Chapter 40: The Uighur Princess
Hu Zhenbang said: "You have killed so many people, it is said that you should have killed all of you to atone for the crime, now your boss and second child are dead, and a few others have also been killed and injured by our people, those people also deserve it, now I don't want to kill you again, the two sides should offset the sin, you quickly bury the corpses well, and from then on, they are not allowed to do this murderous and oversold business in the future!"
The third robber hurriedly said: "Grandpa is right, grandpa is right!" After that, he raised his body and said to the dozen or so minions who had not escaped: "Have you heard it, quickly bury the body for me, and return the looted property, mules and horses to them." ”
Hu Zhenbang saw that the minions did what they said, so he asked the third bandit to direct everyone to do things, and asked them to bury the dead people in the traveler's mule and horse team first. Suddenly, I thought that the guide Sando had never seen it, if he hadn't found him, how could he get out of this Tibetan land, it had been delayed for a long time, I was afraid that the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" had already arrived in Li Yuanhao's hands.
Seeing Mu Hanyi gesturing to herself, Hagul nodded and said, "Thank you, sister, I'll go and clean up my clothes." Speaking Chinese, Mu Hanyi said: "She obviously understands Chinese, why did she ask her before, she didn't answer anything." ”
Hagul leaned down first and pulled out the dagger that had been inserted into the bandit's corpse, wiped it clean, and inserted it into the scabbard at his waist.
Mu Hanyi saw that the dagger was about seven inches long, and it was cold under the reflection of the firelight, and the handle of the knife seemed to be inlaid with a ruby and a sapphire, which was obviously a treasure.
Haguli thanked Mu Hanyi again: "Please wait a while, sister." Then he turned and walked into the tent.
Mu Hanyi saw her enter the tent, and it was inconvenient to follow her in. I looked over there, but saw that some of the dozen minions who had not escaped extinguished the tent fire, some carried the wounded, some dug pits to bury the dead bodies, and some piled up all the goods and baggage that had been robbed before, so that the people in the mule and horse team could claim them, and it was obvious that Hu Zhenbang had subdued the leader of this group of bandits, and he unconsciously had some admiration for Hu Zhenbang in his heart.
Hu Zhenbang arranged for everyone to divide the work and stop, thinking that the mount had been stabbed by the bandit boss and that it had to be healed, so he took the gold sore medicine from his bosom and gave it to the horse. Fortunately, the horse's skin was rough, and the stabbing part was the hind buttocks, and the injury was not serious, Hu Zhenbang was heartbroken for the horse, and slowly walked around the tents, paying attention to it while walking, but there was still no trace of Sando.
Hu Zhenbang even asked several fellow travelers, and when the bandits attacked, everyone fled in all directions, and they didn't look around, and they never saw Sando.
Mu Hanyi waited outside the tent for a while, but didn't see Hagul come out, and called twice, but no one answered inside. She dismounted and galloped into the tent, only to see that the cloth behind the tent had been cut with a knife, and Hagul had disappeared.
Mu Hanyi secretly blamed himself for being careless, and hurriedly chased out of the tent, only to see that less than a zhang away behind the tent, the terrain was slightly downward, in the form of a big slope, if people slipped out quietly from behind, it was extremely difficult to find by taking advantage of the terrain cover.
At that time, the snow had been falling heavily for several hours, and the ground was several inches of snow, and by the light of the fire and the shimmer of the snow, two rows of messy footprints could be faintly seen, stretching straight into the distance.
Mu Hanyi secretly said that it was not good, it was obvious that someone had kidnapped Hagul. He ran out of the tent at the moment, jumped to the door, turned his horse and chased in that direction.
Chased about ten zhang, then saw two black dots not far in front of them are moving slowly, when chasing close, I saw two people, one of them is Haguli, the other person is not very real, but the figure looks like a man, look at this situation, it is the man who dragged Haguli forward.
Hagul heard the sound of horses' hooves near, and knew that someone was chasing her, and when she turned back to call for help, she was grabbed by the man, and a sharp sword in his hand was aimed at her throat.
Mu Hanyi had already found out that Hagul was coerced by this man, and shouted: "The person in front of you stood up and let her go!"
Seeing that he could no longer escape, the man holding Haguli turned around sharply, pointed his sword at Haguli, and said, "Take another step, and I will kill her!"
Mu Hanyi was a little familiar when he heard this voice, and when he carefully discerned it through the faint light of the snowy night, he was surprised, wasn't this the guide named Dosang!"Why are you? Why are you holding her hostage?"
"Won't I take her with me and stop being your guide?" said Sando.
Haguri was about to speak, but was forced by the sword in Sando's hand and couldn't speak. Mu Hanyi saw that the dagger that Haguli used to defend himself and kill the enemy had been taken away by Sandor and inserted in his waist.
Mu Hanyi said: "It wasn't that we forced you to be our guide at the beginning, you have to go and go, why do you have to coerce her to go?"
Sando "hehe" sneered: "Don't you know me, you two are good at martial arts, it turns out that you have no good intentions in the morning, and you want to kidnap her and give her to Li Yuanhao, so that you can receive the reward!"
