventurous action that she did not dare to complete, and she wanted to help Ayimu escape from the palace.

Since then, Ayimu has behaved extremely obediently to the king's orders, grooming his makeup every day, dressing up carefully, and eating on time. All this made Li Yuanhao relax his vigilance against her, making him believe that this captive woman was relieved to accept her fate and plan to be her princess of Tubo.

The Xixia people believe in Buddhism, extremely religious, and there are more than 100 temples and pagodas built in Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xixia. In the event of a drought, there was no rain for 100 days in Western Xia, so Ayimu proposed to go to the Jietan Temple, Gaotai Temple, Chengtian Temple, Haibao Temple, Baoqing Temple and other places outside the palace to pray for rain and blessings for the people of Xixia and Western Xia.

At the beginning, Li Yuanhao was quite precautionary, and personally brought a large number of guards to accompany him to various temples to worship the Buddha and pray, and over time, there were fewer people to accompany him. In the end, because Li Yuanhao was keen on his ambition and hegemony, he spent most of his time fighting abroad, and he had no time to take care of these Buddha prayers, so he let Ayimu and his entourage leave the palace alone.

After experiencing it a few times, Li Yuanhao became accustomed to it, and he preferred to believe that the current Ayimu is like a parrot that has been locked in a cage for a long time, even if he opens the cage, he will not think of flying away.

The opportunity has finally arrived. When the kind maid Zina accompanied Ayimu to pray in the temple, she quietly handed over a large amount of incense money to the kind monk in the temple, entrusted him to buy a horse, and handed him the luggage and baggage that was secretly carried out under the incense offerings, and taught him to wait outside the backyard wall.

"Princess, go back to your homeland and never set foot on this land of blood and lust again. In the Ring Altar Temple, Zina tearfully said goodbye to the Uighur princess, who had been with her for three years.

"Zina, you come with me, if you return to the palace, you will die. The Uighur princess's big eyes were filled with tears of reluctance.

"Princess, you can go with confidence. I'll go with you, and I'll be discovered by them soon, and now that I'm back in the palace, I can delay a little time, so you can go quickly! You won't be able to leave when it's late! Remember not to take the Hexi Corridor, that area is all controlled by Li Yuanhao, and you must make a detour from the Tibetan steppe. ”

"But Zina, my good sister, I, I can't teach you to die for me. Ayimu's tears finally couldn't bear the sadness of parting, like pearls with broken threads rolling down.

Zina wiped Ayimu's tears with a soft goose yellow silk handkerchief, gently put the silk into the princess's hand and said: "Your Majesty Princess, be worshiped by the slave and maid again, this silk handkerchief, please take it with you, if you think of the slave and maid, take it out and take a look." ”

Suddenly, I heard several bells ringing, and the monks of the Jietan Temple chanted the Buddha in unison, and the sound of announcing the Buddha accompanied the bell to the backyard.

"It's not early, princess, let's go!" Zina stood up, pushed open the small door in the backyard of the temple, and said: "Go out from here, turn right a few zhang, and you will see a green horse tied under a poplar tree, and a monk of the temple will hand over the burden to you, along the way, you will go southwest, remember not to stop, until you have passed the west of Sichuan, and then turn to Tibet." ”

Along the way, Ayimu spurred the horses to run and run, she just wanted to leave this disgusted land as soon as possible, the land of plunder, where every inch of land was soaked in the blood of aliens.

The wind whistled past her ears, how many days she had been running, how many miles she had walked, she didn't remember herself, only that she kept on the road, day and night, she was almost indistinguishable. Fortunately, there were no pursuers along the way, and there were no dangerous rogues and ferocious beasts.

Finally, on this day, after crossing a large canyon, crossing several winding mountain roads, and wading through a stream, she suddenly saw a grassland, and with joy, she suddenly felt a tightness in her chest, and fainted by the stream.

The person who rescued her was Sando, who was working as a guide in the Tibetan steppe. Sando was resting nearby with a group of travelers. He went to the stream to scoop water, but accidentally found Ayimu.

From the dagger on Ayimu's waist, he guessed a little bit of Ayimu's identity, and knew that she was very likely to come from a prestigious and powerful family.

Sandor poured some water on Ayimu's face, woke her up, and gave her some yak jerky to eat, and when she regained her spirits, he asked her where she came from. Ayimu saw that the old man in front of her did not look like a bad person, but she still kept an eye on him and told him: "Kind old man, I am Haguli, and I am going to visit my aunt in the Uighurs, but I have lost my way. ”

"Beautiful girl, the road you are going to have to go through all kinds of hardships and dangers, if you can trust me, please follow me, my guide for many years, to the Qingtang City of Tibet and the Ganzhou of the Uighurs. Sandor smiled and said to the Uighur woman in front of him.

Ayimu felt that he was lucky to meet a kind old man, and nodded with a smile and agreed: "Thank you for your help, may the gods and Buddhas bless you with a long life." ”

"In order to prevent shameless lust and ill-intentioned villains, girl, please veil your beautiful face, and I must be responsible for your safety along the way. ”

In this way, Ayimu followed Sando's travelers on his way to the Tibetan city of Qingtang and the Uighurs.

Along the way, Sando's team was joined by lost or scattered travelers, all sorts of travelers. That night, Sando couldn't sleep, and suddenly heard two Western Xia lamas talking in the western tent.

"Fortunately, we are a Tibetan Buddhist monastery and have not been affected. I heard that all the monks in the Jietan Temple were killed. "Let's go first.

Another slightly hoarse voice said: "The escape of this beautiful princess of Xixia has made Li Yuanhao so angry, even the monks of the Buddhist temple have gone to do it in the afternoon, are they not afraid of the Bodhisattva's guilt? Alas, it shows that this red face can really captivate the city and the country." ”

"Hey, senior brother, do you think this Xixia princess is really so beautiful? Let this Xixia king Li Yuanhao beg for three years?"

The hoarse voice said: "Little rabbit cub, don't move your mortal heart, but then again, it is said that this Xixia princess is extremely beautiful, especially those eyes, everyone who sees it, the soul has been taken!"

The first one "hehe" smiled and said, "Senior brother, those beautiful eyes, are they so powerful?" When I read what you said, Senior Brother, all the laughter came out!" Then the two of them laughed and laughed.

When Sandor heard this, he suddenly thought of Haguli, who had joined the team not long ago, this woman was not only as beautiful as a fairy, but also those eyes, those eyes, weren't they just the ones that looked like a dementor. When I saw it for the first time, my heart was moved.

Then she thought that the dagger tied to her waist was obviously a royal treasure, especially the sapphire and rubies on it, which were by no means ordinary. Could it be that Haguli is what they call the "princess of Western Xia"?

Listening to what the two lamas and monks said, it should be that Princess Naxixia escaped with the help of the monks in the temple, which caused Li Yuanhao to be angry and actually killed all the monks in the temple!

A change of thought: "Li Yuanhao is so brutal, which also shows how important this Xixia princess is in the eyes of Li Yuanhao, the monarch of Xixia, if she can get it back, I don't know how happy she will be, and if you think about it, you should want any reward, just have any reward." ”

The next day, Sando remained quiet, leading the travelers on the road during the day and staying overnight, as usual. Fortunately, the two new lamas did not notice Haguli, and even if they saw it, they did not expect that the "Princess of Western Xia" would be mixed with this traveling procession.

On the contrary, he himself secretly watched Hagul, but saw that she was a loner, and hardly communicated with other travelers. A few more times, when I saw her alone in front of a piece of goose yellow silk and fixed her mind, I became more and more suspicious that she was the "princess of Western Xia" in the mouths of the two lamas and brothers.