Chapter 88: The Princess (1)
"Who are you?"
The Khitan soldier panicked, obviously didn't understand what was happening, why did this young man stretch out his hand and point, he fell to the ground, unable to move, whether he was a human or a ghost, why would he use demon magic?
Dugu retracted his right foot, squatted down and looked at the Khitan soldiers, and said with a smile: "I ask, you answer, if you don't agree, you will die today." ”
The Khitan soldiers swallowed and foamed, looked at Dugu's face with fear, and thought: "This person must be a legendary ghost, otherwise why is his hair so weird." ”
Dugu Duan saw the frightened expressions of the Khitan soldiers, and said with a smile: "Where are you going?"
After speaking, the Khitan soldier neither replied nor scolded, but just looked at him with straight eyes.
Dugu was stunned for a moment, seeing that the Khitan soldiers still didn't speak, he pondered in his heart, could he torture him again, although there were many means, but he really didn't want to waste time with the soldiers.
Dugu stood up and came to the Khitan soldiers' horses, just to use a means to scare the Khitan soldiers, but found that there was a small light yellow cloth bag on the horse's back, yellow was a symbol of the royal family in ancient times, and no one was allowed to use it, and the package on the Khitan soldier's horse was obviously not his.
When I opened the package, I saw a golden scroll and a fine piece of rice paper. I picked up the golden scroll, opened it, and was stunned.
But it is a holy decree, although Dugu Duan has never seen the holy decree, but when he sees the golden silk and the eye-catching seal, it is obviously a holy decree.
The official official documents of the Liao Dynasty, the imperial edicts, and all the documents of the Central Plains and Western Xia were all written in Chinese. Interpretation and writing of Buddhist scriptures, and examinations of scholars. The poetry and essays of Khitan writers are also in Chinese. The use of large and small Khitan characters. At that time, it was limited to the nobles of the Liao Dynasty, and these people were all proficient in Chinese. Therefore, the use of Khitan characters is actually not widespread, and it is often only engraved on tombstones.
Dugu Duan saw that the holy decree was in Chinese, and immediately glanced at ten lines, and the more he looked at it, the more gloomy his face became, and he already had an idea in his heart.
The holy decree is not long, and the summary sentence is that the eldest princess of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Sage, only fled, and ordered all officials to strictly investigate and find the princess. Then send it back to Shangjing. It's just that why the princess ran away is not explained.
Dugu put down the holy decree, picked up the rice paper and spread it out, his pupils shrank, his gaze was half-loud, and he was silent.
It was a portrait of a woman, just a simple brush sketch, even if the portrait was very simple, but the woman in the painting was like a fairy, stunning and moving. If it's just these solitudes, I don't care at all. But the woman in the painting was in the distance, and he had just finished flirting.
After folding the rice paper, he looked at the Khitan soldier, and said lightly: "As long as you tell me where this holy decree is going to be sent." You're good to go. ”
The Khitan soldiers looked at Dugu for a long time, and at this time they heard what Dugu said and hesitated. When I looked up and saw Dugu's cold eyes, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart. Then he said, "You're really going to let me go!"
Dugu Duan nodded and said flatly: "If I wanted to kill you, I would have killed you a long time ago." Why bother talking nonsense with you. ”
The Khitan soldiers' instinctive fear was alone, so they said: "I'm going to Bazhou to deliver a letter!"
It turned out that a few days ago, after the princess of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Sage, only fled, the maid found that the princess's house was empty, and the eldest princess was missing.
Only there was a letter left on the table, which read: "Father and Emperor are personally enlightened, and the unfilial daughter is respected!", the maid was so frightened that the six gods had no master, and hurriedly took the letter to the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji.
Yelu Hongji opened the letter and saw it, understood everything, was furious, and immediately sent someone to chase it, but Xiao Lian's white horse was extremely fast, and at this time, the night had passed, and Xiao Lian had already run away without a trace.
Hearing the news, Empress Xiao, who rushed to persuade the angry Yelu Hongji, who calmed down, ordered the painter to paint several portraits of the princess, and then wrote down the holy decree. Send several elite knights to the border of the Liao State with the holy decree and portraits, and inform the guards that they must be on strict guard and do not let the princess out of the customs.
Immediately, Yelu Hongji sent someone to inform all the officials of the Liao State that if they found the trace of the princess of the Wei State, they would recover it no matter what.
Yelu Hongji, who was busy with all this, had not yet taken a breath, and thought about how to talk to the Xiao family, when he heard someone report that the king of Chu had been killed.
