Book 30 - Chapter 5 – Encounter with Rival in Love (1/2)
Chapter 5 – Encounter with Rival in Love
Li Xiuning’s clothes were sihtest own to give her shelter frorandeur, personality traits and breathtaking beauty even , she was the unattainable bright moon in the sky; he would never be able to pick her, ever
This Great Tang’s noblewo to co is here to see you off,” she spoke softly
Kou Zhong’s gaze swept Li Jing, husband and wife, ere standing in the distance, holding the rein of Li Xiuning’s horse Suddenly a strange feeling welled up in his heart, a feeling thatthat has happened in the past, as well as at this ue “Where’s Chai Shao?” he asked blankly
Even he himself did not understand why he was so untactful as to evenspoke in low voice, “He didn’t knoas co’sruefully, he said, “Even if I did, what could possibly happen?”
Li Xiuning’s face suddenly turned pale; distressed, she said, “Why do you insist on setting yourself against Er Huang Xiong [second eards you and Xu Ziling as his good friends?”
Kou Zhong took a deep breath of the cold air, hisup a bit “Even brothers can obstruct the wall as well,” he said heavily, “Much less friends who are just strangers co actually helping your Er Huang Xiong, or Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji?”
Li Xiuning tightly bit her lower lip Revealing a sad, tired look, she shook her head and said, “I don’t know! I really don’t know”
Kou Zhong’s heart softened; he deeply felt the contradiction and depression from which she could not extricate herself The fact that her very own brothers were fighting against each other ought to torhtently, “This ti for Qin wang Ay! They are waiting foralso looked like she could not find anything else to say, she nodded and said, “Let Li Jing, husband and wife, co answer Er Huang Xiong?”
Kou Zhong was shocked Finally hisup coether with them, wouldn’t it be difficult to carry out the ‘secretly crossing the Wei River at Chencang’ stratagem?
“Absolutely not,” he hastily said, “Because …”
“Do you want Xiuning to talk directly with Khan?” Li Xiuning cut hiain, he would only be trying to hide it but made itto Gongzhu’s [princess] order!”
Li Xiuning’s pair of elegant eyes e deeply at hi’an, can Shao Shuai see Xiuning?”
Kou Zhong was stunned
Three warshi+ps slowly steered away fro the Luo River first, and then after reaching the Yellow River, they started to change direction inland
Kou Zhong came to thetroops on those two shi+ps, are they under your, LaoGe’s control?”
Revealing a strange sht now they are not, but very soon they will be!”
Pleased, Kou Zhong patted his shoulders and spoke in low voice, “Just expel the generals who don’t belong to our side off the boat; it’s not hile to have the shi+chong Making hi to everyone”
Qin Shubao laughed and said, “In this matter your are still a bit more tenderhearted I dare to bet hly understands old thief wang’s overall evil sche JinGang on the other side If we can catch thisheavy punishment to pry open his rottenJinGang fall head first in big tumble Humph! Who the hell he thinks he is, to have the cheek to co said, “Old Qin, you are still more capable than e that until this moment he had not recovered his clear-headedness, hence he was still in a daze
Qin Shubao laughed and said, “Are you fooling around with Li Xiuning, that pretty girl, to such an extent as to be this hopelessly muddled? It’s not worth it I, your LaoGe have personally experienced it When the flarade brothel and use real gold and white silver to buy sohter If you close your eyes, you can think of the other side as the princess, that the other side was, in fact, the princess Once you are done, just leave, carrying the profit away, happy and carefree After the world is unified, you can talk about everything again; just be happy without any care Thinking about whether you’ll live or dead on the battlefield is just like htforward, isn’t it?”
Kou Zhong re Pai Sect Leader’s ‘thousand-jin of gold’ [ie daughter]; he inwardly thought that when Qin Shubao visited a prostitute, he must have fantasized that the other person on the bed was that Miss Zhu Laughing involuntarily, he said, “This ought to be considered your, LaoGe’s healing panacea!”
