The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 407
The hot temperature gradually dropped, the sky was dark, oil lamps were lit up in the dormitory, inside the tulle curtain, the white bare feet were slightly arched, rubbing against the other foot gently, and the gold-plated silk skirt was extended to wrap the plump With her hair in a bun hanging down her shoulders and bedding like a waterfall, Yue Liduo sighed while propping her face and cheeks.

Although he blocked the news, the nobles and leaders of various tribes would definitely tell this matter to Yelu Abaoji in Youzhou. Ever since the daughter was considered to be born by someone else, the couple had a estrangement, even for several months. He didn't even speak. If the matter of the Han people in Shangjing was brought up to her husband, to a large extent, she would be suspected of doing it.

Counting these nobles in the city, the voices from the Shulu tribe recently made the woman a little breathless.

The bronze lampposts burned continuously, and the waiting ladies lowered their heads. In the silence, there were footsteps approaching outside the hall. Before the announcement was made, the door of the bedroom was pushed open by a big hand.

"Sister!" The person who came in was around thirty, and was the younger brother of the woman, Xiao Ah Guzhi, with a red belt wrapped around his forehead, his hair bun hanging down his shoulders, unrestrained, but tall and tall, he had fought bravely in the Khitan army. He was also born as a personal guard of Yelu Abaoji's imperial tent. This time he went south to Youzhou, and he was ordered to monitor the land of Heshuo with his younger brother Xiao Shilu.

After hearing about the accident in Shangjing, Xiao Shilu stayed behind and only brought a hundred or so riders to rush back to Shangjing overnight. As soon as he entered the city, he came to the palace and clamored to see the queen. Khitan has only been established for a year, and the savage spirit has not been tamed yet. Others think He beat him to the ground and was the queen's younger brother. The guards in the palace didn't dare to make a real move, so they had to follow him all the way in.

"Go back!"

The woman covered her bare feet with a flick of her sleeve, and called out to the palace guards outside the door, and with the help of the maid, she stood up and put on her shoes.

"A few days ago, I had a rift with His Majesty, and most of them still complained in my heart. You are so unruly, so be careful to come back and punish you."

"Sister, you are still worried about yourself."

Xiao Agu just didn't care about his sister's eyes. He rushed back overnight, so thirsty, he simply went to the table, poured water, took the pastry and ate it and said: "If there is such a commotion outside, your Majesty's side may It’s up to you. Where’s Han Yanwei? He’s a counselor, the Han people are cunning, there’s no way around it!”

"I've been here before. This is the first time he has encountered such a thing. I asked my sister to send me back to think about it."

The woman came across and watched her younger brother chew and swallow the food with bulging cheeks. She smiled and took the silk handkerchief and handed it over: "Slow down, no one will snatch it from you."

Xiao Agu just let the woman wipe away the debris from the corners of his mouth. Although the two of them are not young, they enjoyed this kind of intimacy, as if they were back in the tent when they were young. Lu and Xiao Shilu rode horses to herd sheep, dug out rabbit holes, and played dirty all day, just like now, and the women wiped them clean one by one.

"Sister, what about those people outside?"

Thinking of when he entered the imperial city, he saw Khitan nobles, big and small, entrenched, and he was worried about the woman in front of him, "Why did they question Auntie? What happened to that Han man? There are also rumors" he said. Here, the voice is lowered: "Qigu is not His Majesty's"

Bah!
Yue Liduo slammed the table and stood up, staring at him with rounded eyes, flushed with anger, "You don't believe my sister?"

"No no. I believe in sister, but outside"

However, when it came to this, Yue Liduo sat back dejectedly, and actually had nothing to hide from her relatives at home, she shook her head with a little confused eyes.

"Actually, my sister doesn't know either. I'm not sure. That's why I saved the Han man."

"Is it the Han man who stole the huge wealth from Shangjing?" This time it was Xiao Agu's turn to widen his eyes. He had heard of the Han man before and had seen it from afar. He was an old fat man who brought many nobles south The Han people have a lot of wealth, but he is not interested in these. After this incident, he naturally doesn't know the joints inside.

"I didn't expect my sister to be so good at her age and figure."

He muttered something, and was slapped on the top of the head by the woman.Yue Liduo blushed even more angry: "What nonsense, this person is an old friend of that person, and also a cunning Han Chinese, my sister should not be soft-hearted, she should have killed him at that time, so that what happened now will not happen!"

"that person?"

Xiao Agu only heard more confused, and when he got there, he heard the woman's explanation, and then he realized that the man was Geng Qing, King Yong of the Liang Kingdom, who owned Chang'an, Longyou, Jiannan West Road and other places, and had a huge territory.

And the Han people who did this in the city are old friends of King Yong, so by saying this, he can clearly understand the ins and outs of the matter.

"If that's the case, this person is worthy of my sister."

Then, the man was slapped again, this time on the face, and jumped up from the bench in pain, hiding away: "Sister, Ah Gu is only joking, don't worry about it."

"My sister is full of troubles. You still have time to joke around!"

Yue Liduo felt that the younger brother would not be of much help when he came back, and was about to send him away, when suddenly a guard's voice shouted from outside: "Queen, Dili Gulu has business to visit!"

Dili Gulu is Han Zhigu's Khitan name. Unlike Lu Wenjin who surrendered, he was captured by Yelu Yuwen when he was young, and later grew up in Khitan, and married to Yelu Abaoji with Yue Liduo. Step by step, he sat down to the position of today's Zongzhi Hanersi, Bazhou Zhangwu Army Jiedushi.

