Today is the Dragon Boat Festival in May, and the people of Liao also celebrate this festival, but the content cannot help but be the same, they are absorbing the Dragon Boat Festival customs of the Central Plains and other ethnic groups, and innovating them according to the customs of their own people. There are no zongzi to eat in Liao, and there is no dragon boat race, but there are customs such as making mugwort clothes, eating mugwort cakes, drinking rhubarb soup, shooting willows and playing polo that are not available in the Central Plains.

Since it is a holiday, except for the staff on duty, all have a day off, Zhao Yong and Qiao Kun celebrate with the people. Zhao Ta quietly went out of the city early in the morning with Wangfu and a squad of guards.

After the defeat of the Jin army, Zhao Yong ordered people to collect the remains of the fallen soldiers and move them to this hill outside the city, just a few days later, the sparse young grass has grown on the tomb, dyeing the mound with a layer of pale green, showing tenacious vitality, but the people buried below can not sleep for a long time. The soldiers from the Loyal Army were buried on the southeast slope of the dirt mountain, so that they could always see their hometown from afar.

"Brothers, the prince has come to see you, and he brought you hand-wrapped zongzi!" Wangfu led a few guards to light a stick of incense in front of each grave, put two rice dumplings, and inserted a branch of wormwood, Wangfu whispered while wiping his tears with his sleeve.

Many of these people were born in the old Xiangyi Mansion and knew each other well, but now these people died in battle, but the inscription on the stele is a fake name, but their real names and surnames are deeply engraved in the hearts of the brothers.

"Lord Wang, get ready!" Wangfu lit a bouquet of incense and handed it to the prince and said in a low voice.

"Die before you are born, and the hero will be full of tears!" Zhao Ta bowed three times, inserted the incense in the incense burner, and Wangfu lit the paper money. Faint light smoke, like paper ashes flying with butterflies. A wave of sorrow welled up in my heart.

"Brothers, I've come to see you. I brought you zongzi and wine from our house, so let's get up and eat and drink! Zhao Ta took a sip of a bowl of wine, and then poured the residual wine into the fire and said loudly, just like half of the past, but as soon as the words fell, a woman's suppressed exclamation suddenly sounded, which startled the people who sacrificed, could it be that there are female ghosts among them...

Xiao Chongjie looked at Zhao Xin's frightened appearance and realized that his sister was wrong, and followed her gaze. I saw a young man dressed in plain clothes leading people to pay respects at the grave, and when he heard his sister's exclamation, his eyes followed the sound to the forest, and he seemed to be very dissatisfied with the disturbance of this solemn moment, and there was a trace of anger in his eyes.

But before Xiao Chongjie could see the man's appearance, the young man was already surrounded by his guards at the core like a great enemy, and at the same time, someone searched in the direction where they were. Xiao Chongjie was about to stand up and go out to explain, but was stopped by his sister.

"Don't move anyone, pretend nothing happened, otherwise none of us will survive!" Zhao Xin said to everyone in a low voice. As the first chief of the guard, she clearly knew the principle that the guards followed in dealing with emergencies, everything was based on the safety of the prince, as long as the other party had any hostile behavior, even if it was just to put his hand on the hilt of the knife. They will all go on a killing spree without hesitation.

"Nasty ants crawled on my hands!" When a few people cautiously leaned over, they found a Khitan girl who kept beating her hands while stomping on a piece of beef jerky on the ground with her feet and muttering dissatisfied. It caused a sturdy Khitan man on the side to laugh, and the two attendants on the side looked at the angry girl at a loss.

See what's in front of you. The sand pile breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be a few Khitans who were struggling here. The maiden was 'frightened' when an ant had crawled on her hand, and though they were armed, they hung themselves in the saddle without any hostility, but were full of curiosity about their coming.

The sand pile looked at it carefully, made a gesture, and quietly retreated without speaking. And Zhao Xin, who was pretending to be annoyed at the moment, felt like a man, she could call out the names of everyone who came over, and even said their preferences, those were all brothers who used to get along day and night, she was worried that these people would recognize her, but fortunately, her performance was very successful!

"Chen Cong, you stupid boy, don't you know that you don't have to worry about running out of firewood to leave the green mountains in the road, so you have to blow yourself apart, so that our corpses can't be found... Alas, it's all my uselessness that didn't make you smarter! ”

"I heard that you were still talking about me before you died, and now I am here to see you, but you can't talk to me!"

"Li Pinggu, why are you lying here, didn't you say that you want to go to see Xijing, when you come back, you want to tell me about the scenery of Liao, but you haven't gone to Xijing yet, how can you finish playing, spineless thing!"

"Yang Tianshun, you also learn from them, talking doesn't count, I said I won't let you go, you have to follow them to coax, let me tell you what's good!"

"Zheng Bao, your father sent you to the army for exercise, how can I explain to your father when you lie here, how can I explain to your mother, your father is the head of the mansion and lacks you to earn this money..."

