There was something urgent at home today, so I didn't have time to update the chapter tonight. I just got home, so please forgive me!
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When night fell, Lu Yihao returned to the mansion. He went to comfort and persuade the imperial students. He was busy all afternoon. After the imperial students and the people dispersed, he returned to the mansion exhausted.
As soon as he sat down in the study, the housekeeper gave him a letter and a wooden box, "Sir, Chen Qing left Lin'an before dark. This is the letter and items forwarded by his friend."
Lu Yihao nodded. He knew that the emperor had decreed that Chen Qing must leave Lin'an before dark, and he was basically escorted away.
After reading the letter, he glanced at the wooden box again, couldn't help laughing, and ordered the maid: "Go and call the embroiderer!"
After a while, Lu Xiu hurried to her grandfather's study. She was very worried about Chen Qing's condition.
Lu Yihao saw the worry in his granddaughter's eyes and said with a smile: "The emperor has released General Chen. He was escorted away, so he couldn't come to see me. Before leaving, he wrote a letter to me. In addition, he gave this bird
I’ll give you the wooden box, I don’t know what it is?”
Lu Xiu's heart finally dropped. She heard that Chen Qing actually gave her an item. She felt happy but a little shy. Her beautiful eyes turned and her eyes fell on the wooden box.
The five characters "Zhuan Luxiu Girl" are written vigorously and powerfully.
Lu Xiu bit her lip, and under her grandfather's smiling gaze, she mustered up the courage to pick up the wooden box.
"Why don't you open it and take a look?"
Lu Yihao smiled and said, "I'm also curious about what's inside?"
Lu Xiu shyly opened the wooden box and found a booklet inside.
"Ah! It's the collected works of Yi An. It seems to be written by Mr. Yi An himself."
Lu Xiu turned over a page and found that there were still a few lines written inside. She was so frightened that she quickly closed it.
"Grandpa, this is a collection of poems and essays given to General Chen by Mr. Yi An."
Lu Yihao nodded, "I've also heard that General Chen funded her a large sum of money. Li Qingzhao has really been in decline in the past few years. I didn't expect that he still has the heart to cherish her."
Lu Xiu pouted and said dissatisfiedly: "Grandpa, this can't be called pity for women! This is caring for literary talents!"
Lu Yihao laughed and said, "Li Qingzhao is in his forties or fifties, so it is really inappropriate to show affection and cherish jade. My grandfather made a mistake."
"Grandpa, will the Jin Congress let General Chen go? Will he be in danger on the road?" Lu Xiu bit her lip and asked worriedly.
Lu Yihao pondered for a moment and said: "It is indeed possible, but he should be prepared. With his martial arts and intelligence, it is unlikely that Jin Bing will succeed, so don't worry too much."
Lu Yihao was also a little worried, but the matter had reached this point and he had tried his best. There was nothing he could do about the rest.
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Lu Xiu returned to his small building and opened the collection of poems and essays handwritten by Li Qingzhao.
There are a few lines written on the second page.
‘There are trees on the mountain with thick branches, spring is warm, flowers are blooming, and the branches are luxuriant’.
These four sentences were a bit confusing, but Lu Xiu read them over and over again, and her beautiful black gem-like eyes gradually lit up.
She picked up a pen and wrote a poem on the paper:
This evening, what evening is coming? The boat is in the middle of the current.
What day will it be that I shall be in the same boat with the prince?
When you are humiliated and treated well, you are not ashamed.
My heart was troubled and I found out about the prince.
There are trees in the mountains, and the trees have branches. My heart is happy for you, but you don’t know it.
Lu Xiu read the last two sentences and thought of the words "There are trees on the mountain with thick branches". She couldn't help covering her mouth and burst into laughter.
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The Qianshi Passenger Boat went north along the canal and did not stop at night. The eight boatmen were divided into two groups, one group slept and the other group rowed the boat at night.
Chen Qing stood on the deck, looking at the dark houses on both sides of the bank. It was completely silent, except for the sound of oars.
It was already dozens of miles away from Lin'an, and Chen Qing's heart gradually calmed down. Although this encounter only lasted three days, it had a huge impact on Chen Qing. He personally felt the weakness of the Southern Song Dynasty court and its lack of support for the Jin Dynasty.
Fear, and the courtiers were willing to betray the anti-Jin generals for their own benefit.
What chilled Chen Qing even more was the hypocrisy of Emperor Zhao Gou. Did he really care about the Queen Mother? In fact, he knew very well that he could not get the Queen Mother back. What Zhao Gou really cared about was armistice, peace negotiation, and selling himself to flatter the Kingdom of Jin.
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He was using his incident to express his position to Wan Yanchang that as long as the Kingdom of Jin was willing to negotiate peace, everything could be discussed.
Fortunately, Zhao Gou was a monarch after all, and he did not dare to go too far. After hundreds of thousands of people loudly opposed it and all the officials in the court quickly changed their stance, he had to give in and compromise.
Chen Qing looked at the silver medal in his hand. It was a medal or banner similar to that of later generations. Under the moonlight, the four characters "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" on the silver medal were particularly dazzling.
