On the wedding night of
Ning
‘s sweetheart, I was separated from her by a tent. On my
sweetheart’s wedding night, I was separated from her by a tent.
She is the princess who was defeated and sent to be married.
And I’m just a eunuch waiting outside the tent.
“Yunsheng, go and pick up my kite.” The princess sat on the branch above my head, holding the broken string of the kite in her hand.
I raised a pair of hands and looked sideways at Cuixi, the maid of honor standing next to me. Cuixi got my eyes and ran in the direction of the kite’s fall with her skirt.
“Princess, come down quickly. It’s dangerous up there.” I lowered my head and raised my hand to persuade the princess.
The princess did not know what she saw and suddenly laughed.
She smiled like a silver bell blown by the wind, and she was very smart.
“Well, Yunsheng, you must catch me.” She said with a smile.
Without waiting for my reaction, I heard the sound of rustling in the wind.
The next moment, the princess fell into my hand, my heart sank, afraid that she would fall to the ground, and I tried my best to hold her.
She put her hands around my neck and laughed in my ears.
My whole body is her smell, and in my hands is her soft waist.
She put her face in front of mine and blinked her round almond eyes as the water rippled. She smiled and swung her legs. “Yunsheng, I knew you would catch me.”
Yes, I will catch her.
I will always catch her.
The first time I saw the princess was when I was ten years old. After my parents died, my uncle sent me to the palace to be a eunuch.
At that time, I had no money and no power. I was just a little eunuch who had just entered the palace and had no background. I was soon targeted by an old eunuch with eccentricity.
That day was the Winter Solstice. Snow fell all over the sky in the palace with green tiles and red walls. My father-in-law, who was in charge of us, presented me to the old eunuch on the grounds of filial piety.
I didn’t know what he was going to do, but I also knew that if he did, he would not be able to live. I ran out when my clothes were down to a layer of clothes. The
heavy snow fell on me, and I ran barefoot for a long time, and finally hid behind a rockery. I
don’t know how long I hid, but I thought I was going to freeze to death, but I heard a voice coming from the top of the rockery.
“Aren’t you cold with your bare feet?” A gorgeously dressed girl asked me innocently, blinking her round eyes.
I am too cold to speak.
She jumped in front of me from the top, untied her cloak and put it over me, scolding me like a little adult, “Are you stupid?”? He doesn’t wear clothes either, and my father says that he will get sick.
Later I learned that she was a princess.
She is the only daughter of the emperor today, and she is held in the palm of the hand by all the people in the palace.
She’s not just nice to me. She can cry for a while even when she sees a dead rabbit.
I don’t know if the warmth came suddenly and I couldn’t accept it for a while, so I fell in front of the princess.
When I woke up, I was already in the princess’s palace.
The princess leaned close to me and said with a smile, “From now on, you will be a member of my palace.”
“Yunsheng, what are you thinking?” The princess who was walking in front suddenly turned around and almost bumped into my arms.
I lowered my head and stepped back quietly. “Go back to the princess,” I said. “The slave is thinking that in two months it will be the princess’s wedding ceremony.”
The eight-year-old princess grew up to sixteen year by year.
To marry means to get married.
I lowered my eyes and hid the darkness from them.
The thoughts that I shouldn’t have should be hidden.
“Yes.” Laughing, the princess turned around and skipped forward. “Yunsheng, what are you going to give me as a gift?”
I followed her footsteps closely and raised my lips unconsciously: “The princess will know when the time comes.”
The princess turned to face me and walked back instead, smiling brightly and openly.
“Yunsheng never lets me down.”
I am the chief eunuch in the princess’s palace, and I personally take care of all the affairs of the princess.
So I was the first to know that the emperor ordered people to send a book full of paintings of the capital.
“What is that?” As soon as I entered the study, the princess, who was still painting, looked up at the book in my hand. A little ink on the tip of
her nose is very lovely.
I went over with the booklet and presented it to her. “It’s from Your Majesty. It’s full of the most outstanding young men in the capital.”
“What’s this for?” The princess took the book from my hand.
I watched her turn over two pages at random, and the first one was the son of Taifu.
Hearing that he was the most talented man in the world, the emperor had a green eye for him.
The appearance is also excellent.
With the princess. A good match.
I went to the princess’s side and reached out to take the ink stick from Cuixi’s hand to replace her and grind the ink for the princess.
“Princess, have you forgotten that the other day Your Majesty said he would send some portraits for the princess to look at first?” Cui Xi reminded the princess with a smile.
She was right. The last time the emperor told the princess about the ceremony, he mentioned it.
The princess was suddenly enlightened and looked up quickly before I threw the book and continued to draw.
Cui Xi hurriedly went up to collect the book and looked at the princess doubtfully. “Doesn’t the princess want to see it?”
“No, I promised my father that I would show him this painting as soon as possible.”
The princess seemed to be very interested in this painting, always drawing and throwing, throwing and drawing again, from early morning to evening.
Seeing that the hall was getting darker and darker, I put down the ink stick to hold the lamp.
“Yun Sheng.” As soon as I reached the lamp, I heard the princess calling me.
“My father doesn’t like me anymore.” Her voice was so soft that I could not distinguish her mood. After I had
lit the lamp, I turned around and answered her, “Your Majesty regards the princess as a pearl in the palm of his hand.”
It’s true. The whole palace knows it.
The princess’s dignity is unparalleled, all because of the emperor’s love for her.
She put down the pen in her hand, and I saw at a glance that the side of her middle finger was red, which was held by the pen.
Next time I won’t let her draw like crazy.
But what qualifications do I have to let her go.
All thoughts around me, I looked down at the dark red floor tiles, dare not look at her.
“Then why is he in such a hurry to marry me off?” The princess took a few steps towards me.
I lowered my head and opened my mouth, not knowing what to say. Finally I said, “The princess has grown up.”
The princess did not speak again, but took a few steps closer to me. The scent of
her body was getting closer and closer, and the next moment it appeared in front of me.
“What about you?” She stood in front of me, lowered her head and put her face close to mine. “Yunsheng, do you want me to get married?”
I
I’m a eunuch. What do you want.
Dare to think or not. The
hall was quiet for a long time, and my hand hanging at my side was clenched into a fist and slowly opened.
I looked up at the princess and said to her with a smile, “Princess, it’s time for dinner.”
The princess is angry.
I don’t know if she was angry that I didn’t answer her question or that the painting wasn’t finished. She
has never been picky about food, and she has no appetite for dinner at a table.
I went up to arrange the dishes for her, but she looked at Cui Xi on the other side and said, “You come and arrange the dishes for me.”
Cui Xi hurriedly looked up at me. I
had no choice but to shake my head and put a piece of fish without a bone in the princess’s dish. “Don’t embarrass Cui Xi, princess,” I coaxed. “Come as a slave.” In
this huge palace, no one can serve the princess better except me.
Perhaps it all stems from my shameful selfishness.
