Chapter 80 seventy-nine
Chai Zhewei knelt down and kowtowed with tears in his eyes: "Your Highness! How can I leave you at a time like this?"
Li Ke scolded him: "What stupid words are you talking about? Are you going to hang yourself on this dead tree like me? Go back and clean up quickly. If you don't leave, I will drive you away!" Li Ke said very seriously , Chai Zhewei had no choice but to stand up and leave step by step.Li Ke was the only one left by the pool, with disheveled hair, staring at the thin pool of thin water with an infinitely desolate expression, in a daze. After an unknown amount of time, a figure quietly appeared behind him.
Li Ke seemed to have heard something, and said: "I said Zhewei, why haven't you left yet? Don't you understand what I mean--" He looked back a little unhappy, and was stunned Stopped, the one standing in front of him was not Chai Zhewei, but Mr. Yun who he had seen at the horse market that day.After saying goodbye to the wine shop, Li Ke went to the horse market to look for him three times, but each time he returned disappointed. He didn't want to show up today.
Li Ke said with a surprised face: "It's you? Why are you here?" Mr. Yun replied, "Didn't I say that I would come to visit after I finished my business?" Said Mr. Yun stepped forward to pick up the fishing rod, Seeing that the bait was not even hung on the above, he asked a little strangely: "Why didn't you hang the bait?" Li Ke said listlessly: "Oh, everything is not going well, and I was caught as a fish once, so what's the mood to hang the bait for fishing ?”
Mr. Yun walked up to Li Ke and sat down, took out a white gold-embellished piccolo, which was rarely seen in the Central Plains, and played it. Although the flute was short, the music it played was very high-pitched and desolate, as if it came from the depths of the sky, reaching the people's hearts.Li Ke was quickly attracted, put down his glass and listened quietly.
After the song was played, Li Ke asked unsatisfactorily: "What song is this?" Mr. Yun put away the piccolo and said, "It's a hymn about the Eagle King." Li Ke looked at Mr. Yun and asked, "You also like eagles. ?” Mr. Yun replied: “Yes, I especially like eagles. Once I shot and wounded a King Eagle on Yinshan Mountain. It had no strength to fly up to the sky, but it still jumped to the top of the mountain tenaciously with its wings flapping. , Its feathers were scraped everywhere by branches and rocks, and its blood was all over the hillside. I chased it for a day, and finally saw it at the top of Yinshan Mountain, where there was no grass, and there was only a piece of white bones of eagles in the ice and snow."
Li Ke was very moved when he heard it, and sighed: "They chose their own death so noble?" Mr. Yun said: "Yes, this is what I most admire about the king of these birds." Li Ke said with emotion Said: "I really envy them, they can get your admiration."
Mr. Yun's eyes fell on Li Ke's face: "I used to admire you like an eagle. You have a unique and noble blood, and you have extremely lofty ambitions. You once told me yourself that you hoped that I could come Your mansion came up to do a few big things with you. But now? You don’t even have the courage to walk out of this Shu palace. Do you want to bury your lofty ambition in this small courtyard——You Get up!" After speaking, he stretched out his hand to pull Li Ke up, and strode towards the door.
Li Ke wanted to refuse, so he said: "I don't want to go out, I just want to stay here—" But he was already pulled up by the other party, and he followed him out of the small courtyard involuntarily. An Heihu, who was guarding the gate of the courtyard, did not know what happened What's the matter, hurried forward to ask something, Mr. Yun shouted: "Go and lead two horses, your highness is going out of the palace." An Heihu was startled, Li Ke has been staying at home for several days, From Quan Wanji to Cheng Huailiang and then to Chai Zhewei, it was useless to persuade him.Everyone in the whole house was worried that Li Ke, who was arrogant and arrogant, would become demonic because he couldn't bear the blow. They didn't expect that Mr. Yun would drag him out after he went in and played a tune.
An Heihu was overjoyed, and hurriedly called people to prepare horses.The horse was brought in, and Mr. Yun flew onto the horse's back without even touching the stirrups. It could be seen that his riding skills were quite superb. Seeing his encouraging eyes, Li Ke finally jumped onto the saddle. There was a sound of hooves, and the two People gallop out of the house.
