Chapter 81 79. Zhao Ponu in the Desperate Wasteland (for further reading and collection)
Hu Tian is snowing in August, and the wasteland is even more freezing in winter.Wang Zhi wrapped herself tightly in the torn sheepskin, and cuddled up to the sheep next to her.

That night, she was attacked by the Huns outside the city of Mayi. Wang Hui defended her from arrows and injured her. After the horse, drove to this desert wasteland.

Who would have thought that the queen of the Han Empire would be kidnapped by the Huns?Along the way, Wang Zhi pretended to be a deaf-mute, waiting for an opportunity to escape without saying a word, but was blinded by the wind blowing all over the sky, unable to discern the direction, so he had to give up running for the time being.

The arrows of the Huns were made of animal bones and had limited lethality. Wang Hui's arrows were not fatal.It is believed that he has returned to the city and told the prince and the prince Taifu about Wang Zhi's situation.

The one who kidnapped her was a thousand cavalry commander under King Youguli. Seeing that the pockmarked, deaf-mute man dressed up by Wang Zhi was thin and weak, he threw her into the flock of sheep to herd the sheep.

Counting from the day of captivity, more than two months have passed.Thinking of his son Liu Xiaozhu not knowing how to suffer, Wang Zhi was very anxious but helpless.

Emperor Jing Liu Qi received a report and learned that she was kidnapped by the Huns, how would he respond?There was already a rift between the two, and she left in a fit of anger. Didn't this just give Liu Qi a reason to abolish the empress?Will the big man abandon this rebellious queen?In the vast wasteland, she didn't know where she was, and there was no way to escape. Even if Han Ting looked for her, how would he find her?
The dignified queen was kidnapped by the Huns, Liu Qi couldn't afford to lose face, and would probably keep it secret, find other excuses, and re-emerge.The queen's seal is kept by Zhi Qing.With Wei Wan taking care of them, the prince and the others should return to Beijing quickly.

Wang Zhi fell into despair.She deeply regretted that she should not have brought Liu Xiaozhu to the frontier fortress; she should not have acted impulsively and sent troops out of the city to meet the Xiongnu; and she should not have been eager to win, leaving the city to inspect the terrain as soon as the Huns had plundered them, and now she is trapped in the desert!
"Duo!" A Hun threw a gnawed leg of lamb to Wang Zhi.

Wang Zhi picked up the leg of lamb, carefully scraped off the leftover meat from the leg with a piece of broken bone, and then used a stone to break open the bone with all his strength to absorb the pitiful bone marrow.After that, without further ado, take the oil from above and apply it on the face and hands.

The cold wind in the north is like a knife cutting on the face, so I can only apply sheep oil to moisturize and prevent cracking.Wang Zhi believed that no one would have guessed that she was the empress of the Han Dynasty with a beautiful face and a graceful and luxurious appearance.

The flock of sheep snuggling under the slope sheltered from the wind was a little disturbed. Wang Zhi turned to look, but found nothing, so he went to the nearby haystack to grab some fodder and threw it to the flock.

Picking up the sheep whip, Wang Zhi carved a mark on the whip rod with a bone piece—it was another day.The longing for his hometown and relatives has never stopped, and the idea of ​​fleeing has become stronger and stronger.

The flock is commotion again.Wang Zhi separated several sheep, and a child was hiding under a ewe to suck the milk.Wang Zhi grabbed him.The owner wants goat milk every day!Wang Zhi was afraid of being whipped, so he didn't dare to drink.

"Let me go! Let me go!" The child struggled.

The child was about the same age as Liu Xiaozhu, with thin clothes, thin and emaciated, with a pair of bright little eyes on his jet-black face.

It turned out to be a little Han boy, and Wang Zhi smiled at him.At this time, when I heard Chinese, my heart was full of kindness, and when I thought of my son Liu Xiaozhu, a kind of warmth came spontaneously.She let go, and the child hid behind the two sheep in fear.

Wang Zhi pushed aside the haystack, took out a piece of cloth from inside, opened it, and there were several handfuls of wheat grains and two pieces of dried rat meat inside.This is the food she dug into the rat hole to collect when herding the sheep. It was hidden and prepared to eat on the way to escape.

The child reached out and snatched the food from Wang Zhi's hand, and stuffed it into his mouth several times.Seeing that Wang Zhi was not malicious, he snuggled up to the sheep to keep warm after eating.Probably because he was too tired, the child fell asleep leaning on the sheep.

Looking at the little boy, Wang Zhi thought of his son, and lovingly pushed the sheep towards him to make him warmer.

After hiding like this for two days, the children drank goat milk when they were hungry, and hugged the goat when they were cold.Seeing that the mute who secretly took care of him was also a Han Chinese, there was a smile in his eyes when he looked at Wang Zhi, and he gradually became intimate.

In the dead of night, Wang Zhi and the little boy snuggled up in the haystack, listening to him talk about his life experience.

