Spicy rivers and lakes!

Li Dongqing has not left his hometown for 15 years, and the farthest and largest place he has ever been to is the county seat, and this time it is more than 1000 miles away.

Along the way, he realized that Ning Hechen was actually a man of few words, and most of the time he was the one who asked questions and Ning Hechen answered them.

"There is a family in front." Li Dongqing said.

The two of them walked for two days before seeing the village. Li Dongqing was leading the horse while Ning and Chen were sitting on the horse. The snow was difficult to walk and the horse couldn't run.They could only run slowly like this, and Ning and Chen didn't seem to be in a hurry.

Ning Hechen squinted his eyes and looked around: "There is enough dry food, there is no need to take risks in the past."

"Don't buy a horse?" Li Dongqing actually felt a little distressed for Qianji.

It turns out that animals really understand human nature.Before Qianji, no one listened to it except Li Dongqing. I didn't expect Ning Hechen to use it without any effort. It's just that it has been carrying people these few days, and people will feel tired, not to mention it, so many Li Dongqing was walking down there all the time.

Ning Hechen said, "With you, all the horses will be equally slow."

"Then at least change it."

"Then kill Qianji." Ning Hechen said coldly, "Get a new horse, so there is so much hay to feed the horse?"

Li Dongqing had no choice but to stop talking.

Ning Hechen's nature was exposed, his temper was repeated, and he would often get angry if he didn't know which string was set wrong, but Li Dongqing had a good temper. After he had the desire to seek death, his temper became even better, and he felt that there was nothing to be angry about. It's very harmonious.

Li Dongqing asked again: "Are you hungry?"

He was right this time, Ning Hechen said, "Let's shoot a deer."

Li Dongqing hesitated again: "It takes a lot of time. Such a mountain is very poor, there may not be deer, and the winter is short, and it will be dark in a while."

At night, Qianji is unwilling to leave, always being lazy.

Ning Hechen said, "Go and fight."

Li Dongqing had no choice but to spread his hands and said, "Where are the bows and arrows?"

The two of them didn't take anything when they came out. Fortunately, Ning and Chen had already prepared for it. They had money, so they could find other people along the way to exchange dry food.But no bows and arrows.

Ning Hechen handed him the sword on his waist and said, "Go."

Li Dongqing said honestly: "I don't know how to use a sword."

"If you don't know, just throw it out and shoot it," Ning Hechen said, "It's just a deer."

It seemed that he insisted on eating this venison today.Li Dongqing had no choice, the eldest young master was too lazy to do anything, and he was probably used to being served, so he had no choice but to walk into the mountains with his sword in hand.Ning Hechen heard his voice: "Just stay here, don't go any further."

Li Dongqing felt that she was simply his servant these days.He stood on the mountainside, climbed up the tree, climbed up and looked far away, but he didn't see a deer for a long time, but he saw a rabbit, but Ning Hechen didn't like to eat rabbit meat, saying it was fishy.

Li Dongqing looked around, looked around, but couldn't see it, and didn't want to go back to face Ning and Chen's sneering faces, so he had to freeze on the top of the tree.

Ning Hechen leaned against the horse, sat in front of the tree, and occasionally glanced at Li Dongqing, neither urging nor helping.

After a while, Li Dongqing's figure finally moved. He grabbed the tree trunk with one hand, and swung his body out, dexterously like a monkey. Only the sound of iron hitting the stone was heard.Ning Hechen thought he was empty and didn't care, but saw Li Dongqing run out and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Ning Hechen: "..."

He stood up abruptly, and just after taking a few steps, Li Dongqing's head emerged from the snowy slope again, with a sword in his left hand and a dead wolf in his right.Li Dongqing laughed out her white teeth and said: "There is no deer, but there is a wolf, which happens to be skinned and can make you a cloak. The further north you go, the colder it gets."

Ning Hechen looked at the wolf in his hand, and then at him.In the movement just now, Li Dongqing's sword clearly hit the stone. Where did this wolf come from?

Li Dongqing squatted next to him, quickly peeling off the wolf's fur. He thought that Ning and Chen would be dissatisfied again, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "Your sword is really good. It can pass through the wolf's body, and it can also be inserted into stones. The stones were all shaken."

Ning Hechen: "..."

