The old friend of
Princess
Hezheng sighed:
I fell in love with Princess Hezheng without asking the end of the song.
For her, I killed my father Khan, framed my eldest brother, betrayed North Qiang, and became a good dog of Da Meng.
But she never seemed to love me. The day
I married her, she jumped off the wall.
They said that Da Meng had sent a sick princess, who had just been escorted by the cavalry to the Khan tent. I had just turned fifteen
that year, and I was kneeling in front of my father’s sweat tent, dressed in deerskin clothes newly made at the beginning of spring.
Unexpectedly, after a while, Father Khan suddenly lifted the curtain and scolded, “The old fox will fool me with some cheap things that come out of the bellies of inferior people!” A stream of heat from
my father’s sweat tent choked me and made me shrink.
In the past Dynasties, the Central Plains Dynasty, which was not reluctant to part with its own daughter, casually picked a palace maid to come over, euphemistically called it the good of the two countries, but in fact it was cheap and well-behaved. As soon as the Khan of the
front foot sent his beautiful daughter, the Meng of the back foot sent the unclear princess.
“Send the order down and move the woman to the empty tent over there to dry her first. Don’t be an eyesore here.” As soon as the voice of King Ruo Hong Zhong of
Northern Qiang fell, he squinted at me, who was still kneeling on the ground, and spat casually,
“I’ll have to cut open the hearts of you people in the Central Plains one day. I’m afraid it’s not blacker than crow’s hair!”
I was frightened by the burning anger in my father’s eyes, and the ice and snow covered me, and I trembled slightly.
I am the second prince of Northern Qiang. My mother is from the Central Plains. It is said that she is the only sister of Zhenbei Hou.
But she was captured by my father Khan. The night
she gave birth to me, she wiped her neck with a knife in the dark.
Sticky blood soaked the whole piece of wool mattress,
but in exchange for the father sweat a not salty not light sneer and fifteen years of deep-rooted disgust and contempt for my Han Chinese blood. He was
now holding a few pages of a secret letter from the Third Imperial Sister. He glanced at it and then threw it in my face. “The cheap hooves that come out of the belly of a palace maid are the seeds that were born in Yeting!”.
He then pointed to the eldest prince standing beside him.
“Your third eldest sister, Hsi-hsi, is a legitimate daughter of Kedun. He, the emperor of the Meng Dynasty, gave me a concubine in exchange for a princess.”
I hurriedly glanced at the Qiang text on the secret letter, to the effect that the princess who came to marry was the youngest daughter of the emperor, but the princess’s birth mother was an inferior palace person who died of illness in Yeting, and the emperor’s sister was the princess of his father Khan, and he felt ashamed.
This is a farce with the parents.
Big Meng border another ShouXi, Fusang, YueJia small country, but who married the princess of the central plains, which is not gradually by the evil wind evil spirit of Sinology bewitched and eventually become a big Meng vassal state, if not northern Qiang was defeated last year, how can be reduced to send the princess and kiss, meet the princess of the central plains.
Speaking of it, I am really not a clever prince, knowing that it is the best policy to pretend to be deaf and dumb when I have something to do with Da Meng, but sometimes I just can’t control my tongue.
“The Han people are certainly hateful, but the dowry brought by Princess Hezheng is given according to the rules of the princess of the Central Plains. Even if the family background is not high, it can also slow down the decline of our Northern Qiang after years of snowstorms and running out of food..”
I thought I was honest and kind for the northern Qiang, but I was cut off by Gyatso before I said half of it.
“Father Khan, you can see that these people of Han Chinese descent speak differently from laymen like us. Not only do they speak like Han Chinese, but they even take their side.”
He folded his arms and leaned on the pillar beside him, smiling brightly.
Everyone says that Gyatso and Father Khan are father and son carved out of the same mold, and their pace has always been surprisingly consistent in the matter of hatred of Han.
Not surprisingly, north Qiang king and miso was aroused anger, to vent their anger toward my legs and kicked two feet.
I was so frightened that I quickly closed my eyes, thinking that it was convenient to pretend to be dumb as usual.
However, since it is a defeated country, north Qiang is the point.
Big Meng emperor’s own daughter, kill not humiliated can’t, a careless will lift up the frontier of the monstrous flames of war,
north Qiang war and natural disasters, father Khan also only here had a mouth addiction.
Even if the snow melts very slowly this year, I don’t know if the princess who was given up by Da Meng can stand it.
Jiang Mingxiu was actually only fourteen years old when she was sent here, one year younger than me.
Father Khan doesn’t like her.
One is too young.
Second is her existence, fall in his eyes is to show the world north Qiang humiliated.
She was stuffed into the farthest tent from the king’s tent for more than two months, north Qiang royal courtiers all tacitly no one dare to mention to him the big Meng and pro princess wedding. When
I met her, it was the stage of Northern Qiang’s intensive preparations for the Mountain God Festival.
Clan people believe that the more pure the bloodline of the person who prays for blessings, the greater the blessing of the gods will be, so I fell into a leisurely life:
all over the mountains and plains, I saw the mute prince driving his horse around in the snow with nothing to do, and the wind did not hurt his face.
But I was not the only idler in the Wengshan Mountain, and
I was stunned by the way the Han woman rolled in the snow and played with the snow.
I watched in a dull way as she patted the snow on her body and jumped up from the ground. She raised her eyebrows
at me nonchalantly and said, “What are you looking at?”? You haven’t seen any Central Plains beauties, have you?
I am a little shocked, but I really have not seen the beauty of the Central Plains.
As a dull prince who had just suffered a loss, this time I learned to be good when I came across something that had something to do with Da Meng:
“I haven’t seen it.”
Her little face turned red, and the two gilded emeralds on her temples shook:
“You barbarian men really have never seen the world and have no manners. Let’s go to Beijing. Who dares to want you?”.
She seemed to have just realized that the person she “wanted” seemed to be no better than me,
so she suddenly stopped her fierce arrogance and sat back in the snow, continuing to squeeze the ugly snow puppet in her hand.
I lied. How can
she not be beautiful?
Frost blue plush embroidery cloak is the unique white plum green bamboo in the Central Plains, obviously only pulled up a bun, but in this boundless Qiong color lining is particularly out of the dust. The children of the prairie, dressed in crimson
all the year round, could not match her. Dressed in plain color, they seemed to be melting in the snow.
Of course, this compliment only applies when she doesn’t speak, and once she opens her mouth and starts talking nonsense, most of the beauty will fade away.
“It’s a pity that I have shed half of your blood as a barbarian. If you don’t like me for not understanding your manners in the Central Plains, aren’t you indirectly saying that you men in the Central Plains are the same?”
I had never spoken to anyone like that, and there was nothing frightening about her. With a look on
her face, she reacted and pointed at me and exclaimed,
“You are..” You’re the one.. Khan and the two princes of the Han people! The
book said that the central plains woman should not be a gentle, courteous and frugal, action like weak willow Fufeng,
but her face this slightly exaggerated look is the royal women of the northern Qiang also pick out a few so presumptuous?
So I pushed her fingers back. “Since you’re a princess of the Central Plains, you can’t just give or take anything from a strange man.”
“Your Highness is at least mindful of your own reputation. It’s not good to be gossiped about.” When she heard this,
she frowned. Then she folded her arms and turned around. With a snort in her mouth, she said with a laugh,
“This princess is pure. It’s not easy to escape from that place where there are so many rules. Do you still want to worry about nothing here?”
Really interesting, she is not know north Qiang generation Khan to step on the mountains and rivers of the central plains as their own duty?
She married so casually, as if she was not a princess with the mission of peace talks between the two countries, but had come to visit the mountains and rivers on the grassland.
I laughed and said, “Your Highness also knows that he is a mediocrity.”
She was stunned for a moment and then grabbed the snow puppet in her hand and threw it at me.
I hurriedly pulled the cloak on my back to block it, but peeped out of the gap where she rubbed the snow to see her:
the snow was stained with her skirt and hair, and her slightly sullen face was more unforgettable than when she had just spoken. Emperor
Meng sent a good daughter. I haven’t been so happy for a long time.
My smile stopped abruptly when I looked back at the sullen Gyatso.
He stood on the snowy slope not far away and looked at us.
Jiang Mingxiu had just finished kneading a snow ball, and when he raised his head to hit me, he happened to face the grovelling face of me and Gyatso.
She hurriedly threw the guy and wanted to salute. Stealthily,
I caught a glimpse of her at a loss as she performed Da Meng’s lucky hand ceremony. She opened her mouth and shouted in a voice that only the two of us could hear,
“Northern Qiang ceremony!”! Mediocrity!
“Why should I, Princess Meng, casually salute a stranger?”
She retorted rudely. As soon as
I was choked by her question, I simply shut up and waited for Gyatso to come over and lecture step by step.
“Barbarian, who is he? How could Northern Qiang give birth to such a good-looking man?”
She’s still there trying to talk.
I was speechless and wanted to roll my eyes,
but as a dumb prince who had never been smart in the eyes of Gyatso and Father Khan, I was wise enough not to say much.
However, she is right, Gyatso’s handsome appearance is indeed famous for the Northern Qiang.
His pupil color and ordinary Qiang people are not the same, so very deep dark green, just like the lake water in Yongcuo, like a piece of emerald.
Kedun’s legitimate son, with his outstanding appearance and good ability to lead the troops to fight, even the sainted Gendun Lama swore to his father Khan that Gyatso must be the reincarnation of the gods.
I’m different. Lama Gendun will just shake his head when he sees me. Princess
Meng praised him like all the ordinary daughters on the prairie, but for the first time I felt a little uncomfortable.
But I bowed my head respectfully in front of Gyatso, who was only a short distance away from me at the moment, and said,
“My brother saw from a distance that the princess sent by Da Meng was really beautiful, so I couldn’t help but come and have a few more looks.”
“Do you also know that this is the woman of your father Khan?”
