"Princess, what do you mean? Chai Shao and I didn't know each other before, and there was no grudge. If he hadn't hit me and hit someone, how could I beat him up? In the eyes of the princess, I am just a person who likes to cause trouble?" Li Xiu heard Princess Pingyang's last question and immediately showed an extremely aggrieved expression.

"Really?" Princess Pingyang said obviously with some doubts. She always felt that Li Xiu had not told the truth completely.

"Of course it's true!" Li Xiu nodded with a firm look on his face, and then he seemed to understand something, and immediately said loudly, "I understand, Princess, do you think I don't want to be an official, so you deliberately caused trouble, right? But Princess, you really wronged me this time. I was just saying something angry before. How could you really go to tease a woman on the street? And it was a complete accident when I met Chai Shao. If he wasn't so arrogant, I wouldn't have had a conflict with him!"

At the end of the day, Li Xiu showed an expression of injustice on his face, and his eyes were filled with a bit of despair, as if he wanted to make a clear wish of his determination. This made Princess Pingyang wonder if she was thinking too much for a moment?

"Okay, I already know the incident. Don't worry about the next thing, I will help you deal with it!" Princess Pingyang thought for a long time, and finally said that although Li Xiu beat Chai Shao and caused a big disaster, the fault of this matter was not his, and he was his savior, so she would not let Li Xiu be questioned for this.

"Thank you, Princess!" Li Xiu bowed to Princess Pingyang with gratitude, and finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Some things should be buried in his heart forever. For example, when he beat Chai Shao, he did not think of causing trouble except for revenge, but he did not expect Chai Shao to be so big.

Li Xiu said goodbye and left. As soon as he left the princess' room, he was pulled aside by Ma Master who was guarding outside and asked, "You guy is so brave that you even dare to beat Chai Shao. Although I have always wanted to do this, I have not been able to do it for so many years. Now you have been snatched from the first place. I have to say admiration to you!"

"Uncle Ma, don't joke about me. If I knew in advance that he was Chai Shao, I..."

"How are you? Just because he is Chai Shao, you admit defeat after being kicked. Isn't this like Li Xiu I know?" Before Li Xiu finished speaking, Ma Ye interrupted him with a glaring eyes. He heard all the conversation between Li Xiu and the princess outside just now. Of course, he was the only one who dared to eavesdrop on the princess's conversation in the entire inn.

"Of course I won't admit defeat, but I will secretly give him a stick from behind and run away after the beat. Anyway, he doesn't know me." Li Xiu said with a look of course. If it doesn't work, it will be dark, if it doesn't work, it will be dark, if it doesn't work, it will be dark. If it doesn't work, it will be dark. If it doesn't work, it will be dark. He is familiar with the direction of history and has more than a thousand more knowledge than the Tang people. He doesn't believe that there is any enemy that he can't handle.

"Haha, I'm right, I know you're a kid who is full of bad things!" Master Ma couldn't help laughing when he heard Li Xiu's words. He was a general, and he only talked about the results and not the process on the battlefield. No matter what means he could defeat the enemy, it would be enough. So Li Xiu's words were quite in line with his appetite, not to mention that the person Li Xiu was going to deal with was Chai Shao, whom he hated the most.

"Uncle Ma, I can also see that the princess and you both hate Chai Shao very much. Now I offended Chai Shao too. We are also people on the same front. Can you tell me why you and the princess hate Chai Shao so much? Isn't he the princess' husband?" Li Xiu finally asked this question that had been puzzled by him for a long time.

When Ma Ye heard Li Xiu ask about this, he couldn't help but show an angry expression. After a while, he sighed: "This matter is a long story, and this is the biggest pain in the princess's heart. Not many people know about this matter, and even if they know, few people dare to say it. I don't want to mention it, for fear that the princess will be sad after hearing it. It's okay to tell you now."

With Ma Ye’s narration, a long-closed historical mystery was finally revealed. Princess Pingyang and Chai Shao were indeed husband and wife, and their marriage was decided by Li Yuan himself. When Li Yuan raised an army, Chai Shao and Princess Pingyang were preparing to get married in Chang'an. However, with the news of Li Yuan’s uprising, the Sui court also began to capture Li Yuan’s family everywhere. Princess Pingyang, as Li Yuan’s favorite daughter, was only after Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin on the arrest list.

Fortunately, Li Yuan had sent someone to notify Princess Pingyang and Chai Shao in advance, so they had secretly left Chang'an before the people who captured them arrived. However, even after leaving Chang'an City, there were still people who captured them everywhere outside, so Princess Pingyang, Ma Ye and others had no confidence to return to Taiyuan.

However, what they didn't expect was that on the first night they left Chang'an, Chai Shao actually left with a few confidants. As for the reason, it is not necessary to think about it. Because Princess Pingyang was the main target of the Sui Dynasty, it would be very dangerous for Chai Shao to be with Princess Pingyang. But if he left Princess Pingyang, those who captured them would be attracted by Princess Pingyang, and his chances of escaping would naturally increase greatly.