But in the final analysis, he is a direct descendant of the descendant Xiao family. The emperor and empress were unhappy before, and the matter of promotion to the secretary was postponed. Now he is visiting late at night, because there is a change in the city. When he heard the news, he rushed over without stopping.

After being summoned, Han Zhigu hurried in, and after saluting, he hurriedly said:

"Queen, something has happened. I heard that the nobles in the city gathered private soldiers from the clan and wanted to break into the imperial city!"

"They dare!"

Yue Liduo shouted, telling Xiao Agu to just wait, flicked his wide sleeves, turned around and went to the back, came out after a while, changed into a close-fitting leather armor with a waist and wrists, a weapon in his hand, and a red suit The cloak strode out of the dormitory, his voice icy cold resounding.

"Summon the Shan army, I want to see what these prodigal dogs can come up with!"

Reasonable, I don't take it, but if you want to mobilize troops, that is, you stick your heads out and chop it off!

The palace was suddenly full of noise. The soldiers and horses stationed in the left and right courtyards moved together. Nearly 1 people gathered in the square. The eldest son Yelubei, who had turned 15, and the second son Yelu Deguang, who was [-] years old, also came over in armor and armed soldiers.

Knowing the reason, the eldest son Yelubei frowned slightly, and said in a low voice: "Mother, the matter is not yet clear, will this kind of action be a bit of a fuss? They have been cheated and lost money, and they can just promise to appease them. When the royal father comes back, he probably has an ugly face."

The woman turned her head to look at the prince, her eyebrows slightly frowned.

"You are studious, you are elegant and quiet, but you don't know that the front is dangerous. Your father is not in the city. My mother and son should watch carefully. Otherwise, if you lose the city, you will not be able to deal with your father. You are the Khitan prince, so you can't imitate the culture of the Han people." weak!"

"That's right, brother, what the queen mother said is the truth!" Yelu Deguang smiled and held a long spear taller than him, and diligently helped Yue Liduo onto the horse, and then he also got on the horse's back, following closely behind. Go to the imperial city.

The night was dark, and the long street was full of flames, and many figures came from afar to the foot of the imperial city in a long dragon holding torches.

There are more than a hundred nobles headed by them, and there are many generals among them, staring at the nervous defenders of the imperial city, talking in low voices.

"The queen is always resourceful, she cannot be unaware of this!"

"Hmph, I already knew that she was at odds with His Majesty. Before the incident happened, Duo kept it a secret for a month and didn't let His Majesty know. Most likely, he took advantage of His Majesty's expedition to the Han people to plunder more money!"

"Then what are you waiting for, take down the imperial city and capture her first!"

The muttering voices grew louder, and the soldiers and generals at the tower and the city gate were frightened for a while. Except for a small number of Fan Han soldiers, most of them were clansmen. If they really wanted to fight, they would look ugly.

At this moment, a soldier ran up the tower and underestimated a few words in the general's ear. The latter breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly ordered the surrounding soldiers to line up. He also stood aside.

Not long after, a slender figure, dragging a cloak and pressing the handle of the knife at her waist, strode over, stood behind the wall, and looked at the sea of ​​flames burning with torches below, her voice was clear and loud.

"Khitan men have always been fierce warriors against the enemy. Today, why did they show their weapons around their own people?!"

"Yue Liduo, don't you know yourself?!"

There was a lot of shouting below, you must know that it was all their wealth, the wealth they had accumulated in a lifetime of fighting, disappeared without a trace overnight, and whoever came here would not be able to swallow the anger in their hearts.

"Yue Liduo, the Han people said that they have an old relationship with you, and said that you also invested a lot of money in it, didn't they?!"

"Tell me, did that person roll across the weeds with you?"

"Give us back our money—"

Amidst the yelling and cursing, some excited people sprinkled all those shop deeds and land deeds into the night sky. They were known to be scams, so these things were all waste paper.

"Everyone!"

Yue Liduo suppressed the anger in her heart and looked at so many people below. If they really wanted to kill them, the city would probably be bloody, and she was wronged when asked about it.

"Yue Liduo feels ashamed of you, but if you lead troops to rush to the imperial city, that is dissatisfaction with His Majesty. I suppress this matter and do not spread it to the outside world. I just hope that Your Majesty will not be distracted and defeat the Han people and take Youzhou. Yue Li Duo has no selfish intentions, that Han man."

The woman closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

Then spit it out heavily.

"The Han people have nothing to do with me. If you don't believe me, Yue Liduo will let you believe it!"

After saying that, she opened her eyes, and there was a sound of 'clang', the knife light was pulled out of the sheath, the surface of the knife reflected the fire light and gave off a chill, when the woman lifted it up, there was another arm.

"Longevity God, Yue Liduo has never had any disagreements with Khitan or my husband!"

"Mother!"

"Sister!"

When two voices came from the side, the light of the knife fell, the light of blood splashed, and something fell from the city wall and landed in front of the people below.

It was a white palm lying in a pool of blood.

when!
The point of the knife pressed against the wall, the woman's face was pale, she gritted her teeth and looked at the Khitan nobles below: "Yue Liduo has expressed his determination to the God of Longevity, what do you still have to complain about?!"

Below, the black crowd looked at Dull Palm on the ground, and no one spoke for a while.

The main thing is, this woman is really too ruthless.
(End of this chapter)