He said with a sneer, looking past me at Princess Meng, who was staring at him at a loss. The expression
of the smile really frightened the childish girl to shrink her neck.
“Even if he were dead, it would not be your turn.” With a cold hum
, Gyatso threw the reins and walked away, and the sound of the horse’s hooves fluttered the snowflakes on the ground.
Chiang Ming-hsiu waited for his figure to disappear at the end of the snowy slope before he timidly came up to me and asked, “What did you just talk about?”
She had to be glad that she didn’t understand the Qiang language, if you understand after hearing the north Qiang king account is how to talk about her, not angry attack heart fainted in the past?
So I changed my face, turned my head and said with a leisurely smile, “Do you want to know?”
She nodded in a wooden way.
“If one day you become my princess, it will not be too late for the king to tell you.” While she was still shaking her mind,
I picked up a handful of snow and threw it at her, in exchange for a burst of hoarse “scoundrels.” After that, I flew onto the horse she was riding when she came, and looked back with a bright smile.
“Your Highness, if you answer me, I will consider sending someone to pick you up later.”
I had a quarrel with her since I stubbornly wanted to leave her in the snow. As
simple as I was, I wanted to take this opportunity to frighten her, so that she could remember me more deeply, and it would be better to have a little sense of dependence.
I hid behind the snow slope and watched her reaction carefully, from swearing at the beginning to helplessness at the back.
It was getting late, and the steps I was about to take were caught off guard by the reappearance of Gyatso.
Kedun’s son rode on the horse from a commanding position, frowned at Princess Meng for a long time, and then slowly extended his hand to her.
Breathing seemed to congeal in an instant, and I watched stiffly as Jiang Mingxiu held his hand after a moment of hesitation, and was immediately gently straddled onto the horse. The distance between my chest
and my back was like a handful of cold water pouring directly from my head to my feet.
Such a familiar look, in a trance, I think of the Han people who have been around my father Khan all the year round.
Jiang Mingxiu’s eyes were sparkling at the moment, and her reddish eyes were matched with a sad look. I stared at Gyatso’s calm face, knowing that it was impossible for someone not to be moved at this time.
At the beginning of spring, a great event happened in Northern Qiang: the princess of Damenglai was poisoned.
The glass of wine was originally for Father Khan, and it was given to her round and round. When
she drank the glass of wine, her eyes were still staring at Gyatso sitting next to her.
It’s arsenic, the most deadly poison in the Central Plains.
Who don’t know how this is brought into the north Qiang, the total can’t be and kiss the princess under their own poison. It was a
rare family dinner, and there was a sudden mess during the dinner. The
first person who rushed forward to help her was also Gyatso, who did not even notice that the wine was supposed to be on his father’s table.
Khan’s face darkened, and he had no time to take care of them in the commotion.
Jiang Mingxiu lay softly in Gyatso’s arms, although his face was pale, but the corners of his mouth were full of smiles.
I saw from a distance that my throat was a little blocked, but I still sat quietly in my seat, paying special attention in the noise.
The real turmoil is yet to come. When
I counted to ten in my heart, as expected, a hidden arrow flew in the air, and the rapid and harsh sound of breaking the air made the military commanders present fiercely silent.
It’s going in the direction of Khan.
I moved my toes and jumped out like a gust of wind.
But in a few seconds, the red and golden arrow poked a blood hole in my chest.
“Father Khan..”
My mouth gushed with blood, and my lips and teeth were slurred.
Half propped up, he fell to his knees in front of Khan’s case. His eyes were frightened and frightened, and beyond his anger, he could not hide his disbelief. The mute son of the
Northern Qiang Khan also had a day to block the arrow for him.
But at the moment, the eldest son he valued very much was the princess who came from the enemy country and took pity on how she was poisoned. The
funny and ridiculous scene was laid out in front of everyone, and all the people present gasped.
I trembled and covered the wound with my hand, and the sticky blood was all over my hand.
Father Khan, with a sullen face, called the slave girl who poured the wine to roll forward. When
I was carried away in a daze, I faintly heard Father Khan’s drinking to tie her up in the dungeon.
At this point, I finally showed a smile at the corners of my mouth.
Also unconscious is Jiang Mingxiu, but I don’t have the strength to see how she is now.
My dreams have always been restless. The things that happened in the
past always go over and over again in my mind. This time,
for example, the nightmare was so fierce that I went back to the scene when I was eight years old and was tied to a horse by my father Khan.
He tied me up for a reason, and
my Aman was tied up on a horse like that and dragged back by him.
He grinned wildly at the Marquis of Zhenbei on the city wall: “Yu Tao, you can see clearly that this is the seed that crawled out of your own sister’s stomach!”
I didn’t think he was smart at that time.
If I were him, it would be too ignorant to hold such a good chip in my hand only for humiliation.
Town north Hou is what person ah, a small Shuozhou city he can here and north Qiang number 13 department for decades.
Boil two generations of Qiang king.
Khan was getting carried away, and he had pierced my left breast with a bow and arrow.
It was the first time I had been wounded by an arrow, and the pain made my lip bleed.
Father Khan dropped a “useless thing” and then went to meet the enemy with his beloved eldest son. It
was so funny that I even laughed out loud in my dream, and the loess filled my whole mouth.
I was awakened by choking.
A cough accompanied by a pain that penetrated the bone marrow.
There were only a few boys who used to follow me. I asked them how Jiang Mingxiu was.
“The princess has a high fever and won’t wake up. If she doesn’t wake up tonight, I’m afraid she won’t be able to survive.” As soon as my
heart moved, I made a gesture to stay.
“But your Highness has already sent a witch doctor, and it seems superfluous for us to go.”
My eyes darkened and I lay back on the couch.
The boy opened his mouth and was about to tell me what Khan was doing as usual, when I waved him down.
There was no need to ask Khan what he was doing. He must have been in the dungeon using a soldering iron on the young slave girl. How could
he be willing to believe
that even if no piece of skin was good from top to bottom, she would still bite her teeth and say that the big prince ordered her to poison her. There are too many people in
the world who are sorry for me, but she is the first one I am sorry for. I shouldn’t have pulled her out of piles of frozen cattle and sheep when it snowed heavily
last year.
She was younger than Jiang Mingxiu, and said to me in a hoarse voice that she was pleased with me and would repay my great kindness.
So big north Qiang, said heart Yue jiatuo is who will believe, said heart Yue dumb prince that must be lying.
Even if the father Khan don’t believe her, but so many years and Han people play down, the ability of suspicion and defense should also learn one or two.
As for how the prisoner of war who assassinated him could have the red gold arrowhead only in the Gyatso army,
that was his luck. He was stabbed with an arrow and was able to pull out the arrowhead and keep it to this day. In the past, it was all to be recycled.
But people who are dead anyway don’t care whether it’s a moment earlier or a moment later.
I managed to get up and pray to the Qimuge Mountain God in front of the moon,
hoping that the little princess from Dameng would reappear in front of me.
If my dose is too heavy, I will pay back ten times in the future.
Gyatso Tongkhan said he wanted to marry Jiang Mingxiu and was slapped by the old man. When I
saw all this happen, I was carrying a bowl of medicine to see her, and I was almost shocked by this scene and knocked over the bowl of medicine.
I think Jiang Mingxiu is a good chess piece sent by Da Meng, or a handful of excellent disaster water.
She clearly did nothing, just standing there for a moment, has provoked the north Qiang father and son against each other, brothers.
Of course, I don’t fight all for her, but if I don’t fight, I’m sure I can’t get her.
Disaster I naturally do not know anything, I lifted the curtain to go in when she was staring at a volume of Qiang in a daze.
When she saw me coming, she threw down the parchment angrily and asked me why I left her like that in the ice and snow.
I laughed and said that you had come back well, and maybe you had met someone great.
She blushed and shoved me in a hurry.
It happened to be the location of the wound, and I quickly bowed down and said it hurt.
She finally asked me in a panic where the pain, heard that I was injured, how to see her first or me.
I smiled and did not speak, thinking that her red face was really beautiful. How could the daughter’s family that grew up
in the palace be so simple.
“Why aren’t you wary of me?”
I let her carelessly send someone to heat the medicine that had been cold for eight hundred years, and I stared at her.
“My father said you could speak Han Chinese. You’re half Han Chinese. You’ll protect me. You won’t let me die.”
She shook her head and said, picked up the bowl of medicine, blew a few mouthfuls, and handed it to my mouth.
I don’t know whether her father was unintentional or intentional, but when such a small girl was sent to Mobei, she was not afraid that the wind and sand would sting her.
“I don’t drink, bitter.” Why did she serve me
when I brought her the medicine.
“Drink!” She could not help saying strongly, and the heat that came out slowly spread the blush on her face again.
“I don’t.”
Seeing that I could not move, she was also unrelenting. After I could not find her anywhere, I found that her expression was a little strange.
Because the next second she took a big mouthful of the medicine, and then she pouted and came to me.
I was so scared that her breath sprayed on my face, and I was a little itchy.
Perhaps those old gentlemen in the Central Plains said that they were interested in seeing the color, which was used to describe the evil disciples like me. Just before
the moist touch hit my lips, I finally cried out, “I drink!”
She gave a sly smile, then stopped, clapped her hands and said, “If you had listened to me, you wouldn’t have had to suffer!” How can
this be called suffering? I have taken advantage of a lot.
“When I was in Yeting, those little palace maids and eunuchs caught a cold and refused to drink the medicine. I’ve tried everything!”.
I grew up in Yeting since I was a child. How much I had to suffer since I was a child.
“Later, my father told the world that I was a princess, and every time my delicate sisters saw me when I was sick, they were afraid that I would go home with my relatives if I didn’t agree with them.”
I saw her dancing with joy, and I was happy.
Jiang Mingxiu actually fell asleep for three days and three nights. Old Khan had no choice but to send her a few witch doctors reluctantly. She herself thought they were a group of demons dancing around and drove them all away. As
I gulped down the liquid in the bowl, which was so astringent that I felt dizzy, I watched her so lively that it was a little unreal in a trance. I did the
poisoning. I was actually prepared. She might not come back. At the age of
14, my body was so weak, and I was the princess who was given up by Da Meng, and I was in the same boat.
