Legend of the Orchid

Since the failure of the Battle of Baimaling and the surrender of the Northern Han Dynasty, the Liao army has been in a slump. On the contrary, the Song army has won successive victories, which made Zhao Guangyi so proud that he couldn't find the north for a while.

Zhao Tingjie and Zhao Tingmei's uncle and nephew adopted a policy of watching from the sidelines. Seeing that Zhao Guangyi underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, instead of dissuading him, he fully cooperated. It can unify the north and surpass the former Tang Dynasty.

Only the surrendered general Yang Ye was well aware of the strength of the Liao people, and he repeatedly advised Zhao Guangyi to be cautious, but instead the emperor was displeased, and he was left alone and ignored.

Like a deep lake with a calm surface, there is a huge whirlpool hidden under the water. Li Zhonglan is looking forward to the ending, but worried about the unknown future. He is afraid of endangering Zhao Tingjie's life.

As long as Ting Jie is fine, no matter how bad the ending is, he can bear it.

There is a person who is more distressed than Li Zhonglan, because he knows nothing, and this person is Zhao Yuanzuo.Zhao Yuanzuo was originally a heroic young man, but recently he seemed to be soaked in tears. His eyes were red and swollen from time to time. It made people feel distressed, but he was much cuter than his father.

Zhao Yuanzuo came to find Li Zhonglan secretly. The two parties did not have deep contact, and they were a little awkward talking to each other. The blood blisters on Zhonglan's hands had not healed, and thick bandages were wrapped around both hands. He wanted to untie the bandages and change the dressing. Zhao Yuanzuo was busy. He leaned forward eagerly and said, "Let me help you!"

Li Zhonglan was taken aback, seeing the flattering expression of the other party, couldn't bear to refuse, so she nodded and agreed, so the immature boy hurriedly took off the bandages and took the ointment, very busy.

Li Zhonglan's heart moved, and she said: "King Qi may not come today, there have been many wars recently, they should be busy cleaning up the army."

Zhao Yuanzuo's hands froze for a moment, and he couldn't hide the disappointment on his face. He raised his head, looked at Li Zhonglan earnestly, and said, "Li Changshi, I know Fourth Uncle has a good relationship with you. He has been a little cold recently. Can you help me?" Let me ask, did Yuan Zuo do something wrong?"

Li Zhonglan looked at this face that was almost exactly the same as Zhao Guangyi, but he couldn't hate him in his heart. He smiled and comforted him: "Don't think too much, King Qi is very busy recently, so he probably doesn't have time to look for you."

"But he also avoids me when I look for him!" Zhao Yuanzuo said anxiously, he couldn't help pinching Li Zhonglan with his fingers, the pain made Li Zhonglan grin his teeth, he immediately became ashamed and apologized hastily.

Li Zhonglan was afraid that Zhao Yuanzuo's emotions would lose control again, so she quickly pulled her hand away, wrapped herself in a bandage, recalled the conversation just now, frowned slightly, and said: "When I see King Qi next time, I will speak good words for you, so that he will not be left out in the cold." you."

Zhao Yuanzuo was overjoyed and wanted to help Li Zhonglan, so frightened that Zhonglan shook her head desperately and sent Li Zhonglan back.

When Zhao Tingjie came back in the evening, Li Zhonglan reminded: "Your fourth uncle's way of avoiding your cousin is not unreasonable. If other people see that he and you are suspected of forming a clique for personal gain, let him not colden your cousin."

Zhao Tingjie smiled wryly, and sighed: "I told my fourth uncle about this before, but he is upright by nature, and he can't do things that hurt others while getting close to them."

Li Zhonglan said: "How does he know that ignoring the other party is not a deeper injury?"

In fact, he had selfish intentions, and was afraid that Zhao Guangyi would find out about Tingjie's conspiracy with King Qi, but Zhao Tingmei loved to dig into the horns, and the things he believed would not change, no matter how much he persuaded him, it was useless.

Li Zhonglan had no choice but to give up, and Ren Zhao Yuanzuo was out of his mind all day long.

If Zhao Guangyi's imperial power is overthrown, no matter how affectionate the uncle and nephew are, they will fight each other. Can Zhao Yuanzuo be with his father-killing enemy?

Only now did Li Zhonglan feel scared. He bit his lip and asked Zhao Tingjie: "If I... had killed your father, how would you treat me?"

Zhao Tingjie caressed the little fox's face, and said firmly: "I will not let this happen!"

His eyes are gentle.

Li Zhonglan buried her head in Zhao Tingjie's chest slowly. He felt deeply that he was too immature before and lacked consideration in doing things. Fortunately, Tingjie held his hand and never gave up.

In August, Song soldiers approached the city of Nanjing and officially launched a siege battle. Since Nanjing was an important pass in the south of the Liao Kingdom, the Liao Emperor attached great importance to this battle and sent several generals—Yelusha, Prime Minister of the Southern Mansion, and Yelusha of the Northern Mansion. Yelu Xidi, king of the courtyard, and Yelu Xiezhen, king of the south courtyard, ordered the three of them to defend Nanjing together.

