Great Zhou Empress

Within two days, Xiao Liege held a barbecue banquet again, attracting some nobles and their tribe members to discuss the matter of attacking Dacheng.

Xue Zhijing just got the first-hand news at this time, but today's news is nothing special, because this time it seems that Xiao Liege is tricking the nobles into doing things with her.

Xue Zhijing understood for a while that the upper echelons of Khitan should still maintain a considerable degree of tribal system. In name, everyone belongs to the Liao Kingdom, and they all listen to the opinions of the royal Xiao family, but when it comes to implementation, everyone needs to discuss and work together.

Each tribe has its own population and slaves, and when you send out troops, you give a part and I give a part.

If the Dacheng Dynasty is a centralized state, the Liao State is a country that still retains a certain degree of tribal alliance system.

Xiao Liege is very used to this kind of social way, maintaining the arrogant yet friendly attitude of a first princess, and has a natural leader feeling among the crowd.

When Xue Zhijing looked at her, he seemed to be able to see the shadow of the empress, but the empress was graceful and majestic on the outside and soft on the inside, while Xiao Liege was full of vigor and fiery.

Just at the place where the wine was drunk, a messenger came from the north on a horse.

The other party directly came to Xiao Liege's position and handed a letter into her hands.

Xiao Liege's expression changed immediately after reading the letter.

"What's wrong with you?" Xue Zhijing approached her, comforting her while looking at the letter in her hand.

Among the pile of words, several key words fell into Xue Zhijing's eyes.

The emperor is dead~

Isn't the emperor of Liao Kingdom Xiao Liege's elder brother?

Xiao Liege reluctantly greeted everyone to continue drinking and eating roast lamb, dancing and wrestling for entertainment, but her hands under the table were tightly clenched into fists.

"What are your plans?" Zhijing Xue asked her softly beside her.

Xiao Liege grabbed her hand, as if he was holding back his own sadness, "My brother is my dearest person."

Xiao Liege and her elder brother are ten years apart, but they are siblings of the same mother, so they are closer than other siblings.When Xiao Liege was young, her mother fell ill and passed away, and not long after that her father also passed away.The adult elder brother became the one who took care of Xiao Liege's upbringing.

So to Xiao Liege, brother actually has a lot of father-like roles.

Although at this time Xue Zhijing wanted to ask Xiao Liege a lot of things, such as her future plans, such as whether this war will still be fought or not.But she held back all of them, and she still wanted to give the poor child some comfort at this time.

So she held Xiao Liege's hand back, looking at her softly with eyes like water.

Xiao Liege tried his best not to show his sadness, "I can't let the nobles here know about this, I will break out and go back to the capital early tomorrow morning."

"Will something happen?" Xue Zhijing asked softly.

"My eldest nephew is only 12 years old. He is small and stupid. He must not be able to suppress those nobles. I have to go back to stabilize the situation. Every time this happens, someone will be ready to move. Some tribes in the east, some tribes in the west , I don’t want to submit to the rule of our Liao Kingdom for a long time. The attack on Dacheng this time may have to be shelved.”

Xiao Liege's face was full of reluctance, but he was helpless.

Xue Zhijing breathed a sigh of relief immediately.

In the feudal era, the time when the emperor changed was often the most chaotic time in the country, not to mention that the new emperor was a young emperor.Power ministers want to take advantage of this opportunity to seize power, and nobles want to fish in troubled waters to gain more benefits, let alone a multi-ethnic country like them, where tribal independence is more likely to occur.

Tomorrow?

That's just right, it is estimated that the Liao Kingdom has not been able to organize forces to attack Dacheng for several years, so she does not need to be an undercover agent here, and she will leave here tomorrow and return to Dacheng.

After returning to the camp in the evening, Xiao Liege and Xue Zhijing went to bed early after making arrangements for leaving the camp early in the morning.

While lying down, Xue Zhijing suddenly found himself hearing faint sobs.

Xiao Liege's back was facing her, it seemed to be her voice.

Perhaps Xiao Liege's image of the little wolf cub is so deep that Xue Zhijing even mistakenly thought she was a child who would not be sad, sad or cry.

But at this time, Xiao Liege was only 16 years old, and she grew up pampered and pampered. Although she had no parents, she was always protected by her elder brother. At this time, she was just a pure-hearted teenager.

Slowly moving over, Xue Zhijing patted her shoulder lightly.

Sometimes you don't need to use words to comfort others, and words may even be a little weak. You just need to let the other person trust you and know that you are with her.

Approaching again, Xue Zhijing hugged Xiao Liege from behind.Before leaving, give her a comfort.

"Hey~ sleep~"

In the early morning, Xue Zhijing woke up from her dream, it was time for her to leave.

It was not yet dawn at this time, she got off the bed lightly, changed into the men's clothes she wore when she first came here, pinned the whip and dagger Xiao Liege gave her to her waist, and took another look at the sleeping man. The familiar Xiao Liege said silently, "Goodbye, Xiao Liege~"

Then she turned around and left the tent.

They were sleeping soundly at this time, and everyone was waiting for dawn to race back to the capital, and the surrounding area was very quiet.Xue Zhijing secretly went to the stables, pulled out the fierce horse "Black Eagle" she had just tamed, and walked for a while before getting on the horse and galloping away.

Just as she was leaving, Xiao Liege suddenly woke up.