Keqimuge Mountain God took pity on me, and I must take good care of her in the future, just to atone for my sins.
“You are a wonderful princess.” As
I said this, she proudly raised the corners of her mouth.
“But do you know that the prince says he wants to marry you?”
“Who is the big prince?” When I
heard that, I burst out laughing. When
I saw her again, it was already late spring.
She was dragged over by my father Khan to watch the Qiang people compare arrows, which has always been a tradition.
She looked much better than at the family dinner that day, except for her slightly pale face.
I smiled at her, and she stopped and glared at me.
It’s my fault that I didn’t tell her who the big prince was that day, so I left.
She had better never know who he was, just as she could never guess who I was.
I greedily sucked the faint rosemary from her body.
This poison and arrow brought me a title and a soldier who could really lead me to the battlefield.
Even though the matter was not settled in the end, Father Khan finally had some fear and wariness about Gyatso. What
I had been trying to do for years, she did it in a flash. Emperor
Meng sent a good daughter, who must have been truly blessed by the God of Qimuge Mountain. The wound in the
chest didn’t heal, so I changed the crossbow that could move.
Before Gyatso came, I saw her looking left and right from time to time. I
was a little too preoccupied. When the people
on the field were having a good time, the old Khan suddenly called a halt.
“In exchange for the Han captives!”
His voice was as loud as a bell, and the swaying folds of his face showed his pleasure.
I never thought he was smart, just as this time
he called Jiang Mingxiu to humiliate,
unchanged and without the purpose of innovation.
She did not understand, but her eyes were sharp and she saw the Han captives who had been dragged over with chains. I
don’t know where a gust of cold wind blew her skirt, and I saw her eyes red again in the distance.
The Han people were smart, and they knew they were sitting ducks in the field, so they ran around like frightened birds.
It is a pity that their feet are shackled with rusty chains, and a little running will affect the wound and sting the life. The howling
of ghosts and wolves made my ears hurt a little.
I played with the crossbow in my hand and inadvertently looked at her anxiously. Her
eyes met, and her tearful expression was obviously asking me for help. Of course
I knew that I was the only person she could turn to now.
It’s just what is she asking for? Shall I go to plead with Father Khan and let these Han people go?
I opened the corners of my mouth and smiled again, then turned my back and pushed the arrow into the crossbow.
She may be wrong about her father. With the sound of
a string, the first Han slave to be shot fell down. After a moment of cold silence, there was a thunderous applause from the
four seats, and I looked at the old Khan rather complacently.
The latter shook his beard twice and narrowed his eyes to look at me, which was a typical reaction of his approval.
Jiang Mingxiu stood up and stared at me as if he were staring at a poisonous snake.
“Liar.” The first time
I heard her speak Qiang, I don’t know where she learned it.
My expression stiffened, and the next second I pulled out an arrow quietly.
But I miscalculated, and this time my arrows were all broken before I could push them in.
It’s Gyatso.
I looked up clearly at him, whose smooth jaw line was coated with a layer of warm gold in the sun.
This is the north Qiang all the future Qiang king, style has always left no room. He held half a broken arrow in his
hand, and his eyes were as cold as they used to look at me.
“Elder brother.” By the time
I bent down to salute him, he was heading in the direction of Khan with his head held high.
“Father Khan, the elder sister of the third emperor is still in the hands of the old emperor of the Great Meng. After years of snowstorms, the Northern Qiang can no longer afford a big war.”
He spoke with certainty, but he did not know that when Jiang Mingxiu first came, I said the same thing. How can a man
like Gyatso be soft on a woman?
Or a woman from an enemy country, he used to love this kind of humiliation.
Old Khan’s eyes cooled down, as if to see if the son in front of him was the one he had held in the palm of his hand since childhood.
A woman can solve the problem, why bother thousands of horses.
I don’t know if my sister, the third emperor, has the ability to fascinate the emperor of Dameng and his sons.
Jiang Mingxiu was still dressed in Ruyi flower satin, looking at Gyatso standing in the wind in a trance.
That’s the big prince who saved her from fire and water again and again. She won’t know until now. Half a month after the end of the
hunt, I finally caught the opportunity to tie her to the horse.
She struggled to shake off my hand, but I held her down and couldn’t make a sound.
Even on the horse, she kept cursing me for being heartless and biting the hand that feeds me.
I told her not to say any more, or I would not take her back to Shuozhou City in Lingbei.
She stared at me for two seconds with her doe-like eyes, and then asked me if it was true.
I replied, “If you don’t believe me, dismount immediately and go to find your brother Gyatso.”.
She quickly straightened her collar and said, “I will listen to you.”.
I smiled contentedly, knowing that I always had a way of making her obedient.
I drove her across the boundless fields of the desert and the stars shining all over the sky, and she looked at them all the way without saying much.
“When I came to the northern Qiang, I was blindfolded.”
“The boor who picked me up said that the location of your king’s tent was a secret in the desert. I almost thought he was a horse bandit who came out on the way.”
She suddenly made a sound and looked at the scenery passing quickly around her without blinking, which was very strange.
“Aren’t you tied to a horse by a horse bandit?”
When she heard my words, she made a gesture behind me and pinched my neck. “How could you kill those Han captives?!” She said angrily. How can
I kill those Han captives? If
I don’t kill them, I am north Qiang forever nominal traitor.
“If I don’t kill them, I will die.”
I looked back and said, looking at her stunned expression for a moment.
She hesitated for a moment and then asked me, “Really?”
I told her that your father didn’t tell you that the old Khan of Northern Qiang was suspicious every day that his second son was collaborating with the enemy and wanted to kill him.
She was a little sad to hear this, so she clasped her arms around my waist a little tighter.
I felt that on a moonlit night, why did I mention these sad things? So I pointed with my hand:
a border town hidden in the thick night, with bright lights inside.
“It’s the city of Shuozhou.”
I said softly, but the way the woman beside me covered her face and looked out was more attractive than city of Shuozhou like a fire tree and honeysuckle flower. Suddenly
I really want to be a horse bandit, so I cut off the princess, and the people in the world don’t know who we are.
I came to the city of Shuozhou and used the power I just got.
The old man sent several guards to watch me all the way, so as soon as I entered the city, I let a few boys pretend to be me and fled in all directions.
As for how to get in. Naturally, he went over the city.
I carefully examined Jiang Mingxiu, and after confirming that she covered her face with gauze and that ordinary people could not see her facial features, I swaggered around.
I was thinking about how to explain to the old guy that the princess had been captured, when Jiang Mingxiu turned around and stopped me.
“Take a taste of this. It’s a plum blossom pancake. It’s something you Northern Qiang will never eat.”
In the palm of her hand were several cakes made into petal patterns. Perhaps they were indeed called plum blossoms, but unfortunately I had only seen them in books.
I shook my head and refused her. I don’t like sweet.
She never gives up.
This time she stepped on my foot, forcing me to open my mouth, and then put the mud cake into my mouth with a charming smile.
Her fingers touched my lips, and I didn’t expect her finger pulp to be so soft.
I watched her run away in the hustle and bustle of fireworks, while the silks and satins behind her flew like butterflies. When she was
playing at midnight, she was possessed and wanted to go to Drunken Fairy House, but my long arm stopped her and said she wouldn’t let her.
She didn’t care, so she rushed in crazily, saying that she wanted to see the beautiful woman in the north of the ridge.
As a result, I sat watching her drinking, and my eyes lingered on the dancers of the Western Regions on the stage, cheering the loudest. Naturally,
she was beautiful, and when she was drunk, her eyes moved so much that people could not bear to move. After flashing my machete for the nth time to scare off the man who came to talk to me,
I finally couldn’t help dragging her home.
I don’t! I also want to be a dancer in this Shuozhou city!
She answered me, and the smell of alcohol was all over her body.
I refused and tried to pull her, but she fell into my arms and asked me if the dancer looked good.
I said good-looking, good-looking, and she asked me if the big prince liked such a dancer.
Are there more people who like the customs of the Han Chinese? Or are there more of the customs of the Western Regions?
I was speechless for a moment, so I picked her up and strode out of the hall.
“I like you more like this.”
I heard my voice lost in the whirring wind, and the long street was empty of time and space, leaving only a few people.
She was so drunk that she put her head on my shoulder and shook the tassel on my face, which was a little painful. When I was
approaching the city gate, the beggar by the roadside stopped me.
I smiled kindly and said that my wife was asleep and I couldn’t spare my hands to take the coppers now.
“Childe, you have a lot of tails behind you today.”
His sudden sound made my hand holding Jiang Mingxiu stiff, and I knew at once who had sent him.
The beggar intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Jiang Mingxiu, who was sleeping soundly, and continued, “It’s rare to come to Shuozhou. Why don’t you go and see the Marquis?”
I readjusted my posture so that she could lean closer to me and smiled.
“Isn’t my uncle seeing everything I do?” After
I returned to the palace that night, everything went on as usual.
Perhaps the king of Qiang know that the tail has been replaced, or perhaps he is still in the dark.
He didn’t bother me.
I spent more energy on training, and I could stay at the border until midnight without paying attention.
Jiang Mingxiu may know that I brought her back that night, in short, she was ashamed to see me for several days.
In fact, it doesn’t matter, at least it’s a good night for each other. When I went back to the camp
that night, there was still a candle burning in her tent.
I asked the boy if she had secretly sucked Diyega and stayed up all night.
He replied to me that the princess had been studying and practicing hard recently, and was determined to integrate the Qiang language, so as to imitate Princess Wencheng in the history books and bless the Qiang people.
I think this wish will never come true, with the consciousness of the Qiang people, it is serious to rob her as a wife. When
I sneaked into her account, she was staring at a volume of Qiang Wen.
