Song Emperor Jiangshan

Zhao Yuan asked coldly: "Xiao Shan, how long do you plan to tie me up?"

Xiao Shan quickly dismissed all his daydreams, stepped forward frantically, untied the hemp rope that bound Zhao Yuan's hands, and stretched out his hand to tear off the black cloth covering Zhao Yuan's eyes.

When Zhao Yuan opened his eyes, he saw a young general in iron armor, a red cloak over his shoulders, and a long sword hanging from his waist.

An unconcealable murderous aura came over Xiao Shan, completely different from the shadow that stayed under the Zhengdan fireworks that year.Although he had the same face and expression, there was no trace of the youthful look on his body at that time. This was a general who had been on the battlefield, truly experienced cruel wars, and killed countless enemies. He naturally exuded the aura.

Although Xiao Shan's brows and eyes were full of smiles, the smell of blood on his body couldn't be dissipated no matter what.

After more than a year of longing, when this person appeared in front of him now, Zhao Yuan's eyes were a little reluctant to leave the person in front of him.He could see that there was a thin scar on Xiao Shan's cheek, although it had been healed for a long time, it couldn't be seen unless he looked carefully, but Zhao Yuan felt a pang of distress.

When Zhao Yuan looked at Xiao Shan, Xiao Shan also looked at Zhao Yuan.

Xiao Shan has long known what happened in the capital these days. Zhao Yuan's face has a weathered look, but his eyes have become deeper and quieter. Some bearing is also revealed without a doubt.

This year, too many things happened, and both of them changed, but the feeling of heartbeat did not disappear, but became more intense.

Xiao Shan saw several red marks on Zhao Yuan's wrist, he really wanted to reach out and rub it, but he didn't know why, when faced with Zhao Yuan's slightly majestic temperament, he couldn't help it. Didn't dare to move at all.

After a while, Xiao Shan remembered to apologize: "They didn't know it was His Highness who came down, what an offense, I'll scold them later!"

Zhao Yuan smiled slightly: "No need, I am here to visit you on behalf of the official, and I will take a look at how the city is deployed."

Seeing Zhao Yuan's smile, Xiao Shan felt as if he was in the clouds, he hurried to the door and stretched out his hand as a gesture of invitation.

The arrival of Zhao Yuan put Xiao Shan in an almost excited state. He led Zhao Yuan around the city, took him to watch the four walls of the city, explained them to him one by one, and even told Zhao Yuan the name of each subordinate. Yuan listen.He also showed him the single-shoot guns that he had built after Wan Yanliang retired, and gathered all the soldiers and ordered them to practice on the martial arts arena.After seeing Zhao Yuan's satisfied expression while watching the drill, Xiao Shan became even more excited, and went off in person to perform riding and shooting for Zhao Yuan.

Because Zhao Yuan came in a hurry, there wasn't anything good to eat at noon, so in the afternoon Xiao Shan rode a horse to the suburbs, hunted two hares for Zhao Yuan's tooth sacrifice, and at night, he specially ordered someone to call Zhizhou Zhang Xiaoxiang to introduce him. Get to know Zhao Yuan.

When Zhao Yuan was in the capital, he had already met the number one scholar. Xiao Shan didn't drink much at first, but tonight he also drank two big bowls to accompany Zhao Yuan.After dinner, he personally went to tidy up Zhao Yuan's residence, fearing that his barracks were shabby and Zhao Yuan's place would be uncomfortable, so he asked Zhang Xiaoxiang to give up the upper room in the government office, and he personally went to clean up the thins that had been drying all afternoon. He was carried to Zhao Yuan to help him make the bed.

Even so, Xiao Shan still felt that the office of Xinyang Mansion was too crude, and he still went out of the city after dark, went outside the city to gather many flowers, put them in clean bottles and displayed them in Zhao Yuan's room.

Zhao Yuan stood aside, watching Xiao Shan coming in and out, moving books, arranging flowers, and heating hot water.Zhao Yuan himself didn't pay much attention to it, but for some reason, when he saw Xiao Shan doing these things, he felt a sweet feeling in his heart, he didn't want to dissuade him at all, he just tilted his head and enjoyed it.