The princess was kind-hearted. Hearing what I said, she didn’t ask for Cuixi cloth dishes any more, but she didn’t eat a few mouthfuls of my cloth dishes. Seeing her appearance,
I knelt down beside her and said, “If the princess spoils herself like this, the slave can only punish herself.”. If the princess doesn’t have a good meal, the slave won’t eat for a day.
Yes, I am the only one in the palace who knows her best.
Hearing what I said, she picked up the chopsticks again.
“Yunsheng, you are very bad.”
“Master, the disciple has done what you ordered.” This is the little eunuch millet brought up by me.
I just coaxed the princess to sleep and stood under the porch looking up at the sky.
After listening to him, he gave a faint “hmm” and turned to leave the princess’s bedroom. In a
few days, it was the princess’s wedding ceremony. Since that day, she left the album aside and never looked at it again.
I didn’t mention it again.
It is expected that the emperor will also look for candidates from the young talents who come to watch the ceremony.
Millet followed me and said with a smile, “Shifu really cares about the princess. I’m afraid no one in the palace can treat the princess better than you.”
I stopped and looked at him slightly sideways.
He also realized that he had said something he shouldn’t have said, and quickly kept silent.
“This is a royal palace, but if you don’t pay attention to your steps, you’ll lose your head.” I continued to lift my feet and walk forward.
“Remember, disciple.” Millet also hurriedly followed up, and did not say a word. The night before
the ceremony, I hung all the dresses that the princess would wear tomorrow into the princess’s bedroom.
The princess looked at the beautiful clothes and asked me, “Yunsheng, what do you think of growing up?”
I don’t know.
“Doesn’t the princess want to grow up?” I waited on the princess to sleep.
She nestled into the quilt, holding it tightly in her little hands, pulling it up to the top of her nose, leaving only a pair of eyes outside.
“Yun Sheng.” Her voice was muffled under the covers and sounded a little unhappy. “Can you stay with me tonight?” She hasn’t said
that for a long time.
A long time ago, she asked me to sleep with her beside the bed. Of course,
this is not in line with the rules.
“Good.” Smiling, I tucked her in the corner of the quilt, pulled her quilt, and pulled her little face out of the quilt. “Princess, go to sleep quickly. There will be a lot of things tomorrow.” There are too many things that
don’t follow the rules, and I can’t do nothing for the sake of the rules.
Waiting for the princess to fall asleep, I was going to go out gently, but I didn’t expect her to hold my clothes.
“Yun Sheng.” She called out in a soft voice.
It was the sound of “cloud life” that made me know that there was an abyss ahead, and I was willing to jump down.
I turned around to answer, but she still closed her eyes tightly.
It was a dream. In the
dream unexpectedly also wants me. So
I spent the night with the princess at her bedside.
“Yunsheng, did you kneel beside the bed all night like this?” When the princess got up early, her eyes were full of surprise.
I looked at her little hand, which was still holding the corner of my coat, and asked her, “The princess can sleep for a while. It’s still early.”
She looked at her hand, too, and let it go.
“Are you stupid?” She got out of bed, angry and anxious. “It’s so cold on the ground. You’ve been kneeling for so long. Do you still want your legs?” Instead of answering,
I reached out and pulled up the quilt that had slipped down from her body to cover her whole body.
She didn’t know that I was willing and happy to do all this.
She’ll never know.
The princess is angry again. He did not speak to me
all morning, but glared at me at breakfast.
Then throw me a pair of knee pads on the way out. “You like kneeling so much,”
she snorted. “You’ll kneel later.” To
say so capriciously is not to say that it is for my own good. Who knows more about
her mind than I do.
As I thought, the emperor invited the families of many officials in the court.
It includes the son of Taifu, who has talent and fame, but has no fame.
But what I didn’t expect was that the princess would snuggle in the emperor’s arms in front of so many people and say, “I’m still young, and I want to spend a few more years with my father. Is my father bored with my son?”
The emperor was coaxed by the princess to laugh again and again, and finally gave up the idea of choosing a son-in-law for the princess at the ceremony.
The ceremony was followed by a large birthday party, which did not end until very late.
The princess walked in front, her pace was a little hasty at first, and then she slowed down.
Finally, as if she could not bear it any more, she turned around and blushed a little. She had just drunk a glass of fruit wine.
“Yunsheng, you lied to me.” She beeped her watery little mouth and complained all over her face.
My heart quickly turned into a puddle of mud, and I knew that even if she wanted the stars in the sky, I would not refuse her.
“Princess.” I lowered my head slightly to hide the affection that was about to break through the stone in my eyes.
She took a step towards me, very close to me, and bowed her head to me. She asked me, “You said that you had prepared a wedding ceremony for me.” Naturally,
I have prepared a wedding ceremony for the princess.
As soon as I returned to the palace, Millet hurried up to me and said, “Master, I’m ready.”
I nodded slightly and led the princess to a small garden behind her bedroom. As soon as
the princess entered the small garden, her watery eyes suddenly brightened.
“When did you plant it?” She went into the flowers, as if she didn’t believe everything in front of her.
I also slowly stepped into it.
“Does the princess like it?” I looked at the princess in the flowers and felt that she was like a flower fairy falling in the rose bushes.
She did not know that she was much more dazzling than this rose.
“Like it!”! I asked why there was some fragrance in the palace today, and I thought you had changed the incense. She looked back at me. “When did you plant such a rose when you were with me every day?”? I heard the old man in the palace say that this flower is not good for living.
It’s not a good job. It was
planted all over the mountain, but only this one was alive.
I looked at her with a smile and suddenly felt that it was worthwhile to live only one flower all over the mountain.
I raised my hand and made a gesture. The millet standing outside received my instructions and retreated. It was not long before a point of light like a star appeared in the air.
It’s a firefly.
“Yunsheng!” The princess exclaimed, “Look!”! They twinkle like stars!
I’ve been preparing for so long, just for her appearance at this time.
As I imagined, I was very satisfied.
The princess was sitting asleep in the little garden, and I carried her back to her bed in the palace.
“Yun Sheng.” When I took off my shoes and socks for her, she mumbled my name.
“The slave is here.” I answered softly. But
she stopped talking.
I gently covered her quilt, took out a safety lock from my bosom and hung it carefully around her neck.
“Happy birthday, Princess.” I was very close to her face.
Close enough to kiss her on the lips with a slight bow.
But I can’t.
I wouldn’t dare.
I don’t deserve it.
As I turned to leave, there was the rustle of the princess turning over on the bed.
Then I heard her soft voice saying, “Yunsheng, I like you.”
The voice is very light. It was so
light that it scattered in the air as soon as I finished speaking, and I couldn’t tell if it was my auditory hallucination. When the princess woke up
the next day, she immediately ran to the small garden behind the bedroom and was relieved to see a large area of roses still there.
“It’s not a dream.” She turned and threw herself into my arms. “It’s not a dream, Yunsheng.”
I hurriedly wrapped her in the cloak that Cuixi had handed over.
“What other flowers does the princess want? Let’s plant them here together in a few days.” I carried her back to the bedroom and waited on her to dress and wash.