I fixed my eyes on it and saw that it was the same volume that she had not finished reading when she had just recovered from her illness a few months ago. With a
smile, I was very happy to see her on the beam.
She spotted me, pointed at my nose and told me to get off early.
I jumped lightly and landed in front of her, and she asked me how to pronounce those words with a tiger face.
I said it was all agglutinative language, not word by word.
“Then tell me what these letters mean!”
I laughed again and said they were not interesting.
She had a brain and squatted on the couch and didn’t want to talk to me.
“But if I can’t learn Qiang well, he’ll never understand me.”
My heart missed a beat. I thought it was for something. So that’s the reason again.
Seeing that my face was not good, she suddenly said that I was a man born in the north of Qiang, how could I speak Chinese so well.
I rubbed her head and said that if I couldn’t learn Chinese well, she would never understand me.
“Do you have someone you like?”
As if she had discovered something terrible about the mainland, she held her head in her hands and came very close to me. “So I have a sister-in-law?”? Oh, no, no, I have a sister-in-law. With a wry smile,
I knocked her on the head and turned to climb back to the beam.
She mumbled that it was boring, and then put out the light and went to bed.
I hesitated again and again, or took away the volume of Qiang Wen on her case.
I stayed up all night and finally finished marking the Qiang and Han parchment and returned it to her.
The next day I collapsed on the table and couldn’t get up. The noise outside the door woke me up.
It was a girl whose face was the size of a palm against a heavy curtain of flower beads.
She was lecturing the unmannerly maids around her because they had bumped into the guards in front of my tent.
I know her. She is the daughter of General Wengbo. Her name is Tana. Wengbo Yixi is the old man’s confidant.
She gave me a dignified and generous salute and called me the second prince in a crisp voice.
I actually don’t know a few northern Qiang noble woman, she is one of the few, because of the beauty, so famous northern Qiang thirteen.
I asked lightly why she came to the king’s tent today. She hesitated for a moment and said that Khan had asked her to come.
I didn’t understand the meaning at that time, but later I learned that he had chosen several girls to be the imperial concubines of Gyatso.
At this rate, it’s pretty obvious what he’s going to do next.
Tana saluted me again. “Prince, it’s windy outside. Go back early.”
She and Jiang Mingxiu are two extremes, one is full of etiquette but is a girl on the prairie, the other is a daughter growing out of the palace. With a hum,
I told her that she would be a family sooner or later, and that there was no need to be polite for Xiaomo. She didn’t go far on her
front foot, but Jiang Mingxiu came on her back foot.
“Isn’t such a good-looking girl my future sister-in-law?”
She winked at me, not playing together for a long time, and her madness came back.
I glared at her and threw myself back.
“Hu Yen-hsin, stop here!”
My heart moved, and she called me by my name for the first time.
So I stopped and turned around with a rare good temper. I don’t like people calling my name.
What I saw was that the girl with a slightly red face ran towards me with her skirt, and one of them hit me without stopping.
Stupid.
Scolding aside, I condescended to lift her up from the ground after a brief stupefaction. As soon as she stood up, she swore that I didn’t have eyes.
“When I saw that you had spent the whole night worrying about this palace, you pushed the sweet-scented osmanthus cake you had specially made, and it was almost scattered!” Angrily and amused,
I watched her take out the box of pastries with her left hand and hold the parchment I had annotated for her in her right hand.
She was a little coy, and her hand on the handle trembled unconsciously.
I clapped her hand away, and she drew back and said I was a white-eyed wolf.
I don’t know who is an ingrate. Rather exaggeratedly,
I twisted a piece with my fingertips and stuffed it into my mouth, and the sweet and greasy taste filled the whole lip cavity for a moment.
I suddenly seem to like sweet food.
“That’s right, I’ll punish you to work for the prince every day!”
She gave me a white look and said that she wanted to be beautiful, but her face with a little makeup made her look like a Gesang flower that had just bloomed.
If it can be like this all the time, in fact, it is not angry.
I came at a bad time today. When
I came in, they were clinging to each other.
Seeing me coming, Gyatso quietly let go of her, and the latter stepped aside with an embarrassed look.
I’m here to hand over the military power.
Gyatso refused his father Khan’s offer of marriage in a big way, saying earnestly that it was nothing to marry a foreign princess of the same age.
The old Khan did not give him another slap this time, but asked him to give me the position of Frontier Defense Department as usual.
I always feel that he is old and has no strength to lose his temper. He is not like this before.
I stood in the tent for a long time, and the tent was silent all the time.
Perhaps it was not Jiang Mingxiu who sucked the bottom, but Gyatso who sucked the bottom.
Last year, when he was defeated, he paid tribute to a lot of this stuff, saying that it was a folk prescription for headache. Many people in the royal family were addicted to it.
At the moment, his golden robe made him as handsome as ever, but there was a layer of anger in my eyes. It turned out that there was a uniform contempt and indifference in the
blue.
I never thought that a Jiang Mingxiu could make him so fascinated. Perhaps
he should read “Zuo Zhuan”, after all, rivers and mountains and beauty can not be both.
He glanced at Jiang Mingxiu again, and then said to her in a soft voice that he would go out first.
Jiang Mingxiu looked a little sad.
She may also feel the variables of the north Qiang, but she just looked back at him sadly, then went straight away. He didn’t give me a look
from the beginning to the end.
Gyatso watched her leave, then said in a calm voice, “You have changed a lot.”
I curled the corners of my mouth a little, and no matter how much I changed, I couldn’t do as much as you. Like an epiphany,
he stared at me intently for a while, perhaps wondering if I was still the mute prince.
Dumb prince, I haven’t heard that name for a long time.
“If I were a brother, a woman like Tana, I would love it.” Angrily,
he threw something with a sharp corner at me. I dodged sideways and found that it was a soldier’s amulet.
I picked it up with a smile, then saluted him respectfully, and then stepped down.
He sat in silence for a long time in the darkness and then asked me, “Will you betray Northern Qiang?” Don’t you already have the answer to
this question in your mind.
I did not answer him, the footsteps only stopped for a moment, then disappeared in his field of vision.
It’s autumn. News came from the
Great Meng Palace that Xi Xi was dead.
Sister Sanhuang was born to be charming and romantic. Her talent and wisdom were not inferior to those of Gyatso. How could she die?
The emissary also said that the imperial concubine Xi had won the Sacred Heart and soon had an heir, but unfortunately she died of dystocia.
Father Khan was silent for a moment and then asked, “Where are the bones?”
“The bones must have been moved into the imperial concubine’s mausoleum.”
Father Khan immediately wanted to behead the messenger, but Gyatso stopped him and took him down.
Xi Xilao said in his letter that Meng Huang took pity on her and allowed her bones to return to her hometown many times after her death. She
must have really believed that the wind and sand in the north of the desert were choking, but she still didn’t like the bustling Kyoto.
I’m not surprised.
If I were the emperor of the Meng Dynasty, I would not allow a child infected with the blood of the enemy to survive under my eyes.
Whether it is dystocia or deliberate poisoning, perhaps my father Khan is not without a number.
Jiang Mingxiu to less than a year, north Qiang has happened so many changes.
I looked at the Northern Qiang King with a tired face in the flickering candlelight, and for the first time I felt that he was old.
“There is no reason for a rabbit not to eat grass near its nest.”
“Father Khan, if you don’t marry her, it’s like our northern Qiang are afraid of her and don’t dare to touch their big Meng people.”
“After all, our own daughters have been played to death by the emperor of the Great Meng.” When
I said this, Gyatso was sending me out, and when he heard this, he turned around with a pair of eyes and wanted to gouge out my heart.
He must have wanted to do it, but he didn’t dare to do it in front of the old Khan.
I just bowed my head and said nothing.
Khan’s eyes sparkled and made me uncomfortable.
He just said what he wanted to do through my mouth.
I haven’t seen Jiang Mingxiu for a long time.
I know she doesn’t like me, but it doesn’t matter. It is enough that
I like her. When
I walked into her tent, she was painting her eyebrows. She
used the snail Dai from the Central Plains, which should be the dowry she brought. The
painting is the smoke eyebrow loved by all the noble ladies in Kyoto, curling up like smoke.
She wasn’t happy, especially when she knew it was me.
“I’m afraid the second prince has come to the wrong place. This is your concubine’s tent.”
She did not look at me, and her eyes, which had jumped out like deer a few months ago, were now filled with contempt and dullness.
There are other miscellaneous emotions that I can’t distinguish.
“So what?”
“Didn’t you want to be my concubine from the beginning?” After
I said these words, her slap had fallen on my face.
I reached out and touched it, but her hand was still too soft to hurt enough.
“How much blood did the Marquis of Zhenbei shed to fight against the Qiang? How could he have a nephew like you?” Why is
her eyes red again? I don’t want her eyes to be red all the time.
“You’d better think about yourself. Who can protect you in this place?”
I dropped the words, sneered and turned to lift the curtain and walked away.
Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of her holding the corner of the table in a daze, and all kinds of heads and faces were scattered on the ground.
When I walked out of the tent door, I faced Gyatso standing at the door.
At the moment, his blue eyes were not as gloomy as they used to be, but as deep as a pool, which was still wrapped in long-accumulated anger. He
must be very regretful at the moment that he didn’t have time to kill me earlier.
“What are you doing here?” What
am I doing here? In fact, I don’t know why I came here today.
I couldn’t think of an answer, so I turned my head to go.
He stopped me with his long arm. I’m sixteen
this year, and I’m so tall that I don’t have to look up at him. As I looked
into his eyes, I pulled the corners of my mouth and smiled. “If my elder brother can’t protect his own woman, my younger brother won’t mind coming to help.” As soon as
my voice fell, I was punched by Gyatso again.
I covered the corners of my mouth in pain, and the blood oozed out bit by bit, so I didn’t stop smiling.
He raised his hand and tried to give me another punch, but the passing Khan stopped him.
The old Khan came over with a tiger face, and everyone held their breath.