Princess Pingyang never expected that Chai Shao, who thought she could entrust her life to be such a person, could even give up her wife for her safety. This blow almost caused Princess Pingyang to collapse.

However, Princess Pingyang is not an ordinary woman after all. In fact, she looks very much like her mother, Queen Dou. Both of them are soft on the outside and strong on the inside. After Chai Shao escaped alone, Princess Pingyang quickly cheered up and continued to flee north with her people. But what's worse is that most of the people around her were Chai Shao's people at that time. After seeing Chai Shao leave, their hearts dispersed and they ran away in just a few days. In the end, only Ma Ye and a few confidants who came from the Li family were left. The pursuers behind seemed to have found their traces and were about to chase them.

In that case, Princess Pingyang was almost in desperate situation, and even Ma, who was tough, felt a little desperate. For this reason, he had prepared weapons and poison. As long as the pursuers arrived, he would poison Princess Pingyang first to avoid being humiliated, and then die in a fierce battle, which was worthy of the Li family.

However, what Ma Master did not expect was that Princess Pingyang burst out with amazing tenacity in this desperate situation. At that time, they happened to arrive at a Li family manor in Shaanxi. So Princess Pingyang cut off her long hair and dressed up in men's clothes, called herself Mr. Li, and then dispersed all the wealth in the manor. Even her dowry was exchanged for money and grain to help the victims. She recruited a team of hundreds of people from the victims. Then, based on this team, she finally developed into a deputy army of tens of thousands of people.

"When our Women's Army was at its peak, the number reached an astonishing 70,000 people, and he captured a vast land in Guanzhong. Even the famous Sui general Qu Tutong at that time was defeated by the princess several times. If the princess was a man, she might take this opportunity to sweep the world and thus determine the Central Plains in one fell swoop!" When Ma Ye talked about Princess Pingyang's feat from desperate situation to tens of thousands of troops, her face was full of pride.

"It's unlikely. Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande both had tens of thousands of troops at that time, and they could be called the overlords of one side. Although the princess had a lot of troops, it was still much worse than Wang Shichong and others." Li Xiu said with some disagreement when he heard this. He was still familiar with the distribution of power at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

"You know, do you know how many troops your Majesty and the King of Qin had when they launched a military army in Taiyuan? Twenty thousand! Not even one-third of our Women's Army, but later the princess took the initiative to hand over the military power, which suddenly increased the troops to 100,000. It was precisely with this 100,000 army that Your Majesty could seize Chang'an and thus laid the foundation for my Tang Dynasty!" Ma Ye was very angry at Li Xiu's questioning the strength of the Women's Army, and said very annoyed.

"Haha, Uncle Ma, don't be angry. I'm young and ignorant. I understand as soon as you say this. It turns out that His Majesty, the Crown Prince, the King of Qin, and the son of Qin, were not as weak as a princess. So the princess can do what His Majesty and the King of Qin can do, so the princess can do it too!" Li Xiu hurriedly followed Ma's words. After all, he knew that Ma's feelings for the Detachment of Women were very deep, so he didn't need to argue with him.

"That's...well, as long as you know it in your heart, don't go out and talk nonsense!" Ma Ye seemed to like Li Xiu's words that belittle others' meaning of raising the princess, but the one who belittles His Majesty and his two sons today, so it's still difficult to say such words.

"Huh? Isn't it right?" Li Xiu suddenly thought of something, and asked Ma Master with confusion, "Uncle Ma, I seem to have heard from others that when the princess and Chai Shao were in Chang'an, the princess took the initiative to let Chai Shao leave by herself. It seems that the history books also record it in this way. Why is it different from what you said?"

"How many things in history books can be believed? What's more, the princess and Chai Shao have special identities. Not to mention that there are not many people who know about this. Moreover, when His Majesty raised the army, Chai Shao also made a lot of contributions. So after his Majesty was angry, he did not blame Chai Shao anymore. Instead, he always wanted to make them reconcile. However, the princess hated Chai Shao very much. Not to mention reconcile, she would not even see him when she saw him!" When Ma said the last, his face showed a dissatisfaction, and he didn't know whether he was dissatisfied with Chai Shao or Li Yuan?

After hearing what Ma Master said, Li Xiu showed a thoughtful expression. He felt that Ma Master had some problems with his last words. For example, since Li Yuan loved Princess Pingyang the most, Chai Shao was not cut off by Li Yuan after abandoning Princess Pingyang and running alone. If it was explained with credit, it would be a bit too far-fetched. After all, Chai Shao's contributions among the generals were not very outstanding, and he could not be compared with Princess Pingyang.

What’s more interesting is that Li Yuan was about to rebel, but sent his favorite Princess Pingyang to Chang'an to marry Chai Shao. This matter is unreasonable, so there must be any secret that is unknown to outsiders. I don’t know if Ma really doesn’t know, or deliberately concealed it?
Chapter completed!