Li Dongqing couldn't hear his answer, so inexplicably, she raised her head to look at him, and then heard Ning Hechen say: "...that's all."

When Li Guang shot a tiger back then, his half-length arrow hit a stone.Ning Hechen looked at this boy with mixed feelings.

Li Dongqing is still saying: "Your rabbit fur cloak is old, it can be changed this time, buckskin is not as cold as wolf skin, it's true, I made it for my mother before, I'm godmother, she said wolf skin Warmest."

Ning Hechen couldn't help laughing and said, "You keep saying you want to make it for me, where did you get the needle and thread?"

"In the future..." Li Dongqing said, "Carry the skin on your back first, and I will definitely make it for you before Yanmen."

"Oh." Ning Hechen didn't know what to say.

Li Dongqing hadn't seen Jiang Hu for 15 years, and Ning Hechen had never seen someone like Li Dongqing.

Ning Hechen hated being favored by others the most. Seeing people treat him well, he couldn't help but be mean and said: "Take it easy, the people you treat with sincerity will not end well. I didn't expect to die so early."

Li Dongqing: "..."

"Don't worry," Li Dongqing said, "I don't treat you sincerely, that's fine."

In fact, after Ning Hechen finished speaking, he felt something was wrong.But when Li Dongqing said this, he felt that it didn't matter. He just stood by the side for a while, and when he was about to leave, he saw Li Dongqing lowered his head and wiped his eyes quickly with his sleeve while he was handling the wolf skin. .

Both Ning and Chen turned around, and then turned back, in disbelief: "Are you crying?"

Li Dongqing didn't answer.

Ning Hechen knelt down, pinched his shoulders, made him look up, leaned over to look, frowned and said, "Man, what else are you doing besides crying?"

He suddenly got so close, his breath smelled soft and fragrant, Li Dongqing stretched back nervously, and fell on the snow ground, angrily said: "You don't care about me!"

Actually got angry, Ning Hechen became more interested, and said: "I don't care, how old is it, 15 years old, the prince of the Huns, Yi Zhixie, killed as many as a county when you were your age. You Still crying here."

Li Dongqing said: "You poke people's sore spots. So what about Yi Zhixie?"

Ning Hechen: "This has become a sore spot. Just relying on the words of the world, you are looking for death and life. Which one of them did you force to seek death? What has it to do with you? If this is the sore spot, you should stop living as soon as possible." , this world cannot tolerate you."

"Who is going to live?" Li Dongqing said, "I am already a person who wants to die! I consider myself not to be tolerated in the world, why bother to ridicule me, and besides, if it weren't for you, why would I be here!"

"How dare you!" Ning Hechen was about to slap him with a slap, Li Dongqing raised his hand to hide, but Ning Hechen didn't slap him again, and said angrily, "You can't carve rotten wood!"

Li Dongqing squatted back silently, took a knife, cut open the wolf from the belly, took out the internal organs and intestines, but stopped crying and quarreling with him.

Ning Hechen was so angry that he ignored him for a while, and within half an hour, Li Dongqing came over again and gave him a leg: "Eat it."

Ning Hechen: "..."

"Aren't you careless?" Ning Hechen said in disbelief.

Li Dongqing gnawed on the meat, looked up at him, and said with a smile, "Forget it."

With the sound of "forget it", Ning Hechen's heart was as hard as iron, and he had nothing to say, and took over the wolf's leg.

After this time, besides rabbit, wolf was added to the meat that Ning Hechen would not eat. It was really unpalatable, worse than rabbit meat.

Chang'an City, East Palace.

Dou Yifang has lived through the five dynasties, she is really too old, blind and gray haired, but her back is still straight, she still looks tough, and she doesn't look slumped.

Dou Yifang asked: "Man, have you found it?"

"Back to the Empress Dowager," Prime Minister Dou Ying said, "I found it, in a small village next to the Linjiang King's fiefdom."

"Are you sure?"

"Ning and Chen went straight to Qilao Village when they came back from Mayi," said Dou Ying. They look very similar, slim and suave, and they should be unmistakable."

"That can't be done," Dou Yifang said, "Royal family members are not a joke. There must be complete evidence."

