CH.12 Going ashore
A small fishing boat with a canopy sailed to the Jurchen shore. The people on the boat have long since lost count of how long the sea route has been. Look at the rising moon, the Jurchen soldiers wearing fur hats on the shore are lining up in a squad, obviously waiting for him.
He got off the boat, took off the straw hat on his head, removed the official seal from his waist, and handed it to the Jurchen soldiers in front of him. The Jurchen soldier turned around and held it to a strong man behind him. Look at his age, about forty or fifty years old, with his eyebrows connected and his beard on his mouth. They spoke in Jurchen for a long time, and after that, the strong man walked up to him and said deeply: "Your Excellency is the envoy Zhao Yixi sent by Lord Zhao Lianghe?"
Zhao Yi thought to himself, this person originally knew Chinese, and he must be a high-ranking Jurchen official, so he was also busy saying: "It's exactly below." Your countryโ" As soon as the word "country" came out, the strong man suddenly pinched his left hand on his right shoulder. Zhao Yi only felt pain in his right shoulder, and the air around him was hot, as if there was sword qi rubbing. He wasn't a sword monk, but he knew a thing or two.
The strong man's hands strengthened, and the air became hotter. He saw that Zhao Yi's face was still calm, and he didn't react to the pain at all, but the strange thing was that this person didn't have a kendo cultivation. He understood that this person was holding on with all his perseverance, and he couldn't help but admire the Song envoy in front of him from the bottom of his heart, and began to look at him with admiration. As the saying goes, the bones of the Song people are as soft as dogs, and when I see them today, I know that rumors cannot be believed, otherwise they will have to mislead the country. The huge Song Dynasty is full of soft bones, how can it not fall quickly? At present, although the Song Dynasty is in decline, its prosperity is still enviable. He hurriedly withdrew his hand.
His move originally had two intentions: one was to see if this person was the real Zhao Yi, if it wasn't Zhao Yi, test his sword cultivation, and when he was exposed, he could also have sufficient plans. The second is to take the opportunity to humiliate Song Guo. If he is the true Zhao Yi, he will let him suffer some flesh and skin in advance before meeting the wolf master, and he can also know how powerful the eldest girl is. Although it is now nominally an alliance, it always means more for the Song State to ask for help, not only because the Song State is weak in strength and faces enemies on all sides, but also because the Song State has sent envoys to repair it many times, only because of the border battle, entangled with the Western Xia Liao State and other countries, so it has been shirked so far. Now that the Song envoy has come, he lives under the eaves of others, and there is a saying that "people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads", so they gave Song Guo a color to take a look at first, so that he could understand the principles of the monarch and the minister.
But from this shape, it seems that an envoy without sword cultivation dared to break into a foreign country alone, and he did not have the slightest fear in the face of difficulties that could not be less than a sea of swords. As a welcome courtesy, he didn't dare to underestimate Song Guo.
He nodded and said in Chinese: "Lord Xiao Zhao, forgive me, I am a welcome envoy in Xia Huang Han Hongzhu, and I really don't want to surprise Your Excellency, but because the killer of the Liao Kingdom is too cunning, I have to guard against it." โ
"Lord Huang Han is talking about the Yishui trio?"
Huang Han Hongzhu glanced left and right, cautiously pasted it in front of Zhao Yi, and said: "Lord Xiao Zhao doesn't know, in order to suppress our Jurchen tribe, Liao Gou did not hesitate to assassinate all kinds of officials and envoys of the Contempt Country, and even our wolf master-" Speaking of this, he paused, his eyes picked slightly, and Zhao Yi understood where the joints were.
If you want to say why Huang Hanhong Zhu said so many irrelevant words to the Song envoy, it is because he has a faint affection for the Song Kingdom. His mother was a native of Huzhou, Jiangnan in the Song Dynasty, and took refuge in Liaodong, where he met his father, General Huang Han. Now that his parents have been immortal for many years, he is alone in Liaodong, and he begins to miss his distant homeland, so he is not too bad for the visitors of the Song Dynasty, at least much better than other Jurchens who are officials in the same dynasty.
Because he is half of the Han blood, he still knows a little about the past of the Han people. Now that Song Guo is in such a situation, he is also resentful.
Zhao Yi just looked at Huang Han's kind face, faintly with the shadow of a Han person, but he didn't know such an inside story.
"Lord Xiao Zhao, it's late today, for the sake of safety, you and I will stay at this post station first. Early tomorrow morning, we will go to Dujing again. โ
Zhao Yi smiled and nodded, looking at the shape of this Jurchen, it was not all barbaric. It is a completely civilized scene, and it seems to be no different from the Song Dynasty.
Immediately, two groups of soldiers came to the crowd, carrying a large sedan chair. Huang Han said "please" and climbed on the top himself. Zhao Yi immediately got on the sedan chair, lowered the sedan curtain, heard the Jurchen soldiers' Jurchen words, and the sedan chair began to bump and rise and fall to the north. Zhao Yi has been walking for a long time, and he is already sleepy. Coupled with the little episode just now, the nervous heart suddenly relaxed, so as soon as he boarded the sedan chair, he leaned against the window and fell asleep in a daze.
When he heard Huang Han's voice again, he saw that Huang Han was waiting for him to get off the sedan chair in addition to the sedan curtain.
"Lord Xiao Zhao must be very tired of working hard for the country. The monarch also prepared some hospitality for adults, I don't know Lord Xiao Zhao-" Huang Han deliberately said that it was the monarch's hospitality, but in fact, the wolf lord Wanyan Aguda did not give special instructions, only said "Let him do it". Huang Han didn't want to lose his etiquette, nor did he want to neglect this upright envoy of the Song Kingdom, so he prepared a grand reception. But seeing that Zhao Yi's face was full of tiredness, and it was difficult to force it, he had to wait slowly for him to reply at this moment.
Zhao Yi apologized: "It's rude." It's really insulting to the country. The road is very urgent, and on the water road, I don't know how long I walked, and then I had a little rest. โ
Huang Han smiled: "Human nature, you might as well." โ
When Zhao Yi heard that it was personally arranged by Wanyan Aguta, he didn't dare to refuse, but only treated him as a national courtesy. He straightened his clothes and replied: "There is Lao Guiguo to entertain, I am annoyed by Lord Huanghan." He wanted to talk about the monarch, but he felt that he had lost the face of the country. Although the situation in the Song Dynasty is urgent now, and there is a request for the Jurchens, only the Great Song Dynasty of the Celestial Empire is worthy of this monarch.
Huang Han smiled, turned around and led the way. As soon as he clapped his hands, two groups of soldiers with huge silver candles as long as swords stepped forward and lined up in two lanes. Zhao Yi only saw the lights brightly lit and the candlelight connected, which was better than a full moon in the sky. At another round of applause, more than 30 handmaidens, dressed in half-length leather robes and Jurchen women's hairstyles, danced a welcome dance.
Zhao Yi only felt flustered when he saw them showing their snow-white shoulders. The aroma of fat powder on the shoulders slowly spread through the shaking of graceful dancing, and when I sniffed them, when I looked at them again, it was like a goddess descending to earth. The slender jade legs and slender onion tube fingers all made Zhao Yi begin to feel excited.
In the end, it is a person who has seen the world, Zhao Yi began to silently recite the "Diamond Sutra" of Xiao Tong's sub-standard, "For a while, the Buddha is defending the country......
As soon as the Buddha's slogans came together, his heart began to clear.
Huang Han secretly glanced back at Zhao Yi, and clapped his hands meaningfully.