In the evening, Duo Siman hugged Li Xia and asked again: "When we get to Chang'an, will we be able to do things between husband and wife?"
"Um."
"what's on your mind?"
"I wonder how Genghis Khan died?"
"How did you die?"
Speaking of his great-great-grandfather, Duo Siman had some respect for him, but he didn't have any taboos. He spoke more out of curiosity.
"There are some Mongolian soldiers here in Liupan Mountain who stayed and guarded the area for generations. Some people say he died of illness, others say he fell off his horse."
"He either died of illness or fell to death. What do you have to think about, husband?"
In fact, Li Xia had just heard people discussing the death of Genghis Khan from the Xixia princess, and was thinking that if this was the case, Mongolian customs should be different from Xixia customs.
Over in Mongolia, it is quite normal to kill someone and take away their wives and daughters, and women can only be obedient as a matter of course.
Being used to this, I didn't expect that the Princess of Xixia would resist. Maybe it was possible?
It's probably just a rumor, but there's no conclusion yet.
Li Xia glanced at Duo Siman in his arms. After all, he had no intention of discussing such a matter with such a little girl.
"Aren't you going to say goodbye to your lost neighbor, Bi Chihe?"
"Yes, then I'm going now?"
"Go ahead."
Duosi Mancai left here, but not long after, Li Xia received another message.
Li Xia couldn't help but think of what he said today.
——"Xiliji is still alive and is offering sacrifices."
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"Xiliji is still alive, let's kill him."
Lin Zi gave such instructions and waved his hand, and soon people from the Military Intelligence Department rushed out...
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Xiliji pushed up his mask and walked out of the palace.
He felt a little regretful.
I regret that I should not have instigated a rebellion against Uluru Hunai when I went to Tianchi.
Although he was still young and looked a little submissive, after being captured by Li Xia, he also thought of joining forces with Uluru Kunai, so he found an opportunity when Li Xia went to pursue Yelu Zhu...
"Ketun, when I was a child, I secretly read the letter my father Khan wrote to you."
"Yeah?"
"Father Khan said that after becoming the Great Khan, what he missed most was the nights when guests stayed in his tent in those years."
"It seems that you really peeked at those letters."
At that time, Xiliji swallowed his saliva and felt a little nervous, but then said in a mysterious tone: "Dou Siman was born to you and my father, right? Is Mubalasha also my half-brother? I
I think he should be the Great Khan of Mongolia..."
He thought his words were very smart and thought that Uluru Hunai would help him.
Naturally, he didn't know the playful smile on Uluru Hunai's face when he heard that Li Xia wanted to support him as the Great Khan.
People in their teens still cannot understand what love is between people in their thirties and forties, and they still believe in deep affection.
It's not that Xili Ji is not smart, what he did is almost extremely smart for his age.
But maybe he was just too smart.
Therefore, when Haidu wanted to poison him, Li Xia deliberately went along with the situation.
It was the old shaman who secretly saved him.
If he could do it over again, Xiliji would not do anything and would just be a puppet.
But he couldn't. Seeing that Li Xia could still make the kings surrender by replacing him with his lost neighbor, he felt more and more anxious and uneasy.
Today, he finally ignored the old shaman's dissuasion and gave it a try.
Otherwise, if you continue to live like this, you will eventually become a useless person.
"Don't worry, I will stay down and wait for a better opportunity. Sooner or later, Duo Siman will get tired of Li Xia's face. When she leaves the grassland and has had enough grievances, she will help me."
Xiliji actually had no confidence himself, so he comforted himself by saying something.
"I am her brother..."
Suddenly, someone came up quickly from behind and patted him on the shoulder.
Siriki turned his head.
The next moment, the person behind him covered his mouth.
"Woo!"
"puff."
The knife cut Xiliji's throat cleanly and neatly.
The old shaman did not panic, but slowly took off the mask on his face, revealing an old and sad face.
Blood was still spurting out, all over his face.
He raised three fingers and scratched the blood mist on his face into three bloody marks.
"Old Shaman, King Qin didn't want to kill you, but you went too far." Someone whispered in Mongolian.
"I also want to live, but a black crow cannot become a white goose, and an old Mongolian cannot become a Han."