"I am from Jiuyuan, and I am 12 years old. The Huns raided the grass valley and killed my mother and younger brothers and sisters! My father and I were robbed!" The child said, his voice choked, "My father took me away, The Huns chased me, my father hid me, but he was caught... I hid in the hiding place, and watched my father be beheaded... They killed the escaped people, saying that the two-legged sheep boiled Eat..." The little boy stubbornly wiped his eyes, but the vengeance and anger in his eyes were clearly visible in the dark night, "I want to return to Han to join the army and kill these Huns! Take revenge for killing my father and family!"

"Uncle and I run away together! Let's kill the Huns together!" The little boy looked at Wang Zhi, and when he saw Wang Zhi nodding, he cuddled closer, "My name is Zhao Gou'er, what's Uncle's name?"

Wang Zhi grabbed his hand and wrote the word "Wang Xin" on the palm of his hand.

Zhao Gou'er shook his head, "I can't read."

"Wang Xin." Wang Zhi said softly.

"So uncle can talk!" Zhao Gou'er exclaimed in surprise.

"Hush..." Wang Zhi said in a low voice, "Your name is Zhao Gou'er, so it's a nickname. What's your real name?"

Zhao Gou'er shook his head shyly: "No big name..."

"Dog, it's parents who gave you humble names to support you," Wang Zhi thought of her Liu Xiaozhu, "Uncle, please give you a good name. To join the army, you must have a resounding name——Zhao Po Nu, Da Po Hun ,OK?"

"Okay, okay!" Zhao Gou'er's eyes sparkled, "That's a good name! Zhao Ponu! I want to kill the Huns!" He clenched his fists, "My name is Zhao Ponu! My name is Zhao Ponu! Uncle called Wang Xin!"

"Uncle, let's run away together!" Zhao Ponu grabbed Wang Zhi's hand and said earnestly, "I don't want to be a slave to those who killed my father and my enemy...I want to kill all the Huns!"

"To escape, you must be fully prepared. On the wasteland, how do you deal with wolves and beasts? Which direction to go in the Han land? How to deal with food after a long journey? You have to consider all these. Also, what should you do if there is a blizzard in the cold weather? ?” Wang Zhi nodded, “That’s why I’ve been preparing dry food, and I want to wait until I get through the cold winter before escaping… Uncle… I miss home more than you!”

"I think this commander of a thousand riders doesn't seem to know how to count, and he doesn't know how many sheep he has. If there are distinguished guests, he will catch a sheep and kill it for the entertainer. Look for an opportunity to kill a fat sheep, eat enough and prepare dry food before fleeing!" Wang Zhi As he spoke, he looked at the flock of sheep next to him.

"Okay!" Seeing that Wang Zhi had a plan in mind, Zhao Puonu became more determined to escape.

Although the night was bitingly cold, the sky was like a dark dome full of stars.Wang Zhi identified the Big Dipper and pointed it out to Zhao Ponu.

"When the weather is good, we can use it to point the way." Wang Zhi looked forward to his hometown and old city in the south, in the Weiyang Palace, is there someone looking up at the same starry sky like her?
Her son, the crown prince Liu Xiaozhu, her cold-blooded emperor husband Liu Qi, her pregnant younger sister Wang Haoyun, her ugly but eloquent younger brother Tian Fu, and her violent and powerful mother Zang Shi ... Are they also looking up at the starry sky, missing her who has never heard from her?Tears flowed down unconsciously.

"According to the direction of the Big Dipper, go south and go home?" Zhao Puonu said, with joy and longing in his voice.

"It's okay on a sunny day and night, but I'm afraid... a rainy day or a big storm... If the white wind blows and the smoke cannon blows, you won't be able to see anything..." Wang Zhi said with a sigh.

Just as he was talking, horses neighed and dogs barked in the distance, and noises rang out.Wang Zhi got up vigilantly, picked up the fodder and covered Zhao Ponu, Zhao Ponu also got inside and held his breath.

"Ah-ah-ah! Let me go!" The screams were creepy.

Wang Zhi looked around and saw a few Huns holding torches high and riding galloping horses, dragging a few people behind the horses, who had been tortured beyond recognition.

The cavalry stopped the horse, but the horse's iron hooves continued to stampede on the dragging people. The screams were followed by silence, only the wild laughter of the cavalry and the panting of the horses remained...

Unable to bear to see the miserable state of the horse trampling like mud, Wang Yan clenched his lips and turned his face away, tears streaming from his eyes.

"Escape?" The commander of the Thousand Riders cracked his whip and spoke in broken Chinese, "Death!"

"You!" Qianqi's long horse whip pointed at Wang Zhi, and then pointed the whip at another captured Han, "You! Eat!" He pointed the horse whip at the corpse on the ground.

Wang Zhi angrily turned his face away and ignored him.Qianqichang's whip came down with a snap, Wang Zhi tilted her head, the whip hit her shoulders and back, the sheepskin was torn, and she fell to the ground in pain!Qian Qichang raised the rein, and the horse raised its hoof, and landed heavily on Wang Zhi's lap!

"Ah!" Wang Zhi screamed, trembling with pain!She pretended to be dumb, and could only endure the pain and dare not speak out.

"Your Majesty, spare your life! Forgive your life!" The old Han man next to him hurriedly grabbed the rein and knelt down to beg for mercy, "I will eat, I will eat!"

