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Chapter 279 Reaching the coast

He expressed his feelings to the calm Wanyan tribe. Zhao Yan returned to the tent. However, as soon as he entered, Zhao Yan was shocked. He even thought he had walked into the wrong tent and returned to the tent of the bones, because he saw a pile of half a person-high debris piled up in the middle of the tent. Although it had not been packed, the height was almost exactly the same as the two packages on the tent.

"Si'er, you...you don't want to take all these things away, right?" Zhao Yan said to Yelu Si who was packing things with laughter and crying. It was understandable that Bottom had never seen any world since he was a child, and it was understandable that he was reluctant to throw things away, but Yelu Si was a dignified princess, why was it the same as Bottom?

When Yelu Si heard Zhao Yan's words, she might also feel a little embarrassed. She stroked a trace of hair on her forehead behind her ears, and then said, "I originally wanted to take away some simple luggage, but when I packed things, I couldn't bear to let go of it and that. In the end, I didn't expect that I would clean up so much."

Zhao Yan walked to the pile of luggage, reached out to take out a broken piece of clothes from it, looked at it with some confusion and said, "Why do this clothes look so familiar? Besides, they are already broken like this, why do you still have to take them away?"

Yelu Si also came over at this time, reached out to take the torn clothes from Zhao Yan and said, "Why did the prince forget? This clothes are the dress I wore when I escaped. Although it was torn, I should not return to Liao Kingdom again in the future, so I wanted to take this clothes away, which is also a thought."

"This dress has such great commemorative significance, and it should be taken away." Seeing Yelu Si's sad expression, Zhao Yan hurriedly spoke, but soon he pointed to the pile of things in front of him with some embarrassment and said, "But these piles of things will not have such great commemorative significance, right?"

"Yes!" Yelu Si was also very excited when he saw Zhao Yan agreeing to take away his clothes. He reached out and took out the things from his luggage and explained one by one, "Husband, please see, this is the first piece of clothing I made for you. Although it is too cold to wear, whenever I see it, I think of the days when we first arrived at Wanyan's tribe. In addition, the shoes, hats, gloves, etc. I made for my husband. They were all sewn with stitches, and finally there were wooden carved dolls, pony, the husband made for our children..."

Yelu Si took out the things he wanted to take away one by one to explain, but everything had special meaning, and it was very difficult for Zhao Yan to choose from in the end. However, there were too many of these things. In the end, Zhao Yan's rationality defeated his feelings. In addition to a few things with particularly significant significance, some other items were abandoned, especially those toys that Zhao Yan made for the children when he was bored. This made Yelu Si feel very distressed. In the end, Zhao Yan promised that after she returned to the Song Dynasty, she would make another batch of children, which made Yelu Si's mood much better.

That night, Zhao Yan cooked himself again and made a sumptuous meal to treat everyone. They were about to leave tomorrow morning, which was also the last supper they had at Wanyan’s tribe. However, everyone was very excited, especially Gu Tianjie and his daughter. They were all very excited when they thought of leaving Wanyan’s tribe to go to the prosperous Song Dynasty.

Speaking of which, although Gu Tianjie was seriously ill, he always thought that he would not live long. However, since Zhao Yan and the others arrived, they have greatly improved his usual diet. In addition, Zhao Yan accompanied him to chat and play chess, which not only did not worsen, but also improved, especially since Ji Tou was about to get married, which made Gu Tianjie privately tell Zhao Yan that he would have to watch Ji Tou get married after he could leave with peace of mind.

Before dawn the next day, Zhao Yan and the others got up early. After having breakfast, they saw Xilibo walking towards this side with a team of two or three hundred people. After the two sides met, they were polite and immediately set out to walk towards the east coast. This place is at least seven days away from the coast, and they must set out in advance.

Yelu Si was pregnant. Although it was not particularly obvious, Zhao Yan was always worried about her body. Especially when she was traveling like this, she could not take a car on the road, which might cause damage to her fetal aura. However, Zhou Tong and the others had long thought of this. At the beginning, Zhou Tong was pushing a wheelbarrow with bones and Yelu Si on the car. Although the road was not good, the wheelbarrow could still be walked. As for the paralyzed Gu Tianjie, He Li carried him forward.

He walked for five days like this. Whenever the road was really unpassable, the bone would hold Yelu Si down and walk, and then Zhou Tong carried the wheelbarrow forward with his back. As long as the road conditions improved, they would let them sit on it. Zhao Yan also helped and sometimes pushed it for a while in person. However, he did not have Zhou Tong's strength, and the direction of the wheelbarrow was difficult to grasp, so every time he pushed it for less than half an hour, Zhao Yan would be exhausted and panting.

On the sixth day, there was no road ahead, and the Changbai Mountain Tribe's range of movement was only here. The sea was further ahead. In this case, the wheelbarrow could not move forward. Yelu Si started walking, and Zhao Yan kept supporting her. After two days of hard trek, the group finally arrived at the beach.