As she combed the princess’s hair, she smiled and said, “Apart from the roses, the princess likes to eat. Don’t ask the princess. Don’t let you plant some potatoes and sweet potatoes in the roses.” As soon as
she finished, all the people in the hall laughed together.
The princess was not annoyed. She blushed and said stiffly, “Who said that? Yunsheng, plant some lilies in that garden some day. I hear they’re very beautiful, too.” “Good,”
I said with a smile.
After the ceremony, the emperor sent a few more booklets.
He thought that the princess just didn’t like the people in the last booklet, so the booklets were replaced by another group of people.
The princess took the book and went to the emperor’s Imperial Study. What’s
the matter? My son has someone he likes? The emperor, who was still reading the memorial, put down his pen and looked at the book in the princess’s hand with a smile.
The princess put the book on the table in front of the emperor and went forward to embrace the emperor’s arm.
“Father, I don’t want to get married so soon. I want to stay with my father for a few more years. Is my father willing to give up my son?” No one can refuse the charming voice.
The emperor is no exception.
“Ha ha ha! Of course I can’t bear to part with Ah Ning. You pick the right one first. If you pick the right one, the father will keep it for Ah Ning. When Ah Ning wants to marry, he will marry again.” The emperor closed the memorial on the table and coaxed the princess patiently.
This did not seem to be the answer the princess wanted. Seeing
that the princess was going to argue with the emperor, the emperor looked up at me.
I saluted and withdrew from the temple.
I don’t know what they said in the temple.
I don’t know what the princess said to the emperor in the Imperial Study that day, but I only saw the princess running out of the hall crying.
Then the princess was grounded.
The emperor never punished the princess, let alone grounded her.
The whole palace was wondering what the princess had said to the emperor.
But even I do not know, others will not know.
“Yun Sheng.” The princess’s red eyes shrank in the corner of the bed, looking like a porcelain doll that would break at any time.
My heart also clenched together, wishing that all her sadness and pain could be transferred to me.
“The slave is here.” I stood on the edge of the bed with a soft voice.
She looked at me and burst into tears: “When you grow up, do you have to get married?”
I put my head down.
I don’t know how to answer.
Maybe you don’t have to get married.
“Can I marry you?” The princess’s eyes fell on me so frankly.
I can’t catch it, my dark heart can’t catch her eyes like this.
I can’t catch her words.
She may have said angry words.
I knelt down immediately.
She crawled up to me from the corner of the bed and lifted my chin. “Yunsheng, do you like me?”
I
I can’t lie to myself and say I don’t like it.
I dare not say that I like it.
I have forgotten how I went out of the princess’s bedroom that day, and how I missed the princess’s expectant eyes.
For several days, I didn’t go near the princess’s bedroom again.
I gave everything to Cuixi and Millet, and they would report to me.
Until this day, I finally waited for the emperor’s summons.
It’s still in the Imperial Study.
The emperor was not a benevolent monarch, and all his kindness was given to the princess. Kneeling on the cold ground,
I heard the emperor ask me, “How is the princess recently?”
“The princess has been in a bad mood lately, and even her appetite has gone down a lot.” I answered truthfully.
Suddenly his tone cooled a little. “Has the princess said anything lately that she shouldn’t have said?” As soon as the
emperor’s words fell, I remembered that day when the princess shed tears and asked me if I liked her.
No one will know that my heart was cut by a thousand knives at that moment.
“No.” I thought the princess had never said
those words.
The emperor threw the inkstone directly on my forehead, and soon blood and ink flowed down my forehead.
“Ah Ning is simple-minded. He can say things he shouldn’t say, and he has thoughts he shouldn’t have.” The emperor’s voice was cold. “You are different.”
Yes, I should always remember who I am. My
head was on the ground and I didn’t say a word. The
hall was quiet for a long time, and the emperor seemed to have thought of something and sighed shallowly.
“Choose a maid of honor.”
I forgot my manners for a moment and looked up suddenly.
“How’s Trish?” He didn’t mind the shock on my face and said to himself. The color of
pain flashed in my eyes.
I’m just a slave. Naturally,
these things have no right to choose. Ignoring the wound on my forehead,
I gave a hard kowtow on the ground and said sincerely, “The hairpin of the Huanyi Bureau is very servile. I hope Your Majesty will help me.”
The emperor obviously did not expect me to say so. He put his right hand on the table and leaned over to see me. It
was a long time before he answered, “Yes.”
“Thank the Lord for his kindness.”
The emperor didn’t kill me because he didn’t want to kill me. He was afraid that the princess would hate him.
So he chose to make the princess hate me. The hairpin of
the Huanyi Bureau was sent to my residence on the day and night when the princess lifted the ban.
I think the palace has also spread the hubbub, otherwise the princess will not know so soon.
I stood at the door and looked at the princess outside.
The princess looked at the hairpin in my room, which was still covered with a red veil, and her eyes were red.
Maybe I should have frozen to death behind that rockery when I was ten years old. Will
not be a person who will make the princess sad.
“Yunsheng, did your father force you?” The princess looked at the unhealed scar on my forehead and asked me with tears.
I clenched my hands at her side and looked down at the tips of her shoes, which were embroidered with roses. I answered in a faint voice, “a slave has loved a hairpin for a long time.” I no longer need to take care of the
princess’s affairs with my own hands. Millet and Cuixi replaced me as the people who served her closely. In front of
me, there was no longer a sound of “cloud life.” It seemed that the princess and I had changed overnight. The
days lasted until January.
The princess has just come back from paying her respects to the emperor, and I am going to the small garden behind the bedroom to see how the lilies I planted a few days ago are.
I watched the princess coming towards me and saluted. As usual,
the princess did not look at me and passed me directly. Just as I was about to walk on, the princess behind me suddenly called out to me.
“Yun Sheng.” She screamed angrily and anxiously.
I looked back at her. She had indeed lost a lot of weight
recently, and millet said that she had no appetite every day, and that the kitchen had turned over all the patterns and could not make the princess eat more.
Naturally, I’m no better. If
she can’t eat well, I naturally have to accompany her.
She can’t see, and I have to be there.
“Are you not eating properly?” The princess walked a few steps towards me, her eyes red, like the little rabbit she once raised.
I bow my head and don’t speak.
I want to ask her why she doesn’t eat well.
But I can’t ask. I understand the
princess’s temperament, as long as I ignore her, she will be angry away.
Sure enough, she couldn’t wait for my answer. She was so angry that she turned around and ran into the hall. Then came the sound of smashing things.
My heart seems to be cut by a knife, but it can’t be shown on my face.
Looking at the flowers growing well in the garden, I felt a little better.
When the princess comes here next time, she will be happy.
The princess was getting thinner and thinner, and naturally she could not escape the eyes of the emperor. He called me again.
He said to me, “yuanshan Temple is in a good environment. There lives a prince who sees through the world. Go and serve him.” I’m
finally going to be sent away.
Just send me away.
The princess is still young, as long as she can’t see me, she will gradually forget me. When
I left Imperial Study, the emperor threatened lightly, “your family will be fine if you go to Wonsan Temple.” It’s none of my business whether
they live well or not. It is good for the
princess to live well.
