"Why should I, a dying man, drag you down? Let me... go with Dabai Gao Kingdom. Shangfu (named Anhui) is right. I Dabai Gao Kingdom is located in the northwest. It has risen and fallen for hundreds of years, and no one has done anything for it.
It is really unjustifiable to die for one's country."
The room became extremely silent, and the siblings leaned against each other, silently drinking the bitter wine of separation between life and death.
Suddenly, Li Qingluan straightened up and raised his voice.
"Let's go, go quickly! If the Song army encircles you, you won't be able to leave even if you want to!"
Brother Richard stared at Li Qingluan with tear-filled eyes, wanting to engrav her image in his heart forever. After a while, he stood up resolutely, reluctantly let go of his sister's hand, and slowly walked towards her.
Back away from the door.
"Black-headed stone city is by the desert water, red-faced father's grave is on the white river, and the Great White Kingdom is on the other side..." Li Qingluan sang softly. The song was ethereal and sad, like the mist shrouding the royal tombs in Helan Mountain.
Hearing this song, Brother Richard stopped walking when he walked out of the house, and tears flowed down again. After more than ten breaths, he started to continue walking, but this time, he walked faster.
In the evening, the Xixia Internal Affairs Bureau escorted Ban Zheng Chuxie and hurriedly walked into the main hall of Baoguo Daxing Temple.
Brocades woven with gold and silver are hung everywhere in the hall. In the middle is the statue of Sakyamuni Buddha, which is more than three feet high with its base. Next to it are the two Medicine Buddhas and the Great Sun Tathagata Buddha, two feet high. They are all made of pure copper and covered with gold.
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Hundreds of butter candles and thousands of fragrant oil lamps illuminate the entire palace, making it look like a fairyland in the Buddhist world.
Zheng Chuxie walked gently behind Xia Master Li Qianshun and knelt quietly beside him.
"Your Majesty." Zheng Chuxie said softly.
Li Qianshun, who closed his eyes and folded his hands, stopped chanting, opened his eyes, saw Zheng Chuxie, and said softly: "Go out and talk."
After saying that, Li Qianshun raised his head, bowed respectfully to the Buddha statue three times, stood up quietly, and left the hall.
"Erlang has left?" Li Qianshun walked slowly on the corridor in front of the palace and asked Zheng Chuxie behind him.
"His Royal Highness the King of Jin led three hundred retinues to protect the princess, the crown prince and others, and left the west gate at dusk. I have already told the guards at each gate not to stop them."
Li Qianshun looked up at the sky, blinking hard. After a while, he returned to normal and said in a hoarse voice: "Let's go and see eldest sister with me."
"Your Majesty wants to visit Princess Helan? Please send someone to report first."
"There's no need to go to such trouble. Visits between family members don't require so much etiquette."
Li Qianshun walked into the house softly, but still woke up Li Qingluan who was resting with his eyes closed.
She raised her head and saw Li Qianshun, with a smile on her face.
Li Qianshun suddenly felt as if he had gone back more than ten years ago, when his father died in anger, and when he was only three or four years old, he suddenly became the leader of Dabai Gao Kingdom.
The queen mother was busy taking power, eradicating dissidents, and going to the Song Dynasty. She was alone in the harem, helpless. It was her sister who took her and her brother through the most difficult days.
My sister at that time had such a smile. This smile was like the sunshine in spring, which could dissolve the snow in the cold winter.
"Sister..." Li Qianshun sat in front of the bed, took Li Qingluan's hand and put it against his face, just like when he was a child, he fell asleep listening to his sister telling stories before going to bed.
I remember that at that time, I often got angry with Brother Richard in order to compete for my sister's warm and caring hands. But now my sister's hands are so cold and dry.
"Sister, I hate you so much! I hate that I was blinded by pride and jealousy and didn't listen to you, so I ended up in this situation today."
Li Qingluan gently touched Li Qianshun's face and said with a smile: "You are the king of a country with great talents and strategies. Of course you have your own opinions. It's not that you didn't do well, but that we were too unlucky to meet Zhao Shi. 3. Buddha protected the Song Dynasty, but he did not protect us."
"Sister, Zhao Shisan destroyed countless temples and forced tens of thousands of monks to return to secular life. Why did the Buddha protect him? Could it be that the Buddha also deceived good and feared evil?"