Some soldiers who didn't know where they were, saw their general being highly excited today, and they all inquired in private: "Who is that son who came here? The general is even more excited than marrying a wife?"

The soldiers who came to Xinyang with Xiao Shan in the early years recognized Zhao Yuan and smiled mysteriously: "A big man is much more important than the general's wife. Captain Wu, don't you think so?"

Wu Luan didn't like talking to people very much, and he was usually very silent, but now he became even more silent. He didn't open his mouth when he heard someone asking, but just turned around and returned to his courtyard, quietly sharpening the iron sword that had followed him all year round.

After Zhao Yuan's room was completely tidied up, Xiao Shan still refused to leave, and brought a large pile of ointments for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and placed them in front of Zhao Yuan.

"Your Highness, this is better for the bruise on your wrist." Xiao Shan picked out a bottle from the pile, threw it away, and picked out another bottle, "This one is better."

"If it hurts, you can still use this." Xiao Shan held four or five bottles of ointment in his hand, and held them in front of Zhao Yuan like a treasure.

Zhao Yuan smiled and stretched out his hands.The bruise on the wrist had long since dissipated, without any scars, and it was as smooth as white jade under the candlelight.

Xiao Shan hesitantly put away all the wound medicines he had brought, seeing Zhao Yuan sitting in front of the desk but looking at the papers on the bookshelf in the room, he hurried to fetch the papers and spread them out in front of Zhao Yuan, He took a pen from the pen container, and the hair on the pen lost a lot, he ran to Zhang Xiaoxiang's place in the middle of the night, and snatched a good wolf brush from the other party, and when he returned, he saw Zhao Yuan was already holding the pen Only a bald pen to write.

Xiao Shan ran over and stood beside Zhao Yuan to grind the ink for him, and after a while, he went to add tea to Zhao Yuan, his movements were quick and quick, so that the eunuch Gan Min who was standing outside the door ready to serve Zhao Yuan couldn't even get his hands in.

Seeing this, Gan Min couldn't help sighing with the guards outside the door: "General Xiao's waiter is more attentive than me, the eunuch."

Although the voice was not loud, it still spread into the room, Xiao Shan blushed slightly, and he felt a little embarrassed, he turned and left, and after turning around, he saw Gan Min delivering supper to Zhao Yuan, so he snatched it cheekily. Zhao Yuan worked closely as an eunuch, and brought cakes for Zhao Yuan to eat.

Zhao Yuan couldn't bear it anymore, and said: "Don't be too busy, you have been tired for most of the day, go back and have a rest."

Xiao Shan hurriedly shook his head: "Not tired, not tired at all."

Zhao Yuan sighed: "You are different now. As the chief general, you are also an official appointed by the imperial court. Doing what these eunuchs do would be disrespectful, and it would be a loss of prestige if your subordinates saw it."

Only then did Xiao Shan reluctantly leave, and ran outside Zhao Yuan's room before dawn the next morning.

Gan Min deeply felt that his job might be robbed by Xiao Shan, and said: "General Xiao, Your Highness hasn't woken up yet, you can come back after dawn."

Xiao Shan didn't want to, so he just waited on the spot, finally heard the commotion in the room, saw Gan Min go in with a basin to wash Zhao Yuan, he wished he could become a member of the eunuch party and go in to help Zhao Yuan Yuan washes her face.

The next day Xiao Shan took Zhao Yuan out of the city again, wandering around the place he was patrolling, this day he finally recovered a little bit, not as exaggerated as the day before, but he still took a second look at Zhao Yuan by the river When the reeds were growing, he jumped off the horse uncontrollably, went to pull out a large bundle of reeds by the river, and bundled them into Zhao Yuan's room.

When Zhao Yuan fell asleep and saw Gan Min washing Zhao Yuan's clothes, he had to use great willpower to control himself not to wash Zhao Yuan's socks in front of a group of his own soldiers.

Zhao Yuan stayed in Xinyang for about three or four days, and Xiao Shan stayed by his side every day, listening to him talk about what happened in the capital, and also about the battle between himself and the Jinren.When he heard that Zhao Gou was scared by the tide of the Qiantang River and ran away in the middle of the night, Xiao Shan kept saying that Zhao Gou was not; when he heard that Zhao Yuan suppressed the people in the city and stabilized the situation, he clapped his hands like a child; When Zhao Yuan had a smile on his face, and when he mentioned that he was made the crown prince, Xiao Shan laughed foolishly along with Zhao Yuan.