But I didn’t expect that the princess would stop my car on the way to yuanshan Temple.
She stood in front of the carriage, dressed in a plain palace dress, and spread out her hands to stop the carriage. Before the
groom could scold her, I jumped out of the carriage.
“What are you doing here?” How dangerous it is here.
The princess took my hand with red eyes and ran madly to one side of the path while the groom was not paying attention to me.
She is used to climbing trees and mountains on weekdays, but now she can’t see that she is a princess in the palace when she runs.
I don’t know how long she ran, but her palms were all sweaty.
I arrived at a small town at the foot of the mountain.
She stopped under a tree, bent over and gasped for breath.
I patted her on the back with heartache to make her happy.
A moment later, she was suddenly heard laughing.
It was like seeing that funny trick on her birthday last year, laughing happily and happily.
“Yun Sheng.” She looked up at me, her eyes still moist, and asked me with a smile, “Did I look like a bird just now?”
I couldn’t help bending my eyebrows. For more than
a month, only this moment is happy.
I nodded and raised my hand to lift the sodden strands of her hair that had come down from her temples.
“Princess, there is danger outside the palace. How can you come out alone?” I looked at her slightly wet back and wondered if she would get sick.
“I’m not alone. I threw the grain away. He runs too slowly.”
The princess explained to me as she walked toward the bustling center of the town. I don’t know what day to celebrate
today, but the center of the town is very busy.
I was afraid that the princess would get lost, so I didn’t have the heart to let go of her hand and let her take me step by step into the bustling town.
The princess was kept in the palace and had never seen these folk gadgets, so she was particularly curious about the folk gadgets.
Finally, when she picked up a delicate hairpin, the old woman who set up the stall spoke.
“The young lady’s taste is really good. This hairpin is top-grade, so let your husband buy it for you.”
The princess listened to Maw Maw’s words, bent her eyebrows and eyes, and her delicate and small ears were dyed peach at once.
She held the hairpin on one side of her head and looked at me with twinkling eyes. “Yunsheng, please buy it for me.”
“Good.” I answer her. After the princess and
I settled down in the inn, people from the palace knocked on the door in the second half of the night.
This is something I saw coming.
I picked up the princess from the bed. She moved in my arms. Nuo Nuo called out to me, “Yunsheng.”
“Go to sleep.” I coaxed her softly.
She found a comfortable place in my arms and continued to fall asleep.
I carried her all the way from the town to the palace, and when I put her back on her bed in her bedroom, there was just a glimmer of light in the sky.
The emperor’s inkstone fell on my head again.
“Do you think I dare not kill you?” His heavy voice was full of anger.
I crawled on the ground and did not answer him.
He was no longer sitting firmly behind the desk, and he came to me step by step.
“If I kill you, Ning will only hate me for a while. She will understand my kindness in the future.” He came up to me and sighed. “Don’t blame me.”
“The minions dare not.”
I don’t blame him.
If the princess hadn’t brought me back, I would have died when I was ten years old.
The princess stole it for me for eight years.
“Drag it.” The cold voice of the emperor came over my head, and just three words could end my hopeless life.
I kowtowed to thank him and was taken away by the guards who came in.
As soon as I got out of the Imperial Study, a figure rushed at me.
The princess looked at the wound on my forehead and her face was full of heartache.
She put her arms around my waist and wept and said to the emperor, “If the emperor wants to kill Yunsheng, he should also kill the minister. It’s all the minister’s fault. It’s the minister who ran away without permission. It has nothing to do with Yunsheng.”
“Princess.” I lowered my eyes and said softly, “Let go of the slave.”
She shook her head and hugged me tighter.
“If you dare to die, I will die with you.”
It’s all my fault.
I shouldn’t be greedy.
I deserved to die in that snow.
The emperor finally spared me the death penalty and fined me fifty boards.
Millet and Cuixi each got thirty boards.
Fifty boards came down, and I had only one breath left. In a daze, I heard the princess sobbing.
Don’t cry.
Don’t cry.
I struggled to raise my hand, trying to wipe the tears from her eyes, but I couldn’t reach them.
“Yunsheng, you’ve finally woken up.” My hand was held by a pair of hands, and a voice of surprise and joy came from the side.
I opened my mouth and said with all my strength, “Don’t cry.”
But the princess did not listen to me, and she cried harder.
Tears fell on my hands, boiling hot.
It’s like it burns my heart.
“They all say you’re not going to make it.” She whimpered, “I told you you wouldn’t be willing to give up on me. I knew it.” I
heard that I was snatched back from the gate of death by the imperial physician, and I had a fever for two nights.
By the time I woke up, the princess had lost a lot of weight. She has lost a lot of weight
since her ceremony. Be sure to mend it for her
later.
I leaned back on the bed and reached for the medicine bowl in the princess’s hand. “Princess, do it yourself.”
“I’ll do it.” She dodged my hand.
It’s just.
I opened my mouth obediently and accepted the medicine she fed me.
It’s hot..
“What’s the matter?” She noticed my slight frown.
Looking at her worried face, I shook my head and said, “It’s a little bitter. It doesn’t matter.”
I drank the bowl of boiling medicine obediently.
“Yunsheng is really good.” She coaxed me like I used to coax her. “Just take the medicine and you’ll get better soon.” How nice it would be if
time could stop at this moment.
I looked around the room only to find that the hairpin was not here.
“Where is the hairpin?”
The princess pouted, took out her handkerchief and wiped the corners of my mouth. “She told me everything. Since you don’t want her, don’t delay her. I’ve already sent her out of the palace.”
I began to serve the princess again.
The emperor did not summon me again, but he himself began to look for a son-in-law candidate.
He should have a new plan.
I stood outside the little garden and said to the millet behind me, “I will ask the princess to promise you Tracy.”
Millet listened to my words and quickly knelt down.
I glanced back at the sachet he wore around his waist every day and whispered, “Tsui Hsi should be willing, too.” The ladies in the
palace are waiting for their age to get married, so they don’t like these eunuchs.
But Cui Xi beside the princess is not.
She grew up with the princess, and the princess’s temperament is similar, the most important thing is that she does not want to leave the princess.
“Master.” Millet kowtowed to me and silently took the sachet into his bosom. “The guards in the palace are very good.”
He didn’t say more. Of course
I understand. Millet and
I are doomed to be loveless all our lives when we enter here.
But what I didn’t expect was that the princess, who was lying in bed ready to fall asleep, asked me softly, “Yunsheng, do you think I can promise Cuixi to Millet?”
I tucked in her quilt and asked quietly, “Why did the princess say that?” Suddenly,
she was no longer sleepy. She sat up in bed, blinked her big eyes, and put them close to my ear, saying, “Today I caught Cui Xi kissing a grain.”
“Oh?” I raised my eyebrows.
And this?
The princess nodded and suddenly tilted her head and imprinted a kiss on my face.
It was as if something had struck me hard on the tip of my heart, and the string in my brain broke at once.
She quickly got into the quilt.
“It’s like this.” Her voice was muffled in the quilt.