Dou Ying said: "That's true, but the Empress Dowager, I can't find it. People say that Linjiang Wang wrote a letter to prove the child's identity before leaving, but after so many years, it may not be found."

Dou Yifang knocked on his crutches and said, "Look for it!"

Dou Ying was in a dilemma, and knelt down even lower: "The Empress Dowager, Qilao Village, has been completely burned down by a fire. The maid who raised Liu Zhuo has died, leaving nothing behind. Ah Huer only brought back a handful of dry bones."

"It's useless." When Dou Yifang said this, he was already furious.

Dou Ying said: "Perhaps Liu Zhuo himself knows where this letter is. He is now hijacked in Ning Hechen's hands. We dare not act rashly, and we are afraid that too many troops will alarm the emperor. Now we have nothing to do. But they have already gone in the direction of Yanmen, and my nephew has already settled down there, as long as Ning and Chen dare to go, they will definitely go and never return!"

"Yanmen?" Dou Yifang asked, "What is that son of a courtier going to Yanmen?"

Dou Ying said, "You forgot, Zhidu, is the prefect of Yanmen."

"Oh." Dou Yifang slightly supported his forehead, put his hands on the chair, he was really tired, and said, "Yes, I really forgot. This is here to seek revenge. Then he should be targeting my wife Come on, why are you embarrassing my clumsy son?"

She suddenly realized again: "Isn't that clumsy in his hands very dangerous?"

"Yes." Dou Ying said, "but it's not very dangerous, because Ning and Chen will use Liu Zhuo as a hostage and will not kill him, but once they arrive at Yanmen, it will be unknown. So the land of Yanmen , we must take him down."

Dou Yifang said: "Do you know what he wants to do when he returns to Yanmen?"

Dou Ying: "I don't know. But the frontline spies came to report that his horse was carrying a human head."

"The head of King Zuo Xian." Dou Yifang said.

"The empress dowager is wise."

Dou Yifang laughed, and said with a sneer: "Oh, what about the next head, is it my old lady's? Or my great-grandson Zhuoer's?"

"It's nobody's business," Dou Ying said, "He's going to die where his father died."

"Back then, Zhidu's son was exonerated," Dou Yi said with a sigh, "I was kind enough to allow Bu Deshan to buy his son's life with money. My original intention was to kill his three clans. You all said, The youngest son is innocent, and Ning and Chen are talents, so I allowed him to go to the golden stage and enter the rivers and lakes, what do you think, they want to marry me instead!"

Dou Ying said, "This... I really didn't expect it."

Dou Yifang said: "I look at Jianghu, Jianghu, people of three religions and nine streams, and I have no one in my eyes. Among the group of followers raised by the court ministers, there are as many as half of the rangers. They kill people and break the law. Who cares? Did they go up? Once the gold stage, there will be a gold medal for avoiding death?"

Dou Ying couldn't answer this question either.

The war between the Han and the Hungarians has only been 70 years, but the chaos in the rivers and lakes has lasted for a hundred years.It is a remnant of the Qin Dynasty, a problem that the first emperor failed to solve back then, and later generations are even more helpless.

From the time of Gaozu, in order to solve the problem of rangers, Gaozu set up golden platforms in various counties and counties. Whoever can walk down from the golden platform is considered to have entered the rivers and lakes. , cannot engage in business.Moreover, it was not easy to walk down from the golden platform. Back then, Ning Hechen, a seven-year-old boy, defeated three swordsmen on the golden platform before walking down half dead.

The golden platform is not easy to get on, nor is it easy to get off.It is a path of no return.

Dou Ying said: "Gaozu set up the Golden Terrace in the past, and he also wanted to establish a rule for people in the Jianghu, saying, 'kill one's life and become a benevolent'. But these people who really walked down from the Golden Terrace can even give up their lives, and they don't care at all. The ancestors ruled the law. The trouble of the ranger is indeed a serious trouble."

Dou Yifang paused for a moment, then asked coldly: "What did the little emperor say?"

"The emperor has never thought of touching these people," Dou Ying said. "The emperor is ambitious, and he has long wanted to kill the Xiongnu. He... can be used as a knight. Only ten gold can buy a middle-level swordsman to swear allegiance to the death. A hundred gold can buy a hero like Guo Xie to go into battle and kill a thousand enemies with one enemy... This is really, really good deal."