On the way, Zhao Yan and the others did not look for help from Xilibo. Similarly, the Jurchens did not have the tradition of helping people on the road. They were all young and strong in the tribe when they went out to hunt, and generally they would not ask others to help when they were on the way. Therefore, as long as Zhao Yan and the others did not say it, Xilibo and others did not think about helping. Zhou Tong and others were a little angry about this, but Zhao Yan did not care at all.

The Jurchens rarely come to the beach. Although the sea has more abundant food, it is difficult for them to make fishing boats on the sea due to the backwardness of civilization, which makes it impossible for them to get enough food from the sea. Therefore, the so-called fishing and hunting of the Jurchens is actually just hunting in the mountains and forests and fishing in rivers and lakes.

It is precisely because the Jurchens did not come to the beach that the coast here was deserted and it was even more impossible to have a pier. So after Zhao Yan and the others arrived at the coast, they immediately found a relatively open coast, lit smoke during the day and bonfires at night to inform the Song Dynasty's seaship of their own.

After a few days of waiting, the sea Dongqing of Potatoshu finally flew again. The news this time was that the Song Dynasty fleet had arrived at the outer sea east of Wanyan's tribe and was now looking for their location. This also made Zhao Yan and the others very excited. Xialibo even ordered people to climb to the cliff by the sea to raise smoke and fire to facilitate the fleet to find them.

On the afternoon of the next day, Zhao Yan accompanied Yelu Si for a walk on the beach, and picked up some beautiful shells and took them back. Zhao Yan planned to give these shells as gifts to Cao Ying and Xue Ninger. Zhou Tong and Bones were not afraid of the cold. They rolled up their trousers and stepped on the cold waves on the beach not far away, and caught some starfish to play with them.

On the beach in the distance, Xialibo and his tribe began to cook salt on the beach. Most of the salt they usually eat was exchanged for from the Liao Kingdom. Of course, some tribes near the beach also cooked salt on their own. However, the Wanyan tribe was too far away from the beach before, and there were Changbai Mountain tribes in the middle, so this was the first time they came to the beach to cook salt.

"These Jurchens are so hateful. The Daliao issued several bans to prohibit anyone from cooking salt privately. If this scene is seen by officials of the Liao Kingdom, the Daliao will definitely punish their court!" Yelu Si pointed to the Jurchens who cooked salt in the distance and said angrily. Although she was about to give up her princess and went to the Song Dynasty, she still couldn't help but feel angry when she saw those people like Silibo blatantly cooking salt openly.

When Zhao Yan heard this, he smiled and said, "Some things cannot be resisted. The sky is high and the emperor is far away. The government orders of the Liao Kingdom cannot reach here. I even bet that I may not know about this ban, so you don't have to be angry about this."

In fact, Yelu Si also knows the above, but since she became pregnant, her temper has become a little irritable. Sometimes she can't control herself, and sometimes she may seem a little unreasonable. Zhao Yan was prepared for this. After all, as a doctor with a half bottle of water, she still knows the psychological changes of pregnant women and is very accommodating to Yelu Si, which also made Yelu Si more determined to go to the Song Dynasty with Zhao Yan.

"Husband, Zhou Tong and the others know my identity. After returning to the Song Dynasty, they will not reveal my identity, right?" Yelu Si asked worriedly again. Since he decided to go to the Song Dynasty with Zhao Yan, Yelu Si decided to hide his identity and let the identity of Princess Zheng disappear in the rebellion. She will follow Zhao Yan as an ordinary woman, so that she will not cause disputes between the Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty.

"Don't worry, I have already told them. Whether it is Zhou Tong, He Li, Xu Shan, they are all loyal people and will never reveal your identity. As for Su Shi, there is no need to worry. When he left, I told him not to tell others about my relationship with you, and not even my wife Cao Ying!" Zhao Yan comforted patiently.

Yelu Si was able to put down his princess' identity and accompanied him to the Song Dynasty, which moved Zhao Yan very much. He vowed that he would never let her down in his life. At the same time, he also placed Yelu Si, Cao Ying and Xue Ning'er in the same position in his heart. Unfortunately, Zhao Yan didn't know that Su Shi had betrayed him and Yelu Si long ago, and Cao Ying was waiting for them to go back.

"I'll feel relieved this way. In addition, your elder brother, King Ying, also knows me. I will try not to meet him after I go back, so as not to laugh at me behind my back." Yelu Si suddenly thought that Zhao Xu had seen him again, so he spoke again.

When Zhao Yan heard Yelu Si was worried that Zhao Xu would laugh at her, he couldn't help but laugh in his heart. However, at this moment, his eyes accidentally swept across the sea surface, and found that a shadow of a sail was slowly rising from the sea surface on the horizontal line. (To be continued...)

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