Li Qingluan smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you have read the Buddhist scriptures in vain. 'The mind has no place to live, but its heart is born.' We pray to the Buddha and chant the scriptures not to pray for the Buddha's blessing, but to understand the principles of this world. We respect What the Buddha and the monks wanted in their hearts was to seek rewards, avoid disaster, and escape from the sea of suffering; Zhao Shisan destroyed fake temples and drove out fake monks, but he was saving tens of thousands of people. What the Buddha saw is what we see. It’s different.”
Li Qianshun smiled and said, "After my sister got sick, she became wiser, solved confusions, and achieved Arahant status."
"Your Majesty is saying nice things to make me happy. I have sinned deeply and have many bonds. I am afraid I will go to hell after I die."
Li Qianshun's eyes shone with tears, "My sister's sins and bondage are all because of me. I know Gao Guo... I am willing to accompany my sister to hell. Anyway, I have no shame to see my ancestors."
"Your Majesty is talking like a child again." Li Qingluan said with a smile, "Erlang left the city, and your Majesty knows it."
"I got it. I also asked people to wait for him at the post station in the west, and sent him an edict, appointing him as the crown prince of the Dabai Gao Kingdom and supervising the military and state affairs. I also gave him the military symbols of the Baima Qiangzhen Army and the Youxiang Chaosun Army. Give it to him. If the rest of the two armies are not completely wiped out by the Song army, take them with you."
Li Qingluan looked at Li Qianshun with a look of relief on his face.
"Sister, I won't send you off when the time comes."
"Okay, I won't see your Majesty off at that time. Let's get together in Huangquan."
Li Qianshun held back his tears, stood up, and bowed his hands to Li Qingluan: "Sister, for everything you have done for me and Dabai Gaoguo, I have no way to repay you. I can only work as a cow or a horse in my next life..."
Li Qingluan interrupted him, "You don't have to be a cow or a horse. You will be my brother in the next life, and you will protect me."
Li Qianshun swallowed and nodded, and it took him a long time to squeeze out some sound from his throat.
"Um."
On the way back to the Daxing Zen Temple in Huguo, Li Qianshun looked at the streets of Xingqing Mansion, which were quiet and bustling. Except for the troops patrolling back and forth, the occasional pedestrians appeared in a hurry, worried and uneasy.
"Zheng Zhuxie, are you Han?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, the younger one is a Han from Ganzhou, and his ancestor is said to have been the Moli army's envoy to the Tibetan people."
"You killed off your heirs and became a chamberlain in the palace, which is a disgrace to your ancestors. I, the king of subjugation who ruined his ancestral heritage for hundreds of years, are a perfect match for each other." Li Qianshun said mockingly to himself.
"Your Majesty, God will not destroy our country, Dabai Gao, there will definitely be a turn for the better..."
Li Qianshun interrupted Zheng Zhuxie's words of comfort: "Don't say nice things to comfort me. I know what the situation is now. Sometimes, I do regret that I didn't listen to the emperor's words... I tried my best at that time to join forces with the Northern Liao Dynasty to intervene in the Song Dynasty. The dispute between the prince and the prince made it impossible for Zhao Shisan to be an official in the Song Dynasty, and perhaps the disaster today would not have happened."
"Or maybe when the Song army raised troops this summer, instead of hesitating and dividing their troops for defense, they were ruthless and concentrated the main force to fight the Song army desperately, making the officials of the Song Dynasty think that we would burn everything with them, saying Maybe this will be an honorable surrender."
Speaking of this, Li Qianshun said mockingly: "Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in this world. But to be honest, the emperor's sister and I both know that even if I adopt her strategy, it will be difficult to stop Zhao Shisan from raising troops, and today's fate cannot be avoided. disaster."
"Zhao Shisan, this bastard! He is an unprecedented and unique murderer. Compared with him, Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty are just good people who eat fast and chant sutras. I am not lucky enough to encounter such an opponent by chance. Haha, but I won't be alone, I just left earlier than that bastard Yelu Yanxi. I'm waiting for him below, you Khitan bastard who refuses to save you!"
Seeing Zheng Chuxie's surprised look, Li Qianshun asked, "You don't believe it? I didn't believe it either when Sister Huang told me about it."
"Do you know where Zhao Shisan, an official of the Song Dynasty, is?"
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