I thought I was the one who was beaten, but I didn’t want the bright red palm print to fall on Gyatso’s face.
I was taken aback.
He was also taken aback.
I can’t remember how many times he took risks for Jiang Mingxiu. Kedun’s legitimate son, who had stood high above the masses for
a long time, was directly hit by this slap and half knelt on the ground.
But so what, he is not the future of the king of Qiang? The curtain
behind her was lifted by Jiang Mingxiu, and she stared at the confrontation between the three of us, and immediately understood what was going on.
I was going to give her a wink. Don’t mess around.
But she obviously understood the situation better than I did. As soon as her knees were weak, she knelt down and said, “See the Khan King. The Khan King calmed down.”. She must have learned
such a standard Qiang language for a long time.
I can’t go too far. The stars were sparse on the night of the
wedding.
When Gyatso opened the curtain door of the king’s tent with a sword, I happened to be sitting not far away having a drink with several generals.
North Qiang is not like big Meng, the wedding is not so much red tape.
The newlyweds only need to hold hands and swear to Qimuge Mountain God to love each other and grow old together, and walk barefoot on the gravel road under the cheers of the crowd.
But the princess is married to the north Qiang Khan, and not the main room, there is no Khan out to meet the reason.
So tens of meters of gravel road, only she took a bunch of flowers, slowly walked to the Khan tent.
Everyone was perhaps embarrassed by the old Khan’s sudden intention to marry, so the atmosphere was particularly cold, and no one sprinkled liquor on the toast.
Gyatso never came, and everyone didn’t think much of it.
Until she entered the account, people took their eyes off, and now it was the home court of Khan and Princess. There were still a few people left
on the field, and I stayed patiently to persuade them to drink. Tears came down as they
drank, and the leaders joked that the second prince was crying because he couldn’t get a wife.
I used the strength of alcohol to say what kind of woman I can’t get, as long as I have money and power.
They laughed and raised their glasses to say yes.
Too bad.
She was so calm and indifferent just now. How hard she was holding back.
She didn’t even have a red eye this time. While
I was still drunkenly wiping away my tears, a scream drowned out the conversation of all the people in the room. When
I turned around and raised my eyes, the dark shadow had already entered the tent.
I know Gyatso’s sword, and there is always a shallow blue light in the night. The
goal has been achieved.
It turned out that he really dared to do such a ridiculous thing as robbing the bride. Not
yet dissipated north Qiang courtiers wine was woke up more than half, like a swarm of bees rushed in, I didn’t move. The
pale moonlight fell, and I stood alone at the empty banquet, listening quietly to the movements in the king’s tent.
But for a moment. When
Jiang Mingxiu was carried out of the tent by Gyatso, who was holding a sword in Xuanyi, he was right with me.
The cloud sideburns are scattered and the clothes are ragged. Her
messy hair and makeup were intertwined, and her red wedding dress made her look like a ghost who had just been dragged to a ghost wedding.
It doesn’t look like Princess Hezheng. The way
she looked at me was full of horror, like I was some kind of monster.
“It’s you..”
She spoke in a trembling voice, but her fingernails clenched Gyatso’s front.
I looked at Gyatso again. He frowned and looked cruel.
If he can kill me now, I must be hanging on the ground now.
I smiled softly at the girl whose eyes were red.
The earth shook violently, and the splashing stones made the king’s tent more turbulent.
I slowly turned, ambushed for a long time the town north fighters at the moment has torn open wear more than half a month of Qiang people uniform, appearance and so on in front of the camp. The
leader was the Marquis of Zhenbei, and his eyes fell on me at a glance, with a sense of approval.
I nodded slightly, and when I looked back, Gyatso had already disappeared into the night with Jiang Mingxiu in his arms. When the leaders who had been drinking with me
just now carried the body of the old Khan out of the king’s tent, they saw such a scene:
the young second prince of Northern Qiang stood calmly in front of the tent, and behind him was the dark fighters in the north of the town. It took me three months to
kill my father and the king.
From the moment I was allowed to be the general department of frontier defense, the town of north fighters in the continuous influx of north Qiang. On the eve of the
wedding, I captured the family of the garrison commander. Under coercion and inducement, he changed to the guards who were originally guarding the camp. The disguised Zhenbei Army took advantage of the situation and entered.
Only after I will he Yi clan, with the north Qiang old minister who don’t want to submit to me, the massacre lasted for three days and three nights.
The frost-colored Marquis of Chen-pei, while contentedly stepping on the grass stained with the blood of the Qiang blade, climbed onto my shoulder and said, “You deserve to be my nephew. You do things as ruthlessly as your mother!”
He accidentally touched my arrow wound, I ate a painful smile, he also shyly withdrew his hand.
In my opinion, you should kill the old man directly. Why strangle him in front of the princess with gold wire? In this way, perhaps we can capture the Raksha together, and the princess need not be taken away.
Raksha was Gyatso, who annihilated nearly half of the Zhenbei Army in the first battle when he was 16 years old. Meng Chao was so frightened that he directly transferred the Zhenxi Army to the old Marquis.
He has been depressed for a long time in Lingbei.
Zhenbei Hou’s expression when he spoke was not without regret, and his wish for many years had finally come true, presumably he felt that it was not perfect enough.
“Northern Qiang cannot produce gold wire, and the only bundle of stolen gold wire was given to Huyan Gyatso last year.”
“Uncle, if you don’t give him a suitable charge, how can people of Northern Qiang be willing to believe that my throne is justified?”
Covet the beauty of the princess, kill his father and take his wife on the wedding night. In full view of the
public, a big hat was hooped on Gyatso’s head, and most people had not yet recovered from this astonishing change.
Of course, when I recovered, I realized that all the people who rebelled against me were souls under my sword. When
I finished speaking respectfully, the Marquis of Zhenbei smiled heartily. “You really deserve to be your boy. I don’t know where the imperial family learned their tricks!”
“Thanks to my uncle’s well-trained fighters, they sneaked into the tent and strangled the old man to death without anyone noticing. Ordinary people can’t do that.”
I smiled shyly and looked past him to the burning body of the old Khan. The
cream flowed all over the floor.
Qiang people have always been the practice of sky burial, only the body of Khan will not be eaten by animals in the wilderness.
“I will send his ashes to Mount Meili to pray to the God of Mount Qimuge to bless the Central Plains and the Northern Qiang, to bless the peace of the world, and to keep the frontier free from war.”
Zhenbei Hou was quite satisfied with my words, patted me twice on the shoulder, and went away with his hands behind his back.
I watched him walk happily into the king’s tent, which originally belonged to the old Khan. When the
sky will be dark, the next report said that the north has been searched, still did not find the shadow of Jiang Mingxiu and the big prince.
He must have mingled with the refugees on the southern border.
I smiled coldly, took the knife and went out of the tent.
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North Qiang fell snow.
I give the heavy responsibility of the Qiang su town north Hou mop-up, then led the fighters turned the border upside down.
Before leaving, the Marquis of Zhenbei told me worriedly not to be too crazy.
At that time, I smiled at him with relief, but my heart said that it was impossible. How can
I tolerate her jumping away again and again? From today on, I really have the ability to protect her. When she was
found, she was still wearing the wedding dress she had worn when she escaped from the king’s tent that night, and the blood-like red was quite bright in the snow and dirt.
Later, I learned that the red was not the original color of the clothes, but the color of human blood.
I don’t know if it’s her own blood or someone else’s.
Months of hiding had left her haggard, and the only thing that hadn’t changed was that she still looked at me like a monster.
It doesn’t matter. Just find it.
“Xiu Xiu..”
I called her name like this for the first time, but when she heard it, she frowned and bit her lips to hide behind Gyatso.
I’m so familiar with this reaction that I attribute it to dislike. Turning my
face sideways, I began to look at the dusty Gyatso beside me.
He’s completely changed. I kind of don’t know him. There were things stuck to my
blue stubble and neglected hair that I couldn’t tell the difference. The eye sockets were deeply sunken, and the green eyes lost their air.
May be days of raids and assassinations at any time and anywhere, he will be trapped here.
It’s just that I can’t sigh because my princess is still behind him.
His sword lay in front of him in an indisputable manner.
“Give her to me.”
I spoke in a calm voice and reached over.
When Gyatso heard this, he made a gesture to draw his sword and cut off my hand. The blue light that came out in an instant almost hurt my eyes. The fighters who jumped out
from behind almost at the same time with a knife put him in the middle. If
he dares to act rashly, I will cut him to pieces.
When Gyatso was escorted past me, he finally looked at me with the same contempt as before.
“Sure enough, it’s a good dog raised by the Han Chinese.”
I smiled disapprovingly. “You’re not just getting bitten.”
I looked at Jiang Mingxiu again, and my hand was still stretched out.
She refused to come over and covered her abdomen with her hands.
The skirt seems to be stretched a little small.
My smile suddenly froze.
Gyatso’s frantic laughter came from behind me, hammering my eardrums. It’s
crazy. It’s all crazy.
Jiang Mingxiu curled up her body and lost her shelter as thin as a roll of autumn leaves.
I can’t get her back.
Jiang Mingxiu hates me, but it doesn’t matter.
She will be mine sooner or later. When
I went down to see her, she was drinking medicine in the tent. The people in
her account were all picked by myself, and all the things used to hurt people and themselves were cleaned up by me.
At the moment, she was giving herself a big mouthful of medicine with a calm face.
“What are you drinking?”
I asked, my bent figure reflected in the dark red grout.
“Saffron.”
Her tone was neither salty nor light, as if she had drunk a bowl of water.
I froze for a moment and then said, “You don’t have to do this.”
“I won’t kill it.”
It’s a fetus, and I really don’t have to be afraid of an unformed fetus.
She did not speak, and the medicine was so strong that a few drops ran down her neck into her collar.
“Xiu Xiu.”
I called again.
“Was he born like you or like me?” Would
you raise an enemy’s child with you? Hu Yen-hsin?
