Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Wanted
The Ulugu River after the snow is as beautiful as heaven.A layer of fluffy white snow, like a soft woolen carpet, spread to the horizon.The mountains are white, and the trees are also white, white and soft like blooming wild cotton, which makes the whole plateau extraordinarily majestic and broad, as if the soul has been purified and sublimated in this silent smoke.There are only dots of felt bags, and the herd of horses wandering around the felt bags, with some different colors. The air here is also cool and sweet. Close your eyes and take a breath slowly, and the moist and fresh wind will flow straight into your heart, making you feel refreshed.The sun has risen to a height of one pole, and it is still faintly orange, so the light is very soft. Appearing here is not a certain tribe. The well-organized and disciplined army in the surrounding area makes the group of tents in the middle that look like a small tribe look a bit unusual. This is the camp of Liao Emperor Dongshou. Hunting, according to different seasons, is divided into four types: spring hunting, summer seedlings, autumn hunting, and winter hunting, to demonstrate the emperor's martial arts.Although the Khitan people have established a state and changed the nomadic life of "living by water and grass in summer and living in caves in winter", the martial arts in their bones have not disappeared after they settled down. The hobby of hunting has been integrated into their blood. become a part of life. Every year, the emperor goes hunting in winter, not only to show that he will not forget his roots and inherit the legacy of his ancestors, but also to train the physique of the emperor and his army, because their distant ancestors practiced martial arts in such an environment.Therefore, the emperor of the Liao Kingdom controlled the bowl in four seasons, and he was not in Shangjing for more than half a year, but was hunting in various places while dealing with state affairs. However, the previous emperor was not in good health, and since he succeeded to the throne, there has never been a Nabo hunt at all, and the current emperor is young, and it has been six or seven years since the Liao Kingdom added up. .Therefore, this time around the Winter Hunting, it seems extraordinarily grand. In fact, the current emperor is only three or four years old, and he has to be held by others when riding a horse. The small bow he plays is no better than a slingshot. How can he hunt and shoot wolves?However, the Empress Dowager Xiao chose the time for the tributes of various countries to hold the winter hunt, which made them have to follow the praise, which was of great political significance, but no one dared to be negligent. In the morning, we went hunting first. The little emperor sat on the same horse with his mother, Empress Dowager Xiao. He sat in front, with Empress Dowager Xiao holding his waist, shouting excitedly, chasing rabbits, foxes and other prey. , As for his little bow, he couldn't get it out. It was the palace guards who did it, but the little emperor was happier than when he personally shot the prey. Well... To be precise, the little emperor was just playing, and those The emperor's relatives, ministers of various ministries, and envoys of subordinate countries all accompanied the little emperor to play. Abeli, the head of the Huiba Department, caught a fox with fiery red fur and presented it to the little emperor. The Empress Dowager Xiao, who always speaks without words in front of others and is the only one who respects me, loves her son very much, and she immediately agreed to him, and because Abeli made the emperor happy, she specially gave him a precious sword that she carried with her. The Liao Kingdom had four inner tribes and ten outer tribes. The inner tribes included the Nine Accounts Clan of the Yao Nian, the Three Fufang Clans of the Hengzhang, the Yishiji Clan of the Guojiu Zhangboli, and the Guojiu Biebu.The Outer Ten Tribes are ten tribes including Wugu Tribe, Dilie Ba Tribe, and Huiba Tribe. The Outer Ten Tribes could not become a country and were vassalized by the Liao Dynasty. Like the Jumi regime in China, it has certain independent powers, but compared with Shiwei, Jurchen and other tribes that have not yet established a state but have greater freedom, they are more controlled by the Liao people. Seeing that Abeli of the Ministry of Returning to the Postscript coaxed the little emperor to be happy, and even the charming but unsmiling, overly dignified Empress Dowager also smiled, and the other heads of the ministries could not help but secretly hated being preempted , if you want to please the queen mother, you should start with the little emperor. What kind of precious thing can a child like? A small animal is enough to make him happy. Why bother racking his brains like this? Something that made the queen mother tempted. Seeing the slanderous and flattering appearances of the leaders of various tribes, the beggar Mohedu (patriarch) Bayar of the Zub (Shiwei) tribe couldn't help snorting coldly and turned his head away. The little emperor teased the caged Firefox, his little face was flushed red by the cold wind, but he was full of joyful smiles, he stretched out his hand to tease it lightly, the fox opened its mouth to bite, and the little emperor quickly withdrew his hand , giggling. "Mother, take this fox back to the palace, okay? The child really likes it." The little emperor tugged at Empress Dowager Xiao's sleeve and begged. "Okay, the prisoner likes it, then take