My finger gently touched the place where she had just kissed, as if she had lit a fire there, which was very hot.
“Princess.” I pulled her quilt.
“You go.” She clutched at the covers. “I’ve made up my mind about that.”
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, as if she had just been frivolous.
She came up and kissed me.
Finally, I patted her on the head through the quilt and laughed, “OK, the slave has retired, and the princess has a good sleep.” The next day, the
princess called Cuixi and Millet to her and said that she would promise Cuixi to Millet.
Millet knelt on the ground and looked up at me.
I shook my head, and since I had promised him, I naturally would not mention it to the princess again. After hearing this
, Tsui-hee happily kowtowed to the princess and said, “Thank you, Princess.”
The princess’s face was so proud that I couldn’t help feeling soft. She is really very cute
like this.
What’s the matter? Don’t you want to? The princess looked at the grain.
Without waiting for Millet to answer, Cuixi pressed his head and kowtowed several times to the ground.
“He will, Princess, he will.” Cui Xi answered for Millet with a smile.
Cui Xi is accompanied by the princess to grow up with the personal maid, although is a eunuch, the princess also wants to give her a good marriage.
Cuixi’s wedding clothes were all made by the princess herself.
I stood beside the princess and watched Millet and Cuixi kneel down in front of the princess in their wedding clothes. Like a little adult,
the princess told them, “You two must love and support each other.”
Finally, feeling that this was not enough, he said to Millet, “If you dare to bully Cui Xi, I will not let you go.” Millet was so
frightened that he hurriedly knocked his head and said, “I dare not.”
It provoked a burst of laughter from the people in the temple.
After seeing Trish off, the princess kept looking in the direction of their departure.
“Princess, Trish will be back tomorrow.” Looking at her red eyes, I thought she was reluctant to give up Cui Xi.
She looked at me sideways and asked me, “Yunsheng, can we do the same?”
Not allowed.
She and Trish are different after all.
The emperor had chosen a son-in-law, not the son of the Taifu he had favored before.
It is the flower who has no life experience in this round of imperial examinations.
“Ah Ning, I’m sure you’ll like him.” The emperor handed a portrait to the princess.
Princess, look away. She doesn’t want to see.
I took a look for her, and I understood that the princess would like the words of the emperor, because the people in the portrait looked eight points similar to me.
I was still sent outside the palace by the emperor, and I don’t know what they said inside.
I only know that the princess finally agreed to marry the flower scout. I should be happy that the
princess is getting married.
The day is coming, and I will personally send the princess to the bridal sedan chair and see her marry someone else. The wedding of the
princess and Tanhualang is scheduled for the spring of next year.
I only have a few short months left with the princess.
The princess was not sad at all.
I don’t want her to be sad, but I feel sad when I see her not sad.
“Yun Sheng.” The princess waved to me in the hall. A man stood beside her. I heard that he was the teacher sent by the emperor to teach the princess.
When I walked in, she pointed to the man beside her and said to me, “This is your teacher who will teach you knowledge in the future.”
Teach me knowledge?
In his early years, the emperor also invited a teacher to teach the princess in the palace, and I followed him. Although
his knowledge could not catch up with the students of Taifu, he was much better than princess.
“Teacher, you should focus on teaching him to draw and play chess.” The princess patiently told the man beside her.
The man answered. So
I followed this man to learn painting and playing chess in a muddle. It wasn’t
until I found Tanhualang’s pen on the painting he brought me to copy that I began to doubt the whole thing. Everything came to the surface after the princess drank the fruit wine again
that day.
The princess was drunk as soon as she touched the wine, but she liked to drink fruit wine.
I took her back to bed, scrubbed her carefully and covered her with a quilt. She always likes to grab my clothes unconsciously, and this is no exception.
“Yun Sheng.” She laughed twice, with a bright smile on her red face. “Can you call me a Ning?” How dare
I.
“Princess.” I coaxed her patiently. “Go to sleep.”
She pouted and snorted, “Sooner or later I’ll let you out.”
“You must study hard.” She closed her eyes and continued to mutter.
I squatted down and asked her softly, “What are you studying?”
Her voice is also soft: “Learn to be a flower scout.”
Like a thunderbolt. Everything
is strung together.
So Tanhualang was eight points similar to me, so the princess was not sad from the beginning, so she specially invited a teacher to teach me knowledge.
Just so I can take the place of Tanhualang.
I never thought I could do this again. What
about Tanhualang?
I looked at the innocent princess with a pure white face. According to her temperament, she could agree to do so because the emperor had told her a perfect plan. How did
I get out of the princess bedroom? I don’t know. I
only knew that there were countless fireworks exploding in my mind, and I pinched the flesh of my palm, as if only the clear pain could make me understand that this was not a dream.
Later, I worked harder when I studied with my teacher.
Later, even the teacher couldn’t tell the difference between me and Tanhualang’s paintings. As soon as I
finished painting, I looked up and saw the princess swinging outside. The safety lock on her chest drew a beautiful arc in the air with her ups and downs. Behind
her stood Millet and Cuixi, all three of them laughing together. There is nothing more suitable for painting
than this scene.
I put myself in the picture. Nothing could be more complete
than this painting.
The year is drawing to a close.
The princess began to embroider the red veil of the Mandarin ducks playing in the water for herself. She said that what she embroidered was auspicious.
Things are going in the best direction.
As long as two months, I will become a flower man, will become the emperor’s son-in-law.
Will be the happiest person in the world.
But I didn’t wait for that day.
The Turkic army appeared in the border, and the border army was defeated.
I accompanied the princess to stay in the palace to embroider her red veil, but the emperor and his ministers were locked up in the Imperial Study to discuss countermeasures day and night.
The countermeasures were not discussed.
But in a month, the border lost a city.
It is said that this time the Turks were led by the two sons of the Great Khan, and their tactics were insidious and cunning, and no one could defeat them.
Soon the emperor advocated peace. When
the princess wanted to send soup to the emperor, she met a soldier who came back with a peace offer.
The soldier was covered in blood and lay dying outside the hall.
The condition for peace is to cede a city and send a princess to marry.
The emperor has only one princess, the only princess. The night the
princess heard the news, she shrank on the bed and shivered. I sat on the edge of the bed and couldn’t help fishing her into my arms.
She finally wept until she had no strength left. She looked up at me and said, “Yunsheng, I’m going to marry you.”
“I know.” I held her and patted her carefully on the back.
She buried her face in my arms again, trembling all over. “I’m afraid, Yunsheng, I’m afraid.”
I’m scared, too.
I’m afraid I can’t protect her.
The emperor summoned his ministers to the Imperial Study to discuss the matter day and night.
I heard that he threw everything that could be thrown in the Imperial Study, but he didn’t agree to let the princess go and marry.
But he is the king of a country.
Now not only the Turks, but also Donghu are waiting covetously for a war between the Turks and Dazhou to benefit from it. If they can’t reach an agreement with the Turks, Dazhou will be at war sooner or later.
The people of Dazhou suffered unspeakably.
The princess had nightmares overnight, and her body, which had been raised with great difficulty, was getting thinner and thinner.
