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At that time, Gao Huaide, a famous general of the Song Dynasty, was stationed at the border, and he served as the Jiedu envoy of Xiongzhou.

Gu Shuyao asked Ye Ziyan: "Sister, is there any way we can contact the officials from the Song Dynasty?"

Ye Ziyan thought for a while and said: "There is a questionable place in Xiongzhou!"

Gu Shuyao asked: "What is a discussion field?"

Ye Ziyan smiled and said: "It is the place where the people of Song and Liao trade. Because the two countries are hostile to each other, the Song Dynasty set up special institutions to trade with each other!"

Gu Shuyao happily said, "Then we can just find a chance to go there!"

Ye Ziyan nodded, and the two decided to go to the forum to have a look.They decided to buy and sell something, the only way to hide their identities.The two discussed it and decided to sell the horse.

At that time, during the Song-Liao war, the Song Dynasty urgently needed war horses.The Liao Kingdom did not allow the people to sell horses to the Song Dynasty, lest the other party get the horses and defeat them.Therefore, if the people of the Liao Kingdom dared to sell war horses to the Song Dynasty, they would beheaded immediately if they caught them.Of course, in the Song Dynasty, the government would reward those who traded horses from the Liao Kingdom heavily.

After careful discussion, Ye Ziyan said: "If we want to meet the officials of the Song Dynasty, we have to sell war horses at the risk of beheading!"

Gu Shuyao said, "How do we sell it?"

Ye Ziyan pondered for a long time and said: "Only through underground channels! I bought ten war horses in Youzhou, and you find ways to enter the market!"

After the two discussed it, Ye Ziyan brought the money to buy ten big horses in Youzhou City.Gu Shuyao brought some antler and ginseng from the north to Xiongzhou.

When she entered the local market, she saw many yamen officials in narrow sleeves and soap collars shouting and shouting.Gu Shuyao was wearing rough clothes, and came to a level ground with her head down and a basket on her shoulders.

She secretly observed the terrain in her heart, and inquired about the local situation in many ways.Hard work paid off, and she finally contacted a horse dealer.Because it is military supplies, both sides are very cautious.The man was an old man in plain clothes, about five or sixty years old.

The old man whispered, "Do you want to sell the horse?"

Gu Shuyao nodded, and she said cautiously: "I have a friend who has ten war horses and wants to sell them to your country. I hope the old man can introduce us to General Gao Huaide!"

The old man sneered and said: "General Gao Huaide, everyone can see it? If you want to sell the horse, just give it to me, and the money is worth a penny!"

Gu Shuyao said: "Old man, let's be honest, we don't sell horses to make money, we just want to report a very important matter to the Song Dynasty government!"

"What's the matter?" said the old man.

Gu Shuyao was anxious, she said: "We just want to see General Gao Huaide!"

The old man said in a low voice: "If there is a horse deal, Zi Youya will take you to see him!"

Gu Shuyao said happily: "Okay, it's a deal! At three o'clock tonight, trade horses under the haystack outside the market!"

After returning, Gu Shuyao explained the details, and Ye Ziyan really prepared the horses.

At three o'clock that night, they came to the forage field together.After waiting for a while, Ye Ziyan and Gu Shuyao led the horses and came here with the fire as a sign.Sure enough, a general wearing Song Dynasty armor appeared, Gu Shuyao said in a low voice, "We risked our lives to come here to prove that we really want to see General Gao!"

Ya Jiang said: "The deal was concluded today, which proves that you will not have fakes. We can show you!"

Ye Ziyan and Gu Shuyao didn't need money either, and they followed Ya Jiang to the General's Mansion.General Na Ya notified Menzi, and Menzi told Jianjun, who hurriedly reported to Gao Huaide.

Gao Huaide held the lamp to raise the tent, and the two of them came in together.

After prostrating, Gao Huaide asked: "Why are you two weak girls risking your life to see this commander?"

Ye Ziyan is Ye Yongning's younger sister, so she naturally dare not reveal her name.