it back to the palace, but this is not a little rabbit, you can only look at it like this, you can't reach in to tease it, it will bite, you know?" Empress Xiao warmed her son's ingot-like ears with her hands, and agreed with a smile. "Thank you mother, mother is the best." The little emperor was very happy, his eyes that looked like lacquer showed a bit of pride, although the little guy is not old, he knows that he has always begged his mother in such a pitiful tone, and it is rare. There are things she doesn't agree to. "Little guy, can't mother see that you're pretending to be cute?" Empress Xiao smiled dotingly, the sly and complacent flashing in her son's eyes really resembled his father, "Oh...that man... ..." The smile on Empress Xiao's face disappeared, showing a slight sense of depression, just at this moment, Baya Li's cold snort came into her ears, Xiao Chuo glanced at him, smiled faintly, and said: " Bayali, the emperor went on a hunting trip. He had a lot of hunting today. He is very happy. After all, he is still a child. Hehe, but you are not very happy. If there is anything, you might as well tell me about it. A banquet will be held soon. When the food and wine are on the table, we can forget about business." Bayali is a straight person, so he stood up suddenly, and said in a rough voice: "Empress Dowager, Bayali is not very happy, he is very unhappy!" As soon as Bayali said this, the leaders of the ministries around were startled, and some people who had good relations with him were very worried and kept giving him winks, but Bayali ignored it and said loudly: "Mother, Bayali This time, in addition to paying tribute to the court, there is another important event, it's not... not..." He took two heavy breaths, pointed to the fox in the cage, and said, "It's not just playing with the little emperor to play with the rabbit to tease the fox." Xiao Chuo's pretty face sank immediately, she was so cold that she could peel off a layer of frost, she asked in a cold voice: "What else is there?" Bayari said: "In order to usurp the position of patriarch, Rigude, a tribe of our clan, killed his uncle, and betrayed his righteous brother China patriarch, causing him to die tragically. The patriarchs of our Shiwei tribes unanimously decided Crack down on this scum, and as a result, he fled to the Liao Kingdom, and he was sheltered by your Liao King Yelu Daming. This person is the common enemy of all our clans. The reason is to interfere even with this kind of thing.” "Oh? Damien, is there such a thing?" Yelu Daming nodded with a smile and said: "Queen Mother, Bu Ri Gude is indeed in Shangjing. Daming doesn't know what troubles have happened in their clan. This Bu Ri Gu De has always been respectful and docile to me in the Liao Dynasty. He has always been very filial to me. Daming accepted him as his godson. Since he came to vote in trouble, if my godfather handed him over, what would others think? So, Daming took him I left it behind, Queen Mother, do you see this...?" Xiao Chuo smiled: "Oh, if that's the case, there's nothing inappropriate about it." She turned to Bayari and said, "Killing is nothing more than nodding. This Burigud has left his tribe and fled his homeland. What else can he do? Besides, Daming is his adoptive father. You can’t help but say something.” "Ma'am..." "Okay, okay, the banquet will start soon, everyone, let's take a seat." After Xiao Chuo finished speaking, he had already walked towards the tent first, and everyone shouted and hugged, and then left, where Bayali was left behind, his face turned purple with anger.In fact, Xiao Chuo did this for the reason of protecting Yelu Daming's face, but there is a deeper reason. No matter how insidious and despicable this Bu Ri Gude is in the eyes of Shiwei people, he is pro-Liao. However, the discord between the Shiwei and Wei ministries is also in the interests of the Liao Kingdom. How could the Liao Kingdom hand him over?If you do that, who will dare to do things for Liao in the future.In addition, this Bayali has always been not only docile, but Xiao Chuo intentionally neglected him. She is determined to put pressure on several other powerful Shiwei tribes, and drive this Bayari to the point of nowhere, so why give him a good face . At the banquet, there was another disturbance.After three tours of wine and five flavors of food, a king of Liao suggested that all the chiefs of the tribe should perform one by one to help the wine.Their performances are nothing more than singing and dancing. These are things that every man and woman on the grassland can do, but as chiefs and chiefs, they have to respect their own identities. They have not shown these things for a long time. Today is different. Just now everyone knows that the little emperor is still young, so he is playful and active. The leader of the Huiba tribe, Abieli, offered a fox to make the emperor happy. He also took back a treasured sword bestowed by the queen mother. It's so hot, at this time of performance, it's natural to choose something that the little emperor likes.Ever since, these headmen juggled and joked, made funny faces, and performed performances in turn, which made the little emperor overjoyed. When they saw the little emperor happy, their bones became lighter by three points, and they didn't care about their identities. , the entire officialdom of the Daliao Kingdom appeared. When it was Anche Guzhulizhen's turn, it was really difficult for him, he was slanderous and flattering like these people for fun, and he refused to kill him, so he got stubborn, Zhuli really