It was not until the fifth day that the princess took me to the Imperial Study after a good grooming.
She glanced at the eunuch who was going to stop her, and her eyes were fierce as she did not normally.
At that moment, she seemed to have changed.
She is no longer the carefree and innocent princess.
The eunuch did not react for a moment, so the princess took the opportunity to push open the door of the Imperial Study.
Inside were the emperor and the ministers who had been locked up for a few days, and the decadence was at a glance.
“Father.” With a hoarse cry, the princess stepped into the room step by step. “My son is willing to go.”
The emperor sat behind the table, with white hair on his temples.
But in just one month, he seemed to have aged decades.
“Nonsense!” He glanced at me behind the princess. “Is that how you serve the princess?”? Send the princess back.
I got down on my knees. I couldn’t take her away because I knew her. No one can change what
she decides.
It’s like she decided to marry me.
“Father, you are the king of a country, and you should know which is more important.” The princess went inside step by step.
The emperor understood, but he was not reconciled.
Finally, the princess knelt on the ground with a room full of ministers and said plausibly, “I am the princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I should seek stability for the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I hope my father will help me.”
She became a princess with a deep sense of righteousness.
She is no longer the Jiaojiao who will shrink in my arms and say she is afraid.
The emperor closed his eyes and agreed to the princess’s request, and the princess stood up to leave. Before
turning around, she suddenly laughed like a silver bell.
“It’s just that I’m a little sorry for the touts. I think the touts can understand that.”
This sentence is for me.
Right.
It’s like taking a knife in a thousand years of ice and sticking it in my heart.
I’m incompetent. I can’t protect her. The
wedding procession will set off soon.
The princess sat in a beautiful dress in the hall, with Millet and Cuixi kneeling below.
“Stay in the palace and be well.” The princess told them, just as she had promised them that day. Crying
, Cuixi knelt down and walked a few steps. She went to the princess’s feet and hugged her leg. “Princess, will you take the slave with you?”? Please.
The princess took one look at the grain and said to Cui Xi in a cold voice, “The princess used to spoil you so much that you dare not listen to me now.” The princess didn’t take any
of Cuixi and Millet.
She didn’t take me with her originally.
It was the first time I had disobeyed her. I knelt on the cold ground and said to her, “If the princess does not take the slave with her, the day the princess leaves the palace will be the day the slave dies.” After all,
she didn’t want me to die. Even if she knew I was scaring her, she didn’t dare to believe it.
The wedding procession was vast and mighty, and there were many martial arts masters arranged by the emperor. It’s not that
I haven’t thought about leaving with the princess on the road.
I even thought about kidnapping the princess, and the wedding team would not stop me.
But what about them? What about the common people
of Dazhou? Naturally,
I don’t care if they live or die, but what happens when the princess wakes up?
She is such a softhearted person.
Then endure, she endure, I also accompany her to endure.
What I didn’t expect was that our wedding team had been robbed.
The robbers are all masters of martial arts. The princess and
I stayed in the carriage listening to the fighting outside, and neither of us spoke.
Only her slightly trembling fingertips revealed her fear. I
reached out and took her hand. “It’s all right,” I said softly. “It’s all right.”
As soon as he said this, a sword came in from the outside.
My body almost instinctively protected the princess, and the sword plunged into my body without surprise.
“Don’t be afraid, Princess.” I raised my hand to gently cover the princess’s eyes and swallowed the spilled blood into my stomach. “It’s all right, slave.” When I woke up
again, the princess sat on the edge of my bed.
His eyes were as red as a rabbit’s.
The scene was so familiar that it was as if we had returned to the palace. When
the princess saw me awake, she burst into tears. “If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have let you come with me that day.”
I pulled the corners of my mouth with difficulty and coaxed her with a smile: “It’s all right, slave.” As soon as the
words fell, she cried more sadly.
“Yun Sheng.” She lay on top of me and cried, “I’m afraid.”
It turned out that she was still the little princess, and she had never changed.
She pretended to grow up and be fearless.
I raised my hand and patted her on the back, only to tell her not to be afraid over and over again.
“Will you promise me that you won’t die?” She cried and said, “You don’t want to die. You have to be good so that I can be good.”
“Good.”
If she is good, I can be good.
I have lived my whole life for her.
We rested at the post station for several days before we got the people sent by the emperor. It turned out that the robbers were not real robbers, but people sent by Donghu. They didn’t want to see the Turks make friends with Dazhou.
As long as the princess was killed, Dazhou would think that it was the means of the Turks, and the Turks would think that Dazhou did not want the princess to marry.
That’s a good plan.
But they did not think how much the emperor loved the princess, the palace’s best martial arts bodyguards are placed in the wedding team.
Because I was injured, the princess delayed for a few days.
Ten days later, the wedding procession started again.
This time we set off and then stopped in the Turks.
Big week is incompetent, with a princess for the safety of a country.
Such words spread everywhere as soon as we entered the Turks, and naturally spread to the princess’s ears.
The princess sat in the carriage, looking quietly at the book in her hand, as if she had not heard the words outside.
It’s just that her fingertips holding the book are white, which is enough to show the pain in her heart at this time. The Turkic people did not give much welcome to the princess sent by the
defeated country.
Even Khan didn’t show the respect he deserved.
The Great Khan looked at the princess from head to foot, then smiled and took her by the hand. “I’ve heard that Princess Chou has the appearance of sinking fish and falling geese. Now I see that she really lives up to her reputation.”
He was as old as the emperor, but he was about to become the husband of the princess.
The princess lowered her eyes and slowly raised them again with a smile. “Thank you for your praise,” she said.
Because the Great Khan already had a wife and several concubines, the princess could not be regarded as being married.
According to the Turkic rules, in addition to the first lady, the Great Khan did not have to perform the great gift of heaven and earth to accept another concubine.
So that night the big sweat came directly to the princess’s residence.
And I was served outside the tent by the name of the Great Khan.
“The princess is used to being served by you, so naturally it’s better for you to serve her.” “What do you think, Princess?” Khan asked the princess sitting beside him.
The princess looked up at me.
I lowered my eyes.
She didn’t say anything in the end.
I know what Khan means. He just despises me as a eunuch.
They Turks look down on eunuchs like us in Dazhou.
I stood outside the warm tent and watched the big sweat crush the princess on the bed with the red quilt.
Without waiting for him to move, I stepped forward and gently lowered the bed curtain. The
princess’s wedding dress was thrown off the bed one by one.
Until the princess exclaimed.
“Don’t throw it.” “Don’t throw this away,” she said hurriedly.
“So the princess likes such gadgets.” Big Khan laughed and said, “Then listen to the princess.”
Then I heard the deeper and deeper gasps of sweat, the palms of my hands clenched into fists, the nails embedded in my flesh.
I have never spent such a long period of time, as if the blink of an eye can use up a lifetime.
After a long time, so long that my heart rolled in the frying pan over and over again.
From the beginning to the end, the princess did not snort.
The Great Khan stretched out a hand from inside, and he said to me, “Go and draw water.”
