South of Longwei Pass, west of Gao Qiong's camp, close to the Pagoda Temple.
In a tent, Gao Mingyue was gently shaking a fan and cooking medicine over a low fire.
From time to time, Ashayan picked up the herbs, chewed them, and then threw the rest into the medicine jar.
"What are you thinking about?" Asha asked rarely.
"When I saw the Pagoda Temple today, I was thinking... did he suffer this calamity because he offended the Buddha by borrowing food from the temple?"
Asha said: "Pluto is not afraid of Buddha."
She has become more and more convinced that Li Xia is the King of Hades...
That day, she returned to the camp empty-handed from the mountains and found that Xu Toutiao was dead. It was common for him to die because he could not bear the poison.
Asha thought that Li Xia would die too.
At that time, she had a feeling of being deceived, thinking that he had been lying to her all along, and that everything about Pluto and reincarnation were all fake.
She just stood there quietly, waiting for him to die.
But Gao Mingyue kept begging her, kneeling at her feet and crying.
Ashayu once again thought of herself when Qu Liang died, and finally promised to try her best to save Li Xia until he really died.
So they took Li Xia and continued south along the Lancang River at high speed. Li Xia's heartbeat became slower and slower along the way. Many times Asha thought it was over.
But one day, two days...that slowly beating heart never stopped.
Asha could actually feel a strong will to survive from his closed eyes.
Finally, she found the red-backed bamboo grass.
This is almost impossible.
Asha was extremely surprised and couldn't believe it... In the end, she had no choice but to attribute it to God's will and the power of gods and ghosts.
The gods and ghosts gave her the ability to identify vegetation, and they allowed her to meet and fall in love with Qu Liang.
Qu Liang was a miracle doctor and taught her medical skills, so she knew the Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction, and she knew how to detoxify the curare tree.
All of this turned out to be destined, she and Qu Liang were secretly here to assist Pluto.
Qu Liang has passed away, but the common mission between the two remains.
This made Asha feel that... Qu Liang was still in her life.
She even trembled because of it.
But what Li Xia said after waking up made her a little angry.
"See...exercising every day helps."
"No! This is an arrangement from the underworld, we are the messengers of Hades!"
Li Xia stared at her weakly for a long time and sighed: "Okay, I know... I know..."
From this, Asha felt that this lonely life had sustenance.
Tonight, Asha was a little angry when she first heard Gao Mingyue talk about Buddha. But then she thought that Gao Mingyue would become Li Xia's wife. Maybe the Buddha sent a goddess to help Pluto... That's why she thought of "burning the Buddha"
The thought of "Tasi proving that he is the King of Hades" was dismissed.
Gao Mingyue didn't quite understand Asha's thoughts. All she wanted was for Li Xia to be safe.
When there was movement outside, she ran to the curtain and took a look, only to see the fire at Longwei Pass in the distance soaring into the sky.
Although Li Xia had told her that he would set fire, she still couldn't help but worry. Fortunately, not long after, a group of Gao's soldiers and horses rushed back to the camp, and one of them quickly headed towards Gao Qiong's tent.
Gao Mingyue saw Li Xia's figure among them.
He waved to her.
Gao Mingyue breathed a long sigh of relief. After he walked away, she returned to the camp and carefully picked up the medicine jar and put it aside to cool down.
She counted the time, thinking that when Li Xia came over again, the medicine would be warm...
Li Xia first glanced at the tent where Gao Mingyue was, and then quickly walked into Gao Qiong's tent.
Gao Suihe held Duan Xingzhi's head and said, "Young master, I got it."
Gao Qiong didn't even look at it and said, "Let's marinate it first. I'll bring it to you later."
"Yes." Gao Suihe stepped back.
Gao Qiong turned to Li Xia and looked at him for a while.
After Li Xia recovered from his injury, he immediately came to see Gao Qiong. He didn't have much time to talk at that time, and only then did the two of them have a good chat.
Gao Qiong said: "I was just thinking... people who have achieved great things throughout the ages, without the blessing of gods, would they have achieved such great success? Feiyu survived the disaster, but the same thing?"
"Let me be honest with you." Li Xia said: "There are no gods or ghosts. What I rely on is a strong body and a strong will."