She raised her eyes to look at me, and I faintly read something called hatred in her expression without sorrow or joy.
I was speechless for a moment. It’s only been half a month since she cried loudly when she was captured by me into the tent.
I was a little sorry, so I squatted down until I was at the same height as she was sitting.
“Xiuxiu, will you be soft?”
She didn’t look at me, as if she didn’t hear me.
“Xiuxiu, have you forgotten that your father said I was the one who could protect you?”
I carefully tried to cover her back, but her spine was as stiff as stone in an instant.
In a flash of lightning, she pulled out a pearl hairpin from her head and stabbed me in the chest.
The gushing blood immediately seeped through the front, and I looked at her in disbelief. There was no regret in her eyes, and she was still holding the hairpin tightly in her hand.
I was so angry that I immediately grabbed her hand and dragged her to the bed. She kicked her legs and scratched and scratched the air.
“Chiang Ming-hsiu, you’ve come to get married anyway. Who aren’t you marrying?”
I pressed her hands on the bed, and she stared at me with her eyes open and her hands clenched into fists.
“Why, do you think that old man is better than me, or is it more exciting to be my sister-in-law?”
“Not you, anyone.”
She dropped a word and turned her face away from me.
“Then try it.”
I began to tear her clothes, and the sound of the silk breaking filled the whole tent. The
dripping blood hit her forehead, and her strength gradually lost, so she was at my mercy. In the
middle of it, she suddenly lost her voice.
I woke up in a flash, and
the saffron was acting up.
I hurriedly pulled away the bedding, and there was a lot of blood under her body.
I was so shocked that I shouted at the top of my voice, “Tie up all the herbalists.”.
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I stayed by her side all night, and the maidservants retired in good humor. When
it was dawn, I couldn’t hold on and fell asleep. When she
woke up, she was staring at the ceiling, her hand was in my hand, and she looked as indifferent as last night.
“Xiu Xiu..”
I called again tentatively, but she didn’t respond.
After a while, she twisted her fingers twice as if trying to break away from me, but I was too strong, and her efforts were in vain.
“Let go of me.”
She spoke at last, but her eyes were fixed on her intertwined hands, and her eyes were full of my familiar disgust.
I’m getting a little angry.
I don’t understand. I’ve always had better patience with her than ordinary people. Why is she here.
“You think I’m sick?”
I didn’t stop, so I held it harder and stared at her face.
I want an answer, like why I’m not as good as him.
But her face became frightened, which made her more unable to open her mouth.
I broke the awkward situation first.
I deceived the past, close to the position of her hair, faintly smell her hair if there is no faint fragrance.
“Now that your father has given you to me, I can do whatever I want with you.”
“Even if you don’t want to, even if you hate me.”
I said slowly, and her face, like a dead wood, finally had a trace of life. To be precise, she
was sullen, so that she seemed to be a living person, not a dead fish.
“My father wouldn’t do that. I’ll marry you as your concubine, and I’ll be your sister-in-law!”
“Mrs. Wang?” “Whose wife is younger than her brother-in-law?”
I asked with a sneer.
A princess born in Yeting, whose birth mother is just a shady bed-climbing maid, what is the need for Meng Huang to care about her innocence.
As far as he is concerned, this is a profitable business.
I grabbed her by the chin and pressed her against the bedpost behind me, and she exclaimed in pain.
“So Chiang Ming-hsiu, don’t you understand?”
“You are the mascot sent by the Meng Dynasty. Your role is to please me. After all, I am the Northern Qiang King granted by your father.” Before
I had finished speaking, she threw her fist on my chest, which was still oozing blood. I had to let go of my hand, and she collapsed on the bed.
I choked blood, and the smell of blood spread through my nose.
In fact, it doesn’t hurt, but it feels like something is broken.
I straightened my skirt and stood up, telling her word by word that if she wanted the one in the dungeon to live, she had better save face for each other.
She understood in a moment who I was talking about, and her pale face was now pale.
I know I made the right bet.
I threw out a contented smile and went out of the tent without looking back. The
wind in my face made my head buzz. The Marquis
of Zhenbei told me that a batch of new dancers had come to the city of Shuozhou, and their gestures were even more enchanting than before.
I asked him why he said such a thing to me. I have plenty of dancers in the camp.
He clapped his hands, and the leader walked in with a light step and a swaying posture. I recognized her at
a glance.
Light gauze covers the face, thin skirt covers the body, the beauty of the prostitute is just so so.
I waited patiently until the end of the song, and when she bowed to the ground and thanked her, I hooked her over.
She is not afraid, a beautiful face under the North Qiang skin is particularly eye-catching in this group of dancers. As soon as she came
to me, I pulled her, and the next moment she fell into my arms without even a cry.
Tana smiled at me, just as she had called me the second prince in a dignified manner in front of my tent that day.
“Where have you been hiding?”
I heard myself ask, the night Weng Boyixi was ransacked, I sent people to search for her within a hundred miles, but I couldn’t find her.
She put her hand on my face and said that she had been taken away by thieves before that. Speaking of
this, I have no intention to worry about which thief it is.
After turning around and thanking Zhenbei Hou for a big gift, I picked her up and walked to the back of the tent.
I actually don’t like Tana, but she almost became Gyatso’s woman, the future new Kedun.
The useless Gendun Lama even raved that she was closely linked to the fate of the Northern Qiang.
No wonder there are always so many thieves around her.
I leaned lazily against the rock wall of the soup pool. Tana came up from the water. Her silky wet hair outlined her excellent figure. She was as flexible as a fish. She obediently clung to my chest to feed the grapes.
The finger pulp touched the large and small wounds on my chest, and she gave a low cry and stroked them carefully.
With Tana, the king won’t get hurt again.
I laughed and asked her how you, a woman, could keep me from getting hurt.
She said that she was good at riding and shooting, that she loved swords, and that she had followed her father and brother to the battlefield twice.
I became interested and raised her chin and asked, “Tell me what it feels like to kill someone.”.
“It’s probably like being a horse bandit.”
She smiled and put her head in my arms, and the smell of her body and the touch of her skin stirred up my nerves.
It seems that not long ago, I also did a horse bandit, cut off Meng Chaolai’s little princess to see the fire trees and honeysuckle flowers in the direction of the border town. I was in a trance when the room was
full of smoke.
Tana’s last layer of gauze peeled off and floated on the water. I rolled her against the rock wall, and the sound of panting overflowed the whole soup room.
Just as I was sleeping, the maidservant in the outer room called out in a panic that Princess Hezheng wanted to see me.
I told her to get out of here impatiently, but the noise was getting louder and louder, and I suddenly lost all interest.
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“Jiang Mingxiu, what are you doing here again?” When I
came out, I was wearing only a pair of underwear, and all the attendants around me lowered their heads hurriedly.
The only one who doesn’t change color is Jiang Mingxiu. She is dressed very plain. There is no extra decoration from head to toe. I have never seen her dressed so plain.
It was after the stabbing that I gave the blacksmith in the camp all the hairpins and rings in her tent.
I actually don’t like her to wear plain colors. I think she looks better in bright red since she wore a wedding dress.
Now she was carrying a plate of pastries and told me that she had stayed up all night to make them, hoping I would do her a favor.
I recognize these. Last year, when she pestered me to learn Qiang language, she gave me osmanthus cakes. The
familiar smell spread in the air, and I reached out to twist a piece and put it on the tip of my nose to smell it. If you
want to kill me, you don’t have to do it in such a bad way. As soon as
my cold voice came out, the people around me knelt down in unison, which made me a little upset, but they didn’t.
She was stupefied, as if she did not believe that I would ask such a question, after all, she did not know how many times she had met me in the months since she became king. When she
came to her senses, she grabbed the sweet-scented osmanthus crisp in front of her and stuffed it into her throat, and the falling debris made her very embarrassed. Of course
I knew who she was doing it for, but I suddenly lost interest.
I looked at Jiang Mingxiu, who was coughing in front of me, and waved to the maid to take Princess Hezheng down.
She refused to move. She was as stubborn as a cow. She knelt on the ground and looked straight at me.
“Chiang Ming-hsiu, I forgive you.”
“But I don’t want to see you in my presence now.” It’s such an incredible look in her eyes
again. I’m a little tired of her like this.
I turned neatly back to the soup pool, and Tana asked me with a smile what had happened to the princess.
I looked at her charming face for a while, and suddenly I couldn’t remember what she looked like, but I asked her what you liked about him.
“Tana has never liked anyone. Now Tana only likes the king.”
I know she’s lying, but I just love to hear her lie.
I pulled up a smile again and pushed her into the soup pool, and the splashing water made my eyes a little astringent. When
Jiang Mingxiu said she wanted to see Gyatso, I finally couldn’t hold back and gave her a slap. She sat on the ground with her
hair in disorder, then sat up and said it again, neither humble nor arrogant.
She is really ungrateful, Tana knows to commit herself to my expediency, she is a princess, this is not a wink.
I tied her hands to the head of the bed with cotton silk, and the night passed, but I was still not satisfied.
So I dragged her up again early in the morning and asked her breathlessly why she didn’t scream. She looked at me lightly and didn’t speak.
“And when you were in his bed, did you not cry?” As soon as
I finished speaking, her tears came down and dripped down the end of her hair to the hot temperature of my hand between her hair. Most of the
lust was lost in an instant, and I got off her in boredom, and she covered her face with a quilt.
I finally met Gyatso again, and he was even more down-and-out than when he was in Qiangnan.
I can’t help but wonder if he and the old Khan had been willing to show mercy, would I still be like this. It didn’t take long for me to get a positive answer to
this idea, because I saw Gyatso’s trembling hand stretching out to pull Jiang Ming’s embroidered skirt. In fact,
he could not speak, and he could only be recognized by his emerald eyes under his skin and flesh.
I put my arms around Jiang Mingxiu’s waist quietly, and she said with a lisp that she wanted to live well.