Until the fifth day, Zhang Xiaoxiang couldn't bear the sight of Xiao Shan not doing any serious business these days, but only caring about making Zhao Yuan happy, and doing some standard things for a sycophant.When Xiao Shan went to boil Zhao Yuan's bath water, Zhang Xiaoxiang saw that there was no one around, so he couldn't help asking: "General Xiao, the spies reported a few days ago that Yan Liang seemed to have changed after talking about it, didn't you say you wanted to go and see it yourself?" It depends, when are you going to go?"

Xiao Shan fanned the fire with a fan, hoping that the water would be hotter, and said: "The day after tomorrow. When I went out today, I saw His Highness saw wild animals on the roadside eager to try. I will go hunting with him tomorrow, the day after tomorrow."

Zhang Xiaoxiang couldn't bear it any longer, grabbed the fan from Xiao Shan's hand, and said angrily: "General Xiao, you are taking too much pictures of your horse. I always thought you were a loyal and upright person, but I didn't expect you to be so flattering! He is happy Is it important, or is the enemy's situation important?"

Xiao Shan didn't even think about it, he said: "Of course the enemy's situation is important, so I said to go the day after tomorrow." While speaking, the water was already boiling, Xiao Shan wrapped his sleeve around the handle of the kettle, and was about to bring it to Zhao Yuan's room.

Zhang Xiaoxiang sneered and said: "Didn't you hear how others laughed at you? Said that you have caught up with the eunuch beside His Highness."

Xiao Shan could only watch Gan Min bring the water into Zhao Yuan's room, Zhang Xiaoxiang said: "Tomorrow you have to go, an official of the imperial court actually helped him make the bed and fold the quilt, what is that like? Don't say he is not yet Emperor, even if you are, you are too unseemly!"

Xiao Shan was a little bit tangled in his heart. After the battle between heaven and man, he finally nodded: "Okay! Let me think about it, who is better to take."

Zhang Xiaoxiang had a satisfied look on his face, just as he was about to speak, he suddenly heard a voice behind him: "Where are you going?"

The two turned their heads together, saw Zhao Yuan not far away, and didn't know if he heard what the two said just now, Zhang Xiaoxiang glared at Xiao Shan angrily, saluted Zhao Yuan, then turned and left .

Xiao Shan said: "The spies came to report a few days ago, saying that Wanyan Liang seemed to have changed, but the situation is not very accurate, I plan to take a few people and go there in person."

Zhao Yuan was taken aback: "You crossed the boundary yourself? If you are discovered, it's not just a joke."

Xiao Shan nodded: "It is precisely because of the danger that I have to go there in person to find out the situation."

Zhao Yuan nodded, but there was an eager look on his face: "Amao, I have never been to Jiangbei, let's go together tomorrow..."

Before Zhao Yuan finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xiao Shan: "Absolutely not! Your Highness is in danger of the country, so you can't run around. If something happens, I won't be guilty even if I die ten thousand times."

Zhao Yuan opened his mouth, and when he wanted to say something, Xiao Shan showed an unstoppable look on his face.Zhao Yuan had never seen this kind of expression before, but it was very obvious that it was not negotiable, that no compromise was possible, and it even carried a bit of murderous intent.

After a while, Zhao Yuan said: "Okay then, how long will you be back?"

Xiao Shan thought for a while, and said: "Two days if it is fast, three or four days if it is slow, Your Highness...are you waiting for me here, or are you going to Xiangyang to meet the official?"

Zhao Yuan also felt that he might have stayed in Xinyang for a long time, but he didn't want to leave just like this for a while, so he said: "I'll wait for you to come back, you can go there in peace, don't come back in a hurry, you can stay for a few more days fine."

Xiao Shan nodded, and that night he ordered Wu Luan to act temporarily as the military commander in the city, and early the next morning, he selected two or three personal soldiers with high martial arts skills to follow him across the boundary.