I heard myself say “yes.”.
I turned around and went out like a walking corpse.
Sweat did not stay overnight after washing, and after he left, there was only me standing beside the bed and the princess on the bed.
And the nasty, sticky smell in the air. After
a long time, the princess called to me in a trembling voice, “Yunsheng.”
At that moment, my numb heart seemed to have climbed up thousands of ants, which gnawed my heart one by one.
It hurts so much that I can hardly breathe.
“Princess.” I answered with difficulty.
“Why don’t you go out?” It seemed that this sentence had exhausted her last strength.
I knew we wouldn’t end well, but I didn’t think it would be like this.
We couldn’t look at each other through the thin curtain of the bed.
“Princess, the slave will send you to wash.” I stood by the bed and didn’t listen to her. The
room was quiet, and soon there was a thin sob from the bed.
“I don’t want you to see me like this.”
She wept with sadness and despair.
I slowly lifted the curtain of the bed bit by bit and saw the princess in the corner of the bed.
She was so delicate that she should have married a good man and been well loved.
Now lying on the bed like a broken wing of the dead butterfly. The place where
she was not covered by the quilt was blue and red, and she was bullied like this without shouting.
I looked up and saw a patch of blood on her lips, which had been moist.
Does it hurt? Princess. My fingers trembled slightly over her bleeding lower lip.
She shook her head, but tears rolled down her eyes.
I carried her to clean, only to find what she was holding tightly in her hand.
The little thing in the sweaty mouth.
It’s the safety lock I put around her neck on the day she died. The wife of the
Great Khan did not like the princess, because the Great Khan stayed in the princess’s room for several days.
She said that the princess was a demon concubine and would ruin the luck of the Turks.
The princess never retorted. She sat in the yard every day, looking at the sky, the grass, and the direction of Dazhou.
“Do you think you can be rude to this palace just because you are the princess of Dazhou?” When the first lady saw the princess like this, she poured a cup of tea directly over her.
I stood in front of the princess, and the hot tea poured directly into my hand.
The princess finally had a reaction and looked at my red hand with heartache.
“Everyone says that Princess Chou has a unique hobby, but it turns out that she likes this kind of eunuch.” The first lady took a step closer and reached out to squeeze my chin. “It’s a little beautiful. I don’t blame the princess for taking it with her wherever she goes.”
She bent over the princess. “Too bad it’s not a man.”
It was the first time the princess had been angry.
She stood up and gave the first lady a slap.
“The people of this princess will not allow you to say a word.” The princess took my hand and went straight into the house.
I don’t know how the first lady told the Great Khan about this, but the Great Khan sent someone directly to take me away.
The princess stopped me behind her and waited until the big sweat came.
The Great Khan said I was a eunuch and shouldn’t be here. It would ruin the morale of the Turks.
The princess protected me, just like I protected her when she was afraid of insects when she was a child.
She said to the Khan in a cold voice, “If he dies, the princess will not live.”
Although Dazhou sent the princess to marry in order to sue for peace, if the princess really died in the Turks so soon, the emperor would not let the Turks go.
Khan also understands this truth.
In the end, he let me go, ordered someone to check my identity as a eunuch and left.
And never favored the princess again. For the princess,
this is also to let her go.
At first, the first lady would bring someone to humiliate the princess, but the princess pretended not to hear.
She would whisper to me at night, “I think I was bitten by a dog. A barking bitch doesn’t bite, Yunsheng.”
Perhaps feeling that such rude words should not come from the mouth of a princess, he burst out laughing.
Seeing her eyes curved, my heart full of holes felt a little better.
It was as if we had returned to the palace, and for countless nights, she would pull me to say some witty words before she went to bed.
Such a day, there is a bit of ease.
If I can accompany the princess to grow old like this, it will be worthwhile for me to be a cow, a horse and a beast in the afterlife.
But in the end, God will not let me be satisfied. I’m sick of
sweating.
I don’t know how I got sick, but suddenly I can’t afford it.
At this time, his two sons began to compete for the position of heir. Predictably
, as soon as the Great Khan died, he would face a civil war. I hate the Great Sweat
so much, but at this time I hope the Great Sweat can be safe and sound.
As long as he is safe and sound, the princess and I can continue to live such a quiet and peaceful life.
But he didn’t.
He’s dead. No heir was named before he
died.
The Turks soon launched a civil war, and even the harem of the Great Khan was not spared from the war.
I looked at the palace people fleeing everywhere, and for the first time I had the bold idea of taking the princess away from here.
At this time, the two heirs have no time to take care of the harem, who cares where one of the women of the Great Khan has gone?
“Yun Sheng.” The princess followed me carefully and called to me in a low voice.
When I looked back at her, she was holding the things in her arms carefully, and her face was full of joy.
It’s like I took her over a pile of dead people, just any game I ever played with her as a child.
“Where are we going?”
I took her hand and said to her with a smile, “Let’s go to a mountain, and I will plant a mountain of roses for you there.” The battle for
succession was soon over, and the Great Khan, the cruel prince, won.
It is said that countless female corpses have been carried out of the big prince’s tent, and they are animals that can eat people.
According to the old Turkic custom, the heir would inherit everything from the previous Great Khan, including women.
And the beauty of the princess has long spread throughout the Turks, if the heir wants to inherit the woman of the Great Khan, the first thought of nature is the princess.
Then he found that the princess was missing.
The new Great Khan immediately sent a group of people to search for me and the princess throughout the Turkic territory. As
long as there is one more day, as long as there is one more day, I will be able to take the princess back to Dazhou smoothly.
I took the princess away from the Turks who came to catch us and hid in a mountain.
Hiding in the dark cave, the princess asked me, “Yunsheng, do you think God doesn’t like me?”
No one can dislike her.
God doesn’t like me.
He probably thinks I should have paid back the eight years I stole, but he always expects a good ending.
“Princess, I later planted lilies on that mountain.” I held her shivering in my arms and looked out from the mouth of the cave in one direction. “You’ve planted a lot of sweet potatoes, which you like best. If you could go and have a look, you’d like them.”
“Can I still see it?”
“Yes.” I held her tighter. “I’m sure you can see it.”
We hid in the mountains for two days, and saw that the Turks had searched the mountains fruitlessly for two days and began to withdraw their troops, so that I could go out and find some fruit for the princess. Only a few unripe green fruits were found all over
the mountain. Holding the fruit weakly,
the princess asked me, “Yunsheng, why don’t you eat it?”
I carefully wiped up the few green fruits that were left, and with a smile I comforted her by saying, “I had enough to eat on the way back.” On the other side of the
mountain is the Qingcheng of Dazhou, and these fruits are reserved for the princess to cross the mountain.
I don’t know if it was because the princess and I were very weak, but it only took us one day to travel, but it took us three days.
Looking at the city gate not far from us, the princess’s eyes burst into light.
If I hadn’t found a few Turks hiding at the foot of the mountain first, I think we could have gone back to Dazhou together.
I placed the princess in a humble pit and covered her head with branches and leaves. “Yunsheng, what are you going to do?”