My eyes darkened and I stared at Gyatso’s hand. Seeing this, Jiang Mingxiu hurriedly pulled open her skirt.
“If it’s stained with blood, it’ll be terrible.”
Hearing my words, she nodded dully, and then cruelly withdrew from the cell.
I asked her, “Don’t you feel bad? I’m afraid I can’t see her again after seeing her this time.”.
She smiled at me with a pale face and said she didn’t feel bad. Suddenly the
sky began to rain, and I stepped forward to take off my cloak, put it on her, and helped her close her collar. Her
face was a little frightened, and she wanted to ask something, but she didn’t ask after all.
After the maid sent her away, I called someone to prepare a big gift for Princess Hezheng. He asked me what it was. The hand with which
he pulled the princess’s skirt.
The bearer was somewhat confused by what I said, so he tried to ask again.
“I say, the hand by which he pulled the hem of Princess Hezheng’s skirt.”
I raised my eyebrows and smiled at him, and the man immediately answered and hurried down.
I love to sleep here in Tana more and more. There is a good smell in her tent, which always makes people sleep soundly.
I once asked her what it was, and she smiled and said that when she was sold to Zuixianju, the elderly customers there loved to use it.
I knocked her on the head and laughed and scolded her for not answering the question.
“Tana, you weren’t like this before.”
I picked up her face, and she looked at my eyes with a smile, three points of charm, seven points of affection.
In retrospect, she stood in front of my tent at that time, lecturing her maids with the general good upbringing of a lady from a famous family. When she called me the second prince, her tone was alienated and polite, and everything was handled just right by her.
Weng Boyixi raised her as the future.
She was now a completely different face.
Tana got into my arms like a cat, and I asked her why she didn’t hate me because I was as interested in her as those people, and my family was ruined.
Hate you? Hate you, and then kill you, I may not even be able to save my life, but to cater to you, I can do the real Kedun. That’s how
she answered me, with blatant ambition in her sly eyes, and she knew I was eating it.
I kissed the corners of her mouth like a reward, and she simply refused to get up on me.
Her body was also infected with the intoxicating smell of the tent, and I buried it in her neck for a moment and did not want to look up.
I originally thought that she and Jiang Mingxiu should not be dealt with, but I never thought that they would play better after a long time. After
the wooden box containing Gyatso’s broken hand was sent to Jiang Mingxiu’s tent, she did not eat or drink for three days and three nights. It was Tana herself who brought the soup into her tent to persuade her.
I think she probably knew early on that my heart was in Jiang Mingxiu’s place, but she comforted me by saying that General Weng Bo taught her to be generous.
“There will be too many women in the king’s life. Tana can’t be jealous of all of them.”
She said this to me, and then tilted her head and joked that she had to go to her place on the fifteenth and thirtieth of every month.
This was the rule in the palace of the Meng Dynasty. The emperor had to stay with the empress on the fifteenth and thirtieth of every month. She learned the Central Plains well in Shuozhou City.
I also want to ask her that Jiang Mingxiu is not a witch from Dameng. Why do you think differently from those Qiang people.
She was already asleep on top of me.
I had to tiptoe her back to the couch.
This year, on the occasion of the Mountain God Festival, I escaped again on horseback.
In fact, after I came to power, I relaxed the restrictions on the bloodline of offering sacrifices to mountain gods, but I still don’t like to go to this banquet.
Zhenbei Hou saw my tired appearance, waved his hand and said to me that he was watching during the dinner, and I would go to relax.
I nodded yes and shook off and came to Wengshan again. There is a heavy snow
again. On the snowy
slope,
Tana is teaching Jiang Mingxiu how to ride and shoot. The way she stands on her horse reminds me of my long-dead birth mother for a moment.
It is said that she is also a general of Zhenbei Army, and there is no shortage of generals in Hou Ye’s family.
Jiang Mingxiu smiled at the corners of her mouth and tied up her hair in a rare way. The fur ornaments loved by the Qiang people were not against her at all.
She drew her bow clumsily on the horse, and Tana whispered good-naturedly in her ear.
I didn’t dare to disturb them.
I looked at them for a long time in a place where the light could not shine. I knew that if I took a step, the beauty would disappear. The color of
snow makes them look like a painting, just as when I first saw Jiang Mingxiu, it was also in such a painting.
I comforted myself that there would be such a day every day. In a
trance, the attendant hurried to report that Meng Huang’s will had been delivered. I turned around and asked him what the will was.
“Order the king to choose an auspicious day to welcome Princess Hezheng as the new Kedun.”
Smiling, I can not help but sigh that the emperor is more impatient than I am.
26
After the Mountain God Festival, I gave Tana to death.
The reason is that the Han minister who came to deliver the decree said that the smell on the king’s body was unique, like the fragrance of Diyega. When
I broke into her tent, she was kneeling on the futon to pray with the Gendun Lama.
I grabbed Tana’s hair and pulled her up from the ground and asked her where she came from with a cold face. She shook her head and laughed at my crazy appearance.
North Qiang territory of all the bottom also Jia gave me a clean, she was able to clip in the incense every day to smoke.
“Doesn’t the king enjoy it? You said that every time you come to Tana, you will be very kind to her.”
Her red lips came close to my face and said, “Is it not good to be on cloud nine?”? The king has so much blood on his hands. How can he sleep soundly if he doesn’t?
Snorting in my face, I kicked her hard. Naturally,
I knew that the two women who raised me did not have much sincerity for me, but they should not hide and harm me.
I dragged her up again and asked her in a harsh voice who ordered her to do so. She said in a hoarse voice that she could not do North Qiang Kedun, which was her lifelong dream. The Gendun Lama on
one side had already been so frightened by the battle that he collapsed on the ground, and the scriptures in his mouth collapsed. Distraught,
I gave her a sharp push, knocking her head on the censer, and the smell of burning flesh filled the air.
“Hu Yanxin!”! Hu Yen-hsin, I beg you, let Tana go!
I looked up and saw Jiang Mingxiu coming out of nowhere, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to me like garlic.
I hate the way she always goes all out for people who don’t matter in front of me. She didn’t use to be like this. She used to be able to tell me why she was a person who knelt down casually for Princess Meng. What
are you doing here. Then
I made a gesture to let her stay, but she hugged my leg and said that it was her only companion here.
I just think it’s funny, so what am I? In her mind, she may be just a tyrannical executioner.
Everyone is more important than me.
After Tana was knocked by this, she sobered up a lot, and her eyes were filled with resentment. Only then did I feel that the former Tana was not dead.
I looked at her coldly and told her word by word that I would give her another chance to explain clearly. When the
account internal turmoil into a pot of porridge, it was reported outside that Zhenbei Hou had come.
I knew he had come to make peace, and sure enough, as soon as he entered the account, a good nephew, Mo, became angry and began to talk about it.
Catching a glimpse of Jiang Mingxiu kneeling on the ground holding my leg, he froze for a moment, then looked away and pretended nothing had happened.
Jiang Mingxiu also shyly withdrew his hand, lowered his head and did not know what he was thinking.
Zhenbei Hou went on to say that he would throw Tana into the Gobi Desert and be pecked by vultures to death, following our Northern Qiang tradition of treating traitors. After a
brief silence, I said that my uncle was thoughtful.
Seeing that my mood gradually stabilized, he seemed to relax his heart and asked casually if he had ever chosen an auspicious day.
An auspicious day.
I chewed the word again, then bent over and raised Jiang Mingxiu’s chin and asked, has Xiuxiu ever chosen an auspicious day.
Her face at the moment was more ashen than Tana’s, and she didn’t look like a 16-year-old daughter at all.
It seems that the north Qiang king account of the secret that everyone knows, she doesn’t know. Seeing this
, Zhenbei Hou leaned slightly and said that he would not disturb my family affairs, and then he would send someone to pick up Tana.
I didn’t look at him. I just said, “Uncle, take care.”.
Tana, the man who gave you Diyega.. It’s not the Marquis of Zhenbei, is it?
I asked Tana in Qiang language, but my eyes were looking at Jiang Mingxiu’s face carefully, trying to pick out a clue.
Seeing her familiar frightened look, I settled down a little and turned to walk towards the dying Tana.
I don’t believe Tana really dares to listen to Meng Chao.
As long as I can kill you.. Isn’t it all the same to kill by anyone’s hand? “
Really?” I asked in a calm voice.
Squatting down and twisting her face, I realized for the first time that this face could hide so much hatred.
She stopped talking to me and looked awe-inspiring.
It was a little too cooperative. I clapped my hands and asked someone to come in and give Tana poison wine today.
“Don’t you wait for the Marquis of Zhenbei?” He asked.
Naturally, we can’t wait.
I passed him, picked up Jiang Mingxiu with a sad face from the ground, and walked out of the tent.
She huddled in my arms as soft as a sheep. When
the imperial edict fell into Jiang Mingxiu’s hands, she was much calmer than I expected.
So I asked all the maids around me who were watching her to step down first, leaving me alone with her. I haven’t seen her with such a gorgeous hairpin
for a long time. I looked at her with red makeup in vain.
I knew she remembered the scene when she got married at the beginning of last year, so I ordered someone to specially change all the appliances into the style of Da Meng.
Huang Diandian’s imperial edict was held in her hands, and she was dignified and generous at the moment, like the princess described in the history books.
I wanted to open my mouth and call her Xiuxiu, but I couldn’t say it. She’s all
I have.
She may also understand that she only has me. Neither of
us spoke quietly until she suddenly asked if she could take her back to Shuozhou City.
Memories came up like butterflies. I even felt that Shuozhou City was as far away as Kyoto. Obviously, the last time I went there was only two years apart.
I took her hand and said yes, but she hesitated for a moment and did not pull it away.
After Tana died, I sent someone to burn her curtains and all the things she had used in her life, but I had been smelling them for a long time. I could not smell the sweet and greasy smell for a while, and I would feel crazy. Only when I stayed with her could I get a moment of peace.
