Chapter 106 one zero five

Fifteen Prison Flowers A guide dressed as a barbarian led the way, and Li Shimin and a dozen others rode through a valley on horseback.A clear stream gurgled down from the depths of the dense forest, green pines and cypresses covered the sky, and white clouds rose from the depths of the mountain.The scenery is beautiful, and partridges can be heard constantly singing in the distance. The barbarian guide said: "The entrance of the valley is already ahead." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Li Shimin said happily: "We have finally walked out of the Yinshan Mountain. .” Suddenly, there was a sound of horseshoes in front, and everyone's expressions changed. Fang Yi in the team rode his horse up a small slope to have a look, and shouted: "It's Hu Kou!" Li Shimin waved his hand and ordered: "Hurry up!" , and withdrew into the woods."

At this moment, there was a sudden and earth-shattering fighting sound from the direction of Taniguchi.Li Shimin asked loudly: "What's the matter?" Fang Yi, who was watching, stared straight ahead and said, "It's fighting—it seems that our people have come up! It's the banner of the general manager of the Tonghan Road—" Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji looked at each other excitedly: "Li Shiji!" It turned out that after Mayi was besieged, Li Shiji was ordered to move northward, intending to transfer Jieli to the west, because Shi Luodie was captured in Mayi city. Of course, this strategy would not work, and Jieli just sent A Sina Simo attracted 10,000 people to contain Li Shi.Ashina Simo is very cunning in using troops, knowing that he has few troops, he has been making circles with Li Shi.After more than ten days of entanglement like this, he suddenly received Xieli's order, ordering him to go north to block the entrance of the Yin Valley.Ashina Shimo left 3,000 people to continue fighting with Li Shiji, and led the main force northward by himself.Li Shiji was a skilled general in the Tang army, and when he was chasing the 3,000 men, he sent many scouts to scout in various directions.Most of these scouts were Hu soldiers, who were good at riding and shooting, and were very familiar with the terrain beyond the Great Wall. They soon found out Ashina Simo's true whereabouts. Li Shiji left behind the 3,000 enemies and pursued them all the way north.It took more than half a month for the two armies to stop and fight, and finally fought a real battle at the mouth of the Yin Valley.

Ashina Simo's fine cavalry is well-trained and extremely brave, but Li Shiji's troops are also capable of fighting in the Tang army. In addition, the number of troops is several times larger than his, and Ashina Simo is outnumbered. After a fierce contest Had to withdraw to the east.Li Shiji was very surprised to welcome Shengjia here. Li Shimin went to the Tonghan army and asked Li Shiji about the situation in the court. Li Shiji told the emperor that he had been ordered to march northward for nearly a month, and the situation in the court was not very clear.Li Shimin immediately asked him to send someone to escort Ma Xuanliang back to Chang'an, and inform the prince that he had returned to the south.

Here Ma Xuanliang and Xiaoxing headed to Chang'an overnight, while Li Chengqian was already preparing for his enthronement ceremony.Although he agreed to ascend the throne, he still felt uneasy and wanted to wait for Wei Zheng and Li Jing to come back to discuss it.But Hou Junji persuaded him that one day's delay would lead to confusion for another day, and there was no longer any delay, and all the officials were also on the persuasion table, so Li Chengqian and Hou Junji agreed on the time of ascension to the throne.Let the Zhongshu Province draft the proclamation of the new emperor's ascension to the throne, and let the Dianzhong Province rush to make the emperor's crown robe.

The people in the Dianzhong Province naturally worked hard for this kind of thing, and soon all the clothes for the new king's ascension to the throne were prepared and sent to the East Palace.Li Chengqian was in a complicated mood. After these things were delivered, he didn't even look at them.But Haitang stood in front of the glittering golden phoenix crown for several hours, immersed in a huge intoxication. Ling'er saw what the master was thinking, and while praising the beautiful phoenix crown, she offered to try it on Haitang.She stretched out her hand to hold up the phoenix crown, and gently approached Haitang's beautiful hair. Haitang looked at herself in the bronze mirror, and suddenly stretched out her hand to push aside the phoenix crown inlaid with gold and jade.Linger asked with some puzzlement: "Princess, what's the matter with you?" Haitang replied: "It's nothing, I don't want to wear it now." Save this happiness until the last moment.

At this moment, Heng Lian came in and said, "Report to the Crown Princess, Master Dade is here to give you a lecture." Hai Tang hurriedly asked Ling'er to put away the phoenix crown, and ordered Heng Lian to invite the Master to come in. Master Dade walked into the hall and proclaimed the Buddha's name as a salute to Haitang.Before he began to lecture, he took out an alms bowl, saying that it was a letter from a benefactor of Huichang Temple who asked him to bring it to the princess.Haitang asked whose letter it was, and Dade replied that the benefactor didn't let him name it, but said that after reading the letter, the princess would understand.

Haitang asked: "Where is the letter?" Dade pushed the bowl to Haitang and said: "Here it is."Haitang looked at the preserved fruit and asked: "What is it made of?" Dade squinted his eyes to recognize it, picked up the bowl and smelled it, and said, "It seems to be preserved apricot." Haitang's expression changed drastically. The preserved apricots were sent by Li Ke to Master Dade.Although Cheng Yunliang was killed secretly, the fear in his heart grew day by day. Several times he dreamed that under the instigation of Haitang, Hou Junji led tens of thousands of soldiers to surround his Shu Palace. He desperately wanted to escape, but There is no way to go to heaven, and no way to go to earth.Such fear haunted him, making him even contemplate committing suicide.But one day, a goshawk suddenly flew over the palace, reminding him of the conversation between Ashinayun and him about the spirit of the eagle, and a kind of struggling courage rose from the bottom of his heart.

"No matter what, you can't just die like this! Don't you still have so many dreams? You haven't even realized a single dream yet!" He thought to himself.So, he made a decision to bet his own life and make a good bet. He was not sure whether Haitang, who was waiting to become a queen, would come to Xingyuan after reading this letter. It can be said that this waiting was the longest waiting in his life.He also couldn't be sure that when the door opened when footsteps sounded outside, would it be a woman or dozens of swords that came in, so this was also the most thrilling waiting he had ever experienced.His heart was beating thumpingly, letting the time flow away hour by hour, finally, footsteps sounded, and the door creaked open.

Li Ke slowly raised his head, and the face of Begonia's black veil appeared at the door.Li Ke was startled for a moment, and then said: "It seems that you still haven't forgotten this apricot garden, Your Highness the Crown Princess!" Haitang looked at him with a bird's-eye view and said: "This concubine didn't come here specially, I just came here Huichang Temple passed by here, and I have to hurry to thank the Bodhisattva, because of his care, I will soon become the hostess of this country." Li Ke observed the other party's expression carefully, and said calmly as much as possible: "Really, then how should I congratulate you?"

Haitang looked at this devil-like hateful man in her heart, and said in a hateful tone: "I used to think that you were just shameless, but I didn't expect that your madness is more outstanding than your shamelessness. Don't you know that now It's different from the situation three months ago, when the fate of the two men I couldn't lose was in your hands, but today, even the fate of this country is in the hands of those two people. You go Come on, don't harass me again, or—"