The horse sneezed, because Li Xia hung the package containing the head around its neck, which made it particularly unhappy and tried to take it off several times.
Li Xia then stroked its mane and comforted it quite gently.
"Can't you throw away that head?" Zhang Wenjing asked softly.
"I've already given you a long way to go, don't push yourself too far."
Zhang Wenjing said again with a pleading tone: "How about throwing it away?"
Li Xia glanced at her and smiled slightly.
The two looked at each other, Zhang Wenjing lowered her head and pouted her cheeks in annoyance, knowing that he had seen through her little thoughts.
The head hanging there was of course very scary to her, and it was true that she was so frightened that she cried.
But I wanted to ask him to throw away the head. In fact, he had other purposes, but it failed...
"Why do you have to do such a cruel thing?" she asked.
"Why do you ask even though you know it?"
"Okay." Zhang Wenjing whispered: "If you don't chop off Chi Na's head, my guards will definitely destroy the body and eliminate traces of it, right?"
"Um."
"Are you determined to make my family and the town magistrate enmity?"
"Yes, I will hang it up when we get to the county seat ahead. I will make a show with you again, and it will spread to Meng people's ears that the guards around the Zhang family's daughter killed Chi Na. Once the news comes out, no matter what Meng people believe,
If you don’t believe it, things won’t survive.”
Zhang Wenjing said: "After that, will you kill me?"
"Kill you for what?"
"Maybe... kill me and then betray me to the Meng people?"
"Your family is not as stupid as Meng Ren, and they know that you are in my hands. Even if you die, they will find out who killed you." Li Xia said: "On the contrary, your family is passive, as long as you have
It’s okay if you can’t explain clearly.”
After hearing this, Zhang Wenjing gradually became less panicked than she was at the beginning, and whispered: "Then it's useless for you to take me with you. Instead, I'm a burden. Can you let me go then?"
"No, I came to the north to do something. I can take you with me to contain the Zhang family."
"Containment? So you have companions?"
Li Xia said: "Anyway, you are useful. For example, when the time comes, I can throw you to the north to attract the pursuers, and then I can escape to the west."
Zhang Wenjing said: "I think you are lying to me. Maybe you threw me to the north and let me watch you flee to the west. In fact, you quietly fled to the north."
"Something like that." Li Xia said lightly, "Do you think you are smart? If you were really smart, you wouldn't say it."
Zhang Wenjing curled her lips, a little annoyed at being belittled by him in this way.
"It's really hard for you to act like this. Why don't you send me back? My father is very thirsty for talents and will surely give you an official position. Wouldn't it be better than working for the cowardly Zhao and Song Dynasties?"
"Do you want me to be considered a traitor?"
"You said my father is a traitor again."
Zhang Wenjing lowered her head, but spoke with an aggrieved tone.
"You only saw my father serving the Mongols, but you didn't see him governing the Han land with Han laws, protecting Han studies, promoting culture and education, and making the people live and work in peace and contentment... For more than a hundred years, the north was repeatedly ravaged by foreign tribes, and the Song Dynasty preferred to settle in the south of the Yangtze River.
We, the Han people in the north, have worked hard to restore the Han family's laws and regulations in the Central Plains and restore vitality to the northern land.
What else should we do? If we don’t rely on the King of Monan who implemented Han law, how can we rely on the small court of Zhao and Song Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River? Can it regain the rivers and mountains, stabilize the Central Plains, and inherit the ethics? It’s not that we didn’t hope that Wang Shi would be settled in the north, but Qian
I've been waiting for a long time, waiting for the sword that Fengbo Pavilion used to kill Grandpa Yue, isn't it enough to kill the Northerners' yearning for the Zhao and Song Dynasties?
So what if you bother to get rid of my Zhang family? Who will govern Huaibei in the future? Is it okay to destroy the hard work of our northern Han people? From now on, let the Mongols herd horses in the Central Plains again, and let Henan and Hebei become
Isn’t it a deserted land?”
Although Zhang Wenjing is a little girl, she probably has a little eloquence. She just said before that the Northerners were abandoned by the Song Dynasty, and now she talked about how they restored the Han Dynasty.
Li Xia was unmoved and said: "Shut up, I told you not to make any noise."
"I'm not making any noise. I told you carefully." Zhang Wenjing said softly: "Go and see my father, okay? Not only is what he is doing not a traitor, but he is protecting the Han people and the Han system. If you see
Get over him..."
"If I meet him, can he still recruit me as his son-in-law?"
With one sentence, Zhang Wenjing finally shut up.
She became more and more annoyed, feeling that she was being treated lightly by this scoundrel, so she was very angry.
I was so angry that I had no choice but to ignore him.
However, until late at night, it was she who spoke again.
"that……"
"Um?"
"That...I..."
Li Xia didn't put her in trouble. He took out the embroidered shoes from the bag and put them on her, then held her waist and lifted her off.
"Go ahead."
Zhang Wenjing's face was full of embarrassment, and she wanted to curse something, but in the end she could only stomp her feet and carefully walk around behind the bushes.
She found that the rope that tied her hands was not too short. He was probably prepared for this situation... This was even more annoying because he didn't know what he was thinking about himself.
After rustling for a while, Zhang Wenjing came back with her head lowered, walked to the front of the horse, glared at Li Xia, and said, "Don't touch me, I'll get up by myself."
Before she could react, Li Xia had already lifted her onto the saddle and took off her embroidered shoes again.
"Do not touch me……"
Before Zhang Wenjing finished speaking, Li Xia ignored her and walked around behind the bushes.
Her face changed, she felt ashamed and scared.
When Li Xia came out again, she already had a small flower in her hand.
He didn't say anything, and calmly put the flower in Zhang Wenjing's hair again, led the horse and left.
The two of them had a tacit agreement not to mention how the flower fell.
Zhang Wenjing was a little disappointed when her little trick was exposed, but she was glad that he didn't get angry.
But thinking about being frivolous by him so many times, she shed tears again...
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Fan Yuan and Zhang Yanxiong led people to the east and north and searched all night, but found no clues.
When the sky was dim, they laid out the map on the roadside. Fan Yuan looked at it and his finger landed on the location of Luyi County.
"The little thief should have gone west. He chopped off Chi Na's head. He must have taken it out in a crowded place. It should be Luyi. I should have thought of it. In this case, he still wants to go to Ying
Zhou, I was tricked by him again..."
Zhang Yanxiong was extremely anxious. He didn't listen to Fan Yuan's analysis at all, and he didn't care about Yingzhou. He just kept sending people to allocate manpower.
"Transfer people! Transfer as many people as you can, and search every possible place for me... Follow me to Luyi first!"
Zhang Yanxiong ran a few steps, turned around and saw that Fan Yuan was still following him, and said: "Fan is seriously injured, let's rest first."
"No, we must find my eldest sister."
In fact, Fan Yuan didn't even have the strength to blow his nose, so he kept wiping it with his sleeve.
The wind blew his nose redder and his hair thinner, and his face was so pale that he looked like he was going to faint at any moment.
But this time, even if he died from exhaustion, he had to find Sister Zhang before he died, and cut the little thief into pieces, so that he could repay the Zhang family's kindness to him and alleviate his hatred for the little thief.
.
Zhang Yanxiong originally blamed Fan Yuan, thinking that sending Sister Zhang to Baozhou was a bad move.
But if you think about it carefully, if Sister Zhang hadn't left, who knows whether Chi Na would have led people into Zhang's Mansion? Once there was blood in Zhang's Mansion, things would have been even worse.
As for now, it's useless to say anything. There is only one thing that is urgent, and that's to find the commander's beloved daughter back...