"Sending you here is really a loss-making deal, and I feel sorry for me! You can lie here and sleep in peace, but you want me to face your relatives at home, what should I do! ”……

Zhao Xin listened to the familiar voice coming from the woods, he was crying, whimpering, crying, complaining, grief-stricken, although she knew that the person in her heart who could never let go was beside her, but she didn't dare to turn her head to look at it, she couldn't give him comfort...

"Brothers, you can rest here in peace, when I clean them up, I will definitely take you home with me, come on, let's have another drink!"

"He's leaving!" Zhao Xin heard the prince say goodbye to the 'everyone', and suddenly stood up and looked over there, the deep longing made her unable to restrain herself anymore, she wanted to see the prince, even if it was just a glance.

"Little lady, your hair is so ugly!" As if he had a heart in his heart, the prince who was turning over and getting on the horse also turned his head to look at this side, was slightly stunned, dropped a sentence and laughed and hit the horse away.

"This kid is so hateful, I'm going to kill him!" Hearing Zhao Ta's foul words, Xiao Chongjie said hatefully.

"Big brother, no!" Zhao Xin watched the back of the prince disappear into the rising smoke and dust, and said without looking back, but secretly laughed in his heart, "The prince is still so careful, the sentence just now must have been 'revenge' for disturbing his memorial!" But is my hair really ugly, just because he doesn't recognize himself?! "She was again suffering from gains and losses.

Zhao Xin touched the bun hanging down his ear, and couldn't help but be gloomy, Khitan women can only keep long hair after marriage, and girls must cut off the hair on the top of their heads, hang bangs on their foreheads, and only keep long hair on their temples, and comb them into a bun on the side of their ears, and the rest of the places are not allowed to keep hair, which is of course not as good as the hairstyle of the Central Plains woman, and it is no wonder that the prince said that he was ugly.

"For what? Do you know him? Xiao Chongjie took two steps forward and asked puzzledly.

"I don't know, look at that person's magnificence, he must be a big man in Texas City, wouldn't we kill him and make a feud with Texas, and there will be one more enemy in vain!" Zhao Xin denied it.

"The Texas army was defeated first and then won, and it seems that the price is not small!" Although Xiao Chongjie was skeptical, his sister's statement made him unable to find any fault, and looked at the tombs covering the entire hillside in front of him and said with a smile.

"Well, but it is many times stronger than our Yuanzhou army, at that time we encountered only a partial division of the Jin army, but we lost nearly half of the troops, and the elite was almost exhausted before it was repulsed. And the Texas Army was formed less than a year ago, and it encountered the main force led by Wan Yan Xianye, which not only repelled their attack, but also made Wan Yan Xian also greatly injured, and he was unable to attack Xijing again, we can't disagree! Zhao Xin walked through the tombs, as if he had returned to his former comrades-in-arms, but none of the names on the tombstones were familiar, but just now she clearly heard the names of the prince chanting were all soldiers in the loyal army?

"Alas, if our Yuanzhou Army can have such strength, why bother to be dispatched by them!" Xiao Chongjie said with envy, he has been fighting with the Jin Army for many years, of course, he knows what kind of character Yan Dao Wanyan is also in, and he also knows the combat power of the main force of the Jin Army, the fact makes him frustrated, he has a fierce enemy in front of him, and there are strong neighbors next to him, and it is not easy to come out.

"Yes, the Texas Army is so strong, no matter who wants to ally with them!" Zhao Xin stood still, looked at the tombstone in front of him, and suddenly figured out that even if the Texas Army was not formed by the prince, it must be inextricably linked to him, which shows that the prince has secretly intervened in the war of the Liao State.

"What Xiaomei said is extremely true, Xijing must make efforts to win over, as long as they are willing to be obedient, Xiao Chara can gain a firm foothold in Xijing with this, we can't sit idly by!" Xiao Chongjie also thought that whoever gets the support of Texas will greatly increase his strength.

"I'm afraid it's not easy to form an alliance with them, if you don't show some sincerity and pay a considerable price, it's difficult!" Zhao Xin smiled bitterly, the eldest brother is really whimsical.

Because at the beginning of the formation of the Loyal and Brave Army, the Liao State and the Jurchen were supposed to be enemies, and the information collected by the caravan formed was mostly about the two countries, and the Western Xia was just the training ground and stepping stone for the prince, so Zhao Xin was not surprised that the prince intervened in the war of the Liao State and the Jurchens as enemies, and the prince has always been shrewd and clinked, and if he wants to get something out of his hands, he must be prepared to suffer a loss.

"You guys are so good, the prince still remembers you, but if I am like you one day, I wonder if the prince of the Dao can still remember me, a traitor of the loyal army!" Zhao Xin looked at the incense candles that had not been extinguished in front of the grave and the zongzi offered in front of the spirit, and couldn't help but feel sad from his heart and muttered to himself.

"Fifth sister, you really don't know that group of people just now? If you are familiar with them, we can take the opportunity to join forces with them to deal with Xijing! Xiao Chongjie looked at his sister's sad appearance, obviously acquaintance with these dead people, and had deep feelings, and asked again. (To be continued.) )