Dou Yifang couldn't hear the words of war the most, and said angrily: "Nonsense! How did the Huns humiliate Gaozu in the Battle of Baideng back then! It is a taboo for military strategists to underestimate the enemy. Could it be that Gaozu is even worse than him? Have you lost your heart?"

Dou Ying had no choice but to say: "The Empress Dowager is wise."

Dou Yifang was short of breath and said: "There are political reforms and wars going on. People are panicking. I can't go all day long. I... I am a big man. I'm afraid I will die in his hands."

Dou Ying hurried forward to help her, and Dou Yifang said, "Hurry up and bring my clumsy son back, nephew, you must know that after my youngest son died, there is no one under my knees to be kind."

The empress dowager said such things when his grandson, Emperor Liu Che, was still alive and well, it was extremely serious, and Dou Ying had to pretend not to keep it secret, and said: "The empress dowager's words really hurt my nephew. Xin, nephew, isn't it still by your side? What's more, the eldest princess is still here, and you forgot."

Dou Yifang laughed and said: "You are a cunning, old woman dare not speak the truth."

Dou Ying smiled cautiously.Dou Yifang said wearily: "Go down, I'll sleep for a while."

"No." Dou Ying walked out with a bow, straightened her robes and walked out of the palace gate. She saw the Eldest Princess waiting outside the door. Dou Ying was stunned for a moment, then bowed again: "Eldest Princess."

The Eldest Princess Liu Piao said: "Prime Minister, what does the Queen Mother want from you?"

Dou Ying: "This..."

"Come on, I see what you're hiding, I know," Liu Xun pointed his eyes at him, "it's about my nephew Liu Xun."

She looked around and said in a low voice, "Then Liu Zhuo is really still alive?"

Dou Ying: "It's absolutely true."

Liu Xun: "What are you going to do?"

Dou Ying didn't answer.

The eldest princess became anxious, and said: "You man, why are you hesitating in your speech? If you have anything to say, just say it directly. Can I still tell the emperor?"

"May I ask the eldest princess, do you want Liu Zhuo to live, or do you not want him to live?" Dou Ying asked.

The eldest princess was at a loss for words.

"When Emperor Xiaojing was around, Liu Rong, the eldest son of the emperor, was the prince, and I was the prince's tutor," Dou Ying suddenly turned over the old account, and said, "Liu Rong was the prince, and he never did a single wrong thing. He studied diligently. For the sake of government and virtue, the eldest princess knows why he was abolished."

The eldest princess said angrily: "You are so bold, dare to talk about the crown prince!"

"Eldest princess!" Dou Ying said earnestly, "Listen to me. Liu Rong is the late emperor's own son. Once he was demoted to be the king of Linjiang, he couldn't bear his life. And Liu Zhuo is our emperor's son. who?"

Dou Ying suddenly knelt down: "Eldest Princess, I implore Eldest Princess, save my life for Liu Rong!"

The eldest princess looked embarrassed and said angrily: "Get up quickly, what is the prime minister talking about? Why can't I understand."

Dou Ying stood up, bowed her head and said, "Besides, how can the emperor not know about things that you and I know. Although he is suppressed by the queen mother, he is still the king of a country. How can there be such a thing as the crown prince?" Easy. The eldest princess thinks twice before acting."

The eldest princess let out a long breath and said, "That's all. Then what are you going to do?"

Dou Ying said in a low voice, "Liu Zhuo, I won't go back to Chang'an. I have already recruited good people in Yanmen, and after strangling Ning and Chen, I let Liu Zhuo go. He... can go wherever he wants. The city of Chang'an , for him, it is definitely not his hometown.”

"What does the Queen Mother say?"

"It is said that Liu Zhuo died at the hands of Ning Hechen." Dou Ying said, "Ning Hechen hated Liu Rong and his son deeply. It is also common sense."

The eldest princess was silent for a moment, looked at Dou Ying, and said, "Prime Minister, you surprised me today."

Dou Ying bowed her head and said nothing.

"That's all," said the eldest princess, "I just asked my nephew, but I was regarded as a bad person, that's all! I won't ask, I won't ask!" Dou Ying bowed to plead guilty, and said: "I will die for my humble servant."