Li Xia has many unfulfilled wishes, but they are all from her previous life.
As for now, he doesn't plan to leave any "last wish", he just wants to live first.
So he responded: "Just let me eat well and drink well. By the way, give me a long sword, and I can protect you along the way."
Nie Zhongyou was quite rude and did not answer Li Xia's words. He glanced at him and said, "I will untie your shackles after we cross the river."
"Thank you."
Li Xia understood that Nie Zhongyou handcuffed him because he did not want him to walk around in Hangzhou city.
He was interested in asking what period he was currently in. Although the purpose of the mission was not yet known, since he was going to the north, he still needed to understand the situation in the north.
Because he heard Nie Zhongyou say that Pang Tian was a "remnant of the Jin Dynasty", he guessed that the Mongols might have destroyed the Jin Dynasty.
But he didn't want to ask directly, lest Nie Zhongyou become suspicious.
Just as he was thinking about how to make an insinuation, Nie Zhongyou turned around and walked out, and said to Lin Zi, "It took me a long time, so hurry up."
Li Xia watched them leave the room. No matter how many doubts he had, he had to put them aside first.
He felt very sleepy after spending the whole night killing people, so he lay down on the bed with his clothes on.
The chains on his feet were a little short, so Li Xia could barely sleep with one of his legs stretched out of the bed. However, it was much more comfortable here than in a cell, and he didn't have to worry about someone killing him at any time. He relaxed his mind and seized the time.
I replenished my energy and fell asleep quickly.
It was already evening when I woke up.
Nie Zhongyou didn't even close the door for anyone, so he just happened to see a big man playing with a gun in the yard outside the house, showing his strength.
This man was shirtless and had tattoos all over his body. After playing with a set of guns, he stood majestically, saw Li Xia in the room again, and strode towards the room.
When he walked into the room, Li Xia saw clearly the tattoo on his body. It turned out to be a vivid picture of a spring boudoir, accompanied by two poems.
The poem is astonishingly "The golden gun fights three thousand formations, and the silver candle lights up the seven or eight beauties."
“I, Liu Jinsuo, have been nicknamed ‘Life-Securing Golden Gun’. Who are you?!”
"Li Xia."
Liu Jinsuo's voice was as loud as thunder, and he asked again: "What is your name?"
Li Xia said: "I don't have a name."
"No name?" Liu Jinsuo was inexplicably angry, "Why do they chain you but not me?!"
Li Xia was silent for a while.
Seeing that he didn't answer, Liu Jinsuo became even more furious. He raised the gun in his hand, pointed it at Li Xia, and shouted: "Where did you come from?! Are you more vicious than me?!"
Li Xia used to be annoyed by people like this, who were brainless and noisy.
But the situation was different now, and he patiently answered why he was locked here.
Liu Jinsuo's anger came and went quickly. After hearing this, he asked: "You want to go to Kaifeng too?"
"yes."
Li Xia pondered for a moment, thought of a title, and asked, "Will Daxia Liu go too?"
Liu Jinsuo seemed to like this title very much, and said proudly: "Yes, I want to go to the north to do something big!"
"Oh? What's the big deal?"
Liu Jinsuo still held his head high, with an arrogant look on his face, and uttered four more words loudly: "I don't know."
Li Xia had no choice but to endure his temper and deliberately discussed the situation in the north with him to understand the situation.
With great difficulty, I finally managed to figure out a sentence in a roundabout way.
"It's a shame that the Mongolian Tartars destroyed the Jin Tartars, but refused to return the territory to me. The Song Dynasty, the Mongolian Tartars, and the Jin Tartars are all bad Tartars, kill them!"
Li Xia continued to inquire, but the big man was annoyed by his questions.
"You're a kid who knows how to gossip, like a woman with a long tongue. I don't have the time to chat with you. Or I can find an old nerd to chat with you."
Although Li Xia didn't know who the "old bookworm" was, he thought that people would know it when they came over, so he didn't ask too much and said, "Then I'll thank Liu Daxia."
"Yeah." Liu Jinsuo was called "Great Hero" a lot, and he became more and more pretentious.
"By the way, is there dinner here?"
Li Xia is very concerned about his diet. This is a habit he retained from his previous life. He used to practice a one-meter-long epee, which required height and physical fitness. Although his physical condition is not bad now, he doesn't want to be unable to keep up with nutrition.
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Liu Jinsuo said: "Dinner will be served in a moment. I'll ask the old scholar to bring it to you."
"Okay, please bring more meat, eggs, fruits and vegetables..."
Li Xia explained it carefully and praised Liu Jinsuo for being "heroic and courageous", making Liu Jinsuo very happy...
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It was getting dark, there were no candles in the room, only a little moonlight.
There was a gentle breeze, and the air was much better than in the cell.
"Liu Jinsuo's tattoos are so unsightly that I dare not let my little granddaughter look at them. However, Liu Jinsuo is not a sinister person. I heard that his tattoos are like this...
He wanted a mighty and domineering pattern. When he heard about the "Three Thousand Formations of Fierce Fighting with Golden Guns", he liked it. He lay down without even looking at the pattern carefully and told people to embroider quickly. When he got up and saw it, it became like this...
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The speaker's name is Han Chengxu, also known as Jingzhi.
This Han Chengxu Han turned out to be the "old nerd" Liu Jinsuo mentioned. He was about sixty years old, with white hair and a thin figure.
Han Chengxu was a chatty person, so he brought Li Xia food and sat in the room chatting.
The two of them chatted for a long time without realizing it.
Li Xia only occasionally guided the topic, and most of the time it was Han Chengxu who was talking...
"Where is Mr. Han from?"
"I don't deserve to say 'sir' to you, the little old man is just a prisoner."