This was originally a secret operation and it was not convenient for anyone to know about it. Xiao Shan really wanted to say goodbye to Zhao Yuan, but in the end he felt that this operation was more important. At dawn, he disguised himself as a refugee and crossed the border secretly.

After Xiao Shan left, Zhao Yuan suddenly felt that there was an empty place, he stayed in the city, and heard from Zhang Xiaoxiang about the battle between Xiao Shan and the Jin people that day.

When he heard that Xiao Shan had suffered multiple wounds, one of which was close to his heart and almost died, Zhao Yuan couldn't sit still.He had never heard of these things in Xiao Shan, no matter how great the danger was, Xiao Shan only briefly mentioned it, he didn't talk about it at all, and only talked about interesting things in the army.

Every day at sunset, Zhao Yuan went to the border between Song and Jin Dynasties to wait for Xiao Shan, but he returned empty-handed every day, and by the fourth day, Xiao Shan hadn't returned yet.This has surpassed the "slow" he said at the beginning.

At the same time, Zhao Gou ordered someone to send a letter, asking Zhao Yuan to go to Xiangyang to meet the veteran Liu Kai.

Zhao Yuan silently withheld Zhao Gou's letter, and on the fifth day, he waited early in the morning at the mountain pass at the junction of Song and Jin.The sun rose little by little, and then set little by little, until the sun was setting, Gan Min persuaded from the side: "Your Highness, it seems that General Xiao will not be coming back today, your Highness should go to Xiangyang as soon as possible .”

Zhao Yuan nodded and said, "Go back and pack your things first, and leave early tomorrow morning."

Gan Min took the order to go, but Zhao Yuan refused to leave, and still rode his horse and waited at the mountain pass.

The setting sun dyes the whole valley orange. It is spring and April, and the mountain flowers are blooming everywhere. Looking around, the azaleas all over the mountain are especially gorgeous.

Suddenly, three shadows elongated by the setting sun appeared in the distant field, Zhao Yuan could see clearly that it was Xiao Shan!

His heart skipped a beat, and when he wanted to ride his horse forward, he saw dozens of golden soldiers following behind those two shadows.

The two shadows were running fast in the wilderness, Zhao Yuan remembered that Xiao Shan did not ride a horse when he passed by, but now he has returned on a horse, there must have been an accident on the way.

Zhao Yuan touched the long sword at his waist, pulled it out with a swish, and without even thinking about it, rode his horse and rushed over.

In a short while, Xiao Shan and two other people had galloped into the mouth of the valley, the dozen or so pursuers behind him hesitated at the entrance, and then rode their horses to chase after him.

Xiao Shan never expected that Zhao Yuan would be here, he was anxious and angry: "You are not in the city, what are you doing here?"

Zhao Yuan didn't speak, and handed the sword in his hand to Xiao Shan's.

There was still body temperature on the hilt of the sword. Xiao Shan had been running for a day and a night, and felt extremely tired, but at this moment, his spirits lifted, he suddenly reined in the horse, turned the horse's head, and shouted to the pursuers behind him: "This is already a big Song Dijie, if you still want to chase after him, aren't you afraid of ruining the peace agreement?"

The dozen or so Jin soldiers sternly said: "You really are a spy! Tell me, who sent you here, Xiao Shan from Xinyang, Liu Qi from Xiangyang, or Zhao Gou?"

Xiao Shan suddenly grinned: "Why should I tell you?" Before he finished speaking, his body suddenly fell down, and he fished it out of the grass by the roadside, and an iron gun was in his hand. The weapons are hidden here.

Zhao Yuan's sword returned to his own hand. At this moment, the two of them were side by side, and he didn't feel any nervousness in his heart, instead he was excited about the fight.

The sun was setting little by little, the orange color of the valley gradually turned into blood red, Xiao Shan's expression suddenly became ferocious, the spear in his hand shot out suddenly, as fast as a silver dragon, with just a puff, a chasing The chest of Jin Bing in front of him was pierced, and the tip of the spear pierced through his armor, protruding from the other side of his body.

Xiao Shan's voice also became serious, with a strong murderous look: "Since chasing after the boundary, it is infringing on my territory, all of them will be killed!"