They crossed the street and passed in front of the Hou Mansion.There were lanterns and festoons, people coming and going, and there was a lot of celebration. People kept coming in and out with gift lists, and the family members of the Hou Mansion also stood at the door beamingly to greet them.Standing on the corner of the street, looking at the lively scene, Li Ke showed a look of disappointment on his face, and muttered: "People are really a snobbish thing. I lost power for a while, and so many people who used to win me all go here I ran away." Young Master Yun looked at Li Ke and replied: "The more terrifying thing is not losing power, but losing ambition! Losing ambition, you will lose everything!"
Mr. Yun's words were harsh to Li Ke at this time. When a gust of autumn wind blew, he shuddered, gritted his teeth, swung his whip, and the mount under his crotch galloped away.The two of them galloped out of the city gate and came to Leyouyuan.The wilderness near dusk was vast, Li Ke reined in the reins hard, the horse let out a long neigh and stopped, Li Ke jumped off the horse, looked towards the setting sun, his mood could not be calm for a long time.Mr. Yun's voice rang in his ears: "Please believe in yourself, you won't never recover from this setback!"
Li Ke turned his face and looked at him for a long time, and asked, "Can you give me a reason?" Mr. Yun said, "If you definitely need a reason to regain your courage, then I can only find one for you: You are Li Ke, the blood of the emperors of the two dynasties flows on your body, more noble than the blood of the Eagle King, is this enough?"
Li Ke was stunned, and suddenly shouted to the wasteland: "I will not lose, I will never—" Tears flickered in Mr. Yun's eyes, and he turned his gaze to the sky, and suddenly shouted: "Your Highness! Look!" An eagle appeared in Li Ke's line of sight, stretching its vigorous wings, flying so high.Mr. Yun said: "In my heart, you are also an eagle. There is no mountain in front of you that you cannot fly over."
Li Ke showed a look of emotion, and said: "I never thought that a girl like you would have such a heart."
Mr. Yun was stunned: "What did you say?" Li Ke stared at Mr. Yun and said, "Am I wrong? The second time I met you drinking with me, I knew you were a girl. I have sent several groups of people to the horse market to inquire, and I have already found out your identity, you are Ashinayun, the daughter of the second Khan Tuli of the Ashina family." Li Ke stretched out his hand in a flash, and took the After taking off the square scarf of "Young Master Yun", his black hair cascaded down like a waterfall, and "Mr. Yun" became a beautiful young girl clearly.
Ashinayun's complexion changed: "Then are you going to dedicate me to your father?" Li Ke said while admiring the beautiful face of the foreign girl in front of him, "Why should I do this?" Shi Nayun said: "Don't forget, we Ashina and your Tang Dynasty are still enemies now." Li Ke laughed, the kind of smile that a big boy makes to a girl, and said with tenderness: "I I will never forget that you should still be my cousin."
What Li Ke said was true. Ashinayun's mother, Princess Huainan, was the daughter of the Sui Dynasty imperial family, and she and Concubine Yang were sisters, so that day at the horse market, Ashinayun glanced at the jade pendant on Li Ke's waist. She identified the other party's identity, because her mother also gave her the same jade pendant, which came out of the palace of the Sui Dynasty.
When their identities were broken, the two of them immediately lost their identity, and sat on the wasteland, talking endlessly for a while.Some mysteries in Li Ke's heart were also solved one by one.It turned out that in the past few years, Xieli had been punishing those generals who were not completely loyal to him. Among these people, Tuli was the one he wanted to bring down the most.It's just because the Second Khan of Ashina's popularity is too high and his strength is relatively strong, so he can't achieve his goal for a while.However, as the leaders of other tribes were replaced by Xieli as his confidants, Tuli's situation became increasingly critical.Especially after Jieli captured Suizhou, he deliberately offered a sky-high ransom to irritate Li Shimin and lure him to counterattack. At the same time, he sent Tuli to deploy defenses fifty miles south of Suizhou. Li Shimin's knife eliminates dissidents. Tuli realized the danger of the situation. In desperation, he sent his confidant Hua Lier and his daughter to Chang'an to sell horses at a low price. Ashina cloud.