Gu Shuyao said: "Gu Shuyao, a daughter of the people, her ancestors were General Longxiang of the Tang Dynasty, who was in charge of the court guards. When the Tang Dynasty fell, my ancestors hid the imperial jade seal at home, waiting for the revival of the Tang Dynasty, but there has been no revival of the Tang Dynasty so far. It’s possible. Minnv’s father left a last wish before he died, asking me to send this imperial jade seal to the Great Song Dynasty and hand it over to the emperor, as a destiny!”

Gao Huaide was overjoyed, he said: "Is it the jade seal carved with Heshibi by Qin Shihuang? Where is it?"

Gu Shuying hummed and said: "It is indeed the jade seal carved by Qin Shihuang with Heshibi, which is now in the White Dragon Palace of Daliao. The women of the people came to report the truth this time, and hope that the general can help us secretly."

Gao Huaide was a little disappointed, he stroked his beard and said, "So it's in the hands of the Liao Kingdom!"

Gu Shuyao said firmly: "I will definitely get the jade seal back, and then I will ask the general to recommend it to the emperor!"

"Okay, it's a deal! This commander will send you a token, and you can get the jade seal to go all the way in the Song Dynasty! If you need it, you can contact my subordinate Zhang Cheng secretly. This person is now pretending to be a merchant in Youzhou to spy on the military. The location is Yuelai Pawn Shop!" Gao Huaide said.

Gu Shuyao took the token and said goodbye to Ye Ziyan.

Back in Youzhou, it was already dark, Ye Ziyan let out a long sigh and said: "We finally got in touch with Da Song, we can only succeed with their help!"

Not long after the two of them stayed at home, Xiao Yanyan came.The girl smiled like a spring, holding a folding fan in her hand, and she stopped at Gu's house in a small sedan chair.Lifting the curtain, Xiao Yanyan stepped in.

At this time, Gu Shuyao and Ye Ziyan were drinking together in the garden. They tuned the plain piano, sang and danced, and had a great time.I saw a figure suddenly turned around among the flowers. She covered her face with a folding fan and said with a smile, "How happy you are!"

Seeing that it was her, Ye Ziyan quickly went up to meet her and said, "Sister Yanyan is here!"

Xiao Yanyan lowered her head and smiled, lifted her skirt and sat on the couch under the tree.Gu Shuyao hurriedly poured her a glass of wine, Xiao Yanyan took the wine glass and put it down gently after smelling it, saying: "This is residual wine, the smell of rouge is too strong!"

Gu Shuyao blinked her beautiful eyes and asked: "The wine that girls drink, of course has a strong rouge flavor!"

Xiao Yanyan smiled without saying a word, just looking at the bodies of the two of them.Gu Shuyao and Ye Ziyan seemed to understand something, and they were so ashamed that they couldn't bear it.

Xiao Yanyan got up, took Ye Ziyan's hand and said: "Leave my brother Xiao Yifan alone, you don't want it, you have to go far away!" Ye Ziyan pouted, his face turning blue and red.

Xiao Yanyan said to Ye Ziyan: "We will go back to Beijing the day after tomorrow. Yelu Qingrou's marriage is coming soon, and then I will ask sister Ziyan one thing!"

Ye Ziyan asked: "What's the matter?"

Xiao Yanyan looked at Gu Shuyao, Gu Shuyao was standing among the bonuses, revealing her white teeth.

Xiao Yanyan curled up her mouth calmly, and gently lifted her lotus leaf skirt.

She said to Ye Ziyan: "I want you to be a bridesmaid for Yelu Qingrou!"

Ye Ziyan was startled, she pursed her lips and said, "Is this appropriate?"

Xiao Yanyan hummed and said: "My brother also hopes that you can be the bridesmaid for the princess!" Ye Ziyan nodded slightly when Xiao Yifan was mentioned.

Xiao Yanyan patted her on the shoulder, then walked away slowly, and looked back at Gu Shuyao with a smile in the distance, her expression was like that of a drunken imperial concubine.

Gu Shuyao asked Ye Ziyan: "Do you still like Xiao Yifan?"

Ye Ziyan chuckled and said: "Take Hua Cong to look back lazily, half destined to practice Taoism and half destined to be king!"

Gu Shuyao was relieved, and she was extremely happy.