She asked me, raising her little muddied face.
“Princess, you hide here and don’t make a sound. I’ll go and have a look first.” I said to her softly.
I don’t know why she suddenly panicked and grabbed my hand and refused to let go.
“I’ll go with you.” Her eyes turned red. “Don’t leave me.” With a shallow smile,
I patted her hand and lied to her, “Princess, I won’t leave you. It’s always dangerous for us to go together.”. Don’t worry, I’ll be back to pick you up. It took
me a long time to get her to let go.
Her eyes were red and she stared at me without blinking. I sighed and kissed her on the forehead.
“Princess.” I raised my hand and touched her face. “You will come home.”
Then I turned and walked away without looking back.
I know. I’m not gonna make it.
But I want to think of a perfect way to let the princess return to Dazhou safely.
The princess can’t come back to Dazhou openly in front of the Turks, but I can.
I grabbed a handful of mud on the ground and pasted it on my face and ran down the hill crazily.
“The princess is dead!” I shouted as I ran towards the city gate. Several Turks at the foot of the
mountain were stunned for a moment and began to chase me.
They killed the princess! Our princess of Dazhou died at the hands of the Turks! I ran like I didn’t want to die. Not far
from the gate of Qingcheng, two guns were thrown from the rear.
Straight into my body. Some officers and soldiers ran out of the gate
of Qingcheng. When I fell down, I turned around and saw the Turks retreating in another direction.
I fell into a man’s arms.
The man in uniform looked like a general.
“You say the princess is dead?” He supported me and frowned. “You’re telling the truth!”
I reached out and grabbed the man’s hand, and a mouthful of blood spilled from my mouth.
“Save her.” “Save her,” I said with difficulty, word by word. Your Majesty, your Majesty will reward you..
At last I spat out another mouthful of blood.
I finally, finally protected her for once. Lying in the general’s arms,
I looked at the place where the princess was hiding, and the corners of my mouth rose with difficulty.
“Ah Ning..”
My hands dropped slowly, and all the strength in my body seemed to be drained. All the memories of
this life are passing through my mind.
“Yunsheng, you can call me Ah Ning in secret. I want to hear you call me Ah Ning.” The princess always wanted me to call her “Ah Ning.”.
I could have called her.
On the day when I took the place of Tanhualang to marry her, I would pick up Yu Ruyi and carefully open her handkerchief at night, and then I would see her shy and timid little face.
At that time, I couldn’t help calling her softly.
“Ah Ning.”
(The end of the text)
[Princess]
Yunsheng lied to me.
He said he would come back to pick me up. I almost laughed when I
hid in the pit and watched him grab a handful of mud from the ground beside him and wipe it on his face.
At that time, I was still thinking that I would laugh at him when he came back. His face was covered with mud and he must look like the beggars we saw on the road.
Then I saw him running down the hill like crazy. When
I saw the Turks, my heart suddenly twitched. He
began to pray that Yunsheng would not be caught by them, but he heard him running and shouting, “The princess is dead!”
His head seemed to be hit by someone with a stick, and he didn’t want to live.
He doesn’t want to live at all.
He had already discovered the Turks at the foot of the mountain.
He’s lying to me. He’s not coming back.
I watched the two Turks throw their guns straight through his body.
Nope!
No! That’s
not true!
He said he would go back to Dazhou with me. He said he would take me to see the flowers he planted in the mountains.
I passed out in the pit. When I woke up
again, I was lying in the house of the general guarding the city of Qingcheng.
“Princess, you are awake.” The general sat on the edge of my bed with a worried face.
I looked at the top of the bed with my eyes open, and tears fell uncontrollably from the corners of my eyes.
“Where is Yunsheng?”
Maybe he’s still alive? What if there is a miraculous doctor
in Qingcheng?
Isn’t there a miracle doctor who can bring the dead back to life? Yunsheng was just hit by two guns, should be able to save it?
The general lowered his head and did not speak.
I looked at him sideways and asked him, “Have you been saved by a miraculous doctor?”
“Princess..” The general didn’t look at me. “There is no miracle doctor..”
I don’t believe it.
Yunsheng would never lie to me.
He said that. He would never lie to me.
He said he would come back to pick me up and take me to see the roses all over the mountain.
He planted a mountain of roses for me. When
my father came, I held Yunsheng’s body and refused to let go.
“Ah Ning.” Father called me softly.
I looked up at him and laughed. “Father, are you here?”
Didn’t you say that you wanted Yunsheng to be a flower scout and marry a minister? I didn’t even tell Yunsheng that he would be shocked when the time came. I smiled and touched Yunsheng’s forehead.
My father crouched beside me and raised his hand to touch my head. “Ah Ning, go home with my father.”
I put my index finger to my lips and whispered, “Hush, my father, keep your voice down. Yunsheng is asleep.” I feel sad to
see my father. He must have misunderstood me.
I smiled and said to him, “When Yunsheng wakes up, shall we go home together?”
Father doesn’t agree.
Without waiting for Yunsheng to wake up, he secretly took me back to the palace. There is no princess like me in
the world.
My father said that I was much better after I returned to the palace.
I think so, too.
“Yun Sheng.” When I woke up, I opened my mouth and cried out. The hall was empty, as if I could hear an echo.
Cui Xi pushed the door and came in. “Princess, what’s the matter?”
I stared at the top of the bed and blinked, and tears fell down.
Actually, it’s not good at all.
I stood in the small garden behind the bedroom hall, which was full of flowers planted by Yunsheng. After I left, it was well managed by Cuixi and Millet.
On that day, Yunsheng stood where I was standing and asked me, “Princess, do you like it?”
I like.
I never like roses. What I
like is that he planted these flowers for me.
I looked back at Millet and asked him, “Do you know where these flowers come from?”
Millet really knows.
The mountain is not far from the capital.
My father promised to build a temple for me on that mountain, and when the temple was ready, I went there to guard the flowers that Yunsheng had planted for me.
In the afternoon, I lay on the imperial concubine’s couch and watched the millet and Cuixi outside the hall coming towards me.
I don’t know what Millet said, but Cuixi’s face was stained with a thin layer of peach.
If Yunsheng is still here.
He will be very happy to see this scene.
Millet came up to me and presented me with a piece of paper.
“Princess, this is a painting I found when I was cleaning up my master’s room. I was busy and forgot it a few days ago. Today, when I remembered it, I hurried to send it over.”
I got up from the couch in a hurry and took the painting from his hand.
The painting unfolds slowly before my eyes. There are four people in the
picture.
I sat on the swing and laughed gorgeously, and the safety lock on my chest danced in the air with the ups and downs of my body. Yunsheng stood behind me, pushing the swing for me with a smile, looking at me with affection in his eyes.
There are also slapstick Cuixi and Millet.
Writing: a Ning’s Yunsheng.
On the back, a few lines of words were written in shallow ink.
“Yunsheng’s only wish in this life: May Ah Ning be happy and healthy year after year.”
Yunsheng, why don’t you want to call me Ning? I won’t tell anyone. You whisper.
It turned out that he had already called secretly.
(End)