Haguli was shocked when she heard this, and looked at Mu Hanyi, although it was in the dark night, her eyes were still burning like stars, and there was some panic and doubt in her eyes. When Mu Hanyi saw her like this, she was expected to be provoked by this Sando words, and she was suspicious in her heart, suspecting that she and Hu Zhenbang were really villains who wanted to kidnap her and dedicate her to the monarch of Western Xia.
At that moment, he hurriedly waved his hand at Haguli and said: "You don't want to listen to his nonsense, the two of us don't recognize you, and we have never wanted to kidnap you, let alone go to Western Xia, we just went to Qingtang City, why did he coerce you to escape?"
Haguli was shocked and wanted to answer Mu Hanyi, but was forced by the sword in Sando's hand and couldn't speak.
Suddenly, a voice said: "Uncle Sando, the two of us only met you occasionally on the way, but we didn't have any bad intentions, and you repeatedly kept you that day, saying that if you don't go with you, it will be difficult to get out of this Tibetan land, why don't you remember?"
When Mu Hanyi looked back, it turned out that Hu Zhenbang was holding the mount and slowly approaching, still a few feet away from here, but his voice seemed to be in his ears. It turned out that Hu Zhenbang looked for Sando and didn't see it, so he paid attention to it everywhere, and used the "Bat Listening Skill" to listen to the movements of the four places, but when he heard what Sando said to Mu Hanyi, he came in this direction, and performed the technique of "transmitting sound into the secret", and sent the sound clearly into the ears of several of them.
Mu Hanyi saw that his question was on point, and he also asked at the moment: "Uncle Sando, we just asked you to point out the direction that day, but you refused to point it out, and you didn't let us follow you, you won't forget, right?
Sando smiled and said, "No matter what you say, in short, everyone will go their own way, you don't have to follow me, we will go our way." Don't be treacherous and slippery, if there is a secret weapon attacking me, as long as I give it away, I will immediately call this flower-like Xixia princess Xiang Xiaoyu to death. ”
Mu Hanyi, Hu Zhenbang, including this Hagul, were shocked when they heard his words.
Mu Hanyi and Hu Zhenbang were shocked because they never thought that this masked and beautiful woman Haguli was actually the princess of Western Xia and the daughter of Li Yuanhao! No wonder Na Sando said with the heart of a villain that they had bad intentions and wanted to take her captive and sacrifice her to Li Yuanhao. But if Haguli was really the princess of Xixia, how could she not stay in the Xixia Palace, but appear alone in the border area with a treacherous environment? At this moment, a thousand and ten thousand questions flashed in their hearts, and each of them was difficult to solve.
But what surprised Nahagul was that since she joined the traveler's ranks, she had not revealed her true identity to anyone, but how did Sando know her true identity? She had always claimed to outsiders that she was called Haguli and that she had gone to the Uighurs to visit relatives, and in order to let everyone not doubt her identity, she also took the initiative to sing the love songs of the Tubo people in the Tubo language accompanied by the sound of Sando's dongbula piano. Who would have thought that this Sando would still see through his identity?
It turns out that Hagul is not her real name, her real name is Ayimu, she is indeed a princess, but her real identity should be a Uighur princess. As for the title of "Princess of Western Xia", it was only announced by Li Yuanhao to the outside world, because she was not Li Yuanhao's biological daughter.
Li Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia with a heart for hegemony, fought everywhere, and three years ago, during a campaign against the Uighurs, he accidentally found Ayimu in the captured city of Ganzhou. Because of the attraction of her stunning beauty, he took her to Western Xia at all costs, intending to take her for himself, if it weren't for Ayimu's death, coupled with the strong opposition of Li Yuanhao's eight wives, ordinary women would have been submissive to the king of Western Xia because of their greed for glory and preciousness.
Ayimu lived in seclusion in the palace of Western Xia for three years. In the past three years, in addition to conquest and war, Li Yuanhao has been thinking of ways to curry favor with this beautiful woman who has been captured from the Uighurs.
He piled up countless gold and silver riches, silk and satin, including countless rubies, sapphires, and Persian greenstones snatched from the Silk Road, in front of this Ayim, but she did not even look at them.
Li Yuanhao was greatly surprised, he always thought that no matter how beautiful and arrogant women were, in the face of countless gold and silver wealth in this life, they would bow their high heads. But this time, he miscalculated, and it is no wonder that he did not know the true identity of this alien woman with a strong will, but the daughter of the Uighur king of Ganzhou, a noble and unyielding Uighur princess.
But one day, she took something from the many treasures and booty that were piled up in front of her, a dagger inlaid with sapphires and rubies, which she recognized, and this dagger had a name, called "Tihiphon", which means "goddess of revenge", and this dagger, which was originally of the Uighurs, to be exact, of her father, Akmu, king of Ganzhou, and she took it, looking forward to the day when she would slash her enemies and avenge her father and her people.
Li Yuanhao, the cruel and absurd king of Western Xia, soon lost patience with her, so he called Ayimu his princess, and outsiders did not know whether he had a princess or not, how many princesses there were, because outsiders knew that he had eight wives, and countless beauties taken from foreign tribes, and no one could tell who was whose child. Besides, what Li Yuanhao said is the royal law of Western Xia, who can question it, and who dares to question it.