Yelusha lost his beloved son in the Battle of Baimaling, and wished to take revenge immediately and fight Zhao Guangyi to the death, but Yelu Xiezhen had a plan. its eradication.

A few days later, while patrolling in the nearby forest, Zhao Defang discovered a shocking scene: a Han woman was raped by several Liao soldiers, and she was in a deep coma when she was rescued.

Zhao Defang saw that the woman couldn't hide her beauty and elegance even though she was covered in blood, she couldn't help but feel sorry, she hurriedly took her to the camp for treatment, and then forgot about it in an instant, because besides fighting, he was only thinking about "two Sister-in-law" there.

Two days later, when Li Zhonglan was walking around in the barracks, she suddenly discovered that there was a frail woman in her twenties and eight years old. Qian wanted to strike up a conversation with him.

Unexpectedly, when this woman saw someone approaching, she immediately turned around in a panic and left, which made Li Zhonglan even more curious. He followed the woman all the way, and finally, the other party stopped in a remote corner, turned around and said angrily: "Why do you Follow me?"

When Li Zhonglan saw that the other party got angry with him for no reason, he couldn't help being surprised. He felt that he was too reckless and frightened the other party, so he quickly apologized politely: "Miss, forgive me, you are being rude! I don't know why the girl came to the barracks , Is it because there are relatives in the camp?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Liuliu's eyes were covered with water vapor, and he sneered, "My relatives? You killed my relatives! What else do you want!"

After finishing speaking, she glared at Li Zhonglan with eyes full of anger, covered her mouth with her hands, and ran away from Li Zhonglan sobbing.

Li Zhonglan was baffled, so she quickly found someone to inquire about the situation, only to find out that the woman was originally a commoner in Jinyang, her parents had died in the war, and she was left alone to wander out of the city, but lost her way, went to the eastern forest, and was defiled by several Liao soldiers It's really pitiful.

As the same person who fell in the world, Li Zhonglan suddenly felt sympathy for the woman, he picked some incense sticks, and asked the court to hunt some game, thinking to send it to the woman.

Zhao Tingjie disagreed, and reminded: "That woman is not stupid, how could she run towards the enemy's country, you'd better not get close to her."

But Li Zhonglan said: "I look at her palms, her hands are white and tender, there are no calluses worn out by martial arts practitioners, so I know that woman has no martial arts, she is indeed an ordinary person, don't worry!"

Zhao Tingjie was still not at ease, but Li Zhonglan approached the woman with incense and meat, and told her that she was also a subjugated person, so the woman's face softened.

The woman said her name was Xianglan, which made Li Zhonglan both surprised and happy, and deeply felt that she was destined for her. Li Zhonglan hurriedly dissuaded him.

Li Zhonglan begged Zhao Tingjie to send an attendant to escort Xianglan southward, but Zhao Tingjie refused: "There are so many refugees going southward, should everyone be protected? Don't use the blade on trivial matters."

Li Zhonglan was not convinced, and said: "But then you let me go back to Beijing, wouldn't you use half of the attendants?"

Zhao Tingjie's eyebrows twitched, and he reprimanded: "How can others be compared with you? I will let this girl leave the barracks in a few days, so don't mention this matter again!"

Li Zhonglan wanted to argue again, but the big demon king dragged him to the bed. The two of them were making a fuss when suddenly a soldier shouted from outside the tent: "It's not good! It's on fire!"

Zhao Tingjie got up and told Li Zhonglan: "I'll go and see, you stay here, don't run around." Then he went out.

Li Zhonglan waited for a while, feeling a little worried about Xianglan, so she got out of the tent and ran to the medical camp.

It seemed that there was a problem with the grain and grass. Many soldiers rushed to fight the fire. The camp was in a mess. Fortunately, the medical camp was fine.

In the chaos, Li Zhonglan saw Xianglan running towards her with disheveled hair, he felt relieved, went forward and said with a smile, "Are you okay..."

Before she finished speaking, Xianglan plunged into his arms. She looked light, but the impact was so powerful that she almost knocked Li Zhonglan to the ground.

Li Zhonglan just wanted to laugh at her for losing her composure, but there was a stabbing pain in her lower abdomen. Xianglan raised her hand, Li Zhonglan suddenly felt that his internal organs were about to be pulled out, and he took two steps back in pain.

Xianglan wanted to make up the knife, and in the blink of an eye, a figure flew in midair and kicked her out. The fierce blade in her hand drew a silver lightning in the dark night sky, fleeting like a meteor.

Furious, Zhao Tingjie broke Xianglan's neck, and then turned to save Li Zhonglan.

The little fox covered his abdomen with his hands, but he still couldn't stop the blood pouring out. His body was as light as a feather, as if he might float away at any time.