He cried and crawled to the corpse, grabbed the flesh and covered his mouth!Wang Zhi fell on the ground in pain, and turned his face to see the old Han man crying and smearing blood all over his face, but he couldn't swallow the flesh and blood!
The Huns laughed, turned their horses and drove to the big tent not far away, and asked the old man to drag the body to the big tent to cook and drink.

"We Han people are two-legged sheep in the eyes of the Huns..." the old man cursed in a low voice, and moved the corpse in a broken voice.

Wang Zhi looked at the deformed right leg in despair, it was crippled!Can I still dance like this? !Once a dancing genius, I will bid farewell to dancing in the future!With difficulty, she dragged her broken leg to the edge of the haystack, almost fainting from the pain.

Zhao Puonu carefully pushed aside the haystack, seeing no one crawled out.Seeing Wang Zhi's legs, he was terrified.

"Po Nu... help me..." Wang Zhi moaned in a low voice, in great pain.There were bloodstains from the whip on her left shoulder and back, and her right leg was broken. She couldn't lie down or sit up!
Gritting his teeth, he felt for the broken leg with his hands. The thigh was fine, but the calf was dislocated and the fibula was fractured.Wang Zhi asked Zhao Puonu to go to the sheepfold to remove two sticks and tear the clothes into strips.

If it is not reset in time, her leg will become disabled!Not to mention dancing, walking will have problems.

Will the big man want a lame queen?Emperor Wen was obsessed with morality and cleanliness. In addition, the prince had already been established, and the mother was more expensive than the son, so there was a blind queen Dou.Emperor Jing Liu Qi doesn't care about personal virtues!In addition, the emperor and the empress already had a rift...

But she, Wang Zhi, wants to live!Whether you can dance or not, whether you are lame or not, is no longer important!The important thing is that she wants to live to see her Liu Xiaozhu ascend the throne and become the emperor, make great achievements, sweep away the world, and become the emperor of all ages!
Grabbing grass and stuffing it into his mouth, Wang Zhi instructed Zhao Puonu to replace the dislocated leg, connect the broken fibula, and fix it with a stick.

Even though Zhao Puonu was careful and light-footed, Wang Zhi was so painful that he fainted several times.

Zhao Puonu supported Wang Zhi and leaned on an ewe, and Wang Yan sucked the milk.She was lucky to be alive, and also grateful to the old Han man who stopped the Hun Qianqi Commander from continuing to torture and kill her.

"Ponu, uncle, I'm afraid I can't escape with you..." Wang Zhi said softly, "Can you escape back to Han by yourself?"

Now she wants to go back to Dahan immediately and stay here again, and she will die someday!Even if Emperor Jing Liu Qi didn't want to save her, Wang Huan and her three daughters, Liu Xiaozhu, would not give up; Yao Weng and the others would find a way to find her. free her!
He touched the golden whip in his belt, Wang Zhi never used it.First, his hands were tied behind his back, and he was tied to the horse with other people in strings, and they were driven and dragged. Later, when they went to the desert, they didn't know the direction, and they dared not move freely...

"Po Nu, use Uncle's golden whip to strangle a lamb! You take it with you on the road, but you can't carry it when you get too old. As long as you go to Han, you go to the government and say you want to see Lord Wei Wan, and take the gold Give him the whip..." Wang Zhi said as he took off the golden whip, and fell down on the ground in pain, speechless.

"Uncle, Po Nu is gone, what are you going to do?" Zhao Po Nu asked worriedly.

"Uncle can hold on..." Wang Zhi said weakly, "The Xiongnu just killed a few fleeing Han people...they will eat it... Uncle will drink goat milk, and after a few days, he will gradually get better ...You have to go back to Han as soon as possible, and get someone to rescue Uncle..."

"Remember, Uncle is in the hands of a thousand cavalry leader named Lalu Monk under King Youguli..." Wang Zhi urged, "Tomorrow, you can leave at dawn!"

Let Zhao Puonu kill a sheep and eat and drink enough.At dawn, Wang Zhi dipped in the sheep's blood, wrote the words "Youguli King" and "Lalu Monk" on the cloth, and handed it to Zhao Puonu.

The Huns moved everywhere in the wasteland, and they couldn't find the exact location, so they could only look for the tribe and the leader.

"Facing the sun in the morning, front east and back west, left north and right south, remember? Sunset is just the opposite; at night, look at the Big Dipper... When encountering sandstorms or big smoke guns, find shelter from the wind and wait for the storm to pass. Hurry up..." Wang Zhi urged, "Take off the blade of the golden whip. Although the blade is small, it is poisoned, so keep it for self-defense. Put the golden whip in your waistband, don't show it to others..."

Seeing this thin young man carrying a lamb on his shoulders, cloaked firmly in the morning light, and embarking on an unknown road ahead, Wang Yan held back his tears, half leaned on the haystack, and watched him go on a long journey.

In the barren desert, there may be wolves and wild beasts, and there may be severe storms and snowstorms, can Zhao Ponu survive?Is it reliable to bet all your hopes on a 12-year-old child?
(End of this chapter)

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