forgot what it was like to be brave, and wanted him to be like Goujian He would rather die with vigor and vigor, and the atmosphere at the banquet suddenly cooled down.In the past, there was a Bai Yali who was ignorant of current affairs, and now there is another Zhu Li who is really arrogant and rebellious, and Xiao Chuo's complexion is not very good-looking. When Shi Fang, the Prime Minister of the North Court, saw him, he hurriedly smoothed things over and said, "The wine is in full swing, and everyone is performing some skills, just to accompany the wine. Zhuli is really not good at singing and dancing, so what can you do?" Zhu Lizhen patted the knife on his waist and said: "We straight women live a hard life. We run around every day to fill our stomachs. How can we learn singing and dancing? We only know how to dance knives and sticks, shoot arrows and hunt wild animals. , ask for food and clothing. Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, and your lords, if you are interested, then Zhuli will really perform the sword technique." When Zhu Lizhen danced with a sword, disasters happened. He didn't know any systematic sword techniques. It was just a simple, direct, and fierce killing that he had honed over many years of fighting, fighting with people and beasts. Kung fu, every time he swung the knife, there was a shout like a thunderbolt accompanied by the momentum of the knife. It looked really mighty, the wind of the knife whizzed, and the sound of thunderbolt made those rough big men dance with joy. But the little emperor Yelu Longxu had never seen such a steel knife flying around him, making loud noises. Judah's sword wielder moved, his cheeks protruded and his eyes protruded, and his expression was ferocious, which made the little emperor cry. It's nothing, although Xiao Chuo was not happy, but he couldn't punish the emperor just because he cried twice, but the next day the little emperor had a low fever, diarrhea, and fell ill, the imperial doctor diagnosed and treated him, saying that he was frightened At this moment, Xiao Chuo's suppressed anger broke out, and he almost beheaded Zhu Lizhen on the spot. Xiao Chuo is not a person who doesn't know the importance. For several years, he has been in charge of power alone, and he has even cultivated a city mansion that can't show his emotions and anger. But who is the score for and what is the matter? Her hope is her sustenance, and it is related to her son. To this mother, she is no longer the talented, wise and prudent Queen Mother Xiao, but an ordinary mother who protects the calf. Fortunately, Mr. Mo Hen Mo received a lot of benefits from the An Che Gu tribe, and said a few good words for him in front of Empress Xiao.It is said that the emperor's first winter hunting was a happy event for everyone. If he made a big move against the female straight, it would damage the contribution to the education of the subordinate ministries. Besides, the emperor is sick, so it is not appropriate to rush to the blood . Xiao Chuo got angry and thought it was really inappropriate to kill someone for this, so he just did it.But Mo Hen felt that he had made great efforts for the Anchegu tribe, and there is no reason for doing good deeds without leaving a name, so he ran to Zhu Lizhen, added fuel and vinegar, and exaggerated how empress Xiao was angry and furious, intending to send troops to destroy Anchegu In the tribe, thanks to Master Mo's brilliant tongue and his efforts to turn the tide, the Queen Mother's killing intent was dissipated. The speaker was originally asking for credit, but the listener was terrified, and Zhu Lizhen fell in love with it.The little emperor was raised for a few days, and he recovered from his illness. Xiao Chuo took pity on the emperor's son, and dared not continue hunting in the wind and snow.Zhu Lizhen left the Wang Tent, and was about to leave with his people, when he suddenly saw Baya from the Shiwei tribe passing by, his heart moved. He walked eastward with his people for a while, and then abducted Up to the north, chasing Bayali. There are eight sufferings in life, birth, old age, sickness, death, parting from love, resentment and hatred, not getting what you want, and five blazing yin and yang.If you want something, you will suffer, but if there is no bitterness, how can there be sweetness?At least the current girl Zhezi Yuzhe is full of joy. Every day, the hope in her heart is getting closer. Waiting is also a kind of happiness. The city of Yanzhou can already be seen from a distance, Ziyu's mouth curled into a sweet smile, she decided to rest in Yanzhou for half a day, no... one day, one whole day, take a good bath and change her body New clothes, clean and fresh, beautiful and then go to Xingzhou.Traveling all the way, can't eat well, sleep well, eat and sleep in the open, can you still watch it?She didn't want Yang Hao to see that she looked a little embarrassed. Just as he was thinking about it, a sharp whistle came from the sled ahead, Xue Zan slid sideways, advanced more than twenty feet, and slowly stopped on the snow. Hearing the whistle, Jurchen on the sled that Zhe Ziyu was on The samurai also hastily tightened the reins, and when the snow trucks came to a stop, Zhe Ziyu got up from the railing and asked, "What happened?" As soon as she asked, she closed her mouth tightly, and saw thousands of knights rushing towards the direction of Yanzhou City in front of them, making snowflakes splash on the snow field, Zhe Ziyu stared at them, but hadn't seen those people clearly flag, and saw sharp arrows raining down...