"how you said that?"
"My life experience is scattered. I don't know which country I am from. For more than a hundred years, my hometown has belonged to the Song Dynasty, the Puppet Qi Dynasty, and the Jin Kingdom. I don't know whether it should be called Guide Prefecture, Nanjing, or Yingtian Prefecture.
alright.
Although my ancestors were from the Song Dynasty, I was a Jin person for the first forty years of my life. I was born in the Jin Kingdom and grew up in the Jin Kingdom. Until twenty years ago, the Song-Mongolian alliance destroyed the Jin Dynasty and the Song Army regained Guide Mansion.
, I can be regarded as a Song person again. But I am afraid that the Song Dynasty court will once again repeat the mistakes of the year when it joined forces with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty..."
Listening to Han Chengxu's words, Li Xia gradually gained some understanding of the dynasty he lived in.
He is not proficient in history, he only knows some common sense, and can barely guess what time it is through some events.
In short, it should be the late Southern Song Dynasty.
According to Han Chengxu, Genghis Khan has been dead for more than thirty years.
The grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, who destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, is now in his prime.
The word "should" can also be removed, that is, in the late Southern Song Dynasty...
In addition, this dynasty was different from the Southern Song Dynasty in his understanding.
It was the same before, the Northern Song Dynasty fell, and Jianyan moved south... The change seems to have started forty years ago, with the previous emperor, Song Ningzong.
In the eleventh year of Jiading reign of Emperor Ningzong of the Song Dynasty, Emperor Ningzong began a series of reforms.
However, this seemed to make the situation worse.
In the seventeenth year of Jiading, Emperor Ning Zong died, and the New Deal was completely abolished, leaving only a chaotic era and a bunch of place names and official names that he had changed...
Han Chengxu lived in the Jin Kingdom for the first half of his life and didn't know much about the old events in the Song Dynasty. This was pretty much the only information Li Xia could get from him.
The focus returned to this mission, and Li Xia guided Han Chengxu to discuss the situation in Kaifeng.
Today the Khan of the Great Mongol Khanate is Meng Ge.
Meng Ge is also the grandson of Genghis Khan and the eldest brother of Kublai Khan.
Eight years ago, after Meng Ge ascended the throne, he appointed Kublai Khan as the "General Commander-in-Chief of the Military and State Affairs of the Monan Han Territory", and the economic office was located in Kaifeng; later, Kublai Khan was given the Jingzhao Mansion, which was the fiefdom of Chang'an.
Li Xia finally figured out that the place he was going to this time was the place visited by Kublai Khan, the future founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.
…
"I don't know what I'm going to do when I go to Kaifeng this time, but there are only a few possibilities: suing for peace, spying, assassinating, and rescuing people."
Han Chengxu said, and then slowly said: "But the possibility of sending an envoy to seek peace is the smallest. Just looking at us, you can tell that you are a prisoner on death row and I am a prisoner. We are both people who cannot stand up to the stage. Even if we die here
To the north, apparently they are not from the Song Dynasty.
I heard that the situation is tense now, and there are people in the north who want to destroy the peace treaty and move south. When we go there this time, no matter what I think, it’s all...sigh."
Li Xia asked: "Sir, don't you want to go?"
"You can't help yourself." Han Chengxu let out a long sigh, patted his knees and stood up, saying: "It's getting late, let's stop talking tonight. When we set out the day after tomorrow, please take care of our grandson and me, little brother Li."
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After Han Chengxu left, Li Xia thought for a long time and understood more clearly what Bai Mao meant when he said, "It's definitely not a good thing to go out with that person to do business."
However, he had long understood that he was exchanging "certain death" for a "narrow escape".
Nie Zhongyou came over the next day and brought a long sword to Li Xia, and also brought someone... Bai Mao.
"Get ready and set off before dawn tomorrow." Nie Zhongyou casually threw the long sword to Li Xia.
Then, he said to Bai Mao, "If you dare to run away, your mother's life will be lost" and turned around and walked out.
Li Xia played with the ancient sword and secretly shook his head at Nie Zhongyou's behavior.
All the time, it's either "your brother is in my hand" or "your father is in my hand" or "your mother is in my hand", which is not good.
Bai Mao seemed very depressed. He sat down in Li Xia's room and began to sigh.
"What? Aren't you coming?"
When Bai Mao heard Li Xia speak, he remembered that this kid was a murderer who killed without blinking an eye, not to mention that he still had a sword in his hand.
He hurriedly took a few steps back, and did not relax until he saw clearly that the chains were tied to Li Xia's feet.
"That's the one." Bai Mao curled his lips, indicating the direction Nie Zhongyu was leaving, and said: "Looks like a mantis... He said that when he saw me, he thought I was smart, and he just needed a craftsman.
, after thinking about it, decided to take me on an errand."
Li Xia said: "He does look like a praying mantis."
"That's right, this bad official."
"Why didn't he cuff you?"
"My mother has been found by him, and I won't run away. Besides, who am I? The white-haired rat Bai Mao, can he cuff me?"
"Then you can help me unlock the shackles?"
Bai Mao rolled his eyes, annoyed at himself for talking too much, and said with a smile: "Don't, what if I piss off that praying mantis and he kills my mother?"
Li Xia nodded and said, "Forget it."
He thought that Nie Zhongyou arranged for Bai Mao to live in this house just to test whether Bai Mao would obey.
So he just casually tested the friendship between Bai Mao and himself...
That night, Bai Mao actually slept on the beams on the roof.
Before dawn, someone struck a gong in the yard.
The young man named Lin Zi shouted: "The chickens are crowing, the dogs and thieves are up! Grandpa will take you to visit my hometown in the north..."