While they were still discussing so ca went to the stern for some private discussion
The snowstoro, but the mountains everywhere were blanketed in silver-colored layer of ice, while the treetops were still dressed in snowflakes When the cold wind blew, the snow accu clu nificently wonderful scenery
The clouds in the sky were still very thick, hiding the sun setting behind the western hills; the heaven and the earth gradually turned hazy
Kou Zhong asked, “What are Li Jing and our vicious Saozi [(older) sister-in-law] doing?”
Xu Ziling replied, “Our Li Dasao [first (older) sister-in-law] really isn’t a completely unreasonable person; it was just that the rown that she is not too courteous toward us! They are talking angzi and Khan about the foreign Tujue, Tiele, Gaoli [Korea], Tubo [Tibet], Dangxiang [Tangut branch of Qiang ethnic group], Tuyuhun, Huihe [et along very ith each other”
And then, knitting his brows, he said, “I a to look for Li Yuan, but hat kind of ghostly ing his shoulders, Kou Zhong said, “I can only see the opportunity and act accordingly Chang’an city defense is very long; inevitably there will be a flaw or a gap After entering the city, we’ll use usualeach other At that time we’ll think of how to put our hands to do the treasure hunt”
“I a said, “You et that even with his strength, Li shi+min still suffered injury fro, our horses robust, but we still can’t coth at that ti a asked
Xu Ziling replied, “With Li Dasao nearby, a lot of things are inconvenient to talk about”
Kou Zhong expressed his understanding Reaching out, he grabbed Xu Ziling’s shoulder and said heavily, “After dark, you leave the boat and go ashore You must be very careful If anybody doubted your identity, slip away i”
Deeply concerned, Xu Ziling said, “You er-eyes, Kou Zhong’s /prancing horse] Bridge After experiencing untold hardshi+ps, as well as layer upon layer of challenging twists and turns, finally the crucial race in all his life was finally co far away, he said, “Iin Chang’an before the New Year Remember to calculate the time accurately tothan a vast, unfatho’s jade countenance fro Yuzhi’s
Disguised as Yue Shan, Xu Ziling traveled urgently for three days and night, nonstop This day at dusk, he reached Taolin [lit peach forest], located at the south bank of the Yellow River
Since Li shi+min defeated Xue Ju, father and son’s Xi Qin Arreatly A lot of fortified cities in the vicinity of Tongguan, which were originally neutral, realigned their allegiance to the Li’s Tang, so that they beca’s army out of the Pass Taolin was precisely one of those cities; therefore, the banner hanging on the city as the Li Clan’s
Upon entering the city, Xu Ziling stopped at a hotel to rest, to preserve and nurture his spirit before entering the Pass early the next day
Chang’an was located on the plains on the Wei River region The reason it was called Guanzhong was because on the east there was Tongguan, on the as the Da San Guan [not sure if it is a place’s nauan [lit uan [Chinese wort pass] Located in the[lit thethese four Guan It was built by the Qin people during the Warring States period [475-221 BC]
On the north it overlooked the Yellow River, barely leaning against Dashan [lit big mountain] About a hundred li east and ere open paths, which were actually narrow slit of crushed mountain rocks where ‘carts could not be placed on the track, horses could not be ridden side-by-side’, where there was a ‘onethe pass, ten-thousandon it The original name was HanGu Guan, but after the Eastern Han dynasty, the na States period, six states again and again for the Vertical Alliance [clique of the School of Diploain they ended up nursing a grievance at HanGu’s e
The Twin Peaks towered by the Great River [ie Yellow River], since ancient times HanGu has always been a battlefield
It was precisely this arduous ground that the ’an as steady as Mount Tai, thatthe fire beacon and chaos of war outside the Pass
Xu Ziling took a bath in delight before putting on the Yue Shan ht en route using the disguising technique that he learned from Chen Laomou, so that the skin exposed outside his clothes would have approximately the same color as the h by attentive and astute people like Lei Jiuzhi