The two guards beside him shouted loudly, and the three of them chased out together. The cry came out from their mouths, which was terrifying.

The night fell, the moon hung high in the sky, Zhao Yuan followed Xiao Shan, and obeyed Xiao Shan's orders.

When the enemy's blood splashed on him, his nose smelled blood.

In the past, he had only heard of the fierce Jin soldiers, and he had also heard of Xiao Shan fighting with these people.But this time, it was the first time he saw it.It's not that this kind of time has never happened. Back then, when they encountered ambush in the heavy snow in Jiuhuang Mountain, the two fought back to back.

However, this time is completely different from that time. These people are not assassins, but soldiers who fight. Their moves are not weird, but they are even more fierce.

More than a dozen golden soldiers surrounded Xiao Shan and Zhao Yuan. Xiao Shan stared wide-eyed and swung his spear in his hand. Every time he made a move, he would kill one person. After a while, more than ten golden soldiers were killed. The next six people began to flee in a hurry.

Xiao Shan didn't go after him either, he just took out the bow from the horse beside him, and took out the feathered arrows in the quiver beside him. Seeing that the golden soldiers had already rushed out of the Song Dynasty, he stretched his iron bow and swished three times. The arrow shot out and hit the backs of the three golden soldiers.

The two soldiers around him also drew their bows and set up arrows at the same time, each shot and killed a golden soldier, but another golden soldier ran away, Xiao Shan cried out in his heart what a pity, when he was about to chase after him, suddenly an arrow shot from him It passed by the ear, with the sound of wind, as fast as a shooting star, unbiased, and hit the last golden soldier who ran away.

Xiao Shan turned his head, Zhao Yuan was slowly putting down his bow and arrow.Although it has been a long time, even though Zhao Yuan is getting more and more busy, his martial arts has never fallen behind.

Xiao Shan immediately ran out to bring back the horses of the enemies who had already fled in all directions. The four of them were all covered in blood, but hearty laughter came out: "This time the harvest is not small, and we even got sixteen war horses." !"

Zhao Yuan had long known that all of Xiao Shan's current war horses were captured from Jinren, and he held one in his hand, and when he looked down at the horse, it was sneezing.

Zhao Yuan couldn't help laughing, but Xiao Shan looked at him with a frown, and after a while he said in a low voice: "You are covered in blood, I'm afraid it's not good to go back like this."

Zhao Yuan said casually: "When I came here, I saw a small stream on the road, why don't we just wash it off?"

Xiao Shan nodded, and said to the two soldiers next to him: "Take your horses and go back first, and explain the situation to Lord Zhijun, and I will go back later."

The other two guards replied yes, just took two steps with the horse, Xiao Shan suddenly shouted from behind: "Don't tell him about meeting other people here."

The other person he was talking about was naturally Zhao Yuan.

Zhao Yuan came to express condolences on behalf of the emperor, but his body was covered in blood, and he didn't know if he was injured. It's very bad that the news spread.

The two soldiers led away, Xiao Shan and Zhao Yuan walked side by side, towards the direction of the stream.

Until this time, Xiao Shan had time to say a few private words to Zhao Yuan: "Why did Your Highness come here, how dangerous!"

Zhao Yuanhun didn't care: "I saw that you haven't come back for so many days, so I came here to wait for you."

The tone was understated, but hearing Xiao Shan's ears, it was a little thrilling.

Zhao Yuan continued to ask: "You are in the Kingdom of Jin, what did you find out?"

Xiao Shan jumped off his horse, stuck his gun into the ground, and said: "Wan Yanliang should already know that the official's house is nearby, I'm afraid the situation is a bit bad, he is mobilizing troops and horses, it seems that he is going in the direction of Xiangyang. "

Zhao Yuan has already started to take off his coat, and there are bloodstains on the collar of his white jacket.

Xiao Shan said: "Give me the clothes, the two of you can wash together faster."

Zhao Yuan threw a coat to Xiao Shan, took off his middle coat, soaked the collar in water and rubbed it.

Xiao Shan squatted on the bank, vigorously rubbing Zhao Yuan's clothes, occasionally turning his head, he could see that Zhao Yuan was wearing thin obscene clothes, the neckline slipped a little, revealing his chest inside.