"Really? I really want to keep you alive so I can see if what you said is wrong..."
The Lieutenant of the Military Intelligence Department who was still talking was only halfway through his words when he heard another "poof" and the old shaman had been stabbed to the ground.
"What nonsense."
The other captain who took action cursed, cut off the head, and began to dispose of the body.
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"King Qin."
The lost princess was sitting with Duo Siman and saying goodbye. When she turned around and saw Li Xia coming in, she quickly stood up and called out.
"Duo Siman, please wait for me at the door. I will have a few words with the Khan."
"Is there anything I can't hear?"
Although Duo Siman said this, he still stepped on his small boots and walked out.
Li Xia then took out a piece of paper and handed it to the bereaved neighbor.
"You did a good job." He said this, "Take it back as a souvenir."
The lost neighbor hesitated for a moment, then took it, but immediately put the note on the fire and burned it, then lowered his head, like a child who had done something wrong.
"No need to commemorate."
"what ever."
"My brother and I are different. I am more honest and obedient." The neighbor added, "I didn't tell Duo Siman about her life experience. All the maids can testify."
She tries hard to act like an obedient puppet.
Because it was she who betrayed her brother Sirikit.
She didn't want to be dragged down by them anymore.
A lost neighbor is not a princess raised in a deep palace.
What she had heard and seen since she was a child was that Naima Zhenzhi and Haimei Zhi had overwhelming power; it was Princess Tumanlun who was pregnant and personally led the army to massacre more than 1.7 million people.
In the more than six years since her father's death, this fourteen-year-old girl has been used to seeing her uncles killing each other and seeing life and death. She has endured countless hardships and narrow escapes from Halaholin to Alimari.
Forged into a heart of stone.
Every member of the Golden Family is a contender for the throne.
It will be better understood if the sweat position here is replaced by "power and wealth". Whether the members of the Golden Family are men or women, old or young, they are born with ambitions for power.
Li Xia turned around and left the palace, feeling more and more aggressive the Mongols.
This kind of aggressiveness does not mean that you like to fight.
But whether they are men or women, they all have a tenacity in their bones to fight for their lives against God.
Many times he hated their cruelty, but the unimaginable hardships on the grassland did give them the strength to survive at any cost.
The next day, Li Xia left Liupan Mountain.
However, in mid-October a month later, he still had not returned to Chang'an...
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October 14, Xiangyang.
"Is Li Xia really dead?"
"There were very lively rumors from the Yuan Army, but there was no movement in Guanzhong. The villain asked several businessmen, and everyone laughed and said that it was a rumor, saying that it was made up by the Yuan Army."
"Made it up?"
"Yes, the original words were 'The King of Qin just went on a tour and will return to Chang'an next month. The Yuan army is really making it up'."
"The Yuan army attacked Tongguan so violently, and Li Xia didn't even return to Chang'an. Didn't Chang'an's people feel uneasy?"
"Chang'an City... everything remains as usual."
Lu Wenhuan dismissed the spy, waited for a while, and finally waited until the spies who were inquiring about information from Heluo came back.
"There are rumors coming from the Yuan army, but is there any specific cause of Li Xia's death? Was it really possible to annihilate him on the battlefield?"
"It is said that... he was killed by a Mongolian woman."
"What?"
"It was said that Li Xia robbed a Mongolian woman in the Western Regions. I thought she was the princess of a certain vassal king in the Western Regions. I never thought that she was the daughter of Brother Meng. She stabbed Li Xia in the throat while they were having fun.
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"How is that possible?" Lu Wenhuan didn't believe it. He stood up and asked, "Did Dong Wenbing change his career to storyteller?"
"This news was obtained by the villain after he bribed a salesman outside Dong's residence. He said it was from a servant of the Dong family. Dong Wenbing didn't believe it at first. He heard him exclaim with his own ears, 'How is this possible!'"
Lu Wenhuan thought about it carefully and felt that it was just such a bizarre thing, but it didn't look like he was making it up.
After pondering for a long time, he could not make a decision, so he wrote two letters and sent them out urgently, one to Ezhou and the other to Lin'an.
Once Li Xia dies, I'm afraid it will be too late if we don't send troops to conquer Sichuan and Shu...