A day later, Yelu Qingrou returned to Beijing, and Xiao Yanyan accompanied her.

When they arrived in the capital, Shangjing had already begun preparations for the princess's wedding.There are lights and festoons everywhere, beautiful and warm.

Yelu Qingrou finally got married, this is the prosperity of Daliao.On the day of the wedding, Xiao Yifan, the son of Prime Minister Xiao Siwen, came to greet him on a white horse.His delicate face couldn't hide the loss, and there was a sense of sadness.

Gu Shuyao was also in the palace, she stood far away at the door, and saw Xiao Yifan wearing a red robe around his waist, with a stern face, a straight nose, and a strand of black hair fluttering in the wind on his forehead.This indifferent handsome man gives people a sense of imminence, and it can be seen that he is very restrained.

Xiao Yifan came to the gate of the palace dumbly, Gu Shuyao looked at him and smiled and said, "Congratulations, Prince Consort!"

Xiao Yifan nodded and said, "Why haven't you seen the princess come out yet?"

"Wait a minute!" Gu Shuyao said briskly.

Xiao Yifan stared at the blue sky and waited quietly.

After a long time, the master of ceremonies shouted: "Princess comes out of the cabinet!"

The gongs and drums were beeping, and Yelu Qingrou came out with a smile.According to the customs of the Khitan people, the bride does not cover her head when she gets married.Ye Ziyan followed, as a bridesmaid, she was very low-key.Xiao Yifan fixed his eyes on Ye Ziyan, Ye Ziyan blushed and lowered his head.

Afterwards, Xiao Yifan got on his horse, and Yelu Qingrou came to Xiao's mansion in a sedan chair.After the marriage ceremony, Ye Ziyan stood beside him all the time, and Xiao Yifan had a cold face.

Ye Ziyan felt embarrassed and couldn't help it anymore, she quietly came behind Xiao Yifan and said: "Can't you just smile on the day of great joy?"

Xiao Yifan didn't say anything, Ye Ziyan shy away.

After entering the bridal chamber, Xiao Yifan took off the groom's clothes and went to drink.Ye Ziyan talked with Yelu Qingrou for a while, and then came out.

At this time, Xiao Yifan was sitting alone in the study, drinking slowly by himself.Ye Ziyan opened the door and came in, she sat beside him silently.Xiao Yifan ignored her, Ye Ziyan raised the corner of his mouth, and straightened his hair.

"I've been very busy recently!" Ye Ziyan broke the deadlock.

"It's okay!" Xiao Yifan responded lightly.

"I'm married, so I can feel at ease in the future!" Ye Ziyan looked at him and said.

"Yes!" Xiao Yifan replied coldly.

The two fell into silence after that, and Ye Ziyan didn't know what to say.

"I will never marry in my life!" she said firmly.

Xiao Yifan glanced at her and said, "You said it before!" He took a sip from his glass as he spoke.

Ye Ziyan lowered her head and caressed the gorgeous brocade clothes, then got up and said: "I'm leaving!"

Xiao Yifan hummed and said, "No!"

Walking to the door, Ye Ziyan said: "Yelu Qingrou is a very nice person, I hope you can treat her well!"

Xiao Yifan rolled her eyes and said, "Is there anything else you want to explain?"

Ye Ziyan smiled wryly and said, "It's gone!"

At night, Xiao Yifan opened the door and came in. He looked at Yelu Qingrou coldly and said, "It doesn't matter where I sleep, you decide!"

Yelu Qingrou looked at Xiao Yifan who raised his face and said, "I don't want you to touch me!"

Xiao Yifan slammed the door shut, and sat on the bed looking at the moon outside.Yelu Qingrou smiled lightly and said, "You know the secret between me and Ye Ziyan! So..."

"Needless to say, it would be better without you!" Xiao Yifan looked at her and said.

Yelu Qingrou was taken aback, and she said angrily: "I haven't done anything, and I don't know why Ye Ziyan doesn't like you all of a sudden!"

"Because you left your pipa with her, she will only play "The Fishing Boat Sings Evening" to women in the future!" Xiao Yifan said bitterly.