This is what he believes in most. He can't say it to Asha, but he doesn't want to pretend to Gao Qiong.
"Great perseverance." Gao Qiong smiled bitterly.
He understood that Li Xia had great perseverance.
Ordinary people don't have this kind of spirit. When something happens, they just think "I can't do it." They inevitably regard this as a miracle.
"How many people do you have left?"
"Less than six hundred." Li Xia said, "You only have two hundred of your five hundred confidants left. I'm sorry."
Gao Qiong was silent for a moment, and said thoughtfully: "There are eight hundred people in total... They are not many, and I can barely cover it up for a day. Before tomorrow, we must create evidence to pin the matter on Duan Xingzhi."
Li Xia took out a bunch of letters from his arms, took out the candlelight, and showed the sealed letter to Gao Qiong.
He seemed to have some difficulty doing this action.
"I took this from Duan Xingzhi's secret room, along with his seal and talisman."
"Okay, I'll have someone forge it overnight." Gao Qiong said, "Let's check it out and see if there are any omissions."
"There can be no omissions. The important thing is to hide it from the Mongolian people." Li Xia said: "In the beginning, it was Duan Xingzhi who invited me to go south to discuss the matter of uniting with the Song Dynasty to restore the country."
"What's the reason?"
"Duan Xingzhi felt sorry for the people of Dali who were plundered by the Mongols."
"Ah."
"That's what it says in the letter."
Gao Qiong said: "Well, that's what he is like."
"Duan Xingzhi saw A'shu's eastward expedition to Jiaozhi. On the one hand, he invited people from the Song Dynasty and on the other hand, he sent Duan Shi to contact the relic monk."
"But Duan Xingzhi didn't expect that he quickly defeated the relic monk first."
"So Duan Shi let the relic monk go on the battlefield." Li Xia said: "And when I was crossing the border from Shanshan, I happened to be discovered first. Duan Shi used the name of encirclement and suppression, but actually he deliberately let me cross the border."
"When you met Duan Xingzhi, Shi Shi deceived me during the return trip." Gao Qiong said, "But Duan Shi didn't expect that I was not dead, so he committed suicide out of fear of guilt."
Li Xia said: "Duan Xingzhi got the news and thought that the Dongchuang incident had occurred. He decided to start an attack immediately and sent someone to contact me, so I fought back to Dali."
Gao Qiong said: "As a result, I sent troops to encircle and exterminate your people. Duan Xingzhi then wanted to take away the prisoners and deliberately let you go."
Li Xia said: "I was supposed to enter Dali City at that time, but I was besieged by Gedu, so I had to flee to Longwei Pass."
Gao Qiong said: "Duan Xingzhi got the news and ordered all his troops to go to Longwei Pass to support you."
"Unfortunately, there are still more than a thousand soldiers and horses of Gao Nianfeng in Longweiguan City. Duan Xingzhi had to order Zheng Foze to annihilate Gao Nianfeng's tribe and planned to ambush Gedu."
"Gedu saw through the ambush and mobilized all troops to besiege Longweiguan."
Li Xia said: "Tonight, you sent people to jump into Guancheng from Cangshan Mountain, opened the city gate, and Gedu entered the city and beheaded Duan Xingzhi. However, Duan Xingzhi was desperate and set fire to Guancheng. The north gate was blocked, and Gedu failed.
Get out."
"Gao Suihe wanted to save Gedu, but Gedu was crushed under the horse. Gao Suihe had to take Duan Xingzhi's head to escape."
The two of them had a tacit understanding and spoke very quickly. At this point, they had sorted out the general outline of the matter. What was missing was to fill in the various details.
Gao Qiong thought for a while and said: "I will report it to you first according to this statement. But... there are many people with mixed opinions, and it is inevitable that all kinds of news will come out. Should I wash it out with blood?"
"No." Li Xia said: "We also released various news, such as 'I want to be king in Dali first', 'Yang Yuan rebelled', and brought the Duan family, Gao family, Dong family, Yang family, Zhao family, and even the Mongolians
Get it all involved."
"I understand. Since I can't suppress it, let's just muddy the water..."