Yelu Hongji was shocked on the spot, and did not believe it at all, so he hurriedly summoned the three guards who were guarding the city, and listened to them tell what they had witnessed.
After listening to Yelu Hongji, he realized the seriousness of the situation, and he knew a little about those martial arts masters of the Southern Dynasty, Yelu Hongji, those people were lawless, and the king of Chu was defenseless, it was possible to kill him, but later Dugu Duan actually killed dozens of Khitan soldiers, which really made Yelu Hongji unbelievable, and the guards of the king of Chu were all elite.
This is really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, and the ship was late and encountered a head wind.
Yelu Hongji already understood that it was a fact that the king of Chu was dead, no matter how shocking the news was, but it was true.
After rewarding the three Khitan soldiers, Yelu Hongji immediately found the emperor's uncle Yelu Chongyuan, although he didn't want to talk to the emperor's uncle, for fear that he would not be able to bear the pain of losing his son. But Yelu Hongji also understood such an important matter, and he couldn't hide it for long, so he immediately told everything described by the guards guarding the city.
When Yelu Chongyuan saw Yelu Hongji's grief-stricken face, he felt that the sky was falling, and he fell into a coma on the spot, and Yelu Hongji hurriedly called the imperial doctor for treatment.
Yelu Chongyuan, who woke up, immediately gathered soldiers and horses, and vowed to avenge his son, even if he dug three feet into the ground to find Dugu Due, even if he fled to the Southern Dynasty, he had to let Song Guo hand over Dugu Due, otherwise he would not hesitate to fight.
Yelu Chongyuan is just this one son, that is really in his hands for fear of falling, holding it in his mouth for fear of melting, as long as Yelu Nerugu opens his mouth, it is the star in the sky Yelu Chongyuan will find a way to take it off.
Because of this, Yelu Nerugu recently told him that he wanted to rebel, Yelu Chongyuan hesitated, and did not refuse his son, not that he was ambitious, if this was the case, he would have usurped the throne back then, if others told him such a rebellious thing, he would have been cut with a knife, but this person is his son, the person he cherishes the most in his life, so Yelu Chongyuan hesitated.
Seeing that his father was hesitant, Yelu Nerugu returned to the city of Nanjing alone. Yelu Chongyuan never dreamed that this side would become a farewell, and before he could make a choice, his son was already dead, Yelu Chongyuan wanted to say more, and he had agreed.
Yelu Chongyuan hated himself, if he had agreed at that time, he would have 800,000 elites in Daliao, and he would have been able to oppose the guest, and his son would not have to go back to Nanjing.
Yelu Chongyuan felt deep self-reproach, thinking that his son's death had something to do with him, and he was furious and did not listen to anyone's persuasion, so he immediately notified the generals everywhere to dig three feet into the ground to find out Dugu Duan, and issued a wanted warrant, whether it was to catch Dugu Duan or kill Dugu Duan, the civilians were rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold, and the officials were promoted to three levels.
Then he led 200,000 soldiers and horses to Yanjing City. vowed to find out the Dugu thief, even if it was a war with the Great Song Dynasty, he would find Dugu Broken, and then break his body into thousands of pieces, crush his bones and scatter ashes.
Yelu Hongji was also very angry when he heard of his cousin's death, and he was even more worried that Yelu Chongyuan would lose his mind under his anger, so he hurriedly caught up with 100,000 royal forest troops, and the two armies totaled 300,000 elites, rushing to Yanjing City.
Of course, these Khitan heralds didn't know, he didn't dare to stop when he went out of Shangjing, he ran all the way, and he was about to arrive in Bazhou, who expected to encounter such a ghost, the Khitan soldiers never dreamed that the ghost in his eyes also killed the king of Chu, and earth-shattering changes have taken place in Shangjing, and his Majesty the Liao Emperor with hundreds of thousands of troops, running with thunder, is about to arrive in Yanjing City.
"Brother Broken, what's wrong with you?"
Just as Dugu Duan frowned and pondered, a crisp and beautiful voice came from his ears, and when he looked up, he found Xiao Lian standing aside.
Dugu was silent, glanced at the Khitan soldier on the ground, and found that he looked at Xiao Lian in horror, as if he had seen something incredible.
Dugu sighed, the matter finally became clear, he thought that Xiao Lian's identity should not be simple, but he didn't expect her to be the princess of Liao. (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you for the tip from 'Yeonyeon's father'!