This was a commendation for his victory over Wanyan Huonv and the dedication of the Shenzong Golden Buddha to the emperor. Unfortunately, on the one hand, he was loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and on the other hand, he handed him over to the Jin Kingdom in exchange for the Queen Mother. Putting these things together is really ridiculous and ironic.
A sarcastic sneer appeared at the corner of Chen Qing's mouth, and he threw the silver medal into the water. The four characters "Loyal to the Emperor and Patriotic" were also submerged in the river.
The passenger ship has two cabins, one is the master cabin and the other is the attendant cabin. The three servants of Huyan Mansion live in the attendant cabin.
The martial arts of these three servants are indeed good, and their names are also interesting. They are called Huyanjia, Huyanyi and Huyanding respectively. Slavery was strictly prohibited in the Song Dynasty, but wealthy families had their own ways to work around it. For example, maids must go home after they reach the age of eighteen.
Marrying is a legal requirement of the Song Dynasty.
In order to counter this rule, the mistress recognized the maid as her goddaughter, and her status changed from maid to adopted daughter. Then she was not restricted by the law, but the adopted daughter still did the work of a maid at home.
The same goes for the three generals of the Huyan family. They were obviously domestic slaves raised by their master from childhood, but when they reached the age of eighteen, they signed an external contract with their master, and they became samurai hired by the mansion for wages.
A legitimate industry to make money.
When Chen Qing returned to the cabin, the boss Hu Yanjia clasped his fists at the door and said: "General Chen, please rest early! We will keep watch at night, there will be no problem."
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "There is a horse riding team on the west bank that has been following us. Have you noticed it?"
Hu Yanjia was shocked, "I didn't notice it!"
"They are following us, about five hundred steps away from the ship. There are about twenty or thirty people in number. In addition, the lanterns hung on this ship are a bit strange and different. Ask them what the reason is and tell me tomorrow morning.
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"The villain obeys the order!"
Hu Yanjia went down, and Chen Qing snorted. He knew that Zhao Gou would not let him go so easily. Did he want Jin Bing to take his head halfway?
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At dawn the next day, Chen Qinggang walked out of the cabin. Hu Yanjia stepped forward and clasped his fists and whispered: "I asked the boss of the ship. He said that they are official ships, and the lanterns are special official ship lanterns. They are different from civilian ships.
If a civilian ship encounters this kind of official ship lantern at night, it must pull aside and dodge."
After a pause, Hu Yanjia said again: "How about I ask him to change the lantern to an ordinary civilian ship lantern!"
"Don't worry about them, let them be."
Chen Qing knew very well that the reason why people on the shore could always follow him was because of these special lanterns.
"Someone will definitely attack the general on the way. We might as well go overland!" Hu Yanjia was very worried.
Chen Qing waved his hand, "Don't be anxious for the moment. The other party won't be so quick to attack. I want to see who these people are."
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After the passenger ship arrived at the Suzhou section, the number of ships in the canal became increasingly dense, making it inconvenient to sail at night. After the second watch, the ships would dock to rest and continue their departure at the fifth watch.
That night, the passenger ship arrived at the border of Changzhou. As usual, after two watches, the boatmen all fell asleep.
Around the fourth watch, Hu Yanyi woke up from peeing and got up to go to the side of the boat for convenience.
He shook his head and turned around to go back to the cabin when he unexpectedly spotted a gray figure walking quickly along the bed board towards the shore. It looked like the figure was the boatman on duty tonight.
Hu Yanyi instinctively touched his back, with the knife hanging on his butt. He was alert. Seeing that the other party was about to disappear, he had no time to wake up his companions and jumped after him.
The shore in this area is full of woods, and on the other side of the woods is endless farmland.
Hu Yanyi ran quickly in the woods, and the branches on the ground were trampled on. After a while, he heard the sound of someone talking from the left. He tiptoed to the west, pushed aside a branch, and saw a group of people.
people.
The boatman just now was saying something to this group of people. The leader was a tall, thin, pale young man.
At this moment, Hu Yanyi suddenly felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder. He turned his head and an arrow shot through his left shoulder.
Hu Yanyi was horrified. He rolled forward and drew his sword in his hand. Only then did he realize that there were five knights behind him, carrying spears, bows and arrows, and they had already surrounded him.
Although they were wearing Han warrior uniforms, their looks were fierce, and they were clearly Jurchens between their brows and eyes.
Hu Yanyi knew something was wrong, so he rushed to the left and rushed towards the Jurchen cavalry on the far left. The Jurchen cavalry urged their horses, rushed forward with a spear in hand, and stabbed him hard with the spear.
Hu Yanyi dodged the spear and struck the horse's leg with his sword. The horse raised its front hooves high and screamed.
At this moment, two arrows shot out, Hu Yanyi dodged one arrow, and the other arrow hit him in the back of the heart. Hu Yanyi screamed heartbreakingly, knelt down on one knee, and for a while
A strong wind passed by him, and with a flash of cold light, Hu Yanyi's head flew ten feet away.