She slapped the bed next to her suddenly, and her heart skipped a beat, because she had a bad intuition.

Then she got out of bed, put on her own clothes and ran out of the tent, shouting loudly, "little slave~little spy~ where are you? Come out~"

The more you shout, the deeper your heart sinks.

Her servants all came out of their tents at her cry, and asked her what was the matter.

Xiao Liege suddenly thought of something, and immediately ran to the stable to have a look, and sure enough, "Black Eagle" disappeared.

In her mind, the recent interaction with Zhijing Xue was like a picture, from the time she kissed her that night, to when she insisted on riding a fierce horse, and then tamed the fierce horse time and time again.

It turned out that it was all for this moment of escape.

Are all her feelings for me fake?Is it all to trick me?

Xiao Liege, who had never been dared to lie to her since childhood, felt the pain of being deceived by others for the first time, and the deception this time was the most heartbreaking emotional injury for a young man.

For a moment, she felt that her whole world had collapsed.

Gritting his teeth, he gritted out a sentence between his lips and teeth, "Little spy~"

Xiao Liege clenched his fists, and said to his attendant, "My slave has escaped, go, come with us to catch her back, whoever catches her first, I will give any reward."

All the attendants got on their horses quickly, and went south with Xiao Liege to chase Xue Zhijing.

She guessed that Xue Zhijing was probably going south, back to Xiongzhou City.

Although Xue Zhijing rode the most powerful "Black Eagle" and gained speed, she was not running away desperately at this time. It can only be said that she was advancing at [-]% of the speed of the "Black Eagle".But Xiao Liege was furious, and the fiery red whip violently lashed the horse's buttocks at full speed.

Gradually, Xiao Liege saw a black figure walking forward in the distance.

"Little spy~ you stop for me~"

Xiao Liege's voice fluttered along the wind into the ears of Xue Zhijing in front of her, and her face tensed up.

How can it be so fast?

She grasped the reins tightly and clamped the horse's belly, pulled out the whip that Xiao Liege had given her, lashed the buttocks of the hawk violently, and started running wildly like fleeing for her life.

Speeding up and running is not an easy task, I feel like I'm about to be bumped and torn apart.

It's just that Xue Zhijing knew that he couldn't be taken back this time, if he was taken back, with this experience, Xiao Liege would definitely not give him any chance to escape.

If she was taken back to Shangjing, it would be even more difficult for her to leave.

So, this time, she had to leave.

At this time, Xue Zhijing didn't have the slightest nostalgia for Xiao Liege. If they had an equal relationship, Xue Zhijing would be willing to be friends with Xiao Liege, but they were not close friends, and even worse than a little friend like Yuan Jin.

As for love, Xue Zhijing can only feel guilty towards Xiao Liege, for making such an unethical choice to escape from her, if given the chance, she is willing to make it up.

For example, imitating Jin Wengong to thank the state of Chu for his great kindness, and when the two armies were fighting, they took the initiative to retreat for 90 miles.

Therefore, at this time, Xue Zhijing was desperately running ahead, she only had one goal, and that was to run back to Dacheng.She is unwilling to hand over her destiny to another person, even if the other person likes her.

"Black Eagle" is indeed the strongest king's horse, even in the hands of Xue Zhijing, who is a little immature rider, it can explode with great strength.After so many days of reckless training of horses, he finally got the greatest reward at this time.

Xiao Liege chased after her with all her strength, her eyes seemed to be burning with fire, a flame bursting out from the depths of her heart, combined with the color of her whole body, and burned into a smear of red on the wasteland. .

It was a kind of anger formed by being cheated, played with, and broken in love.

She must capture Xue Zhijing back, she wants?She doesn't know what she wants~ she just wants to catch her~

It's just that the horse under her is not as good as the fierce horse "Black Eagle" that Xue Zhijing rides. She barely keeps moving forward at the same speed as Xue Zhijing, relying entirely on her familiarity with the horse under her and her extremely skilled riding skills. OK.

However, no one is faster than anyone else.

Xiao Liege was biting hard behind him, Xue Zhijing didn't dare to relax for a moment, and only hoped to reach the border sooner.

His whole body seemed to be falling apart, even the food he ate overnight seemed to be knocked out, but Xue Zhijing still clenched his teeth tightly, not daring to relax for a moment.

Finally, Xue Zhijing was overjoyed when he saw a river running from east to west in front of him.

Because the Great Wall built along the mountain range was within the territory of the Liao Kingdom, the Dacheng Dynasty could only rely on primitive rivers and some artificially dug canals as the Great Wall of Water to block the Liao Kingdom.During the summer flood season, the river swelled so much that no horse could cross it, but in the spring and autumn season, a large number of areas had shallow water, so it could only be used as a dividing line.

That night when the horse raced over, Xue Zhijing remembered that he had once crossed the river, half of his body was submerged in the water, presumably it was the national border that he crossed at that time.

Seeing that river, the veins on the back of Xiao Liege's tightly squeezed hands popped out.

She would never let the other party cross that river. Although not all places on the border had frontier troops, she had no way of leading such people into Dacheng blatantly, and was easily surrounded by people.

However, no matter how she ran, she still saw Xue Zhijing riding "Black Eagle" across the river.

Then she and Xue Zhijing looked at each other from a distance across the river.