The Han people say that the husband and wife are supposed to share the same grave with each other.
Now that I am staying with her, it is always as if I can see that I will be like her in the future.
Even if a lifetime to do Meng Huang to control the puppet of the northern Qiang, enjoy such a good moment of sand, is not a trip in vain.
I took her back to the city of Shuozhou that night. This time I swaggered in through the main gate. I thought she didn’t like to disturb the people like this, but I didn’t want her to smile gently and comfortably at the Han people who came to watch. They knelt down and said that Princess Hezheng was the benefactor who gave them peace. Holding her hand,
I stood on the wall, kneeling down like a tide, but I was blown cold by the wind above.
I had never thought about the meaning of the word Hezheng before, because she was too incompatible with the word at that time, but now I somehow realized the sad meaning of the word.
I shook my head, trying to shake all these thoughts out of my head, but a silk handkerchief covered my face.
Jiang Mingxiu is wiping my sweat.
“Hu Yen-hsin, do you want to hear my story with Gyatso?”
She asked me as if she expected me not to get angry this time.
I don’t get angry because I always want to know where he is better than me besides his appearance.
“If a person is willing to change for you and abandon those habits that he has held as a creed for more than ten years, I call that love.”
“But Hu Yen-hsin, didn’t you approach me from the very beginning just for the support of the Meng Dynasty?” What have
you done about it? Help your father Khan shot Han captive, poison me led to the north Qiang chaos, send me into the Khan account, and then bear the name of the witch and the curse, even.. Slaughter all the amiable and trustworthy people around me.
“Is this your love?” When she
said this, she still had a shallow smile, but before the words were finished, her eyes were covered with fog, and her tears would not overflow.
“So you know all about it.”
I heard my stiff voice echoing in my ears, but my consciousness was so awake for the first time after sucking so much.
Gyatso’s body was burned to ashes by me and sent to Meili Snow Mountain with his strangled father. When I
think of these past events, I suddenly have a feeling of waking up from a dream.
I wanted to ask her who told her this, but subconsciously I knew it was meaningless.
“Hu Yen-hsin, you’ve killed so many people. Don’t you get scared when you sleep at night?” Of course
I’m scared. I’m so scared that I’m paranoid every day that someone is coming to kill me.
But I covet the remaining purity of her body, where I have the best memories of my life.
She did not expect me to answer, but put away the silk handkerchief and looked into the dark night.
That is the direction of the north Qiang king account.
“When I left the capital, my father said that I was the princess of the Great Meng, and that it would be better to stir up the Northern Qiang as much as possible.”
“But what have I gained by doing all this?”
But after all this, what did she get?
She asked me again in tears, but I couldn’t answer anything.
I stared at her. Maybe I didn’t know her at all.
She is the princess of Da Meng, but she is not a simple princess.
She said that she had been ordered by her father to marry me from the first day, and that he had placed the most concealed flag beside me.
Meng Huang was suspicious and jealous, and never really put down his guard against me, nor did he give me the slightest trust.
It’s just that on the night when I killed my father and seized the throne, no one told her my intention, and no one was willing to save her. It was too late for Zhenbei Hou to catch her.
This is not a chess piece, but an abandoned piece. There were only three or four people in the
game, but all of them were scrambling to squeeze out her last bit of value.
She talked about Tana again, saying that she had known about Diyega for a long time, from the time she knew who sent Tana.
She also said that she envied Tana. She was smart and beautiful, and she knew how to move forward and backward. She was the most like Princess Wencheng. The people under the
gate tower gradually dispersed and were replaced by dark soldiers.
I know them. They are the fighters I am familiar with in the north of the town.
I know I can’t go back today. She said this to say goodbye to me.
But she has to leave me an opening to say her last words.
I want to say that she wants to live well and find a person who can really protect her in Dameng for the rest of her life.
I want to say that my motive for approaching her was not pure, but I really fell in love with her at first sight when I first met her in Xuepo;
I want to say that I like her as much as I did when I brought her to Shuozhou City for a drink two years ago.
I want to say that I am sorry that I owe her so much.
I also want to say that I still don’t want to let go, but I have to let go this time.
But I seem to have changed back to the mute prince at the beginning of the story, but she is no longer the jumping Jiang Mingxiu at the beginning.
“I brought you here because my father wanted to kill you.”
“My father allowed me to return to Kyoto after the dust has settled, but I don’t want to go.”
“He really doesn’t care about my life, but if I give him an excuse to send troops to destroy Qiang, I think he won’t refuse.”
She turned to look at me and suddenly said with a smile, “Hu Yanxin, don’t say goodbye.”.
I listened to her in a muddle and suddenly understood what she meant.
In the silence, I cried out like crazy, Jiang Mingxiu, but the latter fell straight from the tower like a bird with broken wings.
I reached out to scratch at random, but only touched the corner of her robe, and the soft and greasy touch escaped my palm, leaving only the silks and satins dancing in the wind.
I shouted to the dead at the gate of the town north fighters, cursed why they didn’t save the princess, the response to me is the head of the town north Hou Qingshuangshuang face, he quietly watched Jiang Mingxiu fell heavily at the foot of the wall, still wearing yesterday’s new red wedding dress. The one
I miss day and night, she died without closing her eyes and with tears on her face. The moment the soldiers on the
gate tower came up to hold me, I bent down and vomited a mouthful of blood. The arrow wound and knife wound burst open, and I finally fainted.
I had a perfect dream. In my
dream, I took Princess Hezheng back to the court to visit my relatives. The elderly Emperor Meng smiled and gave me a hairpin and told us to tie the knot forever. Like Jiang Mingxiu,
I respectfully called him father, and he smiled kindly, like my real father.
The long-lost sunshine poured down on Jiang Mingxiu beside her, and she covered her face with a fan in her hand, and her eyebrows were indeed affectionate. I hadn’t seen her smile for
a long time, so I put my hand on the fan to see her face. Before
I could remove it, the familiar pain spread all over my chest in an instant. I stumbled back and looked at her in surprise.
This time, what she held in her hand was no longer a hairpin pulled from her head, but a bright knife, stained with my blood, splashed on her red skirt, melted together and completely disappeared.
But the fan fell down and hit the ground, and I finally saw her face clearly:
she was really smiling, three points of flattery and seven points of obedience, and could not find a single mistake.
Like a puppet.
I looked along her arm holding the knife, and the part outside the sleeve was all tied with gold wire, like a snake wrapped around her whole body.
But suddenly the knife loosened, the tip of the knife plunged into the gap between the bricks and stones, and the owner of the gold wire somehow lost interest. As soon as she put her hand down, she fell down like a pile of broken bones, her chest facing the direction of the handle. Holding back the pain,
I tried to climb over and catch her in a panic, but the owner of the gold wire stepped on her hand.
It’s Meng Huang.
His face covered the rare sunshine, and I could not distinguish his expression in the gloom, but I remembered that he grinned with a smile that was bound to win. A
great sense of disillusionment came to me, and I woke up like a fish on the verge of drying up from a dream, only to find that I was clinging to the jade chopsticks on the banquet.
Is the celebration banquet, wish Meng emperor destroyed the northern Qiang celebration banquet.
North Qiang thirteen, finally completely turned into the world of his Han people to speak. During the
banquet they saw me sweating, laughing north Qiang waste king useless, I raised my hand to the hand of the gold cup to a person’s forehead in the past, the scene immediately chaos.
Left and right Jin Wuwei jumped in from the outside in a panic to hold me down, and I was forced to kneel at the foot of Meng Huang, who angrily scolded me for not knowing the importance of courtesy.
Who cares anymore.
Was brought to Kyoto these days, I often think about when the emperor is going to kill me, for his daughter who jumped down from the tower, or take my head to destroy Qiang sacrifice flag.
Never thought he was like forget this thing, but also grandly called me to destroy Qiang celebration banquet.
Maybe he has a ghost in his heart. Anyway, I don’t care so much about my life and death.
I was locked up in a dilapidated courtyard in the capital city, staring blankly at the yellow leaves on the ground every day.
I always think of the past, such as 14-year-old Jiang Mingxiu bouncing with me that no girl in Kyoto likes me, and Gyatso scolding me viciously that I am really a good dog raised by Han people.
And General Weng Bo’s daughter, who always told me to go back early when I dreamed in the middle of the night because of the strong wind outside.
I stretched out my hand to her, and she said with red eyes that as long as she could kill me, it would be the same to kill me by anyone’s hand.
It’s a pity that none of them succeeded, and I’m still alive and well.
I also hoarse asked the guards and political princess’s coffin has no soul home, don’t have to suffer north Qiang wind and snow, the response is his eye, finally impatient and push me.
“Thanks to your auspicious words, the ashes of the princess are still frozen on the Meili Snow Mountain.”
He said it was the last wish of the princess, and I, the fatuous monarch, forced her to do that.
I laughed at myself and buried with Gyatso in the same place, which fulfilled the wish of the Han people to share the tomb. The
same days passed for many years, and even when Meng Huang died and the new emperor ascended the throne, the heavy door was never opened again.
I gradually forgot everyone’s name, and my body was in a state of decay.
I told the new maid of honor that there was a princess named Jiang Mingxiu in their court. She blinked and asked me who Jiang Mingxiu was. Who is
Jiang Mingxiu?
She is Princess Hezheng of Da Meng, and she is the girl I have been thinking about for many years.
But she was already dead. At the age of sixteen, she died at the foot of the wall of Shuozhou City in a fluttering red wedding dress.
The little maid shook her head and asked me to go on, but suddenly I was overwhelmed by a surge of sleepiness.
I couldn’t help laughing at her, and the next moment I was wrapped in a thin blanket and fell in front of the other courtyard.
I don’t know if this time she will tease me in her dream that no one wants me at the girl’s home in Dameng, and if she will tell my second prince that it’s windy outside, so go back earlier.
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, old friend sighs: Do not ask the end of the song, people gather and disperse
, Li Yanli, etc
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