"But she rejected me too!" Yelu Qingrou said innocently.

Xiao Yifan stood up and said, "Stop talking, it's boring!"

Yelu Qingrou sighed and said, "I never thought that an impulse on that rainy night would break the ambiguity between you two! I'm sorry!"

Xiao Yifan said lightly: "I didn't like her when she liked me, and she didn't like me when I started to like her! How could this be? It's God's will!"

"You were half a beat behind!" Yelu Qingrou sneered.

Xiao Yifan said coldly: "Since you are married to me, you should treat me like a husband and wife!"

Afterwards, Xiao Yifan pressed Yelu Qingrou, Yelu Qingrou slapped him across the face and said, "You are not allowed to touch me!"

Xiao Yifan looked at her, Yeluqing softly straightened his hair and said, "I never planned to marry you, it was Ye Ziyan who got in the way, and I made the mistake!"

Xiao Yifan turned around and went out, leaving behind a figure.

Not long after, the Liao and Song Dynasties went to war, and the army of the Northern Song Dynasty marched all over the country to the north.At this time, Ye Yongning served as the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Song Dynasty, the two armies fought, and blood flowed on the border.After a month of fierce fighting, Ye Yongning was defeated in front, and the Song Army won.

At this time, the prime minister Xiao Siwen who had a grudge against Ye Yongning secretly framed Ye Yongning, and Ye Yongning was put on death row for the charge of delaying the military aircraft.

Ye Ziyan was shocked when she heard that her brother was in prison, and she tried her best to rescue Ye Yongning.Xiao Siwen and the crown prince Ye Luxian were determined to get rid of Ye Yongning. The two of them did not stop, bribed the frontline soldiers, and falsely accused Ye Yongning of colluding with the Song Dynasty and collaborating with the enemy.The fatuous Liao Muzong ordered Ye Yongning to be beheaded without saying a word.

When Ye Ziyan got the news, she passed out on the spot.With tears streaming down her face, she swore to the sky, "I will definitely kill the traitor Xiao Siwen!"

Gu Shuyao sighed and said, "Xiao Siwen is the current prime minister, how can you be his opponent?"

Ye Ziyan sat alone by default, she frowned and had an idea in her mind.Gu Shuyao knew her temper. Although Ye Ziyan had a gentle temperament, once he was convinced of something, he would never turn back.

Just one evening, when Xiao Siwen came home from the palace on duty, Ye Ziyan quietly lay in ambush at the gate of Xiao's mansion.Xiao Siwen arrived at the door in a sedan chair. He got out of the sedan chair, shook his head and walked towards the house.

"Don't leave, old thief!" Ye Ziyan jumped out from the side and shouted.

When Xiao Siwen turned his head, a poisonous arrow flew out of Ye Ziyan's sleeve, and the arrow swished towards him.At this critical moment, Xiao Siwen's bodyguard stepped forward to block it with his chest, and the poisonous arrow hit the bodyguard all at once, killing him on the spot.

Xiao Siwen was furious and shouted: "Take it for me!"

Ye Ziyan was sent to death row by Xiao Siwen, and she was in danger of beheading at any time.Gu Shuyao was very anxious, she immediately went to see Yelu Qingrou, hoping that she could come forward to stop Xiao Siwen.

Without further ado, Yelu Qingrou went directly to see the emperor. Emperor Yelujing hesitated for a long time and said, "Assassinating the Prime Minister is a serious crime. That's all right, let her be exiled to Hulunbuir!"

Yeluqing sighed softly, then went out awkwardly.

She looked at Gu Shuyao and said: "Father said, Ye Ziyan will not die, and he will be assigned to the Hulunbeier Prairie to herd horses and sheep!"

Gu Shuyao said without hesitation: "I would like to accompany her to the prairie!"

Yelu Qingrou was taken aback, patted her head and said: "Your head is not broken, is it! The prairie is deserted, you should think about it!"

Gu Shuyao nodded and said, "I've made up my mind!"

Yelu Qingrou was very jealous, she said angrily: "Why are you so nice to her? Silly girl!"

Gu Shuyao didn't say a word, and went home to pack her bags.